Welcome to SUNY Geneseo’s Eighth Annual GREAT Day!

Geneseo Recognizing Excellence, Achievement & Talent Day is a college-wide symposium celebrating the creative and scholarly endeavors of our students. In addition to recognizing the achievements of our students, the purpose of GREAT Day is to help foster academic excellence, encourage professional development, and build connections within the community.

The GREAT Day Faculty Advisory Council: The GREAT Day Committee: Joan Ballard, Psychology Anne Baldwin, Sponsored Research Sid Bosch, Biology Tammy Hill, Campus Scheduling and Special Events David Levy, Edgar Fellows and Philospohy Andrea Klein, Campus Scheduling and Special Events Jennifer Lofkrantz, History Cassidy Lester, GREAT Day Intern Jun Okada, English Samuel Dole, Chamber Music Festival Coordinator Susan Salmon, School of Education Chelsea Butkowski, Kinetic Gallery Coordinator Aaron Steinhauer, Physics & Astronomy Efthimia Barbagiannis, Student Association Tracy Paradis, Milne Library Patty Hamilton-Rodgers, GREAT Day Coordinator

Thank You for staff contributions that make GREAT Day possible: Brian Bennett, Betsy Colon, Joe Dolce, Stephen Dresbach, Karie Frisiras, Paul Jackson, Nancy Johncox, Minh Bui, Enrico Johnson, Laura Kenyon, Rose Manzella, Chip Matthews, Sean McGrath, Daniel Ross, Mark Scott, Rio Takemura, and the SA Tech Services.

Thanks to Student volunteers: Ama Acheampong, Katelyn Baroody, Brittany Bauer, Meara Bowe, Kevin Boyd, Rebekah Brenard, Noah Chauvin, John Coacci, Aideen Dempsey, Shannon Dempsey, Jess Diefendorf, Christopher Eckland, Pamela Emengo, Jordan Fulcoly, Shannon Gallagher, Cara Gannett, Jessica Gil, Mary Kate Ginnane, Abby Golfo, Jessica Halpern, Kyle Hartman, Ashlee Hill, Jackie Ibrahim, Erica Kosmerl, Nicole LeMaster, Michelle Lindner, Tiffany Lui, Alaina Maiorano, Katherine Mannion, Juliana Merluccio, Kelly Miller, Tayler Naeye, Alysha Petrone, Erika Portelli, Zoe Rosen, Ashley Scholes, Nicole Smith, Raysa Sosa, Meagan Turner, Emma Wang, Anna Watson, Staci Weiss, Morgan Wilson

Special Thank You: Interim President Carol Long and Interim Provost Dave Gordon for their support of GREAT Day. Jack and Carol Kramer for their support of Geneseo and the Keynote address. Sheri Fink for delivering the Keynote address. Tom Fisher for the online submission form and web program design. Samuel Dole for organizing the Chamber Music Festival. Efthimia Barbagiannis for serving as liaison to the Student Association. The Student Association for sponsoring the Luncheon. Campus Auxiliary Services for sponsoring luncheon beverages. Daniel Ross and the Milne Library Staff for overseeing the proceedings. Anne Baldwin, Andrea Klein, and Tammy Hill for their special expertise and many hours devoted to planning this event.

GREAT Day is funded by the Office of the Provost, the Student Association, Campus Auxiliary Services and the Jack '76 and Carol '76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship.

http://www.geneseo.edu/great_day

2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual Table of Contents/Schedule

TABLE OF CONTENTS SCHEDULE

Schedule ...... 1 7:30 – 8:20 AM Erwin Lobby Coffee with Carol & Company Artwork Exhibits ...... 2-3 Stop by for a quick bite before heading to the concurrent sessions

Chamber Music Festival ...... 4 8:30 – 6:30 PM CU Kinetic Gallery & Brodie Lederer Gallery Artwork Exhibits Keynote Address ...... 5 8:30 – 9:45 AM Doty, ISC, Milne, South, Wadsworth, Welles Sessions 1, 2 Presentations Quick View Guide ...... 6 Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 ...... 7 - 13 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM College Union Hunt Room Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 ...... 14 - 21 Chamber Music Festival Part 1

Poster Map ...... 22 9:55 – 11:10 PM Doty, ISC, Milne, Newton, South, Welles Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 Poster Abstracts ...... 23 - 45 11:15 – 12:45 AM College Union Ballroom Sessions 3, 4 Presentations Quick View Guide .... 46 Poster Presentations Sláinte Irish Dance Performance 12:40 pm Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 ...... 47 - 53 12:00 PM College Union Lobby Concurrent Presentations • Session 4 ...... 53 - 59 Buffet Luncheon Sponsored by the Geneseo Student Special Presentations/Insomnia Film Festival ..... 60 Association

Index of Student Participants ...... 1:00 – 2:15 PM Wadsworth Auditorium The Jack ’76 and Carol ’76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship Index of Faculty/Staff Sponsors ...... Sheri Fink, author of Five Days at Memorial Opening Alma Mater performed by ALEXANDRA IMBROSCI-VIERA Cover designs ...... back cover 2:25 – 3:40 PM College Union, Doty, ISC, Milne, Newton, Cover design by Hannah Peterson For more information on the GREAT Day Program Cover design project, see Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 South, Welles back cover. 2:30 – 4:30 PM Chamber Music Festival Part 2 College Union Hunt Room

Check out Starbuck’s 3:50 – 5:05 PM Brodie, College Union, Doty, ISC, Milne, Concurrent Presentations • Session 4 Newton, South, Welles GREAT Day Latte 5:10 PM College Union Lobby It is sweet, bold, and nutty – Special Presentations Winter Guard & Bhangra

something for everyone, just 5:15 – 6:15 PM College Union Ballroom like GREAT Day. Keynote Speaker Book Signing, Sheri Fink, Author Poster Presentations & Reception Closing Remarks, Carol Long, Interim President

6:30 PM Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival Wadsworth Auditorium

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Artwork 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual

ARTWORK EXHIBITS SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS FOR PREPARING THE EXHIBITS: CARLY FOWLER, HANNAH GLASER, OLIVIA ASCIONE D’ELIA

MACVITTIE COLLEGE UNION KINETIC GALLERY

______Using pointillism this piece tries ANNA HOLCOMB HANNAH GLASER Melting Cells: FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART to show microscopic cells and their inner workings, shifting and melting, like how paint would drip, One Million Bones: Lisl Frank, The Danny's Lamb: Watercolor painting based on splatter, and run down a canvas. Holocaust: The Holocaust is one of the best a photo my Grampa took in the early 1960's, of my ______known genocides in history. Adolf Hitler brought the Uncle Danny on the family farm in Milford, NY. DAYNA MERCER Nazis into power in the 1930s. He felt that the Michael and Tucker: Oil on canvas portrait FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART Aryans were the master race and therefore all other of my brother Michael asleep in an armchair with Rising Light: This art piece was created through individuals not of that race should be promptly his cat, Tucker, at age 15. the use of pieces of black paper. I decided I liked the exterminated. By the end of the Holocaust, nearly 6 Self Portrait: Ink wash on watercolor paper, idea of a string of christmas lights being broken and million Jews were killed along with millions of other self portrait of the artist in her dorm room. formed into something. It wasn't until my friend victims. Lisl Frank was born January 22nd 1911 in ______suggested a hot air balloon, that I realized how Prague. She was a well-known singer, dancer and KHILNA SAMAT interesting the transformation could be. actress. In March, 1944 Lisl and her husband, Otto, FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART Simply Strokes: This drawing is done were taken from their home and moved to the Free Me: Male femur of a chemist named completely in Sharpie using pointillism. I tried Westerbork concentration camp. Lisl continued to Maxime Liliental, born 1896 and died of a gunshot capturing the movement of a brush stroke with dots be a part of a stage troupe there. On October 4th, at age 48. This bone was carved to commemorate in different directions. I tried using the idea of 1944 at age 33, during a forced march from the 6 million Jewish lives that were lost during the gestalts theory with the globs of black being cut off Christianstadt to Auschwitz, she died due to the Holocaust. Don't forget me but I must go. And so by the large dark brush stroke. torturous actions acted upon her. My project is a the butterflies carry me to a far, far place... called ______model of Lisl's femur, symbolizing her death freedom. Butterflies symbolize a new beginning, BONNIE STATHIS resulting from the march. The dried rose petals, a lightness, resurrection, hence their usage. The bone FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART rose and burnt tickets represent the dreams that is well carved with details, so one never forgets that From Ice Cream to Giraffe: This piece Lisl Frank had that were destroyed by the Holocaust all the victims left a mark for a better world. demonstrates the transformation from an ice cream and the injustices that she went through. Her acting ______cone to a giraffe through three unique phases. As and performing careers were ended by the HUSSIEN SUMA you can see, the sprinkles slowly transform into Holocaust. FACULTY SPONSORS: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART pieces of cone, to lips, and finally into the pattern of ______LESLIE STROZ, ART JHENNELLE DAVIS the giraffe. The cone and ice cream in the second FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART Transcendence: Inspired by Lee Jeffries transformation break up and melt in order to form a very abstract shape with the addition of lip shapes. I Transformation: A transformation from Photography. Charcoal. Medusa: Mixed Media: Charcoal and Pen. incorporated the lips in order to give the piece a scissor to ballerina. more interesting and unique feature. From the third Ink Interpretation: Zoomed in interpretation Cascade: Media: Sharpie. transformation I made the shape of a giraffe of ink swatches. ______completely composed of lips, which then turned ______JESSICA LOLAKAS into my end transformation of a giraffe. The little LAUREL LINDE FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART giraffes on the bottom gave the piece more bold FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART The Unseen Eye: Brush stroke, pointillism shapes to take away some of the whiteness of the Seng Im Ung: It is the C5 vertebrae, meant to abstract work using Sharpie to create different paper. The whole composition was completed by be of a man named Seng Im Ung from Cambodia values. Manipulating tiger face to create point of cutting each shape out of black paper with an exact who was killed in the genocide. It is within a circle interest while connecting it to the entire image. knife. ______because in Cambodia the religion is Buddhism and Flowing Hair Brush Stroke: For this piece, the circle in that religion represents the circle of life, LEXI HANNAH FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART I first took a brush and ink and made random brush death and reincarnation. strokes on a piece of paper. A section of the paper ______Time: This is a watercolor piece that shows the that I thought was interesting was then blown up MARIBETH EBBERS image of a girl being confined to a round enclosure and traced with sharpie to make the art piece. A big FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART that represents the inevitability of time's passing part of my artwork was changed from the original Imagination is the limit: A visual mirrored with the confines (anxiety, depression) piece in order to make it more unique and exploration of the infinite possibilities in the mind. that the mind tends to create as a response to this interesting. Instead of tracing a plain black brush ______idea. stroke on the right side, I transformed it into a KATELYN LAGATELLA Deep: This is a Monoprint- The image is a sunset woman's face, with her hair flowing in the way the FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART press. brush strokes did. I made her hair flow into the Eruption: A series of lines in ink, merging to Becoming: This is a Monoprint in-progress. other thinner brush stroke lines in order to create an explosion of movement. ______incorporate it into the whole piece instead of ______ZACKARY LOMONACO leaving it out on its own. I wanted the whole piece HOLLY BIRDSALL FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART to flow together as one. The entire composition FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART aside from the main dark brush stroke at the top Fire Breathes Life: Using black paper Brushstroke: Experimenting with value and was done using pointillism (small dots). cutouts, this piece follows the rebirth and pointillism. transformation of the mythological Phoenix, which Untitled: Transformation from hand to cobra. is constantly being reborn from the fire and ashes of its predecessor.

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2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual Artwork

______came up with a better idea by tilting the piece more DANIELLE ARIENO MICHELLE MOSHON and more as it continued to get taller and taller. To FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART make this piece even more interesting, we gave this He loves me?: Transformation of a flower into Neptune in the Sands: Interpret at your piece a little twist by implementing a spiral effect. a face. own will. The desert holds many illusions, and not ______all of them kind. JESSICA KIM JOSH ABRAHAMS ______FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART URSULA QUINN Sunset at the Lake: Oil painting on canvas. Brushstroke Pointillism: Pointillism used FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART ______to depict value and Gestalt Theory. Sharpie was Untitled 1: The primary focus of this piece is EMILY WALDMAN used to to trace over the original brushstroke piece. creating different values with pointillism techniques FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART ______to create a more visually appealing work. The Monochromatic Bucket: Still life of a JANICE YOON process was as follows: using ink on a dry brush to bucket in monochromatic color scheme. FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART mark paper, using a 2"x2.75" window to find ______Transition: Art project. appropriate composition, cutting that section out, MEI YI CHOO blowing that image up by 400%, and finally using FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Brush Stroke: Art project. RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART ______pointillism skills on a light screen to create the LAUREN LADEAIROUS finished product. Monotone Beauty: Charcoal portrait with a FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART ______hint of imagination. CINDY LIN, ERICA LASNICKI, GINA CHUN, HYUKJAE Brush Stroke Adaptation: Imitation of a LEE When Nature Intervenes: Paper cutting of small portion ink brushstrokes, enlarged and drawn FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART black paper. ______with pigment liner. This ______Cardboard and Expensive Tape: JULIA CARDILLO CHRISTINE KIM piece of artwork was designed and created by four FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL MASCI, MUSIC FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART students enrolled in the 3-D art studio class as a Midnight Sun: Acrylic paint on canvas. group project. The criteria required us to use only Transformation: Class assignment. cardboard, tape, and glue to create a large work of Brush Stroke: Class assignment. art that defied gravity. Our artwork had to come in contact with three different surfaces. We chose the

floor, chair, and wall as our three contact points. This work was initially modeled after stairs, but by moving pieces and thinking "out of the box," we

BRODIE FINE ARTS – LEDERER GALLERY

______shapes were constructed out of black paper using Galvanized steel wire sculpture. EMMA JACKSON Lily: an X- Acto knife. My idea behind "From Fear to ______FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Fearless" was that something that I am most fearful JESSICA KIM Hand: Drawing of my hand using charcoal. of would be transformed into a state in which I am FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Drawing of myself using charcoal. fearless. Oil painting on canvas. Artist's Self Portrait: ______Cape Cod: Shirt: Drawing of a person's shirt and shoulder BRYAN WATSON original photograph recreated in impressionistic-like using charcoal. FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART style ______Can you see me meow?: Wire chameleon Naptime: Figure drawing, charcoal on paper. YULIYA MURADOVA that's starting to change color in the legs and ______FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART EMILY WALDMAN underbelly to match the tree branch. FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Copy of Ginevra de Benci: ______Monochromatic copy on canvas of Leonardo da MATHEW RHONEY, BRYAN WATSON, LAURA In the Kitchen: Still-life in oil on canvas. Vinci's Ginevra de Benci, originally painted in the GOLDEN Main Street Geneseo: Landscape of Main FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART 1470s. Street Geneseo in ink on watercolor paper. ______Cardboard Sculpture: We have constructed ______TARA REBUCK this 3D piece using cardboard scavenged from MEI YI CHOO FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART various locations around Geneseo. FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Miley Cyrus: Inspired by Minjae Lee. ______RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART ______KATRINA BUCK Tired of holding up? BRIDGET SOVOCOOL Restless: FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART ______FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART Self Portrait: This is my self portrait from JULIA CARDILLO From Fear to Fearless Drawing I, done in charcoal. It is the first portrait of FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL MASCI, MUSIC Transformation Project: Ryota Takemura, this caliber that I have completed. Vibrant Silhouettes: Acrylic paint on canvas 2D Design. For this project, we had to morph one ______LAURA GOLDEN object or shape into another in five steps. The FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART

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Chamber Music Festival 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual

CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL HUNT ROOM, MACVITTIE COLLEGE UNION

9:30 am Geneseo Flute Choir

10:15 am Wind Quintet

10:35 am Sax Quartet

10:55 am Clarinet Choir

11:20 am Thursday Night Jazz Ensemble

12:00 pm Geneseo String Band

1:00-2:15 pm Break for Keynote Address

2:30 pm Monday Night Jazz Combo

3:10 Emmelodics

3:30 Exit 8, a cappella

4:00 Between The Lines, a cappella

4:30 Geneseo Con Brio

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2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual Keynote Address • 1:00 pm

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

Introduction by Carol Long, Interim President

Sheri Fink “Five Days at Memorial” New York Times Top 10 Book for 2013

About Sheri Fink

As a journalist, Sheri Fink has traveled to every continent except Antarctica. A former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, she has experienced some of the world’s most volatile regions. Ms. Fink has utilized her experiences to become an award winning journalist and author.

Ms. Fink’s most recent success and the topic of her GREAT Day Keynote is her book Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. Originally written as an article published by the New York Times Magazine, it investigates the deadly choices faced in a New Orleans hospital during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Since it’s publication it has won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting as well as named a New York Times Top 10 Book for 2013.

Success didn’t just find her over night, however. Ms. Fink has been a long time humanitarian, with a passion for issues in war and medicine. Even while studying medicine and neuroscience at Stanford, she investigated the Nazi Holocaust and protested genocide in Bosnia. She has used her expertise and experiences to share her knowledge and has taught classes at Harvard, Tulane and the New School.

Ms. Fink is a 1990 graduate of the University of Michigan and received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the Overseas Press Club Lowell Thomas Award, among other journalism prizes. She has had articles appear in a number of high profile publications such as the New York Times, Discover, and Scientific America.

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 “Five Days at Memorial” available for purchase. All are welcome.

