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2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Table of Contents/Schedule

TABLE OF CONTENTS SCHEDULE

Schedule ...... 1 7:30 – 8:20 AM Opening Coffee Hour Honoring Milne 1st Floor 10 Year Supporters & 2018 Proceedings GREAT Day Honors ...... 2 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM GREAT Battle of the Artists Show Keynote Address ...... 3 CU Kinetic Gallery

Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 ...... 4 8:30 – 9:45 AM Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 Bailey, Doty, ISC, Milne, Newton, South, Welles Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 ...... 10 8:30 – 11:10 AM Music Festival College Union Hunt Room Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 ...... 19 9:55 – 11:10 AM Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 Concurrent Presentations • Session 4 ...... 25 Bailey, Brodie, Doty, ISC, Newton, South, Welles

Poster Abstracts • Session 1 ...... 32 10:00 AM Julia Walker Memorial Milton Reading Through 4:00 PM, breaking for keynote Poster Abstracts • Session 2 ...... 50 11:30 literary pieces shared in honor of Julia Walker

Virtual Reality Demonstrations ...... 68 11:15 – 12:00 PM Jazz Ensemble South Hall Quad, rain location Wadsworth 21 Music Festival ...... 69 11:15 – 12:45 PM Poster Presentations 1 Artwork Exhibits ...... 70 College Union Ballroom

Special Presentations ...... 72 12:00 PM Buffet Luncheon/Geneseo String Band College Union Lobby Sponsor: Geneseo Student Association Insomnia Film Festival ...... 73 1:00 – 2:15 PM Keynote: Dr. Barbara Kellerman Index of Student Participants and The Jack ’76 and Carol ’76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship Wadsworth Auditorium Faculty/Staff Sponsors ...... 74 2:25 – 3:40 PM Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 Acknowledgements ...... 79 ROUND ROBIN Block 1 • 2:25 – 2:40 Poster Map ...... back cover Welles Block 2 • 2:50 – 3:05 Block 3 • 3:15 – 3:30 Cover design by Joanna Walters ’13 3:50 – 5:05 PM Concurrent Presentations • Session 4 Bailey, Brodie, College Union, Doty, ISC, South, Welles

5:10 PM Geneseo Winter Guard College Union Plaza Sustainable GREAT Day 5:15 – 6:45 PM Poster Presentations 2 & Reception  Look for the Leaf College Union Ballroom Keynote Speaker Book Signing Sustainability at Geneseo has selected GREAT Day Virtual Reality Demonstrations presentations which include topics that promote sustainability and are designated by. 6:00 PM GREAT Battle of the Artists Awards CU Kinetic Gallery Recycle your Namebadge/Lanyard If you would like to recycle your namebadge/lanyard 6:30 PM reception, 7:00 PM screenings you can leave it at the GREAT Day Check-In Desk in the Wadsworth Auditorium Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival College Union, give it to a GREAT Day Volunteer or drop it off at Erwin 202. The badge holders are also biodegradable.

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GREAT Day Honors 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

The GREAT Day Opening Coffee Hour 7:30 – 8:20 am, Milne Library Honoring

Ten Year Sponsors

GREAT Day would not be possible without the dedicated faculty who work with students throughout the year on the projects that are presented annually. As we observe the 12th Annual GREAT Day, we would like to acknowledge the following faculty who, as of this year, have served as faculty sponsor for 10 GREAT Days:

BUSINESS MATHEMATICS Avan Jassawalla Douglas Baldwin Jeff Johannes CENTER FOR COMMUNITY

Tom Matthews Gary Towsley

MUSIC CHEMISTRY James Kimball Wendy Pogozelski

THEATER HISTORY

Justin Behrend Randy Kaplan

Students and Faculty Mentors Published in the Proceedings of GREAT Day 2017:

CAROLINE O'BRIEN NICOLE PERO JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY MELANIE BLOOD, ENGLISH

ZOE MARR, COLLEEN STEWARD ERICA DOHERTY, DANIEL STERN BARNABAS GIKONYO, CHEMISTRY MEREDITH HARRIGAN, COMMUNICATION SYDNEY KLEIN JONETTE LANCOS, DANCE MARIA GERSHUNI ROBERT GOECKEL, POLITICAL HAERREEM HYUN SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL MELANIE MEDEIROS, RELATIONS ANTHROPOLOGY TESSA HORN STELLA ODURO PAUL PACHECO, ANTHROPOLOGY MELANIE MEDEIROS,

ANTHROPOLOGY

STAFF: DANIEL ROSS, ALISON BROWN, SHERRY LARSON-RHODES INTERNS: MARLEY DEROSIA, ISABEL KEANE

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2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Keynote Speaker

The Jack '76 and Carol '76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship KEYNOTE ADDRESS Wadsworth Auditorium • 1:00 – 2:15 PM

Introduction by Dr. Thomas E. Matthews, Associate Dean of Leadership and Service

Dr. Barbara Kellerman – “How to Make a Leader” About Dr. Barbara Kellerman James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School

Barbara Kellerman is the Founding Executive Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. From 2003 to 2006 she served as the Center’s Research Director. Kellerman has held professorships at Fordham, Tufts, Fairleigh Dickinson, George Washington, Uppsala, and at both Dartmouth and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She also served as Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Fairleigh Dickinson, and as Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Leadership at the University of Maryland.

Kellerman received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and her M.A. (in Russian and East European Studies), M.Phil., and Ph.D. (in Political Science) degrees from Yale University. She was awarded a Danforth Fellowship and three Fulbright fellowships. At Uppsala (1996-97), she held the Fulbright Chair in American Studies. Kellerman was cofounder of the International Leadership Association (ILA), and is author and editor of many books including Leadership: Multidisciplinary Perspectives; The Political Presidency: Practice of Leadership; Bad Leadership; Followership; Women and Leadership (co-edited with Deborah Rhode); Essential Selections on Power, Authority, and Influence (2010); The End of Leadership (2012); and Hard Times: Leadership in America (2014).The End of Leadership was long listed by the Financial Times as among the Best Business Books of 2012, and selected by Choice as “essential” reading. It was also named by Choice as an “Outstanding Academic Title for 2013.” In 2015 Hard Times: Leadership in America received an Honorable Mention Award for its “significant contribution to the field of leadership” from the University of San Diego. And, in 2016 it too was selected by Choice as an “Outstanding Academic Title.” Kellerman has appeared often on media outlets such as CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, Reuters and BBC, and has contributed articles and reviews to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Harvard Business Review.

Barbara Kellerman speaks to audiences all over the world, including, in recent years, Berlin, London, Moscow, Rome, Sao Paolo, Shanghai, Zurich, St. Gallen, Jerusalem, Turin, Toronto, Montreal, Mumbai, New Delhi, Amsterdam, Kyoto, Munich and Sydney. She has served on, among many others, the Advisory Board of Leadership, the Advisory Board of the AAUW project on Women and Leadership, the Advisory Board of the Brookings Institution Leadership Initiative, and the Academic Committee of the Women Leadership Academy (China). She was ranked by Forbes.com as among “Top 50 Business Thinkers” (2009) and by Leadership Excellence in top 15 of “thought leaders in management and leadership” (2008-09 and again in 2010-2011). In 2010, she was given the Wilbur M. McFeeley award by the National Management Association for her pioneering work on leadership and followership. In 2015, 2016, and 2017 she was ranked by Global Gurus as # 13 on the list of “World’s Top 30 Management Professionals.” And in 2016, she was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Leadership Association. Her next book, Professionalizing Leadership, as published in March, 2018 by Oxford University Press and will be on sale at the College Bookstore during the book signing. She blogs regularly at barbarakellerman.com.

There will be a book signing and reception in conjunction with the poster session in the College Union Ballroom at 5:15 pm. The bookstore will have copies of several books for sale. All are welcome.

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Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS 1 • 8:30 - 9:45AM

1A • BIOLOGY MATHEMATICS JACK MCALEVEY, JACK MCALEVEY, HANNAH ______SHEEHAN, SPENCER SUGDEN AMMAN WEAVER, BEN SWISHER, BRANDON LEE, MODELING 1 ISC 115 College dormitories are environments with a high BRENDAN MAHONEY, CONOR KIRBY, CHRISTIAN FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GREGG density of individuals that interact frequently in a WHEATLEY, DESTINY PARSONS, DILLON MEDD, HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY manner affected by the structure of the building EMMA HOLTZMAN, JAMES HAMILTON, LUKAIS ______(corridor or suite). Therefore, the spread of SCIANDRA, PAVLO HUDA, SARAH COMERFORD, R0, Latency Period, Infectious influenza is a serious concern. We developed a WILSON TAN Period, and Coexistence of Two network model for hypothetical corridor and suite- The Fed Challenge Team presents the style dormitories using weighted edges to reflect macroeconomic outlook for the U.S. economy, Strains Affect Influenza Prevalence connections between residents. In descending with emphasis on some of the most important ERIN KESEL, CHRISTOPHER KUBOW, ALEXANDER order by weight, these connections represent current economic issues, taxes and fiscal policy, WEBBER roommates, suitemates, friends, and neighbors. To tariffs and international trade, and income Current methods for selecting and producing reflect the differences in interactions in the two inequality. influenza vaccines takes about six months and, styles of dormitories, we randomly generated therefore, may not be effective against circulating more friendships and higher neighbor interaction 1C • COMMUNICATION BAILEY 105 strains. Difference equation, small world network, in corridor-style. Each resident is classified as VISUAL COMMUNICATION and SEIR models were constructed, and varying either susceptible, infected, recovered, or combinations of Ro, latency period, and infectious vaccinated. By varying the percentage of residents PERSONAL BRAND PROJECT period were simulated on these models. Additional in the hall who are vaccinated we can examine how FACULTY SPONSOR: LEE PIERCE, simulations involved testing the coexistence of two vaccination affects corridor and suite-style dorms COMMUNICATION strains. Intermediate Ro values and short infectious differently. We then compare the network model SESSION CHAIR: ERIK BUCKINGHAM ______periods resulted in higher peak numbers of to a difference equation model. From the SIRV infected individuals. Coexistence of highly infective model, we observe that influenza spreads more Caught Between Two Words and less infective strains led to fewer number of quickly in corridor-style dormitories. We also JARED CALDERON individuals infected with the more infective strain. observe that increasing the percent vaccinated in This visual brand incorporates a Photoshop- Coexistence of two different but equally infective both dorm styles results in a greater reduction of created image and blurb to send a strong message strains led to a lower number of individuals influenza transmission in the suite-style dorm. This to the world about my personal-professional infected by both strains. These results suggest that suggests that in corridor-style dorms influenza identity, including my values and belief structures. if a highly infective strain of influenza is recognized spreads more effectively and higher levels of Overall I want to communicate visually in this in a population, introducing a less infective strain vaccination are necessary to limit its spread. brand that I am a person torn between a love of will result in fewer people infected by the more ______leisure and a desire for success that I am learning infective strain at one time. Additionally, the Modeling the Epidemic Dynamics of to navigate as a student. The brand will make use results indicate that strains known to have of juxtaposition to communicate that message. intermediate Ro values and short infectious periods Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ______should be preferentially chosen to be included in JASON LANG, JASON LANG, SERHIY POMAYDA, 90s Kid the annual influenza vaccine. JULIA TELLERMAN TYLER WHITE ______Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a fatal This visual brand incorporates an In-Design- Modeling the Spread of the respiratory illness that spreads through droplets in created image and blurb to send a strong message Measles Virus in the Democratic the air after an infectious person sneezes or to the world about my personal-professional coughs. In 2002, a SARS outbreak began in China identity, including my values and belief structures. Republic of the Congo and, within a few months, had spread worldwide. Overall I want to communicate visually in this DEVIN EDDY, MATTHEW MATTERA, GABRIEL JAY Placing every individual in quarantine during an brand that I have been inspired by the media that Measles is a viral disease that has become outbreak is impossible, therefore it is important to others often consider superficial because they prevalent in the Congo recently, and with our find the ideal number of infectious individuals to have given me a sense of the possibilities in the research in understanding the disease and the isolate. We are interested in modeling this absurd. Also, I wish to communicate that because effect of vaccines the proper strategy for epidemic to determine the ideal quarantine rate of this influence I am a creator looking forward to vaccination can be determined. We developed a that is also the most cost effective. In order to shaping the next generation. The brand will make model using a system of differential equations. determine the ideal quarantine rate, we use of pastiche and foregrounding to communicate Individuals are classified as susceptible, infectious constructed a network model that included a that message. or recovered. We also vaccinated individuals at super-spreader. A super-spreader is a person that ______different rates to test its effectiveness at reducing infects others with a disease at a A Kind of Magic disease prevalence. We ran the model five times disproportionately higher rate than others with the CESAR NUNEZ and saw that with increased vaccination rates, the same disease. We used an SIQR model in which This visual brand incorporates a Photoshop- infectious class decreased. Running the model a infectious individuals are moved into a quarantine created image and blurb to send a strong message few more times with varying vaccination rates class at a specific rate to avoid further spread of to the world about my personal-professional resulted in similar changes in the infectious class. SARS. From our SIQR model, we observe that it is identity, including my values and belief structures. We also saw that the model ran with rates not necessary to quarantine every infected Overall I want to communicate visually in this represented in the Democratic Republic of the individual. The ideal quarantine rate is cost brand that I am a visionary who uses art and design Congo accurately represented the real-life effective and decreases the length of the epidemic. as creative structures through which I can population. Our results show the change in the With this knowledge, we can use this rate to interrogate the world as it is and re-make it as I infectious class over time with different rates of prevent a future worldwide SARS epidemic. wish for it to be. The brand will make use of graphic vaccination. As expected, an increase in the overlay and foregrounding to communicate that vaccination rate leads to an overall decrease in the 1B • BUSINESS SOUTH 340 message. number of people infected. ______DISMAL DILEMMAS: TAXES, Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness in TARIFFS, AND INEQUALITY 2018, One Woman in Her Time Plays Many Differently Styled College WITH THE FED CHALLENGE TEAM Parts FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: LEONIE SOPHIE YEOMANS Dormitory Buildings STONE, BUSINESS 4

2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM

This visual brand incorporates a Photoshop- NADPH oxidase has been confirmed as the This presentation examines humor from and about created image and blurb to send a strong message predominant source of excess reactive oxygen African Americans as a method of building to the world about my personal-professional species (ROS) within endothelial cells. Recent communal identity and defining racial boundaries identity, including my values and belief structures. studies have shown that the apocynin dimer, and stereotypes after the end of the Civil War. The Overall I want to communicate visually in this diapocynin, directly inhibits NADPH oxidase by research presented seeks to show how humor was brand that I am a performer who enjoys riding the preventing the translocation and binding of the used to cement the social construct of race and uncertain line between the roles I play and the p47phox subunit. Apocynin therefore shows inform white and black communal identity. The person others believe me to be. The brand will potential to prevent inflammatory diseases such as source material for these considerations comes make use of abstraction and repetition to atherosclerosis and diabetic retinopathy. This from popular culture as well as personal narratives communicate that message. study aims to investigate the inhibition mechanism with emphases on minstrelsy and the development of apocynin by studying the interactions between of black comedy circuits. This presentation will also 1D • EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 1 apocynin and L-cysteine. These species each form reckon with opinions within the African American BAILEY 202 dimers in the presence of myeloperoxidase (MPO) community regarding respectability and self- SESSION CHAIR: LISA MEYER, EDGAR FELLOWS in vivo. To mimic this oxidizing environment in representation. It demonstrates the multifaceted ______vitro, apocynin and L-cysteine are treated with a reality of humor’s effects on a culture, including Sexual Assault and Education on hydrogen peroxide and horseradish peroxidase building solidarity within a community and system. The dimer product formation is then deconstructing or reinforcing stereotypical College Campuses monitored through LC-MS and NMR spectroscopy. perceptions of outside communities. Humor was ELIZABETH VERRASTRO Understanding the effect of diapocynin on the used against African Americans by whites as well, FACULTY SPONSOR: ALICE RUTKOWSKI, ENGLISH dimerization of L-cysteine could help elucidate the abstracting the humanity of black life in favor of Every two minutes, a sexual assault occurs in the mechanism by which apocynin inhibits NADPH ridiculous performances of blackness by white United States. For my capstone, I undertook an oxidase. Selected for presentation at 255th creators that encouraged whites to see African internship with RESTORE, a program of Planned American Chemical Society National Meeting, Americans as primitive, simple, or animalistic. Parenthood of Central and Western New York, New Orleans, LA. These two main uses of humor were constantly in which serves as a five county rape crisis program conflict with each other and primed the cultural that provides crisis intervention and support to 1E • EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 2 backdrop against which the contentious battles of survivors of sexual assault and their loved ones. BAILEY 102 the Civil Rights Era took place. Selected for I’ve met on campus with our RESTORE counselor. SESSION CHAIR: MICHAEL MILLS, NATIONAL presentation at New York Phi Alpha Theta This past year, I have shadowed RESTORE staff as FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (Historical National Honor Society), Nazareth they worked with clients, facilitated consent and ______College and SUNY Undergraduate Research sexual assault workshops, and planned events and Dynamics of a Measles Epidemic in Conference, Monroe Community College. activities for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. ______Based on my experiences, I’ve developed a a Population of Susceptible The Geneseo Experience: As Told presentation to augment the college curriculum on Elementary School Students  sexual assault that can be used in classrooms, By WOC RACHEL KNAPP SAMIRA SAHLA residence halls, and club meetings. FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, ______FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL MILLS, OTHER BIOLOGY Student Movements in South This project gathers quantitative data on the Although measles has been officially declared collegiate experience of the project's focus group: Africa eradicated in the United States, small, students of color who identify as women and non- ISABELLA VICENTINI concentrated regions that fail to achieve sufficient binary ranging from freshmen to senior year. FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL vaccination coverage present the opportunity for Through surveys and group interviews, the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS an epidemic should the disease be introduced into research compiles the reflections of over 50 In 2015, students at universities across South Africa the population. Thus, healthcare workers must women. The project is not meant to simply began protesting the oppressive systems at work in understand the dynamics of a measles epidemic in summarize their college years but rather to provide their educational institutions and the country as a a susceptible population to make personal accounts and sentiments reflecting the whole. From the Fees must Fall movement, tackling recommendations for vaccination strategies and Geneseo experience by women of color from many the ever-rising cost of receiving tertiary education, levels of classroom connectivity that minimize backgrounds and demographics. The compilation to Rhodes must Fall, a movement aimed at disease spread. I developed a network model of a of stories will be formalized into an essay which will decolonizing South African education, the students school to test the dynamics of a measles epidemic. illustrate these stories through individual have continued to organize themselves and I used different network structures, vaccination narratives, explore trends or patterns in the data become political actors. The students must strategies, vaccination efforts, and timing of collected, and set expectations and suggestions for navigate their available political opportunity, removal of infected students. Results indicated the Geneseo community. which has been recently complicated by the that classroom connectivity impacts the ability of changes in the national government. With the measles to spread. At high levels of connectivity, 1F • EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 3 varying vaccination effort and strategy does not resignation of former President Jacob Zuma, a new BAILEY 203 executive government could come with have a significant effect on the number of students that become infected. At low levels of connectivity, SESSION CHAIR: MICHAEL MASCI, MUSIC meaningful changes to the South African ______government’s budget and the education system. the preferential vaccination of highly connected By researching how the student movements have students results in the greatest reduction in the Closing the Gap: An Argument for occurred in recent years under the former total number of students that become infected. Increased Representation of administration, I will look ahead to see whether the Additionally, having systems in place to identify Women Composers in Concert introduction of a new administration will bring and remove infected students from school quickly success to the student movements. can lead to a reduction in the total number of Programs and Music History ______students that become infected. Courses Apocynin as an NADPH Oxidase ______JENNIFER BENDER Inhibitor Laugh to Keep from Crying: FACULTY SPONSOR: BROOKE MCCORKLE, MUSIC TORY WELSCH Implications of African American The composers associated with the Western Music FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID JOHNSON, CHEMISTRY Humor as a Cultural Shaper in the Canon are almost all male. The glaring lack of Apocynin is a naturally occurring compound that is women in the canon should not be confused with known for its anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory Jim Crow and Civil Rights Era South a lack of proficiency – the gender imbalance is a effects within the human body. The enzyme JENNA LAWSON matter of bias, not skill. Historically, cultural FACULTY SPONSOR: EMILYE CROSBY, HISTORY attitudes towards women have discouraged them  Promotes sustainability 5 Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual from pursuing careers and skills that are typically GABRIELLE JUERS ancient ape genera ranging from the interesting to associated with masculinity, composition included. FACULTY SPONSOR: JOAN ZOOK, PSYCHOLOGY the unbelievable. In my paper, I question the lack of female The purpose of this study is to examine the effects representation in modern music history courses of materialism and financial literacy on 1H • ENGLISH & HISTORY WELLES 119 and in current concert programs in the United irresponsible money behaviors. The was conducted ADVANCING THE DIGITAL States. At an intersection of Sociology and History, using a questionnaire posted one the psychology I examine attitudes and cultural currents in the subject pool website. The study surveys the HUMANITIES @ GENESEO PANEL 1 Western world that have contributed to the students level of materialism, asks the student to SESSION CHAIR: PAUL SCHACHT, ENGLISH unequal representation we are presented with assess their level of financial prowess in addition to ______today. I speak to several female composers and asking some basic questions on financial What Women Wrote: Text Analysis composition majors about their experiences and knowledge, and surveys the students responsible of 19th Century American Women's the ways in which gendered biases may have and irresponsible behaviors. Once all of the results affected their work and their motivation. I will have been compiled, statistical tests will be Writing ultimately argue that it is both beneficial and performed to determine if there is a significant HOLLY GILBERT necessary to represent female composers in music relationship between the factors. FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL SCHACHT, ENGLISH history courses and concert programs so as to ______This digital humanities project (published as a inspire and encourage the next generation of Exploring the Efficacy of WordPress site) performs a text analysis of works by early American women writers, focused on their women to pursue composition, essentially working Vaccination Strategies to Reduce to close the gender gap that has plagued classical relationships to and treatment of prominent social composition for centuries. the Spread of HPV issues of their time -- slavery, education, economic ______MARY PYATT empowerment, and gender roles. Voyant Tools is Fictional Portrayals of Therapy FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, used to visualize keywords, contexts, and trends in BIOLOGY individual texts to pinpoint what eight specific Affect Attitudes Toward Mental Although a vaccine has been available for more authors were writing about. Meanwhile, Python Health Treatment than 10 years, vaccination rates against HPV have programming adds scope to the project by JULIA CAMERON remained much lower than other recommended visualizing word frequencies and sentiment FACULTY SPONSOR: STEVEN KIRSH, PSYCHOLOGY vaccinations. Despite public health campaigns to analysis in a larger cross-section of women's works This study assessed the influence of fictional increase coverage, some barriers to vaccination from this period. The data pulled from these portrayals of psychotherapy on attitudes about include the stigma associated with a sexually women's texts challenges the perception that early seeking mental health treatment. Participants transmitted disease and a lack of awareness that American women were confined to domestic or answered questionnaires about stigma and help- both males and females benefit from vaccination even frivolous issues by demonstrating the extent seeking attitudes and were exposed to either coverage. In order to investigate how vaccination to which they tackled pervasive social concerns. ethical or unethical television portrayals of a strategy affects the spread of HPV, I constructed a ______therapist and a patient speaking with each other. cohort-style bipartite network model. Based on Black Politicians in the Post-Civil Results indicated that participants who viewed recommendations from the CDC, sex-based War Natchez Region ethical depictions of psychotherapy expressed (vaccination of females compared to males and ALLISON MAIER more favorable attitudes towards mental health females) and age-based (vaccination over time FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY treatment than those viewing unethical portrayals. compared to all at once) vaccination strategies After the Civil War, there was a surge of African- Methodological limitations and clinical were implemented at different vaccination efforts. Americans into politics. This wave lasted until the implications are discussed. Selected for I found that vaccinating only females is most late 19th century, when racist practices and presentation at Association for Psychological effective at limiting the spread of HPV. This finding legislature forced many African-Americans out of Science, San Francisco, CA. suggests a potential implementation strategy the political sphere. Using data collected by ______when developing vaccination recommendations Professor Behrend of the History Department, this What is History Even Good For?: An for naïve communities. Initial focus should be on digital humanities project focuses on expanding Analysis of World History reaching a sufficient vaccination level of females, information about African-American politicians with vaccination of males only implemented after Textbooks from the Natchez region (straddling Mississippi and this level has been reached and sustained. In Louisiana) into a website with a map, timeline, DEANNA PALMA communities where female vaccination rates are searchable database, and analytical sections. FACULTY SPONSOR: MEGAN ABBAS, HISTORY already high, extra vaccines can be utilized to ______Teaching history has always been an area of public include males for increased community protection. The MTA as a Model for contention. The debate over how to teach history ______has often taken shape as a critique over history The Evolutionary Heyday of the Ecologically Beneficial Advertising textbooks, the arbitrators of “objective truth” in and Bringing a Humanities Project the Social Studies classroom. This thesis will Apes: The Miocene Epoch examine the history of textbook debates by paying CLAIRE SHEEN Into the Digital Realm close attention to the common themes that arise FACULTY SPONSOR: BARBARA WELKER, JACOB SNYDER and how these themes play out in contemporary ANTHROPOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL SCHACHT, ENGLISH discussions. This thesis will analyze the portrayal of When new discoveries about possible human Advertisements typically aim for the lowest the non-West to ascertain the popular narrative ancestors, like Ardi and Lucy, are made they almost common denominator to sell a product or service; propagated to the classroom. After the attacks on always make the news, whereas the incredible however, the Metropolitan Transportation 9/11, Islam in the classroom has been a subject discoveries relating to the ancestors to other apes Authority's (MTA's) subway advertisements have followed by controversy. I will therefore look in are often never mentioned. Paleoprimatology, the different goals: to build riders' trust in and loyalty depth at the portrayal of Islam and the Middle East, study of these ape ancestors, is a continuously to the MTA, to create a sense of community tracing how the textbook characterization expanding field, with the constant discovery of between the two parties, and to promote manifests itself in popular attitudes. new and interesting species. However, there is environmentally friendly and efficient practices. little up-to-date, comprehensive literature on the Through analyzing several MTA advertisements, I 1G • EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 4 subject, outside of primary research. This project will break down how this is achieved in a way that aimed to create an edited volume with genera is mutually beneficial for both the MTA and its BAILEY 103 chapters containing encyclopedic information on riders, and consider how such a style of advertising SESSION CHAIR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL the phylogeny, biogeography, and ecology of each can be emulated. This project takes advantage of SCIENCES species, with limited jargon and the ability to be digital platforms to analyze these advertisements ______used as an undergraduate or graduate textbook. and publicly broadcast my analysis over the Money Attitudes and Behavior This presentation will highlight some of these internet, so as my project took many forms over 6  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM two years, I find it is worth a metacommentary on problematizes the historical legacy of the rallies and social media campaigns, and others the path this project has taken to find its full form hypersexualized Black woman as established in the advocate for violence outright. While neo-Nazi as a digital humanities project. popular Blaxploitation genre of the 1970s by groups remain on the fringes of their societies, it is considering how contemporary Black feminist important to understand their outlook, scope and 1I • ENGLISH WELLES 123 thought might intervene in this legacy. By contrast, influence in order to combat this hatred and FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: LYTTON R.T. James considers the contemporary Black prejudice effectively. SMITH, ENGLISH American director, Dee Rees, whose work has ______FACULTY SPONSOR OLYMPIA NICODEMI, flown under the radar despite being highly critically The True Scope of Theocracy MATHEMATICS acclaimed. James will focus on the representation MICHAEL CECERE NeuWrite/edu: Creative Science of Black lesbian identity in her feature film about An examination of the impact of theocracy in the Blues singer Bessie Smith, Bessie (2015), and how Islamic Republic of Iran and how it impacts not only Writing it uses narrative and visual style to avoke an Iranian citizens but the entire planet. ______engaging but decidedly challenging representation MADISON WAYLAND, ELIZABETH PELLEGRINO, of Black women. 1M • HISTORY WELLES 133 LILY CODERA, JAMES CANNING, MELANIE TRAN, ______PATRICK BUCKLEY, ROBERT TUMASIAN, JENNIFER Foxy Brown: "Bottom Power" and HONORS PROJECTS - EUROPEAN GALVO the Hypersexualization of Black HISTORY NeuWrite/edu is an interdisciplinary, year-long FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JOE collaboration between writers and scientists that Women in Blaxploitation COPE, HISTORY seeks out ways to communicate cutting edge CLAIRE DRAKE ______undergraduate scientific inquiry and discovery Developed by select students from the course The Damned and the Domina: The through engaging, informed essays and other Black Studies 288: Black Cinema in Fall 2017, this written projects. SUNY Geneseo this year launched panel investigates the ways in which the image and Role and Historical Memory of the first undergraduate chapter of the nationally discourse of Black women have circulated in Female Servants in the First Slave recognized NeuWrite organization which has contemporary media. Claire Drake problematizes placed science writing in venues such as Wired, The Society the historical legacy of the hypersexualized Black THERESA GIBBONS Atlantic, and The New York Times Magazine. In this woman as established in the popular Blaxploitation presentation, students will present science Despite their foundational role in the development genre of the 1970s by considering how of British colonial Barbados, research on the research and creative writing that responds to that contemporary Black feminist thought might research, and discuss the opportunities and experiences of female indentured servants is intervene in this legacy. limited. As a result, both popular and scholarly challenges of collaborating on science writing. ______press has framed the experience of servants and Dee Rees' Bessie (2015): Representing 1J • ENGLISH WELLES 117 slaves through a masculine lens, blurring the line the Black LGBTQ Female Artist between both. This study seeks to analyze the SPEECH BUDD(ESE) : HOW TO RICHARD JAMES female indentured servant experience as a TEACH ENGLISH TO Developed by select students from the course continuity of pre-existing systems of unfree labor INTERNATIONAL PEERS Black Studies 288: Black Cinema in Fall 2017, this and understand their role in developing and panel investigates the ways in which the image and maintaining the first slave society. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: IRENE discourse of Black women have circulated in ______BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, ENGLISH ______contemporary media. R.T. James considers the Collections in the Crossfire: The SYDNEY SCHMIDT, KEVIN PIERCE, KATHERINE contemporary Black American director, Dee Rees, Lasting Legacy of Imperialism in the whose work has flown under the radar despite MCCORMACK, JENELLE PIATT British Museum As the service learning component for our course, being highly critically acclaimed. James will focus ZACHARY VEITH “Methods of Teaching English to Speakers of Other on the representation of Black lesbian identity in Through an examination of the Egyptian mummy, Languages,” we have been paired with Rees's feature film about Blues singer Bessie Smith, Parthenon sculptures, and Benin bronzes international student “speech buddies” to tutor Bessie (2015) and how it uses narrative and visual collections in the British Museum, a troubling English. From cultural references to consonants, style to evoke an engaging but decidedly legacy of imperialism is revealed. Placed in the we help our buddies improve both their written challenging representation of Black women. conflicting dichotomy of nationalist sentiment and and oral communication in an effort to boost their world heritage ideals, these pieces demonstrate confidence and proficiency in speaking English, and 1L • GEOGRAPHY BAILEY 101 the complex issues of representation, most importantly, help them immerse themselves FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: DARRELL contextualization, and repatriation facing modern in American culture. At this session, we will present NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY ______global museums today. the approaches, methods, resources and activities we have used so far this semester with our The Fourth Reich?: An Analysis of 1N • MATHEMATICS WELLES 24 individual buddies. If you’re interested in this Global Neo-Nazism course or in the process of tutoring English to non- DREW ARNUM HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS 1 native speakers, come learn how to speak “speech Many in the United States argue that Donald FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GARY buddese!” Trump’s election has mainstreamed neo-Nazism, TOWSLEY, MATHEMATICS ______normalizing extremely hateful and prejudiced 1K • ENGLISH WELLES 131 rhetoric. But what is the state of neo-Nazism Ancient Indian Mathematics RECLAIMING BLACK WOMEN’S around the world? Over 40 countries currently ERIKA ESQUIVEL Influences of India in mathematics such as Hindu REPRESENTATION: FROM have active neo-Nazi groups, with varying degrees of mainstream acceptance, from Golden Dawn mathematicians, the concept of zero, and decimal “BOTTOM POWER” TO DEE REES’ holding multiple seats in Greece’s parliament to place notation. BESSIE (2015) Germany banning swastikas. Through an analysis ______FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JUN of historical records, websites and public Connecting the Aztec Number OKADA, ENGLISH appearances, this research categorizes hate groups System and the Aztec Calendar Developed by select students from the course based on their rhetoric. Neo-Nazi organizations ALEXANDRA CASADO Black Studies 288: Black Cinema in Fall 2017, this often tailor their prejudice based on national and My GREAT day presentation will be on the Aztec panel investigates the ways in which the image and global issues, some more racist, anti-immigrant, calendar system. I will be discussing both calendar discourse of Black women have circulated in Islamophobic, nationalistic, etc. than others are. systems, the Xiuhpohualli and the Tonalpohualli. I contemporary media. Specifically, Claire Drake Some function as political parties, some organize am going to go in depth on the these systems and  Promotes sustainability 7 Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual explain how they are used and what they are used different probability of being rolled on standard Possible Solution to Financial Success for. The Xiuhpohualli is a 365 day calendar while dice. During this talk, I will use the hexagon the Tonalpohualli is a 260 day calendar. Each probabilities to find the best location for the first and Independence?  calendar is separated into a different number of settlement. I will add and multiply different EMILY HAYES months than our known calendar. I will also go into probabilities to determine the best placement for Education is seen by many as key to any the symbols and numbers of these calendars most the first settlement. sustainable development. The United Nations, at importantly. ______its historical summit in September 2015, published ______A Markov Chain Analysis of seventeen Sustainable Development Goals to guide the role of public, non-profit, for-profit, and The Mathematics of the Mayans Overtime in the National Football voluntary sectors in global development. One of TESSA LIVOTI League these major goals is to ensure inclusive and The Mayans were one of many Mesoamerican KATIE SODARO equitable quality education and promote lifelong civilizations that made advancements in Since 1994 there was a clear advantage for the coin learning opportunities for all. Senegal is a western mathematics. This paper will discuss the Mayan toss winner in overtime in the National Football African developing nation where the advancement numeral system and what they were able to League. The NFL implemented a new overtime and accessibility of education has produced accomplish with it. One of their many system in 2012 to try to make the overtime period noticeable economic and social development for accomplishments was their calendar system. This more fair. We can use absorbing Markov chains to its people. The role of non-governmental calendar system included several different model and predict the chances of winning for each organizations, since the 1970s, has been calendars that measured time periods of varying team. After comparing both overtime systems, we substantial in sustaining the many ongoing and lengths. The three main calendars were the Haab, will compute the reduction of the advantage for encouraging results in terms of equality, literacy, the Tzolk’in, and the Calendar Round. They also the coin toss winner after the rule change. and job creation. In this paper, I will critically developed the Long Calendar to help date analyze the tangible effects produced by historical events and helped in various subjects like educational programs implemented by NGOs in predicting eclipses. The Mayans recorded their 1P • LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES WELLES 121 Senegal. Moreover, I will present, from the predictions in what is known as the Dresden Codex. Senegalese cultural framework, a social The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the EDUCATION, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, compatibility assessment of some of the identified Mayan number system, how it was used in their CRITICAL PERCEPTIONS OF successful educational programs that provide calendars, their different types of calendars and a viable capitalistic tools to assure many families’ brief look at the Dresden Codex, specifically in how AMERICAN CORPORATIONS: financial stability. And to substantiate my analysis, it was used to predict eclipses. GENESEO STUDENTS' FIRST-HAND I will also use information that I obtained through

interviews with local Senegalese NGOs, such as Nos 1O • MATHEMATICS WELLES 26 STUDIES IN SENEGAL. FACULTY SPONSOR: KODJO ADABRA, LANGUAGES Sœurs Lisent (Our Sisters Read) and international FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JEFF NGOs based in Senegal, such as Positive Planet. JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS AND LITERATURES SESSION CHAIR: REBA SCHNYDER Selected for presentation at National Conference ______on Undergraduate Research, University of Central How Does Google Trips Create ______The Importance of Social Movements Oklahoma. Travel Itineraries? ______ SELIN ERDOGAN in Transitions of Power in Senegal The Critical Perceptions of American Google Trips, a Google mobile application, uses MADELINE FLAMIK In 2011, Senegalese former president Abdoulaye Transnational Corporations in mathematical concepts to create travel itineraries  within tourist cities throughout the world. In Wade used the Wolof language “Ma waxoon Dakar, Senegal particular Google uses Leonhard Euler's Seven waxeet” (“I said it, I can take it back”) to explain his TREVIS LIPNICKY Bridges of Köningsberg Problem, the Christofides' decision to go back on his 2007 pledge not to run Currently, major transnational corporations have a algorithm, and the notion of finding the path of for a third term, making many Senegalese commanding presence in international markets. In least weight. I will demonstrate how these discontent. As a result, the activist group Y’en a many cases, a consequence of the global economy concepts are used, as the application gives you a Marre, meaning “We’re Fed Up,” was established is the exploitation of natural resources and human suggested route that minimizes distance, cost, and to promote what they have coined the “Nouveau capital. In this paper, I focus my analysis of the time. Type de Sénégalais” (“New Type of Senegalese”) political and economic relationships between ______which encourages Senegalese youth to protest these corporations and Senegal. I first explore and The Magical Math Behind the their government. Due to Y’en a Marre’s success, reveal how the average citizens of Dakar perceive similar movements have transpired in countries the work of American corporations like Microsoft, Shazam App like Burkina Faso and Togo. Dr. Janette Yarwood IBM, and Coca-Cola in their communities, TIM SCHOFIELD critically stated that the current wave of political alongside the many French corporations inherited Have you ever figured out the name of a song that activism and protests across sub-Saharan Africa from their colonial history and post-colonial you are listening to by using the Shazam App? Have has focused on engaging people at the grassroots bilateral ties. Armed with these qualitative data, you ever wondered how the Shazam App is able to level and on holding politicians accountable. My and in view of the existing literature on make it all happen? The Shazam App uses some research paper will fpresent a deconstruction of transnational corporations in the developing magical math, otherwise known as spectrograms, the tactics that activist groups in Senegal such as world, this paper then presents a critical analysis of hashes, and landmarks, to quickly identify your Y’en a Marre use and will analyze their culturally the complex relationship between American favorite song and millions more. But how? contextualized effectiveness during the 2012 transnational corporations and Senegalese ______transition of power. In view of the upcoming consumers. This project was funded by the Gérard Using Probability to Find the Best presidential election in 2019, this paper will also Gouvernet Ambassador in French Language and Location for the First Settlement in attempt to explore some contemporary new Culture. Selected for presentation at National parameters to substantially impact the influence of Conference on Undergraduate Research, The Settlers of Catan these groups. Selected for presentation at University of Central Oklahoma. JAMES CAULFIELD National Conference on Undergraduate Research, The Settlers of Catan is a competitive, four-player University of Central Oklahoma. 1Q • POTPOURRI: ENGLISH & board game. One of the most important aspects of ______ANTHROPOLOGY the game is where you place the first settlement. NGOs’ Influence Leading to You must place the first settlement on one of the WELLES 128 corners of the hexagon board pieces. Each of these Educational Strides in Senegal: A SESSION CHAIR: WES KENNISON, STUDY ABROAD pieces has a different number labelled two through ______twelve (without seven). These numbers have a 8  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM

The Man in the Machine: Toxic FACULTY SPONSOR ABD SESSION CHAIR: JONETTE across Europe with their nouveau take on LANCOS, THEATRE/DANCE interpreting the body’s natural way of movement. Masculinity and Self-Hatred in ______Laban, born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Neon Genesis Evangelion Inspiration vs. Appropriation: 1879, moved to Paris to study architecture in the WILLIAM ANTONELLI Representation of Indigenous turn of the century and quickly found his love for FACULTY SPONSOR: BETH MCCOY, ENGLISH the hustle-and-bustle of the Parisian pedestrians This paper, originally written for Bath Spa Cultures in Western Dance around him (Karina, Lillian & Kant, Marion). Under University's Film Studies program, talks about the Companies the influence of Heidi Dzinzkowska, he moved to theme of gender in Neon Genesis Evangelion, a SAMANTHA SCHMEER Munich to focus on new studies in Ausdrucktanz highly influential sci-fi anime that originally aired In modern, Westernized society, we are often (the rejection of the stagnation of dance, especially from 1995 to 1996. While on the surface fascinated by cultures that differ from our own. classical ballet and the adoption of expressionistic Evangelion may resemble a mere popcorn action The well-meaning interest in other cultures, dance) (UK Digital Dance Archives-Rudolf Laban). series, in reality, it delves into much deeper especially the cultures of indigenous tribes, can While teaching at his school in Berlin, he published themes. As the series goes on, what begins as a become problematic when people unknowingly the first version of Labanotation, titled show about giant robots becomes a complicated treat these very real cultures and people as Kinetographie Laban. character study touching on the topics of societal fictional entities. Our words and actions can alienation, mental illness, and the ways that toxic perpetuate stereotypes harmful to these minority 1S • WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES masculinity contributes to both. However, critical groups, contributing to an idea of “otherness,” the WELLES 132 responses to the series have rarely, if ever, focused idea that these people are separate from us. Artists GENRE AND GENDER ANALYSIS OF on the motif of masculinity. This paper seeks to have a high degree of responsibility when using address this omission by focusing on the main other cultures as inspiration for their work. A brutal RECENT FILMS character, Shinji Ikari, as a way of showing how history of genocide, racism, and theft of land and FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE themes of toxic masculinity are presented, and identity makes dealing with indigenous tribes a BLOOD, WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES how they affect the plot of the series as a whole. sensitive and complex matter. Concurrently, it is ______important that their cultures be shared and From Scream to Raw: the 20 Year Patience to Perseverance: A appreciated. This presentation will explore how Evolution of Feminism in Horror Socioeconomic Breakthrough for dance choreographers have successfully navigated the terrain between inspiration and appropriation, Films the Children of Rochester focusing specifically on Director of the Nederlands TANAIRI TAYLOR JUSTIN ALEXANDER Dans Theater Jiří Kylián's use of the Aboriginal Horror films have an intricate history with gender FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, cultures for his ballet Stamping Ground, as well as roles, specifically in their portrayals of their female ANTHROPOLOGY the Limón Dance Company’s piece based on Native leads and the narratives in which they place them It is apparent that there is a link between low American tribes. Their works will be compared to in. A woman is usually the focal point of the story, socioeconomic status and quality of education. pieces performed by the American Indian Dance but this is often through the perverted, obsessive Youth living in poverty are at a disadvantage Theatre. The presentation will also discuss cultural gaze of an unknown and sadistic looker. Scream educationally which can lead to several outcomes, equity, an ideal championed by American (1996) was marketed as a parody of the horror and including low reading levels. During this ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax. slasher tropes that had come before it, but it more presentation I'll discuss the literacy rates of ______covertly criticized the gender tropes of horror students involved in the Boys & Girls Club in Dance in a New Light: The Art of films. I identify the feminist themes and framework Rochester. With this focus on Boys & Girls Club, the of this film and its reception during the '90s. Next I presentation depicts the perceived impact of this Personal Expression analyze a film released 20 years later, Raw, which program on the students involved. This program REBECCA BUCHMAN was blatantly marketed as a feminist body-horror. helps to address the disparity in education due to The development of modern dance in American By comparing these films and their unique ways of socioeconomic status. society was crucial in changing the way dance was subverting the repressive gender norms of older ______perceived by the public. This newest revelation of horror films, I delineate how horror and feminism Real World Geneseo: Introducing dance was brought to light by legendary dancers, have evolved over the past two decades. Isadora Duncan and Loïe Fuller. Both of these Gender Identity to Children's ______women captivated audiences by creating unique Unlikely Heroines or Stereotypical Literature depictions of movement that rebelled against the WILLIAM ANTONELLI, WILLIAM ANTONELLI, traditional concepts of dance. My paper seeks to Tropes: Exploring the Feminist RAJAE BROWN, FELIX LANERI, LEAH CHIN, explore not only the contributions these women Implications of Romantic Comedies AALIYAH JACKSON, TAYLOR GODDARD made to the world of American dance, but how JULIA MORRISON FACULTY SPONSOR: WES KENNISON, ENGLISH these contributions highlight the power of Morrison will analyze existing works of feminist Children's literature is a deceptively deep genre. individuality through movement, as a means of scholars by providing her own observations of Underneath its layers of pastel colors and talking personal expression. romantic comedies. She will use this background to animals, children's literature has historically served ______argue that romantic comedies can, in fact, be read as a source for some of our first opinions and ideas A Study of Labanotation and its as progressive, postfeminist works -- rather than about the world around us. Produced under the Applications from 20th Century superfluous, "fluff" films. Real World Geneseo banner, this session will serve ______two functions: one, as a discussion of how to Europe to 21st Century America The "Born Sexy Yesterday" Trope in LAURA D'AMICO introduce the idea of gender identity to children Fantasy and Sci Fi films through literature, and two, as the premiere of Many styles of dance notation have existed CHLOE ROACH RWG 9's very own children's picture book! This throughout history, but the form developed by Roach will examine the "born sexy yesterday" film book will define gender in a way that young Rudolf von Laban in the 20th century is known as trope and draw conclusions about how this trope is readers will understand, and feature the most widely used language of dance in the perpetuated by similar major plot points. She will representational stories from people of various Western world. During the late 19th and early analyze three or four contemporary films and gender identities. Come for the gender politics, 20th, Germany was finally politically united, create a plot map based on plot devices that these stay for the hand-illustrated pictures! allowing it to become an industrial superpower. Cities like Berlin expanded rapidly due to the films use to develop the narrative, describe her 1R • THEATRE/DANCE BRODIE 154 Industrial Revolution. From this, transportation experience with the "born sexy yesterday" trope, increased, communication ignited, and of course, and argue the ways in which it is most dangerous DANCE artistic literacy flourished. American dancers like to our understanding of the dynamics of gender, Loie Fuller and Isadora Duncan graced stages all power, and human sexuality.  Promotes sustainability 9 Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

Orchard St. Music Hall: A Concert FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHLEEN MAPES, HISTORY 1T • POTPOURRI: MUSIC, ART Whether it's in a movie, book, or memorial the Venue, Nightclub, and Event Space topic of the Holocaust has become deeply HISTORY, HISTORY BAILEY 104 engrained into American history. Despite the fact SESSION CHAIR: KIRK ANNE, COMPUTING AND for Geneseo and Beyond that the Holocaust is a European historic event, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LUKE GORKA ______FACULTY SPONSOR: GERARD FLORIANO, MUSIC America has emerged as one of the most Living Locally - a Virtual Reality Art SUNY Geneseo students need more performing 'Holocaust conscious" nations in the world. spaces. Music, dance, and performing arts Hollywood has taken a major role in exposing the Gallery organizations of all kinds are struggling to find American consciousness to the carnage of the JULIA TANNENBAUM times to stage performances amidst competition European Jews. As the twentieth century wore on FACULTY SPONSOR: LYNETTE BOSCH- from the incredible variety of events that Geneseo Films became an important tool in shaping the BURROUGHS, ART HISTORY hosts across campus. Additionally, after The mindset of the American public. Although we must Living Locally is a virtual reality art gallery Statesmen shut its doors a year ago, Geneseo lost give credit to such films and television programs exhibiting the strides and struggles of sole its only nightclub. Students have been left without for exposing historical topics to the public like proprietors in the local Livingston and Wyoming a proper dance space and club environment in never before, we must tread carefully regarding County community. The purpose of this which to socialize and express themselves. Finally, how these films have effected the representation presentation is to show a glimpse of what it takes the college and campus community is in need of an of the Holocaust in the American collective to run a local business. In addition it will bring inclusive, off-campus environment to unwind and memory. By examining the decades following the awareness and inform students and faculty about build connections. The Orchard St. Music Hall Holocaust we can see how popular films shaped what is outside of our small campus. After being would satisfy all of these demands. I propose a the American consciousness. We can also see how involved with Adopt-a-Business for the past four renovation of (formerly known as) The Statesmen the changing times and shifting culture in America years, this is my thank you to the businesses that I to provide a for-profit concert hall, nightclub, and lent itself to the narrative behind these films, and have been so lucky to work with. Our goal at Adopt- event space for SUNY Geneseo and its community consequently the depiction of the Holocaust. By a-Business is to educate the local businesses on the members. Geneseo must continue to be a vocal examine scholarly debates and Hollywood's importance of technology and digital media. I have supporter of the arts and a unified community. depiction of the Holocaust though the changing incorporated the advancing technology of our Ensuring that performers have the means to American political/cultural atmosphere we can see society in my presentation by showing this present their art, students have a safe and inclusive how current events/political motivations altered presentation through projection of the gallery, and space to dance, and the campus and community the depiction of the Holocaust. also utilizing the expertise of Dr. Kirk Anne to build have a venue to make connections are the primary a virtual reality gallery through Photoshop that is objectives of this project. then transferred to Google Cardboard. This will ______allow the observers to physically be immersed in The Holocaust on Screen the gallery. KATHRYN FORRESTER ______

CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS 2 • 9:55 AM – 11:10 AM

2A • BIOLOGY MATHEMATICS Effect of External Factors on the Analysis of Factors Affecting Multi- MODELING 2 ISC 115 Prevalence of Ebola During the Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GREGG 2014 Outbreak in West Africa Susceptible Populations HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY PATRICIO CARRASCO, PATRICIO CARRASCO, ADAM WEAVER, ADAM WEAVER, BETHANNA ______JOHNNY CHEN, JENNIFER CONFLITTI JONES, LARA FINNERTY‐HAGGERTY An Algebraic and Topological The 2014 West African Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by Approach to Studying Molecular outbreak was a major epidemic of the 21st century. Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. Today, many Pathway Networks of Cancers with The purpose of this study is to test the effects of people are infected with multi-drug-resistant TB external factors on EVD transmission through West (MDR-TB), a strain resistant to at least two first-line Applications to Treatment Africa. Our methods include developing a anti-TB drugs. We utilize an SIR differential JUSTEN GEDDES differential equation model (SIR model) equation model to study the rate that individuals Cancer patients benefit from precise treatment parameterized using data available from the 2014 develop resistance, parameterized with data from strategies that result in fewer adverse side effects. outbreak and a nonlinear least squares analysis to several countries to compare these dynamics to a One such treatment strategy, protein inhibition predict the spread of EVD. Because of the rampant real system. Additionally, we use a difference therapy, inhibits specific proteins in order to nature of Ebola (Ro=2), the SIR model shows that a equation model incorporating a vaccinated class to disrupt signaling cascades, resulting in the death of large portion of the population will move through model the effectiveness of Bacillus Calmette- cancerous cells. Expanding previous work, the infected class to the recovered class. As this Guerin (BCG) vaccination on disease prevalence. signaling cascades were analyzed using graph was not the case, the basic SIR model may not be We find as the rate σ that infected individuals theory to determine a metric that correlates an accurate representation of Ebola. The predictive acquire MDR-TB increases, the exposed, infected, network complexity to the 5-year survival rate of model for Sierra Leone suggests the outbreak will and recovered classes decrease in population, different types of cancer. Additionally, a simple reach an equilibria at approximately 12,800 cases. Additionally, the populations of resistant and algorithm was produced to determine, using this An additional application of the same predictive deceased classes have optimal sizes. According to metric on an individual basis, which protein would model to data from Guinea and Liberia shows the our difference equation model, vaccination lessens result in the greatest increase in survivability when outbreak stabilizing at approximately 3,800 and TB death , however the BCG vaccine only lasts 15 inhibited. Using this metric, more precise protein 12,700 cases respectively. The reported case count years, causing the vaccination class to plateau. inhibition treatment plans can be made on a of 14,122 from Sierra Leone was larger than what Hence, more rigorous vaccination is needed after patient by patient basis. This metric motivates the model predicts. The addition of parameters 15 years to extend its effectiveness. Additionally, further exploration to develop more general and representing different cultural and health our differential model indicates that there exists a widely applicable protein inhibition treatment responses to the differential equation model rate of first-line resistance development that strategies for each type of cancer. suggests an increased prevalence of EVD in Sierra causes populations to have maximum deaths as ______Leone. the disease progresses. If a country approaches a σ ______value of 1.175∗10−5, the country is at risk.

10  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM

apps are affecting millennial’s attitudes about This project was funded by the James Houston ’80 dating, and very little talk of how parental Ambassadorship in Innovation. 2B • BUSINESS SOUTH 340 relationships might play into all of this. This paper 2D • CHEMISTRY ISC 131 HONORS RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS seeks to determine a number of things about the FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: LEONIE way that millennials think about marriage and CHEMISTRY HONORS STONE, BUSINESS dating. First, I examine if millennials do value PRESENTATIONS ______marriage and how their valuation might influence SESSION CHAIR: KAZU YOKOYAMA, CHEMISTRY Effects of Federal Reserve Asset- how soon they are trying to marry. Then, I examine ______how parental mediation might influence attitudes Salt Formation vs. Co- Backed Securities on Related about marriage and what they look for in a partner. Financial Markets Finally, I look at how different qualities crystallization: An Exploration of EMILY HURLBUTT surrounding their relationship with their parents, the ΔpKa Rule for a Series of During the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve their valuation of marriage, and other factors Aromatic Acids and Bases pursued unconventional monetary policies might influence a millennial’s openness to allowing KYLE POWERS including large-scale asset purchases (LSAP). These their parents to mediate in dating decisions by FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID GEIGER, CHEMISTRY unconventional LSAPs included agency mortgage- setting them up with a potential partner. This The ΔpKa rule is used in determining whether backed securities (MBS). The MBS market is much paper also seeks to understand how online dating hydrogen bonded molecules form a salt or co- smaller than the Treasury market, much less liquid, apps might be influencing attitudes and how usage crystal. If the difference in the pKa's of the acid and and more difficult to price. There is also a could predict behaviors. protonated base is greater than 3, proton transfer component of credit risk, as opposed to the safety ______results in a salt forming. If the ΔpKa is less than 1, of Treasuries. Besides the clear effect of upward The Linkage Between Wage and the acid and base remain unionized and form a co- price pressure and more liquidity in this market, Productivity Growth: Evidence from crystal. 1,2-diaminobenzene (pKa = 4.57) or 4,5- the Fed MBS purchases also had implications for dimethyl-1,2-diaminobenzene (pKa = 5.12) were the broader credit market. Before the crisis, the International Data mixed with 2-picolinic acid (pKa = 1.01) or benzoic popularity of MBS created a demand for corporate GRAHAM HARRISON acid (pKa = 4.20), and the resulting compounds Since 1973, U.S. wage growth has lagged behind bonds to hedge the associated convexity risk. The were studied by 1H NMR spectroscopy, X-ray productivity growth, a pattern that has also been Fed does not use such hedging procedures. As crystallography, and Hirshfeld surface analysis. much as 50% of certain MBS tranches have been observed in other economies. Bivens and Mishel Consistent with the ΔpKa rule, a combination of (2015) and others have claimed that this purchased by the System Open Markets Account 1,2-diaminobenzene and benzoic acid results in a divergence of wage and productivity growth is (SOMA), which created price and volatility co-crystal. Hydrogen bonds between molecules evidence that the link between productivity and distortion in both the MBS market and in the bond resulted in a paddlewheel structure along the c- and credit default swap (CDS) markets. This paper wages is broken and thus that increases in axis of the unit cell, while hydrogen bonds and C－ uses data from the SOMA to evaluate credit productivity growth would not result in an H···π interactions between molecules contributed spreads, liquidity, and volatility conditions both increases in wage growth for the average to non-linear chains of benzoic acid. π···π stacking prior to and following the LSAP actions of the Fed American. This is particularly important because between benzoic acid chains is also observed. for agency MBS, bonds and CDS. breaking the wage-productivity link would tend to When mixed with 2-picolinic acid, 1,2- ______further perpetuate income inequality as only the diaminobenzene and 4,5-dimethyl-1,2- top earners would reap the benefits of productivity The Impact of Tourism on Rural diaminobenzene form isostructural salts, which is gains. However, recent research, including that of consistent with the ΔpKa rule. Linear chains of 2- Economic Development in the Stansbury and Summers (2017), supports the picolinate ions resulting from alternating hydrogen Finger Lakes: Letchworth Gateway existence of a continued relationship between bonds and CH···π interactions with cations are productivity and wages and suggests wage growth Villages observed. The chains of anions are joined as well is being dampened by other factors. This paper SARAH COMERFORD due to π···π stacking. considers the relationship between productivity With its vast wineries, booming culinary industry, ______and diverse nature and leisure choices, including growth and wage growth for major economies, Effect of Chain Length on Gelation the number one state park in the nation, exploring the dampening effects of technological Letchworth State Park, the Finger Lakes Region is a change and its effect on labor share of income, Ability of Several Biphenyl Long- top tourist destination in New York. Recently, a globalization, and other factors. chain Diesters related economic development project, SHAWN MOORE Letchworth Gateway Villages, has been funded by 2C • CENTER FOR INQUIRY, FACULTY SPONSOR: H. CRISTINA GEIGER, a USDA grant, with the goal of catalyzing economic DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT CHEMISTRY development in Letchworth State Park’s DISCOVERY CAFÉ BAILEY 101 Two biphenyl methyl and ethyl diester derivatives surrounding communities, many of which have of six carbon chain length (BBO6R) were FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH COPE, CENTER FOR been characterized by slow or negative economic synthesized and the gelation properties of the INQUIRY, DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT growth in recent decades. This paper explores the compounds were studied. The structures of these FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR DAVID impact of the tourism industry on rural economic molecules were confirmed using 1H NMR PARFITT, CENTER FOR COMMUNITY WELL-BEING development in the Finger Lakes, and assesses the ______spectroscopy. BBO6Me forms stable gels at 1.5% challenges that the region faces. I examine the Promoting Trust Between Scientists w/w in a variety of alcohol solvents while BBO6Et targets of the Letchworth Gateway Villages project does not. The modes of stacking and the nature of and evaluate both the impact of the program to and the Public attractions between the gelator molecules were date and prospects for success in achieving the PATRICK BUCKLEY investigated using circular dichroism (CD), UV-Vis, broader goals of this development activity. Stop by whenever you can for the first Discovery and fluorescence spectroscopies. Gelation was ______Cafe event on the SUNY Geneseo campus! This found to be dependent upon temperature of Mother Knows Best: Parental casual event is open to all GREAT Day attendees formation, physical disruptions, rate of formation, Mediation in Dating Decisions and and the public. Attendees of this event will be and structure of the gelator. The solid-state introduced to the current state of public trust in structures of BBO6Et and BBO6Me were Millennial Attitudes on Marriage science and why they should care about it, all while determined by X-Ray crystallography. The SYDNEY LEVINE learning how they can work to improve this critical strengths of the intermolecular interactions in Millennials have been cited to prioritize marriage relationship. The event will encourage audience these isostructural compounds were explored in an differently than previous generations and tend to participation and will be a fun, informal break from effort to understand why the methyl ester is a marry slower than their parents in general. There a day full of lectures, presentations, and posters. gelator, but the ethyl ester is not under the is plenty of speculation about how online dating conditions explored. An examination of the  Promotes sustainability 11 Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual supramolecular structure and differences in CAL HOAG ethos of casual pleasure. This research podcast intermolecular interaction energies provide a Many media outlets have carved out audiences by explores the rise of hookup culture and the roots possible reason for the difference in gelation creating content that just covers one specific of dissatisfaction stemming from ambiguity, ability. In addition, a metal-organic framework subject. According to ESPNfounder.com the implicit expectation-setting, and misattribution. (MOF) has been synthesized from a bisphenol company was founded by Bill Rasmussen in 1979 ______derivative of benzimidazole and zinc acetate. Its and was just meant to cover all the sports in the Playlists, Self-Presentation, and structure was determined using X-Ray state of Connecticut. Flash forward to today and Personal Branding crystallography. MOFs have promising applications ESPN now bills itself as “the worldwide leader in DENZEL FLOWERS in small molecule storage. Selected for sports” and is trusted by millions of people Music plays a fundamental role in the discovery, presentation at American Chemical Society worldwide to provide any type of sports content cultivation, and presentation of self. Yet, social National Meeting, New Orleans, LA. imaginable. Carving out a niche audience like that media platforms such as Spotify and SoundCloud ______and targeting a specific demographic is a tried and have not been part of the Social Media revolution true business strategy for media companies, think Discovering Unseen Blinking of the last decade to the same degree as discourse- about E! News or Mashable, but is it the only one? Behavior in Core-Only 0D, 1D, and dependent social media such as Instagram and In this podcast, I argue that if a media outlet’s Facebook. This research podcast argues that 2D CdSe Nano-Materials Using an content is interesting enough, they will be able to playlists are, ultimately, a form of social media and carve out an audience by writing about whatever Air-Free Approach explores how playlist creation and sharing might they want. As illustrated by a case study of BRANDON MEHLENBACHER serve as a valuable tool for personal branding. FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY PETERSON, theringer.com, "geeking out" is emerging as a new ______CHEMISTRY marketing strategy worthy of serious consideration 2F • EDUCATION NEWTON 204 The blinking statistics of CdSe nanoparticles (NPs) by aspiring brands and content creators. of various shapes were investigated utilizing a ______THE L.I.V.E.S. PROGRAM novel, air-free approach. Blinking traces from Guys We F*&#@d: Podcasting, PRESENTS... spherical quantum dots (QDs), cylindrical quantum Social Media, and the Shifting FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: LEIGH -rods (QRs), and planar quantum platelets (QPs) Sands of Public Trust O'BRIEN, EDUCATION were obtained and used to generate “power law” ______plots of ON and OFF event durations. by varying the RACHEL KATZ Our Strengths and Our Struggles as confining dimension between 2 and 6nm. Other Who is an expert? What makes a person credible? dimensions were also varied (eg, QR length, QP How does the public know whom to believe? We All Adjust to College Life lateral dimension), producing NPs with surface Traditionally these questions have stemmed from LAURA NEWTON, CHELSI WATERS, SHAYNE areas that ranged from 10-3000 nm2. We found positions in authority and faith in a system of COLLINS, ARIANA LEE, CHRISTINA LUONGO, that the mon values from the probability expertise. The rise of social media and cross- ALICIA TAUSCHER distributions decreased with size but did not relate cultural socialization has challenged these systems The first-year students in the LIVES program to the shapes of the NPs. As each NPs’ confined and led to a crisis of public trust. This research surveyed SUNY Geneseo students regarding their dimension was increased, time spent in the “grey” podcast explores the issue of public trust and, strengths and struggles. The LIVES students then states and “OFF” states linearly increased and analyzing a case study from the popular podcast, compared and contrasted the survey responses decreased respectively. In contrast, there was a Guys We F'd, argues that Guys' popularity signals a with their own strengths and struggles. Survey weak trend as surface area increased; time spent in shift from effective to affective trust as the results showed that the two groups of students had “grey” states and “OFF” states insignificantly measure of public confidence in experts. many strengths and struggles in common, ______increased and decreased respectively. Blinking suggesting that college students have quite similar mechanisms are discussed and compared to the The Tyranny of Face-to-Face experiences, regardless of "ability." ______results. Communication for People with Where We are and Where We are Disabilities 2E • COMMUNICATION BAILEY 105 DANAH SPINK Going… SPEECH & MEDIA RESEARCH We often hear that online communication is ELIZA COX, KATRINA FINCH, VIRGINIA ELEY, ruining how we speak face-to-face, that you can’t ALEXIS HERMAN, JULIE JOHNSTON, DYLAN PODCASTS create strong relationships online, or that face-to- MCCLURG, JORDON MCKINSEY, LEAH RHOADS, FACULTY SPONSOR: LEE PIERCE, face communication leads to fewer THOMAS COBURN COMMUNICATION misinterpretations or misunderstandings. But The second- and third-year students in the LIVES SESSION CHAIR: ERIK BUCKINGHAM fewer misinterpretations for whom? Someone Program will share their experiences in their audit ______who is deaf? Someone with social anxiety? classes and internships, and the strategies they That Paradox of Dialogue and Someone on the autism spectrum? This research have employed to be successful in their endeavors Dissemination in Celebrity Social podcast argues that glorifying face-to-face at SUNY Geneseo. These will build on their individual "road maps," which show where they Media Culture communication couches ableist expectations and norms that disenfranchise sub-cultures and began, where they are now, and where they hope KATIE JOYCE populations already facing considerable to go in the future. This podcast investigates the way that ______communication challenges. relationships are formed virtually among strangers ______How the LIVES Program Prepared on social media. Specifically, the research project ______Me for Life After College argues that social media is paradoxical, in that it Hookup Culture, Message Ambiguity, expects many relationships to be formed but for RICHARD JOHANNES, JENNIFER PEARL, JAMES each relationship to somehow remain deep. This and the Importance of Clear SNYDER, SUZI LOMBARDO, CODY BROCK- desire for the impossible – depth and breadth--is Expectations SCHLAGETER This presentation will summarize the students’ especially problematic for celebrities who depend SHANNON KEENAN time in the LIVES program (3-4 years) by addressing on social media to build their brand and support Hookup culture has become rampant on college where they are headed and how the LIVES Program themselves. One of the implications is that the campuses and yet students report widespread has helped them to reach their dreams. Each pressure can exacerbate self-destructive dissatisfaction with this emergent trend. In itself student will share the knowledge, skills, and tendencies among social media celebrities. neither good nor bad, hookup culture is dispositions she or he has learned in their LIVES ______problematic, I argue in this research podcast, classes, audit classes, internships, and/or social Nix the Niche: The Ringer, Geeking because the culture thrives on suppresses the activities, and show how s/he has grown from their explicit expression of expectations--a fundamental Out, and the Future of Branding first year to their last. part of ethical communication--as anathema to an 12  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM

