Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship April 24, 2013 VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY CELEBRATION of UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
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Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship April 24, 2013 VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY CELEBRATION OF UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP April 24, 2013 Harre Union Ballrooms 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Posters on Display 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Poster Presentation Judging 8:00 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. Oral Presentation Judging 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Open Viewing for Campus Community 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch for Student Presenters 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Awards Presentation 5:00 p.m. Students Take Down Posters Deans’ Choice Presentations 3:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Harre Union Ballroom C 3:00 p.m. Mark Schwehn, Provost Welcome Cynthia Rutz, Director of the Celebration of Deans’ Choice Presentations Program 3:10 p.m. Undergraduate Scholarship Rebecca Pietrzak The Impact of Endurance Training vs. Non- 3:15 p.m. (College of Arts and Sciences) Endurance Training on Blood Lactate Levels Post Seven-on-Seven Maximal Capacity Test Paul Rubio Oak Woods Cemetery Confederate (Christ College) Monument: The Revelations about Pro- 3:30 p.m. Confederate Commemoration of the American Civil War William Scupham An Army for the Revolution, a Revolution for 3:45 p.m. (College of Arts and Sciences) the Army: The French Revolutionary Army, 1792-1797 Sarah Brunsvold An Analysis of Sulfur Trioxide in Aggregates 4:00 p.m. (College of Engineering) for Concrete Using an ASTM Standard for Portland Cement Adam Dickey, Wang Hang Release of Phosphorus from Sediment into 4:15 p.m. (College of Arts and Sciences) Pore Water Holly Buckman Keep Calm and Carry On: An International 4:30 p.m. (College of Arts and Sciences) Comparison of Stress in Law Enforcement Stephanie Volz Why So Special? The Israel Lobby, Human 4:45 p.m. (College of Arts and Sciences) Rights, and United States Foreign Aid Paige Snyder, Catherine Wingstrom, Carly Beyond the Volcanoes: A Community 5:00 p.m. Crave, Claire Simonpietri, Christina Lundy Partnership for Health in Rural Nicaragua (College of Nursing) Overview of the Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship The Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship (CUS) is a conference that allows undergraduate students to showcase their creative and/or scholarly work and research in a professional format. The Celebration began in 1998 as an idea from an interdisciplinary group of faculty who had attended national meetings on the role of undergraduate research in the college experience. One of the many joys of completing a research project or creative endeavor is to share the results with others. In a typical year, the Valpo CUS brings together more than 150 students and 45 faculty sponsors to share their research experiences with the campus and local community. Students who have worked on class projects, senior projects and theses, or independent scholarship are encouraged to participate. At the conference, all students present their work in a poster or oral presentation format. In addition to poster and oral presentations, the Deans of Valparaiso University’s five undergraduate colleges select students to represent their colleges at the Deans’ Choice Presentations, and these students give oral presentations in an afternoon program. Students and faculty are encouraged to read the poster presentations guidelines and oral presentation guidelines on the Undergraduate Research website (http://valpo.edu/research/) for guidance on the development of their presentations. Faculty sponsors also provide guidance and support for their students, both in developing the original research and in transmitting that research to a poster or oral format. ADDITIONAL UNDERGRADUATE EXHIBITS AND AWARDS College of Engineering Design Expo Christ College Student Scholarship Symposium Award Winners Saturday, May 4, 2013 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Thursday, February 7, 2013 Gellersen Center Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony: The Story that Lies Beneath By Chelsea Kiehl, sophomore Department of Art Looking Behind the Allegory: The Student Art Exhibition True Depiction of Race in X-Men By Danielle Mueller, senior April 17 – May 12, 2013 Brauer Museum of Art Thursday, October 25, 2012 Opening Reception, April 17 – 7:00 p.m., Kant’s Moral Theory as a Secular VUCA Lobby Foundation for Human Rights Works selected by VU studio art faculty By Patrick Slattery, senior Stonewall Jackson and Religion: A Different Look By Nathan Kelly, sophomore CHRIST COLLEGE It’s Time to Pick a Side: Why Remaining Neutral towards Media Representations of Women Isn’t Innocence vs. Experience: A Conflict Revealed Working through Storytelling Jane Hurdish Kate Guidera Departmental Affiliation: Departmental Affiliation: English and Classics Christ College Christ College Media portrayals of women are often negative, and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy contains can have dire effects on female viewers, yet our a critique of religion and theology that is unique society continues to allow these types of images. The insofar as it is directed not at Christianity as its American conception of free speech is what drives us primary audience, but instead to young readers of to tolerate these images. In America, media science fiction and fantasy. He criticizes the Church representations are protected under the highly valued for its idealization of innocence and passivity, right to free speech. The general belief is that, in proposing instead that there is nothing to be lost in a order to ensure the right to free speech for all, the law fall from grace and everything to gain in a new world must remain neutral towards the content of speech, of experience in which one constantly engages in avoiding judgments on whether that content is good active understanding. The ongoing conflict between or bad. As a result, harmful representations of women innocence and experience persists through the remain in the public domain because producers are trilogy’s entirety. In this, Pullman’s books react deemed to have the right to free speech. I would against C. S. Lewis’s Narnia series, wherein, argue, though, that media representations of women according to Pullman, the importance of innocence is extend beyond questions of "good" or "bad" to a central theme. Directing his trilogy to the same questions of right or wrong; beyond questions of audiences as Lewis, Pullman insinuates that he too mere opinion or preference to questions of justice. has a religious truth to share: that humanity is shaped Ultimately, harmful media representations oppress by experience, and these experiences make people women, a hard truth that is masked by our neutral unique. Through experience people recognize the stance towards free speech. Thus, to truly ensure agency of which they are capable, that not everything women the same rights as men, we may have to is predetermined, that they have a responsibility to abandon our current conception of justice, which the world and to themselves. By utilizing a fantastic promotes a kind of false, gender-biased "neutrality" narrative, Pullman effectively communicates his in dealing with speech, for a different conception of human truths, for stories have been and always will justice: true freedom and equality for all. be interpreted through the experience of the reader. Thus, Pullman draws the reader into the hard choices Information about the Author: of experience and, by extension, into his polemic: Jane Hurdish is a social work major who is interested that validating innocence in the world would in social justice and advocating for vulnerable eliminate much of human agency and choice. As populations, including women. She has become Lyra, Pullman’s main character, learns the true nature particularly interested in how women fit into our of the worlds existing within this trilogy, so too does society. the reader. As Lyra grows into her experience, so too does the reader. With His Dark Materials, Pullman Faculty Sponsor: Dr. David Western analyzes the nature of innocence and experience and concludes that experience is necessary in shaping the Student Contact: [email protected] human condition. Information about the Author: Looking Beyond the Allegory: The True Kate Guidera is a senior English and classics double Depiction of Race in X-Men major. She wrote this paper for a Christ College seminar "The Devil and the Problem of Evil." Danielle Mueller Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Edward Upton Departmental Affiliation: Political Science Christ College Student Contact: [email protected] In 1963, the first issue of X-Men was published, introducing the Marvel Universe and the world to mutants, super-powered individuals born with 3 amazing powers. Feared and hated by the world they incomplete conception of justice to look to when have sworn to protect, the mutant X-Men are often seeking peace in post-conflict societies. The more interpreted as representing a variety of marginalized appropriate way to conceptualize justice is as the groups. Modern scholarship generally focuses on the restoration of right relationships. This conception of Bryan Singer film series and mutants as justice is known as restorative justice, and in it representative of homosexuals and Jews. Despite the forgiveness, apology, truth, and punishment work validity of these modern readings, this focus has together to promote reconciliation and restore the neglected the depiction of race in the original X-Men relationships among the members of the conflict. comics and has reduced the racial message of X-Men Because restorative justice restores the broken to a simple allegory in which mutants represent the relationships that cause violence, it is better at oppressed minority, the X-Men represent civil rights achieving a just peace than purely retributive justice activists, and humans represent the oppressive and is the more appropriate conception of justice to majority. However, a close reading of X-Men comics apply to post-conflict states. from the 1970s and 1980s indicates that the series' depiction of racial and ethnic minority characters Information about the Author: complicates this simple allegorical reading.