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2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual Quick View Guide Sessions 1 & 2

CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS MORNING QUICK VIEW GUIDE

SESSION 1 CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS SESSION 2 CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS 8:30 – 9:45 AM 9:55 – 11:10 AM ______1A • INTERDISCIPLINARY: ACCESS OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM 2A • ANTHROPOLOGY SOUTH 338 AND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY MILNE 105 Global Health I: Contemporary Issues ______1B • BIOLOGY I ISC 115 2B • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS I NEWTON 201 ______1C • BUSINESS I SOUTH 340 2C • BIOLOGY II ISC 115 ______1D • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 1 WELLES 121 2D • CHEMISTRY NEWTON 203 Political Science & International Relations, English Chemistry Honors Research Presentations 1 ______1E • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 2 WELLES 123 2E • COMMUNICATION MILNE 105 English, Psychology ______2F • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 4 WELLES 121 1F • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 3 WELLES 119 Communication, Psychology Anthropology, Business ______2G • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 5 WELLES 123 1G • GEOGRAPHY I WELLES 216 Education, Psychology ______1H • ENGLISH WELLES 131 2H • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 6 WELLES 119 Fairy Tales and Connecticut Yankees: The Works of Sir Thomas Mathematics Malory and Intertextuality ______2I • EDUCATION NEWTON 204 1I • HISTORY WELLES 140 LIVES (Learning Independence, Vocation, and Education Skills) History Honors Theses: American Political Culture and Program at Geneseo Democracy from the 1860s to the 1960s. ______2J • ENGLISH WELLES 131 1J • ANTHROPOLOGY II WELLES 133 Pagan or Biblical? English Poetry and Ancient Systems of Allusion ______1K • INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM MILNE 109 2K • ENGLISH WELLES 134 International Students Present 1 Biblical Samson and the Ethics of Suicide Bombers ______1L • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 336 2L • HISTORY WELLES 140 History of Mathematics I History Honors Theses: Popular Resistance in times of war and ______during the Atlantic slave trade 1M • MATHEMATICS I SOUTH 328 ______2M • HISTORY WELLES 133 1N • MUSIC WELLES 115 Guns, Graphics, and Gonads: Subjectivity and Structural Critique Good Guys and Bad in Folk Ballad Tradition ______in the Long 1960s ______1O • OFFICE OF THE PROVOST DOTY 302E 2N • INTERDISCIPLINARY: MATHEMATICS & PHYSICS ISC 131 Reflections from the 2013 Ambassadorship Program ______2O • INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM MILNE 109 1P • POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS International Students Present 2 The Social Costs of Terror WELLES 26 ______2P • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 336 1Q • POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS History of Mathematics II Public Opinion and Voting in American Politics WELLES 134 ______2Q • MUSIC DOTY RECITAL HALL 1R • THEATRE/DANCE WADSWORTH AUDITORIUM Operetta Scenes Isadora Duncan and Loie Fuller: Pioneers of Modern Dance ______2R • POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1S • WOMEN'S STUDIES WELLES 24 Human Rights: Challenges and Opportunities WELLES 24 Senior Capstones in Women's Studies: Research and Creative ______Projects 2S • POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______WELLES 26 Discrimination, Death, and Denial: The Role of Women in South Asia ______

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2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual Session1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM

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

1A • INTERDISCIPLINARY: ACCESS of capture, as I am trying to catch all 718 currently Impact of Organizational Learning on existing Pokémon. Using the same equations the OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM AND game programmers used for Pokémon capture as a Innovation/New Product CENTER FOR COMMUNITY starting point, I developed several functions which Development MILNE 105 are able to determine the probability of catching a ERIC MALDONADO, TYLER CHAUNCEY , KEVIN SESSION CHAIR: KIM HARVEY, NEW STUDENT Pokémon in any situation as well as the average SUGRUE PROGRAMS number of poke balls required. Further, they search Questions we sought to answer with our research ______for and return the best location to capture the were the following: How do different levels of You Must Be Tired, You've Been Pokémon. This is an incredibly useful tool when organizational learning impact interdepartmental playing the game as it provides easily accessible, attitudes in an atmosphere that supports Running through My Mind All Day: organized, and player specific real time information. innovation? What forms of communication best Cat Calling Experience ______contribute to an effective and efficient flow of ASHLY DUNWOODY, JONELLE WILLIAMS Spelling with Your Mind: information to facilitate the sharing of knowledge? FACULTY SPONSOR: FATIMA RODRIGUEZ JOHNSON, Electroencephalography with What types of team structures are best equipped to CENTER FOR COMMUNITY achieve innovation? We found that an important This presentation will provide an overview of a cat ModularEEG, Arduino, and BCI2000 factor to successful organizational learning and calling social experiment conducted in Rochester, HERB SUSMANN, NICK COLLISSON innovation is taking risks and experimentation. The NY on a local college campus. Teams of female The electrical activity that is inherent in the flow of information throughout an organization is students engaged in cat calling toward male functioning of the brain results in the presence of vital to their productiveness and efficiency. Creating students. The male participants were asked follow- small voltages at the scalp. These electrical signals a structure that ensures the flow of information will up questions like; Have you ever been cat called by can be acquired and amplified using a technique lead to more efficient group work and facilitate a girl before? How did it make you feel? The called electroencephalography (EEG) and innovation. Also, hand-picked, multidisciplinary presentation will also include the examination of interpreted by software to form a brain-computer teams whose members work together from start to gender roles and the societal norms as it applies to interface (BCI). We assembled a BCI from open finish are an effective way to organize new product cat calling. source hardware and software (and an Arduino) development. Group members working together on ______that enables subjects to spell words in real time. several stages of a project proved to be more The Negative Portrayal and The software, called BCI2000, presents a grid of effective than an assembly line. Based on our letters and numbers that flash in sequence. A research findings, we were able to determine three Misrepresentation of Women in the characteristic electrical potential is evoked when effective recommendations for businesses. Our Media the character that a subject's gaze is focused on presentation will reveal and explain these ALEXANDRA SALERNO, YANYING LIN, ALYSSA flashes. The schematics for the signal amplifier were recommendations to an intrigued audience. MORALES, GNIRE KONE, ELAINE MURRAY, SASHA provided by the OpenEEG project. ______MILLER, REFAT ZAMAN, BRIANNA ALLISON, ______Trust in the Supervisor/Manager and Hunger in Livingston County: Who It MELISSA MINAYA, CAROLINA FERNANDEZ, Its Impact on Employee's Work CAROLINE BERRIOS, JENNIPHER COLAS, KAYLA Affects and What We Can Do About VIALVA, ELIZABETH MORABITO, KIMBERLY Behavior TORRES, KAIRRA MONROE, SELENA BEAUMONT, It JACQUELIN DANGELO, COLLEEN WEINMANN, VICTORIA MORALES, GENESIS DIAZ SHERRY LEUNG, CHRISTOPHER PIKE, RACHEL ANDREI POBLAGUEV, BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ, FACULTY SPONSOR: CALVIN GANTT, ACCESS EISENMAN, SHANEKA RODRIGUEZ, CAMERON DANIEL BENDER OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM HOUSER, BENJAMIN LINCHUCK, BRITTANY Organizational trust, or the willingness of a party We will present the topic of how women are TERZAKOS (employee) to be vulnerable to the actions of negatively portrayed in the media with a Our presentation will be about the issue of hunger another party(organization)based on the powerpoint, which will include: video clips from in the Livingston County area. We will look at expectation that the other will perform a particular documentaries, examples of negative portrayals, hunger from several different lenses. First, we will action important to the trustor (Mayer, our own research and our own video clips from discuss our experience with completing the SNAP Davis,Schoorman,1995), is imperative for efficiency surveys and possible performances, and show ways Benefits Food Challenge which limits us to spending in the workplace. Employee trust in management in which organizations, people, and other women only $36.93 for an entire week on food. The SNAP helps avoid unnecessary road blocks within want to diminish this unattainable ideal of beauty. Benefits Food Challenge provides us with a small organizations such as management's excessive In addition, we might do an artistic performance in insight into the difficulty that families and oversight over employees, employees' deviant the beginning of our session before the powerpoint. individuals face living solely on the money that they behavior, and employee turnover that can both receive on the SNAP Program. Additionally, we will inhibit innovation and slow productivity of the 1B • BIOLOGY IISC 115 be sharing findings from our annual event, organization. High levels of trust within Livingston County's End Hunger Day. We will FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GREGG organizations can create higher performing teams disclose information about the number of families HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY and thus, allow an organization to be more ______and individuals that we were able to help through proficient. This presentation will not only highlight Simulating and Assessing Search and the various events that we will be hosting that day the benefits of employees trusting their supervisors including a mobile food pantry, a SNAP Benefits in the workplace, but will also establish how this Capture Strategies for the Pokémon Clinic and an informational fair. Finally, we'll be trust is established in the first place through careful Game looking at the issue of hunger from two-folds and observation of organizational politics, beneficial CORTNEY DODGE addressing possible solutions that can be feedback, turnover intention, and organizational Pokémon is a game in which the player travels implemented to decrease the rate of hunger in the commitment. around a simulated world collecting "pocket community. ______monsters" and pitting them against one another in a Organizing for Creativity: The Impact 1C • BUSINESS I SOUTH 340 test of strength, skill, and luck. Catching Pokémon is of Organizational Structure on by no means a simple task when you take into FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: AVAN account the mathematical formulas involved. I was JASSAWALLA, BUSINESS Innovation interested in determining the most efficient method ______7

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CARALYN WHITE, LAURA BARNARD, JASON FALK, their work, which, in each era, was eventually images of medical professionals evolved during the SAM KELLEY, HYESOO PARK, ZACHARY YEHL adapted to fit the cultural repertoire of WASP age of mass media and the concurrent rise of In today's competitive global economy, structuring America. This pattern of fixation manifests clearly patient self-determinism movements. Margaret organizations to encourage creativity can encourage throughout the 20th century in blackface acts and Edson's play Wit and Susan Sontag's essay Illness As innovative new products, improved technology, minstrel shows parodying African American life, the Metaphor, serve as a platform for addressing increased employee satisfaction, and effective early forays into Harlem's "heart of impulses" to medical ethics. Both Sontag and Edson frame their problem solving and decision making. All of these experience "exoticism and hence animality," work around the argument that the patient is both aspects will lead to an overall advantage over dramatizations of Louisiana voodoo in everything object and researcher in cooperative health care. competition, and will help companies stay relevant from old wives tales to modern television series, The "cooperative care model" of health care, as and successful. This presentation will outline the and the ongoing white consumption and imitation advocated in Sontag and Edson, stands notably at effects that organizational design and structure of a so-called "black sound" (Jones 1999:150; odds with media images of doctors in popular have on organizational and individual innovation Erenberg 1984:113-114; Owens 2013). I discuss this television shows and movies. The general public and creativity. The presentation will present recurrent push-and-pull between cultural seems wedded to the outdated 19th century findings that answer three central research devaluation and symbolic centrality in the context literary images of doctors as does popular media, questions; what are the benefits of organizational of changing culture, politics, and the paradigm of which both feeds and perpetuates the public's structures that are conducive to a creative Hegel's Desire, "an emptiness that receives a real taste. organizational culture, what organizational positive content...[by] destroying, transforming, and ______structures and conditions emphasize and increase "assimilating" the desired non-I" (O'Shea 2010:103). Why We Want What We Don't Like: creativity, and how does leadership and ______A Closer Look at the Brain's Reward management impact the level of creativity in Organ Trafficking and Human Rights System employees? in the People's Republic of China RACHEL HARE BETHANY HYLAND FACULTY SPONSOR: TERENCE BAZZETT, 1D • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 1 FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN LUCAS, POLITICAL WELLES 121 PSYCHOLOGY SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS It has long been established that dopamine is a SESSION CHAIR: DAVID LEVY, EDGAR FELLOWS AND The Nuremberg Code was written after the horrors major player in the brain's reward system. Its role, PHILOSOPHY of World War II to protect against human ______however, is far more nuanced. Recent evidence has experimentation and provide ethical guidelines for revealed that dopamine may play a larger role in The Stories of the Sex Trade: How medical research in general. Thirty-four years later a the anticipatory 'wanting' aspect of reward, as well Documentaries Tell the Story of Sex Chinese government policy paper officially as the learning process of linking stimuli to potential sanctioned the removal of organs from executed rewards. Endogenous opioids appear to be Workers and Trafficking Victims prisoners for the purpose of transplantation. GABRIELLE CAMPANELLA associated with the 'liking,' or hedonic, aspect of Despite various initiatives by international non- reward. As seperate neurotransmitter systems, the FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL SCHACHT, ENGLISH legislative bodies such as the WHO and UNESCO, Prostitution has been called the world's oldest two are not always activated simultaneously and this horrific practice continues today. Through an can be modified individually. This delineation has profession. In recent years new issues and investigation of the history of organ transplantation movements have complicated approaches to far reaching consequence for not only substance and trafficking in the PRC, including the past three abuse and psychological disorders, but also the addressing prostitution on legal and social levels. At decades of relentless persecution of the Falun the same time sex workers are advocating for the routine actions in all of our lives. Gong, and a careful examination of the reactions, ______right to legal and social respect for their work, both legislative and not, of the international Exploring The Potential Adaptive groups concerned with the freedom of women and community, especially in the field of medicine, I children who are being sexually exploited call for plan to show that the liberal approach of the Benefits of Negative Mood greater legal restrictions and attention paid to the international community has failed to advocate JOSEPH FIGLIOLIA system of prostitution in the United States and effectively for the rights and lives of thousands of FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY abroad. Documentaries are a powerful medium victims of organ trafficking. If principles and Many evolutionary psychologists theorize that through which these groups advocate for change guidelines and check-lists were what were negative mood states have adaptive benefits, but and compel the general public to act. By analyzing necessary to end this new war of a country's little data has been shown to support this. The films made by various interest groups we can see government against its people, the problem would present project investigated the potential cognitive how these stories are being told, which groups be solved. The rules aren't working because there benefits of negative mood. One such benefit, present the most complete picture, and how we can has been no reason for China to play by the rules. It supported by control deprivation theory, is a respond to these messages as responsible and is the duty of the government and medical reduced susceptibility to judgmental biases. Control compassionate citizens. communities to provide one. deprivation theory posits that this shrewder ______judgment is the product of a more assimilative, and Destroying, Transforming, and 1E • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 2 effortful, form of processing associated with mild Assimilating the Other: Desire and WELLES 123 depression. The main objective of the present study--a replication and extension of Forgas et al. Boundary Transgression in 20th SESSION CHAIR: WENDY POGOZELSKI, CHEMISTRY ______(2013)-- is to evaluate the degree to which subjects Century Music and Culture A Modern Approach to Medicine in a negatively induced mood state are less MAYA HORTON susceptible to gender stereotypes. Participants EMILY WANAMAKER FACULTY SPONSORS: BETH MCCOY, ENGLISH AND were assigned to one of three mood conditions FACULTY SPONSOR: TOM GREENFIELD, ENGLISH ANNE-MARIE REYNOLDS MUSIC (neutral, sad, happy) and one of two name This paper will explore the portrayal of medical In my Capstone Thesis, I examine the dialectical conditions (male, female) before being asked to professionals in American popular culture from the thread between African American culture and the evaluate a fictional job candidate for a statistician 1960s to the present. As prologue, the paper will white mainstream through the lens of jazz, rhythm position at Geneseo. Although the resume attached survey portrayals of doctors in major works from and blues, and hip-hop. While each of these to both name conditions was identical, the gender the 1800-early 1900s. Although images of the movements was met with an initial wave of stereotypical response would be for participants to doctor vary widely in this literature, a derogation, often employing rhetoric vilifying the prefer the male candidate. Based on control predominating construct of the doctor as a classical black community in the accepted formula of the deprivation theory, participants in the negative heroic figure emerges repeatedly: a member of time, the social exclusion of black musicians was mood condition may be less susceptible to society yet a figure above his fellow men and accompanied by an equally strong fascination with stereotyped judgments. If this hypothesis is women. Two subsequent chapters explore how 8

2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM supported, these data would support the theory The purpose of the Geneseo - Haiti project is to determine State level concentrations of white that negative mood may confer adaptive cognitive build a course model that responds principally to supremacist groups. The relative incidence of such benefit. the critique that Service Learning favors the student groups ranges from a high of over 12 per million over the community and perpetuates stigmas of population in Montana to less than one in New 1F • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 3 social and cultural hierarchies, especially in the York, Kansas, and Massachusetts. I also explore the WELLES 119 developing world. While the usual complexity of large urban areas in the States with the highest SESSION CHAIR: ROSE-MARIE CHIERICI, intercultural interaction is rendered more delicate concentrations of white supremacist groups to ANTHROPOLOGY by way of the dramatic socio-economic gap that attempt to locate physical spaces used by these ______often differentiates university students from groups. Some extremist regional groups have a Is College Worth the Cost: A Data- community partners in developing countries, this promotional website, but trying to discover a bricks course will create a pedagogy that seeks to and mortar location for these groups is almost Driven Analysis of the Student Loan overcome this gap and facilitate meaningful impossible. Other groups want to be conspicuous Bubble connection between the partner institution and because they are advertising their community of MARTIN ROGACHEFSKY host community. In order to do this we will develop white supremacists so others can join them. FACULTY SPONSOR: LEONIE STONE, BUSINESS a pedagogical approach that promotes project- The purpose of this paper is to examine the specific language learning and an interactive and 1H • ENGLISH WELLES 131 possibility of a student loan bubble. In light of ongoing cultural orientation that endeavors to Fairy Tales and Connecticut Yankees: record amounts of student loan debt (recently explore and challenge students' stereotypes about passing the one trillion dollar mark), there has been Haiti in the hopes of ultimately transforming the The Works of Sir Thomas Malory and much concern as to whether the value of a college students' perception of not only Haiti, but also their Intertextuality education is worth the costs in tuition and interest identity and role as world-citizens. FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH paid on loans. If the actual value of a college SESSION CHAIR: REBECCA MILLER education is much lower than the current value, 1G • GEOGRAPHY I WELLES 216 ______then this has potential to be an asset-price bubble. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: DARRELL Once Upon a Time: The Morte The paper begins by defining a bubble as an NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY D'Arthur's Relationship to the asymmetric deviation of the market price of an ______asset from its fundamental value over a period of Student Personal Effects 1989 - 2011: Literary Fairy Tale Canon several months or years, that inevitably leads to a An Analysis of Origins SARAH LAWSON The Morte D'Arthur includes several motifs that are significant reverse correction as seen by a fall in EUGENIE MA familiar to us because of literary fairy tales. This prices. The paper then uses data to calculate the This presentation reports the origins of Geneseo paper seeks to explore how the motifs connect the value of college via an earnings differential between students' personal effects. The data, collected in two very different genres of literature and identify high school and college graduates and comparing it 2011, were organized and broken down in whether there is a direct heritage between King to the net cost of college to calculate a cost- categories based on type of good, country of origin, earnings ratio. It then examine several other Arthur legends and later literary fairy tales. price, quality and retailer. The results reflect the ______indicators, including cost-earnings ratio by degree, success and impact of a growing number of private-public education enrollment, and a potential countries as exporters of consumer goods, focused Worship before Morals: The Cause of bubble in for-profit colleges. It concludes that there in my work on the purchasing profile of college Modern Misreadings of Malory's Le is little evidence to support a bubble in student students. This sample is comparable to surveys loans. Selected for presentation at Eastern Morte D'Arthur undertaken in 2000 and 1989. The analysis SEAN FISCHER Economic Association Conference, Boston, MA. encompasses not only changes in the patterns of ______My argument is that Le Morte operates within a production, but also measures previously Shale Play: Weaving an Amorphous distinct cultural system that places an incredible unexplored themes such as the relationship amount of value on status and the acquisition of Narrative in the Twin Tiers between origin, quality and price. Because in 2011, status. As such, morals are of little importance in FRANCIS MANDRACCHIA clothing items were arranged in sub-categories the text. However, writers, such as Tennyson, FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRIS ANNALA, BUSINESS (shirts, t-shirts, skirts, etcetera) we can determine misinterpreted the system and ascribed their own This paper examines the differences between New levels of national specialization and associated values to the text. This shift in values in regard to York and Pennsylvania in implementation of retailer sourcing. The results demonstrate the the text led to centuries of misinterpretation and hydraulic fracturing. Fracking, a practice that uses evolving settings and progress of globalization shifting, as seen in Mark Twain's use of Le Morte in water, sand and chemicals to club bedrock to through the narrow lens of college students' his writing of a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's extract natural gas, has been prone to contestation. possessions. Selected for presentation at Court. From economic estimations to environmental Association of American Geographers Middle impact, the paucity of information has created a States, Buffalo, NY. 1I • HISTORY WELLES 140 situation in which fact and value cannot be ______separated. A theory of socio-technical networks White Supremacist Ecology in the History Honors Theses: American suggests that the implementation of the technology United States Political Culture and Democracy is not deterministic but is based on both a fixed and ALICIA CERQUONE from the 1860s to the 1960s. fluid identity, relying on economic projections while Focusing on white supremacist groups, I examined FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JUSTIN navigating the rhetoric of social groups and political aspects of the geography of hate groups in the BEHREND, HISTORY structures to remain a viable method of resource United States. A white supremacist group is an ______extraction. organization of individuals that considers white ______"To Secure Equal Civil and Political people of European descent to be superior to all International Service Learning: other races and ethnicities. Close to 700 white Rights to All Men:" The Remarkable Fostering Student-Community supremacist groups operate in the United States. Biracial Organization of the Union Interaction in Haiti Every hate group identified by the Southern Poverty League during Reconstruction Law Center has a strong web presence for a national ERIN O'BRIEN CLARE FLYNN audience. From large national groups, smaller FACULTY SPONSOR: ROSE-MARIE CHIERICI, The frequently overlooked organization of the regional groups are organized. Data collected by the ANTHROPOLOGY Union League played an instrumental role in North Southern Poverty Law Center were used to Carolina after the conclusion of the Civil War. Aided 9