2G • EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 5 KEVIN ZABLONSKI Pittsford, NY; 78th Annual Meeting of the Society FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, for Applied Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA; and BAILEY 102 BIOLOGY SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference at SESSION CHAIR: LISA MEYER, EDGAR FELLOWS Geneseo Fire Department is a volunteer-run Monroe Community College. ______agency that serves both the SUNY Geneseo campus ______The Effect of Social Acceptance on and the surrounding community. With limited The Collateral Damage of the Development of Trait Hope in volunteers, it is of great interest to the department Unemployment Amongst Ex- Same-Gender Attracted Students to schedule its members during periods with the highest frequency of calls to best serve the public convicts GIANNA CIMINELLI and earn revenue to sustain department LAUREN SALZANO FACULTY SPONSOR: JOAN ZOOK, PSYCHOLOGY operations. I arranged data gathered by the FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTOPHER ANNALA, This study sets out to examine the effect different department after each EMS call to determine when BUSINESS forms of social acceptance and rejection on college the department receives the most calls as well as Ex-convicts experience more difficulty in obtaining students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or how the distribution of calls changes throughout steady employment than minorities, pansexual. It surveys same-gender attracted the year. Additionally, I predicted the number of undocumented immigrants, or any other Geneseo students on their experiences of each specific call type (abdominal pain, allergic disadvantaged group. Despite the fact that many belonging, ostracism, and harassment, both reaction, etc.) the department can expect to ex-offenders hold low-paying jobs, the ex-offender currently and retrospectively. The study primarily receive in the future by utilizing past monthly population represents significant lost economic evaluates the development of hope as a character frequencies of each call type along with several output. On the micro-level, an ex-offender and his trait. The body of research on psychological time series forecasting methods. Results indicate or her family have statistically low odds of adjustment in same-gender attracted students that overall call frequencies and certain call types becoming a productive and successful member of suggests better outcomes for youth who are unevenly distributed throughout the day, society. This paper examines the collateral damage consolidate their identities at a young age, even week, and year, necessitating a schedule that of unemployment on ex-offenders, their families, when this leads to peer victimization. Therefore, I advises members on how to prioritize shifts. With and society. By running multiple regression expect to find that high school experiences of social this analysis, members can also recognize which analyses, this paper tests the significance of acceptance or rejection better predict hope in types of calls they are likely to encounter during a numerous variables as a function of collateral college students than do college experiences. In particular two-hour period, allowing for increased damage amongst ex-convicts. particular, I anticipate a correlation between high preparedness and more focused training for newer ______school harassment and trait hope in college. I also members. Public Service Advertising for Foster expect that ostracism at both the high school and college level will correlate with lower trait hope and Adoptive Family Resources than both acceptance and harassment. I further 2H • EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 6 HUNTER SIMMS evaluate whether the relationship between social BAILEY 203 FACULTY SPONSOR: ELAINE CLEETON, SOCIOLOGY experiences and hope manifests differently in SESSION CHAIR: DAVID LEVY, PHILOSOPHY The purpose of my project is to raise awareness for multiple-gender attracted students as opposed to ______resources that are available to Foster and Adoptive exclusively same-gender attracted students. Ni Una Menos: A New Movement children and parents. Children in the child welfare ______Against Gender Violence in Latin system often have lasting behavioral, emotional Yemen: Power, Discourse, War and social problems due to the trauma they  RACHEL GDULA America experienced before being taken into the system. FACULTY SPONSOR: JEREMY GRACE, POLITICAL SAMANTHA MARTIN These children often require different parenting SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER GUZMAN, strategies than a child who has not experienced In order to truly address problems related to the ANTHROPOLOGY early childhood trauma. The Adoptive and Foster Yemeni Civil War in a way that is best for all actors In this presentation I discuss my analysis of Family Coalition of New York (AFFCNY) provides involved, strategies should not be focused on ethnographic research conducted in Valparaíso, support, information and advocacy for these balance of power politics or sectarianism, but Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina during June and children and their foster or adoptive parents. To should prioritize a stable Yemen. However, the July of 2017. The study seeks to capture the goals, raise awareness of these resources, I developed a policies and discourse of the main foreign actors methods, and effectiveness of Ni Una Menos, a radio Public Service Advertising (PSA) campaign for involved in Yemen run directly contrary to this new movement against gender violence in Latin AFFCNY. Beginning with a PSA on a reframing ideal. The intersection of balance of power politics America. Gender violence is abuse in any form, parenting class they offered, we then developed a and sectarian media discourse seems to trap these from catcalls on one end of the spectrum to the less specific PSA campaign to raise awareness for actors into a losing cycle of bad policies. To develop more extreme manifestation of femicide. the organization as a whole. These PSAs received a my argument, I will begin with an examination of Participant observation during a protest march in lot of valuable airtime for free, and several families the discourse and policies of the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Argentina supplements interviews with feminist who reached out to the organization over the and Iran on Yemen, to show how an unstable activists and representatives of organizations course of the campaign said that they heard about Yemen has allowed balance of power politics to against sexual violence in Chile. Because Chile and AFFCNY from radio PSAs. emerge and intensify. Then I will analyze coverage Argentina have considerable youth involvement in of the Yemeni Civil War in The New York Times, protests concerning social justice issues, this 2I • EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 7 Asharq al-Awsat, and Tehran Times to show how project also investigates students’ perspectives on BAILEY 103 the movement’s efficacy and shortcomings. the media pushes a narrative of sectarianism. I will SESSION CHAIR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS & Research into the Argentine Ni Una Menos then appeal to constructivist theories of framing ASTRONOMY Facebook group complements my fieldwork as I and normative threats to illustrate how the ______combination of balance of power politics and examine the sociolinguistic negotiation of gender Bitcoin’s Little Brother: Blockchain media sectarianism traps actors in the losing cycle. in the online community of practice. A key Finally, I will suggest better ways for these actors objective is to understand the obstacles facing the Accounting and the Future of to address the crisis that prioritize Yemen’s movement in the sociocultural context of a Epistemic Authority stability. traditionally machista society. Specifically, my BENJAMIN JUCHNIEWICZ ______research addresses the issue of inclusivity: to what FACULTY SPONSOR: HARRY HOWE, BUSINESS Analysis of Geneseo Fire degree does the movement’s broad scope gain We’ve all heard of blockchain, but how many of us supporters or ostracize potential allies? This Department’s EMS Data to Improve really know what it is? More importantly, what it project was funded by the Frank Vafier ’74 can do? In this presentation I will succinctly address Scheduling Efficiency and Member Ambassadorship in Leadership. Selected for the former question and discuss a solution to the Preparedness presentation at Rochester Academy of Science latter which, though quite specific to the 44th Annual Fall Scientific Paper Session, accounting industry, will have a significant impact  Promotes sustainability 13 Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual on financial markets around the globe. The SESSION CHAIR: SHUO CHEN, BUSINESS 2K • ENGLISH WELLES 216 blockchain is an immutable record of transactions, ______and this immutability will provide incalculable Developing a Bird Song Recognition INSPECTING THE ROUND TABLE: benefit to preparers and auditors of financial System Using Wavelet Components ASPECTS OF MALORY'S LE MORTE statements while providing resolute epistemic D’ARTHUR assurance to users of these statements. This and Simple Machine Learning FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH breakthrough technology may usher in an era of Techniques SESSION CHAIR: CODY AUSTIN financial interconnectedness in which auditors can JEFFREY DOSER ______provide definitive and immediate attestation FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID MEISEL, PHYSICS & Name, Identity, and Reputation in regarding the accuracy of accounting records ASTRONOMY across entire financial sectors. I will begin by Climate change is perhaps the most pressing issue Arthurian Romance discussing some of the technical components of in the biological sciences. Thus, researchers must ALICE LEE blockchain and its relationship to cryptocurrencies, devise novel and inexpensive ways to monitor the This paper looks at the connection between name, and will then describe current issues in the auditing impact human-induced climate change is having on identity, and reputation in Arthurian Romance, industry and how blockchain may alleviate them. the natural world. The presence or absence of primarily in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d'Arthur, To conclude, I will briefly discuss the ethical certain bird species can provide valuable and specifically at effects of revealing a previously dilemma surrounding proactive legislation and information about the environment in which they hidden name for a knight and how that then plays some of the other benefits the blockchain may live, and thus it is logical to use them as indicators a major role in the reputation or worship of said offer. of environmental health. We developed a knights, which is very much linked to personal ______prototype of an inexpensive acoustic recorder action. This is mostly examined through actions in A Meta-analysis of Literary using a Raspberry Pi that identifies individual bird connection to name, identity, and reputation, of Criticism on Shakespeare’s Sonnets species in soundscape recordings. This automated different characters within Le Morte d’Arthur but also draws on previous published research scholars CASEY VINCELETTE recorder allows researchers to obtain accurate have done on this or similar subjects in Arthurian FACULTY SPONSOR: RON HERZMAN, ENGLISH information about an environment without the constant monitoring of the recorder by a human. Romance. During the course of this project, I reviewed the ______body of criticism about Shakespeare's sonnets for We utilized wavelet components of the songs in the past 500 years, attending to voices that have conjunction with simple machine learning Christianity, Chivalry, and been the most influential and how they have techniques in the Wolfram language to obtain the Palomides's Example shaped one another. I applied communication identification of any common bird species in a ERIN LIEBERMAN perspectives both interpersonally and soundscape recording of western New York. Palomides is the Saracen knight who finds himself intrapersonally among the scholarly communities I ______interacting with many of the famed knights of the examined. I interviewed several sources on String Algorithms with Round Table. His presence with Le Morte d’Arthur literary-based communities. As a product, I Computational Biology Applications prompts questions in regards to the principles of developed a website to exhibit and physically link JULIA WITKOWSKI chivalry and the Christian ideology surrounding this my (sometimes tangential) findings. FACULTY SPONSOR: ANTHONY MACULA, code of conduct. By understanding the character of ______MATHEMATICS Palomides and his role within the narrative, a Eds, Meds, and their Role in the Finding similarities between genes from different better understanding of Malory and how he Gentrification of Rust Belt Cities species can elucidate structural and functional viewed people other than himself can be seen. As a non-Christian actor in the story who converts to LYNN MYERS similarities between them. When comparing two a Christian in the midst of the tales, Palomides’s FACULTY SPONSOR: SETH CAVELLO, GEOGRAPHY strands of DNA, one might look at the longest example is one that can be expanded into a greater Cities in America’s industrial heartland are sequence of consecutive base pairs that the two understanding beyond the character. In Le Morte struggling. Once shining beacons of opportunity, strands share, or the longest common substring. d’Arthur, Palomides is frequently seen as an Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Baltimore However, due to insertions, substitutions, and "other," but it is not just how other characters who now constitute part of the “Rust Belt” – an deletions in DNA over time, a shared sequence may interact with him see him, but also how Palomides unfortunate moniker popularized in the 1970s for not be of consecutive base pairs, which motivates sees himself which provides context to Malory’s its description of the failure of the industrial city. the search for the longest common subsequence world. The Christian ideology that Malory has Steel cities gave way to La-La lands, and politicians between the two strands. Longest common when writing Le Morte d’Arthur can be better were forced to confront the idea that, even in an subsequence is also desirable in finding a examined and understood by having an age of rapid urbanization, cities still had to thermodynamically favorable sequence alignment understanding of the frequently forgotten compete for residents, and the Rust Belt was of two strands of DNA. These alignments have multiple algorithms which will be discussed. Palomides. losing. To combat this decline, many of these ______politicians are embracing what is essentially the ______opposite of the industrial formula – a dependence Building Fiction out of Inspiration Blood is Not as Thick as the Water on universities and hospitals (eds and meds). MARISSA CANARELLI of the Court: How the Devaluing of Unfortunately, however, the economies inspired FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTEN GENTRY, ENGLISH Family in Malory’s Le Morte by eds and meds support a different population Every piece of short fiction began as something than the economies supported by blue-collar simple: a vague spark of interest or a half-baked d’Arthur Heralds the End of industries. As seen in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, idea. But how does a writer take those early Arthurian Society Buffalo, and Baltimore, an increased investment in inspirations and build a story? After spending MARGARET PIGLIACELLI eds and meds has resulted in the gentrification of nearly a year working on a collection of short This paper discusses the many complex and thousands of low-income residents who are stories, I have gone through this process many interconnecting relationships within Sir Thomas overlooked in this post-industrial transformation, times. Here, I aim to break down the inspirations Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur. These relationships thereby raising the following questions: How do for specific works in my collection and provide a inevitably cause conflicts as the responsibilities of eds and meds cause gentrification?, How does description of how that inspiration shaped the each relationship forces the individual to prioritize gentrification harm the benefits that eds and meds work, from plot to character to setting. Through certain relationships over others. As the Knights of have to offer?, and How can eds and meds break this, I hope to demonstrate the great variety of the Round Table are groomed to value their out of gentrifying tendencies and promote initial ideas, both specific and frustratingly vague, friendships with their fellow knights over their sustainable, equitable growth? that can picked up when least expected and how a relationships with their fathers, sons, and brothers, writer can use them to their advantage when entire dynasties, as well as Arthurian society as a 2J • EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 8 crafting a piece of short fiction. whole, crumbles.

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2L • HISTORY WELLES 119 HISTORY HONORS PROJECTS - US legitimacy of African American protesters. This carceral capacity, re-imagined after President ADVANCING THE DIGITAL HISTORY Nixon’s declaration of a War on Drugs in 1971, HUMANITIES @ GENESEO PANEL 2 SESSION CHAIR: JOE COPE, HISTORY needed publicized incidents of African American ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JOE COPE, HISTORY criminality to justify expansion. The year 1971 also SESSION CHAIR: YVONNE SEALE, HISTORY The Poles of Buffalo: The Social and saw a national investment and involvement of ______Cultural Evolution of an Eastern para-militarized police at rebellion sites, most Digital Story-Mapping and the European Other infamously documented in the Attica prison riot  where 38 people were killed in the retaking one Legacy of Cornelia Adair DEREK KACZOROWSKI bloody Monday morning. By analyzing riots both VERONICA TAGLIA FACULTY SPONSOR: RYAN JONES, HISTORY leading up to and after the carnage at Attica, My project draws from archival research to create This paper examines the gradual evolution of the African Americans in prisons and in public felt the a website mapping the transatlantic narrative of Poles’ social and cultural integration into the increasing and controlling presence of the State as Cornelia Wadsworth Adair (1837-1921). I collected community of Buffalo from the 1870s through never before. In the creation of a veritable police information from the personal letters, 1920. The research focuses on all three levels of state, para-militarized police forces developed into political/legal documents and diaries of social interaction and cultural engagement: micro, a legitimized arm of brutality, or what might be Wadsworth Adair available at Geneseo, the meso, and macro. The paper argues that the Poles referred to as a “Reverse riot strategem” of the University of Texas, Glenveagh Castle in Donegal, were required to formulate ethnic intragroup State to block Civil Rights challenges to its power. Ireland, and the National Library of Ireland in relations prior to developing intergroup relations “Reverse Riots” ultimately played a decisive role in Dublin. Ultimately, I examine the way that Cornelia among other members of the Buffalo community. forming our modern Carceral State and nationwide Wadsworth Adair’s history intersects with the The Poles’ intragroup religious based conflicts and spread of mass incarceration. legacies of the land establishments she helped to the greater community’s rejection of the ethnic create, including Glenveagh Castle and the JA community stimulated the formation of a dual 2N • MATHEMATICS WELLES 24 Ranch, a large cattle ranch that still operates in ethnic and class consciousness among the Poles. Southwestern Texas. Thematically, my research The working class interactions and relationships TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF approaches larger questions of transnational were disregarded by the upper level members of MATHEMATICS 2 identity, gendered legacies, land ownership, and Buffalo’s community, but the masculinized Poles FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GARY early environmentalist practices at the turn of the gained a social status through intergroup class TOWSLEY, MATHEMATICS 20th century. This project culminates in a website relations. However, a national strive for ______operated by Omeka that includes a map, short nationalism contributed to the eventual Pythagoras and His Society's Lasting biography, and catalog of source material to create Americanization, and social acceptance of the a publicly accessible overview of Wadsworth Polish ethnic Other into Buffalo. The paper Influence on Mathematics Adair’s life and posthumous legacy. illustrates the transformation from an immigrant AMANDA WILLIAMS ______identity to an American identity by focusing on the FACULTY SPONSOR: GARY TOWSLEY, Between a Discipline and a Hard accounts of non-members of the Polish MATHEMATICS community. I am researching Pythagoras and his society's Place: Navigating the Academic ______lasting influence on mathematics. First I will start Valley between Economics and the Gender and Venereal Disease in by explaining who Pythagoras was, what era he Humanities lived in, and what kind of a society he created. I will Early Twentieth Century Rochester, explain his follower's beliefs and the core values of BRENDAN MAHONEY that society under Pythagoras concerning how FACULTY SPONSOR: LEONIE STONE, BUSINESS NY mathematics relates to everything around us. Then KIRK ANNE, COMPUTING AND INFORMATION ALLISON MAIER I will go further into detail about specific number TECHNOLGY FACULTY SPONSOR: RYAN JONES, HISTORY theories the Pythagoreans observed, such as Whether it’s driving, cooking, or studying, Due to the sexual nature of venereal disease (VD), figurate and perfect numbers. Geometrical everyone has their own way of doing things. historical dialogue surrounding the topic often observations will also be explained. Finally, I will Performing research is no exception, and the involves gendered or moral components. Four describe what mathematical findings led to academic community is currently home to a common attitudes permeate the discussion about Pythagoras's proof of the Pythagorean theorem, diverse array of methods for investigating and control of VD during the first half of the and the other proofs that have come about since frequently-similar questions. These methods, twentieth century. The immoral prostitute vs. the innocent wife, an emphasis on male willpower to the first one. though, are a double-edged sword. They allow ______researchers to carve out distinct perspectives on a resist temptation, the introduction of redemption number of issues, but the disciplines that form for those who contracted the diseases, and the Ancient Greek Astronomical around them impose barriers to academic thought association of uncontrolled VD with societal Mechanisms and action, not to mention barriers to conversation degradation are familiar rhetoric for Western and BRETT HARLING with other disciplines. This project emerged in part Western-influenced countries during this time FACULTY SPONSOR: GARY TOWSLEY, as an effort to break down some of the barriers period. The unique method of venereal disease MATHEMATICS currently separating economic theory and cultural control practiced in Rochester, New York during An in depth study of ancient Greek mechanisms studies, and it ultimately found a home in the the early twentieth century—which relied heavily such as the Antikythera model and Archimedes interdisciplinary field of digital humanities. Using on the threat of police involvement—underscores sphere and how they were used to predict celestial computational and network science methods, I the prevalence of those four attitudes in this events. investigated the impact that changes in the otherwise average American city. ______production and content of popular movies had on Zero in Ancient Indian Mathematics American political thought — and vice versa. This Redefining Rebellion: Riots, CHRIS MONCLOVA involved the construction of several indices to “Reverse Riots,” and the Rise of the I will explore the use of zero within ancient Indian measure these phenomena, since there is no Carceral State mathematics. Many civilizations had concepts of standard measure of ideology in movie production TAYLOR MCPHERSON zero but the ancient Indians were the first to use or in movies themselves. Ideally, these research FACULTY SPONSOR: EMILYE CROSBY, HISTORY an actual '0' to hold places. This led to easier questions and methods can be utilized for future The victories of the Civil Rights Movement through computations as well as more clarity when scholarly inquiries. computing. Nonetheless, the use of zero made it the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 promised a change in American society and also challenged over to America and we discovered how to use zero 2M • HISTORY WELLES 133 State authority. In response, the State refortified in our own ways.

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2O • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 338 FACULTY SPONSOR: REVERIEN MFIZI, POLITICAL 2Q • POTPOURRI: ENGLISH & SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MATH RESEARCH WEEKEND WITH Since 1950, Uganda has hosted an average of LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES DR. PAMELA HARRIS, GOING 161,000 individuals per year. The first official WELLES 121 DEEPER THAN INVISIBLE LATTICE refugee settlement was established before SESSION CHAIR: BETSY COLON, GRANTS independence from British Colonial rule, but it set MANAGEMENT POINTS a precedent for continued support of refugees into ______FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: the twenty-first century. In stark contrast to its When Life Gives You Exile, Make a CAROLINE HADDAD, MATHEMATICS East-African neighbors, Uganda has adopted a Pilgrimage: Dante's Lessons on ______policy towards sustainable refugee management Weak b-Visibility (Part 1 of 3) systems, which have enabled the growing refugee Work and Truth ALLIE AIRD, BARBARA SCHWEITZER population to become self-reliant within the IZZY GRAZIANO Part 1 of 3: You’re playing frisbee with a group of context of national economic and social systems FACULTY SPONSOR: RON HERZMAN, ENGLISH friends. You’re throwing the frisbee back and forth that are already in place. This study looks into the Writing from exile, Dante Poet constructed the between you and another person, when someone institutions that lend themselves directly to the Divine Comedy as a framework for examining the stands directly between you two. Because you can success of the refugee regime; economic stability, productive and incorrect responses to exile in a no longer throw the frisbee straight to your friend, health care services, and educational opportunities condition of opposites: while Pier delle Vigne, an they are now “invisible.” We can solve this problem all work in conjunction to increase the prospect for inhabitant of Inferno, responds to his fall from in three ways; you could move yourself so that no self-sustaining refugee communities. Compared to grace by committing suicide, Romeo, who those in person is standing in your way, you could throw the other states in the region, Uganda has set itself Paradise laud, exemplifies the virtue and strength frisbee along a curved line, or you could do both. In apart as a long-term solution for refugees, as required to turn exile into a pilgrimage. As a this talk, we will explore weak b-visibility, which opposed to a short-term sanctuary. conversion story written amid exile, the Comedy would help find different solutions to the frisbee ______lends itself to meta interpretation, presenting an problem. Research done during Math Research Environmental Policy Effectiveness: allegorical pilgrimage, wherein Dante’s journey Weekend with Dr. Pamela Harris, Williams College. A Historical Institutional Approach from the dark woods to Paradise indicates a ______spiritual reorientation from wrong desire to Weak b-visibility (Part 2 of 3) to the Political Institutions of natural love. Thus, as the Poet endures exile, the ALBERTO ALONSO, ERIC PIATO Rwanda and Burundi Pilgrim prepares for exile — referenced throughout Part 2 of 3: Recall the frisbee problem: where we KRISTEN HOMEYER the progression toward true knowledge — by are trying to throw the frisbee to a person located FACULTY SPONSOR: REVERIEN MFIZI, POLITICAL learning both how to repent and how to avoid the on an integer lattice point in a rectangular region, SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS temptation of arrogance. Writing in imitation of but an opponent is standing on the straight line By using a historical institutional analysis approach, the Bible, Dante Poet’s allegorical presentation between us and out teammate. Since the disk Rwanda and Burundi are compared in a case study distinguishes this form of enlightenment as cannot be thrown in a straight line our team analysis because of their similar historical, cultural, significant and worth pursuing because, within an member is said to be invisible. Thus, the disk must and ethnic makeup. However, despite Rwanda and allegorical framework, the value a work carries lies be thrown with a curved trajectory. Using the Burundi's similar political institutions and in the truths to which it points. ______definitions given by Goins, Harris, et. al, we give experiences, Rwanda can implement and enforce necessary and sufficient conditions for effective policy at higher levels of state capacity English-to-Spanish Literary determining if a point in a rectangular array is than Burundi because of internal and exogenous Translation weakly b-visible by an external point. We also show variables. Therefore, an examination of the MARISSA HARRINGTON-VERB that for any point P outside of the array, there strength and flexibility of political institutions FACULTY SPONSOR: ROSEMARY MCEWEN, exists a b ≥ 1 such that every point in the array is between Rwanda and Burundi is necessary to LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES weakly b-visible from P. Research done during understand why Rwanda has a more effective Student presenter Marissa Harrington-Verb will Math Research Weekend with Dr. Pamela Harris, environmental policy than Burundi. provide an overview of the theories of literary Williams College. ______translation she has studied this semester, with a ______Sin Tetas no Hay Narrativo: An focus on the specific challenges posed by the Weak b-visibility (Part 3 of 3) Exploration of the Relation increased translation of drama. Ms. Harrington- PATRICK CROSSLEY, GEORGE KULINER Verb will also share an excerpt of her Spanish Part 3 of 3: Consider now that the curved trajectory Between Women, Drug Trafficking, translation of Instant Harmony, an English- you throw the frisbee with is fixed. We show that and International Policy Making language one-act play written by Joe Starzyk, and given any curved trajectory there will always be a SARAH PHILLIPS discuss her own experience with the translation place for you to stand so that you may throw the FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL process. frisbee to any of your friends without someone SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______being in the way. We note that said point may be In popular media, men are often portrayed at the Poetic Response in the Time of quite far from your friends and give sufficient center of the action when it comes to narcotráfico,  conditions for which to find the closest such point. Turmoil or narco-trafficking, in machismo culture. These DAVINA WARD Research done during Math Research Weekend acclaimed “macho men” yield the drugs, guns, and with Dr. Pamela Harris, Williams College. FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH most importantly—the agency of the narrative. This presentation will focus on poetry as an art And while it is important to acknowledge that it is 2P • POLITICAL SCIENCE & during these times of tragedy and mass turmoil. It mostly men who are lured into the drug trade, and will explore poetic response to current social issues INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS who account for the most deaths, there is an including but not limited to racial tension, LGBTQ+ WELLES 26 important piece missing: the women. Where are rights/issues, gun violence, and politics. The they? And why have their experiences been HONORS THESES question of reconciliation is at the core of the relegated to a dusty back corner on the shelf of presentation. How does a poet reconcile their art SESSION CHAIR: JEREMY GRACE, POLITICAL history? In this essay, I will explore the economic, and emotions to create of piece of work that SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS political, and social effects that narco-activities ______conveys them, while at the same time finding the have on women in Mexico, and argue that whole process therapeutic? The presentation will Policy Towards Sustainability: Uganda’s including women in such a narrative leads to more function primarily through performance/ the Refugee Management System within effective international policy making. reading of poetry, in particular demonstrating the the Framework of East Africa process of poetic response, whether directly JAMIE MCCORMICK imbedded in the poem or through introduction.

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2R • POTPOURRI: ENGLISH & AT THE DIVISION OF HUMAN FACULTY SPONSOR: JONETTE LANCOS, THEATRE/DANCE HISTORY WELLES 123 RIGHTS Inspired by Napoleon Hill’s quote, “If you do not SESSION CHAIR: SUZANNA RUBRIGHT, SESSION CHAIR: AMANDA ROTH, WOMEN AND conquer self, you will be conquered by self,” this SPONSORED RESEARCH GENDER STUDIES dance aims to expose mental instability resulting ______from a misalignment between the ideal self -- how Beyond Ekphrasis Identity Behind Bars: Being LGBTQ+ one would like to perceived by others -- and one’s RACHEL BRITTON in a Carceral State self image. Individuals are rarely open to discussing FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTEN GENTRY, ENGLISH ALYSSA FORBES what they perceive to be their greatest Ekphrasis, according to the Oxford English FACULTY SPONSOR: AMANDA ROTH, WOMEN inadequacies, though these internal thoughts are Dictionary is “the use of detailed description of a AND GENDER STUDIES universally suffered. In this piece, each dancer tells work of visual art as a literary device,” but in the Forbes will analyze the treatment of members of her own story of achieving inner balance through Ekphrasis Project, students transcend mere the LGBTQ+ community while mass incarcerated. harmony of the ideal and real selves. description and find new narratives and inspiration In addition, she will present a call for activism and ______in each other’s work. Over the past year, Geneseo engagement on this feminist issue. Prana artists and writers have collaborated on this ______TAYLOR GERNER project with MiNT magazine. They were paired up Refugee Experience in America: FACULTY SPONSOR: JONETTE LANCOS, to produce art and inspire one another, creating an THEATRE/DANCE evolving thread of creative work. The Ekphrasis Refugee Women and Their Prana is a word in the practice of yoga that defines Project continues to move beyond traditional Children all cosmic life energy. This piece is inspired by this ekphrasis, by inviting students from disciplines KELSEY VANETTEN practice and the strength that is required to outside of the arts to participate and discuss the FACULTY SPONSOR: JOANNA KIRK, SOCIOLOGY connect the body, mind and soul. Prana follows five connection between fields of study and the This project examines the experience of refugee women’s journeys of finding their individual importance of interdisciplinarity. In this women, their hardships throughout their journeys, differences and collective strengths. This piece presentation, MiNT magazine will launch its special and the experiences of their children. Particularly explores how our internal energy can be connected issue, lead an interdisciplinary workshop in VanEtten will be looking at the assimilation process to the energy of life around us. Using yoga, this ekphrasis, and cultivate the arts community both for both the refugee women and their children, piece incorporates a contemporary style of dance on and off campus. and their integration of two cultures. movement with classic yoga poses, including the ______sun salutation sequence, warrior pose and Historic Homosociality and The Internship at the New York State Utkatasana, or chair pose. While each dancer Medieval Literary Tradition: Same- Division of Human Rights incorporates their own movement and sequences of yoga poses, there are parts of the piece that JAMIE KEEL Sex Intimacy in the Arthurian highlight and emphasize the strengths of the group FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE BLOOD, WOMEN Canon as a unified whole as well. AND GENDER STUDIES MATTHEW BURLEY ______The presentation will discuss Keel's internship at FACULTY SPONSOR: YVONNE SEALE, HISTORY the New York State Division of Human Rights (DHR) For They Existed The Arthurian literary canon is dominated by in Rochester as an Intake Specialist. She will MINA RAJ hereronormative love. Captive damsels are saved analyze different cases she has worked on with FACULTY SPONSOR: MARK BROOMFIELD, by knights in shining armor, who are rewarded for Human Rights Investigators pertaining to gender THEATRE/DANCE their bravery with accolades and affection. Such inequality, sexism, and sexual harassment, using Based on the five stages of grief model developed images have inspired a cultural phenomenon that aliases for the cases. She will also discuss the by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, the dancers in this piece continues to influence modern society in art, film, different behaviors she has observed between portray the aftereffects of losing a loved one. It is and television. However, the celebration of men and women during conferences with inspired by the beauty of the mind’s resilience and Arthurian knighthood is not limited to Complainants and Respondents. natural ability to heal and is meant to show the heteronormative interactions. Historian Richard E. importance of experiencing the difficult feelings Zeikowitz analyzes various discourses of male 2T • THEATRE/DANCE associated with loss. While the movement is same-sex desire in a series of 14th century chivalric mournful as denial, anger, bargaining and texts, including chivalric treatises by Geffroi de ALICE AUSTIN THEATRE depression are represented, the piece ends on a Charny, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and DANCE COMPOSITION: more hopeful note as acceptance is finally found. testimony from the trials of the Knights Templar. CHOREOGRAPHIC PROJECTS “When great souls die, after a period peace He draws attention to what he labels as culturally blooms, slowly and always irregularly...We can be. SESSION CHAIR: JONETTE LANCOS, normative same-sex desire, attempting to Be and be better. For they existed,” – Maya articulate instances of homoerotic interactions in THEATRE/DANCE ______Angelou. both historical and literary texts. By applying his methodology to the work of French author The Overcoming 2U • WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES TERESA BECKMAN Chrétien de Troyes, Sir Gawain and the Green WELLES 132 Knight, and Sir Thomas Malory’s A Noble Tale of Sir FACULTY SPONSOR: JONETTE LANCOS, Launcelot du Lake, it becomes possible to identify THEATRE/DANCE EVOLUTION OF STEREOTYPES IN erotic undertones that would otherwise be ignored Internal struggles may control and take over every MAINSTREAM FILM AND by the modern reader. Using early Arthurian aspect of one's life. This dance is based on a literature as a litmus for societal values in the personal struggle with anxiety. The piece is meant TELEVISION Middle Ages, this paper explores homosociality to show the internal conflict through the use of FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE and the celebration of masculinity in medieval physical dancers. The partnering serves to show BLOOD, WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES ______society. how mental illness can control a person. However in the end, one may fight to both prevail over any Femmes Fatales : A Forever Fault in 2S • WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES obstacle and find self acceptance. It takes Film? A Sociological Analysis of the incredible strength and courage to pick oneself up WELLES 128 after each fall and this persistence shows both Proliferation of Fatphobia through FEMINIST ACTIVISM AT WORK IN beauty and resilience. the Capitalistic Popular Media PRISONS, ON IMMIGRATION, AND ______Culture Harmony of Self TERESE CAIAZZA EMILY ELLMANN

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This research project examines both the on-screen Representation of Native Americans 2W • WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES portrayals of fat women characters and life in the film industry for fat women actors. Despite the on Screen BAILEY 104 growing presence of body positivity movements SHANNON WALSH THE SAFE ZONE LEADERSHIP within mainstream feminist activism and in the The representation of Native peoples on film and PROGRAM: BUILDING A media, fat characters – and therefore the fat actors television, throughout history and today, is playing these roles – still remain confined to social astoundingly low. When Native Americans are COMMUNITY OF EXPERTS AND A and cultural perceptions. These views are what visible on screen they are often given stereotypical MORE INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY construct "fatness" as something to be vilified, roles, are not played by Native actors, and their FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: ALICE commiserated, or even compensated for. These history is not presented accurately or even RUTKOWSKI, WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES existing confines for fat women are evident respectfully toward living Native people. I will ______through an examination of roles played by both explore what happens with Native storylines on TROY KEITH, MADELINE REICHLER, HANNAH Melissa McCarthy and Rebel Wilson. Known for screen in terms of cultural appropriation, FAHY, STEPH ADAMS, ISABELLE ORTIZ, VICTORIA their comedic portrayals of the one-dimensional sexualization and subjugation of Native women, ALLEN, LESLIE TETTEH, FELIX LANERI, MARY "funny fat girl" trope, this analysis focuses on and the parts available for Native actors. RUTGLIANO, JESSICA BANSBACH, SARAH LILLEY, McCarthy as "Megan" in Bridesmaids (2011) and DIMITRI WING-PAUL Wilson as "Fat Amy" in the Pitch Perfect (2012) film 2V • ACADEMIC PLANNING & ADVISING This panel will consist of six short presentations series. A sociological analysis of this particular WELLES 111 from the first set of students to participate in the proliferation of fatphobia in film reveals the DIVERSITY AND VALUES: Safe Zone Leadership Internship Program. relationship between Hollywood, film, and media, Geneseo’s Safe Zone Progam – which offers a 3- and their capitalistic motivations -- which together DISRUPTING ORIENTATION hour workshop during which participants learn the have limited subversive representations of the fat THROUGH FORUM THEATER AND basics of LGBTQ identities and strategies to woman's narrative. become a better ally – has a unique hybrid ______EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGES structure in that our pool of facilitators is drawn Resisting Stereotypes: Queer FACULTY SPONSOR: CELIA EASTON, OTHER from students, faculty and staff. Building students SESSION CHAIR: BRENDA BOTA, PSYCHOLOGY into the administration of the program vastly Female Representation in ______expanded its reach and given student leaders BRENDA BOTA, SAMANTHA DORN, JOSEPH Television ownership of key parts of Safe Zone. Students will: BLASIOLI, BRADEN MILES, COURTNEY KLEIMAN, EMILY MAY reflect on the importance of Safe Zone to their KARINA CORNIER, NANAKO IKEMOTO, MIRANDA This presentation will examine the modern history intellectual and personal growth; demonstrate STEINBERG of stereotypes of queer women in mainstream skills learned around collaborative decision-making The spring 2018 leadership course, INTD 288, has television and how two queer female characters and developing a visual identity for the program; worked to understand the creative and community (one bisexual, one lesbian) break these common present student contributions to the revision of benefits of institutions that value diversity and stereotypes curriculum for the academic course; speak about inclusion, especially educational institutions. Class ______curriculum development in a broader sense as the members have read, reflected on, and written Geneseo program begins work on its own training Representation of Black Women in about diversity topics that affect college students. materials; offer a case-study of a residence-living- Leading Roles in Film This group continues a project begun by students specific program that went from theoretical to ASHLEY MONTI in 2017 (under Melanie Blood's direction) to actual in three months; suggest strategies and This presentation is an analysis of the roles black interpret these issues through Forum Theater, assessment of our public-facing presence online; women plays as lead actresses in film. It defines the using theater as pedagogy to challenge and disrupt and finally a data analysis of our success as well as evolution of black women's representation in film the comfortable places people tend to retreat into what the program can do to improve. with research and analysis, with focus on Waiting rather than working on difficult questions and to Exhale and Hidden Figures to examine how black conflict. The class will invite audience members to women are portrayed in film when they are not participate in their theater pieces – not to solve filling a subordinate role. problems but to explore answers. ______

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CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS 3 ROUND ROBIN • 2:25 - 3:40 PM This session will have three varied presentations in each room, with ample time to move from room to room between presentations.

SESSION 3 ROUND ROBIN BLOCK 1 • 2:25 - 2:40 PM 3A • 1 EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 9 rather than content, because it is through form and Washington D.C as I put together my most that counter-narratives of identity emerge, recent event Credo Kitchen Destination Dinners: WELLES 121 challenging hegemonic narratives of white From Farm to Fork. This latest event will change the SESSION CHAIR: LISA MEYER, EDGAR FELLOWS privilege rather than just meaning that someone is table conversation towards food waste in our lives ______sad. Selected for presentation at SUNY and how to live a nutrition rich, healthful lifestyle Feminism and Popular Music Undergraduate Research Conference, Rochester, on a tight budget, all while contributing to the local MADISON MURPHY NY. food system. I will also introduce you to CAS chef FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE BLOOD, WOMEN Ilana Stevenson and chef Wilson Castillo on their AND GENDER STUDIES 3C • 1 WELLES 140 experiences with Credo Kitchen, and guest speaker In this presentation, I discuss how feminism is SESSION CHAIR: BILL HARRISON, OFFICE OF THE to the Farm to Fork event, Phil Bianchi from represented in contemporary popular music. I PROVOST Headwater Food Hub. Credo Kitchen Destination explore how artists such as Beyonce, Kesha, Taylor ______Dinners is a project generously funded by the Frank Swift, Hailee Steinfeld, and Charlene Kaye express Chromosome Spatial Distribution in Vafier ‘74 Ambassador in Leadership, CIDD, and the feminist ideas through their music. My research Geneseo Foundation. takes into account the intersections between the Large Bacterium Epulopiscium gender, race, and class. In addition, I consider how sp. type B 3E • 1 WELLES 123 the lyrics of many artists, even artists who consider BAYLEY ZUBLER SESSION CHAIR: ALYSSSA STEFANESE, themselves to be feminists, can be problematic for FACULTY SPONSOR: ANNE PELLERIN, PHYSICS & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SERVICES women. My findings will draw on academic ASTRONOMY ______research, as well as my lived experience exploring ELIZABETH HUTCHISON BIOLOGY From Mentors to Main Street: The feminism through activism. In addition to my The large bacterium Epulopiscium sp. type B is research, I will present several songs that I have unique because it is very large and extremely Freshman Integration Initiative written that reflect feminist ideas. The goal of polyploid, i.e. containing multiple chromosomes. SARAH JANE PHILLIPS writing these songs is to show that popular music Bacteria are usually small in size because they are FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH COPE, CENTER FOR does not have to rely on themes that objectify limited by diffusion rates and the need for a large INQUIRY, DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT women. Instead, popular music can expose surface area to volume ratio. Most bacteria contain During this presentation I am going to talk about women’s issues and help spread awareness about 1-2 chromosomes whereas the Epulopiscium sp. my experience as a Community Advocates the tenets of feminism. Through my research, I type B bacterium has thousands of chromosomes. Ambassador in Community Engagement through hope to raise awareness about how the media can The goal of our research is to understand the the Center for Inquiry, Discovery and shape how people view social issues. Through my unusual cell structure of Epulopiscium sp. type B Development. I was an ambassador in the fall of music, I hope to set an example of how artists can and the biology that allows it to exist with a large 2017 and my presentation will talk about the two hold themselves accountable and support beliefs cell size and its extreme polyploidy. Specifically, we events that I organized, the Main Street Bash and that are important to them through their music, have created a 3D chromosome spatial distribution the New Student Mentor Program. Through this without bending to patriarchal norms. Selected for map. This map will be used to study the presentation I want to show where the ideas for presentation at SUNY Undergraduate Research distribution, size, and the orientation of the these two programs came from and the steps Conference at Monroe Community College, chromosomes. More generally, we are interested required to execute these events. I also want to Brighton, NY. in how it organizes and structures its talk about the community connection through this chromosomes, and how this relates to the cell. An ambassadorship and how these programs brought 3B • 1 WELLES 115 important element to this research is using students and community members closer SESSION CHAIR: KEN KALLIO, OFFICE OF THE astronomical imaging techniques and analysis to together.

PROVOST analysis to retrieve the 3D location of each ______chromosome markers in microscope images of the 3F • 1 WELLES 128 Black Women Be Knowing: Tears, cell. This study could help gain important insights SESSION CHAIR: SAM CARDAMONE, STUDY Consciousness & Affect in Get into other polyploidy bacteria. ABROAD ______Out 3D • 1 WELLES 119 Visualization of 5-HT2 Serotonin ERIK BUCKINGHAM SESSION CHAIR: JENNIFER KENYON, Receptors in the Lymnaea Central FACULTY SPONSOR: LEE PIERCE, INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SERVICES COMMUNICATION ______Nervous System This project, intended for publication in Critical A Short Film on Credo Kitchen CAMILLE CHIN Studies in Media Communication, reads against the FACULTY SPONSOR: DUANE MCPHERSON, laudatory mainstream reviews of the popular 2017 Destination Dinners BIOLOGY horror film Get Out to argue that the film is not an SOFIA VILLALÓN This presentation will present the findings of my emancipatory narrative for the #blacklivesmatter FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH DOLCE, OTHER two year research project with Dr. McPherson. era, but rather an ambiguous aesthetic JOSEPH COPE CENTER FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY & Lymnaea are a type of sea snail. This project performance of double consciousness that refuses DEVELOPMENT focuses on serotonin and serotonin receptors in to resolve the mixed positionality of living as a As the Ambassador in Leadership and founder of the Lymnaea brain. First, we dissected Lymnaea black American and a woman. To advance this Credo Kitchen Destination Dinners, I will be taking brains and used immunofluorescence to view argument, the project juxtaposes a discourse you on the journey behind Credo Kitchen through where serotonin is present in the brain. Then, we analysis of mainstream critical reviews of the film a self-directed short film. I will let you in on the extracted and isolated 5-HT2 RNA from Lymnaea with a close textual analysis of tears and blood in lessons I’ve learned through the ambassadorship, and converted it into DNA. The 5-HT2 receptor is a key scenes from the film. Ultimately, the essay the story behind Credo Kitchen and most specific serotonin receptor that has not been argues that American popular-political culture importantly, my passion for food. I’ll also bring you visualized before in the central nervous system of needs to pay closer attention to form in media, along with me on my travels to Buffalo, Rochester, Lymnaea. Using the DNA, we engineered plasmids  Promotes sustainability 19 Session 3 • ROUND ROBIN • 2:25 – 3:40 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual to contain the 5-HT2 gene and incorporated these to find several statistically significant correlations Hymn to the Liberated: A plasmids into bacteria cultures. Then, we extracted between one or more of these variables. the plasmids and confirmed via gel electrophoresis Comparative Analysis of French and that the plasmids could be cut with restriction 3I • 1 WELLES 132 British Decolonized Nations in enzymes. Restriction enzymes cleave DNA and we SESSION CHAIR: KATIE BUCKLEY, NEW STUDENT Africa through National Anthem used specific restriction enzymes in order to cut PROGRAMS the 5-HT2 gene out of the plasmid. Then, we ______Lyrics engineered mRNA probes that are bound to a Malnutrition and Educational DEMETRIOS GIANNIOS substrate, DIG, that will fluoresce in the presence FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, of alkaline phosphatase during visualization. The in Setbacks in School-aged Children in GEOGRAPHY situ hybridization was performed in order to Nicaragua: Does Family My topic was comparing the national anthems of visualize where the 5-HT2 receptors are present in Connectedness Foster Resilience former colonies of France and Great Britain. My the brain. goal was for the national anthem lyrics to illustrate Toward Effects of Malnourishment? the contrasting imperial influences and liberation 3G • 1 WELLES 131  practices of the decolonized French and the British SESSION CHAIR: EMILY COLE, STUDY ABROAD ARLENIS SANTANA nations in Africa. My research design involved ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY looking at the national anthems of fourteen An Analysis of Music and Dance as Discussion will be focused on Jiquelite, a rural current African nations that gained independence village of about 100 people in the hills just outside during the period of mass decolonization after Essential to the Plot in Jane of El Sauce, Nicaragua. Presentation will focus on World War II – seven formerly under British rule Austen’s Emma and Persuasion topics of developmental psychology and issues of and the other seven formerly under French rule. I ELIZABETH VERRASTRO malnutrition in Jiquelite. This presentation will then counted and compared the frequency of FACULTY SPONSOR: CELIA EASTON, ENGLISH discuss preliminary data that was collected in specific words, i.e. “free(dom),” “unity/ted,” and Music and dance are quite noteworthy in Jane Nicaragua and discuss the W.E.I.R.D phenomenon. “just(ice),” between the decolonized British Austen’s novels, particularly in Persuasion and This project was funded by The Eddie Lee '76 First nations and the French nations. After conducting Emma, because they provide outlets for intimacy Generation Ambassadorship. my research and analysis, the word frequencies of among the young characters that would otherwise both the decolonized French and British African not be appropriate. As Cheryl Wilson, in her article 3J • 1 WELLES 134 national anthems correlate with the principles of "Dance, Physicality, and Social Mobility in Jane SESSION CHAIR: BETSY COLON, GRANTS their colonizers as well as in reaction to how they Austen’s Persuasion," remarks, “balls and dances MANAGEMENT were decolonized. are significant occasions because they provide ______opportunities for socialization and courtship” (57). Robusticity and Size Comparison of 3L • 1 WELLES 24 The ability to play music and to dance is closely tied Theropod Humerii Using Geometric SESSION CHAIR: JULIE RAO, INSTITUTIONAL to attracting the opposite sex, as we can see with RESEARCH the characters of Emma Woodhouse, Anne Elliot, Morphometrics to Indicate Prey ______and Jane Fairfax. The subsequent jealously that Size Preference The Maya: Landscape Innovation evolves from characters interacting during balls SAMANTHA GAGE and Urban Ecology and musical events emphasizes the importance of FACULTY SPONSOR: SARA BURCH, BIOLOGY BRENNA CHAMBERLAIN dance and music as ways to get closer to characters There are many hypotheses regarding the function FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES AIMERS, of romantic interest. Jane’s superior musical of the forelimbs of nonavian theropod dinosaurs, ANTHROPOLOGY abilities get her attention that Emma’s superior including that they functioned in prey capture. The capabilities and knowledge of the ancient status affords her. Similarly, Anne keeps a close eye Previously, we performed phylogenetic principle Maya are often presented as arcane and cryptic. on who Captain Wentworth dances and interacts component analyses on a set of functionally Their worldview and reasoning may become more with, while keeping herself secluded from the relevant forelimb indices and compared the results transparent to the contemporary observer through same festivities. Music and dance play critical roles from theropods to those of extant felids. Although an examination of their landscape modifications in the lives of Emma, Anne, and Jane, as they often the results showed congruence between the felids and urban-agrarian techniques. When considering act as facilitators for the development and and theropods, we were severely limited by the the significance of their surroundings, the Maya advancement of intimacies between characters of number of taxa available using this method. To appear less esoteric to the modern viewer and the opposite sex. expand this study, we used geometric transform into masters of their environment. Sites morphometrics to better capture variations in the examined include Tikal, a massive urban center in 3H • 1 WELLES 133 shape of the bones and allow for the inclusion of the Maya Lowlands known for intensive water SESSION CHAIR: EMILY FROOME, STUDY ABROAD more taxa than with linear rations. The analysis management methods, and Xuch, a settlement in ______showed gradation in morphotypes from more the Puuc region of the Yucatan Peninsula with The Effect of Ballot Proposals on gracile to more robust, with the robust evidence of horticulture and silviculture based Voter Turnout morphotypes typically showing more development within city limits. WESLEY EBERSOLE in the processes related to muscle attachment FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON HEROLD, POLITICAL sites. A plot of the allometric trends shows that 3M • 1 WELLES 26 SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS shape scores of the individual elements SESSION CHAIR: JEREMY HALL, INSTITUTIONAL During this past year’s elections across New York demonstrated only very weak correlation with the RESEARCH State for various local and municipal positions size of the bone itself, indicating that overall ______there were many areas that reported higher than robusticity is not a function of element size. Given MOVED TO POSTER 416 Detection our previous work in comparing the types of shape average voter turnout to the polls. This just so of Pesticides in Locally Produced happened to coincide with the implementation of change associated with prey specialization in cats, three proposals put forth by the state on all we hypothesize these functional differences are Honey election ballots, including the Constitutional related to prey specialization. Selected for VICTORIA KOMPANIJEC Convention. I conjecture that these two events are presentation at Society of Vertebrate FACULTY SPONSOR: JAY CHARLEBOIS, CHEMISTRY causally related with ballot initiatives, leading to Paleontology (August 2017), Calgary, Alberta. Colony collapse disorder and other diseases have higher average voter turnout. Additionally I would caused the honey bee population to plummet in like to view the effect this has on voter turnout for 3K • 1 WELLES 138 past years. Many people believe that pesticide use certain demographics, including but not limited to: SESSION CHAIR: TRACI PHILLIPS, GRANTS is a contributing factor to this decrease. This parties, race, and age. Through my research I hope MANAGEMENT experiment aims to develop a simple and efficient ______method of detecting trace amounts of pesticide in 20  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Session 3 • ROUND ROBIN • 2:25 – 3:40 PM honey samples. Currently, samples are prepared concentration of pesticide against the area of the pesticides in honey could contribute to the using the QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, efficient, resulting peak. Currently, glyphosate (the main hypothesis that the declining bee population is rugged and safe) method and run through an HPLC ingredient in RoundUp) is being investigated as a linked to the use of pesticides. to obtain a mass spectrum. Several calibration contaminant in honey. These honey samples are curves have been created by spiking small amounts obtained from local sources around New York of pesticide into honey, and plotting the State. Any results that show the presence of

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3A • 2 EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 9 to recognize ASL as a legitimate foreign language 3D • 2 WELLES 119 for all majors, except for those seeking teacher WELLES 121 SESSION CHAIR: JENNIFER KENYON, certification. Research conducted for this INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SERVICES SESSION CHAIR: LISA MEYER, EDGAR FELLOWS presentation aims to demonstrate why ASL should ______be fully recognized as a language and why Growing Fast Plants in Different Emergency Medical Services in the institutes of higher education should allow it to be Developing World: The Political, used to fulfill foreign language requirements. ASL Soil Conditions, as Well as in a Social, and Economic Barriers to can be used in any career path and promotes Simulated Zero-g Environment inclusiveness by breaking down barriers between  SHELDON LIPSCHUTZ, VICENTE PAGAN Pre-hospital Medical Care geaf and hearing people. Historically, deaf people FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY SEAN MCLEAN have been isolated and oppressed by the majority Based on studies from the Mars Rover FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL of society that hears and speaks. Teaching ASL in explorations, it is now possible to purchase Mars SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS schools can prevent this and make deaf people a regolith simulant, which simulates the physical and In this presentation, I am looking to analyze the more equitable part of society, while at the same chemical properties of the soil found on Mars. The current state of emergency medicine in the time promoting cultural diversity. objective of the study was to compare the growth developing world, especially focusing on the the Wisconsin fast plant (Brassica rapa) in three political, social, and economic factors leading to 3C • 2 WELLES 140 different soil types: commercial potting mix, a shortcomings in effective care. Many of the SESSION CHAIR: BILL HARRISON, OFFICE OF THE coarse textured Mars soil simulant and a fine- resources we take for granted in the United States, PROVOST textured Mars soil simulant. A secondary study such as access to quick emergency medical care or ______compared growth on these soils utilizing a even a universal emergency telephone number, GIS Analysis of Early to Middle clinostat, a device that simulates a zero-g are still not implemented in some nations or Woodland Mounds and Earthworks environment for plant growth. Once fully grown, regions. Many of the factors impacting the measurements of stem length, leaf area, and fresh development of emergency medical services in the Licking Valley, Ohio weight to dry weight ratio were recorded. spread far beyond the medical field into social, NOAH HABER Preliminary data shows Brassica rapa having the political, and economic spheres. Factors such as FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, most growth in regular soil, with substantial government instability, socioeconomic inequality, ANTHROPOLOGY decreases in growth in the simulant soils. An poverty, and war and conflict present just a few of Studies regarding the spatial configuration of explanation for this result might be nutrient many major roadblocks to implementing effective ceremonial mounds and earthworks within deficiency of the simulant soils or a decrease in emergency medical systems. Utilizing a case study Southern Ohio during the early- late middle water holding ability. of present-day Nicaragua, I hope to analyze the woodland era have provided that: 1) site-specific current state of emergency medical services in the socioenvironmental qualities are tied to the 3E • 2 WELLES 123 developing world. I will compare this case study to construction of these landscapes, in which SESSION CHAIR: ALYSSSA STEFANES, a number of existing studies in order to analyze dispersed sedentary settlements cluster proximal INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SERVICES how it relates to the regional and global average. to mounds and earthworks, 2) clustering of ______Then, I will explore possible ways in which both mounds occurs at multiple-scales and, 3) a higher Prolivio: The Startup Journey from international organizations and domestic actors intensity of clustering exists among Hopewellian can promote the growth of emergency medicine in mounds as compared to Adena. Through the Ideation to Product Creation the developing world to reach an international incorporation of Geographic Information Systems SAMUEL RANDALL standard of care. (GIS) locations of earthworks and mounds were FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH COPE, CENTER FOR digitized into a spatial databank from INQUIRY, DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT 3B • 2 WELLES 115 archaeological sources and a multitude of spatial Prolivio is a migraine relief headband developed in SESSION CHAIR: KEN KALLIO, OFFICE OF THE and statistical analyses were employed such as: a partnership between Geneseo students in the PROVOST Kernel Density Estimations (KDE), Predictive Entrepreneurship: IdeatoVenture class, and a ______Modeling, and Viewshed Analysis to facilitate a Rochester Industrial Design company called American Sign Language as an sophisticated understanding of the considerations BZDesign. The Prolivio headband uses provisional Independent Language and utilizations related to ceremonial mounds and patent technology including thermoelectric plates earthworks within this region. Identifying these that allow a user to decrease the temperature of STEPHANIE PEARL aspects of mound/earthwork construction within the headband at the touch of a button. Throughout FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, the Licking Valley allows for a comparison with the past year, Prolivio has evolved from an idea EDUCATION research involving mound distributions within scribbled on a napkin, to a working prototype American Sign Language (ASL) is used by deaf Southern Ohio, such as the Scioto Valley. Results product with a complete business plan and people in the United States and Canada. For most from these analyses support a continuance of potential investors. During my presentation, I will who are native signers, it is their primary form of mound-building traditions throughout describe the process of market research, communication. ASL is an important part of deaf generations, statistically significant associations prototyping, idea refinement, and the overall culture and is something that the deaf community between mound placement and topographic opportunities and difficulties I faced when takes pride in. Contrary to popular belief, ASL is qualities that would enhance regional cohesion developing this product. This project was separate from English, or any other spoken within a widely dispersed and egalitarian society. supported by the Edward Pettinella '73 Endowed language, and is not universal. It has its own Selected for presentation at SUNY Undergraduate Ambassadorship in Business. grammar and syntax, making it an independent Research Conference (SURC) 2018, Monroe language. Traditionally, many colleges and Community College. universities, including SUNY Geneseo, have failed  Promotes sustainability 21 Session 3 • 2:25 – 3:40 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

3F • 2 WELLES 128 presentation at SUNY Undergraduate Research ______SESSION CHAIR: SAM CARDAMONE, STUDY Conference (SURC), Monroe Community College. Test Dummy

ABROAD SANG WOOK NAM ______3H • 2 WELLES 133 FACULTY SPONSOR: LEE PIERCE, The ToKnight Show: 2017 SESSION CHAIR: EMILY FROOME, STUDY ABROAD COMMUNICATION ______Living in another country with different skin color Ambassadorship for Diversity Impact of Organizational Politics on is difficult sometimes. Either it is a positive JENNA LAWSON Employee Burnout experience or a negative experience, many FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH COPE, CENTER FOR international students or immigrants at SUNY WILLIAM MCLELLAN, HANNAH WIDERCRANTZ, INQUIRY, DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT Geneseo had an experience of micro-aggression at TESSA CORBISHLEY, CHRISTOPHER RUDIN My project, “The ToKnight Show,” was a late night least once. Are students nowadays complaining FACULTY SPONSOR: AVAN JASSAWALLA, comedy and talk show that focused on the issues too much about little things or they represent a BUSINESS and perspectives shared by marginalized students new type of discrimination? This short film looks This topic focuses on the various ways in which on campus. From its inception, my project’s main into the life of international students and organizational politics (namely ingratiation, focus was to explore the important conversations immigrants who came over to the United States for exchange, favoritism, and nepotism) induce that were already happening on campus but either to live or just to study. weren’t necessarily being given the importance competition and resentment among employees. they deserved. While SUNY Geneseo has expressed We reviewed existing literature and found that (a) organizational politics lead to employee burnout 3K • 2 WELLES 138 its interest in diversifying the racial and economic SESSION CHAIR: TRACI PHILLIPS, GRANTS makeup of its students, its Statement on Diversity via increased exhaustion and job disengagement, (b) this burnout can lead to decreased productivity MANAGEMENT and Community has been left unchanged for over ______and problems with employee retention in an 14 years. Additionally, there have been a variety of Effects of Hessian Soldiers on instances of overt racism and transphobia on our organization, and (c) employees in a politicized campus during my time here. Once I learned about workplace will themselves feel more pressured to Morale in the American Revolution: the Ambassadorship Program, I was compelled to partake in organizational politics. Our presentation How Mercenaries Skewed the War see if and how I could use my skills in public will provide more details on our findings as well as speaking and performance to amplify marginalized suggestions for managers regarding this important Toward the Colonists voices in a way that educated white, straight, topic. JULIANA THOMPSON and/or neurotypical people on our campus and FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY created a much-needed outlet for students who 3I • 2 WELLES 132 This paper discusses the effect of the Hessian felt that their experiences were being ignored. SESSION CHAIR: KATIE BUCKLEY, NEW STUDENT mercenary soldiers on the outcome of the Through four performances for over 250 students, PROGRAMS American Revolution. These soldiers were often The ToKnight Show explored these issues in a new ______participants in the war only for the money it way and opened up channels of communication Visualizing the Trends of Non- provided them, and knew and cared very little about the British cause. While they made the within the student body. Communicable Disease Growth in British forces larger, their lack of knowledge and 3G • 2 WELLES 131 Countries Undergoing an investment in their goals ended up hurting the British side of the war. There were some desertions SESSION CHAIR: EMILY COLE, STUDY ABROAD Epidemiological Transition Using ______and even mutinies among the Hessians. Though World Health Organization Data some Hessians helped by being talented fighters, A Search for Extragalactic Planetary CLARK DAVIS most did not have their hearts in it. The colonist Nebulae with the Hubble Space FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI-MUENCH, fighters, though they had fewer resources, were Telescope BIOLOGY almost all passionate about their cause, and they Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have often KRISTEN CHURNETSKI were able to overpower the British. been thought of as a problem that afflict high FACULTY SPONSOR: ANNE PELLERIN, PHYSICS & income countries (HICs). While HICs suffer from ASTRONOMY 3L • 2 WELLES 24 diseases associated with overweight and obesity, it When a 0.8 to 8 solar mass star reaches the end of SESSION CHAIR: JULIE RAO, INSTITUTIONAL is often thought that low income countries (LICs) its life it becomes a planetary nebula (PN). As part RESEARCH suffer from diseases that arise from poverty. of the Legacy Extragalactic UV Survey (LEGUS), a ______However, there is a growing understanding that visual search was performed to find PN in nearby The Impact of Psychological overweight and obesity are no longer issues galaxies using images from the Hubble Space exclusive to HICs. As globalism expands, their Contracts on Employee Retention Telescope. The candidates appeared green with economies grow, and their populations urbanize, the set of wide image filters because they strongly and Turnover LICs become middle income countries, which emit at 4959 and 5007 angstroms, well-known ALEXANDER ANDREOLI, TABISH KHAN, NICK NOE, become afflicted with both diseases of poverty and nebular transitions of doubly ionized oxygen. OLIVIA HORBATIUK, AIESHA WILLIAMS wealth. It seems this double disease burden causes When a candidate was found, narrow band filter FACULTY SPONSOR: AVAN JASSAWALLA, both classes of disease to worsen more than they images were examined for H-alpha and [O III] BUSINESS would alone. In this project, World Health emissions. Sources were considered as outliers if We studied the effect of psychological contracts on Organization data were used to depict how the they did not contain both characteristic emissions. retention and turnover within an organization and growth rates of NCDs differs between World Bank Among the 32 galaxies examined, a total of 166 found that psychological contracts occur within income groups. The rate of mortality due to NCDs planetary nebula candidates were found. every organization and that they have a strong in upper middle-income countries (UMICs) is 6.88 Preliminary color-color and color-magnitude relationship with retention and turnover rates. We times faster than that of HICs from 2000 to 2015. diagrams were created to further eliminate found that within a psychological contract there In lower middle-income countries (LMICs), is rate is outliers. A more complete photometric study of are several variables that affect the strength of the 3.35 times faster than that of HICs from 2000 to the PN candidates is now underway using the latest contract and that impact employees' feelings 2015. Further questions on the operation of the LEGUS stellar catalogs. A detailed photometric towards their job. We also observed that growth of NCDs include their relationship with characterization of the PN candidates will allow us psychological contracts have the power to neglected tropical diseases, rates of urbanization, to get rid of additional outliers and obtain the most influence employees' work performance, and Millennium Development Goal Regions. motivation, and trust within an organization. After complete luminosity function of extragalactic PN. The final list of PN candidates will be used for understanding what impacts and strengthens a further spectroscopic studies such as nebular and 3J • 2 WELLES 134 psychological contract, we were able to metallicity environments. Selected for SESSION CHAIR: BETSY COLON, GRANTS recommend steps to managers to help retain MANAGEMENT employees and keep them motivated to work. By 22  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Session 3 • 2:25 – 3:40 PM focusing on employees' workplace values, an FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID ROBERTSON, Contemporary satellite imagery was compared to employer will have a better chance of keeping GEOGRAPHY corresponding late-eighteenth century employees at their company and motivated to Anthropogenic spatial boundaries imprint upon a cartography in the Phelps & Gorham Purchase complete their work. landscape the physical decisions made by societies region of WNY. First, original land surveys were of bygone eras — they are the ultimate geographic digitized in a geographic information system (GIS) 3M • 2 WELLES 26 recordkeepers. Prior to Euro-American settlement, using historical maps from the mid-to-late SESSION CHAIR: JEREMY HALL, INSTITUTIONAL original land surveys conducted by private and nineteenth century. Second, these lines were RESEARCH government-controlled entities were one of the compared to modern orthoimagery. Third, results ______first activities pertinent to modern development in were mapped to qualitatively interpret causes of The Urban Chrysalis: Analysis of North America. Previous research has analyzed the persistence or disappearance of survey lines in the degree to which these original land surveys persist present landscape. Results suggest that lines Euro-American Land Surveys and or are ‘embedded’ within modern geography in the disappear in mountainous sparsely populated Their Imprint on Modern form of civil boundaries, streets, and other visible areas and persist in flatter suburban areas. Geography in Western New York and non-visible features. By analyzing the shifts, or Selected for presentation at Annual Meeting of lack thereof, in these artificial spatial phenomena the American Association of Geographers, New State throughout western New York State (WNY), this Orleans, LA. PETER SCILLA research can provide a deeper understanding of patterns of land development and urban form.