Session1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual by the significant pro-Union sentiment among a newspapers, oral histories, and secondary works, political problems affecting archaeological research minority of whites and the strong desire of this paper discusses Jim Crow in Hattiesburg, the in East Asia, discuss the current state of research on freedmen to assert their citizenship rights, the rise of an indigenous civil rights reform movement, the Korean peninsula, expose the holes these Union League was an important factor in political the successful lawsuit against Forrest County political problems create, how these holes skew the mobilization during Reconstruction. This registrar Theron Lynd, the arrival of SNCC activists data presented, as well as potential resolutions that organization also presented a unique opportunity and the first Freedom Day, and the role of Victoria could come of non-political research. for biracial cooperation during a time period that Gray Adams in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic ______was fraught with contentious racial relations. The Party, as well as the murder of voting-rights activist Data Organization and Conclusions: study of the Union League ultimately presents a Vernon Dahmer by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Archaeological Evidence Found at contrasting view of the South, and therefore adds Klan. Selected for presentation at Phi Alpha Theta to our overall understanding of Reconstruction. West/Central New York Regional Conference, Early Contact Era Seneca Sites ______Buffalo, NY. EMILY DIPAULO The Orange Riots: The Irish FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, Communities of New York City and 1J • ANTHROPOLOGY II WELLES 133 ANTHROPOLOGY SESSION CHAIR: PAUL PACHECO, ANTHROPOLOGY There are multiple theories and methods that are Democratic Machine Politics ______used during an archaeological excavation in order to Following the Civil War The L1 in an Immersive L2 determine the way of life and culture of a past people such as the early contact era Seneca of LIAM COLLINS Environment: A Case Study of the This paper examines the socio-political role that the Western New York. Through analysis of native Irish community of New York City played during the Puerto Rican Community of artifacts, archaeologists interpret the day to day life reign of William Tweed and Tammany Hall. Relevant Rochester, NY of Seneca people. In this presentation, I will go into detail about how archaeologists can reveal daily literature has assigned the Irish a secondary role, AYELET HAREL functions and cultural practices through analysis of almost as if they were a puppet to Tammany's FACULTY SPONSORS: DENICE SZAFRAN, Seneca stone tools, settlement patterns, and burial puppet master. The situation was quite more ANTHROPOLOGY, AND patterns. I will also address how archaeological data complex than most scholarship suggests. The Irish, RUSSELL JUDKINS, ANTHROPOLOGY are organized and curated once they are done being both passively and actively, exerted pressures on This study explores the process of acquiring English used for research. I will conclude by relating my Tweed and Tammany, forcing them to react to the as a second language, what its cultural implications own museum experiences, explaining different desires and demands of their foreign constituency. are, and how this process has changed over time. ways in which archaeological finds can be displayed This is exemplified best through the Orange Riots of Specifically, this paper addresses the effect of to the public. 1870 and 1871. To many, these riots were nothing acquiring English on a United States immigrant's more than religious conflicts between Irish Catholics native language. Methods of language acquisition, and Protestants. In reality, these riots had roots in social and cultural implications, the effect of the notions of true Irish identity, disputes over bilingualism on society, and the idea of language 1K • INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM contributions to the United States, and and power will all be discussed, as well as changes MILNE 109 Constitutional rights. Utilizing primarily newspaper in these topics over time, especially over articles both pro and anti-Catholic, as well as a generations. Questions of a native language other International StudentPresent 1: variety of pamphlets contemporary to the time, this than English's role in the U.S., and the immigrant "Where in the World Is My Country? paper seeks to dispel the idea that the Irish were speakers' as well as society's perceptions of it What You Need to Know Before You mere passengers in city politics following the Civil appear multifaceted and often conflicting. Using the War. The Irish must be viewed as integral to case study of the Puerto Rican, Spanish-speaking Visit Us: Culture, Language, Some developments in this period as well as to the story community in Rochester, New York, this study Do's and Don'ts." Turkey, The of the ascendancy and downfall of William Tweed addresses the dynamic and complex role of Netherlands, Brazil, and Spain. and his Tammany Democracy. Selected for immigrant languages other than English in an FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV AND SESSION presentation at Phi Alpha Theta West/Central New English immersion environment. CHAIR, INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM York Regional Conference, Buffalo, NY. ______Politics and Archaeology in East Asia What You Need to Know Before You Freedom Days: Hattiesburg and the MARNI FRITZ Origins of the Mississippi Summer FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, Visit Turkey: Culture, Language, Project ANTHROPOLOGY Some Do's and Don'ts." Modern day political influences within East Asia are MERIC OZBAY, UGURALP MAVRUK ELIZABETH DIERENFIELD affecting the way archaeological research is Though largely unrecognized, Hattiesburg, International students from Turkey will make a conducted within the region. Nationalistic power point presentation about their country: Mississippi, played a vital role in the civil rights propaganda from North Korea, South Korea, China movement of the 1960s. It was in Hattiesburg interesting facts about its geographical position, and Japan contribute to the inability to formulate a culture, language, some Do's and Don'ts for those where the "Freedom Day" strategy first unfolded, clear model of our prehistoric past. This which built on the "Freedom Vote" of unregistered who are planning to travel or work in Turkey. nationalistic viewpoint skews data and binds ______African Americans and anticipated the Mississippi feelings of national pride to a time when modern "Let's Go Dutch: What You Need to Summer Project ("Freedom Summer") that sought borders did not exist. Currently, North Korea does to remake the state's political culture. The Freedom not allow outside archaeologists to conduct Know Before You Visit The Day strategy called for Student Nonviolent research within its borders and national Netherlands: Culture, Language, Coordinating Committee activists to rally large archaeologists clearly promote fantastical data Some Do's and Don'ts." numbers of local blacks and northern whites, supporting the current regime. Much discrepancy ANNE DEIMAN especially clergymen, on the appointed day to between research found in Mongolia, China and Dutch student will present about The Netherlands: march on the county courthouse to gain access to South Korea, three countries bordering North interesting facts about its geographical position, the polling booth. Designed to draw national Korea, exists and perhaps research within this area culture, language, some Do's and Don'ts for those attention, Hattiesburg's Freedom Day was soon of the peninsula could shed light on such imitated elsewhere in Mississippi, and provided an who are planning to travel or work in her country. discrepancies, specifically in regards to the important impetus for Freedom Summer migratory patterns of our ancestors in East Asia. My throughout the state. Using SNCC papers, local goal with this presentation is to highlight the 10

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10 Things Only Brazil and Brazilians In this presentation you will learn of where partial introductory probability classrooms. The images fraction decomposition came from and why it is created may also be used to create 'random' music Have. Do's and Dont's for Our important to mathematics. You will learn some of as well. Selected for presentation at Upstate Visitors. the history of integration in general and we will Chapters of the American Statistical Association, DAYVID FERNANDES DA SILVA, ELDER DA SILVA, learn of some of the important players who made Geneseo, NY. CAMILLE MENDONCA, MAIRA FERREIRA, YULLI the mathematics we have today a possibility. By the ______LUNA MARTINS end of this you should have a better understanding Using R to Predict Stock Market Brazilian students will make a power point and of where some of the math you use today came Returns panel presentation about Brazil and its unique from. ______PATRICK HAMILTON character. Some Do's and Don'ts for those who are The aim of the talk will be to exhibit uses of R with planning to travel or work in their country. Gaussian Elimination in Modern regards to data mining of a large data set. I will be ______Europe working specifically with the S&P 500 index, and Students From Spain Present: "What HANNAH FETTINGER using various multivariate regression techniques to You Need to Know Before You Go to The origins of what we now refer to as Gaussian predict the return for any given stock in the index. A Study in Spain: Culture, Language, elimination date back to ancient China and similar focal point of the presentation will be on how to methods were revisited by mathematicians in work with a large time- dependent database Some Do's and Don'ts." Europe beginning in the late Renaissance. This acquired from an external source. The risk DAVID NILSON PERALTA ROJA, BEGONA BERNAL standard method in which we now solve associated with some selected stocks will be GALLEGO simultaneous systems of linear equations receives analyzed. International students from Spain will make a its namesake from Carl F. Gauss, although he was power point and panel presentation about their not the first to introduce and explore this type of 1N • MUSIC WELLES 115 country: interesting facts about its geographical method. This talk will explore the work done by Good Guys and Bad in Folk Ballad position, culture, language, some Do's and Don'ts mathematicians in modern Europe, particularly for those who are planning to travel, work or study Gauss's Method of Least Squares, and how their Tradition in Spain. work became what we use today. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JAMES KIMBALL, MUSIC 1L • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 336 1M • MATHEMATICS I SOUTH 328 ______History of Mathematics I FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: YUSUF The Origins and Incarnations of the FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JEFF BILGIC, MATHEMATICS, BUSINESS Steel Driving Man JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS ______ROBERT HELD ______Pharma Mutuals At the heart of the John Henry myth there is a The Presence of Rectangular Arrays MICHAEL PILOSOV, RYAN ENCO, GREGORY simple story of a natural man overcoming in Jiu Zhang Suan Shu (Nine Chapters KETCHUM insurmountable odds. In both the search for its The state of the biopharmaceutical industry is such physical occurrence and its diffusion through folk on the Mathematical Art) that the development of new drugs and therapies is ballads and hammer songs the story spreads LEXI ATHENS hindered by the economic circumstances related to outward in endless variation. I'll explore some of Have you ever wondered when matrices were first the high levels of risk associated with early stage the hypothesis about where the competition took used to solve linear systems of equations? This is testing. The payoff for advances in biomedicine is place and illustrate these ideas with letters and your chance to learn about the first presence of obstructed by high failure rates that detract tales by people who claim to have second or even rectangular arrays in the history of mathematics. potential investors from investing in individual first-hand information about the original The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Arts is one products. In their paper "Commercializing competition. Naturally, there's no conclusive of the earliest mathematical texts from China. This Biomedical Research Through Securitization evidence to prove any of these stories true; they text includes the explanation of the rectangular Techniques," Fernandez, Stein, & Lo propose a merely become part of the extended folklore of array and its presence in solving systems of linear "financial structure in which a large number of John Henry. Then I'll use recordings and lyric sheets equations. The rectangular array in Chinese biomedical programs at various stages of to demonstrate John Henry's journey through the mathematics served as a basis for solving linear development are funded by a single entity to folk mind. When paired, many of the lyrics clearly equations throughout history. The technique used substantially reduce the portfolio's risk...by display the "fixing up" process common to folk to solve linear equations in Ancient China is very employing financial engineering techniques such as music. Others show signs of John Henry's run-in similar to the technique used today. securitization" to raise greater amounts of capital with the similar, although ultimately separate, myth ______for longer-term investment strategies. The authors of John Hardy. While the John Henry songs have Napierian Logartihms: History and have made available the source code and data sets endless variations, a few stanzas appear more often Methods with which they ran their simulations in order to than others, often together, and when extracted invite academic scrutiny. We aim to understand the LAURA SHARPE they can perhaps show the heart of the myth. mechanics of the research and perform various ______The invention of logarithms greatly simplified scenarios-namely sensitivity analysis-with the extensive numerical calculuations. John Napier Woody Guthrie and Rockefeller simulation and visualize the stochastic processes developed them in 1614, when he first published involved. Our current progress with this undertaking Symbolism: The Use of America's Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio. This will be presented. Selected for presentation at Richest Family in American Folk book explained the nature of logarithms and Upstate Chapters of the American Statistical contained a 90-page logarithm table of the natural Music and Activism Association, Geneseo, NY. REGINA CARRA sines of a quadrant. We will highlight the history of ______Napier's lifetime leading up to his invention of From the creation of the Standard Oil Company in logarithms, as well as discuss the way Napier Probably Art 1870 into the 20th century, "Rockefeller" was both thought of logarithms, mathematically. Finally, we MICHAEL PILOSOV the name of the richest family in America and a will see how Napierian logarithms relate to modern We will demonstrate an application that allows one symbol of corrupt capitalism and worker day logarithms. to create artistic images using probability exploitation. Progressives, looking to promote ______distributions with an intuitive GUI. This program will better working conditions, higher wages, and the Partial Fraction Decomposition allow users to visually explore the interactions and right to unionize the worker class, latched onto the behavior of randomness using joint probability JENNIFER BURDEN image of a ruthless business owner who was only distributions, which may be of particular interest to 11

Session1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual concerned with wealth and power. This image therapy, creating a historical archive, building on work pushing rational women to choose to join seemed to be confirmed in 1914, when the the strong relationship between the Geneseo terrorist organizations and commit acts of terror. Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, owned by the campus and community and dispelling ageist When all is examined, the question will then be Rockefeller family, and the Colorado National Guard stereotypes. How Heard@Geneseo works with asked--what can be done to offset this disturbing attacked a colony of striking mine workers and interviewers and editors. Also, the making of the trajectory? killed an estimated twenty-five people; most of magazine and why it's important to show off a copy ______whom were women and children. The event would and describe each step in the process of creating it. Reaping the Benefits of September be remembered as the Ludlow Massacre, one of the ______11, 2001: Culture and Security bloodiest instances during the Progressive Era. Leveraging Differences at Nonprofits EMILY SCIOLI Almost thirty years later, folk-singer Woody Guthrie in Rochester When two hijacked planes crashed into the World used the twisted-capitalistic symbol of the WILLIAM SCHAEFER Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the lives of Rockefellers and the Ludlow Massacre as inspiration Discussion of project focused on fournot-for-profits millions of Americans changed, but not all of them for his music and activism. While the Rockefeller in the Rochester Area,analyzing the effectiveness of for the worse. As strange or uncomfortable as it family themselves had moved away from the oil eachorganizations' employees and how they may be to think about, some sections of society business years before and was more interested in werecontributing to the firm's overall output levels. actually benefited, financially or otherwise, from pursuing philanthropic work through the ______this al Qaeda attack and the subsequent global war Rockefeller Foundation, Guthrie saw value in on terror. This presentation will focus specifically on evoking old symbolism and encouraging the Geneseo Eats Local American security and culture to provide an in- collective historical memory of the working class. MADELINE SMITH ______Discussion of the project work with localfarms and depth analysis of how American society changed Narco Corridos: The Music and the businesses to promote educationaloutreach on after September 11th to the advantage of these sustainable consumption. Also,the creation of Think sectors. Cartels of Mexico's Criminal Empire Local Geneseo that isnow planning for the Fall 2014 ______JOSEPH POTISCHMAN farmers marketseason and future share programs. Torture as an Interrogation Device This paper will deal with the narco cultura ______TEBA HASAN (drug/criminal culture) in Mexico, and focus Pursuing Racial Equality Through Torture is one of the most extreme methods of especially on narco corridos (drug running music) Math Education eliciting information from individuals. that emerged in Mexican folk music. Influences Unfortunately, the practice is prevalent worldwide TODD CHRISTENSEN span European attempts of colonizing Mexico, and has been used by countless countries for Over the summer of 2013, I worked with the through the 19th century to the present day when centuries. The use of torture has most recently Algebra Project, which is a non-profit organization narco corridos have become not just a dominant been studied with respect to the practices used by working to erase racial inequality in the United musical subgenre, but a tool to catalogue cartel the United States government after September 11, States through math education. Through a activity. This paper chronicles two major figures in 2001, as a counterterrorism strategy. This powerpoint presentation, I plan to discuss the Mexican history: Pancho Villa, the Mexican outlaw presentation will illuminate the scientific and history of the organization and its role in the longer whose story helped popularize outlaw ballads that psychological research illustrating the black freedom struggle because the Algebra Project would morph into tales of drug trafficking. The ineffectiveness of torture as means of effectively is a part a history of black protest against unequal second figure is El Chapo, the most notorious drug preventing terrorism, including studies of the and unfair public education. Also, I plan to discuss trafficker currently alive, who is a popular subject "ticking-bomb scenario" used by US government the Algebra Project's current programs in detail. not only in narco corridos, but hip-hop culture as officials to justify torture in counterterrorism, and Specifically, I want to elaborate on the cohort well. Hailing from El Chapo's home district of explore the unintended social consequences of this program which the organization is simultaneously Sinaloa and also discussed in the paper will be Los myth. As a result of this study, this presentation will wrapping up and looking to expand, for the project Tigres del Norte, the most commercially and then offer alternative solutions to torture as a is in a period of transition. And lastly, I will discuss critically successful group to perform narco counterterrorism strategy. the role of the central office, of which I was a part, corridos. Their music has not only become popular ______narco cultura; it also addresses, through recordings of the Algebra Project and its relationship with Definitional-Dilemma: The Korean and popular social media, the problem of the various other organizations associated with the cartels, rather than glorifying them. This is a organization. Provisional Government - Shall We multifaceted look at how one genre of music has Call It a Terrorist Group? morphed over time and how that music has 1P • POLITICAL SCIENCE & UIHEANG HUR chronicled the outlaw culture of Mexico. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS During the Japanese occupation of Korean WELLES 26 peninsular in the early 20th century, there were 1O • OFFICE OF THE PROVOST numerous groups of Korean freedom fighters. The Social Costs of Terror DOTY 302E Among them were the Korean Provisional FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: VICTORIA Government that established a government in exile Reflections from the 2013 FARMER, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL in Shanghai. After decades of passive resistance Ambassadorship Program RELATIONS against the Japanese colonization, the KPG resulted ______FACULTY SPONSOR: CAROL LONG, INTERIM in using two cases of terrorist acts against the PRESIDENT A Ticking Time Bomb: Women as Japanese authority in Korea. Because of these two FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: CYNTHIA Perpetrators of Terror cases, the KPG among many other Korean freedom OSWALD, CENTER FOR INQUIRY DISCOVERY AND KATIE BECKER fighters is classified as a terrorist organization, DEVELOPMENT Women are not widely considered as "typical" when it had represented the repressed Korean ______perpetrators of terror despite the increasingly people against the brutal colonization. As a Korean Heard@Geneseo Publishing common phenomenon of women acting as suicide born student, I had tackled this issue of definition Initiative: Exploring Local History bombers. This presentation will illuminate the problem - was the KPG really a terrorist history of women's changing roles in terrorist organization? In doing so, I have used Hoffman's Through Oral Narratives organizations, while critically examining the definition of terrorism that is universally CHELSEA BUTKOWSKI, WILLIAM SCHAEFER, enabling forces of global gender stereotypes and acknowledged as the accepted basis when MADELINE SMITH the international mass media in furthering female characterizing a non-state actor as a terrorist. A Discussion of the purpose and goals of suicide bombers' recent successes. Also considered compared study is made between the KPG and Kim Heard@Geneseo which include reminiscence in this presentation are those societal factors at Il-Sung's group and a small case study on George 12

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Washington to show the problem we have in FACULTY SPONSOR: JONETTE LANCOS, A critical investigation of gender identity within classifying the KPG as a terrorist from the nationalist THEATRE/DANCE children's literature, and how it is constructed point of view, in light of the accepted universal SESSION CHAIR: JUSTINE LAZATIN through narrative accompanied by a creative definition. By considering the KPG as a terrorist, we ______literary manifestation of such ideas represented shall also consider George Washington as a The History and Inspirations of through general models of storyboard, theme and terrorist. character study. Modern Dance Innovators: Isadora ______1Q • POLITICAL SCIENCE & Duncan and Loie Fuller Transnational Feminism and the LINDSAY RATHBUN, TIFFANY HENRIKSEN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS This presentation will focus on the early years of Internet as the Third Sphere WELLES 134 Isadora Duncan and Loie Fuller. The presentation BIBI LEWIS Public Opinion and Voting in will pinpoint and analyze their early history, dance I would like to argue that the methodology with training, and their inspirations for the modern which transnationalism has strived to widen the American Politics dance movement that they laid the foundation for scope of feminism and address the needs of women FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JEFFREY in America. across the globe runs parallel to the way that the KOCH, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL ______creation of feminist Internet spaces and forums RELATIONS Impacts, Innovations, and Irony: An attempts to bridge the gap between the academic ______and the general. However, whereas I believe Economic Voting in the United States Examination of the Legacies of transnationalism to be a successful model, the MATTHEW FITZGERALD Isadora Duncan and Loie Fuller academic/general interest battle being fought over This research examines the role of the economy for JESSICA DEROLLER, JENNIE GIARDINO, SARAH the Internet has many faults because of inequalities shaping presidential elections. It will be argued SIMON with access to these spaces as well as the lack of within that indicator models based upon the This presentation will focus upon the legacies of accountability that comes with a semi-anonymous economic conditions of the nation along with Isadora Duncan and Loie Fuller. While Fuller digital space. In my paper, I will synthesize specific foreign policy criteria lend evidence to the contributed her technological intricacies to help transnationalism and introduce its theory through a thesis that voters are reacting to these conditions shape dance into a theater art, Duncan pushed to close reading of We Need New Names and when they cast their ballots. I contend that this revolutionize the purpose of dance as an outlet for Americanah as well as introduce new texts that are decision, although seemingly simple, poses serious self expression. Loie Fuller changed the art form of available on the internet. problems due to a lack of voter sophistication. dance forever by incorporating costuming and ______Finally it will be shown through statistical analysis lighting into the performance. In a similar way, Perpetual Girlhood: Adult Women that these patterns, although problematic, are Duncan's movement theories and her work with the Performing Beauty Labor in reliable for predicting the outcome of future mental, physical, and emotional zones of the body election cycles. became the basis and core of American modern Response to Youth Culture ______dance. Both Fuller and Duncan first emerged as EMMA JEAN LIBERMAN Generational Effects On American parts of their respective movements, and eventually An exploration of the mass-marketing of cosmetics aimed at adult women that mimic an overtly Politics came to embody the movements. As innovators, they desired to make history, and did so by sexualized performance of girlhood and the DEVIN MCCONNELL demands of women to simultaneously be adults and An examination of the effects that changing encompassing all of time in their leaping limbs. in a state of perpetual childhood. generations has on civil engagement, political 1S • WOMEN'S STUDIES WELLES 24 ______participation, different political eras and the relative In Vitro Fertilization: New balance of power between political parties in Senior Capstones in Women's Technologies Raising New Questions American government. Utilizing studies of public Studies: Research and Creative opinion, demographic data, and post materialist ZOEE DAVIDSON thinking to identify the formation of generational Projects Zoee's research covers those for whom IVF raises identity and track the effect that the rise and fall of FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE difficult questions: is motherhood a new different generations has on the course of American BLOOD, ENGLISH AND WOMEN'S STUDIES imperative? is IVF an option for low income politics. ______families, or purely available to the wealthy? What Constructing Identity: the are specific opportunities and challenges for IVF in 1R • THEATRE/DANCE the LGBT community? Investigation and Reconstruction of WADSWORTH AUDITORIUM Gender Narratives in Children's

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2A • ANTHROPOLOGY SOUTH 338 and buyers are analyzed in the context of disease is to vaccinate members of a specific geographic information systems (GIS) to identify gender, as opposed to ring vaccinations, which is Global Health I: Contemporary Issues regional concentrations and map the flow of contrary to what we hypothesized. FACULTY SPONSOR: ROSE-MARIE CHIERICI, kidneys between sellers and buyers. The concept of ______ANTHROPOLOGY structural violence is used as a lens to examine the Modeling the Spread and Potential SESSION CHAIR: DALYA KEFI institutions that allow these networks to thrive and Control of One of the World's Most ______trace the links between the spread of transplant An Examination of Post-Traumatic tourism and the rising prevalence of chronic kidney Common Viruses: the Epstein Barr Stress Disorder Among Rochester, disease. Suggestions on how institutions can Virus disincentivize involvement in illegal kidney trade are DEANNA INGRASSIA, NICHOLAS YAGER, DEVON NY Veterans proposed. GRACE RIVERA, AMANDA SPENCE, KAITLYN ANDERSON ______The Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) is the most common MORGAN, DANIEL RUS, MICHAEL SIU Syrian Refugee Crisis This project examines the impact of post-traumatic virus found among humans, infecting nearly 95% of LAURA VICTOR, MARY TORO, BETHANY FRIDAY, stress disorder (PTSD) among veteran soldiers in the the population worldwide. EBV's near ubiquity is CAYLIE HEFFLEY, PETER FARRUGGIA Rochester area. PTSD is a mental disorder that has thought to be caused by occasional reactivation and Since March 2011, Syria has been involved in an disastrous effects on both afflicted individuals and infection in previously exposed individuals. ongoing civil war, sparked by violent military action their families, as can be seen in the high number of Although usually asymptomatic, this herpesvirus is against demonstrators protesting President Assad's suicides among soldiers completing multiple tours known to be associated with infectious oppressive regime. It is estimated that 2.5 million of duty and the increase in reported cases of mononucleosis; as well as Hodgkin's disease, Syrian refugees have fled the country as a result of depression and anxiety. The Veterans Association nasopharyngeal carcinoma and Burkitt's lymphoma. the conflict. They have found refuge in Turkey, expects the demand for mental health services In order to simulate the spread of EBV in a Jordan, Iraq and in countries of the European Union. amongst veterans to increase in the Rochester area population, both a differential equation model and This influx of refugees has put a strain on the health by 13% over the next 20 years (Schumer, 2011). We a network model were constructed to examine the infrastructure of the receiving countries, making it will evaluate the efficacy of available PTSD dynamics of EBV. Our results suggest that age-based increasingly difficult for Syrian refugees to access treatment options through a review of the literature vaccinations can be effective if administered to quality treatment, especially those suffering from and by interviewing clinic workers and soldiers via children during early childhood. Due to the chronic diseases. As the crisis worsens in Syria, the veteran advocacy groups. Our final goal is to offer widespread nature of the virus, however, number of refugees in Jordan and Turkey has been insight on possible improvements that will better vaccination efforts will take decades to make an increasing. Critical Medical Anthropology will be the prognosis for affected veterans and their impact. used to examine how the political, social, economic, ______families. ______religious, and cultural climate of these countries Modeling the Perfect Parasite "People Get Their Food from Various affects the treatment of refugees, specifically their MARINA MASSARO, LAUREN GUTERMAN, health and well-being. CONNOR ROGERS Sources and for Different Reasons." Toxoplasma gondii is referred to as the world's most Nutrition in Newly Industrialized 2B • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS I successful parasite, infecting all warm-blooded Nations NEWTON 201 vertebrates; each year in the United States, it hospitalizes over 4,400 individuals and costs almost EMILY BRESSNER, SAMANTHA CRAMER, JESSICA FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: $3 billion to the economy. Domestic cats are one of REED, GABRIELLE ROSATO CHRISTOPHER LEARY, MATHEMATICS few known hosts in which the parasite can sexually Malnutrition comes in two forms, over-nutrition FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY ______reproduce to generate oocytes, which are then shed and under- nutrition. Both types are linked to the in the cats' feces. Cats remain infected for a short larger problem of "hidden hunger" --when caloric Modeling the Spread of Chlamydia in period of time (1-2 weeks) and then recover. needs are met but nutrient and vitamin levels are Koalas Intermediate hosts, such as mice, acquire this too low for proper bodily functions. This project JANELLE GOEKE, STEPHEN BARRON, BENJAMIN infection by ingesting contaminated soil, water, and examines malnutrition and its underlying causes in PARKER plants or through vertical transmission. This two provinces from newly industrialized nations Chlamydiosis has had a detrimental effect on parasite is known to induce behavioral changes in Eastern Cape, South Africa and Krung Thep Maha populations of koalas throughout Australia. When its intermediate host, such as inhibiting a mouse's Nakhon, Thailand. It compares the patterns of untreated, chlamydiosis can cause blindness and ability to detect a cat, causing an increased risk of "hidden hunger" as well as where and how food is infertility in koalas. Since the disease is preventing the mouse being eaten. Using a differential obtained in both urban and rural environments. By koalas from successfully reproducing, it is equation model of the cat and mouse populations, looking at structural problems that contribute to devastating the koala population in parts of we investigated how the induced behavioral change malnutrition in these systems, this project hopes to Australia. Lattice and differential equations models in mice and changes to cat predation rates affect propose potential solutions to ameliorate these were used to model the spread of the disease and the proportion of the cat and mouse populations groups' nutritional status. to determine the effectiveness of various ______that are infected. Current results suggest an vaccination strategies in controlling and eliminating increase in the predation rate coupled with an Transplant Tourism and Organ the disease in an isolated population. We increased behavioral risk of being eaten will Trafficking hypothesized that the ring vaccination strategy, decrease the ratio of infectious to susceptible mice, ERIN DAVIDOWICZ, CHLOE FERNANDEZ, TASMIA where vaccinating females and their offspring in with no corresponding increase in the proportion of NAZ, TARYN BARBER, TUSHARA SURAPANENI close proximity to infected males was the best infectious cats. Human organ trafficking is a criminal act with method for stopping the spread of the disease. Our ______severe ethical implications. The purpose of this other vaccination strategies involve vaccinating a Modeling the Black Death: A ring with an infected female at the center, study is to examine the illegal global kidney trade. Medieval Disease in Modern Times The three involved parties-- sellers, brokers, and vaccinating only uninfected male or female koalas, CORTNEY DODGE, MATT STRASSMAN, MATTHEW buyers--are profiled using the following criteria: and vaccinating random koalas throughout the TAYLOR socioeconomic status, marginalization, and population. Our models have demonstrated that geographic location. Statistics on sellers, brokers, the most effective way to prevent the spread of the 14

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The Black Death was one of the most devastating This study characterized the location of modified Structural Characterization of Novel diseases in human history, estimated to have cytosines in the tRNAs of Trypanosoma brucei, a claimed 75 to 200 million lives. It is primarily spread parasitic protozoan. We are interested in these Acetato-bridged (benzene-1,2- by fleas infected with the bacterium Yersinia petis, modifications, specifically 5- methylcytosine (5mC), diamine-κN)lead(II) Complexes which is then transferred to their hosts, rats and as a first step in characterizing the organisms DYLAN PARSONS humans. Two models were used to simulate the epitranscriptome. We used sodium bisulfite Reaction of lead(II) acetate with 1,2- spread of the disease; a differential equations sequencing to determine the location of modified diaminobenzene (DAB) or 4-substituted-1,2- model and a lattice-based spatial model. Two cytosines in procyclic form tRNAAsp(GUC), diaminobenzene derivatives in refluxing ethanol strategies, (1) the reduction of susceptible rats and tRNAGly(GCC), tRNAVal(AAC), and tRNATyr(GUA). results in the formation of lead(II) complexes that (2) the quick removal of dead humans and rats, Our data show that all analyzed tRNAs have 1 to 4 incorporate acetate and diaminobenzene in their were implemented to study the reduction in modified cytosines. Each tRNA has a modification at coordination spheres. Single-crystal X-ray fatalities as compared to a no treatment control. C48 in the TψC stem and there is partial crystallographic analysis reveals that the complexes Our model showed that the quick removal of dead modification at C40 present in tRNAGly(GCC) in the exhibit extended structures. When DAB is used, a rats and humans had the largest impact on anticodon stem. There are no modifications at C38, compound with interlinked chains containing four minimizing the number of people infected, and died which is a common site in higher eukaryotes. symmetry independent lead(II) ions is obtained: from the disease. These results suggest that in the tRNATyr(GUA), the only spliced tRNA in T. brucei, Pb4(DAB)2(OAc)8. Two of the lead ions have a event of an epidemic with a similar mode of possess the same cytosine modification pattern in coordination sphere consisting of one monodentate transmission, the quick removal of dead rats and both unspliced and spliced molecules. Thus DAB ligand, two acetate ligands bonded in humans should be implemented to reduce the methylation can occur before splicing and it is bidentate fashion and bridging to two adjacent lead number of fatalities. unlikely that methylation is involved in splicing. We ions, and two additional oxygen atoms, each from a are now examining bloodstream form tRNAs for different bridging acetate ligand. The other two 2C • BIOLOGY II ISC 115 significant changes in methylation pattern. We have lead(II) ions each have a coordination sphere SESSION CHAIR: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY also found 5mC in mRNA and are attempting composed of a nonbridging, bidentate acetate ______confirm the locations. Elucidating the presence of ligand, a second bidentate acetate ligand that 5-Azacytidine Induces Gene these modifications has developed our bridges to two different lead ions, and two oxygen Expression Changes in Escherichia understanding of the epitranscriptome in T. brucei atoms from different bridging acetate ligands. and we hope to determine the global distribution ______coli through Dcm-dependent and and purpose of these modifications. Selected for Supramolecular Host/Guest Dcm-independent Pathways presentation at Experimental Biology, San DIego, Chemistry: Soluble Aggregates of ALEXANDRA MANDARANO, ANTHONY DINATALE CA. FACULTY SPONSORS: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY Platinum Phosphors AND 2D • CHEMISTRY NEWTON 203 LAWRENCE GERSZ ROBERT SIMON BIOLOGY Chemistry Honors Research Luminescent platinum(II) complexes are of interest In Escherichia coli, the second cytosine in the for use as dopants in organic light emitting devices sequence 5'CC(A/T)GG3' is methylated by the Dcm Presentations 1 (OLEDs). Aggregation of these luminescent enzyme. Although there is strong evidence that FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, platinum(II) complexes in the solid-state to form cytosine DNA methylation influences gene CHEMISTRY dimer or trimmers have been implicated in expression in higher organisms, there is little SESSION CHAIR: JAMES MCGARRAH, CHEMISTRY pronounced red-shifted emission energies ______information on this potential relationship in compared to isolated complexes in dilute solutions. bacteria. Therefore, we compared global gene Thioflavin - T Fluorescence Study on Self-assembling molecular cages can be used to expression changes of cells grown in the absence Aggregation of Amyloid β 1 - 40 and encapsulate specific numbers of platinum complexes (i.e. dimer and trimers); thus, allowing a and presence of the DNA methylation inhibitor 5- Amyloid β 1 - 42 Peptides azacytidine . We observed >300 gene expression way to structurally model aggregates and CHRISTINA BERTI changes and the majority were at stationary phase. investigate their photophysical properties in Alzheimer's disease in the most common form of We are currently determining if the gene expression aqueous solution. We have employed Fujita type dementia witnessed in elderly adults, as it affects changes are due to a loss of DNA methylation, organic pillared coordination cages to achieve these over 30 million people worldwide. The essential increased DNA damage, or novel mechanisms using ends. A series of Pt(N^C)(acac) complexes, where focus of this research is to study the structure of qPCR. To demonstrate phenotypic effects of N^C is a monoanionic cyclometallated ligand of amyloid β fibril aggregates constituting cytosine DNA methylation, we investigated the either 2-phenylpyridine (ppy) or 2-thienylpyridine characteristic extracellular senile plaques detected expression of a membrane drug transporter, sugE, (thpy), have been encapsulated and investigated for in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, as well as the which is up- regulated by 5-azacytidine treatment at their luminescent properties in solution. While the mechanism of aggregation (particularly the initial log and stationary phase. We then compared drug tuning of emission energy is possible through ligand stages of the mechanism). This analysis is executed resistance levels of wild- type, dcm knockout and substitutions, the Pt-Pt and π-π interactions through by utilization of enhanced Thioflavin - T (ThT) sugE knockout cells via Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion aggregation further affect the luminescent fluorescence upon binding amyloid β fibrils. Under assays, MIC assays and growth curve analyses. Our character of the compound. Varying the cage the assumption of previously reported means of data demonstrate that sugE expression is increased components and number of encapsulated guests ThT binding to amyloid β fibrils, we investigate the in the absence of dcm. As a result, dcm knockout allows for the study of these complex stacking spectra in an attempt to assign potential cells are more resistant to SugE substrate ethidium interactions and their corresponding photophysical conformations of amyloid fibrils to the observed bromide, while sugE knockout cells are effects. 2D-NMR data will be presented showing the fluorescence peaks. So far, our results provide hypersensitive to ethidium bromide. formation of the host-guest assembly, along with ______evidence that enhanced ThT fluorescence in the corresponding steady-state and time-resolved Mapping Modified Cytosines in the presence of amyloid β 1 - 40 is most prominently photoluminescence emission studies. demonstrated in basic solution conditions (~pH 9 - Epitranscriptome of Trypanosoma pH 10). In continuation of this study, we plan to test 2E • COMMUNICATION MILNE 105 brucei using Sodium Bisulfite for any reversibility in observed fluorescence with FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: ATSUSHI respect to pH fluctuations; we also wish to study TAJIMA, COMMUNICATION Sequencing the effect of other changes in medium ______SARAH ACKERMAN environment. All performed fluorescence tests are It's a Heterotopia After All: Bridging FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY to be repeated using amyloid β 1 - 42. ______Disney Media and Theme Parks as 15