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3A • 3 EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 9 Understanding the elemental abundance of lithium development by furthering our understanding of is an important problem in astronomy. In addition government involvement in financial systems, and WELLES 121 to being used to understand the Big Bang, Li can be how public perception plays an important role in SESSION CHAIR: LISA MEYER, EDGAR FELLOWS used to probe stellar evolution. Starting around dictating the effectiveness of state sponsored ______100 Myr after forming, stars in a certain social programs. Global Mamas: Development in temperature range begin to show depleted Ghana amounts of lithium. By the time the stars are 700 3D • 3 WELLES 119 NINA SANTACESARIA Myr, almost all of the Li has been depleted. This SESSION CHAIR: JENNIFER KENYON, FACULTY SPONSOR: JOANNA KIRK, POLITICAL observed “Li gap” hints at physics that is not INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SERVICES SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS included in the standard stellar models. By ______This project involves research into Global Mamas, measuring elemental abundances and physical Cooking Confrontations in the a Fair Trade company in Ghana providing economic properties of these stars, we can try to understand Francophone Novel empowerment to women, and seeks to create this Li gap. Presented here is a spectroscopic SOPHIE BOKA useful materials to raise support for the elemental abundance analysis of the open star FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIMA, ENGLISH organization’s mission. The organization’s cluster M48, aged (420 30) Myr In this presentation, I bring together two novels, founders discovered that its products sell best in which places it at an intermediate age during the Calixthe Beyala’s Comment cuisiner son mari à personal, sincere atmospheres that allow for formation of the Li gap. We compare the Li l’africaine and Maryse Condé’s Victoire, les saveurs discussion of the brand’s impact, rather than in depletion in M48 to younger and older star clusters et les mots: récit, to explore how, when in more anonymous commercialized spaces. to understand the gap’s evolution. conversation, they seem to offer a cookbook for Therefore, this project seeks to develop Global self-empowerment to francophone societies still Mamas’ Prosperity Party program, which is an 3C • 3 WELLES 140 struggling with the internalized cultural norms of excellent way to facilitate the direct sale of SESSION CHAIR: BILL HARRISON, OFFICE OF THE their former colonizer. Such lingering norms are merchandise and educate a multiplying client base PROVOST impossible to satisfy, especially for the novels' about the brand’s mission. The first phase of this ______black female protagonists who, inherently, can project involves hosting experimental Prosperity How State Sponsored Social never become the colonizer’s ideal of beauty Party events and subsequently providing Spending Has an Effect on the (white, thin, attractive by western convention). constructive evaluations and recommendations to Thus, these characters are cast away into a cultural the organization regarding each step of the current Financial Development of in-between: although literally visible within their process. The second phase focuses on creating new Developing Nations countries, they are denied full visibility and, by materials and procedures to be implemented by DANIEL JAYSON extension, full subjectivity. Yet, I argue that by Global Mamas for use by its staff, and future hosts FACULTY SPONSOR: MANSOKKU LEE, BUSINESS channeling additional senses, such as taste and and hostesses of Prosperity Party events, to create I am examining government spending, specifically smell, the characters manage to push back against the most efficient, simple, and user-friendly spending on social programs, and how it affects the oppressive colonial ideals. Varying in form and experience. Finally, this project prioritizes financial development of developing nations.These generation, each character utilizes their promoting Global Mamas in western New York by two issues will be connected through an relationships with food and body as a means to attempting to build new professional intermediary factor of public trust in financial assert an otherwise unseen presence in their relationships,and earn the loyalty of student systems. I am measuring financial development in countries. With the help of these tools, the women groups at both the high school and college level. the following four ways: financial depth, begin to challenge the dominant zeitgeist, accessibility to financial systems, financial nourishing the bellies of history, and, in doing so, 3B • 3 WELLES 115 efficiency, and financial stability by using the World too, realize into society the power of their own SESSION CHAIR: KEN KALLIO, OFFICE OF THE Bank’s “Global Finance Development Dataset” and stories. PROVOST various other political databases for government ______spending and public trust. Then I will apply 3E • 3 WELLES 123 Lithium Abundances of Gap Stars in empirical analysis on the data collected to test SESSION CHAIR: ALYSSSA STEFANES, whether in developing nations, it is worth it for INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SERVICES Open Star Cluster M48 ______governments to invest in state sponsored social ALEXANDER BELLES Flight Traffic Regularities in Latin FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS programs with the hopeful result of encouraging & ASTRONOMY financial development. I believe that this study will American Cities contribute to the growing literature on financial SCOTT WILLIAMS  Promotes sustainability 23 Session 3 • 2:25 – 3:40 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, Supporting Transgender Students in increase their employees’ trust in their supervisor GEOGRAPHY and their affective/emotional commitment to the Latin America’s airports are its gateway to the Schools firm. global economy and international society. AMELIA STACHOWIAK Determining what factors influence the passenger FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, 3J • 3 WELLES 134 volume of an airport furthers the understanding of ANTHROPOLOGY SESSION CHAIR: BETSY COLON, GRANTS the functions a city fulfills in its constituent region. The purpose of this paper is to use available MANAGEMENT The factors that influence domestic passenger empirical data to determine which high schools ______values are inherently different than those that and colleges best support transgender students. Eigenvalue Bounds of Regular influence international passenger values. The Methods included will be surveying transgender purpose of this study is to find the predominant students via social media as well as examining their Graphs areas of air traffic in the region and compare travel school ranking comparatively. Factors considered BETHANNA JONES to different regions of the world connecting to that determine the accessibility of a school to FACULTY SPONSOR: CESAR AGUILAR, Latin America. Data were collected from the open transgender students will be quantified by MATHEMATICS source website openflights.org. Regression determining availability of gender-inclusive As the number of vertices n in a graph can quickly analyses assessed relationships between flight facilities, pride clubs, Gay-Straight Alliances, safe grow to be quite large and consequently grow in traffic and city characteristics. In developing zone stickers and training, and visible transgender complexity, we turn to the eigenvalues of a graph predictive models for these passenger values, it teachers or administration. Inspiration for this in order to analyze the graph; patterns in the values was found that domestic passenger volumes in a research comes from the current national climate and distribution of these eigenvalues reflect given metropolitan area are most positively surrounding transgender individuals including the patterns in the structure of the graph. The influenced by its wealth, relative to its nation, and lack of protections in place for such individuals. eigenvalue of a graph with the greatest magnitude, negatively influenced by its level of urban primacy. or dominant eigenvalue 휆1, may reveal the graph’s International passenger volumes are determined 3H • 3 WELLES 133 density, diameter, connectivity, and number of by urban scale factors, namely population size, SESSION CHAIR: EMILY FROOME, STUDY ABROAD components—all of which help to understand a positively at a metropolitan and negatively at a ______complex system. Since it is known that for any k- national scale. An examination of Latin America’s Maya Infant Feeding Practices and regular graph 휆1 = k, we investigated the two possibilities for the second dominant eigenvalue in intraregional and international air connection Change in Quintana Roo, Mexico further explains cities’ roles in a global context. regular graphs, 휆min and 휆2. Specifically, we looked JESSICA FRIEDMAN at numerically establishing bounds on these Selected for presentation at State University of FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, New York Undergraduate Research Conference eigenvalues for given n and k and obtained data to ANTHROPOLOGY better understand the minimum eigenvalue gap 휆1 (SURC), Monroe Community College. Globalization, which often results in the switch - 휆2 for regular graphs. Selected for presentation at from traditional subsistence practices to a cash 3F • 3 WELLES 128 Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women economy, has many implications for the well-being in Mathematics, Lincoln, NE. SESSION CHAIR: SAM CARDAMONE, STUDY of many marginalized communities. In this study, I ABROAD investigate the effects of this transition on infant 3K • 3 WELLES 138 ______feeding practices within the Maya population. I Frontier Central's School Shooting SESSION CHAIR: TRACI PHILLIPS, GRANTS examine how and why Maya parents decide to MANAGEMENT Drill and Why it Matters to Gun feed their babies and how this has been affected ______by an increase in tourism and the abandonment of The Ultrapotent Corticosteroid, Control Debate Milpa farming and kitchen gardens. I explore a CECELIA GONZALES community of Maya people in the rural village of Clobetasol, Promotes Quiescence in FACULTY SPONSOR: JANE MORSE, EDUCATION Cobá, Quintana Roo, Mexico to examine how the Vulvar Carcinoma Cell Line In high school, my school was selected to adapting to a cash economy has influenced their participate in an active school shooter drill. Like infant feeding decisions. UMSCV-4 others, I have experienced many drills. But, this COURTNEY KING one was different. It was more realistic and 3I • 3 WELLES 132 FACULTY SPONSOR: JANI LEWIS, BIOLOGY showcased an actual “shooter” entering the Vulvar cancer is rare, mostly afflicting women aged SESSION CHAIR: KATIE BUCKLEY, NEW STUDENT school. There were different aspects incorporated, 60 and older. The cancer is often preceded by a PROGRAMS including student actors portraying the victims, ______common vulvar rash, Lichen sclerosis, that is and numerous emergency services responding to treated with the ultra-potent corticosteroid, the scene. While I knew it was fake, there were The Impact of Trust on Affective clobetasol. There is some concern that clobetasol times where it still felt real. In the end, it taught Commitment and can promote carcinogenesis in vulvar tissue. We everybody involved tangible and intangible things. Turnover/Retention in an have found that treatment of the vulvar carcinoma Most importantly, it made me realize that this cell line, UMSCV-4, results in cellular quiescence. could happen to any school. Seen as recently as the Organization Removal of clobetasol allows a subpopulation of shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High ALEXANDRA MAJKA, JULIE HOLMES the UMSCV-4 cells to reenter the cell cycle. This School, it’s evident this is still a problem that needs FACULTY SPONSOR: AVAN JASSAWALLA, subpopulation continues to grow even when fixing. While I am not an expert on gun control, I do BUSINESS clobetasol is replaced in the medium. This know what it feels like to sit in a classroom as you Trust is a vital part of any relationship. In the highlights the potential for vulvar cancer cells to listen to screams and gunshots, and I know that workplace, it is important to have a trusting evade cancer treatments in the presence of nobody should have to experience that. relationship between employees and employers clobetasol and may lead to selection for more Additionally, as someone who is studying to be a without which employees may leave (turnover), aggressive subpopulations. teacher, I understand the importance of costing the organization time and money to maintaining every student’s safety at their replace them. With many negative repercussions 3L • 3 WELLES 24 educational facility. Ultimately, I feel that the associated with turnover, organizations should SESSION CHAIR: JULIE RAO, INSTITUTIONAL takeaways from my own experience can be take steps to prevent it. One method involves the RESEARCH included into the overall issue at hand. relationship between employee trust of the ______supervisor and the affective or emotional Searches, Rescues and Recoveries commitment they feel towards the organization. 3G • 3 WELLES 131 in Hamilton County, New York State SESSION CHAIR: EMILY COLE, STUDY ABROAD This presentation will discuss the research on this ______topic and recommend steps companies and their from 2014-2016 human resource (HR) departments should take to KIRSTEN LOMNITZER

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FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, age of subjects, activity of subjects and last known original goal for my Ambassadorship was to move GEOGRAPHY location. This research has the potential to assist forward with a project plan that I helped develop Hamilton County is located in the heart of the future SAR efforts by highlighting various trends in during an entrepreneurial course. I was interested Adirondack Park, and is the most rural county in all such incidents. in designing a business model that could effectively of New York State. The county’s natural scenery market StandUp Leadership to other institutions as and remote areas attract outdoor recreation, 3M • 3 WELLES 26 a bridge program that connected a unique which leads to accidents that require emergency SESSION CHAIR: JEREMY HALL, INSTITUTIONAL population of high school students to their campus. response in remote areas. The purpose of this RESEARCH However, the focus of my Ambassadorship soon research is to study spatial and temporal patterns ______evolved into incorporating entrepreneurial in search, rescue, and recovery (SAR) incidents in ______components into the Geneseo StandUp Leadership Hamilton County. For this study, “searches” are CAS Ambassadorship in conference. At our November 17th event, I was defined as incidents where the the subject(s) are Entrepreneurship: StandUp able to present three workshops on lost, missing or overdue; “rescues” are defined as entrepreneurship and table during our networking incidents where the subject(s) location is known Leadership hour. My curriculum was focused on establishing a but subject(s) required assistance due to injury or COLLEEN STEWARD basic awareness of entrepreneurship and allowed illness; and “recoveries” are defined as retrieval of FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH COPE, CENTER FOR students the opportunity to design their own a deceased. Data was collected from Wildland INQUIRY, DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT business ideas about topics they cared about. Search and Rescue Incident Reports (WSRIRs), NYS Around the country, overshadowed high school Innovation and creativity in leadership was the GIS Clearinghouse and the Adirondack Park Agency students, which may include introverts or low- unifying theme. Additionally, sustainability website. Point locations and data on searches, income students, are not given as many leadership measures have been taken to incorporate rescues, and recoveries were were obtained from opportunities. StandUp Leadership is a not-for- elements of entrepreneurship into future events. WSRIRs and then mapped using GIS software. profit organization dedicated to facilitating This project was funded by the CAS Numerous aspects of these events were studied, leadership events on college campuses for these Ambassadorship in Entrepreneurship. such as time of incident, gender of the subjects, qualified, but overlooked high school students. The

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4A • ANTHROPOLOGY BAILEY 104 involved in their discovery, the hypodigm, physical belief is that they are a basal hominid, or the characteristics and locomotion, and environment earliest and most primitive ancestor of modern day GREAT APES: PAST AND PRESENT and ecology. In addition, comparisons among the orangutans. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: genera will emphasize similarities and differences BARBARA WELKER, ANTHROPOLOGY between them, taking into consideration 4B • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS ______geographic distribution and temporal distance. MODELING 3 ISC 136 Bite Force Analysis of the Human Equatorius africanus was a large-bodied, semi- FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GREGG terrestrial ape from wooded forests in the areas of Mandible: Assessing Jaw HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY Kipsaramon and Maboko Island in Kenya. ______Capabilities of Human Ancestors Morotopithecus bishopi was a large-bodied HARRISON MOSES frugivorous quadruped from the Moroto sites in Determining Optimal Antimicrobial Describing the capabilities and limitations of jaw Northeastern Uganda. Rudapithecus hungaricus Treatments based on a Two- morphology throughout evolutionary history was an arboreal ape that used its suspensory and Dimensional Model of Biofilm- provides a clear picture of what human ancestors climbing capabilities to move through its were capable of eating, and how they processed subtropical, seasonal forest habitat in search of Inferred Resistance Mechanisms their food. The chewing and maximum biting fruit. It is known from multiple sites in Rudabánya, MATTHEW COTRONEO, ANGELA KUBIK, JANE capabilities of 10 individuals were assessed with a Hungary. FENG bite force pressure gauge. Known skeletal ______Eighty percent of bacterial pathogenesis in humans correlates of bite force, including length of the Miocene Fossil Apes: Dryopithecus, result from biofilm forming microorganisms. ramus and body of the mandible, the magnitude of Biofilms confer greater resistance to antimicrobials the gonial angle, and occlusal surface area of the Hispanopithecus, and Sivapithecus than planktonic bacteria. Through understanding lower dentition were also measured. These data KATIE ALLEN the mechanisms of resistance and the effect of were compared with corresponding skeletal Over the last year extensive research on Miocene antimicrobial treatments on biofilms exhibiting measurements taken from casts of A. afarensis, fossil apes was conducted to create an edited these behaviors, an optimal treatment in regards Homo neanderthalensis, and Homo heidelbergensis volume on the various genera that lived during that to each mechanism is determined. First, this study to approximate their maximum bite force and epoch. The research includes information on models three proposed mechanisms of resistance: chewing capabilities. The correlations found people involved in the discovery, sites and fossils, (1) slowed antimicrobial agent penetration, (2) between maximum bite force, the gonial angle, phylogeny and taxonomy, physical characteristics, adaptive stress responses, and (3) persistors. These and occlusal surface area were significantly and environment/way of life. Three genera will be models are incorporated into a Cellular Automata stronger than those found for the chewing force. presented, Dryopithecus, Hispanopithecus, and (N2c) model for a generic biofilm population which This study evaluates the usefulness of considering Sivapithecus. Dryopithecus was a Eurasian ape that accounts for substrate diffusion and reaction and both maximal bite force and chewing force in is most well known for being the first Miocene biomass growth, decay, and spreading of dietary research methods. Further, implications of fossil ape ever discovered. There are numerous particulate bacteria in discrete time steps. The the data are considered in terms of food choice species attributed to Dryopithecus, many of which model runs for a biofilm with no resistance throughout evolutionary history. are contested by different researchers. mechanism (control) receiving antimicrobials in a ______Hispanopithecus was a European ape consisting of short dose (90 mg/kg patient mass daily for four Miocene Fossil Apes: Equatorius, two species: H. laietanus, which was previously days), a standard dose (40 mg/kg daily for ten assigned to Dryopithecus, and H. crusafonti. They days), and an extended dose (40 mg/kg daily for Morotopithecus, and Rudapithecus were believed to have been above branch BRYAN HARRISON fourteen days). The model also runs under each of quadrupeds with a high intermembral index (IMI), these conditions, implementing the resistance Seven students conducted research over the past i.e. a ratio to compare limb proportions. year that will culminate in an edited volume on mechanisms. For mechanism (1), an extended dose Sivapithecus was an Asian ape consisting of three results in shortest time to total biofilm death. For Miocene fossil ape genera from Africa, Europe, and species: S. indicus, S. sivalensis, and S. parvada. Asia. I will be presenting my research on three of mechanism (2), a short dose is optimal. For There are also many hypotheses surrounding the mechanism (3), no regiment is statistically most the genera, Equatorius, Morotopithecus, and phylogeny of Sivapithecus, however, a popular Rudapithecus. I will discuss sites and people effective.  Promotes sustainability 25 Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

______the population. To investigate the effectiveness of communication and friendship while making that Determining the Most Effective the vaccine on the spread of influenza, we material more engaging by introducing newer Approach to Reduce the Spread of constructed a network model and a differential popular perspectives likely to meet the equation model. We used data from a 2005 experiences of traditional-aged college students of Brucellosis in the Greater hospital outbreak to parameterize the models. We diverse backgrounds. Yellowstone Ecosystem Using a determined an average vaccination frequency ______System of Difference Equations within the population with data from the CDC for Romantic Communication for a the last five flu seasons. The differential equation Flipped Classroom BRIANA KUBIK, CLARK DAVIS, EMILY MARTIN model shows a linear decrease in the number of KATIE JOYCE The spread of brucellosis, a bacterial disease, from people infected as the vaccination effectiveness This series of videos were designed for use in an elk and bison populations in the Greater increased to 100%. The stochastic network model introductory Interpersonal Communication class to Yellowstone Ecosystem to surrounding cattle displays a decrease in the number of people increase engagement and preparation for a flipped ranches has the potential to inflict major economic infected. Additionally, we measured the effect on classroom mode. Specifically, this series of videos damage on the cattle industry. The consumption of the peak number infected. This represents the will draw on foundational literature regarding meat contaminated with the Brucella abortus burden of the disease on healthcare systems. Our communication and romantic relationships while bacteria can cause human illness and, if detected results highlight the importance of the vaccine making that material more engaging by introducing in a herd, can result in an extensive quarantine effectiveness in minimizing seasonal influenza newer popular perspectives likely to meet the until the disease has been eradicated from the epidemics. herd. Finding the most effective way to reduce the experiences of traditional-aged college students of spread of brucellosis will help prevent human 4C • BUSINESS BIG TREE INN diverse backgrounds. illness and economic loss. Using a system of difference equations, we created a model that VentureWorks Student Investor 4F • ENGLISH WELLES 216 depicts the dynamics of the susceptible, infectious, Presentations Undemocratic Athens and recovered, and vaccinated classes of bison and elk FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JUDY Dangerous Denmark: Problems of over time. We manipulate the rate of vaccination ALBERS, BUSINESS in both the elk and bison populations to determine ______Democracy and Justice the extent of disease spread in the population. DAVID AGADZHANYAN, RYAN ANDREWS, LYDIA FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH Results show that a 12% annual vaccination rate of BAILEY, JACOB COLE, LAUREN CROWE, IVANA SESSION CHAIR: HANNAH MADDEN the susceptible class would be the threshold GABRIELE, ISAAC GARCIA CASSANI, JACOB ______vaccination rate to produce a suitable decrease in HAMILTON, GRAHAM HARRISON, JACOB Plato’s Views Indicate that the disease spread. Vaccinating at a rate of 12% per HOROWITZ, JUAN JIMENEZ, MEGAN JONES, year is a viable method to reduce the spread of NICHOLAS LAURITANO, ANH MAI, ADAM Problems of United States are Due brucellosis in the region, and could help to protect MALACHOWSKI, JAYESH PATIL, PILAR PILAR to Democracy cattle ranches from economic loss and prevent PIEDRAHITA, CHARLES PUGLISI, ZACHARY RESNICK, STEPHANIE MELLIN illness in humans. JOHN ROBINSON, ANGELA RODRIGUEZ, ABIGAYLE This paper explains the difference between the ______SCHMITZ, JASON YOUNG, RAFAEL ZIOTTO opinion of Adam Littlestone-Luria’s article “What Dynamics of Hepatitis C Infection in Students in the VentureWorks entrepreneurship the Founding Fathers got Wrong about and Preventative Care for People program will be competing in the ninth annual New Democracy” and Plato, who argues that democracy York Business Plan Competition (NYBPC). The is ineffective and actually closely related to Who Inject Drugs competition begins with regional semi-final rounds tyranny. Both the article and Plato discuss the flaws ARIC HUBER, MELANIE KIRK, CHRISTINE SCHULTZ in each of New York's 10 Regional Economic of democracy. However, the article explains that in Hepatitis C is a +ssRNA virus that has infected a Development Council zones. These regional order to fix the current issues in America the substantial number of individuals worldwide, and competitions are generally held in early April. The government should model itself on the direct is notably prevalent among populations of PWID top twelve teams from each of the 10 regions will democratic system of Athens, whereas Plato thinks (People Who Inject Drugs). Our model is based on then advance to the final round of the statewide that democracy should not be practiced at all. Over the population of PWID in Newark, NJ, which is competition, where they will go head-to-head for the course of the last two years, it is common and approximately 6,000 individuals. We investigate monetary prizes in Albany on April 27. Geneseo is unsurprising to find the news covering the the effect of antiviral treatments on a varying in the Finger Lakes region and our student teams blunders of our government, and many criticize percentage of infected individuals, and the will be competing in the semi-final rounds on April democracy because of it. Plato would attribute injection-related risk of infection connected to 11. We expect that some of our teams will be America’s flaws to how and why leaders are drug use. A differential equation model and a small selected to advance to Albany. Those teams will be elected and how Americans have “unnecessary world network model test the potential spread of delivering their investor presentations at GREAT appetites” for immediate desires rather than hepatitis C, based on an SIS compartment model. Day. Selected for presentation at New York thinking long term. Overall, this paper examines The differential equation model explores the effect Business Plan Competition, Rochester, NY and Plato’s main points about how democracy is of treating infected individuals at random Albany, NY. degenerative and how this compares to throughout the population, finding that there is a Littlestone-Luria’s comments in his article. distinct effect when treating relatively small 4D • COMMUNICATION BAILEY 103 ______percentages of the population. The network model The Atrocities of Athenian finds that introducing clean needles into the Students Teaching Students: A population has a large potential to prevent Different Approach to Flipped Democracy JESSICA FLETCHER infection. A clean needle program, therefore, Classroom Pedagogy would be a viable and worthwhile preventative This essay details Athenian aggression its impact on FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: LEE the world as described by Thucydides in the History measure in controlling the spread of hepatitis C. PIERCE, COMMUNICATION ______of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides, the first ______Effectiveness of Vaccination in true historical writer, relays the atrocities Engaging Students in Friendship committed by Athenians in a surprisingly relevant Limiting the Spread of Influenza Communication work. His commentary remains timeless, especially MEGAN PIERPOINT, RACHEL HAMBERGER, MARY JESUS HERNANDEZ in today’s political climate. In this essay, I look at PYATT This series of videos were designed for use in an Thucydides’ piece with 21st century eyes, as he Influenza is a virus that is constantly changing and introductory Interpersonal Communication class to describes in length the true intentions of the evolving through antigenic drift and antigenic shift. increase engagement and preparation for a flipped democratic Athens. The piece unveils the It is essential that the vaccination administered classroom mode. Specifically, this series of videos monstrosities committed during the targets the newly evolved virus in order to protect will draw on foundational literature regarding Peloponnesian War that are oft-forgotten, but still 26  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM have a powerful impact on the reader. The essay The Dutch Education System explosives, on smaller branch pipelines, and in the provides a look at the bravery behind Thucydides’ MATTY MEIJER summer months. News reports, NDA blog posts, work, and his groundbreaking movement towards In this presentation I will take you through the and academic writings were also used to provide unbiased historical retelling, regardless of his own Dutch education system. In only fifteen minutes I context for the data. This qualitative information nationality. His courageous literary achievement will show you how we go from kindergarten to detailed some government decisions regarding the led to accurate documentation of past events and university, and the many sidetracks we might take Delta’s oil as well as local perceptions of oil helped shape the world as we know it. Without along the way. companies and the government. Ultimately, this Thucydides, the pursuit of impartial knowledge ______research seeks to uncover the causes of a deeply would be impacted, severely altering the course of Reforming French Education rooted insurgent movement and provide insight to history. future conflict in the region. ______ELISABETH NAIDITCH ______This work is about how I have been taught English  Hamlet's Reckoning: A Look at in France since elementary school, when I was Predicting African Flight Travel Hamlet as a Symbol for Victims of eight years old. I look at my past experiences with KRISTEN ARMSTRONG a reflective eye, pinpointing the advantages of all The number of international flights to Africa varies Sexual Harrassment and Assault greatly from country-to-country. Though Africa has EMMA MEDINA the methods that have been used throughout my education, but also underlining the negative parts relatively less air traffic than most of the world, This paper focuses on sexual harassment/assault why do some countries experience so much more and how Hamlet, the character, can be a symbol for of those same methods. Furthermore, I present two teachers that have radically changed my flight travel than others? It is possible to explain victims of sexual harassment/assault. Specifically, this diversity through the analysis of economic, it focuses on how victims are finally getting a interest in English and explain their methods of teaching. Eventually, I give some ideas about how political, and geographic factors. This study platform to voice their concerns and how Hamlet examines the correlation of multiple variables to can also be seen as a failed victim – failed in the to reform education in general. My reflection is based on the example of French education, but I international flight volume to Africa. Many sense that he could possibly have gotten justice variables show trends that can help explain the sooner if not for doubt. For Hamlet, it is doubt that would like to open my mind and everyone else's by broadening our horizons through some ideas for significance and reasons for air travel or the lack of is his downfall; however, as a symbol for sexual it. However, it turns out only two variables account assault victims, the doubt translates into reforming the education system. ______for most diversity in flight volume. Using these it is internalized misogyny and gas-lighting. possible to predict the volume of African flights. Internalized misogyny and gas-lighting are tools Tip of the Tongue Moments as Man ______used to keep victims from speaking out, but there Bites Dog Poverty in the Developing World: are also many arguments for how victims should NEHA MAROLIA take their “reckoning” as Nellie Bowles points out This presentation will highlight some of the Miscalculation and in the article that informs this paper. This paper techniques and activities I have had the chance to Misunderstanding examines how Hamlet’s failure to get swift justice work on with my International Speech Buddy as an ALEXANDER FINDEIS without collateral is the answer to Nellie Bowles’ ESL tutor. With this PowerPoint presentation, I will The UN Millennium Development goals set out to question and article, "Reckoning on Sexual be introducing my Speech Buddy, discussing the reduce poverty at $1.25 per day by 50% between Misconduct? Absolutely. But How Harsh, Women informal assessments, language difficulties, 1990 and 2015 – a goal that was reached. Ask." meeting objectives, and how the tutoring became However, is $1.25 per day an accurate an impactful learning experience for both of us. By measurement of poverty? In order to fight 4G • ENGLISH WELLES 133 drawing attention to the importance of TESOL, the poverty effectively, it is necessary to have a clear ESOL CULTURAL EXPERIENCES significance of learning, speaking, and writing understanding of what it is and how it relates to FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: IRENE English for bilingual students will be discussed. other socio-economic factors. This research BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, ENGLISH Along with English, the significance of American project examines 31 developing countries over ______current events is an important aspect to consider the course of 2000-2010 using data from the Auxiliary Verbs in the Russian when assimilating and learning about a new World Bank. By comparing socio-economic factors culture and its language. ENGL 277: Methods of such as GDP, exports, HDI, Freedom House Language Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages is Indexes, population, etc., the interactions KATHERINE KASHA a life changing course, as it broadens perspectives between key variables can be identified. Through Through a vigorous study of the Russian language on diversity for all students. this analysis of key factors and differing and its history, multiple scholars have found that measurements of poverty, this paper will show the Russian language exists without the verb “to 4H • GEOGRAPHY BAILEY 102 that current understandings of poverty, and be” or “byt,’” and has survived as a language. GEOGRAPHY proposed solutions for it, are lacking in accuracy Although this verb is important in many other and viability. Only by beginning to reimagine the FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: DARRELL languages, such as English and Romance methods of measuring poverty can a constructive NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY languages, the Russian language does not require ______conversation be held on how to eradicate it. this verb to be either spoken or written in the  present tense and the language is understood Oil Insurgency in the Niger Delta 4I • GOLD MCU 114 SHANNON CURLEY completely without its use. As a Slavic language, SESSION CHAIR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD Russian has developed vastly since the Environmental issues collide with social and ______development of the Old-Russian language. There is economic problems in Southern Nigeria’s Niger Reflection on Community not one right answer as to why the Russian Delta. For decades oil has been spilled and left to language does not use the verb “to be” in the destroy the ecosystem and the livelihoods of the Engagement (GOLD) - Using present tense. It has not been abolished, however, Deltan people. Anger over decades of injustice has Personal Resources such as the xu ending from the 11th century. led to several insurgent movements in the last 20 KEVIN PIERCE Furthermore, Russian allows for a variety of years, most notably 2006-2009’s Movement for FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD differences in communication, both written and the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and NICHOLAS PALUMBO, CENTER FOR COMMUNITY verbal, such as changing the SVO form and giving 2015’s Niger Delta Avengers (NDA). To retaliate The purpose of this presentation and discussion is more structural freedom to Russian speakers. As a against the multinational corporations and federal to reflect on civic engagement upon the language, Russian has evolved tremendously and is government, these groups have focused on completion of the Diamond Leadership Certificate. widely spoken by over 144 million people. Even crippling oil output by attacking pipelines. For the The certificate requires participants to engage in without the infamous “to be” auxiliary verb, the time period of 2014-2017, a quadrat system and community service and civic engagement while Russian language is phenomenal. chi-squared analysis were used to uncover taking part in workshops, engaging in dialogues, ______patterns related to time, location, and type of and reflecting on their experiences. The attacks. The attacks occurred more often with non-  Promotes sustainability 27 Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual presentation will ask participants to reflect on their Liberation through Language: How The Colfax Massacre: A Forgotten personal journey, their aspirations as young adults and their path of leadership. The experiences will the Evolution of Lincoln’s Rhetoric Chapter of Violence be contextualized in a discussion of the methods of Led the Nation through Crisis JAMES HAMILTON youth leadership development and methods to ERIN HERBST On April 13, 1873, hundreds of armed, white men take the "natural resources" of passionate young My presentation is an in-depth study of Abraham laid siege to the county courthouse in Colfax, minds to create meaningful change and a Lincoln’s rhetoric, focusing on his usage of words Louisiana. A smaller group of African American generation of leaders. such as “liberty,” “equality,” and “liberation.” In men defended the courthouse, asserting their ______my research, it became evident that his thoughts claim that Republicans were the legitimate victors Give Kids The World Alternative on morality, especially concerning racial slavery, in highly contested 1872 state election. The white paramilitary forces attacked the courthouse on Spring Break 2018 changed over time. This presentation is an adaptation of a twenty page research paper for a Easter Sunday, slaughtered many of the CHRIS CUMMINS, SHEA KINSELLA, OLIVIA KERR, defendants, and executed dozens of prisoners. CHRYSTYNA TSUVANYK, STEPHANIE PEARL, MARY History of Emancipation class, but is also interdisciplinary in its methodological approaches Known today as the Colfax Massacre, it is one of PEZZIMENTI, SARA REPPENHAGEN, ANGELA the largest mass murders to ever occur on NORRIS, DANIELLE SCHULMAN, GUS FORMATO, from both history and English. Lincoln provided the country with a strong voice, steeped in figurative American soil. Although as many as a hundred and HANNAH CHASE, TESS ROMANO, CASEY MAE no fewer than sixty-two black men were killed at FILIACI, PATRICK BUCKLEY language, to soothe the nation and propel it through a time of rapid change, including war and Colfax, it is disregarded in traditional narratives of FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID PARFITT, CENTER FOR Reconstruction. My paper attempts to show why COMMUNITY WELLNESS emancipation. Because we rely on the words of leaders, it is essential that we understand the the Colfax Massacre, and the violence it inspired, Give Kids The World is a nonprofit village located in should be at the center of Reconstruction Kissimmee, Florida where children with life- significance those words hold. Lincoln provides a great example for this. Through looking specifically narratives. Understanding Colfax is central to threatening illnesses and their families can stay for explaining how white southerners were able to so a weeklong, cost-free vacation. For the past 9 years at key words, I show how Lincoln changed the connotations of traditional “American” concepts, effectively combat African Americans’ political Dr. David Parfitt has taken a group of 12-13 power. It also forces us to confront the role that Geneseo students down to the Village to volunteer so that the white public would better embrace the humanity of African Americans. I argue that in the violence played in Reconstruction and the legacy of for a week. Students work shifts throughout the white supremacy. Selected for presentation at week and help with various activities including Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's words take on a more significant moral meaning in their Writing Rights, Righting Wrongs: Transatlantic serving meals, entertainment, participating in the Narratives of Race, Huron University College, evening activities, and doing service projects relationship with what constitutes a human life and what people are entitled to as citizens – socially London, Ontario. around the village. They help with weekly Village and legally – in the United States. Selected for events such as the Winter Wonderland and 4K • MATHEMATICS WELLES 121 Halloween party, scoop ice cream, serve breakfast presentation at Writing Rights, Righting Wrongs: at the Gingerbread house, and run the carousel. In Transatlantic Narratives of Race, Huron University MATHEMATICS 1 this presentation, students will discuss the history College, London, Ontario. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: CHI ______of the Village, what it means to volunteer there, MING TANG, MATHEMATICS and their personal experiences. An emphasis will The Changing Landscape of Black- ______be placed on how the Village has affected each White Interracial Relationships: Time Series: Quarterly Net Revenue student and what they have gained from the trip, From Slavery to the End of for Amazon as well as on how others can be involved and help ANDREW FLANNERY the cause. Reconstruction Using regression and time series techniques, we ______KRISTA BORST will construct a model that predicts the future Voting at SUNY Geneseo and Why it This paper analyzes the effect emancipation had on quarterly net revenue for Amazon. By use of Matters interracial relationships. The first part examines ANOVA tables, R2 values, standard deviations, and American society prior to the end of slavery and overall significance of a handful of different PATRICK BUCKLEY the Emancipation Era, discussing anti-abolitionist FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD models, we can choose our best model to perform mob-violence in New York as well as taking a close our time series. As we can see from our output, our In the 2014 midterm election, only 6.3% of look at how different people in the antebellum best model is determined to be E[yt] = β0 + β1t + students at SUNY Geneseo voted. In response, the South operated in these relationships and how Voter Registration and Engagement Task Force was β2Q1t + β3Q2t + β4Q3t + β5t2 + Rt, where Rt accounts they were viewed (for example, comparing the for the autocorrelation in the residuals of our created to increase the voting rate and to promote position of the white male slaveholder to the black the college’s value of civic responsibility. Attendees model. Lastly, using a 95% prediction interval using female slave). The second part focuses on the MSE of our model, we can determine if our will learn about the current state of the voting interracial relationships and marriages during and culture at SUNY Geneseo and will be introduced to model is in fact useful for predicting the future after the emancipation era. Black people as a values of the quarterly net revenue for Amazon. As the importance of this hard-won privilege. Also, I whole were now labelled, at least under the law, as will provide a brief overview of my service work as we can see from our four prediction intervals, using human beings, as opposed to property. This notion the true value for the future quarterly, our model an Andrew Goodman Foundation Vote Everywhere alone changed both the legal and social context Ambassador. This presentation is to fulfill the final is accurate for three of the quarters, and our that interracial relationships took place in. While prediction falls just below our interval for the requirement of the GOLD program’s Diamond towards the end of emancipation and at the Leadership Through Community Engagement fourth quarter. Therefore, we determine that our beginning of Reconstruction segregation of the model is a useful time series model for the Certificate. races was common throughout the country, anti- quarterly net revenue of Amazon. miscegenation laws -- laws that banned interracial 4J • HISTORY WELLES 132 ______relationships/marriages -- were used as a specific Option Pricing Using the Taylor THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION: tool to ensure that segregation continued and Series LINCOLN, INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE, ideals still held from the institution of slavery were enforced. Examining how interracial relationships ZACHARY DORUSHKIN AND THE COLFAX MASSACRE were thought about before and after emancipation A problem arises in mathematics when trying to FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY gives a sense of how deeply ingrained both racial find a finite result for the sum of an infinite series. SESSION CHAIR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY and gendered hierarchies were. Selected for In 1715, Brook Taylor formally introduced a ______presentation at Writing Rights, Righting Wrongs: solution to this problem that had troubled Transatlantic Narratives of Race, Huron University mathematicians for hundreds of years. Taylor College, London, Ontario. theorized that an infinite sum of terms could be ______approximated by using a finite number of terms. 28  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM

This is known as Taylor’s Series. These terms are MATHEMATICS 2 The goal of this project is to compose a Missa calculated from the values of the functions SESSION CHAIR: DOUG BALDWIN, MATHEMATICS Brevis (“brief mass”) using the traditional Greek derivatives around a single point. Taylor’s Series ______and Latin text of the Missa Brevis and can be applied to many real world concepts. Call Parameter Identification in a contemporary harmonies, and to have the piece and put options are frequently priced using the performed. The Missa Brevis is a musical form that Black-Scholes pricing model. The model contains Mixing Problem has been present since the Renaissance period, many derivatives related to various properties of IMASHA SILVA and composers from Mozart to Poulenc to options. The Delta-gamma Approximation is a FACULTY SPONSOR: SEDAR NGOMA, Stravinsky have created Missa Breves with their manipulation of Taylor’s Series that is used to MATHEMATICS own musical language and styles. The ways that the calculate the change in option price. This In a developed and industrialized world, pollution music interacts with the text in my Missa Brevis presentation will discuss how Taylor’s Series is has become an inexorable threat to the echo the ways other Missa Breves express the manipulated to obtain the Delta-gamma environment. While it has been associated with same text; more specifically, how the themes of Approximation as well as extensions of the forms of technological advancement for the good supplication, suffering, joy, and glory are approximation. of human beings, it has reached the point of doing expressed, and how different sections of the Missa ______more damage than repair to the environment. Brevis speak to one another. After listening to, Predicting America's GDP Traditionally to determine the concentration of a comparing, and analyzing different composers’ CAROLINE RUPP solute at any moment in time in a given vessel, Missa Breves and observing different composers’ Have you ever wondered how economists and parameters such as initial concentration of the musical choices (concerning key relations, tempo, mathematicians work together to forecast solute, volume of the vessel, rates of inflow and texture, etc.), I composed my own Missa Brevis for America's GDP? I will be presenting on some outflow, and the inflow concentration of the solute an SATB choir and organized sixteen singers and a methods used to predict quarterly data using a were used. However, measured data of conductor to rehearse the piece once a week and time period of fifteen years. Depending on the concentrations of the solute in a vessel at perform it. Selected for presentation at Christ trend and seasonality of the time series data, each appropriate times could be used to obtain Community Church Sunday service, Geneseo, NY. method will lead to a different forecasted value. I parameters which are determined as solutions to found that using the moving average and double an inverse procedure. In this work we consider a 4N • EDUCATION ISC 115 exponential smoothing methods produced situation where a pollutant with an unknown time- PHOTOMETRIC STUDIES OF OPEN accurate predictions for the 2017 quarter one GDP. dependent concentration leaks at a known rate In addition, I will be testing the data against into a vessel containing a known volume of liquid; STAR CLUSTERS: A JOURNEY different regression equations, beginning with the and the well-mixed liquid leaves the vessel at the THROUGH SCIENCE fundamental linear regression and ending with a same rate it enters. We develop a finite difference FACULTY SPONSOR: DENNIS SHOWERS, piecewise linear regression, to try and improve the algorithm to approximate the variable inflow EDUCATION R2 value as well as residual fit plot. Finally, I concentration for any time in a given interval. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR AARON checked the residuals for autocorrelation, which Numerical experiments and results obtained show STEINHAUER, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY will show how strong the internal association is at that this technique is a reliable procedure for ______a specific point within a time series. Using the ACF approximating time-dependent inflow Photometry of M34 and M41 value in Minitab, I was able to forecast quarter one concentrations. ______CLAIRE PRUNIER, ERIC PIATO, LYNN MYERS, of 2017 using the simplest regression and the KELSEY KWANDRANS piecewise equation. While the forecasts from the Analyzing Sentiment of Biology Students in the HONR 205/215 course performed a double exponential method and autoregressive Class Surveys photometric study on the M34 and M41 star model with piecewise regression were within a GABRIELLE ANGELORO, GABRIELLE ANGELORO, clusters using advanced astronomical techniques. hundred units of the actual value, autoregressive TOLULOPE OLATUNBOSUN, JULIA WITKOWSKI Working in IRAF in a Unix environment, students model with simple linear regression was the closest FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUG BALDWIN, performed various analyses on several different prediction. MATHEMATICS clusters of stars, including identifying stars in the ______Due to an influx of opinion-based data, sentiment images, determining magnitude of stars, and Modeling Crime in the U.S.  analysis has emerged as an exciting subfield of comparing images of stars taken using different KEVIN BRADY, KEVIN BRADY, KEVIN MCGRATH, machine learning. We will give an introduction to filters. Through this analysis, students have RYAN KELLY sentiment analysis and present an application to identified likely cluster members, and determined Regression analysis is the statistical process of assign sentiments to Geneseo biology class cluster parameters such age and distance. estimating the relationships among variables. This reviews. Specifically, this research uses random ______project explores this mathematical technique forests to train trigrams and classify reviews. We Photometry of M3, M48, and NGC through analyzing the relationship between time discuss the implementation of this technique and 2420 and crime. By using data presented by the FBI quantify the accuracy of our resulting ALEXIS SAUNDERS, DEANNA PALMA, SCOTT spanning 20 years, we investigate these two classifications as compared to a human expert. WILLIAMS, TIMOTHY SNYDER, KYLE POWERS variables and how they interact with each other. Finally, we will analyze the strengths and Students in the HONR 205/215 course performed a We will create multiple regression models, weaknesses of using machine learning for photometric study on the M3, M48, and NGC 2420 determine which model is best fit to the data, and classifying sentiments of student evaluations. star clusters using advanced astronomical then use different forecasting techniques to determine what crime totals may look like in the 4M • MUSIC DOTY RECITAL HALL techniques. Working in IRAF in a Unix environment, coming years. To expand on this we will then students performed various analyses on several analyze a separate set of data that comes from a EDGAR FELLOWS 10 different clusters of stars, including identifying smaller area of the nation, Suffolk County. This set FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MICHAEL stars in the images, determining magnitude of of data also stretches over the span of nearly 50 MASCI, MUSIC stars, and comparing images of stars taken using ______years, allowing us to increase our accuracy with a different filters. Through this analysis, students larger sample size . After creating regression Writing a Modern Short Mass have identified likely cluster members and models and testing for this specific area, we will SIMONE LOUIE, SIMONE LOUIE, NOAH determined cluster parameters such age and come to a conclusion on the relationship between CHICHESTER, JENNIFER BENDER, CESAR FLORES, distance. crime and time, as well as compare the results VALERIE SCARANO, JULIA MCGAUGH, HANNAH between the entire nation’s data, and Suffolk MCCLOW, AMANDA SALADINO, HANNA FOX, 4O • POLITICAL SCIENCE & County’s data. MATTHEW BURLEY, BENJAMIN BERNSTEIN, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DANIEL CHICHESTER, CHRISTOPHER RUDIN, MATT MILNE 105 4L • MATHEMATICS WELLES 123 CRAWFORD, ELIJAH BUCK, BLAIN SHINKLE, MARIAH MCCARRON, BRIANNA RIGGIO

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MOCK TRIAL PRESENTS THE COURT promoting diversity and inclusion. In addition, self-validate. Further research is needed to teachers use book trailers to promote reader examine the actual effect of danger on emotional CASE OF THE YEAR: MIDLANDS V. engagement through technology. We’d like to achievement, but we are able to conclude that it HENDRICKS introduce a new tool to educators to enhance does not act as a deterrent or buffer to reaching FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JOANNA engagement with text by combining the visual achievement. KIRK, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL excitement of a book trailer with the framework of ______RELATIONS a text set, ultimately creating a Text Set Trailer. This Meditation Causes Emotional ______presentation will provide educators with this new Healing to Change Prisoners’ Lives ERIN LIEBERMAN, KATRINA TILLAPAUGH, ERIN way of enhancing engagement of learners through EMILY STERNS CARLIN, MATT BROWN, TAYLOR GROSSKOPF, harmonizing literacy and technology. Poloma believes that inner and emotional healing MEGAN METZ, MICHAELA OMENCINSKY, JULIA ______BATTISTA, RYAN HALLOCK, RYAN MADDEN, Sturges Hall and the Forgotten can be caused by praying. Prayer will then lead to AUDREY HOLLICK, RYAN FORTUNA the resolution of excessive fear, anxiety, and/or The State of Midlands has charged Dylan Hendricks S.T.E.M. depression. Forgiveness is part of emotional with the attempted murder of Kerry Bell-Leon. JULIAN DAVID-DRORI healing which leads to peace of mind and the Dylan is a local soup truck owner, who likes to use FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHLEEN MAPES, HISTORY ability to forgive others. Poloma’s review of the the dating app Tinder to meet new people. On As it currently stands, the Psychology Department path to emotional healing neglects to say whether Tinder, Dylan meets Carmen, Kerry’s spouse, and at SUNY Geneseo makes its home in Bailey Hall emotional healing can be achieved through other they begin having an affair. On July 16, 2017, where it produces terrific research and makes an means besides prayer. Therefore, this study someone snuck into the Bell-Leon condo and impact, not only in the field psychology, but other examines how meditation leads to the emotional attempted to murder Kerry. Was it Dylan? Or is subjects as well. However, it was not always this healing of prisoners serving life sentences. This Dylan being wrongly accused? You members of the way, as the department actually used to be housed study found that the strict meditation practice of jury must determine if Dylan is innocent or guilty, in Sturges Hall. During its time there, the members Vipassana led to the emotional healing of these after hearing the testimony of a variety of of the department had to put up with lackluster men with the same effects Poloma described from witnesses. conditions, which caused setbacks for the the outcome of praying. ______department’s research. Then, in 2004, after many 4P • POTPOURRI WELLES 131 years of back and forth between the faculty and Mystic Experience: Union with the administration, the department and its labs moved Grounds of Existence Through EDUCATION & to Bailey Hall. This paper will use interviews, HISTORY photos, and original documents to explain how the Horseback Riding SESSION CHAIR: ANNE BALDWIN, SPONSORED exodus of the Psychology Department from CHRISTINE GRACE RESEARCH Sturges Hall to Bailey Hall is an important point in Chaudhuri says that mystic experience is the ______the long history of the department and is relevant immediate meeting with the overall reason of Gender and Race in Colonial India, in determining the trajectory of the department’s existence. For Chaudhuri, yoga is the best method future as a producer of important research. of having a mystic experience because the physical 1765-1947 (The Next Episode) and mental processes involved in yoga can lead to CHASE CHIAMULERA 4Q • SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 105 having the same outcomes as mystic experience. FACULTY SPONSOR: MEGAN ABBAS, HISTORY These outcomes include positive shift in emotion, This paper will discuss the tropes and frames EMOTIONAL HIGHS, EMOTIONAL acquiring deep knowledge of the self, transience, British authors (civil administrators, military ACHIEVEMENT, AND EMOTIONAL and a sense of oneness with yourself and the officers, civilians, et al.) employed to conceive of HEALING: SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES world. If yoga can accomplish those effects for Indian men. Some key elements of this discussion Chaudhuri, perhaps horseback riding can will be how the 1857 revolt dramatically changed OF EMOTIONS IN SOCIAL accomplish the same results for me. For my these perceptions, what perceptions remained MOVEMENTS, PRISON analysis, I relied on sociological introspection. I constant, and how Indian nationalists in the 20th MEDITATION, HORSEBACK RIDING, recorded my feelings before and after riding and century reappropriated or pushed back against whether my experience provided me with the these perceptions to help effect home rule. I will AND REGULAR RELIGIOUS same outcomes of mystic experience. My findings also discuss how spontaneous rumors can have PRACTICE provided evidence that horseback riding can very long-range effects on public perceptions of FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: STEVE achieve the same outcomes as yoga in connection ethnic or political groups. DERNE, SOCIOLOGY to mysticism. Through this study, I concluded that ______the benefits of mystic experience can be attained Text Set Trailers: A New Approach Does the Threat of Danger Diminish in any setting by anybody when their mental and physical energy is being focused into a singular, to Inspire Literacy Engagement the Experience of Emotional DYLAN FICHERA, TARA MENON MITSUYASU enjoyable endeavor. ______FACULTY SPONSOR: THEA YURKEWECZ, Achievement in Social Movements? EDUCATION ALIA AEID Experiencing Lasting Emotional High Have you ever seen a movie trailer and thought: “I I examined the effects of participating in Through Regular Religious Practice NEED to see that movie!”? How can we get dangerous social movements on an individual’s MAZARINE DESRUISSEAUX students this excited to learn about literature? This emotional achievement. This work seeks to better Mystical experience is a transient experience that presentation brings to life a project created in understand Guobin Yang’s research which claims gives people an ineffable joy. When having a CURR-313 (Classroom Reading and Literature that social movements are a manifestation of the mystical experience, an ecstatic feeling is present Programs) that blends Text Sets and Book Trailers individual’s motivation to self-validate. Following which give people the feeling of having a life- to create a new didactic approach that inspires Yang’s methodology of analyzing participant acts changing moment in their life. The purpose of this learners to explore various texts and themes. A of storytelling, the direct sources used were paper is to outline what it takes to make an Text Set is a framework that consists of several written accounts describing the student emotional high of a mystical experience long texts written with various levels of difficulty, movements in Tiananmen Square, China and the lasting. Through introspection I use regular modes, and genres that share common themes Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Prior to analyzing the religious practice such as prayer and reading the (“Teaching through Text Sets,” 2013). The use of data, I proposed that not all movements led to scripture to try to reach a mystical experience. In various materials helps students understand texts, emotional achievement, specifically in my study I did not have a mystical experience, but which consist of qualitative, quantitative, and circumstances of violent government repression. I found out that regular religious practice does lead content appropriateness factors that are stressed Instead, the data showed that danger had no effect to lasting joy and a person doesn’t have to have a in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS, 2010), on the emotional fulfillment of participants and mystical experience to have that ineffable joy. therefore did not limit an individual’s motivation to 30  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM

4R • STUDY ABROAD BAILEY 101 projects focuses on two different, specific areas of Despite the recent renewal of empowering, health: nutrition and tuberculosis. Research for female-driven storylines, D.C. Comics has a long HAITI SERVICE LEARNING STUDY both projects was conducted during a week-long and troubled past with its treatment of female ABROAD trip to Haiti as part of the INTD: Service Learning in characters. This presentation will examine some of FACULTY SPONSOR: WESTON KENNISON, STUDY Borgne, Haiti course. Sets of questions were D.C. Comics most violent issues, including the ABROAD developed and translated into Haitian Creole, infamous Killing Joke (1988), and discuss the SESSION CHAIR: MARIE HENNING aimed at gaining an understanding of the current recurrent use of sexual violence as a plot device. ______health and sociocultural issues related to nutrition This presentation will also attempt to offer ways in Economic Development and Mental and tuberculosis. Based on information gathered which sexual violence can be depicted to empower  from Haitian medical professionals, a health characters, rather than victimize and fetishize. Health in Borgne, Haiti education presentation on the topic of tuberculosis MARIE HENNING, BRIANNA SCHIBLEY-LAIRD was developed to be presented to patients at 4U • BUSINESS SOUTH 340 Since the earthquake in 2010 there has be an mobile medical clinics, and a growth chart project New Research in Economics: increase in the prevalence of mental health, after was undertaken to design an accessible tool for many Haitians were left with mental disorders families to track the healthy growth of their Experimental/Behavioral and regarding trauma and loss. Our presentation will children. The objective of both projects is to discuss treatment options for mental health in Cultural Economics increase awareness of issues related to FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: LEONIE Haiti and address the perception of the overall field tuberculosis as well as the relationship between of psychology and mental health by Haitians. STONE, BUSINESS growth and nutrition. ______During our study abroad course we were able to Apples and Oranges: Experimental carry out interviews with the psychologist at the 4S • WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES local hospital in Borgne to get a better grasp on Evidence on Willingness to Pay how mental health treatment is handled there. WELLES 119 MADELYN ROSSI, ALLIE WACHTEL One on the consistent issues in developing nations VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF Ariely (2009) and others have found that is the lack of economic development. After the GENDER IN GAMING, DC COMICS, willingness to pay for different goods can be earthquake the Haitian economy has had a difficult influenced by arbitrary numbers that create time. Our presentation will discuss the financial AND ROCK AND ROLL different anchor points for consumers. In a series planning habits of households in Borgne, Haiti FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE of classroom experiments, we attempt to ask based on applied research we conducted through BLOOD, WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES whether such anchor points can be created by my spring break study abroad course to Borgne, ______either exposure to foods or to pictures of foods Haiti. The goal of our project is to raise awareness Battles, Basilisks, and Bechdel: prior to selecting price points. We analyze this data of and promote economic growth and Analyzing Gender and Sexuality in and find significant differences in reference points development in the town. While in Haiti we relating to both experimental treatments and to interviewed both individuals and businesses on Video Game Narrative demographic characteristics. their money spending and saving habits. Our SHAW SCHIAPPACASSE ______presentation will also share what we gained from Video games are one of the most rapidly expanding Busting the Blockbuster Code: our applied learning experience and Haiti and media in the world, and over the years there has discuss our future plans for our projects. been a shift to more narrative gameplay. The Testing the Relationship between ______purpose of this project is to analyze video game Political Ideology of Popular A Conversation with the Women of narrative through the lens of preexisting gender and sexuality rhetoric originally intended for films, American Cinema and the American Borgne, Haiti such as the Bechdel test, in order to compare the Public ANTOINETTE YANNOTTI, SARA FEINLAND two forms of media and determine if one is less BRENDAN MAHONEY Women’s issues are present worldwide and are problematic, more inclusive, and more progressive The examination of popular art as a reflection of being brought to the forefront of policy making in than the other. Extensive research in both feminist the society that produced it enjoys a long history in many countries. Haiti has seen a drastic increase in film theory and a number of video games will be the Western intellectual canon. Since the early the occurrence of sexual assault since the utilized to ascertain whether or not video games nineteenth century, scholars of culture have earthquake in 2010. Our presentation will examine are the misogynistic, male dominated violent viewed these artifacts as representations of a the culturally specific issues Haitian women face fantasy we sometimes perceive them to be, or if moment in time. But is this relationship something related to sexual assault and violence. Through video games might be a new, effective, powerful that can be quantified? Can the relationship conversations with medical professionals at Alyans medium for feminists of the digital age. between art and society be observed not only Sante Borgne (Borgne Health Alliance) as well as ______anecdotally but also statistically? Nineteenth members of the Borgne community, we attempt to Playing the Right Note: Stereotypes century scholars cannot possibly have answered gain a better understanding of how sexual assault of Women in Rock and Roll this question, but, with modern information is viewed in this rural culture. Additionally, technology, we may be closer than we realize. This MEGHAN MURPHY comparisons to the attitudes toward sexual assault paper attempts to examine the influence political This presentation will explore the different and women’s attitudes in the United States will be ideology and popular cinema have on one another stereotypes that categorized women during the made. Implications of our observations and and the role markets play in facilitating that early Rock and Roll era. This paper focuses on Janis conversations will include an evaluation of the influence, while also attempting to construct Joplin, Joni Mitchell, and Stevie Nicks, all different current support systems in place and what these empirical measures for future ideological analysis. artists that filled different niches in the Rock genre. groups need to further their goals. It does this by building a Political Proximity of Through an analysis of their performances and ______Production Index to measure ideology in popular lyrics, this study will aim to discover how these Health Education: Tuberculosis and cinema production using data from the Internet artists both resist and/or fall into these Movie Database as well as techniques from Nutrition in Borgne, Haiti stereotypes. REESE DZIENDZIEL, EMMA O'CONNELL ______computer and network science. Furthermore, it Health education is a major component of an Sexual Violence and D.C. Comics: tests the statistical associations of that index with effective health care system. In developing nations various measures of political support like the net like Haiti, efforts are consistently made to Moving the Plot Forward American party affiliations throughout the strengthen health education programs in order to KYLIE MATHIS twentieth century. Selected for presentation at improve health outcomes and prevent disease. Our Eastern Economic Association, Boston, MA.