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Uniquely Gratifying Guest LAUREN AULET taken into consideration in assessment. Students FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY MOUNTS, are all required to take one uniform test, which may ExperiencesEMILY WAGNER PSYCHOLOGY or may not be representative of what they have The Walt Disney Company is known as one of the Originally established in Dehaene et al. (1993), actually learned. Taking this into consideration, this most successful and unique companies in the evidence for the SNARC effect (spatial numerical study was designed to test the feasibility of allowing entertainment industry. Disney Parks and Resorts association of response codes) has been put forth in students to choose their own assessment format, at annually attract over 120 million guests (Disney, a variety of psychological and neural research. both the elementary and college level. 2012). Walt Disney Entertainment recently reported Further, Holmes and Lourenco (2011) suggest that ______2014 movie franchise revenues of $12 billion, and a this effect may be generalizable to any stimuli with Rote Learning to the Guided Math net income of $1.8 billion (Forbes, 2014). In magnitude, such as emotional facial expressions. In Framework addition to its financial success, Disney has become the present study, participants responded to a MEGAN WHITEHURST a worldwide company and household name in series of emotional facial expressions, as in FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHRYN ROMMEL-ESHAM, promoting its positive, wholesome, and classic experiment two of Holmes and Lourenco (2011). EDUCATION brand. What makes Disney unique is the strong Participants completed half the experiment with This project serves two main purposes. The first is relationship and integration between elements in their hands uncrossed and the other with their to analyze traditional math pedagogy, or rote the theme parks and media components. This hands crossed (order counterbalanced). Results for learning, and understand why a change in pedagogy project looks at how Disney distinctively connects the uncrossed condition replicated Holmes and is needed to better prepare our 21st century its media and theme parks by bridging the Lourenco (2011), such that magnitude (less/more) is learners. The second purpose is to discuss why experiences of imaginary and reality worlds. The spatially organized (left/right) and that this Guided Math is the instructional model that will fit research suggests four categories that accomplish organization significantly effects responses, even this needed change, through the following lenses: this goal: 1. Disney theme parks provide media when they are unrelated to magnitude. In the mathematics, national education reform (Common experiences in a tangible, interactive way. 2. Disney crossed hands condition, response times where Core State Standards) and special education. promotes positive family and social values that reversed, suggesting that this mental magnitude According to the National Council of Teachers of result in psychological gratification. 3. Disney line exists in internal space (response hand) not Math's "Guiding Principles for Mathematics attracts international audiences by presenting external space (response key). These findings Curriculum and Assessment" from 2009, we need America in a comprehensive way as represented in support the idea, proposed by Holmes and our young mathematicians to acquire an Disney media. 4. Disney simultaneously and Lourenco (2011), that the SNARC effect is not understanding of math concepts, become proficient synergistically maintains nostalgic classic characters limited to explicit numerical values, but is exhibited with procedures and skills, and have a positive and stories in a contemporary way through for anything with discernable magnitude. attitude towards mathematics. In this project, it integrating movie franchises into theme parks. Additionally, this information is extracted and becomes clear that Guided Math is a strong ______utilized even when magnitude is unrelated to the instructional program to fit those goals, based on Bridging the Gap: Negotiating task being performed. the Foundational Principals of Guided Math and Communication and Perceptional ______Working with Social Media in the recent research on today's best practices in Discrepancies Among International education. and American Students Nonprofit Sector ______LAUREN PSZONAK DENA SPANOS The Personality Correlates of Mental FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDREW HERMAN, This study focuses on the intercultural perception Toughness COMMUNICATION gap between international and American students ADAM SHAFIK The research for this project was largely through studying at a small liberal arts university in Western FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUG RAYNOR, PSYCHOLOGY hands-on experience. The researcher completed New York. Both international and American Mental toughness has been studied extensively in research in existing literature. Through this, the students report a lack of intercultural the realm of athletics, and has been shown to be a researcher sought to gain insight into how non- communication that fosters friendship at American critical factor in athletic success. However, few profit and profit-seeking corporations use social universities. Although universities design programs studies have examined mental toughness in an media to further their campaign, and advertise their intending to unify and acculturate international academic setting. Furthermore, the research on organization. With the background knowledge of students, these programs fail to effectively personality factors related to mental toughness is existing trends in using social media, the researcher communicate the cultural and lingual diversity limited. It is reasonable to assume that certain was able to use these theories in practice through engrained in the upbringings of American and personality characteristics may predispose one to an internship as a social media manager for LoGOFF, international students. The researcher discusses having a higher or lower amount of mental a small nonprofit business based out of New York what these cultural and lingual differences are, and toughness. The purpose of this study is to City. As the internship progressed, the researcher how their effects on intercultural communication determine whether mental toughness is linked to was able to compare how the theoretical compared are perceived by both sets of students. Lastly, certain personality dimensions. Specifically, I will to the hands-on experience involved in producing through the analysis of perceptions and experiences use the 5 Factor Model of Personality, which the social media necessary to remain relevant. The of the international and American students, the includes Openness, Conscientiousness, internship focused mainly on Twitter and Pinterest. researcher suggests how students and universities Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. I will These platforms were used to make the LoGOFF can attempt to bridge the gap of intercultural also utilize the 48 Item Mental Toughness brand more relevant to followers and potential understanding. Selected for presentation at Eastern Questionnaire to measure student's levels of mental supporters. Communication Association Conference , toughness. I will then statistically analyze the data Providence, RI. to look for links between personality factors and 2G • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 5 mental toughness levels. 2F • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 4 WELLES 123 WELLES 121 SESSION CHAIR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS & 2H • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 6 ASTRONOMY SESSION CHAIR: LISA MEYER, SOCIOLOGY ______WELLES 119 ______Diversifying Assessment SESSION CHAIR: OLYMPIA NICODEMI, The Mental Magnitude Line with MATHEMATICS CHRISTINE NASSAR Uncrossed and Crossed Hands: A ______FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICIA BARBER, EDUCATION A Philosophical Survey of the Replication of Holmes & Lourenco In the field of elementary education, personalizing instruction to the individual student is crucial to Foundation of Mathematics (2011) effective teaching. However, no such individuality is ALEX CHICHESTER 16

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FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTOPHER LEARY, Analysis (PCA) and Independent Components are the signs of that disability, educational MATHEMATICS Analysis (ICA), which are mathematical techniques implications of that disability, tips for Mathematics has often been hailed as the "queen used to eliminate noise in fMRI data, reduce the teachers/professors, and tips for students. The of the sciences". Whereas the empirical sciences dimension of the data, and to isolate statistically presentation will conclude with the LIVES Program rely on the fallible faculties of human experience independent neural networks contributing to the student telling how the disability has/has not and perception, mathematics can be done in an BOLD response. In this talk, I will start off by impacted his/her life. armchair with eyes closed. It has earned this discussing wavelets. Then, I will describe PCA and ______reputation through its use of deductive reasoning, ICA in more detail, and describe how wavelets can Skills Learned in LIVES and at which provides a sense of certainty to mathematical be used with these techniques to help researchers Geneseo And How They Will Help "truths". However, one might naturally wonder accurately interpret psychological data. what these mathematical "truths" are based on. Me In the Future Should mathematics be founded on self-evident and 2I • EDUCATION NEWTON 204 MELISSA PRICE, CHRISTOPHER SCHEIB, FREDERICK logical truths that we assume to be true without The Students in the LIVES (Learning YOUNG, ELLEN BEISHEIM, LAUREN DALY, ANDREW proof? Or, should all of mathematics be based on MACDONALD, EMILY COOK possibly unintuitive statements that we take to be Independence, Vocation, and This presentation will be summary of thestudents true for practical reasons? This presentation will Education Skills) Program at Geneseo four years at Geneseo in the LIVESProgram. Each take a look at the so- called foundational crisis of student will present the skillss/he has learned in the mathematics in the early twentieth century where - Our Strengths/Struggles, What We LIVES Program, auditclasses, non-paid mathematicians encountered difficulties that Have Learned, Who We Are, and internships,clubs/activities, and social skills. challenged the belief that mathematics had a Where We Will Go Next WELLES 131 consistent foundation. Specifically, this presentation FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: ELIZABETH 2J • ENGLISH will analyze the intuitionists and formalists, who HALL, EDUCATION Pagan or Biblical? English Poetry and were two radically different groups that attempted ______Ancient Systems of Allusion to provide a foundation for mathematics in the Our Strengths and Struggles - early twentieth century. FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH ______Similarities and Differences Between SESSION CHAIR: DEAN TRIPP Hilbert's 10th Problem: A Guided College Students with and without ______Spenser's Epithalamion: A Tour of What We Can and Cannot Disabilities Representation of Colonization Calculate AMANDA CROSS, BRENDEN PORTER, JOSHUA SURAJ UTTAMCHANDANI COBB, BEATRICE RHOADS through Marriage FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTOPHER LEARY, The Freshmen in the LIVES Program surveyed fifty EMILY ERCOLANO MATHEMATICS Geneseo college students to determine their Edmund Spenser drew heavily upon his experience In 1900, David Hilbert put forward twenty three strengths and struggles as college students. The of living Ireland, using the colonization of the island problems that he hoped the mathematical LIVES students then compared/contrasted the as a thematic parallel to marriage in his poem the community would attack in the coming century. Of college student's answers to their own Epithalamion. Throughout the poem, the reliance these, the 10th is the only one that asks for an strengths/struggles as being first year college on allusions to both Classical mythology and Irish algorithm - specifically, one to find solutions to any students. The LIVES students found that the folk lore as well as the use of simile produces a view polynomial. In 1970, Yuri Matiyasevich completed Geneseo college students had similar strengths and of the speaker as a misogynistic, colonist who seeks the work that others began and proved that no such struggles as they did; thus helping the LIVES to dominate his new bride who he imbues with algorithm exists. In this talk, we will look at what all Program students that college students have similar symbolic qualities related to pre-colonial Ireland. this means. What is an algorithm, really, and how experiences regardless of ability. ______does our intuition line up with mathematical rigor? ______Reading Rossetti: Biblical Style and And how, exactly, can one go about proving that an Road Map to a Successful Life - What Content in Christina's Freshman algorithm doesn't exist? This talk will be accessible Skills We Need to Learn to Be to an audience without a significant mathematical Collection background. Successful TIMOTHY MALONEY ______TYLER BUSH, JONATHAN KEE, The essay focuses on Christina Rossetti's first Using Wavelet-based PCA and ICA to This presentation will focus on an exploration of collection of non-religious poetry, Goblin Market skills college students need to be successful in and Other Poems, discussing the similarities Analyze fMRI Images college and how these skills generalize to life after between a handful of these poems and the Bible. KATHERINE WEBER school. Living in a rural area and jobs being very Poems are compared to stories from the Old FACULTY SPONSOR: CAROLINE HADDAD, competitive, having the right qualifications and Testament, certain lines compared to Psalms or MATHEMATICS experience is no longer enough to ensure the right excerpts. There are clear instances of Christina My project was to investigate the theory behind job. The LIVES Program students have learned that remembering her favorite tales and using these both wavelet analysis and the statistical analysis of they have to differentiate themselves from the next memories to influence her writing. Stylistic fMRI images, and to explore how these analysis person, convey a professional working image, and similarities are mentioned too - chiasmus, techniques can be used in conjunction with one project their best qualities in the way they look, antithetical parallelism, relative clauses are found in another. Wavelet analysis is a branch of applied sound, and behave. both this collection and the Bible. A little of mathematics that uses basis functions, called ______Christina's childhood and homelife are delved into wavelets, to decompose signals into time-frequency Our Disability - It Is a Part of Who at the start, giving credence to why Christina space. fMRI is one of the most recently developed We Are and Does It Significantly included so many of the features from the Bible in brain imaging procedures. It involves taking MRI her poetry. With some of the works she put out in images in quick succession and measuring the BOLD Impact Us? Goblin Market, it is impossible to ignore the (blood oxygen level dependent) signal, which is an ANDREW SASS, PATRICK CHMELA, MARIELY influence of the biblical readings Christina enjoyed indicator of neural activity in the brain. This imaging VAZQUEZ as a child. Some information about her family found procedure creates a hefty amount of data to be The students in the LIVES Program researches in biographical works is used throughout the paper analyzed. Many statistical methods have been his/her own disability. In this presentation, each to back certain points and provide info that I find applied and created for the analysis of fMRI images. student will present: the current definition of the useful to really get into the head of Christina. It is a In my project, I focused on Principal Components disability, tell how common is that disability, what great lens to read the poems through. 17

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transformation. The growth of state power during philosophy on both film and society, including his 2K • ENGLISH WELLES 134 the French Revolution enabled the French, with the association with the French New Wave movement, Biblical Samson and the Ethics of help of levee en masse, to produce a seemingly his reverence of German playwright and theorist invincible military machine that rapidly Bertolt Brecht, and his subsequent blending of Suicide Bombers overwhelmed the traditional militaries of these elements with Marxist thought. I argue that FACULTY SPONSOR: JULIA WALKER, ENGLISH continental Europe. However, even as the invincible Godard's ideology, and consequently the content SESSION CHAIR: VINCENT STOWELL legions of the Republic and Empire gained and editing of his films, became increasingly radical ______conquests not seen in Europe since Roman times, a throughout his early career, predominately inspired Judges strong countercurrent was already gathering by increasing tensions within Paris before the 1968 EVA LAU momentum. In the hedgerows of western France, in protests. Although he began his career with more In the book of Judges, Samson destroys an entire the mountains of Spain, and on the barren Russian mainstream works, Godard quickly abandoned population while they are gathered in their temple, steppes, the invincible Revolutionary and Imperial these "bourgeois" tendencies, using a variety of and he prays for the strength to do so, citing the armies were badly mauled by frustratingly effective unique film techniques to foster critical, need for revenge. Problems? popular insurgencies that utilized unconventional sociopolitical inquiry within his audience. In ______tactics and strategies. This paper will examine the particular, my talk explores how the abrupt placards Milton emergence of guerrilla warfare during this period employed by Godard throughout his films are EVE ANDERSON and address the conditions that produced popular integral to his didactic purpose; the message, Milton makes Samson mass-murder less personal, resistance on such an unprecedented scale. This design, and typography of the cards embody but that raises a sharper ethical question about study will also evaluate the authenticity and Godard's revolutionary ideology while supporting God's permission. effectiveness of the major insurgent movements, the development of his notoriously radical ______and assess the role that they played in transforming aesthetic. Suicide Bombers the manner in which modern wars are fought. ______TYLER DERUBIO ______Burn!: Fanon, Vietnam, and the Gaze What does it say about the Jewish/Christian/Muslim A Question of Union and Devotion to THOMAS MULHOLLAND culture that the Samson narrative is generally the Cause; Factional Conflict in the Pontecorvo's Burn! (1969) depicts the transforming considered heroic? nature of colonial exploitation through the use of 104th NY Infantry during the Fanonian images amplified by unique film 2L • HISTORY WELLES 140 American Civil War techniques and decisions, and, in doing so, makes a History Honors Theses: Popular ROBERT TERRERI case for total revolution constituted by a rejection In late fall of 1861, the call for volunteers went out of Western frameworks of 'progress'. In my Resistance in Times of War and in Livingston County to form a new regiment of presentation, I will discuss Pontecorvo's use of During the Atlantic Slave Trade volunteer infantry. Nearly 600 men from the area Fanon, reference the extra local parallels in Burn! FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JUSTIN enlisted into what would become the 104th NYVI and evaluate Pontecorvo's role as a director of BEHREND, HISTORY "The Wadsworth Guards". However being 400 men 'Third (World) Cinema'. My discussion of Fanon will ______short of a full regiment, they were forced to center on the concepts of violence, 'the new man' To Have First 20 Blows with a Cat of consolidate with 4 companies of men from Troy, NY and the reordering of society. The discussion will be and their officers. From the onset of this positioned in a global context through the film's Nine Tails, and 19 More…: The Story consolidation, the officers of Troy and Geneseo allusions to contemporary Vietnam, historical of Abuse and Evolving Resistance in formed into factions coming into later conflict over Guadalupe, and the international language of the Slave Trade After the Fall of various issues, resulting in numerous attempts to dissent. The evaluation of Pontecorvo as a director court martial and force opposing officers out of the of 'Third Cinema' will concentrate largely on Lacan's Piracy army. The formation of these factions and the concept of 'gaze' as it has come to be used in ALEC TARE conflict which affected the daily activities of the cinematic and postcolonial theory. The presentation This paper is a part of an honors thesis that looks regiment will be explored as well as the underlying will be largely in the form of a lecture but will into the various abuses that seamen faced in their issues surrounding loyalty to the Union and views require a projector to display excerpts from the profession during the eighteenth century. The paper on devotion to "the cause". film. shows that seamen not only resisted authority ______consistently throughout the eighteenth century, but 2M • HISTORY WELLES 133 The Desiring Fascist: Discourses of also that this resistance evolved over time as more Sexuality and Terror in West direct forms were suppressed. Starting with the Guns, Graphics, and Gonads: golden age of piracy the paper will show the Subjectivity and Structural Critique Germany's "Red Decade" changes in the resistance of sailors with the growth in the Long 1960s NIKITA RUMSEY In this paper, I examine the intersections between of the merchant slave trade, culminating in the FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: TODD discourses on sexuality and fascism that permeated Liverpool sailor strikes in the late eighteenth GOEHLE, HISTORY century. Selected for presentation at Phi Alpha ______the public sphere of West Germany's tumultuous Theta West/Central New York Regional An Auter's Aesthetic: The "Red Decade." Using Klaus Theweleit's 1977 Conference, Buffalo, NY psychoanalytic analysis of fascism, in which he ______Revolutionary Ideology and Design investigates the proto-fascist mind of the Weimar- The Original Guerrillas: of Jean-Luc Godard's Early Feature era Freikorps soldiers, I argue that the crisis of post- 1968 West Germany mirrors Theweleit's Unconventional Warfare in the Films, 1960-1967 construction of the Freikorps. I will explore how the French Revolutionary and JANNA NUNZIATO radicalization of political violence, the emergence of Napoleonic Eras Within the larger context of a mutating French alternative, anti-authoritarian, sexually discursive culture, I explore the inspiration and ideology spaces, and the ensuing battle between left-wing PAUL KENNEDY behind the feature films of director Jean-Luc The era of the French Revolution and Napoleonic "terror" and the West German police function for Godard's early career, from 1960 to 1967. A close Theweleit as an unsettling recursion of Germany's Wars was a major transformative period in the analysis of both the content and editing of these development of modern warfare. In the course of fascist past. films reveals a reoccurring critique of commodity- twenty two years of tumultuous violence European obsessed, Americanized, and industrial France. I methods of war making underwent a dramatic discuss the factors that influenced Godard's 18