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MUSIC females will rest for a greater proportion of time women child bed fever and other complications of than males; and (2) males and females will differ in child birth. These different causes of death will be 100 • Mozart Might Have Touched their feeding preferences, such that females will evaluated and compared in regards to frequencies It: A Close Up Look at an 18th spend more time feeding, eat more fruit and in specific years and how they compare over the leaves, and use fewer tree species. I believed that years. There will also be an investigation of other Century Violin females would rest and feed more and trends in the data, such as which months were RYAN LEE demonstrate a more selective diet due to the most common for specific causes and why it may FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDREW BERGEVIN, MUSIC metabolic costs of gestation and lactation. All data be that way. Included is an analysis of mortality We will have a hands on look at the 18th century was collected on Ometepe Island in Nicaragua. rates of women in comparison to men during the Neapolitan dynasty of violin making. The violins of Data analysis was conducted using Microsoft Excel childbearing years. the Gagliano family are among the most highly and R. Results were as follows: (1) females spent ______sought after instruments of the Neapolitan school. more time resting and feeding; (2) males and 117 • Mortality for Vaccine- They are old and pricey, but what makes them so? females ate from five tree species each, although Preventable Diseases in 19th and the tree species differed between the sexes; and ANTHROPOLOGY (3) there were no differences, in terms of 20th Century Rochester 113 • An Education Approach for a percentage of the various plant parts, in the diets ERICA HORNSTROM of males vs. females. FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, Sustainable Outcome ______ANTHROPOLOGY ELISABETH BABLIN, EMMA SMITH 115 • Out of Site: Identifying the The purpose of this research is to investigate the FACULTY SPONSOR: BARBARA WELKER, rates of infectious diseases that are currently ANTHROPOLOGY Origin of Artifacts Without Known controlled through vaccinations. Considering The objectives of this study are to (1) increase Contexts recent declines in vaccination rates, it is relevant to environmental awareness and sustainable ALEXANDRA MASSEY research the devastation and prevalence of practices among students on campus at SUNY FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES AIMERS, infectious diseases in the past in order to Geneseo via tangible reminders, and (2) measure ANTHROPOLOGY demonstrate the impact that vaccinations have whether or not said increase in environmental This poster represents the collection originally had on mortality rates. For this study, historic awareness impacts electric usage on campus. A owned by Dr. Spencer Franklin, appointed Medical sources about public health in Rochester, New series of posters and magnets were purchased with Director of NYLIC in 1901. While living and working York, and other urban areas during the 19th and an Undergraduate Research Grant. They were in Central and South America between 1903 and early 20th centuries provided contemporary posted throughout five dormitories (Genesee, 1916, he and his wife gathered various artifacts. accounts of infectious disease concerns. Following Onondaga, Monroe, Livingston, Steuben and Erie) The belongings that have managed to stay within this, the mortality rates in Rochester resulting from during October 2017, reminding students to the family were eventually passed to the Franklin’s vaccine-preventable diseases, such as diphtheria, conserve water and electricity via turning off lights granddaughter, Mrs. Lynda Bailey. Mrs. Bailey were examined using data from Mt. Hope when leaving rooms and taking shorter showers. reached out to Dr. James Aimers last fall to explore Cemetery records that are available online. The Data on electric usage was supplied by Campus where in Central and South America each piece of time periods between 1837 to 1860, as well as Facilities. October use was compared with the collection came from and the authenticity of 1882 to 1935 were included in in the data set, September and both were compared with the each to aid in the eventual donation of the representing periods before and after the previous year. We did not obtain any significant collection to the right circumstance. The vaccinations were first developed. Information on results. Two problems with the project are: (1) we authenticating process is very difficult, as there is date of interment, name, sex, age, and cause of did not take into consideration that days get not much research out there about how to identify death for each individual were recorded in shorter in October and hence students turn lights fakes, recent objects made to look like prehistoric Microsoft Excel and analyzed with R Studio on earlier, and (2) a better research design would ones, without the use of highly specialized software. Along with mortality rates across time, have allowed for “before”, “experimental”, and chemistry techniques. The process of discovering differences in mortality for both age and sex were “after” periods while controlling for daylight hours. the provenience, or the original location of an also compared. However, we feel that sustainability education artifact, is also challenging since the collection is so ______projects are of value for keeping students mindful diverse. Identification of each requires detailed 118 • An Analysis of Accidental of their resource consumption, while encouraging comparisons with artifacts recovered and Deaths in 19th Century Rochester them to reduce their environmental footprint. documented throughout Central and South KELLY BENNETT ______America as well as consultation with other experts FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, 114 • Differences in Resting Habits from each field. This poster is a display of our ANTHROPOLOGY and Feeding Preferences between progress. ______Records from Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, NY, Male and Female Mantled Howler 116 • Mt. Hope Cemetery: Mother provide an insight into the medical conditions that Monkeys (Alouatta palliata) caused numerous deaths during the 19th century. and Children Mortality Data They report the name, death date, cause of death, KAITLYNN DOBUCKI BRIANNA KOPACZ and residence of thousands of Rochester residents FACULTY SPONSOR: BARBARA WELKER, FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, from that time. Consequently, the records can be ANTHROPOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY further analyzed regarding the prevalence of The purpose of this research is to identify key The goal of this study is to investigate the mortality certain causes of death. A specific topic of interest differences between male and female mantled rates of mothers and children from 1837-1860 in is the focus on the accidental deaths that took howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) in resting and Rochester, NY. The data will be analyzed from place during that time. In this study, I compare the feeding behavior. My goal was to determine if one cemetery records from Rochester's Mt. Hope number of recorded deaths due to accidental sex rested more than the other, and if they differed Cemetery and will be compared to statistics in causes to determine which have the highest in their feeding preferences for particular tree other areas. Some of the major causes of death for prevalence rates. Then, using background research species. My hypotheses were as follows: (1) males infants include stillbirths and diarrhea and for on the lifestyle of the residents of Rochester during and females will differ in resting habits, such that 32 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM the 19th century, I focus on the correlation 150 • Balance of Coral and Algal referred to as African Sleeping Sickness. Due to the between daily practices and the number of lack of promoters, posttranscriptional RNA particular types of accidental deaths during that Cover on Reefs of San Salvador, modifications are likely important for the survival time. The goal of this presentation is to determine Bahamas of the parasite. Our focus is to understand the the prevalence of accidental deaths that occurred OLIVIA MACALUSO, EMILY CATALDO, SERRANA biogenesis of these RNA modifications and the role in those buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery and to MATTIAUDA that they play in the survival of T. brucei. ELISA discover if there were daily activities or aspects of FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY assays were performed and detected the presence the city of Rochester that contributed to the deaths Globally, the balance of algal and coral competition of the methylated bases N6-methyladenine (N6- of the residents. has been shifting reefs into algal dominated MeA) and 5-methylcytosine (5-MeC) in total ______ecosystems. Because the algae reproduce and procyclic form and bloodstream form RNA, and a 119 • The Transition to Germ grow quickly, they are able to outcompete the lack of methylation in small RNA for both bases. 5- Theory in Rochester, NY: coral and deprive them of light, which is essential MeC was further investigated by a robust bisulfite to the coral’s survival as its symbiotic sequencing technique and the positions of the RNA Implications for Medicine, Public zooxanthellae provide them with energy. Previous methylations were elucidated. To find the source Health and Infectious Disease work on San Salvador Island reefs have shown that of 5-MeC RNA methylation, BLAST searches were Prevalence in the 19th and 20th as recently as 2012 the reefs are overwhelmingly performed and detected seven putative T. brucei dominated by algae, and coral cover was less than cytosine RNA methyltransferases (TbCRMTs). Two Centuries 10%. Since 2012, many of the San Salvador reefs TbCRMTs were expressed in E. coli as fusion MAKAYLA ROSS have been designated marine protected areas proteins via recombinant plasmids. SDS-PAGE and FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, where fishing and other recreational activities are western blotting were used to characterize ANTHROPOLOGY regulated in an attempt to preserve the integrity of expression. Protein purification experiments are in Germ theories of disease evolved following the the coral reefs. Using digital imaging and quadrat progress. In summary, our data indicate that T. revolutionary work of people like Louis Pasteur, sampling, algal and coral cover will be documented brucei RNA contains several modified bases, and John Snow and Robert Koch and significantly and later analyzed later with J software. we have identified positions and putative enzymes influenced not only how pathogens were Correlation rank tests and two-way ANOVA tests responsible. Selected for presentation at managed, but also how deaths were reported on will be done to compare algal and coral coverage in American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular death records. This study explores how the the San Salvadorian reefs. Coral and algal coverage Biology, San Diego, Ca. transition to germ theories of disease during the will be compared as well as the difference in coral ______19th century in Rochester, NY impacted medical coverage between protected reefs and those that 153 • The Role of the Escherichia and public health practices as well as the are not protected. This study should help us to coli dcm Gene in Stationary Phase prevalence of deaths from infectious diseases. An better understand the effectiveness of marine extensive literature review provides the context protected areas in reversing the degradation of Fitness and Catalase Activity for how physicians and lay people accepted the reefs worldwide. RACHEL KNAPP, LARA FINNERTY-HAGGERTY emergence of germ theories. Death records from ______FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY Mt. Hope Cemetery, one of the oldest and largest 151 • T. Dalmanni Genomic Little is known about the role of cytosine DNA cemeteries in Rochester, were transcribed into methylation in prokaryotes. Dcm is a DNA Excel and analyzed in R Studio to determine how Database and Web Framework methyltransferase in E. coli that methylates the the prevalence of certain infectious diseases Construction second cytosine in the sequence 5’CCWGG3’. changed over time. In order to gauge the impact of RACHEL GUINTHER Microarray data indicate numerous gene the emergence of germ theories on disease FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, expression changes at stationary phase upon prevalence, deaths from three different time BIOLOGY addition of a methylation inhibitor, suggesting a periods were examined (1837-1869, 1882-1892, Bioinformatics is an important part of genetic and role for Dcm in stationary phase. To test whether 1907-1919). The aim is to determine the impact molecular biology research, as the data resulting Dcm impacts stationary phase, competition that new ideas about disease transmission, and the from sequencing techniques can be very large and experiments between a manA knockout and dcm resulting changes in clinical and public health difficult to analyze. The basic goal of my project knockout strain were performed and indicated that interventions, had on the death rates of diseases was to organize data that was obtained from lack of a dcm gene conferred a decrease in such as tuberculosis. genomic analyses, in order to build a user friendly stationary phase fitness. Stationary phase cells are ______interface for biology researchers at various characterized by increased RpoS which can be 120 • The Transgender Experience institutions working on stalk eyed flies to access determined indirectly by measuring the activity of on the State University of New York genomic data. I’m using the programming the RpoS-dependent catalase enzyme. Catalase language Python, the accessory packages Pandas, activity measured in a wild-type and dcm knockout at Geneseo’s Campus Flask, and SeqIO, and Dr. Reinhardt’s research data strain demonstrated that the dcm knockout strain CLAIRE DRAKE to create a database of genomic information from has significantly more catalase activity. Catalase FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, stalk eyed flies (Teleopsis dalmanni). This database activity was also measured in a dcm knockout ANTHROPOLOGY will allow integration of sequence, expression, strain complemented with an empty plasmid and a In the United States, there are many young adults phylogeny, linkage, and various other types of dcm containing plasmid. The dcm knockout strain that are coming to college and questioning their information about particular genes into a unified complemented with a dcm containing plasmid had gender identity. In today’s fluctuating political interface that is accessible and usable by biologists a reduction in catalase activity when compared to climate, it is important to document the lives of who are not familiar with any data manipulation wild-type strains. In summary, we have transgender students. My poster will explore the techniques. The preliminary database querying demonstrated that lacking functional Dcm results transgender experience of students on the State tools for the Teleopsis dalmanni genomic data are in reduced fitness at stationary phase indicating University of New York at Geneseo campus built, and I will present them in a web interface for that DNA methylation plays an important role. through participant observation. This data will easy access by the conclusion of this project. Selected for presentation at Experimental Biology illuminate the academic and social life of ______Conference 2018, San Diego, CA. transgender students during an adjusting political 152 • Presence of the RNA ______time. Selected for presentation at Society for Modifications N6-methyladenine 154 • Characterization of Female Applied Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA. Sexual Development-1 (fsd-1) and 5-methylcytosine in T. brucei BIOLOGY JORDAN COFFEY, AMANDA KEPLINGER Transcript Structure, Expression, FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY and Localization in the Fungus Trypanosoma brucei is the parasite responsible for Human African Trypanosomiasis, commonly Neurospora crassa

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THOMAS HURYSZ, MARY PYATT, MARGAUX 158 • Danio rerio DNA Isolation and Epulopiscium sp. type B and its relatives (“epulos”) HALES, KATHRYN EMMENS are symbionts of tropical surgeonfish. Epulos are FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HUTCHISON, Amplification Optimization for In some of the largest bacteria discovered to date, BIOLOGY vitro Genotyping by Restriction and one of the ways epulos have adapted to their Neurospora crassa is a filamentous ascomycete Fragment Length Polymorphism large cell size is through extreme polyploidy. fungus that reproduces sexually and asexually, but Epulos provide an interesting system in which to SAMUEL MILLER signaling pathways regulating sexual development explore chromosome organization in polyploid FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY are not well characterized. FSD1 is an N. crassa bacteria. DivIVA is a known key regulator of Retinal regeneration in Danio rerio has a mostly transcription factor that controls female sexual chromosome positioning and cell division in gram uncharacterized genetic basis. Null mutants are development, but little is known about its RNA positive bacteria. Culturing Epulopiscium sp. type B studied to determine its mechanism. A versatile, isoforms, transcriptional regulation, protein is not possible under laboratory conditions. We non-lethal procedure to detect mutant expression, and localization. Splicing boundaries of transformed a divIVA deletion mutant of Bacillus heterozygotes in D. rerio using in vitro techniques fsd1 were mapped using RT-PCR and sequencing subtilis with a copy of Epulopiscium sp. type B could replace the need to perform parental crosses and we determined fsd1 can be expressed as three divIVA (divIVAep) labeled with GFP to assess its to identify their genotypes from offspring different transcripts differing in length and localization and role in chromosome organization. morphology. Restriction fragment length intron/exon structure. Quantitative RT-PCR during In addition, we characterized sequence variation of polymorphism (RFLP) can identify genomic different stages of development showed divIVA in Epulopiscium sp. type B and related mutations by endonuclease-cutting at unique DNA expression of fsd1 transcripts is not detectable epulos using PCR and sequencing. Some epulo sequences. This method is faster and cheaper than until sexual development begins. Additionally, one morphotypes are spore forming, and this mode of whole genome sequencing. This study identifies transcript variant is predominantly expressed, reproduction and cell division is different from that optimization conditions for fin clip DNA isolation, peaking approximately five days after mating. In of the non-sporulating epulos, such as amplification, and visualization for the D. rerio order to determine whether all three transcripts Epulopiscium sp. type B. We hypothesized that good effort (gef) developmental mutant to are translated, we will monitor FSD1 protein divIVA sequences of spore formers would be closer improve RFLP efficiency. The endonuclease AluI expression using immunoprecipitation and in composition to each other than to the non-spore successfully differentiated gef mutants from wild- western blotting. To investigate localization, a GFP- formers. Sequence variations among morphotypes type zebrafish by cutting at a deletion-induced tagged version of FSD1 was constructed and are indicators of potential functional differences of AGCT in the 294 gene, as determined by agarose localization was monitored via fluorescence divIVA in these different morphotypes. gel electrophoresis. Future experiments will assess microscopy throughout development. We found ______if these procedures can be expedited and applied FSD1GFP localized to nuclei of supportive female consistently to other genetic mutants. 161 • Photosynthesis of Brassica reproductive tissues. In addition, we confirmed the ______rapa Fruits FSD1GFP strain complements sexual development- LAUREN STERNBERG related phenotypes that occur in an fsd1 knockout 159 • Developing a Lab Exercise to FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY strain. Finally, we constructed fsd1 strains with Investigate the Chemotaxis of E. A common misconception is that leaves account overexpression promoters to determine whether coli and che Mutants in Response for all of a plants photosynthetic potential; overexpression has dominant negative effects however, developing fruits often contain during mating. Selected for presentation at to Attractants chlorophyll and are photosynthetic and may make Experimental Biology, San Diego, CA. KATHERINE COTTEN ______FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HUTCHISON, contributions to the photosynthetic gain of the 157 • Competition for Seed BIOLOGY plant. This experiment is part of a larger Bacterial chemotaxis is the movement of cells in investigation to develop a comprehensive carbon Dispersers Between Native and response to a chemical stimulus. In E. coli, budget for Brassica rapa plants. In the light leaves Invasive Plant Species chemotaxis has been well characterized and is have a high net photosynthetic rate (10 μmol CO2 -2 -1 EVAN BURR controlled by the che system. Chemotaxis m s ) in part because their cellular respiration FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY regulation is complex, and students often struggle rate is low. Fruits are more metabolically active, In fruiting plants, competition for seed dispersers to understand this pathway. The goal of this and thus have a high cellular respiration rate which is an important factor in regeneration of the project focused on developing a lab where might lead to negative net photosynthetic rates population. Partitioning niches across either students can compare the movement of wild-type even with significant gross photosynthetic rates. To disperser type or time facilitates the coexistence of E. coli and che knockout strains (cheA, cheZ, cheY, determine the gross and net photosynthetic rate of plant species in a habitat filled with competing cheB, and cheR) in response to different B. rapa fruits, we measured net carbon dioxide plants. An example of a habitat where plants might attractants. Soft agar assays were conducted in assimilation of fruits with the LI-6400XT Portable compete is SUNY Geneseo's Roemer Arboretum, which the wild-type and a che knockout strain were Photosynthesis System in both the light and dark. with its variety of native and invasive fruiting inoculated in the center of the plate, with a water In light, the B. rapa fruits expressed a net gain of -2 -1 species. We analyzed the fruit production over a control and an attractant placed on either side. photosynthesis (0.87 μmol CO2m s ). As the plants season for a selection of invasive species, such as These experiments were done using different aged, the photosynthetic rate declined. These Lonicera maackii (Amur honeysuckle) and Lonicera attractants, such as aspartate, valine and nutrient results offer insight to the balance between morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle) and native broth (LB), as well as different media, such as photosynthesis and cellular respiration in B. rapa species, such as Parthenocissus quinquefolia tryptic soy agar and M9 minimal medium. Our plants. ______(Virginia creeper) and Cornus racemosa (Gray results showed that the wild-type strain dogwood), to identify any partitioning of ecological consistently outcompeted the knockout strains by 162 • ESP Protein Characterization niches and how this might influence species reaching areas of attractant at higher in Brassica rapa interactions. On the selected plants each week, we concentrations. This lab allows students to OLIVIA CARD, MADELINE ESS, CHRISTINA WAITE counted the number of fruit present in three stages investigate the mechanisms of chemotaxis and to FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY (green, intermediate, and ripe) for an entire get quantitative data on che mutant phenotypes. JANICE LOVETT, BIOLOGY fruiting season. Our preliminary results show that ______The ESP protein affects the pathway by which the more common invasive species do not overlap 160 • Analysis of Sequence secondary metabolites form in Brassica rapa. This in fruit production. Likewise, the more common Variation of the divIVA Gene in the pathway is known as the myrosinase-glucosinolate native species do not overlap in fruit production pathway. Myrosinase, an enzyme, cleaves a with each other. However, strong competition for Giant Bacterium Epulopiscium spp. specific bond in gluconapin, a glucosinolate seed dispersers may occur for the common ZACHARY KOENIG, ERIN CLOUGH, WILLIAM derived from methionine; this results in the invasive and native species that overlap in fruit BLANDING formation of secondary metabolites that function production. Additional patterns of fruit production FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HUTCHISON, to defend the plant against herbivory. When ESP is will be discussed. BIOLOGY present, it acts as a coenzyme of myrosinase, ______34  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM meaning it influences product formation. We are these methods was performed on data collected in in this process is keeping the cell interactions interested in defining exactly how the ESP protein Dr. O’Donnell’s immunology lab. Mouse intact, thus preserving the cell junctions. To do this, does this. In order to determine the answer to our lymphocytes were extracted and stained with four we have tried preparing cells grown on membrane question, E. coli bacteria were previously markers indicating four common immune cell filters which can be sectioned or alternately grown transformed so that they have the capacity to phenotypes: CD3 (T cells), CD4 (T-helper cells), CD8 on specially treated plastic coverslips which can be generate the ESP protein. We planned to harvest (T-cytotoxic cells), and CD19 (B cells). Five mice removed after embedding. the bacteria-produced ESP for use in our assays. were measured across these parameters. ______However, we encountered problems in our Bioconductor, a series of packages in R designed 168 • Does Phototaxis and attempts to induce ESP production in the for bioinformatic analysis, has the ability to Chemotaxis in Astrephomene transformed E. coli. We have identified a possible standardize current practices of analysis by cause of these problems and are recloning the ESP automated forward scatter/side scatter gating and Involve the Same Mechanism for gene. automated quadrant gating, as well as the ability to Steering? ______implement unsupervised machine learning STEPHAN HEDDON, LEA CARINA RIVERA 163 • Simulated Light Flecks and algorithms to create clustering models of refined FACULTY SPONSOR: HAROLD J. HOOPS, BIOLOGY Photosynthesis phenotypes. The results of this automated gating The volvocalean alga, Astrephomene, accumulates on this data yielded a non-significant difference in RAJAE BROWN in response to both chemicals (chemotaxis) and the number of cells gated in forward scatter/side FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY light (phototaxis), but the mechanism is unclear in scatter analysis across samples, while automated The influence of simulated sun flecks (rapid both cases. In the closely related Volvox, the quadrant gating increased analysis rate. changes in incident radiation) on the kinetics of colonial rotation and flagellar activity Implementation of unsupervised machine learning photosynthetic rate and stomatal conductance of together result in steering. Artificially changing the algorithms provided biologically relevant clusters plants was measured. Plants were grown in kinetics of rotation abolishes phototaxis (Drescher, of cell phenotypes beyond standard quadrant moderate light (~150 µmol m-2 s-1) and et al., 2010, PNAS 107: 11171). We want to confirm gating. These methods of analysis increase measurements of photosynthesis and stomatal this relationship in Astrephomene phototaxis and reproducibility of biologically relevant results if conductance were made using the LI-COR 6400 determine if it holds true for chemotaxis as well. implemented more broadly in the field of system. Plants were placed in both high light (800 Using video microscopy, we have observed positive immunology. phototaxis occurring within seconds of light µmol) and low light (11µmol) until values of ______photosynthesis, conductance and estimated Ci stimulation. We can track the positions of the (internal carbon dioxide concentration) reached a 166 • Analyzing Chaotic Dynamics colonies as they respond to the light and are steady maximum. High light was then dropped to Using the Logistic Map on a Small- presently developing methods to quantify the low and vice versa. Changes in photosynthesis World Network response. We will then vary the rotation rates by occurred rapidly following the change in light changing the viscosity of the medium and SYDNEY NG determine if this interferes with phototaxis. intensity while changes in stomatal conductance FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, were slower and sometimes resulted in a negative Eventually, we plan on comparing the effect of BIOLOGY changing viscosity on chemotactic ability as well. If value for estimated Ci. The discrete logistic map has many applications in ______changing viscosity abolishes one behavior without areas such as ecology and economics. 164 • The Effect of 96-hour Light abolishing the other, then this is evidence that the Characterized by the equation xt+1 = α xt (1 - xt) for mechanisms must differ between these two Deprivation On the Growth of time-steps t, this model exhibits chaotic behavior behavioral responses. Brassica rapa where α lies in the range 3.57 ≤ α < 4.00. With ______much already known about its chaotic dynamics, SIERRA BROAD 169 • Competition for Space this model was applied to many interconnected FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY populations running simultaneously on a Watts- Between Corals and Sponges in San We studied the effects of light deprivation on the Strogatz Small-World Network with different initial growth rates of Brassica rapa, the Wisconsin fast Salvador Island Reefs: Are Sponges conditions. When normalized populations plant. Seeds were germinated and then kept in the  exceeded a threshold of 0.85, individuals were Coral Killers? dark for 96 hours before putting them in dispersed to neighboring, connected populations SKYE SMITH, SAMANTHA MUSCAT, JULIA VIGIL continuous light. Their growth was compared to in the network. The overall behavior of the FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY plants kept in continuous light. After 14 days the networks were analyzed for signs of convergence Competition for space in coral reefs is a major following characteristics were measured for each by looking at the patterns of the different factor in coral growth. Prior studies on patch reefs plant and means compared between the two interconnected populations over each time step. off the coast of San Salvador Island in the Bahamas groups: fresh weight, dry weight, leaf length and The Lyapunov exponents were calculated for have shown that corals and sponges compete cotyledon length. A total of five experiments were ensemble dynamics and were shown to exhibit intensively for space. The purpose of this study was conducted and analyzed statistically using R studio. surprising behaviors. to determine the extent and outcome of Tests were run to determine if there was a ______competition between sponges and corals and to significant difference between the characteristics 167 • Ultrastructure of Cancerous document the coral species that are more of the starved versus un-starved plants. There was susceptible to overgrowth by sponges. Swimmers a significant difference between starved versus un- Vulvar Epithelial Cells will survey the reef and document the relative starved fresh and dry masses. A significant VICTORIA STEVENS abundance of coral-sponge interaction. The results difference was also observed for leaf length FACULTY SPONSOR: HAROLD HOOPS, BIOLOGY of this study should provide a better understanding between the two groups. JANI LEWIS, BIOCHEMISTRY of how significant sponge growth is a source of ______Vaginal disease such as lichen sclerosis and lichen coral mortality. Statistical analysis will be 165 • Standardized planus can predispose infected individuals to performed on the data to determine if certain Immunophenotyping of Mouse development of cancerous tumors. Generally, sponges exhibit a preference towards growth over these conditions may be treated with topical finger corals or other coral species. Lymphocytes using Bioconductor corticosteroids, such as clobetasol. Current models ______and Clustering Models state that clobetasol puts affected cells in a state of 170 • Using Fossil and Molecular NICHOLAS TERRIGINO quiescence and renders them immune to Data to Better Understand the FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, traditional methods of cancer treatment. These BIOLOGY corticosteroids are known to affect cellular Timing of the Evolution of African Flow cytometers are able to collect junctions and epithelial cadherin, or E-cadherin. In Snakes multiparameter data on individual cells. As these order to further study this, we are examining vulvar EMMA BODE data sets become increasingly complex, the need cancer cells with and without clobetasol treatment FACULTY SPONSOR: JACOB MCCARTNEY, BIOLOGY arises for advanced methods of analysis. A trial of by transmission electron microscopy. A challenge  Promotes sustainability 35 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, BIOLOGY was used as pasture until around 1960. In a mold growths was solely Scorias spongiosa or a Knowing the timing of evolutionary radiations is vegetation survey of the Arboretum in 1999, the variety of fungal species as some preliminary data key to understanding their causes and history. As plant communities were mapped and categorized suggest. The goal of this study is to provide insight different lineages evolve, mutations accumulate as tree-dominated, shrub-dominated, or open into the many species interactions that revolve over time; this steady rate can be used as a sites. In summer 2015, to assess the differences around beech blight aphids, as their impact is not molecular clock to estimate divergence times. among areas in different stages of forest well-documented or understood. Selected for Known fossil dates can calibrate the molecular development, six 20x20-meter permanent plots presentation at Northeast Natural History clock to real time. Although snake evolutionary were established in the Arboretum, three on tree- Conference, Burlington, VT. history is well documented in the northern dominated sites and three on shrub-dominated or ______continents, little is known about when certain open sites. In each plot, the species, DBH, and 175 • Extended Leaf Phenology of families of snakes evolved in Africa. Recently, a crown class were recorded for all stems >2.5 cm the Invasive Amur Honeysuckle collection of fossils was found from the Oligocene DBH. The plots were revisited in the summer of of southwest Tanzania that contains the earliest 2017 to collect repeat measurements on all (Lonicera maackii) known members of Lamprophiidae, an African marked individuals. These data are used to assess EMILY MARTIN radiation of snakes. Among the discovered fossils is the survival and growth rates on plots from 2015- FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY a specimen of an extant genus of African file 2017, current species composition, diversity within Phenology describes the timing of cyclical snakes. In this study, we used these African and each crown class, and size distribution of stems biological events in plants and animals. Several other known fossils to calibrate a new molecular within each species and crown class. These data invasive shrubs exhibit “extended leaf phenology” clock produced by mitochondrial genes in the are used to assess how the different histories of (ELP) in forest understories by leafing out earlier in program PAML. We found that the origin of the plots have resulted in current differences in the spring and retaining their leaves later in the fall Lamprophiidae occurred nearly 50 million years forest development. Selected for presentation at than native species. ELP provides a competitive ago, a much older date than the previously Northeast Natural History Conference, Burlington, advantage to the invasive plant by “shading out” suggested range of 20 to 40 million years ago. VT. nearby species that demonstrate later phenology. These results indicate there is at least a 10 million ______In this study, the phenological events of the year gap in the fossil record. This may be because 173 • Seasonal Variation in Red Fox invasive Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) and these fossils are small and usually not very distinct Activity the native Gray Dogwood (Cornus racemosa) in the from other snake families. Spencer J. Roemer Arboretum were monitored. ALANNA RICHMAN, CHLOE COTTONE ______Initial analysis supports evidence for ELP in the 171 • Zygosphenal Morphology in FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY Amur Honeysuckle. In the spring of 2017, all In this study, camera trap images were analyzed to monitored Amur Honeysuckle plants presented Relation to Snake Constriction observe the activity of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) breaking buds at least one week earlier than the KEVIN CARRERA and other native species near multiple fox den Gray Dogwood plants. In the fall of 2017, most of FACULTY SPONSOR: JACOB MCCARTNEY, BIOLOGY entrances in the Spencer J. Roemer Arboretum. the Amur Honeysuckle plants retained a majority In order to constrict, snakes need to be able to These cameras have been set up near this den of their leaves up to two weeks after all of the Gray form strong, tight, twisting coils. Zygosphenes are location since the summer of 2017. The game Dogwood plants had lost 50% of their leaves or articulations of snake vertebrae that keep them cameras are motion-activated to take pictures near more. The timing of each phenophase was also from experiencing excessive torsion. This study these den entrances without disturbing the foxes compared to temperature and canopy openness was performed to determine if zygosphenal or other visiting species. The aim of this study was measures, and preliminary data suggest that morphology correlates with a snake’s ability to to determine (1) which times of the day and night increased canopy cover influences the fall constrict. I measured zygosphenal joint angle and the foxes are most active near the den, and (2) how phenology of the Gray Dogwood more strongly zygosphene width (ZW). I controlled for individual these activity times change with the seasons. than the Amur Honeysuckle. Selected for differences in size by making two width Patterns in the activity of other species active near presentation at Northeast Natural History measurements on the vertebrae and dividing the the fox dens were also described. Conference, Burlington, VT. ______ZW by these measurements. I conducted tests of ______normality and homogeneity of variance of the data 174 • Interactions between Beech 176 • Effect of Habitat Type on in the statistical software program R. After this, I Blight Aphids, Sooty Mold Fungus, tested for phylogenetic signal to determine how Wasp Abundance and Diversity on strongly the measured traits were influenced by and Forest Invertebrates the SUNY Geneseo Campus the relationships between the species. The results ALLISON JONES JASON LANG indicated that some measured traits were FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY influenced by phylogeny. I performed phylogenetic Grylloprociphilus imbricator (beech blight aphid) An ongoing study on bee diversity conducted on ANOVAs comparing each zygosphenal are a type of sap-sucking aphid that form large the SUNY Geneseo campus used a standard measurement between constrictors and non- colonies on Fagus grandifolia (American beech) sampling method involving small bowls painted constrictors. Results from these analyses reveal no branches. As they extract phloem from the tree, with different fluorescent colors and filled with correlation between zygosphenal morphology and they excrete a sugar-rich waste called honeydew. soapy water to capture bees; this type of trap often a snake’s ability to constrict. Based on these Underneath aphid aggregations, honeydew attracts other flying insects including wasps. We results, I conclude that zygosphenal morphology accumulates in the forest understory. In the took advantage of these incidental captures to seems to be influenced by phylogeny but has no Genesee Valley Conservancy/SUNY Geneseo investigate the effects of habitat type on wasp relation to a snake’s ability to constrict. Other Research Reserve, a variety of forest invertebrates abundance and diversity. Samples were collected factors, such as musculature and vertebral such as wasps, millipedes, and slugs were observed from the College Green; the Arboretum, two number, may be of greater importance in around honeydew accumulations. At 25 different different sites near native plantings surrounded by determining constriction ability. aphid-hosting trees, forest invertebrates were secondary successional forest; and the no-mow ______quantified in areas with and without honeydew zone, a roadside unmowed field. The wasps were 172 • Assessment of Vegetation accumulations. This survey revealed a significant pinned or pointed, depending on size, and sorted History on Forest Development in a association of wasps with honeydew based on lowest taxonomic level reached. The accumulations. Additionally, the honeydew acts as wasps were catalogued by collection date, Heterogeneous Secondary a substrate for sooty mold fungus, which grows on location, bowl color, and identity. The site Successional Forest leaves, sticks, branches, and rocks coated with Arboretum 2 had the highest diversity, while the AARON KLUBALL honeydew. Scorias spongiosa is a specialist fungus College Green had the lowest. Parasitoid wasps FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY known to associate with the honeydew were rare at the College Green site, perhaps The Spencer J. Roemer Arboretum is an 8-hectare accumulations of beech blight aphids. Genetic because grounds management may limit the natural area on the SUNY Geneseo campus that work was conducted in order to investigate availability of host species. The presence of whether the species composition of these sooty 36  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM human-made structures that offer nesting using the microsatellite genotype data. These 155 • Judicial Responses to substrates could explain a high relative abundance results begin to answer whether or not there is a of vespids found at the College Green site, while link between genetic similarity and F. subintegra Gerrymandering ichneumonids were the most abundant taxon at all nest movements, contributing to our CHRIS CALLERY other less managed sites on the edge of campus. understanding of this understudied species. FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES QUINN, BUSINESS Selected for presentation at Northeast Natural Selected for presentation at Northeast Natural This poster is an investigation of how judges are History Conference, Burlington, VT. History Conference, Burlington, VT. responding to the issue of Gerrymandering in the ______United States. The case Gill v. Whitford, which is 177 • Examining the Effects of 179 • Patterns in Native Bee currently before the Supreme Court, will be closely examined to determine what a legal test for Meiotic Drive on Aggression in Diversity: Effects of Floral gerrymandering may consist of. Male Stalk-Eyed Flies Resources and Habitat ______MACKENZIE HINTZE, AUSTIN AINSWORTH SAM HERAGHTY 156 • Arsenal F.C.'s Performance: FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY Using Logistic Regression to Identify BIOLOGY Over the past several years, native bee diversity This study examines whether or not aggression in surveys have been conducted in the Arboretum on Factors that Influence Winning in territorial behavior exhibited by male stalk-eyed the SUNY Geneseo campus in western New York. Soccer flies is impacted by meiotic drive. Meiotic drive is a The primary objective of this project was to assess RYAN FORNEY natural phenomenon that increases the likelihood the diversity of bees found across several unique FACULTY SPONSOR: MANSOKKU LEE, BUSINESS of some genes to be inherited more than others sites within the Arboretum as well as investigate I have compiled data across three seasons ('14, '15, and is worth studying for its implications across all biases in methodology and floral resource use by & '16) of the English Premier League and species. Certain populations of stalk-eyed flies the bees themselves. Over the course of the constructed two econometric models, to see which show meiotic drive sex chromosomes, leading to survey, we have collected 24 genera and 64 particular factors have a significant effect on majority female offspring. We examined whether species. The highest diversity was found in the sites Arsenal’s chances of winning a match. The first or not a more aggressive male would possess this that had the greatest floral resource diversity. regression works to measure how influential Goals genetic factor through the construction and Focal observations revealed that generally, native Scored, Goals Conceded and Arsenal’s Shot completion of aggression trials. Males from three bees preferred to visit native plants whereas the Supremacy Ratio are with respect to the result populations were collected, paired according to non-native Apis mellifera (European Honeybee), being a win. The second works to estimate how eye span length, and used in aggression trials held preferred non-native plants such as Centaurea influential Goals Scored minus Goals Conceded and in arenas made from cell culture flasks. The nigra (Black Knapweed). There were also some Arsenal’s Shot Supremacy Ratio minus Opponents frequency and intensity of aggressive behaviors biases detected in the collection methodology, as Shot Supremacy Ratio are on the result being a win. were recorded and analyzed. DNA was collected pan traps are ineffective at capturing larger bodied Variables that I have found to be statistically through tissues samples from participants and bees. However, this bias can be countered with the significant with respect to this are: Goals Scored, genotyped using genetic markers diagnostic for addition of blue vane traps to the sampling regime. Goals Conceded and Goals Scored minus Goals meiotic drive. Thus far, we have found a This study provides data that suggest how to Conceded. Although the Shot Supremacy ratio has statistically significant relationship between eye improve pollinator habitat as well as how to previously been said to be a more accurate span length and frequency of conflict resolution improve bee diversity monitoring methodology. predictor of winning than the percentage of behaviors, perhaps suggesting that eye span Selected for presentation at Northeast Natural possession for example, my findings ultimately (phenotype linked to meiotic drive in these flies) History Conference, Burlington, VT. show that the Shot Supremacy Ratio is not may also be linked to aggression. We have ______statistically significant. continued sampling and will discuss possible 180 • In Situ Expression Analysis of genetic correlations. CHEMISTRY ______Stalk-Eyed Fly Testes EVAN MCCABE, MIRANDA CALARCO 202 • Apocynin as an NADPH 178 • Genetic Comparison of FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, Slavemaking Ant Colonies to BIOLOGY Oxidase Inhibitor TORY WELSCH Complement Assays of Aggression Heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) is a family of proteins that oftentimes have newly duplicated in FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID JOHNSON, CHEMISTRY Between Nests large numbers in species exhibiting the genetic Apocynin is a naturally occurring compound that is KEVIN ZABLONSKI phenomenon of meiotic drive; a violation of known for its anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY Mendel’s law of segregation in which those species effects within the human body. The enzyme The secondary successional forest that comprises possessing sex-ratio meiotic drive alleles produce NADPH oxidase has been confirmed as the Spencer J. Roemer Arboretum at SUNY Geneseo is almost exclusively female offspring. The scope of predominant source of excess reactive oxygen home to Formica subintegra, a species of this project is to analyze HP1 expression in stalk- species (ROS) within endothelial cells. Recent slavemaking ant that steals the young of the local eyed flies (Teleopsis dalmanni) and to observe its studies have shown that the apocynin dimer, Formica glacialis species to work and forage for function in the condensation and reorganization of diapocynin, directly inhibits NADPH oxidase by their colonies. Over time, F. subintegra colonies chromatin during the meiotic divisions of preventing the translocation and binding of the phox have repeatedly relocated throughout the eight- spermatogenesis. We use immunostaining and in p47 subunit. Apocynin therefore shows hectare Arboretum to maximize accessibility to F. situ hybridization in order to detect the localization potential to prevent inflammatory diseases such as glacialis young, and have been observed to split, of HP1 protein and mRNA transcripts in developing atherosclerosis and diabetic retinopathy. This rejoin, or even raid each other. However, it is testes respectively. This semester we have study aims to investigate the inhibition mechanism currently unclear whether these raids are actually assessed normal testes development and have of apocynin by studying the interactions between raids, or if one nest voluntarily joins another, giving designed and ordered primers in order to perform apocynin and L-cysteine. These species each form the appearance of a raid. It is also unknown if polymerase chain reaction to amplify our desired dimers in the presence of myeloperoxidase (MPO) individuals are more inclined to be aggressive probes. We intend to find that HP1 expression will in vivo. To mimic this oxidizing environment in toward genetically distant conspecifics. This study be localized to condensing chromatin in wild type vitro, apocynin and L-cysteine are treated with a tests for the presence of aggressive behavior flies, and that this normal function will not be hydrogen peroxide and horseradish peroxidase between individuals from nests at a variety of observed in sex-ratio meiotic drive allele- system. The dimer product formation is then geographic distances using behavioral trials. DNA possessing Teleopsis. monitored through LC-MS and NMR spectroscopy. was subsequently extracted from each individual Understanding the effect of diapocynin on the and amplified using PCR, then analyzed using a BUSINESS dimerization of L-cysteine could help elucidate the variety of microsatellite markers. The degree of mechanism by which apocynin inhibits NADPH relatedness between colonies can be estimated oxidase. 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American Chemical Society National Meeting, Over Nanoscale Gold Colloidal in sufficient concentration. While all these New Orleans, LA. amyloidogenic peptides are known to develop ______Particles fibrillogenesis (i.e., fiber formation) through a 205 • Critical Bone Fracture HENRY HO polymerization of an oligomer, a structure of this FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, Repairs: A Comparison of Porous oligomer or mechanism of polymerization is not CHEMISTRY still completely revealed. Our group discovered Properties of Chitosan Bioactive Human amyloid beta 1-40 (Aβ1-40) is a protein of that the above mentioned intermediate oligomeric Cement and Pig Bones interest for its association with the initial onset of form can be stably created by taking advantage of fibrillogenesis in Alzheimer's disease. Circular SABRINA MEDINA, SABIHA UDDIN, JUSTIN surface potential (estimated to be ~100 J/mol) of dichroism spectroscopy is a relatively unexplored GABRIEL gold nano-particles. Quite remarkably, the technique, and is applied in this lab to study the FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, interaction between nano-particles and peptide structure of the amyloid beta protein. The CHEMISTRY highly depended on the “specific” nano-size (e.g., secondary structures of Aβ1-40 were investigated Previously, the most effective method for 20 nm for Aβ1-40, 60 nm for α-syn, and 30 nm for under differing pH conditions to better understand supplementing/replacing a bone was an autograft. β2M). Selected for presentation at American how the proteins aggregate, leading to the onset of This method comes with risks as a result of the Chemical Society 255th National Meeting, New Alzheimer's disease. Orleans, LA. invasive nature the autograft procedure ensues; by ______removing a small section of bone and using it as a ______bone simulant at the fractured site. Increased 218 • Effect of a Mitochondrial DNA 220 • Conformational Change of infection and limited bone supply in younger and Deletion on Mitochondrial DNA FAβ in DMSO elder patients are some concerns associated with Copy Number, Cell Growth and EGHOSA OKUNGBOWA, TIFFANY MFOAFO, this approach. This study aims to develop an Metabolism ISHAN DESHMUKH alternative system to replace an autograft. For FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, CHRISTOPHER KECK these initial studies, we use pig fibula to compare CHEMISTRY FACULTY SPONSOR: WENDY POGOZELSKI, the properties of our novel cement system. Amyloid beta (Aβ) is a hallmark for Alzheimer’s CHEMISTRY Calcium Phosphate Cement (CPC), a biocompatible disease through the formation of insoluble fibrillar Human mitochondria (mt) contain circular DNA bone substitute composed of Hydroxyapatite (HA), plaques that invades the brain’s memory and molecules of 16549 base pairs, which can contain a major component of human bone, is a base cognition areas. Aβ conjugated with the large deletions that correlate with aging and ingredient for the cement. Due to the successful fluorophore fluorescein (FAβ) exhibited different disease. Our studies focus on a particular 4977-bp ability of these cements to osseointegrate and fluorescence features as a function of pH. The deleted of the DNA that codes for a number of initiate bone growth, we focus our efforts in the fluorescence decreased when acidic conditions protein subunits crucial for the function of the challenges of adequate porosity size and were employed. At these conditions, the peptide electron transport chain . These studies are direct mechanical strength. Chitosan is known to was expected to be unfolded, impacting the degree at ascertaining how this deletion affects cell enhance the porosity of cement system because of of freedom of the fluorescein such that it restricted growth, mtDNA content, and metabolic processes its interlocking properties. Similarly, sodium its flexibility and caused the fluorescence to human lymphoblasts bearing the deletion. A bicarbonte was tested due to its ability to form gas decrease. This indirectly proved that the technique known as a polymerase chain reaction bubbles resulting in pores. This new cement was fluorescence can probe the conformational change allowed us to quantify amount total mtDNA as well characterized using published methods and the of the peptide. Based on the bimodal trend in the as the level of mtDNA containing the deletion in data obtained is presented and discussed fluorescence spectrum, two different excited both our experimental and control cell lines. Then, herewith. states were observed: the original excited state by varying the media glucose concentrations we ______and the state resulting from internal conversion. were able to assess the affects of the deletion on 216 • Dimerization of Apocynin and The major feature in the spectrum was growth and metabolism. Furthermore, we Its Guaiacol Analogs characterized to be from the second band. compared rates of metabolic processes within the ______WILLIAM BARRIE, MICA PITCHER cell by measuring the production of lactic acid, as FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID JOHNSON, CHEMISTRY an indicator of glycolysis, and the rate oxygen 221 • The Nano-scale Size Diapocynin has proven to minimize oxidative stress consumption, as an assessment of oxidative Dependence of Conjugation of in the body, therefore preventing many phosphorylation. In addition to containing Alpha Synuclein Peptide on the inflammatory diseases such as atherosclerosis and increased levels of total mtDNA, the deletion diabetic retinopathy. Diapocynin is the dimer form associated cells demonstrated an increased Metal Colloidal Particles’ Surfaces of the plant extract, apocynin. Other analogs of propensity to use glycolysis as a compensatory SHREYYA MALIK apocynin such as 4-chloro-2-methoxyphenol and 4- mechanism for their deficit abilities in energy FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, nitroguaiacol have been studied in their dimer production and growth. Selected for presentation CHEMISTRY forms to analyze reactivity and mechanistic at Experimental Biology 2018, San Diego, CA. The conjugations of α-synuclein (α-syn) and with properties. The dimer of 4-nitroguaiacol was ______various sizes of gold and silver colloidal successfully prepared using an oxidative coupling 219 • An Investigation of Protein nanoparticles were examined under various pH reaction with iron (II) sulfate as the reducing agent conditions. Absorption spectroscopy was utilized and potassium peroxydisulfate as a powerful Aggregation on Gold Nano Particle to identify changes in the optical properties of oxidant. The purity and structural properties of Surfaces colloid particles by color change for the various these dimer analogs were studied using nuclear PETER SHEVLIN pHs, ranging from pH 2 to pH 10. The color changes magnetic resonance. Multiple laboratory FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, of α-syn coated gold particles were seen at a higher procedures such as ether extraction and vacuum CHEMISTRY pH than the values where bare colloid exhibits its filtration have been analyzed in order to determine The proteins amyloid beta 1-40 (Aβ1-40) and alpha- color change. This was attributed to the change in the best outcome for this oxidative coupling synuclein (α-syn) are regarded as hallmark net surface charge of the colloid due to the coated mechanism. Potentially, if enough product is amyloidogenic peptides associated with α-syn monomer units. The pH value that indicates synthesized, a crystalline structure can be formed Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, respectively. the color change, pHo, exhibited colloidal size and analyzed through x-ray crystallography. This They form amyloid plaques inside neurological dependence for α-syn coated particles. In would clarify the mechanism and allow for more cells, disrupting the regulatory functions of the particular, α-syn coated gold colloid exhibited non- thorough research towards preventing diseases cells, causing the neurons to degenerate. Beta-2- continuous size dependence peaking at 40 and 80 caused by oxidative stress. microglobulin (β2M) is a main component in MHC nm, implying special restriction in surface area for ______class 1 molecules. In the body, MHC molecules are best coverage. Most of the sizes exhibited peak 217 • Probing the Secondary found on the surface of all nucleated cells and has shift as the color change was repeated. The Structure of Amyloid Beta 1-40 been known to aggregate into amyloid fibers when 38  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM repeating behavior showed some gold colloid size potential measurement system, we extracted the The purpose of this research project is to test dependence. change in colloidal surface charge potential. While various academic claims regarding gender ______a bare gold colloid possesses a negative surface differences in communication. Claims to be tested 222 • Investigation of Reversible potential, the Aβ covered gold colloid showed a include: women utilizing tag questions and Self-Assembly of Amyloidogenic positive potential implying the surface condition apologizing more frequently than men, women had been totally changed due to the attachment of utilizing more powerless language, women trying Peptides at Nano-Scale Interface peptides. to relate to a problem upon hearing it, while men STEPHANIE LEE, MONICA PUJOLS, VALERIE ______try to fix that problem, women tending to disclose MEDINA 225 • Effect of Nanosize “Guest” more personal information and when talking use FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, Particles On Solvent Diffusion more excessive words than men. CHEMISTRY ______The folding process of the amyloidogenic peptide through a Silica Gel Matrix 109 • Expressing Romantic is regarded as the crucial conformational change JUSTIN SLOVAK leading to fibrillogenesis, which eventually triggers FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, Relationship Satisfaction via Social neurodegenerative diseases. Our recent studies CHEMISTRY Media Activity indicate that a key oligomeric form associated with The effective delivery of a drug via ingestion can be EMILY ARPINO fibrillogenesis can be stably made provided by a a challenging issue when the efficiency of the FACULTY SPONSOR: SARAH BROOKES, metal surface potential. In recent studies, we pertinent drug can be significantly reduced by COMMUNICATION successfully identified the layer of beta-2- damage caused by stomach acid. Therefore, an This study will assess how satisfied college students microglobulin (β2M) to be approximately 0.9 nm in acid resistant drug-carrying device needs to be are in their romantic relationships, as well as the width over a 30 nm gold colloid surface. This layer designed to fill this role. Silica sol-gel is regarded as association between their relationship satisfaction is used to aggregate residual β2M coated gold an material that may fit such criteria. In order to and social media use. Social media such as colloid particles under only acidic conditions, in design a capsule with a controlled rate of drug Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are considered. which unfolded β2M oligomers were formed. delivery at highly acidic conditions, the diffusion Amount of social media use, the type of content While we are not certain if this layer is a monolayer rate of the solvent of acid reaching into the cavity posted on social media, how often they post on or multilayer, the oligomeric form can determine of the silica based gel material was investigated. social media, and their personal reflection on the this thickness. Therefore, the layer’s thickness Instead of a drug, a fluorescent nano-size crystal, satisfaction in their relationship will be recorded in showed signs of being dependent on the size of the quantum dot, was used as a “host” to probe the an anonymous survey and then analyzed. The gold colloid. We are investigating the stable form condition inside the silica cavity. The change in reason for conducting this research is to see if of the oligomer and associated layer’s thickness lifetime of the quantum dot was measured as the there is correlation between social media usage over the gold colloidal size between 10 nm and 100 solvent penetrated into the gel. The dynamics of and satisfaction in relationships and if posting nm, as well as a pH ranging from 2-12. the host particle was sensitively changed as the more about the relationship online is associated ______size of the guest particles ranged between 5 and 80 with relationship satisfaction or dissatisfaction. By 223 • Description of Solvent- nm. The penetration rates and the guest particle researching the way people use social media to dependent Diffusion Process in sizes did not exhibit a simple linear relationship, reflect their interpersonal relationships, we can however the rate maximized when the guest better see how people perceive their relationship Porous Silica Sol-gel Material particle size was around 15 nm. For both silver and and how it is displayed in a public forum. TOLULOPE OLATUNBOSUN, ISHAN DESHMUKH, gold guest particles, this trend was not affected. ______ERIKA ESQUIVEL 110 • Finstas: The Use of Private FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, COMMUNICATION CHEMISTRY Instagram Accounts for Social In order to design a capsule with controlled rate of 107 • Adoption and Validation drug delivery at highly acidic condition, the Communication: Narratives of JAMIE-LYNN IRWIN diffusion rate of the solvent (acid) reaching into the Adopted Emerging Adults FACULTY SPONSOR: SARAH BROOKES, cavity of the silica based gel material was COMMUNICATION ANNI-MING LARSON investigated. Instead of a drug, a fluorescent nano- As interest in social media continues to grow, this FACULTY SPONSOR: MEREDITH HARRIGAN, size crystal (Quantum Dot-QD) was used as a normalized form of communication becomes more COMMUNICATION “host” to probe the condition inside the silica complex and evolved. This study wishes to analyze I am studying how visibly adopted emerging adults cavity. The change in lifetime of the QD was the importance of private Instagram accounts, (people between 18-25 who are adopted and measured as the solvent penetrated into the gel. known as “Finstas.” The study theorizes that this racially/ethnically different from their adoptive The dynamics of the host particle was sensitively unique form of social media remedies the social parents) communicate and ultimately enact their changed as the size of the guest particles ranged stressors younger generations endure, focusing on personal identities with friends, family, and between 5 and 80 nm. The penetration rates and how “Finstas” are used as an honest form of self- adoptive parents. Data collection will be done by the guest particle sizes did not exhibit simple linear reassurance within an intimate group of followers. conducting semi-structured, audio recorded relationship; however, the rate maximized when The research was comprised of a two-step process: interviews of around eight participants who fit the the guest particle size was around 15 nm. For both a focus group and an online survey, both of which study criteria: 1) Identify as an 18-25-year-old who silver and gold guest particles, this trend was not analyzed the pros, cons, and the impacts that was adopted into a single or dual parent household affected. “Finstas” have on users. The study theorizes that in which your race/ethnicity is not the same as your ______“Finstas” are different than other social media adoptive parent(s) and 2) Be someone who because they do not follow the norms or average 224 • Probing the ζ-Potential of identifies as a person who does not have an practices of most mainstream and public accounts. Amyloid Beta Covered Gold ongoing relationship with your birthparent. Rather than presenting one’s “best self” or a Themes and motifs will be found and addressed for Nanoparticles glamorized version of oneself, a “Finsta” allows this phenomenological study on the observed JOSEPH LIPPA users to present a raw and uncensored version of FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, adoption narratives of emerging adults. ______themselves to their closest inner-circle of friends. CHEMISTRY It is predicted that the risk of trusting a select group The amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide is known to 108 • Gender and Communication: with this vulnerable, curated content is aggregate easily, while nano gold particles do not Exploring How Men and Women outweighed by the personal and social benefits. aggregate under the same pH conditions. Communicate The use of “Finstas” provide a sense of self- However, Aβ coated gold nano colloid particles can KATHERINE BROCKWAY validation and help foster a more intimate aggregate at relatively higher pH. The surface FACULTY SPONSOR: MEREDITH HARRIGAN, connection with the user’s followers. Selected for condition (such as surface potential) has not been COMMUNICATION clearly investigated in detail. By utilizing a ζ-  Promotes sustainability 39 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual presentation at SUNY Undergraduate Research FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, United Nations’ Sustainable Conference, Rochester, NY. GEOGRAPHY ______Previous research has sought to reconstruct pre- Development Goals 9 and 11 111 • The Relationship Between European forest conditions in North America. JIMMY FENG FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, Social Media Usage and Perceived Studies have often used "witness-tree" records from original land surveys to quantitatively GEOGRAPHY Quality of Offline Friendships estimate forest density, by using the distance The unparalleled mass migration of rural peoples TESS ROMANO between witness-tree and matching survey posts raises challenges for sustainable urban FACULTY SPONSOR: SARAH BROOKES, as a form of density estimation. Other research has development and social equality. In 2015, the COMMUNICATION explored how past Native American groups United Nations introduced the 2030 Agenda for I am researching the relationship between social modified forest composition and structure, Sustainable Development with seventeen goals to media usage and perceived quality of offline including by thinning forests. Land survey records “end poverty, protect the planet and ensure friendships. I hypothesize that young adults who containing witness-tree data or measurements prosperity for all” by 2030. Goals 9 and 11 highlight utilize social media more frequently will report between survey posts are absent throughout the importance of transportation development in lower quality friendships offline. Factors I am eastern North America. This issue motivates the fostering equitable societies. Transportation plays researching in regards to this relationship are social exploration of other means of estimating forest a critical role in mobilizing migrants from their rural anxiety and self-esteem. I believe social anxiety will density. This study develops a methodology for homelands to the places they reside for work. moderate the relationship between on and offline creating a forest density index from qualitative Within cities, it is a fundamental component of friendships, in that those who report higher social forest descriptions. The study area comprises of mobility. This research examines the equitability of media use and higher social anxiety will report three land purchases and surveys that make up access to public transportation in Shenzhen, China. lower quality friendships offline. I also hypothesize western New York State. First, qualitative forest Formerly a fishing village, Shenzhen is now home that self-esteem will moderate this relationship, in descriptions from field notes of township surveys to nearly twelve-million residents. A service-area that those who report higher social media use and were transcribed and mapped in a historical GIS. analysis of walking distance to public transport lower-self esteem will report lower quality Second, the transcriptions were grouped and given stations was performed, then overlaid with friendships offline. Using quantitative a rank from 1-3, 1 representing forested, 3 demographic data in ArcGIS. Analysis reveals a questionnaires, I am surveying college students on representing open land. Third, the ranked spatial and social inequality of access to public their social media utilization, their self-esteem descriptions were analyzed and compared to transportation; significant portions are critically levels and their social anxiety levels. I am also using Native American settlement. This methodology, under-served. There is a divide in accessibility quantitative surveys to analyze the quality of with few modifications to account for differences between the western and eastern halves of friendships. I will utilize the data from these in vocabulary among surveys, can be used to Shenzhen, and rural migrants and a minority urban surveys to analyze the relationships between produce an index of forest density and supplement population. This denotes the current failure in quality of on and offline friendships and these other forest reconstruction methods. Selected for achieving goals 9, to develop inclusive factors and explore other factors that may also presentation at American Association of infrastructure, and 11, to make cities and human affect this relationship. The purpose of this study is Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. settlements inclusive and sustainable by providing to identify factors that lead to poorer offline ______accessible transport systems for all. Selected for relationships to and identify ways to improve these 259 • Regenerative Design in New presentation at American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018, New Orleans, factors and therefore the relationships as well.  Selected for presentation at SUNY Undergraduate York City LA. Research Conference, Rochester, NY. SHAUNA RICKETTS ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, 261 • New York State Tornado 112 • Reaction to Ad Campaigns GEOGRAPHY As climate change continues, humans must search Climatology ZOE STRICOFF for new methods of adaptation in the way they EMILY HANRAHAN FACULTY SPONSOR: SARAH BROOKES, construct and interact with their environments. FACULTY SPONSOR: COLLEEN GARRITY, COMMUNICATION The goal of this project is to define and explore the GEOGRAPHY The purpose of the research is to understand how concept of regenerative design in the context of A tornado is most generally defined as a violently certain types of advertising campaigns can the New York City urban landscape. According to rotating column of air, and it is classified by the influence individuals by using the third person Busby (2015), regenerative design, "features winds surrounding it on the Enhanced Fujita scale effect in the media. The third person effect is the human construction that contributes positively to created by T. Theodore Fujita in 1971 and updated belief that people perceive mass media has a co-existence and restoration of natural cycles in in 2007. By understanding the variables that affect greater effect on society rather than themselves. our biosphere, to sustain all life.” This research the development and structure of tornadic events, Focusing on the Dove campaign for real beauty and focuses on the impact of climate change on New tornado occurrence in the Northeast was analyzed Aerie real campaign, the use of models with the York City’s urban landscape, and how urban to develop a research question to further study idea of the average body is supposed to normalize architecture can adjust as a response to the rising tornadoes within the state of New York. Tornado all body types as models. The use of all body types sea levels and changes in weather patterns. In events have historically been influenced by in ad campaigns is supposed to promote body order to analyze the architectural design options topography, beginning on flat terrain and moving confidence. To measure, I created a survey asking for New York City, this project investigates the field through areas of low elevation even continuing up questions on self confidence, the ad campaigns of regenerative design through a literature review onto plateaus and into mountainous regions. relating to society and how the campaigns impact and interviews with experts and NYC residents. These patterns led to the ultimate question of society, then I asked questions on media use. This Regenerative design ideology and case studies whether there is a pattern to the location of research will provide valuable data on how body serve as examples of strategy implementation. The tornado occurrence in New York, and is there a positive ad campaigns effect an individual based on interview series provides an expert analysis of the correlation with the state’s topography. Results how they believe the ad effected society. show that 93.4% of the tornadoes that have design possibilities, as well as insight into public opinion and awareness of how regenerative design occurred since 1952 are classified at EF2 or below. GEOGRAPHY affects residents’ living environments. The There is no obvious pattern to the location of 258 • Developing an Index of Pre- interviews also reveal the realities and challenges tornado occurrence and no direct correlation that exist within the field of regenerative design. between occurrence and topography, although European-American Forest Density ______there are a few influencing factors including the in Western New York State Using 260 • Social Equitability of Access Allegheny Plateau, Adirondack region, and the Hudson Valley. Qualitative Descriptions from Land to Public Transportation in ______Survey Records, ca. 1800 CE Shenzhen, China: Progress towards BRENDAN CULLEN

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263 • Analysis of Shark Attacks in Understand Access to Education for FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Australia Between 2011-2016 Indigenous Communities 87Sr/86Sr, 143Nd/144Nd, and 206Pb/204Pb data as well SHANNON KEANE SHANNON HAGGERTY as Rare Earth Element (REE) data were collected FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Galapagos Spreading GEOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHY Center, and Red Sea Spreading Center. The data Australia is located between the South Pacific and Peru is a country in South America that was once was mined from Earthchem.org, a major data the Indian Ocean. Most of the Australian the capital of the Inca Empire. Today 40% of Peru’s repository for geochemical data from rocks around population is confined to its coasts. Australians population is indigenous. Previous research shows the globe. sotope data were used to determine the participate in beach activities and water sports all that indigenous individuals live in more primary mantle composition of the rocks from each year long. These activities lead to human-shark impoverished rural areas which correlates to a lack location. Since the three locations are all seafloor interactions, occasionally in the form of shark of enrollment in education. Although indigenous spreading, the isotope data typically trends around attacks. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the education in Peru has improved, inequality the mantle array line. REE data indicates if geographic relationship between human remains. One challenge to understanding access to fractionation of the main mantle composition population density, shark attacks and shark education for indigenous communities is a lack of occurred. There is a strong correlation between migration using ArcGIS. Data on the locations of spatial data on the location of schools in and near young spreading centers and the abundance of attacks across Australia were collected and indigenous territories. This poster presents Light REEs, but as the mid ocean ridge basalts grow mapped. Various attributes were collected research that mapped the locations of public older the LREE trend seems to be more variable. regarding each attack, such as fatal verse non-fatal, secondary schools and indigenous territories in the This suggests that early MORBs tap a relatively new provoked verse unprovoked, date of attack, Province of Cusco, Peru. All data were collected mantle source, but through aging, the source location, and type of shark. Of the 115 attacks that and mapped using geographic information systems erupts depleted LREEs more frequently, alongside occurred between 2011 and 2016, 53 occurred in (GIS) software. The locations of schools were the occasional enriched rock. The data suggests New South Wales. The attacks correlate to the collected using ColegiosEnPeru.org and Google that in a perfect system, the primitive mantle starts population data, as New South Wales has the Maps. Data layers of indigenous territories, off enriched in LREEs, but will fractionate them out highest population. When analyzing the species elevation, roads, and cities were acquired to until the source is depleted, so the less common responsible for attacks, Great Whites were found understand spatial patterns of schools. This enriched rocks in an old spreading center must to be the deadliest shark in Australian waters. research project located 457 schools in the come from a different mantle source that has not Results indicated that shark attacks are more likely Province of Cusco, which tended to be located fractionated. to occur where shark migration is closest to the along major travel corridors and valleys, suggesting ______shore and in areas of high human population. that indigenous populations in the mountainous 102 • Assessment of Wave Selected for presentation at SUNY Undergraduate regions far from roadways may have more limited Research Conference, Rochester, NY. access to schools. The dataset developed for this Processes Affecting Spirit Island ______research will be useful in future research into AMELIA MINDICH 264 • Geographic Trends of school access for indigenous populations in Peru. FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Hazardous Spills in Rochester, NY, ______290 • A GIS Habitat Analysis: In 2011, The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior 1977-2016 Chippewa purchased Spirit Island, located in Spirit GENA DRISCOLL-BRANTLEY Indiana Brown Bat (Myotis sodalis) Lake in Duluth, Minnesota. The Ojibwe inhabited FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, VERONICA MEDINA Spirit Island prior to colonial intervention. Before GEOGRAPHY FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES KERNAN, GEOGRAPHY 2011, the lake was altered by the construction of This purpose of this research is to identify spatial On May 8th 1967, the Indiana brown bat (Myotis hydroelectric dams and heavy metal trends in the distribution of spills of hazardous sodalis) was designated by the U.S Fish and Wildlife contamination. In comparison to an 1863 map, a materials reported in the city of Rochester from Service as an endangered species; numbers have large portion of Spirit Island has eroded. The 1977 to 2016. To complete this research, I used since reduced from just over 1 million to 530,705. wetlands of Spirit Island were abundant in wild data provided by the New York State Department The decline in Myotis sodalis' population can be rice, which is of vital cultural and economic of Environmental Conservation, which details all attributed to: habitat loss and fragmentation, significance to the band. This research project in reported spill incidents. I used Esri ArcMap GIS disturbances in hibernation caves and most coordination with the FLDR attempts to determine software to examine the spatial distribution of spill recently, white-nose syndrome. The purpose of if water-waves are the primary control on the incidents over four ten year intervals: 1977-1986, this research was to determine the most suitable erosion of Spirit Island. We we applied the method 1987-1996, 1997-2006 and 2007-2016. I then maternity roost conservation areas for the Indiana from Karimpour et al. (2017) for waves in fetch- calculated percent change per square kilometer brown bat, within Jefferson County, New York. The /depth-limited conditions to estimate wave between each interval to identify changes in the study area was determined based on availability of properties in Spirit Lake and concluded that the distribution over time. I found that that the data and conservation priority. Through the use of northeastern shore is most subjected to erosion. number of spill incidents reported to the NYSDEC Geographic Information Systems (GIS), potential After applying the method to a digitally created increased over time, peaked in the period 1987- conservation areas were determined. The five wetland, the wave energy would reduce the 1996, then decreased during the period 1997- factors considered were: proximity to wetlands, shoreline by 76%, suggesting that erosion is 2016. Kodak Park reported the highest number of forest edge foraging habitat, land use and directly dependent on fetch. We used flume spills per kilometer of anywhere in the city elevation. The suitability analysis revealed the experiments modeled on a profile of Spirit Island to throughout all four ten year intervals. In general, eastern portion of Jefferson County to be of the measure the minimum wave conditions required the number of spills in downtown Rochester highest suitability. The protection of this region to induce shoreline transgression. The rate of decreased over time, while the number of spills on would best aid in the preservation and sediment erosion is 0.5769 cm/30 minutes for the outskirts of the city increased. By examining rehabilitation of Myotis sodalis. Spirit Lake. Selected for presentation at Geological the distribution of hazardous spills, we can gain Society of America 2017, Seattle, WA. insight into historic, environmental, and economic GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES ______trends within the city of Rochester since the late 101 • Correlation of Spreading 103 • Paleontologic Evidence of 1970s. Selected for presentation at SUNY Center Age and Rare Earth Element Postglacial Climate Change Undergraduate Research Conference, Rochester, ANTHONY WAGMAN NY. Enrichment: Mid-Atlantic Ridge, FACULTY SPONSOR: JACALYN WITTMER- ______Red Sea Spreading Center, MALINOWSKI, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES 265 • Mapping Public Secondary Galapagos Spreading Center RICHARD YOUNG, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Schools in Cusco, Peru to PAUL NICHOLS The last (youngest) glacier advance in the Genesee valley was as recent as 13,000 years ago,

 Promotes sustainability 41 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual coincident with a worldwide climatic cooling was determined via the presence of the transition FACULTY SPONSOR: D JEFFREY OVER, known as the Younger Dryas event. At Carter pond from Frasnian fauna, including Ancryodella hamata GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES located approximately 2.7 miles south of the Ulrich & Bassler, 1926, Pa. bogartenis? (Stauffer), Change in mollusk predation frequency has been Fowlerville morainal complex and approximately and Pa. winchelli? (Stauffer) to Famennian fauna, reported across the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary two miles northeast of Geneseo there is a surficial including Pa. subperlobata Sandberg & Ziegler, on the United States Atlantic Coastal Plain. Past peat layer overlying well-preserved cross-bedded 1934, Pa. perlobata perlobata Ulrich & Bassler, studies have attributed this change to a mass sands with an optically stimulated luminescence 1926, Pa. regularis? Cooper, and Pa. extinction event. Micro bivalve and ostracode age of approximately 13,000 years and that overlie quadrantidosalobata Sannemann, 1955a M2 Ji & predation across the Pliocene-Pleistocene lake beds with a carbon 14 calendar corrected age Ziegler 1993. Selected for presentation at boundary is variable and may be facies controlled of 16,545 ± 40 years before present. The lower part Paleontological Research Institute Summer as compared to regional biotic change. The goal of of the surficial peat contains an interval rich in Symposium 2017, Ithaca, NY. this study is to determine if modern predation mollusks, gastropods and pelecypods. A wood ______varies laterally based on depositional facies in sample embedded in the shell horizon has a carbon 122 • Photographic Analysis and order to use as a proxy for the Pliocene-Pleistocene 14 calendar corrected age of 12,895 ±30 years. The Identification of Sub-Precessional extinction. On San Salvador Island, 1 kg samples of present study will categorize and identify the the upper 5 cm of sediment were collected from fossils present in an attempt to understand the Cycles Within Upper Devonian Pro- nine lacustrine to nearshore shelf depositional climatic implications. Information about the Deltaic Muds, Western New York facies. The 0.5 to 2 mm fraction was separated for Younger Dryas cold period may have implications ADELE ANTALEK micro bivalves and ostracodes and sorted into for modern studies of rapid global climatic change. FACULTY SPONSOR: D. JEFFREY OVER, groups showing predation and no predation. A ______GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES statistical analysis will be completed in order to 104 • Diversification of Species in Strata in the Upper Devonian stage of western New determine if depositional facies affects frequency Middle Devonian Reefs of Western York shows evidence of 20,000 year precession of predation. cycles as well as longer astronomical forcing ______New York in Comparison to Modern events. Using photography and photographic 128 • Magnetic Susceptibility and Coral Reefs analysis, it is possible to discriminate shorter cyclic Sea-Level Change in Upper PETER DE GARAY, COLIN HICKEY units. This allows for the identification and FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL correlation of sub-precession cycles within the Devonian Strata, Chattanooga SCIENCES Devonian, as well as the possibility to determine Shale, Western Tennessee The structure of modern coral reefs was compared their origin. This study encompasses the JOSEPHINE CHIARELLO to a sample of a coral reef flank deposit that preliminary identification of smaller cycles within FACULTY SPONSOR: D. JEFFREY OVER, formed in Western New York during the Middle the 20,000-year precession cycles. Initial visual GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Devonian time period. Middle Devonian reefs were observations suggest the presence of cycles at the Magnetic susceptibility (MS) is a proxy for the dominated by Rugose corals, stromatoporoid mm, cm, and dm scales. This study also focuses on concentration of ferromagnetic minerals found in sponges, and algal structures. Breviphrentis correlation of these cycles in correspondence with sedimentary rocks, which vary with sea level Superstes and Zaphrentidae Heliophyllum were the creation of a step-by-step method for cycle fluctuations. The Devonian Period marks an two Rugose corals identified as prominent reef identification through photographic analysis. important interval in geologic history, a time of builders in the flank. Another significant reef ______major extinction events and sea level changes. A former that was present in the coral flank was 123 • Pycnodontiformes Tooth in drill core through the Chattanooga Shale from the Favosites Hamiltoniae. In contrast, scleractinian the Goodland Formation, Lower Illinois Basin in western Tennessee contains a 14 m corals, such as Acropora hyacinthus, Pocillopora thick interval of Upper Devonian strata, which damicornis, and Goniastrea favulus dominate Cretaceous, Texas, USA includes the Frasnian-Famennian (F-F) and modern reefs. The purpose of this study was to KLAJDI MACOLLI, HARRISON CASSETTA Devonian-Carboniferous (D-C) boundaries. MS was determine the diversity of a sample from the FACULTY SPONSOR: D. JEFFERY OVER, measured at 5 cm intervals. The MS values reveal Onondaga Limestone, a Middle Devonian GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES six major trends with 27 smaller trends, 14 of which carbonate compared to modern reefs. This was The Goodland Formation of the Fredericksburg are increasing trends. The Frasnian-Famennian done by identification of all specimens on the Group is a white, fossiliferous, micritic limestone boundary is at 89.65 meters; the D-C boundary is Devonian reef block compared to the species of with thinly bedded calcareous sandstones that at 80.9 meters as determined by conodonts. Both reef formers that are present today. overlies the Walnut Formation and is overlain by boundaries are characterized by disconformities, ______the Kiamichi Formation. The Goodland limestone which appear as abrupt shifts in MS. Other 121 • Conodont Biostratigraphy of preserves a multitude of Early Cretaceous disconformities are at 82.4, 86.9, 88.6, 89.8, and the Middle-Upper Devonian to invertebrate and vertebrate fossils and ranges in 93.1 meters. Selected for presentation at age from 105.5 Ma to 103.4 Ma. A tooth, about 7 Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY. Carboniferous Chattanooga Shale mm wide and 10 mm in length, was determined to and Bounding Units from Western be within the order Pycnodontiformes, which was HISTORY towards the back of the mouth and used for Tennessee crushing food. The extinct group of 250 • The War of Rhetoric: An EMILY HAUF Pycnodontiformes is a characteristic component of Analysis on How the Revolutionary FACULTY SPONSOR: D. JEFFREY OVER, the Late Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic shallow Rhetoric Affected Ideas and GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES water marine vertebrate fauna that underwent an A 16-meter thick core interval through the explosive morphological diversification during the Sentiments of the American Chattanooga Shale from Western Tennessee was Late Cretaceous. These organisms grew up to 1 Revolution from 1767-1776 determined to contain two major boundary meter in length, and are similar morphologically to JESSICA LISI intervals: 1) the Devonian-Carboniferous in Box 56 modern angel fish, butterfly fish, and triggerfish. FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY interval 79.25-79.55 m. determined via the ______This poster serves to analyze how rhetoric was presence of Devonian fauna, including, but not 124 • Testing Facies Variation on employed during the American Revolution, and restricted to, Palmatolepis glabra prima Ziegler, therefore what the use of this rhetoric reveals Pa. distorta Branson & Mehl, Pa. perlobata grossi Micro Bivalve and Ostracode about the culture of the era. I argue that there was Ulrich & Bassler, and 2) Pa. perlobata perlobata Predation by Gastropods, San another type of war alongside the physical war; a Ulrich & Bassler, 1924 to Carboniferous fauna, Salvador Island, Bahamas war of words. This poster looks at several phrases including Siphonodella bransoni Ji, S. hassi Ji, and S. JOSEPHINE CHIARELLO, TIMOTHY CLARK, NICOLE and traces their uses, meanings, and implications quadruplicata (Branson & Mehl), and the Fransian- GREGG throughout this period, and looks at how the Famennian boundary interval in Box 66 (90.37 m) colonists were more concerned about preserving 42  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM values they felt they were threatened more than writing style, but also a form of art that has the DL-PFC. Some of these effects were modified by they cared about fighting for revolution. ability to express one’s personality. participant sex. These findings suggest that ______cognitive tasks with distinct demands may 251 • Medievalism of the Maid 226 • The Vitality of the Spanish generate patterns of activity across the DL-PFC that SHREYA SRINATH Language in the Northeastern are associated uniquely with suicidal ideation or FACULTY SPONSOR: YVONNE SEALE, HISTORY NSSI. Selected for presentation at Association for Joan of Arc is an exceptionally popular historical United States Psychological Science, San Fransisco, CA. figure, renowned for her role in turning the tide of ALEXANDRA ROGERS, JONATHAN NIEVES, SARAH ______the 100 Years War in the favor of the French. PHILLIPS 207 • Promoting Interest in STEM However, her achievements subjected her to an FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSANA CASTILLO-  RODRIGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES through the Lens of Neuroscience extraordinary amount of controversy both during LUKE BAMBUROSKI, PEMA SHERPA, ELLAYNA her life and after her death. As a result of this, Joan The vitality of the Spanish language, specifically in the northeastern region of the United States, is FREDERICKS, ALEXIS SAUNDERS of Arc was sensationalized into a symbol for various FACULTY SPONSOR: TERENCE BAZZETT, sociopolitical and economic groups and causes, very important. This area does not have as much Spanish influence (via Central/South American and NEUROSCIENCE replacing historical fact with myth. This would be The Neuroscience 215: Applications in critical in the foundation of what today has become Caribbean countries) as the Southwest, and therefore there has not been as much research Neuroscience course focuses on engaging the her legend. This presentation attempts to trace the community through STEM outreach. In this production of these myths and their impact on how done. According to some studies, for example "The Vitality of Spanish in the United States" by María capacity, a bridging program has been established modern society views Joan of Arc today. with RKids so that students can interact with ______Carreira, the future of Spanish is a bit uncertain, elementary aged children in an informal setting. 252 • The Medieval and we want to study the effects caused by this uncertainty. Some possible factors could include Children enrolled in this after-school program are Premonstratensian Women but are not limited to: the stigma of Spanish in the considered “at-risk”, and are not expected to have Prosopographical Project United States, the decrease in immigration rates, the exposure to STEM outside of this program. Various activities and demonstrations were MATTHEW BURLEY, ALISON COGGINS and the decline in transmission of the language implemented in an attempt to increase exposure FACULTY SPONSOR: YVONNNE SEALE, HISTORY between generations of speakers. and interest. The goal of NEUR 215 is to improve KIRK ANNE, COMPUTING AND INFORMATION ______the interest of these children in STEM and to gauge TECHNOLOGY 227• Hispanic Media in the United whether early exposure increases children’s This digital humanities project represents an States engagement in the sciences. attempt to digitize the information compiled in Dr. ERIN MAUD, JANINE ROSSI, RACHEL DAVIS ______Yvonne Seale's doctoral research on medieval FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSANA CASTILLO- 208 • Sex Differences and Motor women in the Premonstratensian religious order. RODRIGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES With the help of Dr. Kirk Anne, this project There is a correlation between Hispanic Degeneration in Aging Mice: A represents the ongoing effort to build a publicly populations in the United States and the Preliminary Study accessible online database documenting members prevalence of Spanish media in those regions. MOLLY BRADY, JOSH BOYER, TAYLOR BROPHY, of the Premonstratensian Order. SUNITA SINGH

FACULTY SPONSOR: TERENCE BAZZETT, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES NEUROSCIENCE 206 • Distinct Patterns of Neural NEUROSCIENCE 203 • Chinese Characters Overseas Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal SAVANNAH WILLIAMS, SHANNON LYNCH Activity Associated with Suicidal dominant inherited neurodegenerative disorder FACULTY SPONSOR: JASMINE TANG, LANGUAGES Ideation versus Non-Suicidal Self- that causes degradation of basal ganglion cells. Destruction of these cells is characterized by a AND LITERATURES Injury This research surveys the transliteration and complex symptomatology including motor JAMI GOLDSON, SYDNEY KLAINBERG, ZARMEEN romanization of Chinese characters. One of the impairment, cognitive deficits, and social ZAHID, KADIN FAWCETT, LIAM MCMAHON, oldest writing systems in the world, Chinese dysfunction. The development of useful and ALICIA ROTH, CHRISTINA SILVA, BRIANNA characters are used outside of China and are the sensitive measures of motor coordination in SCHIBELY-LAIRD foundation of various Asian languages, such as animal models is paramount in advancing basic FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, Korean and Japanese. In Taiwan, the influence of research in HD. In this preliminary study, C57/BLJ NEUROSCIENCE both Han Dynasty and Japanese colonialism mice are being tested in novel paw reaching The goal of the current study was to examine transformed Taiwanese written language into chambers used to evaluate fine motor changes in blood oxygenation across the Taiwanese Kana. Today, the Chinese language is coordination. These same animals are also tested dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DL-PFC) during two often learned through Hanyu Pinyin. For our in a rotarod apparatus, a well-established device different anagram tasks, and determine whether research, we will discuss the various facets of the designed to measure gross motor coordination. there were patterns of activity that could be adaptation of Chinese characters. Measures from both tests will be correlated to ______associated with participants’ reports of suicidal determine differences in performance between 204 • Chinese Calligraphy Writing ideation or non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). The these two behaviors as the mice age. Future sample consisted of 296 undergraduates (77.4% research will use these same tasks to evaluate Styles and Personalities female, mean age = 18.8 years). Participants changes in transgenic knock-in models of HD NELLY LIN, SCOTT HAWLEY completed a survey that included a question compared to this established baseline of motor FACULTY SPONSOR: JASMINE TANG, LANGUAGES indicating whether the participant engaged in NSSI decline seen in normal aging. Further, sex AND LITERATURES and the Beck Depression Inventory, which differences in these tasks will be compared. Chinese calligraphy is not only a writing style, but contained an item measuring suicidal ideation. ______also a form of art. Calligraphy embodies a style and Participants also completed two cognitively 209 • Promoting STEM Education personality relative to its artist via its length, challenging anagram tasks in which they were thickness, and neatness. These characteristics can asked to rearrange the letters of a stimulus word and Awareness Among Elementary express the mood of the calligrapher and exemplify to create a new word. Functional near infrared School Students Through their style much like the varying styles of Van Gogh (fNIR) spectroscopy was used to assess changes in Neuroscience: Efficacy of STEM and Picasso. A Chinese calligrapher can use these blood oxygenation across 16 distinct regions of the varying techniques in order to fully express DL-PFC as a measure of neural activity during the Related Activities at the Rkids themselves during the moment of the work's anagram tasks. Results indicated that suicidal Afterschool Program conception, which could simultaneously ease their ideation and NSSI were associated with task- ZARMEEN ZAHID, TAYLOR BROPHY, ADAM mind and stresses. Chinese calligraphy is not only a specific changes in blood oxygenation across the WEAVER, SABIHA UDDIN, HELEN MERRIWETHER  Promotes sustainability 43 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

FACULTY SPONSOR: TERENCE BAZZETT, question how the brains, and subsequent data, ______NEUROSCIENCE were obtained. This presentation will give a step- 125 • WIYN Open Cluster Study: The Neuroscience 215: Applications in by-step analysis of the process by which the brains UBVRI Photometry of Open Star Neuroscience course is structured around were acquired, prepared, and examined for data. community outreach efforts with elementary Cluster M48 school students. Working in cooperation with the PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY ALEXANDER BELLES, ALEXIS IRWIN RKids after-school program in Geneseo, this course FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS works to encourage interest in STEM among “at- 105 • EBT-XD Radiochromic Film & ASTRONOMY risk” youth. As part of this outreach program, Sensitivity Calibrations Using X- We present a five-color photometric study of the children of various ages and academic standings Rays and Proton Beams open star cluster M48. A total of 277 images, taken on the WIYN 0.9-m telescope over three nights, participate in interactive activities geared towards BARAK STOCKLER, GUNNAR BROWN, MATTHEW were processed and stellar magnitudes were STEM education and awareness. The objective of KLEIN, ANTHONY COOPER, JACOB WOOD calculated using a point-spread-function this course is to provide these children with early FACULTY SPONSOR: CHARLIE FREEMAN, PHYSICS determined for each frame. This data was exposure to the sciences, and to reinforce future & ASTRONOMY calibrated using Landolt standards taken on one of activity in STEM-related areas. A secondary Radiochromic Film (RCF) is a transparent detector the nights and then combined into a master objective is to assess the impact of this early film that permanently changes color following photometric catalog. Cluster parameters of exposure on the children’s future interests. exposure to ionizing radiation. RCF is used ______distance, age, interstellar reddening, and frequently in medical applications, but also has metallicity were derived. This cluster, although 210 • Exposure to the been used in a variety of high energy density very nearby, has not been well-studied previously physics diagnostics. RCF is convenient to use Glutamatergic Drugs MK801 and and M48’s age makes it an interesting candidate because it requires no chemical processing and can CDPPB Affects the Development of for future spectroscopic abundance studies. be scanned using commercially available Selected for presentation at 231st Meeting of the Social and Motor Behaviors in a document scanners. In this study, the sensitivity of TM American Astronomical Society, Washington DC. Schizophrenia Model Gafchromic EBT-XD RCF to protons and x-rays ______AMANDA HODGE, ASHLEY MELGAR, CAELEY was measured. Proton beams produced by the 126 • Lithium Abundances of Cool SHEEHAN, MADELINE HAMMER, LAUREN college's Pelletron accelerator were directed into BAMFORD, JULIAN DAVID-DRORI, VINCENT DO, an evacuated target chamber where they scattered Stars in M48 LAUREN PLEVY off a thin gold foil. The scattered protons were ALEXIS IRWIN FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, incident on a sample of RCF that subtended a range FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS NEUROSCIENCE of angles around the scattering center. A new & ASTRONOMY The neurodevelopmental hypothesis depicts analysis method, which relies on the variation in We present a spectroscopic study of the cool stars schizophrenia as a long-term consequence of scattered proton fluence as a function of scattering in open star cluster M48. Lithium abundances were aberrant development of the glutamate and angle in accordance with the Rutherford scattering measured and reported for cool cluster stars. dopamine neurotransmitter systems during the law, is currently being developed to speed up the Trends in this data can be used to determine perinatal period. The drug MK-801 is a glutamate proton calibrations. Samples of RCF were also information about the cluster age and metallicity. N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist exposed to x-ray radiation using an X-RAD 160 x- ______that produces schizophrenia-like symptoms in ray irradiator, allowing the sensitivity of RCF to x- 127 • Classification of Nebulae laboratory rodents when administered early in rays to be measured. This research was funded in BRITTNEY HEROLD development. Our laboratory has been part by the SURGE REU grant from the NSF and the FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS investigating whether CDPPB, a positive allosteric LLE. Selected for presentation at 59th Annual & ASTRONOMY modulator of the metabotropic glutamate receptor American Physical Society Division of Plasma There are seven different classifications of nebulae 5 (mGluR5), would reverse the effects of MK-801. Physics, Milwaukee, WI. in the universe. This research was conducted to To test this, mice were first administered 0.25 ______discover how each type of nebulae is different. mg/kg MK-801 as neonates, and later given 10.0 106 • Using Rutherford nebulae are formed from exploding stars. mg/kg CDBBD or saline during their juvenile period. Backscattering Spectroscopy to However, there are many types of stars and After mice reached adulthood, they were different ways a star dies. Depending on the examined with the Rotarod motor coordination Characterize Targets for MTW circumstances a different type of nebulae is test and the 5-trial Social Memory test. Motor GUNNAR BROWN, BARAK STOCKLER formed. The research was done by a team of coordination in females but not males was FACULTY SPONSOR: CHARLIE FREEMAN, PHYSICS students looking up facts and questioning impaired by MK-801 exposure, an effect that was & ASTRONOMY professional astronomers and astrophysicists. The not reversed by CDPPB. Neither drug affect social STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY Nebulae are spectacular sights with the beauty to memory, although males showed more A study is underway to determine the composition take one’s breath away that should be shared with habituation to a familiar partner than females. and thickness of targets used at the multiterawatt others. Preliminary results from this work in progress (MTW) laser facility at the Laboratory for Laser indicate that MK-801 can produce long-term sex- Energetics (LLE) using Rutherford backscattering POLITICAL SCIENCE & and domain-specific effects on behavior. spectroscopy (RBS). In RBS, an ion beam is incident ______on a sample and the scattered ions are detected INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 211 • Step-by-Step Procedures for with a surface barrier detector. The resulting 253 • Public School Funding and energy spectra of the scattered ions can be Acquiring Neuroanotomic Data analyzed to determine important parameters of Graduation Rates from Mice the target, including elemental composition and LAUREN GIANTELLI FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL JULIAN DAVID-DRORI, CAELEY SHEEHAN, thickness. Helium and deuterium beams from the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MICHAEL DONEGAN 1.7 MV Pelletron accelerator at SUNY Geneseo There are three sources of funding for public FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, have been used to characterize several different education for kindergarten through twelfth grade NEUROSCIENCE targets for MTW, including CH and aluminum foils education, they come from the federal, state and The Markowski Neurotoxicology Lab in the of varying thickness. RBS spectra were also local levels. The composition of these three Psychology Department has made many obtained for a cylindrical iron buried-layer target varieties varies quite drastically across school contributions to the study of Psychology. Much of with aluminum dopant that was mounted on a districts even when they are within the same state. the research done in the lab utilizes data from the silicon carbide stalk. The computer program The federal government is not the largest brains of the mice who acted as the subjects of the SIMNRA is used to analyze the spectra. Selected for contributor to states’ public education, it is said study. Although the brains shed light on the issues presentation at Division of Plasma Physics, that funding from the federal government only which are detailed in the study, one might begin to Milwaukee, WI. 44  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM makes up a mere 9% of a school districts budget, 256 • Public Housing and working to combat the rise of childhood obesity it and aside from the small amount received by the can show us what needs to be replicated across the federal government, it's up to the individual states Federalism: How State Decision- nation to help stop this obesity epidemic. and their school districts to contribute the rest. By making Effects Outcomes of Section ______investigating the amount of money spent per 8 Housing 266 • Federalism and Women's student, graduation rates can be investigated and CHRISTOPHER HANSE Reproductive Rights: A Study of the in turn see if there is a correlation between funding FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL received per student and the graduation rates on a Variations of States' Willingness to SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS state level. Adopt Reproductive Rights Policy ______This poster details the variances in implementation of Federal Section 8 housing policy between states, ALEXANDRA LOVRIC 254 • Recycling Crisis in Greece and pinpoints key differences between states FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Coming at the Cost of its EU controlling for ideology and various related factors. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS  The empirical analysis will detail variables of The development and implementation of Relations reproductive health care policy displays significant JORDI MENKHORST statistical significance and if there are any driving causes of the state's ideology in terms of policy variations when considered across our system of FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL diverse jurisdictions. With consideration for both SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS variances. The variables will include things such as number of vouchers distributed, timeframe of political and social data collected from all 50 states, Greece, a country previously well known for its a regression analysis is used to emphasize possible beautiful coast line and marvelous waters, now housing auctions for Section 8 housing, housing supply for the program, and other potential causal factors of statistical significance to predict a state's faces the challenges that pollution and willingness to adopt reproductive healthcare industrialization have created, which jeopardize factors. ______policies. Some of the variables examined include several of its main consistent sources of income. 257 • Social Welfare Policy for LGBT the percentage of women in the state legislature, Athens, as well as other cities along the coast of the the relative strength of each political party in the Greek mainland such as Thessaloniki, Patra, and Homeless Youth state, the state government's ideology, the degree Elefsis are all major pollutants, largely due to the RYAN VAN VOORHIS to which a state restricts Temporary Aid to Needy unmonitored industrial pollution and abundance FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Families (TANF), teen birth rate by state, of household waste water. Greek authorities, SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS estimations of females who are uninsured, state intriguingly have not encouraged their citizens to The US Department of Housing and Urban education levels per capita, and few other notable pursue better environmental practices, while Development counted 549,928 homeless people variables. Ultimately, the research delineated in recognizing that “logic behind municipal waste one night in January 2016. Of these, 35,686 were this poster emphasizes several key factors. In collection, which charges residents depending on youths under 24. A disproportionate number of particular, the research presented suggests that property size, is flawed” (Phys.com). Greek these youths identify as LGBT, with numbers the more Democrats there are in office, the more citizens, as a result, fail to comprehend and comply ranging from 20 to 40%. The overrepresentation of inter-party competition, and the more women with the regulations of the European Union, LGBT youth in the homeless population is due to there are in a state legislature, the less restrictive a European Commission, as well as European Court unsupportive family attitudes toward their sexual state's policies will be towards reproductive of Justice, amongst other organizations. Recently, orientation or gender identity. The homeless healthcare. A positive correlation is also found in response to Greece's inability to systemize to the experience of an LGBT youth is dangerous, with, in between the restrictiveness of a state's TANF policy EU’s demands, the European Commission has fined 2010, 58% reporting sexual assault, 44% reporting and conservative government ideology with the Greece 16 million euros for not complying with the resorting to “survival sex," 42% reporting alcohol restrictiveness of a state's reproductive healthcare waste water treatment regulations. This is simply abuse and 62% reporting suicide attempts. Despite policies. one of the sanction taken by Intergovernmental the alarming statistics and anecdotes, no federal ______organizations to push Greece into a better program addresses LGBT youth homelessness. 267 • Homelessness and direction. Unfortunately, since 1999, there has Unfortunately for LGBT youth, homeless shelters been a minimal learning curve among Greek can often become places of harassment, Federalism: Two Converging Ends citizens and authorities. discrimination, and violence. Residents can be SAMUEL SILVER ______homophobic and hostile, and shelters enact FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL 255 • Private Prisons: Panacea or discriminatory ordinances such as special SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS  uniforms, separate facilities, or denial of service. My poster will be based on research found on the Destruction? homeless population based in the United States, BRADLEY BRANDT New solutions are required to meet the needs of this population. Considering existing and federalism, the relationship between the local, FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL state and federal government. My project will SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS public/nonprofit infrastructure for homeless services, the extreme danger of youth discuss how the current landscape is not solving The United States holds the title of highest the substantial problem of homelessness, and incarceration rate in the world, as it is home to homelessness, the unparalleled ability of the federal government to acquire resources, and the what steps need to be taken in order to try to 4.4% of the world’s population and 22% of the combat the pervasive issue. world’s prisoners. As a citizen, you have a greater manageable number of homeless LGBT youths, ending LGBT youth homelessness is both ______chance of being imprisoned than any other 268 • Head Start Program country, and if you are a minority, that chance is imperative and achievable at a negligible cost. ______SARAH HARTNETT statistically even greater. Specifically, Latinos are FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL more than twice as likely and Black Americans 262 • Childhood Obesity in SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS occupy an incarceration rate five times greater America: Solutions and Future The target population that I would like to focus on than that of their white counterparts. The sharp, Problems is children, in particular, children that are living in dramatic rise in United States prison population SAMUEL LONGBOTHAM harsh conditions and cannot easily access their began in the 1980s, born from policies and FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL basic needs. My reasoning for choosing this target ideology which incited the Drug War and led to the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS population is because I would like to work in the rise of mass incarceration. The term “mass The epidemic of childhood obesity has risen education field one day. My goal in life is to teach incarceration” is used to describe not only the dramatically over the past few decades and is being and protect my future students so learning more comparatively and historically extreme rates in the fueled by many different factors. With the increase about a program that helps children would be number of imprisoned people, but in the of connivence in our lives and social policies that beneficial for both me and my future students. concentration of imprisonment among minorities. ______don't promote healthy lifestyles people are A program that I found that seems to address most becoming more and more sedentary. By looking of the criteria I have set in place is the Head Start from state to state to find examples of what is Program. Head Start is for children from birth to

 Promotes sustainability 45 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual age five who belong to families with incomes below VICTORIA LAROCCO Egyptian government, I argue that the the federal poverty guidelines. This program FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL authoritarian regime underfunds and understaffs provides free learning and development services to SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS these government agencies, further limiting children. Children with disabilities are also The unique needs and issues facing homeless Egyptian environmental politics. welcome to receive the Head Start Program, which LGBTQ youth are frequently overlooked by all ______was another important aspect that I wanted to levels of government. Although LGBTQ youth are 275 • China's One Child Policy and consider when looking for a social welfare program an overrepresented population among homeless the Effects of Overpopulation because I want to specialize in special education. youth, few organizations attempting to address CALLEN GROSS ______LGBTQ homeless have specific plans for LGBTQ FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL youth. Additionally, because there are no federal 269 • The Opioid Epidemic Across SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS programs that attempt to aid homeless LGBTQ States Images in the news of modern China as an youth, this responsibility is increasingly falling on SHAUNA RICKETTS industrial giant with booming modern the shoulders of locally run non-profits. This FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL metropolises have often been juxtaposed with project will seek ways to diminish LGBTQ youth SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS uninhabitable smog-filled urban landscapes. homelessness, and provide help to those that have For my research, I explore the issue of state opioid China's rate of growth has reached an impressive already found themselves in that position. It will usage. In order to provide a thorough statistical 10% over the past two decades. With this growth explore how amendments to existing federal and analysis of this issue, I gathered data to compare comes an increase in population and a number of state law could aid LGBTQ youth, both at the how specific factors impact the rates of opioid challenges to China's sustainable development. preventative level and once they have become usage across the states. Factors that I explore These challenges have come in the form of energy homeless, as well as how state governments could include, but are not limited to the political ideology and water shortages, water and air pollution, work with already existing non-profits for the of the state, state income rates, level of education, cropland losses, desertification, and biodiversity betterment of homeless LGBTQ youth. involvement in social groups, access to public ______losses. The sheer size of China poses a challenging transit, funding of prevention programs, task for government to impose environmental rehabilitation program funding/prevalence, state 273 • The Effect of State Taxes on legislation and sustainability initiatives. As the opioid policy, access to medical care/healthcare Inter-State Immigration and Jinping government has liberalized, it has imposed and parental involvement in early childhood. The Emigration more sweeping, and drastic reforms over a short purpose of my research is to identify what the most WESLEY EBERSOLE period time. Although this is a step in the right significant factors are in determining the rate of FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL direction for ensuring China's sustainable growth, opioid deaths per state. With this information, I SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS some policies have fallen short. China still lives in suggest areas that states should focus on to One of the big topics of discussion in regards to the shadow of its One Child Policy, which until it combat the opioid epidemic. Included in these states and regions in the United States in recent was announced that it would be phased out in suggestions are both state and local level methods times is habitability. Citizens in certain areas 2015, was a policy designed to mitigate the effects of action. complain how much it costs to live where they are. of overpopulation. This paper seeks to examine the ______In certain states even the state next door is effects of China's One Child Policy and the potential 270 • Impact of Welfare Reform on cheaper to live in. In particular census data has unintended social consequences that these  indicated that there has been a mass exodus of policies have had. Poverty in the United States ______TIMOTHY PREZLOCK individuals from New York in the past decade or FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL more. This loss of population has been so 276 • How and Why has China SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS significant that it is projected that New York might Become the World Leader in In 1996, President Bill Clinton promised to “end even lose one to two of its congressional seats. Renewable Energy?  Instead individuals have been flocking to states welfare as we know it” by overhauling the welfare CASEY HAACK such as Texas. One of the reasons citizens stated benefits system. Clinton revamped Aid to Families FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL for this movement out of New York is the high with Dependent Children (AFDC) into the current SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS taxes, which make it more difficult to live here for program, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Despite being the world’s leading producer of coal, both “upstaters and downstaters.” I propose that (TANF) . This reformed the welfare system by China has shown an incredible shift in policy over New York’s emigration plight is directly due to their establishing lifetime benefit limits and work the last decade towards green energy. It has requirements. Lesser known to the public, the high state income tax, sales tax, and property tax. ______created hundreds of thousands of jobs in the green program also devolved power to individual states sector and has significantly shifted its economy through block grants. Since the reform, however, 274 • How Egypt's Authoritarian towards climate friendly sources of energy. In funding from the federal government has stayed at Regime has Affected Environmental doing so, China has now positioned itself to take a 1996 levels. This presentation intends to evaluate leading role in shaping environmental policies the components of welfare reform, how states Politics ALLYSON LENZ across the globe. However, this poses several have spent money allocated for TANF, and identify important questions. First, why would a county the impact the program has had on poverty levels FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS that has built its very foundation on coal and throughout the country. industrialization begin to shift its economy towards ______Authoritarian Egypt has led to political instability a relatively new sector of energy? And how has 271 • Public Option Health Care that has been the cause of innumerable issues. In particular, Egypt’s environmental health has China managed to so rapidly make this transition in System suffered a great deal. The biggest environmental such a successful manner? Finally, what does this TOM NEWMAN concern plaguing Egypt is water scarcity and the mean for the global environmental movement, FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL health of the Nile River. How has sustained now that the world’s biggest polluter is becoming SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS authoritarian rule, and other military focused the largest producer of renewable energy? Using This is a presentation for a political science class policies, affected and limited Egyptian the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, I (PLSC 312). The poster is on a public option health environmental politics and policies? The Ministry will attempt to answer these three questions and care system that I have worked out and designed. of Water Resources and Irrigation is a government reach a conclusion. ______It goes through everything from funding, agency dedicated to the health and maintenance administration, and everything in between. of multiple subsets of Egypt’s water, yet water 277 • The Blame Game: ______continues to be affected by urbanization and Deforestation in Haiti 272 • An Analysis on Social Welfare tourism. The Nile Basin Initiative was created to CHAISE CARL Policy and the Problem of preserve water resources, yet water is still scarce. FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL Homeless LGBTQ+ Youth By conducting an institutional analysis of the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 46  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM

In this research paper I am going to focus on the overdevelopment and overpopulation. The way to widespread political instability throughout causes behind the severe deforestation in Haiti. construction of coastal resorts, restaurants and Guatemala. Popular explanation in the media places blame on nightlife has made the tropical waters a cesspool ______the current impoverished Haitian population, but for tourist waste. The Philippine government has 282 • The Environmental ignores the history of agricultural exploitation declared Boracay a state of calamity and has Grassroots Movement That Saved influenced by the colonialism of the French. I plan ordered a full shutdown in an attempt to clean up to research the factors of vulnerability of the the island. Not only is the environment the Ogoni People of Nigeria’s Niger population and the environment it inhabits. The unsustainable but the economy is as well. The Delta From Extinction “tragedy of the commons” interconnected with livelihoods of Boracay citizens depend heavily on KYLE CHESTERMAN exploitative capitalistic tendencies help to aid in the money brought in from tourism. A shut down FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL the explanation of deforestation in Haiti. I argue of the island will bring to light the instability of a SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS that the political and socio-economic instability in tourism economy that developing nations face. In 1957, Shell Oil began its unregulated and the country is the primary cause, while This study will look at scholarly articles and extensive oil drilling project in Nigeria’s Niger River simultaneously defending the rural community and quantitative data to highlight tourism as an Delta. As the extraction of natural resources in the its attempts at combating the environmental environmental and economic sustainability issue. Niger River Delta began, the exploitation of the degradation. I will create a qualitative and ______communities within the Niger River Delta began as quantitative analysis using articles and statistical 280 • Day Zero Approaches: South well. Ignored by the international community, the data from political science and environmental Africa's Response to the Water oil companies, and the Nigerian government, the databases to support my argument. Ogoni people of Nigeria’s Niger Delta took it upon ______ Crisis in Cape Town themselves to stand up against the destruction and 278 • The Environmental Impacts of ISABELLA VICENTINI exploitation of their land and people. In 1990, the  FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People Tobacco Production in Malawi SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CHRISTOPHER MANDRACCHIA (MOSOP) was founded to end the environmental This summer, Cape Town, South Africa will become and cultural degradation of Ogoniland and the FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL the first major city in the world to run out of water. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS communities that resided in it. In this presentation, After years of drought resulting from the ever- I hope to explore the causes of this environmental There has been a recent global shift in tobacco leaf worsening effects of climate change on weather production from wealthier to developing nations, grassroots movement and its impacts on the patterns, the country’s reservoirs and ground international community. I plan on presenting this especially on the African continent. While the water sources are dangerously low. Cape Town has economic benefits of tobacco farming have been a information by collecting a series of news articles already introduced measures to prolong the arrival and documents from the time as well as analyzing major selling point in the tobacco industry’s push of “Day Zero,” such as implementing water usage towards its production in developing countries, the data regarding the adverse environmental impacts restrictions; however these kinds of solutions are Shell Oil has had on the Niger River Delta. negative environmental impacts have been largely short term and not sustainable. On the day when overlooked. Dangerous environmental practices ______South Africa inevitably has to shut off the taps for 283 • Malaysia: In the Age of such as deforestation, as well as pollution caused millions of its people, what will the government by the use of pesticides and fertilizers have been do? Using a comparative environmental politics Globalization can Environmental linked to the widespread tobacco farming. This lens, this paper will analyze other governments’ paper primarily looks to explain the factors behind Concerns be Considered Domestic approaches to drought and water shortage  the tobacco industry’s decision to transfer a conditions to determine the viability of the South Issues? majority of its operations to developing countries. African government’s plans. This kind of qualitative MEGAN METZ I argue that this shift can be explained by the data will highlight effective solutions to handling a FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL relative lack of environmental regulations crisis of this magnitude. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS employed compared to that of the United States ______In the the current international political climate, and Europe, and the vast resources available in the 281 • Cause or Consequence: environmental issues are not confined to state region. Malawi, whose economy is one of the most borders. This can be seen in how the state of heavily dependent on tobacco in the world, will Political Instability in Relation to Malaysia's role in the international community has provide the main case study for this argument. I the Environmental Implications of begun to change. Over three decades the state of will answer the question while simultaneously Malaysia has been on a trajectory of exponential focusing on the extent of the environmental Monocrop Economies in economic growth. The economic shift from impact related with tobacco leaf farming, Guatemala agriculture to industrialization has had a wide additional economic and social considerations JAMIE MCCORMICK range of implications for the state. One of the most behind the issue, as well as the actions being taken FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL discussed is the impact this economic growth has to combat the problem. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS had on the environment. The state has seen a ______Guatemala is home to a diverse collection of constant increase in deforestation and a decline in 279 • Paradise or Wasteland? ecosystems, ranging from lush tropical forests to air quality, which both can be attributed to Tourism as a Sustainability Threat: tepid valleys. Over the past few decades, major different facets of economic growth.These issues agricultural companies have gradually depleted have raised an alarm in the international Boracay, Philippines the abundance of natural resources. Today, 88% of community and sparked a debate on whether FRANCESCA BELLO the land is owned by 3% of the population, and this environmental issues can be considered domestic FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL disparity continues to grow. Monocrop economies and if their impacts contribute to global issues such SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS have led to a state of ecocide, establishing as climate change. This paper will explore the role This presentation will evaluate the toll tourism deforestation and water pollution as a norm rather that international environmental policies have had takes on the sustainability of a country. It is not than an egregious state of nature. Palm oil Malaysian domestic issues. In order to assess both uncommon for developing coastal countries with production and large-scale banana plantations sides of this dispute, the causes and proposed beautiful beaches to be tourist hot spots. Local have given way to political strife between solutions of Malaysia’s environmental issues will economies that are dependent on tourism government and local communities. I will be be analyzed as well. sometimes turn a blind eye to the environmental focusing on Guatemala’s indigenous populations, ______issues it poses. Boracay, Philippines is among these who have felt the strongest effects of 284 • Japan’s Triple Disaster: sought after destinations. This case study of environmental degradation while they continue to Fukushima and Nuclear Policy, Boracay will uncover the sustainability threats of a receive limited support. This paper goes on to tourist driven economy in the developing world argue that the establishments of monocrop Seven Years Later using a comparative politics theoretical economies and subsequent ecocide have given MICHAEL WALL framework. Boracay has fallen victim to  Promotes sustainability 47 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL plantation systems by emphasizing their serious of an environmental impact as the larger SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS importance to the land, providing a framework of countries we typically think of. Countries such as On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake sustainability education to their community, and Ireland often fly under the radar because of the triggered a tsunami off the coast of the Fukushima therefore increasing incentive to respond to relatively low population and pollution in relation Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima climate change and the lack of proper agricultural to bigger countries, but the Irelands of the world Prefecture. The resulting waves caused standards. are causing as much harm to their people as the catastrophic meltdowns at the plant, and radiation ______Chinas and Indias are. With the country dealing was spilled into the Pacific Ocean and the area 287 • An Evaluation of the with serious issues like deforestation, acid rain, and surrounding the plant. Seven years later, how has Minimum Wage basic dumping issues, the Irish are facing the disaster impacted nuclear energy policy in environmental problems that are shocking to see JAMES CONNOLLY Japan, as well as the rest of the international in any part of the world, much less a first world FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL community? Once a faithful promoter of civilian European nation. While it's important to focus on SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS nuclear power, the Fukushima incident has spurred large areas of pollution, it's equally as important to An increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 an anti-nuclear movements across Japan, signalling a ensure that the citizens, as well as natural habitats hour, intended to supplement the income of the shift in political culture. However, Japan's of animals of all countries, aren't suffering from working poor, would negatively affect the government seems to show little intention of smaller scale pollution. If we can solve employment levels of unskilled workers and fail to distancing itself from using nuclear energy environmental problems on a smaller scale, we alleviate poverty. The push to increase the altogether through policy. inevitably will be able to solve problems on a larger minimum wage to $15 is a political tool, placed in ______scale as well. the official platform of the Democratic Party, 285 • Environmental Consequences rather than a sound social welfare policy. The of Overpopulation and general opinion of economists is that the minimum PSYCHOLOGY Overdevelopment in India wage fails to isolate the working poor as a target 200 • African College Student’s NICOLE VENATOR population due to the non excludable nature of its Concepts of Sibling Relationships provision. That is, both a wealthy suburban FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL JESSICA MENSAH, AMELIA SCOFIELD, ASSIA teenager and a nineteen year old mother of two SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BUKURU, BRITTANY BEARSS earns the minimum wage. The federal minimum India is a nation that is plagued by overpopulation. FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY wage increase also fails to take into account Its population is over 1.2 billion people and is NICHOLAS PALUMBO, PSYCHOLOGY differences in cost of living between states and expected to reach 1.8 billion before it stabilizes. This research project qualitatively examines indeed within states. Additionally, the minimum The excessive number of people has put a strain on African college students’ concepts of sibling wage has a negative effect on the employment of their environment as India has to accommodate a relationships. Specifically, the purpose of this vulnerable, unskilled workers. As a social welfare growing population and produce much more to research is to better understand the nature of their policy, the minimum wage fails to alleviate the support it. Additionally, India is still a developing sibling relationships, their early memories, to poverty of the working poor, its target population, country and is trying to rapidly develop not only to analyze and better understand early relationship while reducing the employment levels of unskilled meet the needs of tits growing population but also quality, and to examine and contextualize the workers and ignoring structural inequality in the to keep up with the West. India is trying to raise its nature and relevance of their sibling relationships country up to the standards of other developed U.S. economy. ______in emerging adulthood. Data collection and nations and wants to help the many citizens who analysis has been done on participants, consisting live in poverty without access to electric, running 288 • The Arab Spring: A Revolution of African college students at SUNY Geneseo, in water, sewage, or necessary infrastructure. But to Against Rising Food Prices focus groups and individual interviews to help us do so it continues to burn fossil fuels, emit SOFIA VILLALON phenomenologically investigate the phenomena of greenhouse gases, dump factory waste, and cut FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL interest. The analysis provided on this poster will, down forests, which creates massive amounts of SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS however, only consist of data and analysis from the damage not only to the environment but to its The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a focus groups. Preliminary thematic findings will be people as well. This paper will focus on the three region constantly plagued with unstable political carefully explicated and future work on this largest environmental problems India is facing as a regimes, lingering economic crises, and looming research project will be discussed. result of overpopulation and overdevelopment: climate change that are causing a disruption in ______water pollution, air pollution, and deforestation, food security and rising food prices. These complex 201 • Adolescents’ Assertive and and the solutions that are being implemented to economic, political, and environmental issues Affiliative Language Use with assuage them and limit environmental pressures. result in civilian uprisings, toppling regimes, and ______greater regional instability. In particular, the Arab Siblings and Friends in a Cooking 286 • Sri Lanka's Tea Plantations: Spring in 2011 demonstrates how civilian Task The Growing Issues and the grievances and repressive authoritarian regimes in CAITLYN FISHER, ELIZABETH FURST, JULIA Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and Yemen were rooted in Treatment of its Cultivators CAMERON, MOLLY O'BRIEN food security issues. This poster will argue that FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY NYDIA CONSTANTINE unstable food security and rising food prices are As part of a longitudinal study, we examined 17- FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL directly linked to civilian uprisings in repressive year-olds’ use of assertive and affiliative language SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS regimes. Using comparative politics and qualitative with siblings and friends during a cooking task. Sri Lanka has been long known to be a large data to explain factors that encourage unrest and Variables such as the relationship of the partner to producer and exporter of tea, specifically its civilian grievance led uprisings, I will relate how the target child and sibling gender significantly famous "Ceylon Tea." The tea industry has food insecurity and rising food prices in the MENA affected the target children’s use of assertive and supported the economy of the state since before region led to the Arab Spring. affiliative language. Selected for presentation at its independence in 1948, but in recent years, has ______Association for Psychological Science, Boston, declined in efficiency. Plantations themselves have 289 • Ireland: The Not-So-Emerald MA. decreased in productivity due to degraded soil, ______neglected areas of land due to low labor, vacancy Isle of workers, damage due to intense climate change, ZACHARY MCGARVEY 213 • Tattoo Prejudice: Examining and lack of technological advancement in terms of FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL Empathy as a Bias Reduction agricultural cultivation. This research will delve into SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Strategy what can be done to increase the tea plantations' When thinking about nations with environmental issues, we often think of large, overpopulated KAYLIN STONE, BHUMI PATEL productivity and growth through land ethic-- FACULTY SPONSOR: COLIN ZESTCOTT, focusing on the lifestyles of the workers in the tea countries like China or India. Seldom do we consider that smaller countries can have just as PSYCHOLOGY 48  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM

Recent surveys suggest that the number of Research conducted on Latino children’s family in prosocial behaviors and a weak negative individuals with at least one tattoo in the United relationships remains surprisingly incomplete, correlation for predicting intimacy behavior. States is rising. It is estimated that 45 million although the Latino population is the fastest ______people in the United States have at least one tattoo growing minority group in the United States. 229 • Quality of Social Engagement (Statistic Brain, 2016). However, despite the Previous research has found that Latino parents Between 4-year-old Siblings and increase of tattoos in popular culture, studies show encourage children to identify with prescribed that perceivers still harbor negative conscious and family and community roles, while repressing Friends explicit attitudes, as well as more negative individual needs, goals, and self-determination. MELODY CHOI, BIANCA BIOANO, GRACE unconscious and implicit attitudes, toward The prescribed roles includes the concept of sibling SEMENTILLI, LEAH COSTANZO tattooed individuals (e.g., Zestcott, Bean, & Stone, relationships that include greater responsibility for FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY 2016; Zestcott et al., 2017). Despite the growing brothers and sisters – particularly younger This study examined social engagement and quality literature documenting negative attitudes toward brothers and sisters – than commonly found in of engagement in 4-year-olds’ interactions with tattooed individuals, little is known about Anglo American families. Although the cultural siblings and friends. Research has previously prejudice reduction strategies that can positively values has implications for sibling relationship, observed length of time spent engaged, semi- impact perceptions of tattoos. The current research on Latino sibling interactions is limited. engaged, or un-engaged. The present study research highlights one strategy: evoking empathy Results showed similar ratings between Latino and examines the quality of positive/negative/neutral (e.g., Pettigrew & Tropp, 2008), as a potential Anglo mothers in perceived asymmetry, intimacy, social engagement. Our results indicate that both prejudice reduction strategy. Indeed, while harmony, and conflict in sibling dyads. However, partner and gender play a role in quality of social perceivers may hold negative attitudes toward results show an ethnicity effect in both observed engagement. Selected for presentation at tattoos, learning more background information conflict and prosocial behavior between Latino and Association For Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. about why someone got a tattoo, such as a way to Anglo children, as well as a gender effect is ______pay homage to a loved one, may increase empathy observed prosocial behavior. These findings 230 • The Effect of Task on 7-Year- toward tattooed individuals and effectively reduce suggest Latino children behave more prosocially Olds' Prosocial Behavior toward prejudice toward tattoos. The current research than Anglo Children. The ethnic differences found outlines the possible effectiveness and limitations in prosocial and conflict behavior highlights reflect Siblings of using empathy as a prejudice reduction strategy the priority placed on family well-being and on ERICA LIEBERMAN to decrease bias toward tattooed individuals. caring for siblings in Latino culture, promoting FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY ______prosocial behavior and showing less conflict As part of a longitudinal study, we examined 214 • Examining Healthcare between sibling interactions. Selected for prosocial behaviors in 7-year-olds' interactions with siblings during free-play and construction Providers Implicit Biases Toward presentation at Society for Research in Child Development(SRCD), Austin, Texas. tasks. Overall, prosocial behavior rates were higher Native American Patients ______during construction tasks than during free-play. FRANCESCO DIRIENZO 228 • Observed Conflicts and Partner, age composition, and gender all made a FACULTY SPONSOR: COLIN ZESTCOTT, difference in the social symmetry of prosocial PSYCHOLOGY Mother's Perceptions of 17-year- behaviors. Selected for presentation at Recent research shows that one possible cause of olds' Sibling Relationships Association for Psychological Science, Boston, healthcare disparities for stigmatized patient MARIA REMILLARD, MEAGAN SULLIVAN, MA. groups is the implicit biases held by healthcare KAYLEIGH SCHNEEBERGER, NICOLE SPENCER, ______providers. While research has examined the causes RACHAEL THORP 231 • Sexual Communal Strength, and consequences of healthcare provider’s implicit FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY Partner Coercion, and Dating bias toward racial/ethnic patient groups such as As part of a longitudinal study of sibling African Americans and Hispanics, understanding relationships, we examined 17-year-old's conflicts Women’s Sexual Functioning the manifestation of implicit bias toward Native with siblings during preparation of a pizza. While JILLIAN LAROSE, ELIZABETH MCCABE American patients is noticeably absent in the adolescents were videotaped, mothers completed FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY literature. Although some recent research finds a questionnaire rating sibling relationships on Past research on sexual communal strength (SCS) strong demonstrations of healthcare provider’s conflict, relational aggression, prosocial behavior suggests that women and their partners benefit negative implicit attitudes toward Native and intimacy. Characteristics of observed when women are strongly motivated to meet their Americans (e.g., Sabine et al., 2015), the current interactions were compared with maternal partner’s sexual needs. Yet it is unclear whether research expands on this understanding to look at questionnaire responses pertaining to the SCS benefits sexual functioning when women are not only implicit prejudicial attitudes, but potential predicted behaviors of the adolescents. We pressured by partners to meet their partner sexual instances of implicit stereotyping as well. Using a hypothesized that the mother's predictions of the needs. The current study investigated the sample of healthcare providers in the Southwest, adolescent behavior would be moderately simultaneous effects of both SCS and male partner results suggest that many providers hold negative accurate. Specifically for sons, we hypothesized sexual coercion on sexual functioning. implicit attitudes and stereotypes toward Native that the mothers would be highly accurate in Undergraduate women in dating relationships (N = American patients. The results also outline possible predicting behavior in the context of relational 174) reported on their SCS, partner sexual avenues for implicit bias reduction strategies. aggression and conflict. For daughters, we coercion, sexual desire, and refusal assertiveness. ______hypothesized that the mothers would be highly SCS was positively related to sexual desire 215 • Observed and Perceived accurate in predicting behavior in the context of independent of partner coercion. In contrast, partner coercion moderated the effect of SCS on Conflict and Prosocial Behavior in prosocial behaviors and intimacy. Our results suggest that the mother's perceptions of refusal assertiveness; the least assertive women Latino and Anglo American adolescent's sibling behavior had an overall weak reported high levels of SCS and had coercive Children’s Sibling Relationships to moderate accuracy. In sons, mothers had a partners. These results suggest that, at least for some women, Internal motives for sexual sacrifice ARLENIS SANTANA, VANESSA CEPEDA, ISABELLE strong positive correlation in predicting the reflect an internalization of external pressure for ORTIZ, JENNIFER LIRIANO behaviors of conflict and relational aggression. For sacrifice. FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY daughters, mothers had a strong negative correlation in predicting the behavior of daughters