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2N • INTERDISCIPLINARY: Visit Us: Culture, Language, Some acheivements of this unappreciated genius. The profound effect of his work on the communities of MATHEMATICS & PHYSICS ISC 131 Do's and Don'ts" mathematics and physics will be discussed along- SESSION CHAIR: CHARLES FREEMAN, PHYSICS & LIURAN CHEN , MARIKA TANI, MIKO MOMOI, side the man's life story. His humble roots in ASTRONOMY MIZUNA INOUE, ZHI LI education held him back from ghetting the full ______International students from Japan present about recognition for his greatness at the time. A full Complete Analysis of a Stack of their country:interesting facts about its culture, explanation of his background and his sense of Radiochromic Film holiday celebrations, language, some Do's and curiosity which led him to such abundance of Dont's for those who are planning to travel or work JEFFREY STEIDLE, DREW ELLISON mathematical understanding will solidify his place in Japan. as one of the greatest minds of the 19th century. FACULTY SPONSOR: CHARLES FREEMAN, PHYSICS & ______ASTRONOMY ______An experiment was performed at the University of Students from China Present: What LU Decomposition: A Closer Look Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) You Need to Know Before You Visit: MIRIAM HAASE using the OMEGA EP Laser System. An 80 TW, 10 ps Culture, Language, Some Do's and The decomposition, or factorization, of a matrix into pulse was incident on a 20 micron thick copper an upper triangular matrix and a lower triangular target resulting in target-normal sheath Don'ts" matrix is a technique that has expedited the process acceleration of protons from the rear of the target. SHATANATI KUERMANAILI, DI YE, MINGYA MA of solving systems of equations. This paper will A Thompson Parabola Ion Spectrometer containing International students from China present provide some insight on the man who first thought a 30 MeV stack of Radiochromic Film (RCF) was interesting facts about its culture, language, some to factor a matrix in such a way, Alan Turing, and his placed behind the copper target allowing the Do's and Don'ts for those who are planning to travel contributions to mathematics and subsequently the protons to deposit some of their energy in the film. or work in China. burgeoning world of computer science. It will also RCF changes color based on the amount of energy ______describe various methods to decompose a matrix to that it absorbs. The resulting films were scanned The Dominican Republic: What You upper and lower triangular matrices. Finally, it will and the red color values for each pixel were Need to Know Before You Visit: look at some of the uses of LU decomposition and converted to optical density. The 2D array of optical why it is an important technique. densities was converted to a 1D spectrum by Culture, Language, Some Do's and ______summing each column of the array. These data, Don'ts" Dedekind Rings: Theory and along with a RCF response calibration were used to LEINNI MEIJIA Applications determine proton energy spectrum. Selected for Presenter was born in the Dominican Republic, TIM KELLY presentation at Omega Laser Facility Users Group raised in New York: interesting facts about the DR, Richard Dedekind was a brilliant mathematical mind Meeting, Rochester, NY. its culture, language, some Do's and Don'ts for its of the 19th and 20th century who developed a ______visitors. notion that regarded rings and ideals. Through his ______Matrices Meet Modulus time spend with other great mathematicians such ANDREW SAMER Students from S. Korea Present: as Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss and Johann Peter FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICK RAULT, MATHEMATICS What You Need to Know Before You Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet. This notion was able to We will define and discuss properties of infinite Visit: Culture, Language, Some Do's take the principle ideals of rings and make them rings, which are sets with the familiar operations of into prime ideals. The purpose for this talk is to go addition and multiplication. I focused on the ring of and Don'ts" deeper into the creation and proof of Dedekind's diagonal matrices whose coefficients are in Z_4 and SANGYUP LEE, JUNGDAM JADE KIM, DOHYUN KIM, contribution and explore it's theory. To expose what are only 0 or 2. This ring had the fascinating feature SOOHYUN JULIA LIM, JISOO YOO, SEONGSIL HONG, it truly means to take one ideal and comprise it into that for all elements x, x+x=0. I studied this ring to SUJIN PARK, SUHYEON YU, YEON BRIANNA CHOI, another and to look at what applications arose from find an answer to a more general question posed by CHAE YOUNG OH his contributions to mathematics. the December 2013 edition of Mathematics International students from South Korea present ______Magazine. The problem asks whether or not the interesting facts about its culture,language, some Guiseppe Peano and His influence on existence of two elements s and t in R such that Do's and Don'ts for those who are planning to travel st=0 implies that there exists a nonzero ideal (a type or work in Korea. Mathematical Logic of subring) I such that the size of R equals the size of CARMEN STAUB R/I. I also look at whether a stronger hypothesis 2P • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 336 Guiseppe Peano was an Italian mathematican who changes this answer by assuming that the sets Rs flourished in the nineteenth and twentieth and Rt are both nonzero. This talk will be accessible History of Mathematics II centuries. He is famously known for the creation of to anyone who has taken MATH 233. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JEFF Peano Arithmetic which is the current system used JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS in mathematical logic today. His axioms on the 2O • INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM ______natural numbers and use of induction were George Green: A Discussion of groundbreaking and served as a necessary tool for MILNE 109 Humility in Genius other prominent mathematicans and logicians of International Students Present 2: REBECCA MASSÉ the time.

"Where in the World Is My Country? While a thorough discussion of the greatest 2Q • MUSIC DOTY RECITAL HALL What You Need to Know Before You mathematical minds of the 19th Century would be far from completely if it were to lack an exploration Operetta Scenes Visit Us: Culture, Language, Some of George Green, it is highly unlikely that this is a FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE Do's and Don'ts." Japan, China, S. name many will jump straight to when thinking of BLOOD, MUSIC Korea, Dominican Republic 1800s' geniuses. Many are familiar with Green's FACULTY SPONSOR: PAMELA KURAU, MUSIC Theorem, but few know the full extent to which ______FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: IRENE George Green influenced both the study of BELYAKOV, INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM The Gondoliers by Gilbert and ______mathematics and that of physics. Being, for the most part, self-educated and rather secluded in his Sullivan Students from Japan Present: personal mathematic endeavors, it is easy to see JANE COONS, GABRIELLA GARCIA, ALYSSA CONTE, "Where in the World Is My Country? why this man is never given all the credit he LOGAN KING, MELISSA NIKNAM , MATT BURLEY What You Need to Know Before You deserves. This talk will highlight the vast 19

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Casilda and her parents, the Duke and Duchess of persecution in Uganda and South Africa especially refugee status and the subsequent granting or Barataria, arrive with their servant, the drummer timely. denial of asylum for persons fearing such Luiz, in Venice to find the man to whom Casilda was ______persecution is gender blind. However, a gender betrothed in infancy. Gondoliers Marco and Women's Rights in New Regimes blind system has been shown to be largely Giuseppe select Venetian maidens Gianetta and CARLY BIONDI ineffective in regards to gender based persecutions Tessa to marry. Unfortunately, one of the Women's Rights in New Regimes" Honors Thesis will such as forced marriages or female genital gondoliers appears to be Casilda's missing husband. focus on the history of women's rights in Iraq and mutilation. There has been an effort of some Casilda: Jane Coons Duke: Logan King Duchess: Rwanda from the 1950's through the present day. It countries, such as Canada, the United States, and Melissa Niknam Luiz: Matt Burley The Grand intends to examine the effects of major societal Sweden to address this issue by altering their Inquisitor, Dona Alhambra: Gabriella Garcia shifts on women's rights following The United system of refugee determination in order to Gianetta: Alyssa Conte Tessa: Melissa Niknam States invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Rwandan account for gender disparities. This paper will Marco: Matt Burley Giuseppe: Logan King Vocal Genocide in 1994. It will analyze specific economic, examine how these policies are applied towards Coach, Accompanist: Alan Case Vocal Instructor: social and political factors that have allowed asylum cases and their effectiveness, in comparison Pamela Kurau Acting Instructor: Melanie Blood domestic revolution and international intervention to countries without such guidelines. ______(or non-intervention) to drastically alter women's Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss roles within these societies. By analyzing the cross- 2S • POLITICAL SCIENCE & MATTHEW BURLEY, LOGAN KING, MELISSA cutting cleavages that intersect women's identity, it INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS NIKNAM will evaluate their ability to represent themselves On the evening Eisenstein must report to jail to politically and economically within and, in the case WELLES 26 serve 8 days, his wife Rosanlinda's ex-lover, the of Rwanda, without male patriarchy. Foci will Discrimination, Death, and Denial: opera singer Alfred, shows up to keep her company. include, why women's rights in Iraq have fallen The Role of Women in South Asia Falke, their friend, chooses this evening to even an short of U.S. goals, as well as how Rwanda FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: VICTORIA old score and distracts them all away to the Russian transformed from a society that contained a FARMER, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL Count Orlovsky's ball, including their maid, Adele, political system based on patriarchal ethnic identity RELATIONS who dreams of being an actress. Rosalinda: Jane to having the highest elected female leadership in ______Coons Adele, a maid: Alyssa Conte Alfred, an opera the world. I intend to use feminist international Inadequate Provision of Toilet singer: Matt Burley Eisenstein: Logan King Orlovsky: relation theories to examine how male patriarchy in Gabriella Garcia Blint, a lawyer: Melissa Niknam society was constructed within Iraq after 2003 and Facilities for Women in India Falke, the jailor: Logan King Vocal Coach, broken down in Rwanda after 1994. NICOLE THEAL Accompanist: Alan CaseVocal Instructor: Pamela ______Gender discrimination, or the denial of basic human Kurau Acting Instructor: Melanie Blood Asylum, International Law, and rights and freedoms based on gender, occurs in a Regional Practice variety of ways every day across the globe. This 2R • POLITICAL SCIENCE & discrimination can range from cruel and excessive KATIE BECKER violence, to women receiving less pay for equal INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS This presentation will examine the right of asylum in work. While every single type of discrimination has WELLES 24 the context of states' rights and obligations under a harmful effect on women worldwide, some issues Human Rights: Challenges and international law. States are sovereign and have the gain less attention than they deserve. For example, ability to selectively choose who enters into their inadequate provision of public restroom facilities Opportunities borders, but they are also obligated under has become a major concern for women in South FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JOANNA international law to consider all asylum- seekers for Asia. Throughout this area, various political KIRK, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL refugee status. This balance between international socioeconomic constructs have exacerbated this RELATIONS obligations and state sovereignty is further pertinent and pervasive problem. Poor ______complicated when it is put in the place of a regional representation within government agencies, Legalized Homophobia: The political context, like in Europe and Africa. The coupled with changing economic trends and rigid Persecution of LGBT Individuals major question explored by this presentation is if patriarchal ideologies, have rendered it nearly participation in a regional political asylum regime South of the Sahara impossible to exact necessary change. This obstacle will shift the balance between obligation and has led to a plethora of related complications, MARTIN BEACH sovereignty to induce states to host more asylum including increased rates of urinary tract infections With the realization of universal gay rights seekers and refugees. Is the promise of regional and decreased school attendance among young seemingly in sight, it is increasingly easy for "burden sharing" enough to overcome states' girls. In addition, many toilet facilities are Americans to forget that intractable homophobic scruples in granting asylum? An answer to this demanding payment, further dramatizing the attitudes still dominate popular culture in a large question will be sought from examining the feminization of poverty. In order to gain an in-depth portion of the world. As anti-gay legislation is European Union, the African Union, and South Asia analysis of this egregious problem, I conducted a consistently being struck down state by state across (where no regional regime exists) in order to better case study of Mumbai, a major city in India. the United States, prominent anti-gay American understand if regional "burden sharing" lives up to ______evangelicals are joining forces with socially its promise in the asylum context and if it may be an Gender Discrimination and Violence conservative elements worldwide to persecute and answer to greater asylum protection on a global marginalize LGBT individuals on a global scale. In scale. against Women in Pakistan this context, sub-Saharan Africa has become one of ______SAARAH SHAKEEL the latest flash points in the battle for gay social, Refugee Determination and Gender discrimination in Pakistan has helped political, and economic equality. South Africa and perpetuate violence against women, based on Uganda dominate any discussion of African gay International Law deeply embedded social and cultural beliefs. rights; South Africa legalized gay marriage in 2006, EFTHIMIA BARBAGIANNIS Women have become targets of inequality and while Uganda's president recently signed into law The United Nations 1951 Convention Relating to the physical abuse due to misconceptions about female one of the world's strictest set of penalties for Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol define a roles in Islam. Based on statistics ranking Pakistan homosexual acts. The fate of LGBT individuals in refugee as a person who is outside of the "country as the least gender-equitable country in the world, sub- Saharan Africa may well be one of the twenty- of his nationality" and who has a "well-founded fear many individuals accept the patriarchal and cultural first century's most defining narratives, which of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, norms that restrict women's basic human rights. makes an in-depth look at the history of gay nationality, membership of a particular social group, This form of tolerance leads to spousal abuse such or political opinion." This system of determining as being beaten, threatened, or even burned with 20

2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM the acid. Through the continuous reinforcement of dowry. Many people in India still practice dowry, addition, young women, and sometimes girls, often suppressive male authority, many women in the classic gift of money or goods to the husband's have no power over their own marriages. Some are Pakistan have been subordinated and suffer from family before marriage. Dowries were used being tortured, harassed, and killed over increasing extreme and sometimes violent prejudice. traditionally by newlyweds to secure their financial demands for consumer goods. Within India, a ______status, but greed and corruption have led to number of grass-roots movements are working to India's Dowry Deaths: An Increasing outrageous demands, often continuing even after combat this problem and create greater awareness Problem the wedding. Economic pressure has contributed to of it. They have also gained much media attention an increase in dowry deaths, the reckless murder lately, forcing more attention from the rest of the JIA WEN ZHU and suicide of brides whose families cannot fulfill world. Gender discrimination is prevalent all over the their promised endowment. This problem has been ______globe, and in the past century has gained much going on for decades, yet little is done to prevent it. attention. Common practices have come under the Laws have been passed, but still do not always classification of gender discrimination, such as protect females from this terrible calamity. In

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POSTER SESSIONS 11: 15 AM – 12:45 PM with Lunch at noon 5:15 PM – 6:16 PM with Reception, Booksigning with Keynote Speaker, Sheri Fink and Closing Remarks by Interim President Long

SPECIAL PRESENTATION ______Great Day Balloon Sculpture JUSTIN IAQUINTA , AMY CHAN, GREAT DAY VOLUNTEERS FACULTY SPONSOR: SHARON PECK, EDUCATION Students will work together with regional balloon artists to create a six to twelve foot Seuss Spruce out of latex 260 balloons. The sculpture will be at the entrance of the College Union Ballroom

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POSTER ABSTRACTS COLLEGE UNION BALLROOM • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM, 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM

COMPUTER SCIENCE Selected for presentation at Consortium for 5 • Investigations of Habitat, Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeastern 1 • Comparison of Wired and Region 2014, Providence, RI. Behavior, and Genetic Variation of Wireless HPC Networking Methods ______Slavemaking Ants and Their Hosts in WYATT GORMAN 3 • Visualization of Diverse Cellular Roemer Arboretum FACULTY SPONSOR: HOMMA FARIAN, COMPUTER Automata on a Computer Cluster HANNAH DOHERTY, ERICA LEICHT, LAURA SCIENCE LUCAS GROENENDAAL PRENDERGAST, BRIANNA SHARES Wired networking, either via ethernet or infiniband, FACULTY SPONSOR: HOMMA FARIAN, COMPUTER FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY has been the standard method of networking for SCIENCE Slavemaking ants raid colonies of other ant species clustered computer systems since their inception. The Game of Life falls under an area of study known to obtain pupae which will become the labor force However, given recent advancements in wireless as Cellular Automata (CA) and is probably the most in the slavemaker nests. The Roemer Arboretum technology, such as WiFi and Bluetooth, there are well known example of a cellular automaton. There hosts two species of slavemaking ants, Formica more options than traditional wired networking. are many different varieties of cellular automata subintegra and F. pergandei, which both parasitize These solutions offer low•cost, low resource usage which are obtained by changing, among other the locally abundant ant, F. glacialis. This year our alternatives to the ubiquitous switch and cable things, the dimensions of the grid of cells, the lab has been investigating the habitat preferences topology known in HPC labs throughout the world. I number of states for each cell, and the transition and colony structure of the host species, F. glacialis, took up the task of evaluating these various rule. My research has involved investigating and the raiding behavior and genetic variation in methods in a clustered computing environment, by different varieties of cellular automata and writing the slavemaking ant, F. subintegra. We used comparing the performance, resource overhead, programs that visualize them. Towards this end I hemispherical photography to determine whether and management costs associated with Ethernet, have studied three different kinds of cellular the light environment differs among inactive, WiFi, and Bluetooth networking solutions. Link automata known as Elementary CA, Life-Like CA, mature, and recently founded nests of F. glacialis. speed, bandwidth, latency, scalability, reliability and and SmoothLife. I have written programs in C We genotyped workers from eleven recently cost of ownership will be balanced to determine the utilizing the MPI and SDL libraries to visualize these founded F. glacialis colonies using microsatellite most advantageous networking method while cellular automata on a computer cluster, which genetic markers to determine whether colonies are detailing the benchmarks and statistics used to allows larger simulations to be viewed. Future founded by multiple queens or initially have single reach this conclusion. In the end, wireless research will involve investigating other varieties of queens and accumulate additional queens over networking may prove itself as a feasible cellular automata as well as expanding on the work I time. The activities of three focal slavemaker nests alternative, in some applications, to wired have already done. Selected for presentation at were monitored using video cameras to quantify networking which mandates large overhead costs Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges the amount of brood captured during each raid as where wireless solutions may not. Selected for Northeastern Region 2014, Providence, RI. well as the rate of brood capture. We developed presentation at Consortium for Computing Sciences ______primers for amplifying mitochondrial DNA in the in Colleges Northeastern Region 2014, Providence, 4 • Comparing the Performance of slavemaker F. subintegra that can be used to RI. Distributed Machine Learning determine the number of female lineages in each ______colony and assess the potential for restricted 2 • Interactive Visualization of the Algorithms dispersal of young slavemaker queens. Selected for Mandelbrot Set Using Parallel HERB SUSMANN presentation at Northeast Natural History FACULTY SPONSOR: HOMMA FARIAN, COMPUTER Conference, Springfield, MA. Computation SCIENCE ______SHAWN WARD Machine learning (ML) is a field of growing interest 6 • Hitchhiking Behavior of Leaf- FACULTY SPONSOR: HOMMA FARIAN, COMPUTER in artificial intelligence. Of key interest is the SCIENCE application of machine learning algorithms to "big cutter Ants at Blue Creek Rainforest Unlike some common fractals, the Mandelbrot set data". When data are larger than available RAM the in Southern Belize cannot be generated by hand, nor are many of its speed of machine learning algorithms can be HANNAH DOHERTY, ALICIA CHISHOLM self-similar components easily observed. By using negatively impacted. Popular "big data" paradigms FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID HOLTZMAN, BIOLOGY the Message Passing Interface on a cluster of 16 such as MapReduce are not well suited for iterative Leaf-cutter ants (genus Atta) retrieve leaf fragments processors to perform the numerous calculations, ML algorithms as implementations such as Apache from trees and bring them to their nests to feed a and Simple DirectMedia Layer libraries to display Hadoop are fundamentally hard disk oriented. An fungus that is used for food and only exists in the the results, the program captures the detail and alternative approach is to adapt ML algorithms to leaf-cutter ant nests. The smallest workers in the complexity of the infinite nature of the fractal. Each run in parallel on multiple computers with the data leaf-cutter colony are called minims. Minims serve processor determines which portion of the complex segmented between the RAM of the computing an important role as "hitchhikers" that travel on the plane it is responsible for by mapping each pixel to a cluster. The speed of sequential and parallel leaf fragments that have been cut by the medium- point in the complex plane. The processor performs versions of batch ear regression and k-means sized ants to protect the leaf-carrying ants from calculations to see if after the specified maximum clustering algorithms was compared. The algorithms parasitoid flies (family Phoridae). We observed the number of iterations, the point should be displayed were implemented MPI C with MPI and in Scala on hitchhiking behavior in four leaf-cutter ant colonies in black as a point in the set. Otherwise, it is the distributed processing environment Apache at Blue Creek Rainforest in southern Belize in displayed in a color corresponding to how close it Spark. For large and medium sized datasets, the January and counted hitchhikers on the leaves the came to being included. Once a processor finishes sequential algorithms were found to outperform leaf-cutter ants were bringing back to their nests. its allocated portion, it requests part of the the parallel versions. In the case of large data, Using a Pearson's product-moment correlation test, uncalculated section from a processor that has not however, the results favored the parallelized we found a significant positive correlation between yet finished. Because the computational burden is algorithms. Selected for presentation at the number of hitchhikers and the total of ants more equally shared between processors, the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges counted (t = 4.5273, df = 2, p- value = 0.04549). program shows a noticeable decrease in the time Northeastern Region 2014, Providence, RI. These results suggest that colonies have similar required to generate the set as compared to ratios of ants with hitchhikers to the total amount statically dividing the work among the processors. BIOLOGY of ants in trail. To get a better understanding of 23