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BIOLOGY Experimental Biology Conference 2018, San alone. In the MDA-MB-231 cells, the drug Diego, CA. combination demonstrated the highest increase in 350 • Three-dimensional Scanning ______beta-2 microglobulin expression, but not the and Printing of a Sea Turtle Skull 352 • Effects of HDAC Inhibitor highest increase in HLA expression when compared TYLER KUSCHEL Vorinostat and Radiation on HTB4 to each treatment alone. This work may contribute FACULTY SPONSOR: JACOB MCCARNTEY, BIOLOGY to field of immunotherapy. Selected for Sea turtle skulls, such as the Chelonia mydas skull and MDA-MB-435 Cancer Cells presentation at Experimental Biology Conference used in this research, are rare so it is imperative JOSEPH WING, TRISHA MAINI 2018, San Diego, CA. that existing specimens are preserved. New FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, ______technologies permitting production of faithful BIOLOGY 354 • Aggregation Behavior of three-dimensional (3D) models are an excellent HDAC inhibitors have shown promise in the Sympatric Cryptic Species of Stalk- means of protecting specimens for posterity. I treatment of cancer. The HDAC inhibitor vorinostat obtained 3D scans of a sea turtle skull using a Next was first introduced during treatments for eyed Flies Engine 3D Scanner. Each scan was trimmed to lymphoma and has been shown to cause an CHRISTINA YI, KRISTEN HALL remove any errors and aligned with other scans to increase in the effectiveness of radiation on FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, make a final 3D model, and a physical copy of the multiple cancer cells. For these experiments, the BIOLOGY model was produced using a 3D printer. This effects of vorinostat and radiation on HTB4 cells T. dalmanni sp 1 and T. dalmanni sp 2 are two project provides a valuable resource for education and 435 cells are being investigated in order to species of T.dalmanni that coincide in similar of biology students while reducing the wear on the determine the efficacy of this combined treatment. environments and can interbreed, producing only original skull, permitting its continued use for many Using cell cycle analysis and MTT assays, we were sterile offspring. While this form of copulation is years to come. Future applications of this process able to analyze the effects of radiation and evolutionarily unfavorable due to a post-zygotic would be beneficial for preserving rare biological vorinostat alone compared to the combination of barrier (sterility), it is unclear if pre-zygotic barriers specimens reposited at SUNY Geneseo. Three- both. Results for the HTB4 cells treated with also exist to prevent unfavorable mating. Physically dimensional models produced in this manner can radiation and vorinostat showed an increase in the the two species appear identical, so this form of be used in scientific instruction, research, scaling percent of cells in G2 and a reduction in G1 and S reproductive isolation must be caused by other objects to different sizes, as well as creating pieces phase compared to either treatment alone or the means, such as active female choice, sperm of art. The final model can also be disseminated to control population. Results for the 435s did not precedence or male avoidance. We developed an the broader community to assist in research and show a similar trend with distribution of cells assay to assess female preference for conspecifics education. It can also permit other institutions to between the control and three treatments. Results which involved exposing female T. dalmanni sp 1 use this data to print their own 3D sea turtle skull. for HTB4’s and 435s showed that increasing and T. dalmanni sp 2 flies to “dirty” artificial “root ______concentrations of vorinostat alone and when hairs” obtained from cages containing male flies of 351 • Reprogramming Cancer Cell coupled with radiation resulted in less activity each respective species. The number of females compared to the radiation alone. Based on the that aggregated onto the artificial root hairs each Metabolism through the MTT data, the HTB4 cell line appears to be more morning was recorded. The results provide insight Combinatorial Action of PK11195 sensitive than the 435s to the effects of vorinostat. into whether females are able to differentiate Selected for presentation at Experimental Biology between two male species by scent alone, and 5-Azacytidine Conference 2018, San Diego, CA. establishing a mechanism for pre-zygotic isolation DANIEL DURAN, MATTHEW STEINSALTZ ______between the T. dalmanni sp 1 and the T. dalmanni FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, 353 • Discerning the Mechanism of sp 2 flies. BIOLOGY HLA Upregulation by Epigenetic ______Deregulated cellular energetics is a common 355 • The Varying Dentition of phenotype observed across numerous cancer cell Modulators in Breast Cancer Cell Allosaurus: A Functional lines. One of the simplest molecular explanations Lines for this effect is the loss of a multisubunit Morphology Experiment mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC) that shuttles NICHOLAS TERRIGINO, RACHEL POWERS FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, TIMOTHY CLARK pyruvate into the mitochondria. In this FACULTY SPONSOR: SARA BURCH, BIOLOGY investigation, we use a DNA methyltransferase BIOLOGY Our previous studies showed two Functional morphology experiments are an inhibitor, 5-azacytidine, in combination with a important method for exploring the biomechanics constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) inhibitor, chemotherapeutics, entinostat and 5-azacytidine, work in an additive fashion to upregulate human of an animal; in some cases helping to reconstruct PK11195, to re-express the coregulated MPC predator-prey interactions. For the purposes of subunit genes. Through reverse transcription PCR, leukocyte antigens (HLA) which are typically downregulated in cancer. This study centers on this project the dentition of Allosaurus was divided we demonstrate that the combinatorial action of into three categories based on morphology and these two drugs upregulates the MPC encoding vorinostat and 5-azacytidine which allow us to study the regulation of HLA class-1 expression in location within the mouth: D-shaped in cross genes. Preliminary western blot analysis on whole section in the rostral portion of the premaxilla, cell lysates reveals no distinction between the the breast cancer cell lines, MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7. We are testing for the expression of mRNAs laterally compressed in the maxilla, and transition levels of the 12 kDa MPC-1 subunit from treated teeth which are found between the premaxilla and and untreated samples. ROS analysis reveals that for HLAs and the antigen processing machinery (APM) responsible for placing peptides into these maxilla and are typically square in cross section the MDA-MB-435 cell line becomes more oxidative with off set serrations. The purpose of this research following combinatorial treatment. Finally, class I proteins and transporting them from the ER to the cell surface. The mRNA levels of APM genes is to assess the function of the varying types of cytotoxicity assays reveal that while PK11195 acts Allosaurus teeth by determining the force on its own to block glycolysis, supplementation TAP1, TAP2, LMP2, and LMP7 showed a significant increase upon treatment with the drug necessary for a 3D-printed cast of a tooth to with fatty acids rescues them from the glycolytic damage a variety of media including malleable stress. Collectively, our work demonstrates the combination when compared to the control. Protein expression was studied with flow rubber and leather. It is hypothesized that the D- significance of both restoring the mitochondrial shaped in cross section will require the less force pyruvate carrier, and working around other cytometry. In MCF-7 cells, the vorinostat and 5- azacytidine combination caused the highest to damage the malleable rubber, which would metabolic pathways, as a means of repressing the demonstrate its purpose as a puncturing or Warburg effect. Selected for presentation at increase in HLA and beta-2 microglobulin expression when compared to each treatment crushing tool. The amount of force to puncture 50  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM leather lain over several different media will also 358 • Impacts of Meiotic Drive on acoustic qualities composed of all the sounds that be tested as a proxy for animal hide. It is also are of biological, geological or anthropological hypothesized that teeth that are D-shaped in cross the Expression and Abundance of origin. If this is true, the biophony of different section will require less force to puncture leather. Transposable Elements habitats should reflect their biodiversity. The ______MELANIE KIRK, CHLOE LADIAS purpose of our study is to investigate soundscapes 356 • Drosophila Predictive FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, in three different habitat locations in Letchworth Genomics Using Regularized BIOLOGY State Park, each with distinct vegetation This project aims to characterize the abundance communities. We hypothesize that the most Regression and expression of transposable elements in the vegetatively diverse stand will have the most avian JOSEPH TADROS stalk-eyed fly genome, with particular focus on diversity and the highest overall presence of FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, addressing whether the expression of meiotic drive biophony, and that biophony will reflect seasonal BIOLOGY in males leads to transposable element “release” changes in the habitats as well. Within each site, We applied whole genome sequencing (WGS) data via disruption of piRNA pathways. This project transects were used to determine plant species taken from the Drosophila Genetics Reference analyzes genomic sequencing data from standard diversity and composition, canopy cover, and Panel (DGRP) towards the prediction of Drosophila and meiotic drive T. dalmanni males in order to ground cover. Site 3 was the most diverse aggression levels. The data are comprised of determine if the abundance of major TE families on according to a rank abundance curve; it also had millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) the meiotic drive X chromosome is different than lower diameter at breast height, and point to plant across 205 inbred Drosophila lines as well as their the standard X chromosome, due to accumulation measurements than the other two sites. Forty- performance in an aggression assay scores. As with over evolutionary time. In addition, this project eight hour recordings were done in each habitat many large-scale predictive genomics projects, the analyzes RNA sequencing (RNAseq) data from during the summer and fall of 2017. We are using high-dimensional WGS data poses a problem with standard and meiotic drive males to determine if the recordings to assess the biodiversity of model tuning as well as computational complexity. the expression of shared TE copies is higher in vocalizing organisms in each habitat and to test the Therefore, the purpose of this project is two-fold; meiotic drive males. We are using PoPoolationTE2 hypothesis that soundscape indices, like the first, to successfully predict Drosophila phenotypes to uncover the insertion frequencies and positions Acoustic Complexity Index and the Bioacoustic given genomic data, and second, to identify a of TEs as well as a comparison of TE abundance Index, accurately reflect the biodiversity of these subset of alleles which successfully predict between population samples; and transposome is habitats. Selected for presentation at Northeast aggressive behavior. In order to identify a best used to estimate TE abundance and diversity. In Natural History Conference, Burlington, VT. subset of alleles, the data were split based upon addition, we will be performing statistical analyses ______allele frequencies. The splits are common, rare, to determine if the differences observed between 361 • Can You Hear Me Now? and random allele subsets. To keep up with many samples are significant. Changes to Winter Bird recent predictive genomics papers, regression ______models with lasso regularization were made. In 359 • Is Something Shady Going Vocalizations in Response to order to identify the best lasso penalty parameter On?: Animal Vocalization During Anthropogenic Noise as well as to estimate the true model error, 5-fold LEEANN BRUETSCH, KAYLA SCHUM cross validation was used across a range of penalty the Great American Eclipse FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTINA HANNAM, BIOLOGY values. COURTNEY KING Birds vocalize for many reasons, including ______FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTINA HANNAM, BIOLOGY communication of threats and about food source 357 • Use of CRISPR- Cas 9 to Audio recordings were taken on the days before, locations. These vocalizations are a reliable source Induce Mutations in Drosophila during, and after the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse, of information birds depend on in the harsh winter also known as the "Great American Eclipse," to gain melanogaster months. We focused on winter vocalizations, which information about wildlife vocalization during are dominated by simple calls, because most JULIA NICOSIA, ADAM VISCIA eclipses. Recorders were placed at three locations researchers focus on complex songs during the FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, in Western New York, in a region that received 0.7 breeding season. We predict effects of BIOLOGY to 0.8 of the eclipse's total magnitude. On August anthropogenic noise on call vocalizations will result De novo genes are genes that have only recently 22, the day following the eclipse, a storm front in changes similar to those seen in bird song. This begun coding for proteins. They arose from moved into this area. In our analysis, we are investigation focused on Black-capped Chickadees previously non-coding DNA. The Drosophila de comparing the temperature, solar intensity, and and American Goldfinches. We used seven sites novo genes we are studying are expressed mainly levels of biophony on the day of the eclipse to throughout the Genesee Valley on private in the male testes, and previous work based on surrounding dates, including the day of this storm. properties with different exposures to RNA interference showed these genes may be We predict that solar intensity and temperature anthropogenic noise. We set up a bird feeder for a essential to male fertility and viability. However, during the eclipse will be similar to the conditions week before recordings at each site. Audio we do not know whether these genes function as at the time of the storm's approach, and will result recordings were done at hour-long intervals for proteins, like most genes, or as functional RNAs. in similar levels of biophony. Levels of biophony are each site, between 6 am and 10 am and between We are using CRISPR-Cas9, a gene modification calculated using the Bioacoustic Index developed 12 pm -5 pm. During recordings observers noted tool, to create null mutations in Drosophila by Boelman et al., and we are additionally bird behavior and interactions at the feeders. We melanogaster’s de novo genes to answer this identifying the taxa present in our audio analyzed each recording using Cornell Ornithology question. CRISPR- Cas9 works by inducing a frame recordings. These findings add to the presently Lab’s Raven Pro software to measure song features shift mutation in a gene, but it can also be used to small body of knowledge regarding animal that are predicted to change with anthropogenic delete a large section of the gene. With a frame- responses to solar eclipses, particularly in areas noise. Preliminary results suggest both species shift, the gene will still be coded into an RNA outside the path of totality. Selected for have altered the highest frequency in their call. We strand, but the protein translated will be presentation at Northeast Natural History will report on differences between species, sites, nonfunctional: while the deletion will affect the Conference, Burlington, VT. and the relationship of other vocalization function of the RNA and protein. By comparing ______characteristics to anthropogenic noise. Selected phenotypic outcomes of the frames-shift and the 360 • Associations between Forest for presentation at Northeast Natural History deletion we can answer the question about how de Type, Diversity and Soundscape Conference, Burlington, VT. novo genes preform their functions. We have ______created CRISPR-Cas9 targeting constructs for Parameters in Letchworth State 362 • Belizeans Natural Medicine multiple de novo genes and have collected data on Park the survival rate of injected embryos. Selected for Usage and Opinions of Efficacy JENNIFER ROWAN presentation at SUNY Undergraduate Research COURTNEY KING, CHLOE LADIAS FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTINA HANNAM, BIOLOGY Conference, Rochester, NY. FACULTY SPONSOR: REGINA CLINTON, BIOLOGY ______The field of soundscape ecology hypothesizes that different habitats will have unique community  Promotes sustainability 51 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

Belize is a small country in central America with a slender forelimbs to aid in quick capture of the 367 • Citizen Choice and Tree population of just above 300,000. The country is animal. These results show that small and large disproportionately urbanized, with some areas prey specialists can be distinguished by the shape Diversity having more modern amenities and access to of their forelimb bones, which may be useful when HANNAH CHASE, KAILA MCKEIRNAN medicine and transportation than others. In Belize, attempting to determine the prey size preference FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY usage of natural medicine and other holistic cures of fossil cats. Trees provide many services to the surrounding has been embedded both culturally and ______area; some of these include bearing fruit and historically. For centuries, the Mayans utilized 365 • An Analysis of High providing a habitat for native species. The trees that a person plants on their lot can have a many natural remedies to treat a variety of Performing Students Within a ailments. Today, some of these holistic remedies significant effect on the surrounding ecosystems, are still employed in lieu of Western medicines. Cooperative Learning and Testing and we predict that most people are unaware of The current study sought to investigate local Community this. We hope not only to educate people on the impact of these choices, but also to decipher the opinions of both natural and modern medicines. If COOPER BREED sociological reason for why people choose the industrialization or exposure to modern medicine FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY trees they do. We have created a survey which will has a role in personal opinions of natural medicine, Previous research has shown that students will be taken by a sample of the Geneseo population to then personal opinions should differ between perform significantly higher when they engage in gauge how people choose what trees they plant. Belizeans in different areas. cooperative learning. I asked which cooperative We are using cluster sampling to select a wide ______learning behaviors relate to student performance variety of property types including rented and 363 • The Effects of PK11195 on when working individually and working within a owned. Because of the high proportion of rented group. Further, I asked if high performing students MDA-MB-435 Growth and houses in the Village of Geneseo, we will also ask benefit from a class where two-stage cooperative participants to answer questions hypothetically if Survivability pyramid testing is practiced. In two-stage they are unable to control the trees on their ADAM HANSEN cooperative pyramid testing, students take an property. We predict that cost and aesthetics, FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, exam individually and then again with their group. above whether or not a tree is native or nonnative, BIOLOGY A positive difference between the score of the will be the main factors that impact a person’s The Warburg effect, the use of aerobic glycolysis in group exam and average of the individual’s exams decision. We also predict that a higher education the presence of oxygen, is a hallmark of some demonstrates effective cooperative testing, level may shift a person’s preference towards cancers. This process is catalyzed by hexokinase II whereas a negative difference does not. I binding to the outer mitochondrial membrane planting native trees vs. non native. compared the score of the top performer in each ______(OMM). Along the OMM is the translocator protein group with their respective group’s work for (TSPO) 18 kDa. This protein overexpression has students in past semesters of BIOL 203. I compared 368 • Pre-Dispersal Seed Predation been observed in a large variety of human cancers, individual final exams with group final exams by in the Roemer Arboretum especially breast cancers. PK 11195, an subtracting the individual’s score on each question RACHEAL DEVINE, TULPEN HANSEN-SCHWOEBEL isoquinoline analogue, is one of the ligands of from the group’s score, and then obtaining FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY highest TSPO binding affinity. PK11195 itself has no frequency of positive, negative, or zero Many invasive plant species have a detrimental cytotoxic effect, but it enhances apoptosis differences. The frequency of each category impact on native species through their superior induction by agents such as chemotherapeutic (positive, negative, or no difference) will help us to ability to compete for resources. Pre-dispersal seed agents. MDA-MB-435 cells treated with PK11195 predict and further analyze the effects of predation by insects can have strong effects on displayed an increase in cell survivability at low cooperative testing. A semester long study is being plant population dynamics. Before seeds are doses through MTT analysis and an increase in conducted on the spring semester class of 2018 to dispersed the seeds inside are still at risk of colony formation at similar dosages. In addition, investigate such factors further. predation. Adult insects lay eggs inside individual utilizing flow cytometry, we are not able to ______fruits, and when the eggs hatch, the seeds inside demonstrate that PK11195 has a significant impact 366 • Post Dispersal Seed Predation serve as food for the developing larvae. This larval on the cell cycle. Future experiments are planned in the Roemer Arboretum activity renders seeds incapable of germination, to determine the relationship of PK11195 and which may translate to reduced population EMELYN BELL, LAUREN ELLIS other drug therapies such as 5-azacytidine, a DNA growth. During the growing season of 2017, in the FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY methyltransferase inhibitor, on the growth of 435 Roemer Arboretum, we found that the duration of In forests of the northeastern US, Lonicera maackii cells . fruiting phenology has a stronger correlation to the ______(Amur Honeysuckle) is an invasive species that presence of larvae for native plant species (R2 = forms dense thickets in the understory. Besides 364 • Geometric Morphometric of 0.695) than for invasive plant species (R2 = 0.342). competing with native plants for space, L. maackii Fruit crop sizes are larger for invasive species, and Cat Forelimb Elements exhibits extended leaf phenology which allows this larger volume of fruit production suggests that SOPHIA THOMPSON leaves to be retained for a longer period of time predator satiation could generate the lack of FACULTY SPONSOR: SARA BURCH, BIOLOGY and outcompete native understory plants for light correlation in the invasive species. Together, a Cats use their forelimbs as their primary and carbon fixation. It also may provide cover for longer period of fruiting and relatively low pre- mechanism when it comes to killing prey. Previous seed consumers that would be vulnerable under dispersal seed predation may contribute to the studies have shown that the prey size preference absence of canopy cover. We asked how the advantages that invasive plant species have over of cats can be distinguished based on the shape of extended leaf phenology of L. maackii influences native species. Our presentation will also examine the bones in the forelimb. We investigated this its own seed predation as well as that of two native predation rates during periods of overlap in fruit relationship using geometric morphometric to species, Vitis labrusca (Wild Grape) and production between native and invasive species. landmark the same points on the forelimb bones of Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia Creeper). In Selected for presentation at Northeast Natural 31 felid species. A principle component analysis 2016, the experiment was performed in the late fall was performed after Procrustes alignment and History Conference, Burlington, VT. after the abscission of the native species’ leaves ______each species was classified by prey size preference. but L. maackii leaves remained. In 2017, the Results suggested large and small prey specialists experiment occurred as the canopy cover of all 369 • Factors That Affect Student were well separated along the first principle species disappeared. A survival analysis of the Sentiment components axis, with mixed prey specialists native and invasive seeds under various canopy RENEE WEINSTEIN scattered throughout the graph suggesting they do covers found that the L. maackii’s extended leaf FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY not have a specific forelimb structure. Cats that phenology reduces rather than increases seed What factors affect students’ sentiments towards hunt large prey had more robust forelimbs with predation and may intensify seed predation of co- a class? I began this study in the spring of 2017 in thicker distal ends of the humerus. This is occurring native plants, especially those that are order to determine how students felt towards an important for resisting the force of large, struggling patchily distributed. application-based teaching style in an introductory prey. Cats that hunt small prey had long and ______52  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM biology course. My analysis indicated that establishment with respect to outcrossed seeds implemented has been successful in lowering students’ positive sentiments towards biology because seed masses were similar across infection rates and increasing knowledge and increased throughout the four year time period the treatments. Furthermore, results of a dispersal awareness of harmful practices that put Ghanaians surveys were conducted. I am now investigating model will be included to estimate dispersal rates at risk for further infection. what factors may explain the sentiments that were for different pollination treatments for C. nutans. ______expressed. Thus far, I have analyzed whether Our findings suggest that some conditions of the 374 • Schistosomiasis in Ghana: A students’ numerical scores have matched their invasion process, such as small initial population Biological Analysis of Public Health written scores. My results so far have shown that sizes, can disproportionately promote an invasion. students who provided the numerical scores 2 Selected for presentation at Northeast Natural Efforts through 5 wrote more positive than negative History Conference., Burlington, VT. ZACHARY KOENIG, HALEE FINN, ISABELLA written responses. I have also looked at the ______ROBERT, HANNA SCALZETTI, SARAH BRACY possible influence of grades upon student 372 • Schistosomiasis FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI MUENCH, sentiments. Using R, I have grouped student Seroprevalence and Ecological Map BIOLOGY responses by professors and created four word n- Schistosomiasis is a debilitating parasitic disease grams based on these responses. I assigned Overlay on the Island of Puerto endemic to West Africa caused by the parasite sentiments to each n-gram and calculated the Rico species Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma percentage of positive to negative sentiments. I NICHOLAS WHITTEL haematobium. Humans represent a critical stage in then compared these percentages to the mean FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI MUENCH, the life cycle of schistosome species and breaking grades of students for each professor. My BIOLOGY this point in the life cycle through preventative preliminary results do not seem to indicate a Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease measures and treatments can reduce or eliminate correlation between students’ grades and their caused by trematode worms of the Schistosoma its spread in endemic regions. To study sentiments towards the class. I now hope to genus. Second only to malaria in prevalence, schistosomiasis epidemiology, we hypothesize that analyze other factors that could have affected schistosomiasis was estimated to affect over 258 in the village of Tomefa, Ghana, rates of infection students’ sentiments. million individuals around the world in 2014. The and severity of other biomarkers associated with ______intermediate snail host of the Schistosoma parasite schistosome infection will have decreased 370 • Trait Variation in Invasive lives in freshwater body sources on aquatic plants. significantly from 2014-2017, in conjunction with Schistosomiasis was introduced into Puerto Rico in identification and treatment of infected Species individuals. In order to test this hypothesis, RHEANNA MEIER the early 20th century upon the growth of sugar cane trade that dominated the local economy. statistical tests on data collected from 2014-2017 FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY in surveys and samples from the villagers were Invasive species are characterized by their ability to Prevention campaigns were initiated by the United States in order to reduce the prevalence on the performed across a number of demographics arrive, survive, and thrive in a completely new pursuant with World Health Organization (WHO) environment. Unfortunately, invasive species are a island. Using ESRI ArcGIS, data from a 1995 schistosomiasis seroprevalence assay was Provisional Guidelines on Standard International major threat to native plants, and an active area of Age Classifications and National Institutes of research is determining why these species are so georeferenced. Confirmed with both FAST:ELSIA and EITB serologic testing, schistosomiasis was Health (NIH) Protecting Human Subject Research successful. In my study, I examined whether Participants (PHRP) training. Results indicate that invasive species differ physically along a latitudinal identified in over forty of the seventy municipalities that make up the mainland of Puerto incidence of disease have significantly decreased gradient in the eastern United States. The two from 2014-2017. We are also currently exploring species focused on were Amur honeysuckle Rico. It was observed that endemic municipalities were clustered in the central and northeastern rates of reinfection in individuals across the years (Lonicera maackii) and Morrow’s honeysuckle as well as rates of other parasitic infections such as (Lonicera morrowii). Measurements of leaf size and regions of the island. GIS map overlay was used, aimed at identifying possible ecologic factors that malaria. shape were taken from digitized specimens found ______have caused the parasite to remain in the in herbarium collections. Wide ranges of 375 • Examination of neurod4 in specimens were sampled to represent both the population despite governmental intervention. geographic range of invasion as well as invasion ______Retinogenesis history. Through the measurement of these 373 • The Effects of Educational ALEXIS SAUNDERS, HALEY SAUNDERS, WILLIAM samples, I will be able to quantify trait variation Intervention on Disease in Ghana MEYER, ELENA KLEINHENZ, NICOLE MONACHINO and infer the role of evolution in the ability of SARAH BRACY, HANNA SCALZETTI, HALEE FINN, FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY invasive species to perform in new locations. ISABELLA ROBERT, ZACHARY KOENIG Zebrafish exhibit eye development similar to that ______FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI MUENCH, of humans. The neurod4 gene encodes a 371 • The Effect of Pollination BIOLOGY transcription factor that may be important in Schistosomiasis is a devastating neglected tropical neuroretinal development. Neurod4 is also Treatment on Thistle Dispersal moderately conserved from zebrafish to humans, SIMRAN SINGH disease widespread in West Africa. While there is a cure for those afflicted, a long-term solution has and might have an equally important function in FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY the cell cycle. We generated a neurod4:GFP Invasive species are a major threat to biodiversity, yet to be found, as the parasites that cause these pervasive infections are present in the freshwater transgene and compared the reporter gene which makes understanding how they spread expression with endogenous neurod4 expression across the landscape important. In this study we lakes that much of the public relies on as its only water source. Considering this, one of the most detected by in situ hybridization. The transgene focused on the invasive thistle Carduus nutans, and contains 2.1 kb of the upstream genomic sequence asked how pollination influences its dispersal. effective methods of infection prevention is education. We hypothesize that in the village of and includes the first exon of the neurod4 gene, Initially, we tested the effect of treatment on ending before the first intron. Gross morphology terminal velocity – the highest velocity that a seed Tomefa, Ghana, between the years of 2016 and 2017, educational outreach efforts have been analysis showed GFP expression from the can achieve in still air – of its wind-dispersed seeds. neurod4:GFP transgene closely matched in-situ We found that pollination treatment has a successful in reducing the incidence and reinfection rate of schistosomiasis and other data already published, and indicated that the significant effect on terminal velocity (p < 0.0001). transgene displayed similar expression from the Surprisingly, seed mass didn’t contribute to this illnesses, including diarrhea, malaria, sleeping sickness, and intestinal worms. Data has been endogenous gene. Because neurod4 is expressed in difference in terminal velocity (p = 0.1616). Other the retina during embryogenesis, we tested its factors, such as the size of the plume of these collected from Tomefa, Ghana, regarding knowledge of schistosomiasis and the other requirement on cell proliferation in the retinal seeds, may instead contribute to differences in during the regeneration following constant intense terminal velocity. We predict that self-pollinated aforementioned diseases, recognition of signs and symptoms, and interventions. The results of the light damage to photoreceptors by anti-PCNA seeds would travel farther because of slower immunostaining. We electroporated zebrafish terminal velocities, and we would not expect these sociological data, in conjunction with the biological data collected, indicate that the education retinas with neurod4-morpholino to cause loss-of- seeds to have any competitive disadvantage in neurod4 expression and subjected them to light  Promotes sustainability 53 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual damage for three to four days. The results of these failure for histones to load properly could affect While extensive studies of these proteins have experiments suggest a requirement of the neurod4 transcription of genes and may cause the small eye been conducted, an enormous amount of effort is gene to exit the cell cycle during zebrafish retinal phenotype in gef mutants. Following comparative needed to interpret the study outcome due to the regeneration. Selected for presentation at 2018 deep-RNA sequencing, DAVID bioinformatic complexity of the proteins involved. The amyloid Northeast Society for Developmental Biology analysis revealed common-pathway genes that are beta peptide (Aβ) is highly regarded as a critical Regional Meeting, Woods Hole, MA. downregulated in the gef mutant.Two genes, monomer that reversibly conforms an insoluble ______notch1a and her15.1, were identified to be fibril that leads to Alzheimer’s disease. The 376 • Multiplex Mutagenesis Using downregulated and are normally expressed in the mechanism of fibril formation is considered to be a CRISPR Cas9 spine, head and retina during early stages of polymerization of a nucleus unit consisting of Aβ development. These genes are part of the Notch oligomers under a reversible process. A folding or MEAGAN SULLIVAN pathway, which is essential for retinal unfolding of monomer peptides is highly FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY development. Since these genes were found to be associated with the critical stage of an This experiment will provide insight into whether down-regulated in gef mutants, loss-of-expression intermediate oligomer formation, leading to or not the gef mutant is an allele for chaf1b. A might contribute to the gef mutant phenotype, and fibrillogenesis. While extensive studies have been vector that contains a constantly active ubiquitin we expect them to be expressed less in the conducted on fibril properties and character, only promoter and the chaf1b gene was created, which affected cells of gef mutant embryos when limited information is available on these initial will be a guide RNA to an endonuclease. A second compared to wild-type embryos. We performed in oligomers. The sheet structure was confirmed on vector that contains a constantly active pwil situ hybridization to analyze whether the gene fluorinated nanoparticles, implying that self- promoter and the chaf1b gene was created, which expression was altered in gef mutant embryos assembly over nanoscale interfacial environment will be a guide RNA to an endonuclease. Once the compared with wild-type in affected cells. Selected plays a key role in fibrillogenesis. While direct vectors have been successfully created they will be for presentation at Northeastern Meeting for the probe of plausible interfacial conformation may be sent off for sequencing. The vectors and cas9 Society of Developmental Biology, Woods Hole, challenging, monitoring a change in the dynamics (endonuclease) will then be injected into single cell MA. of fluorophore attached to a folding peptide is zebrafish embryos. Once the genes are broken in ______possible, as seen in this experiment. Selected for the embryos, the DNA in the offspring will be presentation at American Chemistry Society cloned in order to see if the DNA was broken 379 • Multiple Gene Targeting in National Conference, New Orleans, LA. properly. The vector containing a ubiquitous Zebrafish using CRISPR/Cas9 ______promoter was successfully transformed and is TYLER MACK, MAXWELL COSTICH, KARL KAPTEIN currently being injected into embryos. The FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY 419 • Probing the Diffusion Rate embryos injected with this vector and other similar The good effort (gef) zebrafish is characterized by and Internal Peptide Dynamics: vectors are being screened for green fluorescent underdeveloped eyes resulting from a 3 bp Temperature and pH-Dependence protein glowing which indicates a transgenic fish deletion at the splice donor site of exon 3 in the was produced successfully. chaf1b gene. The resulting protein is severely Studies of a Fluorescein-Tagged ______truncated and thus unable to perform its role of Amyloid Beta Peptide and 377 • Novel Identification of loading protective histones on DNA during Thioflavin T in a Sol-Gel Matrix Synthesis-phase of the cell cycle. It has been Natural Viral Infections in Zebrafish DAVID AKANONU, JESSICA IMAYEGAUHI suggested by others that cells missing Chaf1b PATRICK BUCKLEY FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, protein suffer from accumulation of genomic FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY damage and subsequently tp53-mediated The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a vertebrate that is Hydrogels are very popular, serving as an advanced apoptosis. In our hands, genetic knockdown of increasingly being used as a model organism in drug delivery method to carry and release drugs to tp53 by antisense-morpholino mRNA targeting biological studies due to its large clutch size, specific parts of the body. Our group is attempting failed to spare gef mutant embryos from cell death. transparent embryos, and genetic similarity to to design a silica sol-gel material-based drug The recent development of a CRISPR/Cas9 humans. Studies of other model organisms have delivery capsule similar to hydrogels with mediated gene disruption method has afforded us established that viral infections have the potential sensitivity-controlled diffusion rate parameters. the opportunity to study the effects of specific to alter the results of a biological study. The Inserting a peptide into the sol-gel suppresses proteins in vivo. We aim to test the specific potential confounding effect of viral infection solvent diffusion rates because it changes requirement tp53 has in the cell death phenotype makes the observation and elimination of viruses conformation in order to enter into the gel cavities analyzing transgenic zebrafish containing three in a model organism colony of significant where solvent normally diffuses through. gRNAs directed toward chaf1b, tp53, as well as the importance. Artificially-introduced viral infections However, extracting the expression of the control pigment gene, TYR. In addition, we are of zebrafish have demonstrated this organism’s structural changes occurring is a challenging study. using a vector construct containing five gRNAs susceptibility to viral infections, but no naturally- To probe the peptide dynamics in the gel matrix, specific for suspected pathway genes, chaf1b, occurring viral infections of zebrafish have been Thioflavin T with Aβ1-40 or FAβ (fluorescein attached tp53, puma, and caspase-3, and the control gene, observed to date. This investigation aims to to Aβ1-40) is encapsulated into a sol-gel matrix and TYR, to study the genetic requirement of the identify the first observed natural viral infection of subject to fluorescence and lifetime decay assays apoptotic pathway in gef fish. zebrafish in Dr. Travis Bailey’s colony at SUNY at different temperatures and pH levels to Geneseo. PCR and DNA Gel Electrophoresis were determine both the solvent diffusion rates and the used to probe for the presence of viruses that are CHEMISTRY peptide structural changes occurring. The diffusion known to infect closely-related fish species such as 403 • Coverage Ratio of rates and peptide dynamics were found to be carp and koi. Preliminary results from several Amyloidogenic Peptides Over sensitive to pH and temperature change, which candidate zebrafish samples are shown. implies that the stable conformation at each pH or ______Nano-gold Colloidal Particles a temperature level reflects on the coverage of the 378 • Expression of Notch Pathway Nanoscale Interfacial Interaction of cavity, which in turn affects the solvent diffusion rate. Genes in gef Mutants Amyloid Beta Peptide 1-40 With ______SARA FEINLAND, AMANDA YOUNG ThT FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY 420 • Nanoscale Interfacial APAULA ISLAM A mutagenesis screening of Danio rerio (zebrafish) Interaction of Amyloid Beta Peptide FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, produced the good effort (gef) mutant, CHEMISTRY 1-40 with ThT characterized by an underdeveloped retina by 3 One of the main causes of many APAULA ISLAM dpf and lethality at 7 dpf. It is known that gef neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, mutants have a deletion in the chaf1b gene. Chaf1b disease or Parkinson’s disease, is the deformation CHEMISTRY loads histones and it has been postulated that DNA of a specific protein, called amyloidogenic protein. exposure leads to cell death. If chaf1b is mutated, 54  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM

The amyloid beta peptide 1-40 (Aβ1-40) was umbellata and tomato. Selected for presentation microalgae is currently hindered by the expense of prepared over nano-gold colloidal surfaces at Undergraduate Research Symposium of the production and the inconsistency of lipid yields. together with Thioflavin T (ThT) dye as a Rochester Section of the American Chemical Our research works to make algae cultivation more fluorophore. The fluorescence assay of ThT Society, Brockport, NY. feasible by examining growth conditions intended displayed two different types of fluorescence ______to maximize lipid content within Chlorella algae bands: 1) mainly originating from free-ThT and 2) 423 • Investigation of Gold Nano cells. Nitrogen depletion in media has been shown ThT significantly interacted with Aβ1-40. The ThT Particle Shielding Due to Protein to contribute to lipid optimization within the cell directly interacted with Aβ1-40 adsorbed over the during late log phase. After cultures were gold colloidal surface. Significant evidence Surface Area Coverage established, sodium nitrate, an essential supporting that Aβ1-40 has higher binding affinity ISHAN DESHMUKH macronutrient for Chlorella growth, was than a gold colloidal surface was obtained. A series FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, supplemented to a Bold’s Basal medium at three of studies on fluorescence decay time were CHEMISTRY different concentrations. One treatment received collected at various pH’s ranging, from pH 1 to pH The proteins alpha-synuclein and amyloid beta 1- additions of the original media, while the other 12, and with several gold colloidal sizes ranging 40 are both characteristic in the development of samples were given media containing either four from 10 nm to 100 nm. It was concluded that ThT Alzheimer’s disease. The two proteins form times or none of the original sodium nitrate attached to either 22Glu or 23Asp of the Aβ1-40 aggregates called Lewy bodies and amyloid concentration. Algal growth in these samples was through an electrostatic interaction between plaques respectively. Gold nanocolloidal particles monitored for 35 days. After harvesting the cells, adjacent Aβ1-40 monomers, as Aβ1-40 proceeds a were used as a substrate for the proteins to adhere the non-polar lipids were extracted using a 2:1 folding conformational change. The spacing to. This substrate allowed us to analyze the chloroform-methanol ratio and lipid yields were between adjacent Aβ1-40 monomers was increased complexes SPR (surface plasmon resonance) calculated. Samples next underwent a for gold colloidal sizes of 50 nm and above. bands. The bare gold particles of various sizes were transesterification reaction upon which IR ______analyzed using visible light spectroscopy and then spectroscopy was used to detect the presence of 421 • Measuring Trans-Resveratrol were analyzed again once the proteins were fatty acid methyl esters (FAME), indicating the in Red Wine adsorbed. The peaks in the shifted spectra were triglycerides' successful conversion to crude recorded and fit with a sigmoidal function. biofuel. JACOB COLE, JOEY ONGKINGCO ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES BOIANI, CHEMISTRY 424 • The Effect of Even or Odd Our research team has investigated different 426 • Evaluating The Promise of methods for measuring trans-resveratrol in wine Alkyl Chain Lengths on Gelation of Calcium Phosphate Cements to and their effectiveness. Our focus has primarily Biphenol Derivative Organic Transfer Proteins to Fractured Bone been on using SPME fibers partnered with HPLC to develop a procedure that could be automated in Gelators Site Part 1: Diffusion Studies the future. However, we have also investigated the JENNIFER SCHULMAN, MELANIE TRAN, SHAWN PEMA SHERPA, SIMRAN SINGH use of SPE using C18 filters and vacuum filtration MOORE FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, partnered with fluoresce spectroscopy. Our goal FACULTY SPONSOR: CRISTINA GEIGER, CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY has been to create an optimal procedure for The synthesis of 4,4’-bis-(6-methyloxycarbony- Bone defects caused by trauma, tumors, and measuring the levels of trans-resveratrol found in lhexyloxy) biphenyl (BBO7-Me), 4,4’-bis-(6-ethyl- inherent genetic disorders require the use of red. oxycarbonylhexyloxy) biphenyl (BBO7-Et), 4,4’-bis- grafting materials to facilitate bone regeneration at ______(8-methyloxycarbonyloctyloxy) biphenyl (BBO9- the affected site. However, the lack of bone supply 422 • An Investigation of the Me), 4,4’-bis-(8-ethyloxycarbonyloctyloxy) biphenyl and donor site morbidity associated with (BBO9-Et), 4,4’-bis-(9-methyloxycarbonylnonyloxy) autografting pose significant challenges. A Biosynthesis and Accumulation of biphenyl (BBO10-Me), 4,4’-bis-(8-ethyloxycarbon- promising alternative approach to autograft is the Lycopene in Elaegnus umbellata ylnonyloxy) biphenyl (BBO10-Et), 4,4’-bis-(10- use of bone cement prepared with calcium and Tomato methyloxycarbonyldecloxy) biphenyl (BBO11-Me), phosphate cement (CPC). An effective synthetic and 4,4’-bis-(10-ethyloxycarbonyldecloxy) bone cement establishes an equilibrium between BENJAMIN PASTORE biphenyl (BBO11-Et) is reported. The gelators’ porosity, mechanical strength, and the rate of FACULTY SPONSOR: ERIC HELMS, CHEMISTRY abilities to form stable gels were analyzed. BBO7- diffusion. The overall objective of this project is to Elaegnus umbellata, otherwise known as the Et and BBO9-Me did not form stable gels in octanol. design a diffusion monitoring system that can track Autumn olive, is a plant native to Asia. Autumn BBO7-Me and BBO9-Et formed weak 2% (w/w) gels the diffusion of proteins and other biological olive produces the carotenoid lycopene at in octanol. BBO10-Me, BBO10-Et, BBO11-Me, and materials from CPCs to the site of fracture to aid in incredibly high levels. Lycopene is shown to have BBO11-Et formed strong 1.5% (w/w) gels in the bone repair process. The diffusion of copper purported health benefits including a reduced risk octanol. The odd/even effect of alkyl chain length sulfate from copper sulfate loaded CPCs is of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease on gelation was investigated through circular monitored using absorption spectroscopy over and cancer. The tomato, a common food in the dichroism (CD), UV-vis absorption, and varying time intervals to assess the potential of the American diet, also produces lycopene, however at fluorescence spectroscopy. Differences in the CPCs to deliver proteins to the fracture sites. The far lower levels. The goal of this research project is spectra suggests that each gel exhibits different results are presented and discussed hereafter. to determine the disparity that exists between the modes of aggregation. From observing the stability Selected for presentation at American Chemical biosynthesis and accumulation of lycopene in both of the various gels, we determined that gelators Society's 63rd annual Undergraduate Research species. In order to investigate this research with even chain lengths usually form stronger gels Symposium, Brockport, NY. inquiry intensive literature searches were than gelators with odd chain lengths. ______conducted. Investigations into the topic have ______427 • Investigating the Promise of revealed that the differential expression of the 425 • Optimizing Nitrogen genes that encode the proteins, Acetyl-CoA C- Rice Husks as Non-human acetyltransferase, IPP isomerase and Concentrations to Maximize Lipid Feedstocks for Lignocellulosic prenyltransferase may account for the overserved Yields for Biodiesel Production Biofuels difference of lycopene production and ZOE MARR, COLLEEN STEWARD, FELICIA PASCALE ARIANNA SORIANO, SOFIA KOSTRINSKY accumulation between each species. Other FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, inquires have uncovered that overexpression of CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY ciRNA’s derived from PDS and PSY1 genes may also STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY In today’s world, many are trying to lead to a lower accumulation of lycopene in Third generation biofuels, which utilize algae as a counterbalance the damage to the Earth caused by tomato. These results give insight into the renewable feedstock, have the potential to years of overusing fossil fuels. Many alternatives to biosynthetic and genetic foundations that lead to revolutionize the energy industry. However, fossil fuels have been proposed, including biofuels, the disparity in lycopene accumulation in Elaegnus widespread marketability of biofuel derived from an apparently underappreciated and overlooked  Promotes sustainability 55 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual source of cheap energy. While efforts have been solutions. In this study, several computational or object on a sound tag card, and then press a geared toward the use of human food sources such methods are explored. The accuracy, speed, and button to trigger the machine’s internal voice as corn (1st generation biofuels), this has been precision of the solutions are compared for solving output. The machine comes equipped with five of linked to increasing the price of food which greatly various partial and ordinary differential equations. these buttons in various locations to allow the and negatively impacts many developing countries. ______student user to choose between single word or This research focuses on the production of second 312 • Design and Implementation sentence level use. In addition, the device can read generation biofuels, which rely on non-human of Web Services for BlueRescue up to 30,000 tag cards, which can be labelled with food sources, specifically rice husks, the outermost a wide range of symbols, photos, texts, or objects JOHN ROBINSON layer that is separated from the rice grains during of reference to provide the student user with a FACULTY SPONSOR: KIRK ANNE, COMPUTING AND the milling process and thrown away as a waste large inventory of vocabulary. Users can choose INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY product. Rice husks are ideal as a biofuel feedstock, between Male or Female voice output. This poster This poster will describe the design and because they are cheap, if not free, and they have will describe how the Logan ProxTalker Modular implementation of a web service. The focus of this the power to curb greenhouse gas emissions while device can be used in education settings to study was on the development of a web service for not taking away human food source or causing facilitate communication by students with BlueRescue, a VentureWorks startup company. competition for new land. For this project, an ionic disabilities. This study covered the software development cycle liquid (1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride) was ______and the techniques required to produce a web used for the pretreatment of the rice husks to yield service. We developed a web app for firefighters 457 • Use of the MegaBee Eye Gaze glucose. Glucose quantification methods applied which provides them with blueprints to the Communication Device to Facilitate include refractometry, and DNS analyses. The burning buildings they are about to enter. Included results are presented and discussed. Selected for Communication in a Classroom in this web app are a test dispatch feed showing presentation at 63rd annual Undergraduate current emergencies, as well as a connection to our Setting Research Symposium, Brockport, NY. ALEXANDRA SEMENZA, MELISSA TRIOLO, FIONA ______blueprint database, Google Maps API implementation, and a note system and database CONROY, JIE MIN CHAI, MADDISON MOORE, 428 • Critical Bone Fracture for firefighters to store notes about specific MIKAYLA TROTTER Repairs: A Comparison of the locations. An employee/admin system was also FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, Mechanical Properties of Calcium added to facilitate the addition of newly scanned EDUCATION blueprints with their metadata into our Amazon S3 The MegaBee Eye Gaze Communication Device is a Phosphate Bioactive Cement and server. Some of the topics that will be covered form of AAC consisting of a tablet that uses eye Pig Bones Part II include: database design, API development, user movement to facilitate communication. Offered in MARK SOTO, YEN LE, JEREMY MEDINA interface design, web server administration, and many different languages, this device is helpful for FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, web development. many disabilities and linguistic backgrounds. This CHEMISTRY ______poster will describe how the MegaBee Eye Gaze Understanding the mechanical properties of bone 313 • Payment Card Industry (PCI) Communication Device works, costs, and who is critical to the design of materials that are to be benefits from it. It will also provide information Compliance about how this device can be implemented in a used in repair of bone fractures. The mechanical PHILLIP WOO properties of the materials in turn determine the classroom setting. Examples of the MegaBee Eye FACULTY SPONSOR: KIRK ANNE, COMPUTING AND Gaze Device and how it may be used will be behavior of the body under a load or force. This INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY study compares the mechanical properties of presented. Network security plays a very important role in our ______calcium phosphate cement (CPC) to pig bone with technologically advanced world. It is a high priority 458 • Text to Talk: TextSpeak the aim of determining its suitability and to explore the design and implementation of applicability for use on load bearing bone fracture network security policies in order to prevent Speech Generator to Facilitate sites. CPC has been reported to be a bioactive and hackers from taking confidential information from Communication for Exceptional biodegradable material with potential a business/organization. PCI compliance is a data Students resorbability, molding capabilities, and easy security standard that applies to any company or ELYSE BRICKNER, MARIA RUIZ, THOMAS manipulation. It is composed of hydroxyapatite organization that accepts credit card payments. As VANGELLOW, MARIA PAPAS, HEIDI GRANVILLE (HA), a major component of human bone, and a part of the new information security requirements FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, base constituent of the cement. Due to the from the Federal and New York State governments, EDUCATION potential resorbability and also the ability to there is a need for reviewing the College's network Text to Talk provides a form of speech to a wide initiate bone growth, our continuing efforts are security policies. It is important to understand then age range of individuals with disabilities. For those geared toward addressing challenges of adequate implement the necessary requirements of current who have speech or language impairments, this mechanical strength of the cement to ensure policies to be considered PCI compliant. compatibility to human bone. The cement was AAC device allows the individual to communicate synthesized and characterized using published and express themselves inside or outside of the methods, mechanical strength tested and the data EDUCATION classroom. Wireless and portable, this keyboard obtained is presented and discussed herewith. 450 • Augmentative and and “voice box” allows students to generate Selected for presentation at 63rd annual Alternative Communication (AAC) speech and engage with teachers and peers Undergraduate Research Symposium, Rochester, through typing. Come see our poster to learn more NY. in the Modern Day Classroom: about a ground breaking speech generator that can Logan ProxTalker Modular transform people’s lives. COMPUTING AND INFORMATION BROOKE PAV, GRACE DUNNIGAN, KAITLIN ______459 • Livescribe Smartpen is a Form TECHNOLOGY CONNOLLY, BAILEIGH MOQUIN, ANDREW SCHAEFFLER, OLIVIA DONROE of Augmentative and Alternative 311 • Computational Methods for FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, Communication (AAC) Solving Differential Equations EDUCATION The Logan ProxTalker Modular AAC Device is one EMILY GORDIN, THERESA CIULLO, SHERIDAN DILLON RAMSEY YAEGER, MARY CROMPTON, LAUREN SIEGEL FACULTY SPONSOR: KIRK ANNE, COMPUTING AND of the most advanced and adaptable recorded speech communication devices available. This FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION There are many examples of differential equations portable device uses radio frequency identification technology to allow verbal picture communication The Livescribe is an up-and-coming world-wide that arise in the sciences that have no known leader in the smartpen market. The Livescribe analytic solutions. However, using computational for people of all ages who are non-verbal. Its simple design allows the user to place any photo, symbol, smartpen AAC device captures and shares methods we can obtain very precise numerical handwritten notes and at the same time is able to 56  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM convert those handwritten notes into digital Dynavov device and its effectiveness as an AAC Seraphina Ling, and Fumi Ogura – share their format. This smartpen contains an embedded device in facilitating communication with students experiences abroad in Greece, the Netherlands, infrared camera that identifies pen strokes on the with disabilities in a school setting. Hong Kong, and Toronto respectively. Cathy went specific Livescribe paper, making it simple for a ______to study abroad in Athens, Greece during the student to record notes. In addition, it can play 463 • Racial and Resource Diversity spring of 2017. Ikki Tanaka studied abroad in back what was written an unlimited number of in the Rochester-Metro Area and its Groningen in the Netherlands during the fall of times, allowing for syncing of what was written 2017. Seraphina Ling shares her experience with what is said, and vice versa. Engineered for Implications on Education working abroad in Hong Kong during the winter of the specific use to aid students in the classroom, KRISTEN HOMEYER 2017. Fumi Ogura shares his experience at the this device replaces the need for computer access, FACULTY SPONSOR: JANE MORSE, EDUCATION Model United Nation Conference in Toronto, leveling the playing field for students of all types. While the United States has historically had issues Canada during the spring of 2018. The topics will ______with racial diversity and segregation, scholarly include sightseeing, local food, and work-study 460 • What Teacher Candidates literature suggests that segregation is more of an experiences. It is hoped that the viewers will be Should Know about Proloquo2go issue today than during the Civil Rights era, able to gain insight into various cultures. especially in the North. The Rochester-metro area ______JULIA KIM, GENNY CORCORAN, BRENNA was chosen as a case study because of the resource MCSORLEY, MARIN GOODSTEIN, MEGAN 309 • The Education System in inequalities facing the city. This research project  HENDERSON documents the changes in ethnic diversity of Japan and the United States FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, Rochester-metro area school districts from 2001 to MARIN AKINO, YUME IRIYAMA, NOZOMI EDUCATION 2016 and analyzes the socioeconomic trends and IKEGAMI This poster will present Proloquo2go, a form of an resource availability affecting the diversity and FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, Augmentative and Alternative Communication educational opportunities of students in ENGLISH (AAC). Proloquo2go is a symbol-supported Rochester-metro area districts. We are international students from Japan. Despite communication tool to encourage language ______the fact that Japan has over 770 universities, some development and strengthen communication skills 464 • Using Digital Text Set Trailers people prefer to go to US universities (studying in for all levels of language development. This Japan, 2018). We want to share the system of application, that is readily available for purchase, to Engage All Students in 21st- Japanese universities with the audience and show has been shown to be a successful and viable Century Education how it is different from the system of American communication tool for students with autism, MICHAEL MASETTA universities. The main point is about two side of cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, developmental FACULTY SPONSOR: THEA YURKEWECZ, Japanese universities: academic and non- delays, and apraxia, to name a few. Proloquo2go EDUCATION academic. In the academic side, we describe the can help students develop and express their The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have set atmosphere in classes, student participation, and internal needs and emotions using speech- rigorous, complex goals for students in today’s the exam and grading system. In the non-academic generated outputs accessed by clicking symbols classrooms to be college and career ready. side, we will describe extracurriculars such as that represent words, phrases and complete Educators are required to develop meaningful and clubs, internships, and part-time jobs. We used sentences. This poster will discuss how efficient ways to support all students in meeting resources from online and from our personal Proloquo2go can be used in education settings to these standards. Text sets are a collection of fiction experiences in the Japanese university. aid students who have difficulty with verbal books, nonfiction books, poems, charts and maps, ______communication. and other texts focused on a single topic or line of 310 • Language Disorder ______inquiry. These texts can be used for close reading, Identification within the 462 • Tobii Dynavox Eye Gaze to make cross-text connections, and to integrate ESL/Bilingual Context Device as a Means of Augmentative content area topics into literacy. By including a range of text complexities, genres, and modalities ALEXANDRA LOVRIC Alternative Communication (AAC) (e.g., print, digital, audio) in a text set, teachers can FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, in an Educational Setting meet students’ individual reading needs and still ENGLISH OLIVIA DAVIS, BETHANY LIANO, KENNEDI design effective and engaging literacy instruction For those learning a second language, making WITTENRICH, PAIGE CHALFANT, EMMA LUPOLI, that meets the CCSS. Still, fostering students’ mistakes areinevitable. Sometimes, these mistakes JENNA GERAGHTY motivation to read for instructional purposes can indicate a much deeper problem. It is the job of a FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, be challenging, and book trailers are a resource speech-language pathologist to differentiate EDUCATION that educators have used to creatively promote between the errors expected of a second language Tobii Dynavox is a form of AAC used by students literature. The purpose of this poster is to examine learner and those that reflect a communication who have disabilities who are non-verbal. The the research on developing and using text sets as disorder. Traditional language assessment has device allows them to speak, read, write, and well as using book trailers in classrooms. This focused on surface-level and primarily interact with the people around them. The exploratory project has the potential to offer grammatical-based criteria. However, new company was founded in 2001 and in 2004 the first teachers an effective method to support students’ research supports the use of a more holistic product with eye tracking was launched. The engagement with diverse texts, engagement with approach to properly diagnose ESL or bilingual device is attached to a tablet or computer and technology, and progress towards meeting CCSS- children with a language disorder or a specific tracks the user's eye movements in four steps. First aligned goals. language impairment (SLI). This poster seeks to the eye tracker sends out near infrared light that is expand upon why comprehensive assessment reflected in the eyes. These reflections are picked ENGLISH criteria is essential for a proper diagnosis and takes up by the eye tracker's camera and through into consideration both methods of traditional and filtering and calculations the eye tracker 308 • Different Cultural Experiences modern language assessment, and the analysis of determines where the user is looking. It's especially in Greece, the Netherlands, Hong possible clinical markers. beneficial for use in an educational setting for Kong, Canada as International students to communicate questions and answers GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES to teachers and peers. To personalize the device, Students 302 • Mineralogy of Mayan Achote there are specific programs to download that allow SERAPHINA LING, IKKI TANAKA, WENXIU ZHONG, the device to respond more accurately to the FUMITSUGU OGURA Black Pottery from Belize student. The device is shown to be increasingly FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, ASHLEY MONTI, REBECCA RICHARDS more effective over time as the student becomes ENGLISH FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL more comfortable communicating through it. This This poster is a reflection of the experiences of SCIENCES poster will present information on the Tobii being immersed in various cultures. Four Five samples of Mayan Achote Black pottery were international students – Cathy Zhong, Ikki Tanaka, collected from four different sites in Belize. We  Promotes sustainability 57 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual identified and quantified the abundance of agglutinated sand-sized grains composed of clay predict that using more rigorous 3D modeling and different phases in the potsherds. Three different and silt grains. Based on foraminifera compositions better interpolation methods could help study areas within each potsherd were analyzed: of each sample, it was determined that the James researchers show that isostatic rebound will raise the rim, the wall, and the center. These locations City Formation was deposited in an estuarine the relative water level. were chosen because of color variations that were environment. Sediment samples indicated ______visible on both a macro- and microscopic scale. potential storm input as well as oxidation, causing 324 • Preliminary Paleomagnetic Phase abundances were done by point-counting hematite to precipitate and cement clay- and silt- Analysis of the Pulpit Sill, Henry 100 points within a 2.2x6.7 mm2 region in each sized grains to form the agglutinated particles study area. Phases were identified with a observed. The James City Formation was deposited Mountains, UT petrographic microscope using the 10x objective as an estuarine environment that may have JEREMY MEDINA, GREGORY VOUZIANAS lens and a 10x ocular lens. Matrix (or material experienced frequent storm input and has FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL made of tiny crystals that were too small to identify undergone oxidation, causing diagenetic hematite SCIENCES individually) was the most abundant phase in all to precipitate. The James City Formation is Paleomagnetic samples were collected from the samples. Calcite was the next dominant phase. representative of a transgressive systems tract Henry Mountains in Utah. The goal in our study was Oxidized hematite was also observed in every driven by global warming and resultant ice melting. to determine if the Pulpit sill was emplaced by a sample and caused slight staining surrounding the ______single pulse of magma or if it is composed of crystals. Based on our point counts, the hematite 322 • The 2003 Cedar Fire: Mapping several pulses of magma. To answer this question content is not clearly connected to the color of the and Burn Analysis we used the variation of the Earth’s magnetic field potsherd. recorded by this dioritic sill. If emplacement was MARLEY BLADIS ______due to a single pulse of magma the signals would 303 • Mineralogical Analysis of Iron FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, all be identical. If the signals are not the same, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES however, this suggests that sufficient time has Slag Samples from Farmer’s Delight The Cedar fire was the most deadly fire in California elapsed between the pulses. The samples recorded Plantation, Sussex County, history, killing 15 people, causing over 1.24 billion consistent reproducible signals, characterized by dollars worth of damage, and it burned one or two component systems. The signals appear Delaware approximately 1,133 km2 from October to CASEY HOFFMAN to decay to the origin, indicating that the primary November of 2003. This large-scale wildfire component is being measured. However, these FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL represents a unique opportunity to study burn SCIENCES results are tentative due to the mineralogy of the severity of large-scale wildfires through sill. The cores were not completely demagnetized This project aims to determine the mineral spectroscopy. Analysis of the fire’s burn area index, composition of iron slag from an 18th century during the alternating field demagnetization normalized burn ratio, and burn severity in ENVI experiments. In order for the data to clearly test plantation in Southern Delaware. Slag is the stony shows a complex relationship between or glass-like byproduct of separating a metal – in our hypothesis, the samples must be completely anthropogenic influence, biotic factors, demagnetized. We concluded that in order to this case, iron – from a raw ore, and the mineralogy topography, and burn severity. The presence of the of slag is an indicator of both the environment and obtain significant results, more adequate natural highland vegetation and unnatural instrumentation is needed. The instrument needed the materials used in the original smelting process. irrigated lands constrain wildfires to areas that are Historical records indicate that smelting on this to finalize this project is a thermal demagnetizer less populated. The natural highland biota of that exposes the cores to high temperatures, plantation was performed largely by a population California shows a predisposition towards high of African slaves. However, it is unknown whether further erasing the magnetization. severity burns and can be used as a predictor for ______this population performed the smelting using burn areas. In the highland areas where slopes are 325 • A Gravimetric Study of traditional African bloomery techniques or using a too steep to accumulate a significant soil layer and European blast furnace. Thin sections of five slag therefore vegetation resulted in lower (or non- Sediment Depth South of Conesus samples from this site were created and analyzed existent) burn severity. Lake, New York for mineralogical composition using a petrographic ______MEGAN KOPP, TIMOTHY WILLIAMS microscope. The mineralogy and morphology of 323 • The Effect of Isostatic FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL the samples were observed with a petrographic SCIENCES microscope, and these observations along with the Rebound on Lake Ontario Water Conesus Lake is a Finger Lake in western New York ethnographic context largely suggest the use of a Levels set in a glacial valley. At its southern end, packages European blast furnace over a traditional African CAROLIEN MOSSEL of sediment have accumulated with an unknown bloomery. FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL ______depth. This study uses relative gravity anomalies to SCIENCES model the depth of the sediment fill above the 304 • Analysis of Mudrocks from Around 10,000 years ago, glaciers retreated across bedrock of this region. Gravity is a mechanism for the James City Formation, Lower the Great Lakes region in North America, and studying sediment depths because gravitational resulting isostatic rebound is still affecting the Pleistocene at Neuse River, North forces caused by different materials will have regional uplift and subsidence rates. Rates of uplift localized differences based on the density and Carolina are higher with higher latitude; therefore the Lake thickness of that material. Alluvium is less dense ISAAC BILINSKI Ontario basin is being tilted to the south. We than bedrock and will therefore cause a lower FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFF OVER, GEOLOGICAL hypothesize that Lake Ontario is tilting partly due gravity signal where thick packages of SCIENCES to this effect and that the southern shoreline is unconsolidated sediment are deposited. This study An analysis of microfauna and lithology of five receding, potentially posing larger flood risks. The uses a gravimeter to measure localized gravity samples taken from the James City Formation of Coordinating Committee on Great Lakes Basic anomalies across a section of the valley with the Lower Pleistocene was performed to Hydraulic and Hydrologic Data has published endpoints located on the surrounding ridges. The determine its depositional environment. reports on the rising water levels and isostatic presenters produced a model profiling the bedrock Microfauna and sand grains were analyzed using a rebound, but not on the amount of water level and sediment fill with data collected. Results Scanning Electron Microscope to determine the increase due to isostatic rebound. Attempts were suggest a significant variance of sediment fill in the species of the microfauna and the chemical made to model in 2D and 3D. Vertical movement center of the valley compared to the top of the composition of the sand grains within each sample. GPS data was used to create an interpolation map ridge. The thickest sediment package within the Approximately 100 microfossils were picked from showing the gradient of vertical velocities over the valley is approximately 90 meters and the samples one, two, three and four; sample five did region. A Digital Elevation Model of Lake Ontario sediment package on the ridge is approximately 45 not yield any microfossils. Each sample was was used to create a 2D profile of the lake at meters. A larger data set would be beneficial for determined to be a sandy mudstone based on present, 100 years ago, and 100 years in the future. determining the limits of the valley. sand:mud composition by mass. Samples This approach is limited but suggests that some ______contained organic carbonate detritus as well as flooding can be attributed to isostatic rebound. We 58  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM

329 • Determining the Rate of consistency in the paleomagnetic analyses suggest Hay otras poblaciones en la ciudad como peruanos, a large volume of samples from these are needed cubanos y salvadoreños. En el artículo “Language Surface Processes Using Crater to produce statistically significant results and/or and Dialect Contact in Spanish in New York: Toward Morphology in the Gusev Plains alternate formations should be targeted. Selected the Formation of a Speech Community” de Ricardo Region of Mars for presentation at Geological Society of America Otheguy, Ana Zentella y David Livert, ellos hablan annual conference, Seattle, WA. sobre el contacto del dialecto y el lenguaje y como JULIANA CONLON la interacción crea un lenguaje único de las FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, comunidades en la ciudad. Por ejemplo, los GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES hispanohablantes de la segunda generación Craters on the Gusev Plains on Mars can reveal 404 • Los Dialectos del Español en incluye el pronombre personal de tercera persona important information about the surface el Estado de Florida singular aunque no es común en hispanohablantes processes. The purpose of this research was to JASMINE PLUMMER, SHAY BENEDETTO, de primera generación (Shin 304). También, determine the rate of surface processes in Gusev CHRISTINA REILLY utilizaremos el artículo "Contact and Coherence: Plains using crater morphology and compare those FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSANA CASTILLO- Dialectal Leveling and Structural Convergence in values with the InSight landing site's values. An RODRIGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES NYC Spanish" por Daniel Erker y Ricardo Otheguy. image and digital elevation model of part of Gusev We are focusing on the Spanish spoken in Florida Este artículo se enfoca en el rango de los Crater were obtained from the High-Resolution in the United States: the dialects, cultural attitudes, fenómenos variables en español en Nueva York. Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) onboard the and how contact with English has influenced the ______Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Craters of over 50 dialects. We cannot separate the influence of the meters in diameter were mapped in ESRI’s ArcMap. 429 • The Investigation of the Use mixing of cultures in a dialect. Especially in the area They were then analyzed to determine their of Spanish Language Within the of Miami, contact with English has created a maximum rim height and crater depth using 3D unique dialect. Also, we are curious if the influence Geneseo Community Analyst tools and Model Builder. A classification of Caribbean Spanish has extended to Florida and KATHERINE CONBOY, KATHERINE WEDIN, scheme was created using crater characteristics to the surrounding states that do not have a large TIPHERETH HASSAN group them by their relative age using their Spanish-speaking population. FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSANA CASTILLO- morphology. Crater statistics were then performed ______RODRÍGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES on each category to determine the age of each 405 • Cultural Identity of Spanish- Our Great Day presentation is an explorative- category. The crater depth, rim height, and age descriptive study of Spanish speakers in the were used to determine the rates of deposition Speaking Youth in the Northeast of Geneseo area. We wish to investigate the ways in and erosion from one category to the next. The the United States which Spanish speaking individuals’ use of the rates of deposition and erosion from the least to RACHEL BURNS, TIFFANY ALULEMA, SHERRAY language has changed since they moved to the most degraded craters are 0.0035 m/My and BROWN area. To investigate this theme, we plan to use 0.00129 m/My respectively. The Gusev Plains FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSANA CASTILLO- previous studies that took place in rural areas that craters have slower surface processes than InSight RODRIGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES are similar Geneseo to guide and compare our by an order of magnitude. Our topic is the cultural identity of Spanish research, as well as create a questionnaire to

speakers in the Northeast of the United States. We distribute to Spanish speakers and those who GEOPHYSICS want to focus on how education and demographics identify as Hispanic in Geneseo (for example, 307 • Preliminary Analysis of within a school will affect the cultural identity of Geneseo students, professors, organizations like newly arrived immigrants. We predict that the LSA, and workers in the community). From this Anisotropy of Magnetic adolescents and young children that migrated to investigation, we expect to find that the frequency Susceptibility and Paleomagnetic the United States will have a more negative and extent to which these individuals are speaking Fabrics within Exhumed Portions of cultural identity and view of their Hispanic roots. If Spanish will have changed substantially since schools are not diverse and do not have sufficient residing in this community, due to the limited the Nankai Acretionary Complex, ESL programs, we believe that the Spanish Hispanic population here. Kii Peninsula speakers will not have a positive cultural identity. ______MELISSA HARTWIG This is largely due to their desire to fit in with the 430 • Effectiveness of English FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOPHYSICS dominant American culture, and therefore, Acquisition Strategies of Recently We collected samples from the Kii Peninsula, rejection of their native culture. Lastly, internal Japan, to determine if anisotropy of magnetic discrimination can affect cultural identity, because Immigrated Persons from Latin susceptibility (AMS) and/or paleomagnetic data certain dialects are valued more than others. We America could provide kinematic constraints on the predict that in the northeast, the cultural identity SHANNON VALLONE, ELENA KLEINHENZ, evolution of the Nankai margin. Specifically, we of Spanish speakers will be more positive in the city NIKAULY CASILLA, MARISSA HARRINGTON-VERB aim to test the hypothesis that depositional than in the suburbs or the rural areas. Our findings FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSANA CASTILLO- environments evolve with deformation. Analyses will be based on research as well as surveys and RODRIGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES were conducted on seven samples. AMS yields interviews conducted with the local Spanish- We are analyzing the difficulties and hardships that highly consistent results with the ellipsoids speaking population. recently immigrated persons from Latin America characterized by oblate shapes. The corrected ______face in the United States. We will be conducting degree of anisotropy is low and varies from 1.00- 406 • Contacto Dialectal de Nueva interviews and statistically analyzing surveys to 1.06. Within most samples, the variation in Pj was York understand the mechanisms and the effectiveness <0.01. Five of seven sites yield consistent JESSICA GOLDEN, ELIZABETH FURST, AMY of how they are working to overcome the language orientations with respect to the AMS fabrics. The MIRANTI barrier and the acquisition of English. We will be long and short axes roughly plot along steeply FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSANA CASTILLO- interviewing/surveying individuals who visit the dipping great circles, while the intermediate axes RODRIGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Geneseo Migrant Center. The Migrant Center tend to cluster shallow, NS orientation. La ciudad de Nueva York es el centro de assists migrant farm workers in a variety of aspects Paleomagnetic results were less consistent. hispanohablantes de la costa este. Un 27.5 por to facilitate immigrants' transition to America. Samples were subject to alternating field ciento de las personas en la ciudad de Nueva York ______demagnetization and only three of seven sites son hispanohablantes. El Bronx tiene lo más de 432 • Cómo la Inmigración a los yielded internally consistent results. These sites hispanohablantes con un 54 por ciento de la Estados Unidos ha Alterado el contain single or two component systems, but the población hispanohablante. Para nuestro high coercivity components vary in orientation. proyecto, estudiamos el contacto de lenguas en la Dialecto Mexicano Our preliminary results indicate the targeted units ciudad de Nueva York, específicamente entre los JAMI GOLDSON, ADRIENNE REDA, DANIEL DAVIS are solid candidates for AMS analysis. The lack of dominicanos, los puertorriqueños y los mexicanos.  Promotes sustainability 59 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN CASTILLO-RODRIGUEZ, 318 • Real World Applications of 321 • Classification and LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Un dialecto del español que se habla en los Estados Linear Algebra Characterization of Networks Unidos es mexicano-americano. Es un dialecto muy HARRISON HIPOLITO JAMES CANNING distinto del suroeste del país, pero también es FACULTY SPONSOR: AHMAD ALMOMANI, FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUG BALDWIN, hablado en otras partes del país. El dialecto MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS mexicano es el primero más hablado en los EE.UU., Mathematics has been the backbone of many Networks are often labeled according to the (63 por ciento de la población hispanohablante). scientific breakthroughs and research. Often times, underlying phenomena that they represent, such Hay muchos rasgos fonéticos y rasgos it is used to estimate and or confirm any as re-tweets, protein interactions, or web page morfosintácticos que son muy distintivos del uncertainties and hypothetical assumptions that links. Our research seeks to determine if we can dialecto mexicano, y la inmigración ha influido los one could encounter when researching. In the real use machine learning techniques to gain a better dos. (Escobar y Potowski, 61-63). La inmigración de world, many obstacles arise when trying to push understanding of the categories of networks on the los mexicanos, o chicanos/as, a los EEUU ha the boundaries of science. With the utilization of Network Repository (www.networkrepository.com) aumentado con el tiempo, y la incrementación de linear algebra, applications of matrices and and then classify the unlabeled networks into la inmigración ha aumentado el estigma que las network analysis are used to determine many categories that make sense. It is generally believed personas que hablan inglesa tienen contra su chemistry, physics and engineering problems that that networks from different categories have dialecto mexicano. Este estigma ha causado que el are common to the respective field of study. In inherently unique network characteristics. Our dialecto mexicano cambie debido a las presiones y physics, often times vector field and force research provides conclusive evidence to validate expectativas sociales. Por ejemplo, como se explica problems arise. Through the use of derived this belief by presenting the results of global por Mendoza-Tenton, la lateralización de /r/ es equations physics problems become practical and network clustering and classification into common estereotipado y estigmatizado en Philadelphia y así solvable which is common in the early stages of a categories using machine learning algorithms. The más chicanos usan el /r/ vibrante simple ahora. En physicist. Although uncommon, utilization of machine learning techniques of Decisions Trees, este estudio, vamos a estudiar cómo la inmigración networking analysis problems on vectors and Random Forests, Linear Support Vector de los mexicanos a los EE.UU ha influido el dialecto forces provide an alternative to researchers and Classification and Gaussian naive Bayes were mexicano a través de la presión social y el estigma students who often prefer other mathematical applied to a 14-feature “identifying vector” for contra el idioma español. methods. For chemistry, often times balancing each graph. During cross-validation, the best English Translation: A Spanish dialect that is spoken equations is an essential component when technique, Gaussian naive Bayes, achieved an in the United States is Mexican-American. It is a studying and researching chemical properties of accuracy of 92.8%. After training the machine very distinct dialect of the southwest of the U.S., molecules and atoms; using matrices balancing can learning algorithm it was applied to a collection of but it is also spoken in other parts of the country. become simpler. The properties of linear algebra initially unlabeled graphs from the Network The Mexican dialect is the first most spoken in the that provide to real world problems that many Repository. Results were then manually checked by U.S. (63 percent of the Spanish-speaking scientist and mathematicians encounter each day determining original sources for these graphs. We population). There are many phonetic features and are very often relative and practical, which make it conclude by examining the accuracy of our results morphosyntactic features that are distinctive of the unique in its application. and discussing how future researchers can make Mexican dialect, and immigration has influenced ______use of this process. Selected for presentation at both of these. (Escobar and Potowski, 61-63). The 319 • Inverse Problems with Joint Mathematics Meeting and CompleNet 2018, immigration of Mexicans, or Chicanos, to the U.S. San Diego, Ca and Boston, MA. Relation to the Heat Equation has increased over time, and the increase in DAN HAYES immigration has increased the stigma that English FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDRZEJ KEDZIERAWSKI, MUSIC speakers have against the dialect. This stigma has MATHEMATICS 451 • Music of Star Wars: Exploring caused the Mexican dialect to change due to social We discuss the inverse problem with relation to Leitmotifs pressures and expectations. For example, as the heat equation, which is recovering the initial MANDY FIERO explained by Mendoza-Tenton, the lateralization of temperature from measurements of the final FACULTY SPONSOR: BROOKE MCCORKLE, MUSIC /r/ is stereotyped and stigmatized in Philadelphia temperature. As the backwards direction of the It is undoubtable that everyone has heard of Star and thus more Chicanos use the simple /r/ vibration heat equation is severely ill-posed, it is difficult to Wars and seen at least one movie. The films’ music now (1999). In this study, we will study how the solve. We will solve this problem by converting into is similarly ubiquitous. Throughout all the movies, immigration of Mexicans to the US has influenced an integral equation of the first kind, and then we John Williams used leitmotifs to add depth to the the Mexican dialect through social pressure and use the method of Tikhonov regularization. We can story and its score. A leitmotif is an identifying stigma against the Spanish language. then demonstrate our method with the aid of musical tag, often more of a fragment than a full numerical examples. line, that represents a character, idea, or object. A MATHEMATICS ______tool brought to prominence by opera composer 301 • Analyzing and Modeling 320 • Belted Sum Decomposition of Richard Wagner, leitmotifs can be found in many Pendulum Systems Using Fully Augmented Links movies’ scores. In the most recent additions to the CAMERON ZIEGLER series, The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi Lagrangian Mechanics FACULTY SPONSOR: CAROLINE HADDAD, (2017), Williams introduced several new leitmotifs. NICHOLAS MAINERI MATHEMATICS Some of the more prominent ones include the "Rey FACULTY SPONSOR: HOMMA FARIAN, Purcell and Adams have introduced notions of Theme" and the "Kylo Ren Theme," which combine MATHEMATICS nerves and belted sums for fully augmented links in an interesting way in The Last Jedi. I compare The purpose of this study is to simulate real world (FALs). We prove that all nerves corresponding to and contrast these leitmotifs as well as others in systems such as, a variety of pendulum FALs are made up of 3-cycles taking 1 of 3 forms. the movies, asking "In what context are they configurations, which provide a wide range of We show that nerve decomposition along one of used?," "What topic/theme do they represent?," complexity. Adding simple parameters like a spring these forms corresponds to cutting along a specific and "Do they differ in any way between the or air resistance, in reality makes a huge difference pair of thrice-punctured spheres in the nerve’s FAL. movies?"John Williams consciously engaged with on the behavior of the pendulum. In building these Furthermore, this corresponds to a belt-sum previous films in the most recent iterations of Star models Lagrangian mechanics are used to analyze decomposition such that the decomposition is Wars. A close comparative study will reveal this. the trajectory of the pendulum, which relates to made up of FALs. Finally, we show that ______the difference between kinetic energy and decomposition can continue until reaching a finite 452 • Illiberal Democracy through potential energy of the system. MATLAB Simulink set of prime FALs, and that this decomposition is Musical Censorship is the tool used to achieve these simulations. unique for a given FAL. Selected for presentation ______TAYLOR CHIOLA, TAYLER NGUYEN, NOAH WEISS at Joint Mathematics Meeting 2018, San Diego, FACULTY SPONSOR: BROOKE MCCORKLE, MUSIC CA. ______60  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM

We will be navigating the effect that musical and asked high school students to predict the 328 • Enhancements to the Low restriction has on government and society. By outcome and to describe the results. Our study exploring censorship throughout history within yielded puzzling results in that, on average, Energy Ion Facility at SUNY totalitarian regimes throughout the world, we will students exceeded expectations in predicting the Geneseo draw comparisons to the actions being taken today outcome but were deficient in describing what ZACH BARFIELD, STEVEN KOSTICK, ETHAN in the avoidance of composers such as Orff, they observed. The results suggest that the NAGASING Webern and Wagner, and the historical participating students had a good grasp of the basic FACULTY SPONSOR: KURT FLETCHER, PHYSICS & implications of these actions. Further examined physics of projectile motion but little experience in ASTRONOMY will be the inclination of such self-censorship describing observations using appropriate The Low Energy Ion Facility at Geneseo is used for pushing toward “illiberal democracy,” i.e. popular vocabulary. detector development and characterization for authoritarianism. In examining this phenomenon, ______inertial confinement fusion diagnostics. The we will discuss the ease at which otherwise 326 • Characterizing ICF Neutron system was recently upgraded to improve the ion democratic or popular movements may be Diagnostics on the nTOF line at beam quality by reducing contaminant ions. In the hijacked by censorship, distorting the notion of a new configuration, ions produced by the movement's true form as it progresses. The SUNY Geneseo duoplasmatron ion source are accelerated through parallels between the Soviet Union and United LOUIS CAVES, KEVIN PALMISANO, COREY a potential and focused into a new NEC analyzing States will be highlighted in this examination, WILKINSON, HANNAH MCCLOW magnet ,which bends the trajectory of the desired especially in light of the recent governmental FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS ions by 30°. A new einzel lens on the output of the trends of the Visegrad Group of the European & ASTRONOMY magnet chamber focuses the beam into a Union. The parallels will be examined in tiered, Neutron scintillator diagnostics for ICF can be scattering chamber. The analyzing magnet has historically based arguments. characterized using the neutron time-of-flight been calibrated for deuteron, 4He+, and 4He2+ ion (nTOF) line on Geneseo’s 1.7 MV tandem Pelletron beams at a range of energies, and no significant PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY Accelerator. Neutron signals can be differentiated hysteresis has been observed. The system can from gamma signals by employing a coincidence 305 • Exploration of X-ray accelerate deuterons to energies up to 25 keV to method called the associated particle technique initiate d-d fusion. Charged particle spectra with Tomography Using a CCD Detector (APT). In this measurement, a 2.1 MeV beam of protons, tritons, and 3He ions from d-d fusion have LAUREN FARRELL deuterons incident on a deuterated polyethylene been measured at scattering angles ranging from FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID MEISEL, PHYSICS & target produces neutrons via the d(d,n)3He 55° to 135° using deuterated polymer targets. Ion ASTRONOMY reaction. A BC-412 plastic scintillator, placed at a implantation can be used to produce a deuterated CLINT CROSS, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY scattering angle of 154°, detects 1.75 MeV target in a palladium substrate. In addition, a time- Tomography is a technique to visualize the interior neutrons in coincidence with the 3.64 MeV 3He of-flight beamline has been designed to measure of a solid object. X-ray images are taken at various ions at an associated angle of 10°. The APT is used the energies of ions elastically scattered at 135°. angles to create cross-sections of an object that to identify the 1.75 MeV neutron while the nTOF Selected for presentation at Division of Plasma can then be used to obtain information about its 3- line determines its energy. By gating only mono- Physics Meeting, American Physical Society, D geometries and properties. The X-ray source and energetic neutrons, the response of the scintillator Milwaukee, WI. detector will be stationary and the sample can be determined free from background scattered (maximum size ~1 cm2) will be placed in the X-ray neutrons and gamma rays. Selected for POLITICAL SCIENCE & beam and twisted around a perpendicular axis, presentation at American Physical Society using a stepper motor, to take various images. The Division of Plasma Physics, Milwaukee, WI. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS stepper motor is programmed to turn a precise ______431 • Recidivism or Rehabilitation: 327 • Determining Light Decay distance so images can be taken at the same The Options for Inmates in the interval. A rectangular container made of Curves in a Plastic Scintillator using aluminum was made to house the sample. Holes United States Correctional System were drilled at opposite ends for the X-ray source Cosmic Ray Muons SHAWNA DIEHL and CCD camera. The container will prevent image SARAH MANDANAS, PRAVEEN WAKWELLA, JOHN FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL interference. The diffracted X-ray picked up by the WILSON SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CCD will all be from the sample or the aluminum, FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS Recidivism is the act of reoffending or relapsing which can be removed later. The CCD has been & ASTRONOMY into criminal behavior for a person who has already tested, and is able to detect X-rays. A thin sheet of Plastic scintillators are used in HEDP and ICF been incarcerated. Most studies report that up to aluminum covers the CCD to prevent stray visible research to measure neutron energies using a time two-thirds of the inmates released will reoffend light from the X-ray emitter being detected as well of flight method. The energy resolution and within three years of walking away from prison life. as cut down the X-ray intensity. The multiple sensitivity of an nToF system has a direct They will violate parole or probation or they will images can then be used to reconstruct a 3D correlation to scintillation decay time of the plastic. commit new crimes, being arrested and version of the sample. To decrease the decay time, xylene scintillators are prosecuted and then placed back into the hands of ______quenched with oxygen and consequentially the United States Department of Corrections. The 306 • Unexpected Results from a become less efficient at producing light. As time issues with regard to recidivism are many and cross passes, the scintillator becomes oxygen deficient, Physics Demonstration Lesson by societal, legal and monetary boundaries. Countless which increases light production and the decay policies aim to eradicate recidivism, but many the Geneseo PENGUINS BLT time. Mono-energetic calibration neutrons are involve a complete overhaul of societal values Program unavailable at most HEDP and ICF facilities to concerning justice, punishment, and second monitor these increases. As a result, it is difficult to SAM BENZAKEIN, CLAIRE CORBEAUX, JULIA chances. Other proposals have little impact due to determine if oxygen concentration has decreased DIBERNARDO, JUSTIN D'SOUZA, MICHAEL cost and resource issues and other constraints. within these systems. Here, a possible method of GEILER, ETHAN SMITH, JONATHAN SPARLING Plausible approaches include but don’t limit to: calibrating xylene detectors in situ is presented. If FACULTY SPONSOR: KURT FLETCHER, PHYSICS & increasing the presence and quality of pre-release the detector's response to cosmic ray muons is ASTRONOMY services that address factors associated with the studied, it can be used to determine the Demonstrations are a staple in physics education. crimes of the incarcerated, such as addiction scintillation decay curve produced by a mono Literature on physics demonstrations indicates treatment, mental-health counseling, education energetic neutron. As a result, the need for the that student learning is improved when students programs, vocational training, and increasing the removal of the xylene detectors is eliminated. are asked to record a prediction on the outcome of presence and quality of community-based Selected for presentation at Division of Plasma the demonstration before they observe it. We organizations that provide post-release/reentry Physics, Milwaukee, WI. services. Some people may view such a program as designed a physics demonstration based on ______simultaneously launched and dropped projectiles  Promotes sustainability 61 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual providing privileges for those considered variety of other salient healthcare issues. This is 466 • American Social Welfare undeserving. then to be compared to the federal and state ______voting record by constituents to examine the Policy: Immigrant Welfare Policy 453 • The Effect the Role of inherent relationship between the states’ federal KAREEM EID FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Government has on Solving electorate and the healthcare policies that are pursued in the state. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Environmental Issues ______The United States has been built practically on the ROSEMARY CAREY 456 • Obamaphone: Bringing Social backs of refugees, from the very earliest of pilgrims to the present-day Syrian Civil War refugees. The FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL  SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Welfare into the 21st Century government is spending loads of money on people Many countries champion a limited government as PATRICK VULLO who may one day not even become citizens. a means to promote innovation in the private FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Refugees have entered our country based on the sector. But society cannot rely on the private sector SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS fact that they cannot return to their country to solve certain issues, as addressing them would In the 21st Century, being connected is increasingly because of fear that their return would cause be counter to the ultimate goals of companies, important. The cell phone has evolved from the persecution. Every year the United States accepts which are to make a profit. When something as brick-sized mass of plastic it was in the 1980s to a between 70-80 thousand refugees. We currently detrimental as a natural disaster wreaks havoc on slim, nearly weightless piece of metal and glass have certain processes put in place, and these a community, it is expected that government will that fits in your pocket. It contains our lives: processes have different procedures based on the intervene. No one would feel secure knowing that photographs, the numbers and information of our country the refugees are coming from. Recently only profit-hungry corporations were left to friends, family and business associates and even the clock has been turned back on a progressive all restore communities inflicted by a natural disaster, gives us directions as we drive. In short, the cell inclusive refugee policy. I propose one that is based especially when costs of restoration are high. So phone has drastically changed life in the United on merit and degree of severity of the situation why then should society leave crucial issues such as States of America, and in the world as a whole. that the refugee is coming from. On top of this, and climate change to establishments outside of the During the Obama presidency, this did not go in addition to the comprehensive screening government? This paper examines if socialist unnoticed. The architects behind the Federal process employed, I propose a program where the governments, or governments that promote public LifeLine program, colloquially known as individual and their family is closely monitored and spending and intervention, solve environmental “Obamaphone,” viewed access to a cell phone as provided with a social service worker. This would issues with more success than limited more of a right than a privilege. Thus, the create jobs and aid in assimilation of the individual. governments. It will do this by examining a case government was able to see that thousands of free We as a nation would be less worried about study of the socialist country of Finland and how cell phones, each with free monthly service was to refugees being a threat and their failure to effective it is in solving environmental problems be given out to the needy. This poster presentation assimilate. and comparing it to the relatively limited will outline Obamaphone, its pros and cons, and ______government of the United States. Data used for this highlight the impact the LifeLine program has had 467 • Marriage Equality and its analysis will be gathered from a myriad of scholarly on America. ______Effect on Transgender Rights articles and journals, as well as other sources. ARAM PEERS ______461 • Recidivism Rate and Prisoner FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL 454 • The Effect of Income Education SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Inequality on Student Debt Levels LIAM TANCHICK A retrospective look at how marriage equality FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Across States moved through the United States from starting as SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS a state issue to becoming a federal issue. With PERRY NESI In my poster I will highlight the problem of the marriage equality now legal, one may expect FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL extremely high rates of recidivism, inmates who transgender issues will likely follow a similar path SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS finish their sentences and shortly after become re- from state based legislation towards national Student debt is a tremendous social problem in the incarcerated, in the United States. I will show how legislation for equal rights. For marriage equality United States and the problem is only expanding. this is harmful, not only for the prisoners (my there seems to be a clear cut line where as soon as Additionally, income inequality in the United States target population) and their families, but also to marriage equality appeared to becoming the status has also become more severe since the 1980s. taxpayers and society as a whole. I will include quo, the issue became federal. Transgender issues Previous research has shown very strong research on programs in action that are attempting have continually blurred the line over whether it correlations between income inequality and many to address this problem, particularly state (and should be treated as a federal or state issue. Like social problems. As student debt has become a some federal) prisoner education programs that most things, it was state centric at first, but now it severe problem facing our society, my research will allow prisoners the opportunity to attain education is being discussed at the federal issue. There hasn’t seek to find if states with higher levels of income behind bars. I will analyze whether these programs been a clear progression, especially in a positive inequality, or gap between the rich and poor, are effective in lowering the recidivism rate, and way, as the federal level has continually proven to experience higher levels of student debt. My why they are or are not effective. be anti-transgender under the current research will also seek to find other variables that ______administration. may have a significant effect on student debt 465 • Recidivism: A Policy-centric ______levels. ______Approach 468 • Evaluating Bathroom Policies 455 • The Effects of Devolution in AARON COHEN Across America FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Healthcare Policy MARIA CENTO SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL PATRICK MCKINNEY My poster will focus on a few things. First, it will SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL discuss why the government needs to intervene in This project will seek to examine why certain states SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS the issue. It will look at policies used previously by are more likely to pass bathroom policies that In the United States, a large portion of healthcare the U.S. government to combat recidivism, discuss would prevent transgender individuals from using legislation is passed at the federal level. However, the positives and negatives of these policies, and their desired bathroom. It will look at states' how these policies and laws are employed is often how effective they've been. The main point of the ideology, religiosity as well as other factors to decided by the states (known as devolution). This poster, however, is a policy that I believe would fix determine why some states would enact these presentation seeks to demonstrate how the issue, and I will support that belief with restrictive policies. Furthermore, this project will devolution of healthcare policy affects citizens of comparisons to successful past policy, and explain also look at the outcomes of certain "bathroom different states -- focusing on the type of care why the policy is different from failed past policy. bills" at the state level, and look into the idea of citizens receive, how easy is it to qualify for ______Bathroom Policies becoming a federal issue. government assisted healthcare, as well as a ______62  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM

469 • Reefer Madness: The Interstate and intrastate variables will be analyzed intend to accomplish? The policy alternatives to explain the variance of gun laws and where we include the enabling of states to be more free to Federalism of Marijuana Legislation stand as a nation on gun control. choose where Title X funding goes, which will lead BRIAN PATTISON ______to the defunding of Planned Parenthood. This FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL 472 • American Social Welfare alternative action intends to abolish the action of SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Policy abortion and give more freedom to conservatives In the past decade American beliefs concerning and pro-life advocates. Currently, President Trump DEVIN MURPHY marijuana have changed drastically. Its medical has constructed a bill that looks to defund Planned FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL qualities have been researched and proven to be Parenthood and the Affordable Care Act. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS effective at helping a wide variety of health To what extent will the proposed policies address The public problem I have chosen to research is the problems, from chronic pain to PTSD. States have the need? Title X is a network that depends on all growing rate of obesity in the United States. proven this to be true as they have circumvented of its parts to cooperate and pull together for it to Obesity has been prominent in America for a long federal laws to legalize medical, and in some states function. recreational, marijuana. This paper examines the time and it has been continuing to grow since the ______process by which states adopt legislation for problem first started. Obesity causes more than 475 • Gun Control in the United medical or recreational marijuana from a 300,000 deaths per year alone in the United States, federalism standpoint and to examine the groups and this number is continuing to rise. The main States that attempt to keep legislation from passing. Key population that is affected by obesity in the United IAN STEWART points: states that have passed medical marijuana States is middle-aged adults. In 2014, around one FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL laws; states that have passed recreational in three adults were considered to be obese. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS marijuana laws; out-groups fighting to see that Another population that has been greatly affected Gun control is a divisive issue in the United States. legislation does not pass (Big PHARMA, tobacco, is the youth. Recently, around one in six children Different court rulings, such as Heller and Republicans, etc.); what states adopting new laws are considered to be obese. The children of McDonald, defined the right to bear arms under look to adopt when creating new legislation; America are very unhealthy and inactive. This the second amendment and applied this right to Economic effect of legalization; taxes, jobs created, causes the rate of obesity to continue to increase the states, respectively. This has created problems research funding; how legalization affects smaller in the country. Something must be done to stop for states and the federal government when it communities; states that have legislation in this increase in obesity. So far, the government has comes to regulating firearms. This poster shall look progress; states that have not passed legalization; done very little to help this situation. into how the federal government treats gun The effect of decriminalization on populations in ______control compared to the states and similar issues. states with decriminalization; The effect of federal 473 • Mental Health and Illness in ______illegality and how businesses operate against Foster Children 476 • The Opioid Crisis in America federal law. HANNAH LABEDZ JAFFRE AETHER ______FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL 470 • Should TANF be State SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Recent studies have shown that there are My poster will be on the opioid crisis currently Controlled or Federally Regulated? happening in America. This poster will compare  approximately 437,000 children in foster care in the United States. Children are placed in foster care two states to each other and the methodology CARLOS CIRIACO utilized by both states in solving the opioid crisis. FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL when their parent is determined to be unfit as a result of abuse, neglect, substance abuse, and Alongside this, the poster will attempt to explain SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS how drug addiction is seen in America, and how Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) various other reasons. It has been found that, compared to the general youth, foster children are this image can be changed. differs between a state such as New York that is ______more likely to suffer from mental illnesses such as more accepting of documented immigrants 477 • When the Garbagemen Never compared to a state such as Utah, which has been depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress stricter in laws and programs. This study wants to disorder (PTSD). Although the government is Come: An Exploration of the Public see what the two programs react to when a state responsible for a child who is in foster care, not all Health and Environmental states have implemented policies to help foster has a bigger minority population or a bigger Consequences of Waste Disposal immigrant population. The ideas and parts that will children who are suffering from mental illnesses be included will be as follows: what immigrant get the proper medical help they may need. In Practices in Uganda social policy is and how it relates to state politics; order to prevent these conditions from worsening RACHEL DAVIS the meaning behind “race politics” – if it affects and negatively impacting a child's life, it is FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL state policy and if legislators pass laws because of important for the United States government to SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS the group threat felt by the white majority against address this issue and work to find solutions to the Economic growth and increased industrialization in documented Immigrants; introduction to TANF, problem of mental illness in foster children. Uganda have led to greater access to material ______the structure before and after the 1996 Welfare items, especially plastics and other synthetic Reform. Showing the change of it being more 474 • Title X: The Family Planning materials. Coupled with Uganda’s high population federally controlled towards more state run; the Program growth rate (the fifth highest in the world), solid number of immigrants in both states compared to HANNAH MORLEY waste production has increased immensely over the larger majority and the percentage of whites in FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL the past few decades. The waste management these programs compared to the number of SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS systems in place in urban centers (especially immigrants; the cost and benefits for a state to The Problem: Low-income families lacking access Kampala) are unable to properly dispose of waste exclude immigrants from these programs, and the to health services and counseling. What is the throughout the entire city. Outside of Kampala the policies such as the Work and Responsibility Act cause of the problem? Women and these families vast majority of communities have no access to used to exclude immigrants from this lack the financial stability to obtain these services, waste management services. As a result, the most program. which leads to pregnancy or expansion of the common practices for disposing of waste are illegal ______family. The expansion of the family puts these dumping and burning. Sufficient resources are not 471 • The Role of Federalism in the family in even more economic difficulty. Without allocated to waste management because the family planning programs women might not current administration prioritizes other issues as Gun Control Debate receive proper reproductive health care ,which more pressing. However, the environmental and DELANEY NOLAN could lead to sexually-transmitted diseases, death public health consequences of these practices are FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL from pregnancy or other diseases, and other dramatic, widespread, and disproportionately SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS medical issues if not treated properly. What are the affect Uganda’s most poor and vulnerable citizens. proposed policy alternatives and what do they I will explore these consequences through an  Promotes sustainability 63 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual analysis of quantitative and qualitative data based states do not. The best way to gauge how voting ID comparing multiple different variables – including on several studies conducted in Uganda during the laws affect voter participation is to measure the but not limited to – racial makeup of charter past decade. voter turnout rate. Essentially, the question at schools, political ideology of the states, and the ______hand is whether voting ID laws suppress voter number of charter schools in a state, I was able to 478 • Drug Possession Sentencing turnout. My hypothesis asserts that the more see the potential causes for charter schools to be and the Variation Among States stringent the state law, the lower the voting closed. I believe that studying charter schools, turnout rate, especially among marginalized which have become so ingrained into education JOSEPH VUCIC groups. Comparing the demographics of the fifty today, is very important. My research takes note of FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL states to the voter turnout rates from the 2012 the racist/segregationist overtones that exist in SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS November general election will make it possible to charter schools. While not seeking to find the Inmates incarcerated for drug offenses make up determine if a correlation between voter ID laws source of the segregationist ideologies, it is around 20% of the population of all individuals in and the voter turnout rate exists. important to recognize so that it can be corrected. state prisons. These are typically non-violent ______This research is a way to expose the idea that individuals, with an addiction problem; addiction charter schools aren’t always successful, even would be characterized as a disease according to 481 • The Inadequate Access to though that is what is preached by both sides of the most health professionals.These inmates, despite Healthcare for the Rural Poor political aisle. Instead what this research tries to do high rates of addiction are not very likely to receive Population is take an unbiased look at what state policies treatment once they are in prison. Once released, MARISSA HIGGINS impact charter school success. they aren’t equipped with any of the necessary FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL ______tools to help them get back on their feet and avoid SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 484 • Deviation from Federal relapse. What states fail to do, especially states Medicaid recipients in rural areas do not have with poor drug sentencing policy is address adequate access to medical centers for the long- Immigration Policy Through inmates' substance abuse, mental health, term care and programs they are eligible for, Sanctuary Cities and States education, and employment issues that directly creating inefficiency in the program and problems MILES CUNNING correlate with drug abuse. for those denied of their benefits based on FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL ______geographic location. The disparities in access to SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 479 • Sanitary Supply Policy providers of healthcare between the urban and In response to the nationalistic rhetoric of KATHERINE PETER rural poor populations greatly affect the President Trump, several states and major cities FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL individuals and their communities, as the rural have declared themselves to be "sanctuaries" for SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS poor often do not have access to community health illegal immigrants and their children. This project My project will analyze the resources provided centers and mental health centers, which are seeks to determine what truly motivates these specifically to homeless women and women of prominent in cities. There is decreased access in actors to take such drastic action that is directly little means. Most specifically, they have a need for rural areas is due to barriers such as the decreased against federal policy. This project will analyze the sanitary supplies like tampons and pads. While number of such centers as well as the lack of public economic, demographic, and ideological women make up a large percentage of the transportation. Such barriers to access limit the environments in each state in an attempt to homeless population, services for homeless people effect and efficiency of Medicaid benefits for this determine what factors most motivate states to is primarily geared towards the experiences of marginalized population of rural poor individuals challenge federal policy in such a direct fashion. homeless men. Even when women are not and families. Proposed solutions to the lack of ______necessarily homeless, they may have very low access to healthcare for the rural poor includes a 485 • Social Welfare Program: Early incomes and other members of a family to support. model of telemedicine being adopted as a versatile Cancer Screenings for Low-Income Sanitary supplies, which can cost at anywhere from and low cost mechanism for delivering care and 5-30 dollars per month, are often not their first creating a health network with the help of and Uninsured Women priority when buying only necessities. Moreover, technology to better connect people in different MOLLY HIGGINS young girls in low income families are also in need geographic areas. FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL of these supplies. Government money is not spent ______SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS on tampons and pads. They cannot be purchased 482 • The Supplemental Nutrition I have chosen to research a policy that will provide with food stamps. Donations are the primary way low-income and uninsured women the opportunity shelters get these materials, and even then, it is Assistance Program Addresses Child to receive early cancer screenings because it will hard for the women to acquire and use them. In Food Insecurity in Rural Counties improve their well-being. The policy will also aid some cases, it is difficult for homeless women to MAURA MULLEN women after they have been diagnosed. People’s even have access to a bathroom frequently FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL chance of survival increases directly with early enough. My research would propose a policy that SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS detection, and that is why this policy is so would give supplies and aid to women and young My research paper aims to address the problem of important.This is a public policy problem for girls. food insecurity faced by children in rural areas. numerous reasons. For example, if more women ______Rural counties face higher-than-average food- are getting sick, then they will not be able to 480 • State Voting ID Laws and the insecurity rates due to socioeconomic factors. participate in the workforce and U.S. healthcare Voter Turnout Rate Children in these areas are more likely to struggle expenses will increase, both of which are negative MADELINE STOKLOSA with school, development, and overall health. I will externalities that will hurt the economy. FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL compare policies and programs such as the Additionally, if they are single-mothers and do not SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs, the have the money for treatment, their children will Eligible voter participation in elections is essential Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act, and be negatively affected. The justification for for democracies to function fairly. the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in government intervention with this issue is equity. Disenfranchisement is the main objection for order to determine their effectiveness in terms of It is only fair that all women are given the right to enacting any voting laws, especially the ones that decreasing food insecurity. know what is happening within their own body. ______deal with voter identification. If someone does not The target population will be all women within the have the form of identification a state needs to be 483 • The Impact of State Policies ages of 20-70, because they are all at risk of cancer. eligible to vote, they are turned away and denied on the Success of Charter Schools To ensure utilization, this policy will also offer informational tools to educate women on how participation. This discussion is relevant MAX BURMAN considering more than half of the fifty states either important early detection is. FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL ______request or require voter identification in various SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS degrees as of 2018. Some states are more strict I studied what makes different states have charter 486 • American Federalism and than others and specify for photo ID while other schools that are or are not successful. By Marijuana 64  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM

PATRICK CALDARELLI that includes people who are disabled. In New York 402 • Communicative Functions of FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL City, more than 75% of the subway stations do not SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS have elevators. This prevents people, who may not Adolescents' Use of Verbal Irony I would like to present my research on my paper, have the ability to walk up or down steps, from with Siblings and Friends which analyzes the variance in recreational using public transportation that their tax dollars go WILSON MEI, MEAGHAN BARRY, SABRINA marijuana laws across states. Marijuana is unique to support. The government must intervene to SALETA in that there are conflicting state and federal laws create an equal opportunity world for every citizen. FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY regarding its prohibition; even in states where Lack of elevators and accessible stations can be As part of a longitudinal study, we examined marijuana is legal there is often limited uniformity signs of larger problems with how the government communicative functions of two forms of verbal among those laws. The issues of conflicting and deals with people who are disabled. Public irony (sarcasm and jocularity) in adolescents' varying laws on marijuana is important to both transportation is government run, so it should be sibling and friend interactions. Both gender and recreational and medical users. These individuals fixed by the government to accommodate all interaction partner played a role in the are obeying state but not federal law. The object of people, not just those who do not have a disability. communicative functions for which sarcasm and this work is to examine the variance of recreational jocularity were used. Sarcasm involves ridicule marijuana across states. A logistic regression was PSYCHOLOGY aimed at a specific target that appears to be hurtful conducted to provide empirical evidence, 400 • Cooperation and Competition whereas jocularity involves light, bantering explaining the variance of marijuana laws across teasing. Both sarcasm and jocularity can be used the nation. Initiatives and the ideology of the state During Caribbean, Latino, and for various communicative functions, including government both proved to be statistically Anglo Sibling Interactions dominance, affiliation, covering embarrassment, significant with a positive relationship. States with DOMINIQUE ELLIS, SABRINA CHAN, DIMITRI or distancing the speaker from an utterance. The a more liberal government or initiatives were more WING-PAUL, BRYAN SOMAR, SABRINA present study sought to explore the likely to have laws permitting recreational BRAMWELL communicative functions for which adolescent marijuana. Interest groups in the state and the FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY boys and girls use sarcasm and jocularity in legality of medical marijuana had no meaningful This poster will present findings on the differences interactions with siblings and friends. Selected for impact on laws permitting recreational marijuana. between Caribbean, Latino, and Anglo children’s presentation at Association for Psychological Allowing states to act as laboratories for marijuana sibling and peer interactions in terms of their Science, San Francisco, CA. legislation may be the ideal way to create policies cooperative and competitive behaviors during a ______that are effective and fair. series of tasks. Cooperation was measured in terms 407 • The Interaction Between ______of how much the children harmoniously worked 487 • States Restrictions on Meaning and Forgetting together towards a unified goal, while competition ADAM WEAVER, MOLLY BRADY, KYLE WALSH Abortion Laws was measured by the levels of rivalry present FACULTY SPONSOR: JASON OZUBKO, RACHEL COONS within pairs. These tasks were given in the form of PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL construction, free-play, and board games; the Memory can be broken down into two categories, SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS purpose of the board game was to elicit recollection and familiarity. Familiar memories Federalism has enabled states to vary targeted competition while the construction task was meant tend to be influenced by semantics during regulation of abortion providers (TRAP) laws. to elicit cooperation. Although the tasks had an encoding, storage, and retrieval, while recollected State-by-state divisions are important because effect on the children’s competitive and memories are more independent of meaning. Past regional divisions reflect different value cooperative behaviors, the differences in the task studies (Seli & Ozubko, 2008) have shown that orientations in different parts of the county scores were inconsistent within each cultural familiar words with meaning are forgotten at a (Bessett et al. 2015). There is a direct relationship group. The Anglo children’s competitive behavior slower rate than nonwords or pseudowords, while between the liberal ideology of a state and its varied more according to task compared to Latino recollected words are unaffected by semantics. political support of legal abortions. A public and Caribbean groups, Latino levels of cooperation The present study investigated the effect of opinion poll from the constituents of each state on did not significantly differ across tasks, while semantic encoding on the rate of forgetting in the abortion issues does not exist (Medoff 1989). Caribbean and Anglo children’s levels were recollected and familiar sets of words. During the Inferences can still be made indirectly about the influenced. study phase, participants were shown sets of three variation states have on TRAP laws and why, by ______words either semantically related or random, then looking at the abortion education, religious groups, 401 • Cohort Differences in asked to rate how confident they were if the set race, and poverty in each state. Different exposure Adolescent Aggression Toward was new or old, and which type of memory to abortion laws and values and sources of (familiar, recollected, or neither) they had for the information and misinformation lead people to Siblings and Friends set. Some sets repeated 10-12 trials later, then a form different political ideologies (Bessett et al. MADELINE KLOTZ, BRIANNA FOSS, OLIVIA third time during the test phase. The probability of 2015). The more TRAP laws a state imposes on TRUNFIO, NIKI LAM, KATHLEEN ATTEA, JACKSON decline was determined by the likelihood that a set abortion providers, there will be less political TATE would be rated a lower confidence in the test support for abortion and the state will be FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY phase compared to study phase rating. Results conservative. The purpose of this study is to compare revealed that semantically related sets of words ______generational differences between aggression and were more likely to be remembered than random 488 • Public Transportation Access rough-and-tumble play (RTP) in adolescents. words. Selected for presentation at Lake Ontario Aggression and RTP are categorized in three for People with Disabilities in Major Visionary Establishment Conference, Niagara domains, being physical, relational, and verbal. The Falls, Canada. Cities study included 131 white, middle-class 17-year- ______RACHEL MORRIS olds. Adolescents were videotaped at home in 408 • Motivation in Learning: How FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL separate cooking sessions with a sibling and a SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS friend. The videotapes were transcribed and coded Self-Selection Influences The Americans with Disabilities Act, was signed for all types of aggression and RTP, comparing data Achievement into law by president George H.W. Bush in 1990. from the target, the sibling, and the friend. We ALEXANDRA MAJKA, HELEN MERRIWETHER This helped people across the United States who hypothesize that newer generations will higher FACULTY SPONSOR: JASON OZUBKO, have a disability find work, get better access to instances of aggression and RTP in both the sibling PSYCHOLOGY healthcare, and live a life with equal opportunities. and friend relationships. “Grit” can be defined as an individual’s level of However, there should be more of a push to make ______perseverance through challenges to achieve long- areas accessible to all people, especially with public term goals and high grit levels were found to be transportation. Americans who live in large cities correlated with academic achievement rely on public transportation to get around and (Duckworth et al., 2007). This suggests that high-  Promotes sustainability 65 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual grit individuals may be more effective learners making a non-joking statement. Compared to attitudes. For conservative students, however, however, traditional school environments do not those in the statement condition, participants in having high levels of social altruistic values greatly take students’ interests or desires into account. the joke condition reported less intent to confront increases their environmental attitudes in an Hence, one could ask whether grit would still be the peer. Participants’ own symbolic racist environmentally-friendly direction, in comparison related to achievement if individuals were allowed attitudes moderated this effect. That is, to having low levels of social altruistic values. These to select specific class topics. To investigate this participants who endorsed stronger racist results imply that political conservatives can be hypothesis, participants learned and were tested attitudes reported less intent to confront the peer, persuaded to have positive intentions towards the on several informational topics in the lab. One but only in the joking condition. To encourage environment, if their attention is drawn towards group of participants was given a choice and prosocial responses to disparaging humor, the consequences that environmental problems allowed to select between several options for each educators may challenge white students’ racist have on society at large. Further exploration of this topic they learned, the other group was given no attitudes and promote critical thinking about the relationship may contribute to theory on how to choice. Level of grit was determined with both a functions of humor. increase environmentally friendly behaviors. survey and computerized task. We hypothesized ______that individuals with high levels of grit would 411 • Effects of Group Status and 413 • Materialism Mediates the perform well regardless of whether they had Implicit Beliefs about Human Relation Between Dispositional choice in topics, whereas low-grit individuals would benefit from choosing topics. However, Nature on Bystander Responses to Empathy and Environmental preliminary results show that regardless of grit, Anti-Gay Bullying Intentions individuals were better off when forced to learn SYDNEY KLAINBERG CELIA FREIDA, JACQLYNN HALSTEAD, KELLNER about a given topic. Interestingly, this effect FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY KRYSTA, JACQUELINE MILLER, MARY SULLIVAN, emerged only for the last topic learned and most DILLON FEDERICI, OTHER VICTORIA ALLEN, NICOLE SPENCER, JAMIE strongly for low-grit individuals. Students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or MCQUILLER, ANNA WEST ______transgender (LGBT) are at high risk for bullying and FACULTY SPONSOR: JIM ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY 409 • Bystander Responses to other forms of victimization. Bystanders who Research shows that dispositional empathy is Sexual or Physical Assault witness bullying may respond actively, such as positively related to environmentally friendly CLAIRE EDGINGTON, TESS RAMOS-DRIES confronting the perpetrator, which should help to behaviors. However, it is not clear what mediates FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY promote victim safety as well as a more positive this relation. The present research examined Bystanders tend to intervene in clearly dangerous campus climate. This study assessed the effects of materialism as a potential mediator. Participants situations. Based on the altruism born of suffering group status and bystanders’ own implicit beliefs were college students who completed a literature, bystanders who have experienced about human nature (as malleable) as predictors of questionnaire assessing personality characteristics personal victimization may show prosocial responses to anti-gay bullying. Participants (N = (including empathy), materialism, and responses to situations involving partner violence. 199) at a small Northeastern college in the U.S. environmentally friendly intentions. Results We hypothesized that women would report were surveyed on their beliefs about human indicated that materialistic values partially mediate greater intent to intervene in response to an malleability (i.e., incremental beliefs) and the relation between dispositional empathy and apparent physical assault, which would be randomly assigned to react to a hypothetical anti- environmentally friendly behaviors. Specifically, perceived as more dangerous than a sexual assault. gay bullying scenario in which they were alone or empathy predicts lower levels of materialism, We also hypothesized that bystanders with with three friends. Results suggested that group which in turn predict greater commitment toward histories of personal victimization would report status and bystander beliefs interacted such that protecting the environment. Future research greater intent to intervene, regardless of the type higher incremental beliefs about change among should investigate other facets of materialism in of assault, than those without personal lone bystanders predicted significantly greater order to determine whether the construct as a victimization histories. Undergraduate women at a intent to confront a perpetrator and less intent to whole mediates the relation between these Northeastern college (N = 240) provided self- withdraw from the perpetrator. In contrast, variables, or whether only specific aspects of report data on their own victimization experiences. bystanders in groups reported similarly low intent materialism mediate. Future research should also They also were randomly assigned to respond to a to confront and withdraw regardless of their investigate other variables, unrelated to vignette depicting either physical or sexual conflict. incremental beliefs. These findings may inform materialism, which might mediate the Overall, women reported greater intent to educational programs aimed at promoting active empathy/environmentalism relation. Selected for intervene in response to a physical assault than a bystander behaviors on college campuses. presentation at Association for Psychological sexual assault. However, personal victimization Selected for presentation at International Family Science, San Francisco, CA. moderated this effect; women with personal Violence and Child Victimization Research ______victimization histories reported greater intent to Conference, Portsmouth, NH. 414 • Empathy, Life Satisfaction, intervene in the sexual assault condition than ______and Environmental Values in 412 • Interacting Effects of Social those without personal victimization histories. College Students These findings provide additional evidence for Altruism and Political Beliefs on altruism born of suffering and also extend past JACQLYNN HALSTEAD, CELIA FREIDA bystander research by showing that personal Environmentally Friendly FACULTY SPONSOR: JIM ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY characteristics of bystanders may predict Attitudes In the face of continuing environmental problems intervention in certain types of situations. ANNA WEST, JACQUELINE MILLER it is important to investigate motivations for ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JIM ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY environmentally friendly values. Previous studies 410 • Just Joking? White College This paper describes an exploratory analysis of how have shown that life satisfaction and emphatic concern are positively correlated with Students’ Confrontation of social altruistic values and political beliefs interact to predict environmentally friendly behaviors. environmental values (Welsch & Kuhling, 2010; Different Types of Racist Speech Participants were a group of 135 SUNY Geneseo Welsch, 2013). We conducted post hoc analysis of MEAGAN CENTENO, CLAIRE GRANT students who partook in the study voluntarily. Data survey data from 235 students assessing life FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY was gathered by administering a questionnaire satisfaction, environmental values and empathy, CHRISTINE MERRILEES, PSYCHOLOGY that gauged participants’ demographics, values, among other variables. Results indicated that life When communicated in a humorous way, racially attitudes, and environmentally friendly behaviors. satisfaction and empathy interacted to predict prejudicial comments may be dismissed as “just Results showed a statistically significant environmental values. Inspection of this jokes.” We investigated white, non-Hispanic interaction between social altruism and political interaction indicated that participants low in both students’ responses to different types of beliefs on environmental attitudes. Exploration of empathy and in life satisfaction had significantly prejudicial speech. Participants (N = 252) were the interaction indicates that for liberal students, weaker environmental values than did all other randomly assigned to read about a peer who the degree to which they demonstrate social participants. These results suggest that denigrates Black students by either joking or altruism has no effect on their environmental environmental values are enhanced by either high 66  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM life satisfaction or by the ability to understand how ambivalence, jealousy, anxious-clinging) and EMILY POLIZZI, ABI O'CONNOR, WILLIAM others are feeling (empathy). Either of these worry-centered reactions, suggesting that REICHMAN, ALAINA OUGHTERSON, MARIA factors are sufficient to prompt positive individuals with certain avoidant and anxious LEONARD environmental values by themselves. But the post attachment orientations are at risk for negative FACULTY SPONSOR: MARGARET REITZ, TESLA hoc nature of these analyses demand that the emotional reactions to hookups, in part, because HOUSE results be replicated before firm conclusions are of the decreased intimacy and increased approval The United States produces an average amount of drawn. Theoretical and empirical issues are hookup motives associated with these 500 billion pounds of waste per year. This discussed. orientations. Implications of our results for amount of waste is harmful because it pollutes our ______promoting healthy hookup behaviors among water supply, takes up land for landfills, and 415 • Evidence that Social Altruism college students are discussed. Selected for is harmful to ecosystems. We first investigated Mediates the Relation Between presentation at Association for Psychological Geneseo’s policies that are in place in order to Science, San Francisco, CA. reduce food, energy, and water waste on campus. Egoistic Environmental Concern and ______Many students don’t finish food and it gets wasted Environmental Values 418 • Egocentrism and Violent when it could be composted. In some buildings, NICOLE SPENCER, JAMIE MCQUILLER Media campus lights are left on all night while in other buildings lights are set on timers to dim and are FACULTY SPONSOR: JIM ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY SUCHETHA WAKWELLA motion sensitive. In residence halls like Monroe According to Shultz (2000), the value people place FACULTY SPONSOR: STEVEN KIRSH, PSYCHOLOGY Hall, there are rain-water harvesting stations, but on plants and animals (biospheric concern) is based Background research has suggested that there is a in other buildings on campus there is not efficient on the values people place on themselves (egoistic possible correlation between the use of violent use of water. We took these findings and then concern), and other people (social altruistic video games and egocentric tendencies. The explored ways to mitigate the amount of waste concern). However, Shultz did not specify how purpose of this study is to replicate these findings (e.g., recycling, composting, conservation, and egoistic and social altruistic values work to predict and test the effects of violent media consumption, investments in technology). Many students are not biospheric values. We tested the two possible ego-centrism, and exposure to violent video game aware of Geneseo’s contributions to reduce waste models that can be generated from Shultz's theory. summaries on responses to hypothetical vignettes and they don’t understand how impactful their The first model predicts that egoism mediates the in which college students are wronged. personal contributions could be. One of the proven relation between social altruistic concern and Participants will complete questionnaires that ways to decrease waste is to increase awareness biospheric concern, and the second model assess their level of ego-centrism, and media and visibility of current efforts; we recommend suggests that social altruistic concern mediates the violence use in the last 6 months. The video game campus-wide campaigns on social media, flyers, relation between the other two variables. Results history form assesses how frequently participants of regression analyses supported the second etc. highlighting specific efforts. play video games. Participants will read either ______model which stipulates that social altruistic video game descriptions that highlight the vengeful concern mediates the egoism/biospheric relation. nature of the protagonists or identical descriptions 316 • The Power of Stress: An These results suggest that when people see the without the vengeance component and rate the Exploration Into the Suffering of environment’s effect on the self, they may also see attractiveness of the video games on a 5 point College Students the environment’s effects on others, and finally, unipolar scale. Finally, participants will read 5 the effects on nature, plants, and animals. HUNTER ALLEN, JONAH STINER, JENNA SYPOSS, hypothetical vignettes and report the likelihood REBECCA RODRIGUEZ, GIOVANNI CELLAMARE ______that that would try to get back at the antagonist. 417 • Attachment, Hookup FACULTY SPONSOR: MARGARET REITZ, TESLA The hypothesis for this study is that media violence HOUSE Motives, and Situational Context as use and ego-centrism will be positively correlated Our group is comprised of five first year students of with vengeful responding on the vignettes. In varying majors. As college students, we have Predictors of Reactions to Hookups addition, it is expected that participants reading ERICA KANE, LESLIE TETTEH, DINETRA GOWDIE experienced a variety of stressful situations the video game descriptors containing vengeance throughout the semester ranging from tests to FACULTY SPONSORS: MONICA SCHNEIDER, will provide more vengeful responses than PSYCHOLOGY awkward social situations. On the national level participants reading the descriptors without the stress and anxiety among college students has JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY vengence component. We examined students’ attachment orientations been on the rise for the past decade. This study and hookup motives as predictors of their SUSTAINABILITY/TESLA HOUSE identifies factors that influence one’s stress level psychological and emotional reactions to their 314 • Geneseo Gives Back and inform people on how to reduce their own stress at SUNY Geneseo. In order to do this, we first most recent hookup experience. Participants JAMES CANNING, OTTO JUNIOR answer the following questions: 1) what factors completed a survey assessing demographics, FACULTY SPONSOR: EUGENE DEZARN, influence stress, 2) how do these factors influence dating and sexual history, attachment orientations, SUSTAINABILITY one’s stress level, and 3) what can we do to help? hookup motives, circumstances surrounding their Launched in 2005, the Geneseo Gives Back Reports about mental health compiled from the last hookup, and psychological reactions to their program is designed to reduce the waste created Lauderdale Student Health & Counseling most recent hookup. Correlations revealed that by the needless discarding of usable items when Department and a survey we sent out about one attachment orientation underlying secure and the residence halls close in May. Every year, as mental health to SUNY Geneseo students indicate anxious attachment (proximity-seeking) predicted students are moving out, the Geneseo Gives Back that the Lauderdale Student Health & Counseling relationship-centered outcomes. Attachment team collects clothing, non-perishable food, and Department is overloaded with counseling cases orientations associated with anxious (jealousy, dorm decoration items from all of the residence and the student stress levels are alarmingly high. anxious-clinging) and both types of insecure styles halls. We also pick up furniture from students who There is a positive correlation between student (frustration w/partner, ambivalence) predicted live off campus, and we bring it all to the Interfaith stress levels and visits at SUNY Geneseo' s health worry-centered reactions. Furthermore, intimacy Center to be sold at affordable prices during the motives mediated the relationship between centers. annual Interfaith Center Tag Sale at the beginning ______proximity-seeking and relationship outcomes, of the fall semester. This way, we prevent suggesting that individuals high in proximity- hundreds of items in good condition from being 317 • Far From the Final Draft seeking (secures, anxious-ambivalents) are more thrown out each year, and also help students and JOSEPH CILENTO, EAN COSTELLO likely to experience positive relationship-centered community members buy clothing and household FACULTY SPONSOR: MARGARET REITZ, TESLA reactions in their most recent hookup because they items for reduced prices. HOUSE engage in hookups for intimacy. Several hookup ______The NFL draft was created in 1936 and has been an motives (intimacy, partner approval, peer 315 • Waste Minimization at SUNY effective way to keep teams competitive, but how approval) partially mediated the relationship much of an effect does the draft really have on between attachment orientations underlying Geneseo teams’ and individual’s success? The purpose of insecure attachment (frustration w/partner, our project is to delve into the process and

 Promotes sustainability 67 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual outcomes of the NFL draft, how it works, how a few 2017 draft picks and used them as case rounds an equal chance of having an outstanding players are chosen/evaluated, and what it means studies to see how a good early draft pick can rookie, the entire process would be trivialized, and for their careers. There are committees within the impact the season. After investigating, we found the ‘good teams’ wouldn’t be checked, and would NFL that are dedicated to evaluating players and that players taken within the first few rounds of the unbalance the league. projecting their success. We wanted to know: what draft have a greater chance of being a determining would be the impact of changing the order of the factor in how successful a team’s season will be. If draft? We went in to the draft itself and picked out the draft rules were to be changed to give all

Virtual Reality Demonstrations College Union Ballroom • Stage Poster Session 2 Historical Homestead – a Virtual Reality Tour ZACHARY VEITH FACULTY SPONSOR: KIRK ANNE, COMPUTING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLGY Historical Homestead utilizes virtual reality technology to create digital representations of the objects and rooms of the Wadsworth Homestead. Examining select rooms, and the objects within, illustrates connections between the Wadsworth family and larger historical contexts.

Living Locally - a Virtual Reality Art Gallery JULIA TANNENBAUM FACULTY SPONSOR: LYNETTE BOSCH-BURROUGHS, ART HISTORY Living Locally is a virtual reality art gallery exhibiting the strides and struggles of sole proprietors in the local Livingston and Wyoming County community. The purpose of this presentation is to show a glimpse of what it takes to run a local business. In addition it will bring awareness and inform students and faculty about what is outside of our small campus. After being involved with Adopt-a-Business for the past four years, this is my thank you to the businesses that I have been so lucky to work with. Our goal at Adopt-a-Business is to educate the local businesses on the importance of technology and digital media. I have incorporated the advancing technology of our society in my presentation by showing this presentation through projection of the gallery, and also utilizing the expertise of Dr. Kirk Anne to build a virtual reality gallery through Photoshop that is then transferred to Google Cardboard. This will allow the observers to physically be immersed in the gallery.

68  Promotes sustainability 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Music Festival

GREAT DAY MUSIC FESTIVAL DOTY RECITAL HALL

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM Geneseo 9:00 Combo "The Combo Plate" The Butterfly Lovers A Night In Tunisia, Dizzy Gillespie String Quartet no. 14 in D minor, D. 810 "Death and the My Funny Valentine, Lorenz Hart Maiden" - I. Allegro, III. Allegro molto, IV. Presto, Franz Go Daddy-O, Big Voodoo Daddy Schubert Sesame Street, Joe Raposo String Quartet in F Major - I. Allegro Moderato - Très NOAH WEISS, JOSEF DIGIORGIO, BRIAN VARGAS, PETER JESPERSEN, Doux, Maurice Ravel BENJAMIN MICHALAK, LUCAS SMITH, CODY ESPOSITO EVELYN WELCH, STEVEN YEE, ERIC WANG FACULTY SPONSOR: BILL TIBERIO, MUSIC FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDREW BERGEVIN, MUSIC

9:05 AM – 9:35 AM 11:25 AM – 11:45 AM Geneseo 6:00 Combo String Quartet Doxy, Sonny Rollins Por Una Cabeza, Carlos Gardel Totem Pole, Lee Morgan String Quartet no. 6 in B-flat major, Op. 18 - I. Allegro Rumpus Time, Huntertones con brio, Ludwig van Beethoven Twin, Christian Scott String Quartet no. 12 in F major, Op. 96 "American" - I. NOAH WEISS, WILLIAM BARRIE, BRIAN VARGAS, JACOB HOUSEKNECHT, Allegro ma non troppo, Antonin Dvorak ROBERT MARINO, JAMES AMBALAVANAR, DOMINIC FLORIO TAYLER NGUYEN, BRIDGETTE SROKA, AMANDA SALADINO, CHARLES FACULTY SPONSOR: BILL TIBERIO, MUSIC PEDERSON FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDREW BERGEVIN, MUSIC 9:40 AM – 9:55 Geneseo Flute Choir COLLEGE UNION LOBBY 12:00 PM SARAH MANDANAS, JULIA DIBERNARDO Geneseo String Band FACULTY SPONSOR: EMLYN JOHNSON, MUSIC LEEANN BRUESTCH, GABRIELLE ANGELORO, TORI BARONE, LINA CLIFFORD, GIANCARLO DENAROSO, TAYLOR FRITZ, HANA GARTY, 10:05 AM – 10:50 AM ACAPELLA HOUR ABRAHAM HAUSER, ADAM KOVLER, RYAN LEE, ROBERT MATIGZECK, AMELIA MINDICH, KAZMIRA PITZRICK, AMANDA SALADINO, KAYLA Emmelodics SCHUM, BRIDGETTE SROKA, MOLLY SQUIRES, GREG VINAL, PAIGE WALSH ABBY GRIFFIN, ALEXANDER WEBBER, BETHANY LIANO, CAITLEN FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES KIMBALL, MUSIC EPPERSON, CAROLINE HOUSE, CLAIRE PRUNIER, DENIS HARTNETT, GAGE MATYASOVSKY, JACK MCALEVEY, JASON HANDY, JEREMY DAVIES, KAILA MCKIERNAN, KENNETH COLE, SAM HUNT, WILLIAM BLANDING, MACKENZIE HINTZ, MEAGHAN BARRY

Exit 8 SEAN RYAN, EMILIOS PAPAS, SARAH BISSEL, MADISON KEMLER, MADI BOWEN, EMILY CATALDO, EMELY AQUINO, CHRIS MILLER, THOMAS VANGELLOW, SIAGE HORVATH, MICHAEL MASETTA, COLINE SUGRUE, KATE KELLER, RYAN ANDREWS, MATT CRAWFORD, ALLISON ALTSCHILLER, MARIA RUIZ

Hips and Harmony ALLISON SEMMEL, CHLOE TERREL, CHRISTIE CONNELLY, EMILY MCMAHON, ERIN HOGAN, HANA SMITH, HANNAH GRIFFIN, HANNAH VAN WERT, ISABELLA HIGGINS, MADELINE REILLY, MARISSA MARASH, MEGAN ANDERS, MIKA SWANSON, NATALIE BUCHOLTZ, RACHAEL THORP, SARAH PLOOF, SYDNEY SHERIDAN, TAYLOR STUART

Between The Lines MELISSA FRANK, TREVOR GRECO, MADISON MURPHY, MEGAN KENNEY, CARL TREIBER, RAPHAEL ELMASRI, VINCENT MECCIARELLO, KEVIN PIERCE, DESTINY PARSONS, GABRIELLE OWEN, EVAN BURR, EMILY HURLBUTT, GRETTA CAVATASSI, JOSEF DIGIORGIO, RYAN ZIPPER, MICHAEL KELLY, KAZMIRA PITZRICK

69 Artwork 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

THE GREAT BATTLE OF THE ARTISTS

MACVITTIE COLLEGE UNION KINETIC GALLERY 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM The GREAT Battle of the Artists is a multi-media art contest that is a partnership between GREAT Day, GCAB Arts & Exhibits and Nassau Hall. Winners were selected by a panel of faculty staff and student judges and will be announced at 6:00 pm.