Posters 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual hitchhiker behaviors, studies could be conducted at 9 • Damselfish Patch Choice in CARLEY WENDERLICH, AMANDA CAIFANO, RANDY varying times of day and the year to relate these CHEUNG behaviors to the activity of the parasitoid flies. Belize's South Water Caye Coral Reef FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID HOLTZMAN, BIOLOGY ______WILLIAM FUGINA, KEVIN BRODERICK Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) are known to rarely make 7 • Animals' Response to the Color of FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID HOLTZMAN, BIOLOGY nests and often use the "sit-and-wait" technique to Damselfish are territorial, herbivorous reef-dwelling Observers' Clothing hunt. This makes patch choice crucial to survival. If fishes that are known for their behavior in farming the spider picks the wrong location, it may not eat CAYLEY HALLAHAN algae. Damselfish activity often results in the death or may be eaten by a predator. In this study, we FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID HOLTZMAN, BIOLOGY of coral species so that their preferred algae can wanted to see if the proximity to water affected the Animals respond to a variety of observer stimuli, colonize it. This behavior can drastically alter and distribution of wolf spiders. Water proximity may influencing behavioral ecology. Observers are shape the coral reef systems in which they reside in, affect distribution because previous studies have recommended to wear "neutral" colors, which increasing the overall coral algal biomass. shown that substrate structure was involved in site compare to the natural environment, opposed to Depending on the species of damselfish, selection because of predation risk. Also, areas near "bright" colors, which contrast. We examined this in preferences of coral can vary. But damselfish flowing water are provided with a constant influx of Blue Creek, Belize, a neotropical rainforest. We generally prefer to inhabit species of branching minerals, nutrients, and organisms from other parts hypothesized that we would observe significantly corals. Due to the damselfish's relentless of the forest, which influences prey distribution. We less wildlife while dressed brightly compared to territoriality, we predicted that similar species will hypothesized that the cost of living near water neutrally. We sat for four trials at 1.5h intervals and inhabit similar corals due to interspecific outweigh the benefits because areas far away from tallied select species at two sites. On the first day, competition. This competition would force different water offer more protection from predators due "neutral colors" were worn for trials 1 and 2. On the species into coral niches, regardless of their higher density of the forest. Eight plots were made: second day, "bright colors" were worn for trials 3 preferred coral (branching corals). For our four were within 10 m of the creek, and four were and 4. Trials 1 and 3 were performed before noon in experiment, 10 m transect lines were extended 20-150 m away from the creek. The number of wolf the same location; trials 2 and 4 were performed from a central point. Damselfish species and the spiders in each plot was recorded. Data were after noon. A chi-square test showed no significance types of corals that they inhabited were recorded. analyzed using R. Plots 20-150 m away from water existed between "neutral colors" and "bright colors" Predominantly two damselfish species, the Cocoa had significantly more wolf spiders (13.75+0.75) in the overall tally (p> 0.05). Birds were the only (Stegastes variabilis) and Long Fined Dusky than plots within 10 meters of the creek species that showed a significant difference in (Stegastes diencaeus) were found. Overall, these (6.75+0.25). numbers tallied between "neutral colors" and species preferred branching corals. However, the ______"bright colors" ("Neutral Colors"= 20 + 1, "Bright Long Fined Duskys were found primarily on the 2 12 • Morphology of Ometepe Island Colors"= 9.5 + 0.5, χ =7.47, df=1, p<0.01). This data Knobby Sea Finger while the Cocoas were found on suggest that species perceive and/or respond to the Common Sea Fan. Thus, there appeared to be a Boa Constrictor Imperator color differently. In the future, tests will be done to correlation between reef patch choice and species MARGARET MILANO create an inventory of animals' response to colored type. FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID HOLTZMAN, BIOLOGY clothing in different environments. ______Boa constrictor inhabits a large range spanning from ______10 • Detrimental Effects of Man- Mexico to Argentina. In contribution to an 8 • Cell Proliferation Increases in the international initiative to refine a species-wide made Disturbances on Leaf-cutter Accessory Olfactory Bulb following phylogeny, we have examined snakes of the Ant Trails subspecies B.c. imperator from Ometepe Island, Vomeronasal Nerve Lesion MARIANNE MACALUSO, ALISON BROCKETT Nicaragua. Scale counts of the occulars, infralabials, ERIN DAVIDOWICZ, MARGARET GERARDI FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID HOLTZMAN, BIOLOGY and supralabials from adult specimens captured in FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID HOLTZMAN, BIOLOGY Studies on leaf-cutter ant species (genus Atta) 2001 and 2002, and the snout-vent length (SVL) was Studies done in adult fish, frogs and rodents have allude to the use of pheromones to orient the ants measured when captured. We compared the demonstrated decreased cell proliferation in the along a trail from plants back to the nest. We tested measures from the Ometepe boas with those from main olfactory bulb when the olfactory nerve was whether different types of disturbances to the museum specimens of B. c. imperator from oceanic cut. We hypothesized that vomeronasal nerve pheromone trail were equally detrimental to the island and mainland populations using lesion (VNX) would decrease cell proliferation in the ants maintaining that trail. Two different sizes each nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis tests to determine if telencephalon, especially the accessory olfactory of four disturbances were tested along five different gigantism in island populations, as reported bulb (AOB). One hour before sacrifice, snakes were leaf-cutter ant trails. Time was taken with a limit of previously, is exhibited by the Ometepe Island boas. injected with tritiated thymidine to label 300 sec for the ants' ability to recover from No significant differences were found among the 2 proliferating cells. Data were obtained from 6 disturbances, and Kruskal-Wallis test was used to number of ocular (χ =1.73, df=2) and supralabial 2 sections/snake after receiving complete bilateral or determine if there were differences among the (χ =1.12, df=2) scales (p>0.05 for both). However, unilateral VNX and surviving 2 (n=4 for bilateral, n=3 treatments. Results show the large water droplet, the number of infralabials differed significantly for unilateral), 4 weeks post-lesion (n=3 for both trench, and branch (300+0 sec) were the most among the Ometepe (23.21+0.06, Mean+SEM), bilateral and unilateral) or sham surgery (n=3). disturbing. The small trench (202+45.57 sec) was other island (21.27+0.18), and mainland 2 Welch 2-sample t tests showed no significant the most detrimental small scale disturbance, (23.32+0.06) specimens (χ =7.53, df=2, p<0.03). difference in cell proliferation between lesioned and followed by the small water droplet (177.6+51.11 Ometepe males had a significantly larger SVL unlesioned sides for the AOB or posterior sec), large rock (173+52.09 sec), small rock (145.00+6.17) than mainland boas (92.35+2.31 cm). telencephalon (p>0.05 for both). A Kruskal-Wallis (90.6+19.26 sec), and lastly, the small branch Ometepe boas are more similar to mainland boas in test showed no differences in cell proliferation (81.4+7.51 sec). A Kruskal Wallis test was used to the number of infralabial scales but different from within the posterior telencephalon between the determine the variability among results, giving a χ2 these populations in terms of SVL, possibly groups (p>0.05). Cell proliferation increased in the value of 23.3863, df = 7, and p-value < 0.005. reflecting a population in transition that AOB from 1.50+0.45 cells/section (sham controls) to Pairwise comparisons were then made using Mann- occasionally interacts with mainland individuals 3.69+1.24 (2-week survival) to 7.60+2.21 (4-week Whitney U tests, which revealed non-zero more than populations on oceanic islands. Selected survival), with only the 4-week survivors having differences among small scale disturbances. Results for presentation at National Conference on significantly more dividing cells than the sham suggest trenches and water droplets were most Undergraduate Research, Lexington, KY. controls (Mann-Whitney U test, W=2, df=1, p<0.05). detrimental to ant trails. ______Thus, VNX in snakes may cause reactive ______13 • Potential Use of Nonvisual Cues neurogenesis. Selected for presentation at National 11 • Investigation of Patch Quality Conference on Undergraduate Research, for Predation of Jackson's Lexington, KY. on the Distribution of Wolf Spiders in Chameleons ______Blue Creek, Belize DANIELLE CLARK, RANDY CHEUNG, ALYSSA SMITH 24

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FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID HOLTZMAN, BIOLOGY 15 • Territoriality and Density of Brassica rapa is a fast growing plant which is known Chameleons are visual animals with reduced to produce glucosinolate. When the plant becomes chemosensory structures. Invasive, diurnal Thalassoma bifasciatum on Belizian damaged the glucosinolate is degraded in to nitriles. Jackson's chameleons (Chamaeleo jacksonii) in Reefs Nitriles then act as a natural herbicide. Since the Hawaii eat nocturnal terrestrial snails, suggesting MARK BUCHHOLZ, THOMAS COLLINS nitriles act as an herbicide we wished to investigate they can hunt stationary prey and may utilize FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID HOLTZMAN, BIOLOGY if they were released into the soil throughout the nonvisual cues. We hypothesize 1) C. jacksonii are The Bluehead wrasse, or Thalassoma bifasciatum, plants life via the root system. To investigate this diurnal; and 2) utilize nonvisual cues. Two are a protogynous fish living in the shallow reefs, further four groups were established. Two groups observations were made per night for one week, grassbeds and bays along the tropical coasts of the had B. rapa that was being grown on second growth confirming C. jacksonii are diurnal. Opaque, Americas, Australia and Indo-Pacific Islands. Males soil. One of the second growth groups was fertilized perforated containers containing odor- emitting will mate guard a suitable mating territory which the other was not. As a control two groups of B. crickets (dead or alive) were used to test nonvisual contains females loyal to the territory. Following a rapa were grown on virgin soil. Again one group cues as stimuli. The following data were collected: similar methodology used by Wheatley (2012) for was fertilized the other was not. The addition of 1) latency to orient toward container, 2) time spent Damselfishes, we observed the reef, examining the fertilizer was intended to help eliminate the approaching container, 3) time to reach within 5cm territories controlled by males. Our study focused possibility that the rate of growth was not affected of container, 4) time spent within 5cm of container, on a population of Thalassoma bifasciatum on a by lack of nutrients in the soil. Early results indicate and 5) whether chameleon touched container with patch reef off the east coast of South Water Caye, that there is an allelopathic effect that inhibits the tongue or head. Data were analyzed using R. No Belize. We hypothesized that terminal males would growth of the second growth plants. This statistical differences were found between trials; be evenly distributed across the reef. Since terminal experiment`s results can then be used in further however, in 9/36 trials, chameleons showed male territories were fluid and not measurable by experiments to determine the exact cause of the definitive orientation towards live crickets, while in any instrumentation we possessed, we considered growth impediment. 6/36, chameleons turned their heads toward dead male presence and territorial behavior to be ______crickets. Orientation towards dead crickets suggest indicative of a territory. We determined a 18 • Brassica Seed Yield use of olfactory cues while orientation towards live confidence interval at 95% to be between (.1857, AARON SAXTON crickets suggest auditory and olfactory cues. This 3.3143) and a prediction interval at 95% to be FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY suggests C. jacksonii may use nonvisual in between (-2.94, 6,44). While our prediction interval The effects of pruning pol ated flowers on Brassica conjunction with visual cues. Further testing will be is inconclusive and requires further research to be plants are being measured in regards to a plant's done using dead and live crickets in clear containers more helpful, the confidence interval allows us to seed yield. A sample of Brassica plants are fertilized, to determine if visual cues facilitate hunting. make assumptions about ensuing transects on the then through random assignment, a determined Selected for presentation at National Conference rest of the reef. This provides a starting point for amount of flowers are pruned off. The total number on Undergraduate Research, Lexington, KY. research on the preferred microhabitats for of seeds of each plant, the total weight of each ______Belizean populations of Bluehead wrasse. plant's seed yield, the average number of seeds per 14 • Pseudomyrmex ferruginea ______pod, and the average weight of seeds per pod are Mutualism is Required for Vachellia 16 • Foot Muscle of the Sea Slug measured. Aplysia californica Expresses a 5-HT2 ______cornigera Maturation in Blue Water 19 • Effect of Herbivory by Pieris Serotonin Receptor Creek, Belize rapae on Photosynthetic Rate and MICHAEL HARTNETT, RACHEL COOPER BENJAMIN SCHUMAN, LAURA DUCLOS FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID HOLTZMAN, BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSORS: DUANE MCPHERSON, Seed Yield of Brassica rapa The symbiotic relationship between the bull-horned BIOLOGY JANELLE GOEKE acacia, Vachellia cornigera, and the ant, JANICE LOVETT, BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY Pseudomyrmex ferruginea, has been widely studied Serotonin (5-HT) has strong modulatory effects on The larvae of Pieris rapae, or white cabbage as an example of symbiosis. Early findings suggest foot and body-wall muscle in the opisthobranch slug butterflies, eat the leaves of Brassica rapa plants. that their interspecies interactions was not only Aplysia. These effects include increased force of This project investigates the effect that this mutually beneficial, but necessary for acacia muscle contraction and increased rate of muscle herbivory has on the seed yield and photosynthetic maturation. However, recent research suggests that relaxation. At the cellular level, 5-HT causes a dose- rates of the plants. Herbivory by the caterpillars the costs of supporting the ants may sometimes be dependent increase in the cyclic adenosine may be expected to decrease the photosynthetic greater than any sort of benefit acacias may receive monophosphate (cAMP) content of foot muscle. rate and seed yield of the plants, but it is possible from hosting the ants. Therefore, older and/or Our laboratory has previously isolated and cloned that these factors increase in order to compensate healthier acacias may be able to support those costs from Aplysia foot musclea5-HT receptor belonging for the loss of leaf area. This is tested by measuring better than younger acacias. Here, we surveyed the tothe5-HT7 family, which stimulates adenylyl the photosynthetic rate of both leaves that have population of acacias in Blue Water Creek, Belize for cyclase and could account for the increase in cAMP. been eaten by caterpillars and leaves on uneaten the presence of Pseudomyrmex ferruginea to More recently, a 5-HT2 receptor has been cloned plants. Additionally, after the plants have bloomed determine if ant occupancy is correlated with the from sensory neurons in the CNS of Aplysia and been pol ated, the number of seed pods, and height of the acacias in the area, assuming height is (Nagakura et al., 2010). Using the information from the total number of seeds per plant is counted. The positively correlated with age and health. We that receptor sequence, we have discovered that results are then measured in the statistical program, hypothesized that most acacias would still be foot muscle in Aplysia also expresses a 5-HT2 R, in order to test if there is any significant heavily reliant on ants for protection in order to receptor. We are presently at work to clone the differences between plants that experience grow into fully mature trees. A Kruskal-Wallis test complete mRNA for this receptor to determine herbivory and those that don't. showed a significant difference in the heights of whether it is identical to the one previously ______acacias that are occupied (o), unoccupied (u), or described. It is possible that 5-HT2 and 5- 20 • pH and Seed Yield in Brassica abandoned by ants (H=33.3 p<0.05). Further HT7receptors act synergistically in the serotonergic LAUREN HERSCHBEIN analysis showed that occupied acacias were modulation of muscle function. Selected for FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY significantly taller than unoccupied or abandoned presentation at Society for Integrative and Plants have a tendency to grow to the largest size, trees, suggesting that ant occupancy may be Comparative Biology, Austin, TX. and produce the greatest number of seeds in necessary for acacias to reach full maturity. ______slightly acidic soil, with an ideal pH ranging from 6 ______17 • Allelopathy in Brassica to 7. In this study we investigated the influence of AUSTIN LAMB solution pH on plant growth and seed production. FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY The plant Brassica Rapa, was grown in different pH solutions to study this relationship. Brassica is a 25