______: The title for this photograph : This piece is a mixed media JESSICA LISI Finding Fuller Harvey was influenced by the 19th century modern representation of the effects of Hurricane Harvey Animal Skull: This is a pastel still life of a dancer, Loïe Fuller, who was inspired by the the on Houston, TX. Photographs were taken during variety of miscellaneous items. Created in the fall beauty of the stained glass windows in the Notre Spring Break of 2018. of 2014, it was used as a practice for still life, which Dame Cathedral in France. : This photograph was taken with a Canon then became a full-fledged piece of work after the Views : The pose in this photograph mixture and layer of the pastels brought new life to Sleeping Swan T5 Rebel at the top of Bald Mountain during the remnants of a deceased creature. is considered a Swan Lake arabesque based on the sunrise. August 2015. romantic ballet Swan Lake. Swans have the ability The Unheard Voices from the War Frigid: This photograph was taken with a Canon to sleep on one leg, usually with their heads tucked T5 Rebel at Letchworth State Park. January 2018 on Terror: This piece is a mural located in Fraser under one wing. ______– it has been dedicated to the Muslim Student ______LUZ MELO MARISA SANQUINI Association and the Geneseo History Department. Inaugural Brushstrokes: Compact The materials used were acrylic paints, created in The Wall: In present-day Palestine, there is an December of 2017. This was the final project for Dr. illegal wall up in the Gaza strip. Remarkable Edition: This is a set of mini paintings made with Abbas’s “Voices from the War on Terror” directed artwork and messages of peace are present on the acrylic paint. These paintings are very special to me study. The inspiration for this mural was derived concrete structure for miles. Interestingly, many since they are my first paintings. Before college, I from the many interviews I conducted with the people do not know about the structure that never tried to do paintings. However, one of my different Muslim members within our Geneseo towers over the Gaza strip. My project is a mural of friends had a bunch of painting supplies and since I community; the focus was to show how the War on the wall with accompanying graffiti, artwork, and loved to draw, I decided to give it a try someday. Terror has impacted Muslim identity. This mural messages to render a lifelike rendition of the One day I went to Walmart and saw some mini was created as a way to give these community structure. The painting will walk the line between canvases. I didn't think it twice and I bought the members a voice, and as a message to the campus Palestine and Israel with an overall message of necessary supplies to do my first painting. Now, I to show it is a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming peaceful relations. I intend to start a conversation love to paint as much as I love to draw. place. It is a way to bring to light the many that is not rooted in opinion but fact. The mural will Charcoal Photos: I always liked to draw. In wonderful Muslim students and faculty on this house the wall with the central graffiti piece being fact, when I was little I used to draw my favorite campus, a way to say they are here, and they are a young child and accompanying doves, peace anime and cartoon characters all around the walls an integral part of what makes Geneseo, Geneseo. symbols, and cartoons. On the top of the wall, the (even though my mom wasn't really happy about Daisey Ridley as Rey: This piece is created message "Borders are the scars of history" will be that). However, while I was in high school I stopped from Prisma Color Colored Pencils, created in the displayed. In the distance behind the wall, the drawing. Now that I'm in college I decided to start summer of 2018. It was created as an homage to skyline of Jerusalem will be visible (although this is drawing people instead of animated characters. the brilliance of Daisey Ridley as a talented actress not visible from the wall in life it will get the What a better way to start drawing than drawing in a successful, male-dominated franchise. It also is message to the viewer of where this is taking my first college friend? to commemorate the greatness, intensity, and place). I hope this piece will invoke an emotional ______LEAH CHIN creativeness of the Star Wars universe. reaction to the viewer and enable them to learn ______more about what is happening in Palestine. Geography of Self I and II: Geography of EMILY BRASS ______Self I and II are a set of acrylic paintings that I did in DIANA DEFILIPPIS In Your Backyard: chalk pastel celebration of the female form. I chose to work Seascape: An Australian coastline. Charcoal on with grey and brown paints specifically when : chalk pastel Nose paper. (2017) painting the figures in order to appreciate the black Left Behind: sharpie marker Reclining Figure: A study in figure drawing. female figure, as a black woman myself. I ______Charcoal on paper. (2018) incorporated contour lines that would usually be TIMOTHY WILLIAMS seen on maps of landscapes, as a reference to the New Era: An interpretation of modern resource Top of the Roc: This is a portrait I had Michael details of the body that women might see as dependency. Ink on paper. (2018) imperfections. The contour lines also show that the Slattery take of me on top of a parking garage in ______Rochester. It was taken on my Minolta XD-11 with JANELLE CLEMENTS female figure is her own territory that has areas 35mm Kodak Tri-X, developed, and then optically that are limited to herself, but can also be explored : My inspirations printed on Ilford photographic paper. I wanted to Forest Nymphs (Series) by others when given permission to do so. go back to the start of photography to learn about in life are the women in my life. These black Although the contour lines are small, they are the process firsthand. The total time it took for me women, my friends, my role models, my mother there and they have a presence. The blue paint to produce this single image probably amounted to have shown strength, vulnerability, determination, splatters, and brush strokes are a representation of around 6 hours. The darkroom process is really and beauty and it is my desire in life to showcase how society, and sometimes the black woman interesting, yet it is very time consuming and them, who exude these encompassing qualities. herself, has tried to taint the black female figure by expensive. I now have a real appreciation for how This day was so important to me. We all spent the trying to point out the details that might not fit into far technology has progressed. last few days reeling from heartache, numbness, societal beauty stands. However, the black female ______moving on. It is evil what the world makes black figure always shines through. August 2017. SONIA BARTOLOMEO, JENNA COBURN women go through. But going with my sisters to : This piece was sculpture of Mama Earth, going with my sisters to Heaven's Hand in Stone Persephone's Purpose: Persephone was feet, I felt at peace again. We're artists. We're out a soft white rock; however, I am not sure of the the daughter of Zeus and Demeter and the Greek warriors. We carry light and positivity all around us. specific type of the rock. The rock itself was very goddess of spring. She was abducted by Hades, the We suffer, yes, but we suffer together. Love you soft, thus making it very fragile to work with during god of the underworld. While Persephone remains girls. That day was the first day of my life. the sculpting process. The hand is in a cupping in the underworld, her mother refuses to let any ______position as if it is offering something up. I made this plants grow. CAITLIN CASTELLETTI because I wanted something simple and a soft piece to display in my room. 2014 70 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Artwork

______Antoinette – the lavish and foreign wife of King : This image was captured on a SARAH BUCKSER Just Look Up Louis XVI of France – is depicted with quotes from busy autumn morning, one in which I rushed to Level Up: This piece is a series of four panels in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. Widely known by catch my bus. But who can see that when what lies hung in sequence from left to right. The piece deals history for her extravagant hairpieces, she was sent ahead is worth so much more than being late for a with my senior year of college which was to the guillotine October 16, 1793. Hugo’s words few seconds. Geneseo, October 2017. particularly hard. I faced the death of my capture the ideals of a group of students who led : grandfather (represented by the loose pieces of an uprising in 1832, nearly forty years after Take Me Back to Where I Belong ribbon), my brother's heroin addiction (indicated Antoinette’s beheading. The uprising took these Sometimes it's better to drive without a particular by disembodied hands and needles), accepting that character’s lives, as they galvanized the push direction. Montauk Point State Park, September I am gay (symbolized with flesh), countless towards individual freedom from oppression. 2016. medication changes (symbolized by the trippy Mixed Media , Spring 2017. Escape: This is my escape back home. Cold color palette, falling teeth due to nightmarish side A Caged Bird – No Longer (Maya Spring, 2016. effects, and disembodied eyes caused by ______: Maya Angelou was paranoia), and harassment due to my mental Angelou in Charcoal) HANA MEDA an iconic figure in the civil rights movement, as well illness. It felt like this year has been full of hands Clementine: Etched plexiglass print, India ink as a revered poet. Her 1969 autobiography, I Know holding me fast in place and forcing me to watch on paper, 2015 Why the Caged Bird Sings, details how she horrible things in my life unfold.I tried to create a ______world similar to a nightmare, but with hope at the overcame the trauma of racism that she H.D. UDESHI SENEVIRATNE experienced as a child. The bird is comprised of end. The college life has been an extremely hard Red-vented Bulbul: 2018. Mother Nature and dark time for me, but art has given me the excerpts from her poem Still I Rise. Even after her death in the Spring of 2014, her message continues designs birds meticulously. This is my attempt at hope to move forward when I graduate this may. It recreating the marvelous details of a red-vented was a hell of a journey, but I have made it to the in her literature. Mixed Media, Spring 2017 ______bulbul. checkpoint and can finally level up. WHITLEY BRINCKA ______Gentle Giant: 2017. Acrylic painting. Inspired JULIA TANNENBAUM Alaskan Blooms: July 2017 by photos and videos of Gunnar Freyr. The Old Man and the Sea: Digital Rochester Skyline: October 2017 Toucan: 2018. Acrylic painting of a keel-billed toucan. Photography, Subject matter: Henry Von Elm. This New York City: March 2018 piece was inspired by his love of the water and the ______GEORGIA SCHNORE novel The Old Man and the Sea Over the years, this JASMINE CUI piece has captured his presence and livelihood. My Barren: Pencil on paper. An interplanetary Kosher Feelings: I am 12 when my mother freshman year of college, Uncle Henry was explorer makes the first stop on their journey. They tells me "sharp" can be used as compliment. Yes, diagnosed with stage 4 leukemia and this image find nothing on this planet so they leave something the capacity to hurt has become synonym for the became my reminder of who he once was, and how behind to grow. capacity for success. We value the knives – one day he will be back to this position. anything willing to kill. And yet, I refuse to believe The Nameless World: Pencil on paper. On Evolution: 400ISO BW Film with in-camera in a future that is not radically gentle. Even in the the surface of this world the explorer finds large manipulation. This image is a seven photo darkest, most isolated places – tenderness always and unusual structures created by an ancient race. exposure displaying the evolution of the life of a finds a way. There are no entrances or exits to be found on plant. these buildings. The explorer sits down and Origin Story, America: Like any wannabe watches the gas giant in the sky. Bridge of Wonder: 2D digital manipulation, God, America wears a long beard and a name All of Central Park in one image. pinned to his lapel. He claims to do this for our Edge of Reality: Pencil on paper. Once the ______benefit. To keep us from addressing prayer to explorer has traveled far away from their home CHANDRA LABONTE imaginary men. Men with louder voices. they meet a magical Wurm. The Wurm presents The Quiet Lion: Acrylic on canvas, 2016 “Consider,” he says, “the chaos that would ensue: the explorer with a gift. a litany undelivered letters all sucked into ether.” ______The Car, The Cow, and The Classic: BRITTNEY HEROLD Acrylic on canvas, 2017 America knows the best way to claim any vacancy is to name it. Of course then, America has a Out of This World: Chalk pastels are used to The Green "Hog": Harley Davidson Breakout name.Of course then, its name is God. This God capture the beauty of outer space. Motorcycle never mastered subtlety. This God inflicts nine Saturn: Saturn with its rings and one of its ______plagues’ worth of bestial grief and demands a MAXFIELD LAWTHER moons done in pastels. sequel. This God fills a world with brutal The Artist’s Outlook (John Lennon in instruments. For every woman exists a man who Charcoal): I wanted to depict John Lennon’s wishes to break her. and so Every wedding, a magic act. the bridal veil becomes an immutable fixture. essence, not only in his profile but also his Everywhere, women become private ghosts. This contribution to music. In this portrait, I arranged God claims ownership through revision. Rewrites some of his most well-known song titles into a the world’s mechanics in His native tongue and pattern not unlike his classic choice of glasses. Mixed Media. Spring 2017 calls it Physics. Demands we never break from our own inertia. And so we never break, we bend. The Tangles of Revolution (Marie ______Antoinette in Graphite): Here, Marie JOHANNA CORONEL

71 Special Presentations 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS Performing Children's Literature as Theatre The Geneseo Jazz Ensemble 8:30 am – 12:50 pm, Brodie Black Box Theater 11:15 am – 12 pm, South Hall Quad SCOTT CASSIDY, MICHAELA DOOR, JOE EDIZEL, BENJAMIN GEIGER, LILA rain location Wadsworth 21 KATZ, SEAN MCPHILLIPS, STEPHANIE PEARL, KIMBERLY ROMANO, TESS NOAH WEISS, WILLIAM BARRIE, BRIAN VARGAS, JOSEF DIGIORGIO, ROMANO, ARISA THOMAS DOMINIC FLORIO, ROBERT MARINO, ANDREW KEMLER, CODY ESPOSITO, FACULTY SPONSOR: RANDY KAPLAN, THEATRE/DANCE JAMES AMBALAVANAR, JASON LANG, JONATHAN PASTORE, LAUREN ELLIS, Ten directing and education students will present performances of children's LEORA DEISENROTH, PAUL OLEYOURRYK, PETER JESPERSEN, TIMOTHY literature they have adapted from narrative to dramatic form with an emphasis SNYDER, MADISON RODGERS, SAMUEL DOLE, BEN MICHALAK, CESAR on inclusion and diversity for Grades 1-5. Audience members have an FLORES, LUCAS SMITH, RIE OTA, WILLIAM DORFNER, JACOB HOUSEKNECHT, opportunity to participate both in the plays and, time permitting, in brief talk SOPHIE YEOMANS FACULTY SPONSOR: BILL TIBERIO, MUSIC backs after each mini-session. In the spirit of GREAT Day, the Geneseo Jazz Ensemble will be providing a sneak 8:30-9:45, 3 shows peek at our concert lineup, as well as other charts from the past and present, Lila Klatz, “Du Iz Tak” in our first outdoor concert in years. We hope provide a pleasant Joe Edizel, “The Man Who Tricked a Ghost” accompaniment to GREAT Day, as well as send our sound throughout South Stephanie Pearl, “Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters” Quad and across the valley. 9:55-11:10, 3 shows Kimberly Romano, “El Cucuy” A Tunnel Through Barriers Scott Cassidy, “Zen Socks” rd Benjamin Geiger, “Jack and Jim” 11:15 – 12:45, 5:15 – 6:45 MCU 3 Floor East Lounge 11:20-12:50, 4 shows KITRICK MCCOY Arisa Tohma, “The Blessing Cup” FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH COPE, CENTER FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY & Michaela Durr, “The Princess and the Warrior" DEVELOPMENT Tess Romano, “Clever Jack Takes the Cake” This art installation represents the culmination of Kitrick McCoy's John A. ’87 Sean McPhillips, “Take Me Out to the Yakyu” and MaryGrace ’84 Gleason Ambassadorship in Student Affairs. The project explored the integration of disability into a modern 21st century higher Julia Walker Memorial Milton Reading education and business environment, informed by a groundbreaking hypothesis. The installation coincides the release of a comprehensive report 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, 2:15 – 4:00 pm, Gazebo detailing project findings. 11:30 Literary Pieces in Honor of Julia Walker ERIN LIEBERMAN, RAINA SALVATORE, HANNA ATKINSON, REBECCA Sustainability and Environmentalism at SUNY Geneseo FASCIANO, KATHRYN KLAPKOWSKI, KAILA MCKIERNAN, ADAM ONTIVEROS- presentation for SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson OBERG, JORDAN PIERSHALSKI, BENNETT SOLYMOSY, NATHAN STIVERS FACULTY SPONSOR: ROB DOGGETT, ENGLISH 3:30 pm, Doty Tower Room Students will be offering a continuous reading of "Paradise Lost" in honor of FACULTY SPONSORS: MARGARET REITZ, DAVID ROBERTSON, GEOGRAPHY Professor Julia Walker, who passed away last month. The reading will begin at PAUL MCDERMOTT, CARA O'SHEA, BRENDAN CULLEN, JOSHUA BOYER, JANE 10 and end at 4, with a break during the keynote address from 1-2:15. In AULD addition, faculty from the English department will be gathering at 11:30 to read This session of presentations aims to report on student-run sustainability initiatives some short literary pieces in honor of Julia. All faculty, staff, and friends are at SUNY Geneseo. Currently, the two main sustainability-focused organizations on welcome to attend. campus are GEO (Geneseo Environmental Organization) and the SUNY Geneseo Office of Sustainability. These two organizations cover the majority of campus life, GEO Dumpster Dive and each organization, although similar in mission, provide uniquely different opportunities for students. GEO is a student-run organization, which hosts events 10 am – 12:30 pm Between MCU and Mary Jemison raising awareness for global and local environmental issues. GEO is a medium for CARA O'SHEA, PAUL MCDERMOTT, MEREDITH SAUCCI, SHEILA BARABINO students to get active in student life and join a community focused on BARABINO, KYLE HIGGS, JANE AULD, JENNIFER SCHULMAN, ALANNA environmentalism. GEO's presentation will highlight GEO’s involvement with RICHMAN FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVE ROBERTSON, GEOGRAPHY Sustainability Month and Earth Week. The Office of Sustainability is a staff of paid Geneseo Environmental Organization will be performing a live, interactive and volunteer student interns, who head sustainability initiatives at SUNY Geneseo. performance art installation and reflection of consumption and waste disposal The Office of Sustainability provides opportunities for both students and faculty to in Geneseo. This live installation will involve sorting through one bag of trash develop and implement sustainability-focused projects at the campus level. Every from each residence hall and academic building on campus and determining department is connected to sustainability, and by working interdepartmentally, the how much of that waste could have been recycled. The sorting process will be Office of Sustainability creates changes that encompass all communities on campus. open to audience participation, and proper protective gear such as gloves, The Office of Sustainability's presentation will address developments made by the goggles and protective suits will be provided to anyone who wishes to Office of Sustainability in recent years, highlighting the expanding Campus Grown participate. The bags will first be weighed as-is, and then reweighed once all Food Initiative and Campus Compost Program. the items in the bag have been properly sorted as landfill, paper, or glass/plastic/metal. This performance will be followed by an analysis of how Sapphire Winter Guard at Geneseo much “trash” could have been recycled in our sample selection. This data analysis is not intended to be a highly accurate or scientific process, but rather 5:10 pm College Union Plaza (Outside) the objective of this interactive art performance is to create a visual impact of JANE FENG, KAYLAN RUIZ, SHELBY SCHMIGEL, MARISSA CANARELLI, JANE consumption and waste at Geneseo. By doing so we seek to promote positive BARANELLO, BROOKE MONFALCONE, SARAH CHANNELS, CECELIA environmental action on an individual level by encouraging students and GONZALES, SOPHIE HOLCOMB faculty in attendance to reevaluate their personal consumption and recycling FACULTY SPONSOR: LISA SMITH, MATHEMATICS habits. Sapphire Winter Guard at Geneseo is completely student-run and is under the direction of captains Jane Feng, Kaylan Ruiz, and Shelby Schmigel. It incorporates elements of dance and equipment spinning in a show that is performed in competitions within the North East Color Guard Circuit. This is Sapphire Winter Guard's fourth year participating in competitions as well GREAT Day. This year's show titled “Castle on the Hill,” follows a group of friends throughout life. While hearts may break and things may be lost through the years, many find their way back to each other in the end. 72 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Insomnia Film Festival

Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival

6:30 PM reception, 7:00 PM screenings Wadsworth Auditorium

The Seventh Annual Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival took place on March 23/24. Participants had 24 hours to write, shoot, edit, and post a video no longer than 3-minutes in duration using a set of elements provided. Teams competed for prizes against other SUNY Geneseo students in an attempt to create the wittiest, most interesting, and creative video. This was a chance for students of all talents to flex their creative muscles and demonstrate their skills, as writers, actors, videographers, or editors. Submissions were judged by a panel of Geneseo faculty and staff. Now we're inviting you to come see the videos during this special GREAT Day screening and awards ceremony! The event is open to all Geneseo community members and we encourage you to bring family, colleagues, and friends as we recognize the excellence, achievements and talent of our 2018 Insomniacs!

GIFF Teams and Participants

[Team [Team Name]] Vortex KADIN FAWCETT DOWON HWANG The Bunk Trumpets Team Sea JACK GRANT ASH DEAN CAROLIEN MOSSEL WEI YING CH'NG JULIA CAMERON MARIA REMILLARD JENNIFER BENDER ANH MAI RICHARD JAMES MARISA GINGELLO CLAYTON SMITH SAVANNAH WILLIAMS LILY CODERA The Secret Themes Panda Production The Lenscaptures GUS FORMATO SANG WOOK NAM Sam & Fred STEPHEN CARON HUNTER SIEGEL ERWIN UY SAMUEL AVILES THOMAS FIERRO CHRISTOPHER CUMMINS ERIC WANG FREDERICK LIU OUSMANE SAM ROBERT PIASCIK XIAO JUN CHEN I don't have enough Golden Rose Production American Spirits! Da Dino Duo money for Chicken CESAR NUNEZ NATALIE HAYES MIRANDA NEYERLIN ERIK BUCKINGHAM JOHN MADSEN BIANCA BOIANO Nuggets MEGAN MACK BRANDON SCHERHAUFER TARA BREW BAILEY CHAPIN SOFIA VILLALON NADINE CAFARO ALIS URENA DANIEL BORG LYDIA FREGOSI SANDRA KRALIK Chromatic Jennifer Team Rocket SHAUNA RICKETTSHANA SMITH RACHEL MOLINO CON ROCHE DENIS MAZARIEGOS TREVOR GRECO LOUIS CAVES The Lean Mean Meme ELIZABETH JACOBS BRANDON CHUNGATA STEVEN WILLIAMS Machine ANNIE RENAUD SEAN MCPHILLIPS CHARLES ROBERTSON Macaroni Rascals ZACHARY VEITH AARON RODDY The Schuyler Sisters Metropolis Pictures JOHN ROBINSON LILY SWANICK BRIDGET KELLEY TIMOTHY WILLIAMS COLIN ELLIS MEGAN SHORTT MICHAEL SLATTERY The Three Amigos MUSTAFA AMINALHAQ NICKOLAS SCHUESSLER AB123 All Day Erde ZACHARY GOODRICH ANGEL GONZALEZ ERDE YILDIZ The Knights Who Say NIAMH QUIGLEY BILLY RICHMAN NAWANG SHERPA "Ni!" MAURYS FLERY PATRICK BUCKLEY Newton's Knights MICHAEL DISLA LEAH CHRISTMAN NICK LAURELLI

JULIA MCGAUGH CODY ESPOSITO RACHAEL FERRALORO MADELINE WEISBECK

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Index of Student Presenters and Faculty/Staff Sponsors

A Barfield, Zach · 61 Brown, Rajae · 9, 35 Charlebois, Jay · 20 Barone, Tori · 69 Brown, Sherray · 59 Chase, Hannah · 28, 52 Barrie, William · 38, 69, 72 Bruetsch, Leeann · 51 Chen, Johnny · 10 Abbas, Megan · 6, 30 Barry, Meaghan · 65, 69 Buchman, Rebecca · 9 Chen, Shuo · 14 Adabra, Kodjo · 8 Bartolomeo, Sonia · 70 Bucholtz, Natalie · 69 Chesterman, Kyle · 47 Adams, Catherine · 22, 42 Battista, Julia · 30 Buck, Elijah · 29 Chiamulera, Chase · 30 Adams, Steph · 18 Bazzett, Terence · 43, 44 Buckingham, Erik · 4, 12, 19, 73 Chiarello, Josephine · 42 Aeid, Alia · 30 Bearss, Brittany · 48 Buckley, Katie · 20, 22, 24 Chichester, Daniel · 29 Aether, Jaffre · 63 Beckman, Teresa · 17 Buckley, Patrick · 7, 11, 28, 54, Chichester, Noah · 29 Agadzhanyan, David · 26 Behrend, Justin · 2, 6, 28 73 Chin, Camille · 19 Aguilar, Cesar · 24 Bell, Emelyn · 52 Buckser, Sarah · 71 Chin, Leah · 9, 70 Aimers, James · 20, 32 Belles, Alexander · 23, 44 Bukuru, Assia · 48 Chiola, Taylor · 60 Ainsworth, Austin · 37 Bello, Francesca · 47 Burch, Sara · 20, 50, 52 Ch'ng, Wei Ying · 73 Aird, Allie · 16 Belyakov-Goodman, Irene · 7, Burley, Matthew · 17, 29, 43 Choi, Melody · 49 Akanonu, David · 54 27, 57 Burman, Max · 64 Christman, Leah · 73 Akino, Marin · 57 Bender, Jennifer · 5, 29, 73 Burns, Rachel · 59 Chungata, Brandon · 73 Albers, Judy · 26 Benedetto, Shay · 59 Burr, Evan · 34, 69 Churnetski, Kristen · 22 Alexander, Justin · 9 Bennett, Jesse · 79 Cilento, Joseph · 67 Allen, Hunter · 67 Bennett, Kelly · 32 Ciminelli, Gianna · 13 Allen, Jim · 66, 67 Benzakein, Sam · 61 C Ciriaco, Carlos · 63 Allen, Katie · 25 Bergevin, Andrew · 32, 69 Ciullo, Theresa · 56 Allen, Victoria · 18, 66 Bernstein, Benjamin · 29 Cafaro, Nadine · 73 Clark, Timothy · 42, 50 Almomani, Ahmad · 60 Bilinski, Isaac · 58 Cleeton, Elaine · 13 Alonso, Alberto · 16 Caiazza, Terese · 17 Bioano, Bianca · 49 Calarco, Miranda · 37 Clements, Janelle · 70 Altschiller, Allison · 69 Bissel, Sarah · 69 Clifford, Lina · 69 Alulema, Tiffany · 59 Caldarelli, Patrick · 65 Bladis, Marley · 58 Calderon, Jared · 4 Clinton, Regina · 51 Ambalavanar, James · 69, 72 Blanding, William · 34, 69 Clough, Erin · 34 Aminalhaq, Mustafa · 73 Callery, Chris · 37 Blasioli, Joseph · 18 Cameron, Julia · 6, 48, 73 Coburn, Jenna · 70 Anders, Megan · 69 Blood, Melanie · 2, 9, 17, 18, Coburn, Thomas · 12 Andreoli, Alexander · 22 Canarelli, Marissa · 14, 72 19, 31 Canning, James · 7, 60, 67 Codera, Lily · 7, 73 Andrews, Ryan · 26, 69 Bode, Emma · 35 Coffey, Jordan · 33 Angeloro, Gabrielle · 29, 69 Card, Olivia · 34 Boiani, James · 55 Cardamone, Sam · 19, 22, 24 Coggins, Alison · 43 Annala, Christopher · 13 Boka, Sophie · 23 Cohen, Aaron · 62 Anne, Kirk · 10, 15, 43, 56, 68 Carey, Rosemary · 62 Borg, Daniel · 73 Carl, Chaise · 46 Cole, Emily · 20, 22, 24 Antalek, Adele · 42 Borst, Krista · 28 Cole, Jacob · 26, 55 Antonelli, William · 9 Carlin, Erin · 30 Bosch, Isidro · 33, 35, 79 Caron, Stephen · 73 Cole, Kenneth · 69 Apple, Jennifer · 36, 37 Bosch-Burroughs, Lynette · 10, Collins, Shayne · 12 Aquino, Emely · 69 Carrasco, Patricio · 10 68 Carrera, Kevin · 36 Colon, Betsy · 16, 20, 22, 24 Armstrong, Kristen · 27 Bota, Brenda · 18 Comerford, Sarah · 4, 11 Arnum, Drew · 7 Casado, Alexandra · 7 Bowen, Madi · 69 Casilla, Nikauly · 59 Conboy, Katherine · 59 Arpino, Emily · 39 Boyer, Joshua · 72 Conflitti, Jennifer · 10 Atkinson, Hanna · 72 Cassetta, Harrison · 42 Bracy, Sarah · 53 Cassidy, Scott · 72 Conlon, Juliana · 59 Attea, Kathleen · 65 Brady, Kevin · 29 Connelly, Christie · 69 Auld, Jane · 72 Castelletti, Caitlin · 70 Brady, Molly · 43, 65 Castillo-Rodriguez, Susana · 43, Connolly, James · 48 Austin, Cody · 14 Bramwell, Sabrina · 65 Connolly, Kaitlin · 56 Aviles, Samuel · 73 59 Brandt, Bradley · 45 Cataldo, Emily · 33, 69 Conroy, Fiona · 56 Brass, Emily · 70 Caulfield, James · 8 Constantine, Nydia · 48 Breed, Cooper · 52 Coons, Rachel · 65 B Cavatassi, Gretta · 69 Brew, Tara · 73 Cavello, Seth · 14 Cooper, Anthony · 44 Brickner, Elyse · 56 Caves, Louis · 61, 73 Cope, Joe · 7, 15, 79 Bablin, Elisabeth · 32 Briggs, George · 21, 34, 35 Cecere, Michael · 7 Cope, Joseph · 11, 19, 20, 21, Bailey, Lydia · 26 Brincka, Whitley · 71 Cellamare, Giovanni · 67 22, 25, 72 Bailey, Travis · 34, 53, 54 Britton, Rachel · 17 Centeno, Meagan · 66 Corbeaux, Claire · 61 Baldwin, Anne · 30, 79 Broad, Sierra · 35 Cento, Maria · 62 Corbishley, Tessa · 22 Baldwin, Doug · 29, 60 Brock-Schlageter, Cody · 12 Cepeda, Vanessa · 49 Corcoran, Genny · 57 Bamburoski, Luke · 43 Brockway, Katherine · 39 Chai, Jie Min · 56 Cornier, Karina · 18 Bamford, Lauren · 44 Brookes, Sarah · 39, 40 Chalfant, Paige · 57 Coronel, Johanna · 71 Bandoni-Muench, Susan · 22 Broomfield, Mark · 17 Chamberlain, Brenna · 20 Costanzo, Leah · 49 Bansbach, Jessica · 18 Brophy, Taylor · 43 Chan, Sabrina · 65 Costello, Ean · 67 Barabino, Sheila Barabino · 72 Brown, Gunnar · 44 Channels, Sarah · 72 Costich, Maxwell · 54 Baranello, Jane · 72 Brown, Matt · 30 Chapin, Bailey · 73 Cotroneo, Matthew · 25 74 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Index of Participants

Cotten, Katherine · 34 E Freida, Celia · 66 Hales, Margaux · 34 Cottone, Chloe · 36 Friedman, Jessica · 24 Hall, Jeremy · 20, 23, 25, 79 Cox, Eliza · 12 Fritz, Taylor · 69 Hall, Kristen · 50 Crawford, Matt · 29, 69 Easton, Celia · 18, 20 Froome, Emily · 20, 22, 24 Hallock, Ryan · 30 Crosby, Emilye · 5, 15 Ebersole, Wesley · 20, 46 Furst, Elizabeth · 48, 59 Halstead, Jacqlynn · 66 Cross, Clint · 61 Eddy, Devin · 4 Hamberger, Rachel · 26 Crossley, Patrick · 16 Edgington, Claire · 66 Hamilton, Jacob · 26 Crowe, Lauren · 26 Edizel, Joe · 72 G Hamilton, James · 4, 28 Cui, Jasmine · 71 Eid, Kareem · 62 Hamilton-Rodgers, Patty · 79 Cullen, Brendan · 40, 72 Eley, Virginia · 12 Hammer, Madeline · 44 Ellis, Colin · 73 Gabriel, Justin · 38 Cummins, Christopher · 73 Gabriele, Ivana · 26 Handy, Jason · 69 Cunning, Miles · 64 Ellis, Dominique · 65 Hannam, Kristina · 51 Ellis, Lauren · 52, 72 Gage, Samantha · 20 Curley, Shannon · 27 Galvo, Jennifer · 7 Hanrahan, Emily · 40 Ellmann, Emily · 17 Hanse, Christopher · 45 Elmasri, Raphael · 69 Garcia Cassani, Isaac · 26 Garrity, Colleen · 40 Hansen, Adam · 52 D Emmens, Kathryn · 34 Hansen-Schwoebel, Tulpen · 52 Epperson, Caitlen · 69 Garty, Hana · 69 Gdula, Rachel · 13 Harling, Brett · 15 Erdogan, Selin · 8 Harrigan, Meredith · 2, 39 D'Amico, Laura · 9 Esposito, Cody · 69, 72, 73 Geddes, Justen · 10 David-Drori, Julian · 30, 44 Geiger, Benjamin · 72 Harrison, Bill · 19, 21, 23 Esquivel, Erika · 7, 39 Harrison, Bryan · 25 Davies, Jeremy · 69 Ess, Madeline · 34 Geiger, David · 11 Davis, Clark · 22, 26 Geiger, H. Cristina · 11 Harrison, Graham · 11, 26 Davis, Daniel · 59 Geiler, Michael · 61 Hartnett, Denis · 69 Hartnett, Sarah · 45 Davis, Olivia · 57 F Gentry, Kristen · 14, 17 Davis, Rachel · 43, 63 Geraghty, Jenna · 57 Hartvigsen, Gregg · 4, 5, 6, 10, de Garay, Peter · 42 Gerner, Taylor · 17 13, 25, 35 Dean, Ash · 73 Fahy, Hannah · 18 Giannios, Demetrios · 20 Hartwig, Melissa · 59 DeFilippis, Diana · 70 Farian, Homma · 60 Giantelli, Lauren · 44 Hassan, Tiphereth · 59 DeHart, Ganie · 48, 49, 65 Farrell, Lauren · 61 Gibbons, Theresa · 7 Hauf, Emily · 42 Deisenroth, Leora · 72 Farthing, Dori · 41, 57, 58 Gikonyo, Barnabas · 2, 38, 55, Hauser, Abraham · 69 Denaroso, Giancarlo · 69 Fasciano, Rebecca · 72 56 Hawley, Scott · 43 Derne, Steve · 30 Fawcett, Kadin · 43, 73 Gilbert, Holly · 6 Hayes, Dan · 60 Deshmukh, Ishan · 38, 39, 55 Federici, Dillon · 66 Giorgis, Scott · 6, 58, 59 Hayes, Emily · 8 Desruisseaux, Mazarine · 30 Feinland, Sara · 31, 54 Goddard, Taylor · 9 Heddon, Stephan · 35 Devine, Racheal · 52 Feng, Jane · 25, 72 Golden, Jessica · 59 Helms, Eric · 55 DeZarn, Eugene · 67 Feng, Jimmy · 40 Goldson, Jami · 43, 59 Henderson, Megan · 57 DiBernardo, Julia · 61, 69 Ferraloro, Rachael · 73 Gonzales, Cecelia · 24, 72 Henning, Marie · 31 Diehl, Shawna · 61 Fichera, Dylan · 30 Gonzalez, Angel · 73 Heraghty, Sam · 37 DiGiorgio, Josef · 69, 72 Fiero, Mandy · 60 Goodrich, Zachary · 73 Herbst, Erin · 28 DiRienzo, Francesco · 49 Fierro, Thomas · 73 Goodstein, Marin · 57 Herman, Alexis · 12 Disla, Michael · 73 Filiaci, Casey Mae · 28 Gordin, Emily · 56 Hernandez, Jesus · 26 Do, Vincent · 44 Finch, Katrina · 12 Gorka, Luke · 10 Herold, Aaron · 20 DoBucki, Kaitlynn · 32 Findeis, Alexander · 27 Gowdie, Dinetra · 67 Herold, Brittney · 44, 71 Doggett, Rob · 72 Finn, Halee · 53 Grace, Christine · 30 Herzman, Ron · 14, 16 Doherty, Erica · 79 Finnerty-Haggerty, Lara · 33 Grace, Jeremy · 13, 16 Hickey, Colin · 42 Dolce, Joseph · 19 Fisher, Caitlyn · 48 Grant, Claire · 66 Higgins, Isabella · 69 Dole, Samuel · 72 Flamik, Madeline · 8 Grant, Jack · 73 Higgins, Marissa · 64 Donegan, Michael · 44 Flannery, Andrew · 28 Granville, Heidi · 56 Higgins, Molly · 64 Donroe, Olivia · 56 Flery, Maurys · 73 Graziano, Izzy · 16 Higgs, Kyle · 72 Door, Michaela · 72 Fletcher, Jessica · 26 Greco, Trevor · 69, 73 Hintze, Mackenzie · 37 Dorfner, William · 72 Fletcher, Kurt · 61 Gregg, Nicole · 42 Hipolito, Harrison · 60 Dorn, Samantha · 18 Flores, Cesar · 29, 72 Griffin, Abby · 69 Ho, Henry · 38 Dorushkin, Zachary · 28 Floriano, Gerard · 10 Griffin, Hannah · 69 Hoag, Cal · 12 Doser, Jeffrey · 14 Florio, Dominic · 69, 72 Gross, Callen · 46 Hodge, Amanda · 44 Drake, Claire · 7, 33 Flowers, Denzel · 12 Grosskopf, Taylor · 30 Hoffman, Casey · 58 Drake, Graham · 14, 26, 79 Forbes, Alyssa · 17 Guinther, Rachel · 33 Hogan, Erin · 69 Driscoll-Brantley, Gena · 41 Formato, Gus · 28, 73 Guzman, Jennifer · 13 Holcomb, Sophie · 72 D'Souza, Justin · 61 Forney, Ryan · 37 Hollick, Audrey · 30 Dunnigan, Grace · 56 Forrester, Kathryn · 10 Holmes, Julie · 24 Duran, Daniel · 50 Fortuna, Ryan · 30 H Holtzman, Emma · 4 Dziendziel, Reese · 31 Foss, Brianna · 65 Homeyer, Kristen · 16, 57 Fox, Hanna · 29 Hoops, Harold J. · 35 Frank, Melissa · 69 Haack, Casey · 46 Horbatiuk, Olivia · 22 Fredericks, Ellayna · 43 Haber, Noah · 21 Hornstrom, Erica · 32 Freeman, Charlie · 44 Haddad, Caroline · 16, 60, 79 Horowitz, Jacob · 26 Fregosi, Lydia · 73 Haggerty, Shannon · 41 Horvath, Siage · 69 75 Index of Participants 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

House, Caroline · 69 Keel, Jamie · 17 Lawson, Jenna · 5, 22 Marolia, Neha · 27 Houseknecht, Jacob · 69, 72 Keenan, Shannon · 12 Lawther, Maxfield · 71 Marr, Zoe · 2, 55 Howe, Harry · 13 Keith, Troy · 18 Le, Yen · 56 Martin, Emily · 26, 36 Huber, Aric · 26 Keller, Kate · 69 Lee, Alice · 14 Martin, Samantha · 13 Huda, Pavlo · 4 Kelly, Michael · 69 Lee, Ariana · 12 Masci, Michael · 5, 29 Hunt, Sam · 69 Kelly, Ryan · 29 Lee, Brandon · 4 Masetta, Michael · 57, 69 Hurlbutt, Emily · 11, 69 Kemler, Andrew · 72 Lee, Mansokku · 23, 37 Massey, Alexandra · 32 Hurysz, Thomas · 34 Kemler, Madison · 69 Lee, Ryan · 32, 69 Mathis, Kylie · 31 Hutchison, Elizabeth · 19, 34 Kenney, Megan · 69 Lee, Stephanie · 39 Matigzeck, Robert · 69 Hwang, Dowon · 73, 79 Kennison, Wes · 8, 9 Lenz, Allyson · 46 Mattera, Matthew · 4 Kenyon, Jennifer · 19, 21, 23 Leonard, Maria · 67 Matthews, Thomas · 27, 28 Keplinger, Amanda · 33 Levine, Sydney · 11 Mattiauda, Serrana · 33 I Kernan, James · 41 Levy, David · 13, 79 Matyasovsky, Gage · 69 Kerr, Olivia · 28 Lewis, Jani · 24, 35 Maud, Erin · 43 Ikegami, Nozomi · 57 Kesel, Erin · 4 Liano, Bethany · 57, 69 May, Emily · 18 Ikemoto, Nanako · 18 Khan, Tabish · 22 Lieberman, Erica · 49 Mazariegos, Denis · 73 Imayegauhi, Jessica · 54 Kim, Julia · 57 Lieberman, Erin · 14, 30, 72 McAlevey, Jack · 4, 69 Iriyama, Yume · 57 Kimball, James · 2, 69 Lilley, Sarah · 18 McCabe, Elizabeth · 49 Irwin, Alexis · 44 King, Courtney · 24, 51 Lima, Maria · 23 McCabe, Evan · 37 Irwin, Jamie-Lynn · 39 Kinsella, Shea · 28 Lin, Nelly · 43 McCarron, Mariah · 29 Islam, Apaula · 54 Kirby, Conor · 4 Ling, Seraphina · 57 McCartney, Jacob · 35, 36 Kirk, Joanna · 17, 23, 30 Lipnicky, Trevis · 8 McClow, Hannah · 29, 61 Kirk, Melanie · 26, 51 Lippa, Joseph · 39 McClurg, Dylan · 12 J Kirsh, Steven · 6, 67 Lipschutz, Sheldon · 21 McCorkle, Brooke · 5, 60 Klainberg, Sydney · 43, 66 Liriano, Jennifer · 49 McCormack, Katherine · 7 Klapkowski, Kathryn · 72 Lisi, Jessica · 42, 70 McCormick, Jamie · 16, 47 Jackson, Aaliyah · 9 Kleiman, Courtney · 18 Liu, Frederick · 73 McCoy, Beth · 9 Jacobs, Elizabeth · 73 Klein, Matthew · 44 Livoti, Tessa · 8 McCoy, Kitrick · 72 James, Richard · 7, 73 Kleinhenz, Elena · 53, 59 Lombardo, Suzi · 12 McDermott, Paul · 72 Jassawalla, Avan · 2, 22, 24 Klotz, Madeline · 65 Lomnitzer, Kirsten · 24 McEwen, Rosemary · 16 Jay, Gabriel · 4 Kluball, Aaron · 36 Longbotham, Samuel · 45 McGarvey, Zachary · 48 Jayson, Daniel · 23 Knapp, Rachel · 5, 33 Louie, Simone · 29 McGaugh, Julia · 29, 73 Jespersen, Peter · 69, 72 Koenig, Zachary · 34, 53 Lovett, Janice · 34 McGrath, Kevin · 29 Jimenez, Juan · 26 Kompanijec, Victoria · 20 Lovric, Alexandra · 45, 57 McKeirnan, Kaila · 52 Johannes, Jeff · 2, 8 Kopacz, Brianna · 32 Luongo, Christina · 12 McKinney, Patrick · 62 Johannes, Richard · 12 Kopp, Megan · 58 Lupoli, Emma · 57 McKinsey, Jordon · 12 Johnson, David · 2, 5, 37, 38 Kostick, Steven · 61 Lynch, Michael · 43 McLean, Sean · 21 Johnson, Emlyn · 69 Kostrinsky, Sofia · 55 Lynch, Shannon · 43 McLellan, William · 22 Johnston, Julie · 12 Kovler, Adam · 69 McMahon, Emily · 69 Jones, Allison · 36 Kralik, Sandra · 73 McMahon, Liam · 43 Jones, BethAnna · 10, 24 Krumrine, Kristi · 24, 32, 33 M McPherson, Duane · 19 Jones, Megan · 26 Krysta, Kellner · 66 McPherson, Taylor · 15 Jones, Ryan · 15 Kubik, Angela · 25 Macaluso, Olivia · 33 McPhillips, Sean · 72, 73 Joyce, Katie · 12, 26 Kubik, Briana · 26 McQuiller, Jamie · 66, 67 Juchniewicz, Benjamin · 13 Mack, Megan · 73 Kubow, Christopher · 4 Mack, Tyler · 54 McSorley, Brenna · 57 Juers, Gabrielle · 6 Kuliner, George · 16 Mecciarello, Vincent · 69 Junior, Otto · 67 MacKenzie, Douglas · 21, 56, 57 Kuschel, Tyler · 50 Macolli, Klajdi · 42 Meda, Hana · 71 Kwandrans, Kelsey · 29 Macula, Anthony · 14 Medd, Dillon · 4 Medeiros, Melanie · 2, 9, 33 K Madden, Hannah · 26 Madden, Ryan · 30 Medina, Emma · 27 L Madsen, John · 73 Medina, Jeremy · 56, 58 Kaczorowski, Derek · 15 Mahoney, Brendan · 4, 15, 31 Medina, Sabrina · 38 Kallio, Ken · 19, 21, 23 Labedz, Hannah · 63 Mai, Anh · 26, 73 Medina, Valerie · 39 Kane, Erica · 67 Labonte, Chandra · 71 Maier, Allison · 6, 15 Medina, Veronica · 41 Kang, Eunju · 44, 45, 46, 48, 61, Ladias, Chloe · 51 Maineri, Nicholas · 60 Mehlenbacher, Brandon · 12 62, 63, 64, 65 Lam, Niki · 65 Maini, Trisha · 50 Mei, Wilson · 65 Kaplan, Randy · 2, 72 Lancos, Jonette · 2, 9, 17 Majka, Alexandra · 24, 65 Meier, Rheanna · 53 Kaptein, Karl · 54 Laneri, Felix · 9, 18 Malachowski, Adam · 26 Meijer, Matty · 27 Kasha, Katherine · 27 Lang, Jason · 4, 36, 72 Malik, Shreyya · 38 Meisel, David · 14, 61 Katz, Jennifer · 2, 49, 66, 67 LaRocco, Victoria · 46 Mandanas, Sarah · 61, 69 Melgar, Ashley · 44 Katz, Lila · 72 LaRose, Jillian · 49 Mandracchia, Christopher · 47 Mellin, Stephanie · 26 Katz, Rachel · 12 Larson, Anni-Ming · 39 Marash, Marissa · 69 Melo, Luz · 70 Keane, Shannon · 41 Laurelli, Nick · 73 Marino, Robert · 69, 72 Menkhorst, Jordi · 45 Keck, Christopher · 38 Lauritano, Nicholas · 26 Markowski, Vincent · 44 Menon Mitsuyasu, Tara · 30 Kedzierawski, Andrzej · 60 76 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual Index of Participants

Mensah, Jessica · 48 O Pitcher, Mica · 38 Ross, Makayla · 33 Merrilees, Christine · 66 Pitzrick, Kazmira · 69 Rossi, Janine · 43 Merriwether, Helen · 43, 65 Plevy, Lauren · 44 Rossi, Madelyn · 31 Metz, Megan · 30, 47 O'Brien, Leigh · 12 Ploof, Sarah · 69 Roth, Alicia · 43 Meyer, Lisa · 5, 13, 19, 21, 23 O'Brien, Molly · 48 Plummer, Jasmine · 59 Roth, Amanda · 17 Meyer, William · 53 O'Connell, Emma · 31 Pogozelski, Wendy · 2, 38 Rowan, Jennifer · 51 Mfizi, Reverien · 16 O'Connor, Abi · 67 Polizzi, Emily · 67 Rubright, Suzanna · 17 Mfoafo, Tiffany · 38 O'Donnell, Robert · 50, 52 Pomayda, Serhiy · 4 Rudin, Christopher · 22, 29 Michalak, Benjamin · 69 Ogura, Fumitsugu · 57 Powers, Kyle · 11, 29 Ruiz, Kaylan · 72 Miles, Braden · 18 Okada, Jun · 7 Powers, Rachel · 50 Ruiz, Maria · 56, 69 Militello, Kevin · 33 Okungbowa, Eghosa · 38 Prezlock, Timothy · 46 Rupp, Caroline · 29 Miller, Chris · 69 Olatunbosun, Tolulope · 29, 39 Prunier, Claire · 29, 69 Rutgliano, Mary · 18 Miller, Jacqueline · 66 Oleyourryk, Paul · 72 Puglisi, Charles · 26 Rutkowski, Alice · 5, 18 Miller, Samuel · 34 Omencinsky, Michaela · 30 Pujols, Monica · 39 Ryan, Sean · 69, 79 Mills, Michael · 5 Ongkingco, Joey · 55 Pyatt, Mary · 6, 26, 34 Mindich, Amelia · 41, 69 Ontiveros-Oberg, Adam · 72 Miranti, Amy · 59 Ortiz, Isabelle · 18, 49 S Molino, Rachel · 73 O'shea, Cara · 72 Q Ota, Rie · 72 Monachino, Nicole · 53 Sahla, Samira · 5 Monclova, Chris · 15 Oughterson, Alaina · 67 Over, D. Jeffrey · 42 Quigley, Niamh · 73 Saladino, Amanda · 29, 69 Monfalcone, Brooke · 72 Quinn, James · 37 Saleta, Sabrina · 65 Monti, Ashley · 18, 57 Owen, Gabrielle · 69 Ozubko, Jason · 65 Salmon, Susan · 79 Moore, Maddison · 56 Salvatore, Raina · 72 Moore, Shawn · 11, 55 R Salzano, Lauren · 13 Moquin, Baileigh · 56 P Sam, Ousmane · 73 Morley, Hannah · 63 Sanquini, Marisa · 70 Morris, Rachel · 65 Raj, Mina · 17 Ramos-Dries, Tess · 66 Santacesaria, Nina · 23 Morrison, Julia · 9 Pacheco, Paul · 2, 21, 24 Santana, Arlenis · 20, 49 Morse, Jane · 24, 57 Padalino, Stephen · 44, 55, 61 Ramsey, Dillon · 56 Randall, Samuel · 21 Saucci, Meredith · 72 Moses, Harrison · 25 Pagan, Vicente · 21 Saunders, Alexis · 29, 53 Mossel, Carolien · 58, 73 Palma, Deanna · 6, 29 Rao, Julie · 20, 22, 24 Rapoza, Matt · 69 Saunders, Haley · 53 Mullen, Maura · 64 Palmisano, Kevin · 61 Scalzetti, Hanna · 53 Murphy, Devin · 63 Palumbo, Nicholas · 27, 48 Reda, Adrienne · 59 Reichler, Madeline · 18 Scarano, Valerie · 29 Murphy, Madison · 19, 69 Papas, Emilios · 69 Schacht, Paul · 6 Murphy, Meghan · 31 Papas, Maria · 56 Reichman, William · 67 Reilly, Christina · 59 Schaeffler, Andrew · 56 Muscat, Samantha · 35 Parfitt, David · 11, 28 Scherhaufer, Brandon · 73 Myers, Lynn · 14, 29 Parsons, Destiny · 4, 69 Reilly, Madeline · 69 Reinhardt, Josephine · 33, 36, Schiappacasse, Shaw · 31 Pascale, Felicia · 55 Schibely-Laird, Brianna · 43 Pastore, Benjamin · 55 37, 50, 51 Reitz, Margaret · 67, 72 Schmeer, Samantha · 9 N Pastore, Jonathan · 72 Schmidt, Sydney · 7 Patel, Bhumi · 48 Remillard, Maria · 49, 73 Renaud, Annie · 73 Schmigel, Shelby · 72 Nagasing, Ethan · 61 Patil, Jayesh · 26 Schmitz, Abigayle · 26 Pattison, Brian · 63 Reppenhagen, Sara · 28 Naiditch, Elisabeth · 27 Resnick, Zachary · 26 Schneeberger, Kayleigh · 49 Nam, Sang Wook · 22, 73 Pav, Brooke · 56 Schneider, Monica · 67 Pearl, Jennifer · 12 Rhoads, Leah · 12 Nesi, Perry · 62 Richards, Rebecca · 57 Schnore, Georgia · 71 Newman, Tom · 46 Pearl, Stephanie · 21, 28, 72 Schnyder, Reba · 8 Pederson, Charles · 69 Richman, Alanna · 36, 72 Newton, Laura · 12 Richman, Billy · 73 Schofield, Tim · 8 Neyerlin, Miranda · 73 Peers, Aram · 62 Schulman, Danielle · 28 Pellegrino, Elizabeth · 7 Ricketts, Shauna · 40, 46, 73 Ng, Sydney · 35 Riggio, Brianna · 29 Schulman, Jennifer · 55, 72 Ngoma, Sedar · 29 Pellerin, Anne · 19, 22 Schultz, Christine · 26 Peter, Katherine · 64 Rivera, Lea Carina · 35 Nguyen, Tayler · 60, 69 Roach, Chloe · 9 Schum, Kayla · 51, 69 Nichols, Paul · 41 Peterson, Jeffrey · 12 Schweitzer, Barbara · 16 Pezzimenti, Mary · 28 Robert, Isabella · 53 NIcodemi, Olympia · 7 Robertson, Charles · 73 Sciandra, Lukais · 4 Nicosia, Julia · 51 Phillips, Sarah · 16, 43 Scilla, Peter · 23 Phillips, Sarah Jane · 19 Robertson, David · 23, 72 Nieves, Jonathan · 43 Robinson, John · 26, 56, 73 Scofield, Amelia · 48 Noe, Nick · 22 Phillips, Traci · 20, 22, 24 Seale, Yvonne · 15, 17, 43 Piascik, Robert · 73 Roche, Con · 73 Nolan, Delaney · 63 Roddy, Aaron · 73 Sementilli, Grace · 49 Norris, Angela · 28 Piato, Eric · 16, 29 Semenza, Alexandra · 56 Piatt, Jenelle · 7 Rodgers, Madison · 72 Norris, Darrell · 7, 20, 24, 27 Rodriguez, Angela · 26 Semmel, Allison · 69 Nunez, Cesar · 4, 73 Piedrahita, Pilar · 26 Seneviratne, H.D. Udeshi · 71 Pierce, Kevin · 7, 27, 69 Rodriguez, Rebecca · 67 Rogalsky, Jennifer · 40 Sheehan, Caeley · 44 Pierce, Lee · 4, 12, 19, 22, 26 Sheehan, Hannah · 4 Pierpoint, Megan · 26 Rogers, Alexandra · 43 Romano, Kimberly · 72 Sheen, Claire · 6 Piershalski, Jordan · 72 Sheldon, Amy · 41 Pigliacelli, Margaret · 14 Romano, Tess · 28, 40, 72 77 Index of Participants 2018 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 12th Annual

Sheridan, Sydney · 69 Stone, Kaylin · 48 V Whittel, Nicholas · 53 Sherpa, Nawang · 73 Stone, Leonie · 2, 4, 11, 15, 31 Widercrantz, Hannah · 22 Sherpa, Pema · 43, 55 Stricoff, Zoe · 40 Wilkinson, Corey · 61, 79 Shevlin, Peter · 38 Stuart, Taylor · 69 Vallone, Shannon · 59 Williams, Aiesha · 22 Shinkle, Blain · 29 Sugden, Spencer · 4 Van Voorhis, Ryan · 45 Williams, Amanda · 15 Shortt, Megan · 73 Sugrue, Coline · 69 Van Wert, Hannah · 69 Williams, Savannah · 43, 73 Showers, Dennis · 29 Sullivan, Mary · 66 VanEtten, Kelsey · 17 Williams, Scott · 24, 29 Siegel, Hunter · 73 Sullivan, Meagan · 49, 54 Vangellow, Thomas · 56, 69 Williams, Steven · 73 Siegel, Lauren · 56 Swanick, Lily · 73 Vargas, Brian · 69, 72 Williams, Timothy · 58, 70, 73 Silva, Christina · 43 Swanson, Mika · 69 Veith, Zachary · 7, 68, 73 Wilson, John · 61 Silva, Imasha · 29 Swisher, Ben · 4 Venator, Nicole · 48 Wing, Joseph · 50 Silver, Samuel · 45 Verrastro, Elizabeth · 5, 20 Wing-Paul, Dimitri · 18, 65 Simms, Hunter · 13 Vicentini, Isabella · 5, 47 Witkowski, Julia · 14, 29 Singh, Simran · 53, 55 T Vigil, Julia · 35 Wittenrich, Kennedi · 57 Singh, Sunita · 43 Villalon, Sofia · 48, 73 Wittmer-Malinowski, Jacalyn · Vinal, Greg · 69 Slattery, Michael · 70, 73 Tadros, Joseph · 51 41 Slovak, Justin · 39 Vincelette, Casey · 14 Woo, Phillip · 56 Taglia, Veronica · 15 Vouzianas, Gregory · 58 Smith, Clayton · 73 Tan, Wilson · 4 Wood, Jacob · 44 Smith, Emma · 32 Vucic, Joseph · 64 Tanaka, Ikki · 57 Vullo, Patrick · 62 Smith, Ethan · 61 Tanchick, Liam · 62 Smith, Hana · 69, 73 Tang, Chi Ming · 28 Y Smith, Lisa · 72 Tang, Jasmine · 43 W Smith, Lucas · 69, 72 Tannenbaum, Julia · 10, 68, 71 Yaeger, Sheridan · 56 Smith, Lytton · 7, 16 Tate, Jackson · 65 Yang, Suann · 34, 52, 53 Smith, Skye · 35 Tauscher, Alicia · 12 Wachtel, Allie · 31 Yannotti, Antoinette · 31 Snyder, Jacob · 6 Taylor, Tanairi · 9 Wagman, Anthony · 41 Yee, Steven · 69 Snyder, James · 12 Tellerman, Julia · 4 Waite, Christina · 34 Yeomans, Sophie · 4, 72 Snyder, Timothy · 29, 72 Terrel, Chloe · 69 Wakwella, Praveen · 61 Yi, Christina · 50 Sodaro, Katie · 8 Terrigino, Nicholas · 35, 50 Wakwella, Suchetha · 67 Yokoyama, Kazushige · 38, 39, Solymosy, Bennett · 72 Tetteh, Leslie · 18, 67 Wall, Michael · 47 54, 55 Somar, Bryan · 65 Thomas, Arisa · 72 Walsh, Kyle · 65 Young, Amanda · 54 Soriano, Arianna · 55 Thompson, Juliana · 22 Walsh, Paige · 69 Young, Jason · 26 Soto, Mark · 56 Thompson, Sophia · 52 Walsh, Shannon · 18 Young, Richard · 41 Sparling, Jonathan · 61 Thorp, Rachael · 49, 69 Wang, Eric · 69, 73 Yurkewecz, Thea · 30, 57 Spencer, Nicole · 49, 66, 67 Tiberio, Bill · 69, 72 Ward, Davina · 16 Squires, Molly · 69 Tillapaugh, Katrina · 30 Warner, Nicholas · 58, 59 Srinath, Shreya · 43 Towsley, Gary · 2, 7, 15 Waters, Chelsi · 12 Z Sroka, Bridgette · 69 Tran, Melanie · 7, 55 Wayland, Madison · 7 Stachowiak, Amelia · 24 Treiber, Carl · 69 Weaver, Adam · 10, 43, 65 Stefanese, Alysssa · 19 Weaver, Amman · 4 Zablonski, Kevin · 13, 37 Triolo, Melissa · 56 Zahid, Zarmeen · 43, 79 Steinberg, Miranda · 18 Trotter, Mikayla · 56 Webber, Alexander · 4, 69 Steinhauer, Aaron · 13, 23, 29, Wedin, Katherine · 59 Zestcott, Colin · 48, 49 Trunfio, Olivia · 65 Zhong, Wenxiu · 57 44, 79 Tsuvanyk, Chrystyna · 28 Weinstein, Renee · 52 Steinsaltz, Matthew · 50 Weisbeck, Madeline · 73 Ziegler, Cameron · 60 Tulowiecki, Stephen · 25, 40, 41 Ziotto, Rafael · 26 Sternberg, Lauren · 34 Tumasian, Robert · 7 Weiss, Noah · 60, 69, 72 Sterns, Emily · 30 Welch, Evelyn · 69 Zipper, Ryan · 69 Stevens, Victoria · 35 Welker, Barbara · 6, 25, 32 Zook, Joan · 6, 13 Zubler, Bayley · 19 Steward, Colleen · 2, 25, 55 U Welsch, Tory · 5, 37 Stewart, Ian · 63 West, Anna · 66 Stiner, Jonah · 67 West, Karleen · 5, 16, 21, 45, Stivers, Nathan · 72 Uddin, Sabiha · 38, 43 46, 47, 48, 62, 63, 79 Stockler, Barak · 44 Urena, Alis · 73 Wheatley, Christian · 4 Stoklosa, Madeline · 64 Uy, Erwin · 73 White, Tyler · 4

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The GREAT Day Faculty Advisory Council The GREAT Day Staff Isidro Bosch, Biology Anne Baldwin, Sponsored Research David Levy, Philosophy Tammy Hill, Campus Scheduling and Special Events Joe Cope, CIDD Andrea Klein, Campus Scheduling and Special Events Graham Drake, English Daniel Ross, Milne Library Caroline Haddad, Mathematics Patty Hamilton-Rodgers, GREAT Day Coordinator Susan Salmon, School of Education Zarmeen Zahid, Student Submissions Coordinator Aaron Steinhauer, Physics & Astronomy Paige Closser, Student Poster Coordinator Karleen West, Political Science & International Relations Tarryn Franciosa, Student Promotions Coordinator Graham Callaghan, Student Logistics Coordinator GREAT Student Team Dowon Hwang, GCAB Arts & Exhibits Sean Ryan, Chamber Music Festival Coordinator Megan Grant, GREAT Day Intern Corey Wilkinson, Student Association

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