Posters 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual fast-growing plant and because of its rapid life cycle for 45 seconds and the other with acetate-free individual larvae and amplified by PCR using it is often used for research in educational medium. Cells were lysed, and cAMP levels were microsatellite primers published for closely related institutions. Brassica seed gs were grown in a measured with an ELISA. Protein concentrations sea star species. Amplified microsatellite DNA vermiculite medium and then transferred to a were measured with a detergent- and acid- samples are sent to the University of Rochester for hydroponic Hoagland solution. The seed gs were compatible protein assay. In preliminary results, the fragment analysis, and subsequently analyzed using divided into three different groups to examine the acetate-treated cells had a cAMP concentration of GeneMarker software to genotype the individual tolerance of Brassica to a pH of 4, 6, and 8. Plant pH 17.7 pmoles/mg (standard deviation = 7.3) and the larvae at each of the several microsatellite loci. tolerance was analyzed by leaf area, and number of acetate-fee cells had a cAMP concentration of 13.4 Microsatellite polymorphisms will be used to seeds produced. Preliminary results have shown pmoles/mg (standard deviation = 4.1). Although the characterize the genetic diversity of the larval that the best growth was at a pH of 6, and the worst means suggest acetate exposure increases cAMP population and to compare it to that of non clonal growth was at a pH of 4. In addition, we wanted to concentrations by 32%, there was substantial species to test for the possible loss of genetic investigate if Brassica had any effect on the pH of variability of the replicates. We anticipate more variation. the solution. Plants can often alter the pH of a replicates will reduce the uncertainty and allow us ______hydroponic solution, as they are typically negatively to determine if acetate exposure changes the cAMP 25 • Characterization of Putative ESP charged as compared with their surroundings, and concentrations. Specifier Proteins in B. rapa are able to acidify their ______MAX MACBARB, DJONI ELKADY 23 • Species Identification of FACULTY SPONSOR: JANICE LOVETT, BIOLOGY 21 • Analysis of the Effects of Synechococcus Cyanobacteria Brassica rapa is an important model plant that is Network Structure on the Spread of Involved in Symbiosis with Sea Star closely related to important functional food plants an Influenza Epidemic Modeled on a such as kohlrabi, cauliflower, and broccoli. Specifier Larvae proteins (SPs) are an important component in the College Campus ANDREA JERABEK, FRANKLIN HERNANDEZ, KELSEA myrosinase- glucosinolate pathway, which produce THOMAS HARTVIGSEN, DENNIS HUFF, KATHLEEN FLANNERY, PATRICK DITTMER different secondary metabolites. These biologically RUSNAK FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY active compounds are used primarily in plant FACULTY SPONSORS: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY The goal of our work is to identify thedominant defense and also contribute to the plant's CHRIS LEARY, MATHEMATICS species of symbiotic photosynthetic bacteria nutritional benefits hence, "functional plants." In We test the dynamics of the spread of influenza associated with clonal sea star larvae that are this project we found two putative SPs in Brassica (H1N1) on a theoretical college campus. We widely distributed in the tropical North Atlantic rapa genome by comparing known SPs in the simulate the campus as many connected individuals Ocean. Students using 16S ribosomal DNA sequence Arabidopsis thaliana sequenced genome. The gene living in larger groups of residence halls. Individuals analysis haveidentified the dominant microbes to was cloned into an expression vector for E.coli from within each hall are connected using a Watts- the genus Synechococcus. For our project we which epithiospecifier proteins (ESPs) were Strogatz small-world, undirected graph. We also aresequencing the beta prime subunit of the RNA harvested to assess there directing effects on the connect "residence halls" with a constant number polymerase gene (rpoC) to identify thebacteria to myrosinase-glucosinolate pathway via High of randomly placed edges connecting "students". species. Microbial DNA isextracted from larvae and Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). Edges connecting vertices represent the pathway from isolated cultures and amplified by the Collecting this data will allow future research to find influenza may pass between individuals. Our entire polymerasechain reaction (PCR) to produce multiple out if nitriles/epithionitriles have protecting network contains twelve hundred people divided copies of the rpoC gene fragment. The PCR product properties in plants, or if they possibly play a role as equally among the number of "dorms" tested. is cloned in E.coli and sequenced at the Genomics a transcription factor. Finally we can test the Individuals are classified as susceptible (S), Center, University of Rochester. Sequences of the relationship between up regulation of these genes infectious (I), or recovered (R). All individuals start rpoC gene have been used extensively to identify and stressful conditions of the plant. out susceptible except for an original random five strains of Synechococcus. To date we have identified ______individuals who start out infectious. Infectious one strain from culture to be most closely related to 26 • 5-HT7 Serotonin Receptor in individuals recover after three days. Four main Synechococcus strain WH8012 from the Sargasso vaccination strategies were tested: random, hubs, Sea, where the larvae are widely distributed. Helix Snail Species: Restriction Digest betweenness, and closeness. We found that Additional research will allowus to characterize and Southern Blot Analysis effectiveness of vaccination strategies changes as other dominant species and ultimately lead to ALEXA KREBS, LIZ TOBISON the number of "residence halls" in a network experimental work on the interaction between the FACULTY SPONSOR: JANICE LOVETT, BIOLOGY increases. symbiotic partners. The 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor in molluscan ______species is a neurotransmitter involved in muscle 22 • Impact of Acetate on cAMP 24 • Microsatellite Analysis of contraction and movement. The goal of our Levels of Astrephomene Genetic Diversity in Clonal Sea Star research is to sequence the receptor from Helix snails for the purpose of comparison to known gubernaculifera Larvae sequences of the 5-HT7 receptor in other molluscan KEITH MORRIS-SCHAFFER, DANIEL GREENBERG, NICK PIEDMONTE, RACHEL MOORE species. In order to isolate the complete gene, we EMILY REDINGTON FACULTY SPONSORS: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY initially extracted and purified DNA from snail brain FACULTY SPONSOR: HAROLD HOOPS, BIOLOGY JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY and buccal tissue. The DNA then underwent Astrephomene gubernaculifera, a colonial alga, Sea star larvae that are widely distributed in the restriction endonuclease digestion using HindIII in requires acetate for growth. We have previously tropical North Atlantic are unusual in having the order to run a Southern blot. The enzyme HindIII shown that acetate is a chemoattractant for this capacity to reproduce repeatedly by cloning. was chosen because it cut outside of the gene of alga suggesting that it detects acetate and initiates Genetic sequencing studies indicate that the source interest as opposed to other restriction enzymes a signa g cascade altering flagellar behaviour. cAMP adult population for these larvae is likely a cushion which cut within the gene. Previously identified is commonly involved in intracellular signa g sea star that is native to the west coast of Africa. primers, 6b forward and 8 reverse, were used to cascades, and is involved in a different behavioral Despite the possible gain in longevity and dispersal amplify the gene and provide probes for the response in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a closely in the open ocean, clonal reproduction may incur a Southern blot analysis. From the Southern results, related unicellular alga. Therefore, we hypothesize cost by reducing the genetic variation of the larval DNA from comparable regions of the gel were that the chemotactic signa g pathway involves populations. The goal of this study is to document isolated and used to clone into a plasmid vector for alteration of intracellular cAMP levels. To test this, the genetic diversity of clonal larvae using subsequent transformation. As the semester we first starved A. gubernaculifera of acetate to microsatellite DNA analysis. Larvae were collected continues, we hope to screen for the proper maximize the chemoresponse. This sample was from the Gulf Stream 15 miles off the coast of sequence utilizing our selected probes and then split into two; one treated with 10 mM acetate Florida in August 2013. DNA was extracted from eventually isolate the complete gene for the 5-HT7 26

2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual Posters receptor. Selected for presentation at Northeast and fall. We are attempting to correlate seasonal DnaE is an DNA polymerase of the C family Regional Tribeta Conference, PA. and daily variation in pollen concentrations with polymerases. It is used in DNA replication in ______weather patterns. Over the past year we collected S.aureus where this enzyme has been found to be 27 • A Map of 5-methylcytosine daily atmospheric samples using a roto-rod crucial for lagging strand replication. We conducted Residues in Trypanosoma brucei centrifuge sampler. The patterns observed in the pre-steady state and steady state assays to look at 2013 growing season are present in the data the kinetic nature of DnaE in the replicative tRNA Revealed by Sodium Bisulfite collected over the past 4 years. The pollen seasons pathway. Pre-steady state condition assays showed Sequencing occur at similar times and it is possible to correlate that the affinity of the enzyme to bind to DNA. LEANNE CHEN some daily variability to weather patterns. Single-turn over condition assays gave the affinity of FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY ______a nucleotide to be added to the duplex with enzyme In protozoan parasites, there is little information on 30 • Comparative Mutagenicity complex. A rate was found for the disassociation of the presence of covalent RNA modifications which Amongst C-Family Bacterial DNA Pol the enzyme from the binary structure. These values comprise the epitranscriptome. Therefore, we helped to determine that the rate which must be determined if T. brucei tRNAAsp(GUC), III's the rate limiting step in DnaE replication. tRNAGly(GCC), tRNAVal(AAC), and tRNATyr(GUA) JUSTIN MORRIS Comparing these values to PolC, the enzyme that contain 5-methylcytosines via RNA bisulfite FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY replicates the leading strand in S.aureus, and other sequencing. Most tRNAs examined have at least one As evidence points to the use of multipleDNApol III's C family polymerases may help analyze the 5-methylcytosine at the variable region-TΨC by gram-positivebacteria, a question remains: which impotanceof DnaE. Selected for presentation at junction. Only tRNAGly(GCC) displayed methylation biochemical factors (domain composition, DNA Experimental Biology, San Diego, CA. of C40 in the anticodon stem, and there was partial oligonucleotide(oligo) length, etc.) serve as the ______methylation at this site. There is no evidence for strongest determinants of fidelity? We have 33 • Dissecting the Role of IKKβ in methylation of C38 in the anticodon loop in the characterized various patterns of relative mutagenicity amongst the essential C-family Tumor Specific Cell Death tRNAs analyzed. Analysis of tRNATyr(GUA) PETER FIELDS demonstrates that both unspliced and spliced bacterial DNA polymerases found in Staphylococcus aureus. These include two PolC constructs: PolC- FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY molecules contain C48 methylation, indicating tRNA The TAK1 cell signa g pathway has been found to be cytosine methylation can precede tRNA splicing. Exomut and PolC-δ N δ Exo, as well as DnaE. In vitro assays were performed using various primer- very important for tumor invasion, metastasis, and Overall, our data indicate that T. brucei tRNAs angiogenesis in breast cancer. Disruption of TAK1 contain 5-methylcytosine residues in some, but template(p/t) DNA substrates and nucleotides. Additional assays paired the polymerase with the β signa g in breast and prostate carcinoma cells potentially not all standard eukaryotic positions. reduces invasive and angiogenic capacities of tumor The levels of cytosine methylation of different T. clamp. DnaE showed the highest frequency of nucleotide misincorporation, especially on longer cells. In addition, disruption of TAK1 reduces the brucei tRNAs vary, suggesting the presence of a ability of tumor cells to metastasize. Our recent mechanism for methylation control. Selected for p/tDNA substrates, as well as in bypassing 8- oxoguanine lesions. PolC-Exomut, the construct studies indicate that TAK1 is also involved in tumor presentation at Experimental Biology, San Diego, specific cell-death. Inhibition of TAK1 sensitizes CA. with both N-terminal and Exonuclease (Exo) domains, consistently showed the most fidelity. A tumor cells to TNFα and cytotoxic drugs such as ______doxorubicin. TAK1 signa g is mediated via Mitogen- 28 • Paleoecology of Forest Ecotone direct relationship between fidelity and DNA substrate length was also observed. The presence of activated protein kinases (MAPKs) and the Between Lake Ontario Lowlands and secondary proteins consistently increased overall heterotrimeric IKKα/IKKβ/NEMO complex, addition, but not fidelity. Overall, these assays activating NFkB transcription factor. Given that the Allegheny Plateau NFkB is required for pro-invasive and angiogenic TIMOTHY MATEER, ERIN FIEN indicate DnaE as a more error-prone polymerase compared to its PolC counterparts. Additionally, activities of TAK1, we hypothesized that the FACULTY SPONSOR: RAY SPEAR, BIOLOGY IKKα/IKKβ/NEMO complex may play a significant Studies of the pre-settlement forests of western oligo length was shown to influence the accuracy of nucleotide addition. Future assays will further role in TAK1-mediated survival of tumor cells. To New York have shown an ecotone between the address the role of IKKβ, we downregulated IKKβ lowlands to the north and the uplands to the south. examine the effects of oligo length as well as fidelity patterns specifically attributable to the N-terminal using an RNA interference In addition, we assessed Differing contemporary forest structures have been the balance between the non-canonical and observed to correspond with differing geographical domain. Selected for presentation at Experimental Biology, San Diego, CA. canonical pathways by comparing levels of NFκB regions. Maple-beech-basswood forests dominate subunits such as RelA/p65 and p100/p52 in the the Lake Ontario lowlands of northwestern New ______31 • Chemotherapeutic Effect of nucleus and in the cytosol. It was found that a York. To the south Northern hardwood- hemlock knockdown of IKKβ did not sensitize cells to TNFα. It dominate the Allegheny Plateau. We have Sulforaphane on HL-60 Leukemia Cell was also found that a disruption of TAK1 increased demonstrated that it is possible to identify these non-canonical NFκB activity in tumor cells. forest types using paleoecological techniques Line JENNIFER GROM , PETER FIELDS ______(pollen analysis) and we are working to identify 34 • Effect of Resveratrol and shifts of this boundary over the past several FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY millennia. We examined the pollen record from Sulforaphane is a chemotherapeutic drug that is Radiation on 435 Cells sediment cores collected at sites along a north derived from cruciferous vegetables like broccoli. KENT UPHAM, MICHAEL GARONE, MITCH GILLARD south transect, Round Pond in the northern lowland While preliminary data has shown Sulforaphane to FACULTY SPONSORS: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY and Hanging Bog in the upland. Pollen percentages be an anticancer agent, its exact mechanism WENDY POGOZELSKI, CHEMISTRY were calculated to reconstruct the forest history. remains uncertain. The goal of this experiment is to Previous studies indicate that pre-treatment of ______further investigate the mechanism of Sulforaphane cancerous cells with resveratrol enhances the killing 29 • Trends Between Atmospheric in the HL60 leukemia cells using cell cycle analysis, of these cells after undergoing radiation treatment. chromosome preparations, apoptosis assays and Using doses of resveratrol from 0.025 to 0.0025 Pollen and Climate in Western New cytotoxicity assays. mg/ml of resveratrol in combination with and York ______without radiation, we used an MTT assay to assess STEPHEN RUSWICK, THOMAS CLARK, STELLA LEE 32 • Determining the Kinetics of the effects on the survival of the cells. Preliminary FACULTY SPONSOR: RAY SPEAR, BIOLOGY DnaE, an Enzyme for DNA results show that a 48 hour pre-treatment with The pollen rain in Geneseo shows large variations Resveratrol and 4 Gray radiation treatment over the growing season. There are distinct peaks in Replication in S.aureus increased cytotoxicity. In addition, cell cycle analysis tree pollen in the spring, grass in the early summer GABRIELLE KOSOY demonstrates that Resveratrol alters the and ragweed and other weeds in the late summer FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY distribution of cells within the G1, S, and G2 phases 27

Posters 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual of the cell cycle. In future experiments, we will at different doses of SFN and exposure times. While they only differ by length of the alkyl chain on examine the effects of resveratrol on cytotoxicity Selected for presentation at Experimental Biology, the cation, the physical and chemical properties of and cell cycle distribution using an optimized San Diego, CA. these compounds proved to be quite different. The radiation dosage. ______final glucose concentrations were quantified using a ______37 • Drop Your Gloves: National glucose refractometer. The results suggest that 35 • Effects of 5-azacytidine on the Hockey League and Evolution of Left- EmimCl was the most effective at converting In Vitro Colony Growth of the MDA- cellulose into glucose, 23.2% greater than acid Handedness hydrolysis alone. Also, it was determined that MB 435 Cancer Cell Line CARSON SCHELL microwave burst heating was most effective in 4 JACLYN HELLREICH, JENNIFER GASPAREK FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI MUENCH, second increments with more than a 5% advantage FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY BIOLOGY over 3 and 5 second bursts. The experimental DNA Methyltransferase inhibitors such as 5- Left-handedness is heritable and has been linked to procedure, discussion and future directions are Azacytidine have shown promise in cancer several fitness-lowering attributes such as low birth presented herewith. Selected for presentation at treatment because of their ability to allow re- rate and increased susceptibility to certain diseases. American Chemical Society Undergraduate expression of tumor suppressor genes in cancer The fighting hypothesis suggests left-handers hold Research Symposium, Rochester, NY. cells. Our preliminary studies showed that high an advantage in combat due to a surprise effect, ______doses of 5- Azacytidine are cytotoxic to MDA-MB resulting in the maintenance of left-handedness by 40 • Digitaria sanguinalis: A Hairy 435 tumor cells and that the cells grow well as frequency dependent selection. Researchers have colonies in methylcellulose. We are now treating looked to sport to evaluate this idea, with studies Nuisance in Manicured Lawns or the the MDA-MB 435 cells with a low dose of 5- showing an overrepresentation of left-handedness Key to Sustainable Biofuel Azacytidine in order to initiate epigenetic in tennis, boxing, wrestling and mixed martial arts. Production? reprogramming. This low concentration (1.95 This overrepresentation has been attributed to DYLAN OFRI μg/mL) still allows 90% survival of the cell line. ability as an athlete, and yet, there has been no FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, MDA-MB 435 cells are currently being grown in the evidence supporting differential success. However, CHEMISTRY presence of 1.95 μg/mL 5-Azacytidine for three these studies have not accounted for the tendency The snowballing demands for cleaner fuel by the weeks and will be compared to control cells for of athletes from these particular sports to train for transport and industrial sectors has made many their ability to form colonies in methylcellulose and contests against left-handed opponents. To believe that biofuel production is the panacea. Is to determine if the cells will revert to a more eliminate the effects of training, I examined over E85 (a laboratory made ethanol based fuel) the cure normal phenotype. We will also determine if 400 fights of 131 players in the National Hockey for the World's dependence on fossil fuels? A keen resistance to 5-Azacytidine is generated by League over the past 17 seasons. Left-handers were look exposes a more critical conundrum; the comparing the drug treated population versus the found to be even more overrepresented amongst production of E85 destroys human food. With 1 in 8 untreated population of cells in a cytotoxicity assay. these players than previous studies have shown in people suffering from chronic undernourishment in If the treated MDA-MB 435 cells fail to gain a their respective sports. Unfortunately there was no 2010-2012, this is not justifiable. Biofuels are resistance and also fail to colonize in statistically significant difference in the overall produced through breaking down cellulosic methylcellulose, it would support the potential use success of left-handed fighters relative to their components (lignocellulose LC) of plants into of 5- Azacytidine for the treatment of solid tumors. right-handed counterparts. glucose and then into ethanol. However, two main Selected for presentation at Experimental Biology, CENTER FOR COMMUNITY challenges remain; 1) finding a cheap, reliable and San Diego, CA. non-food source of LC, i.e. having high cellulose ______38 • Student Fake ID Use in the content, and 2; developing a cheap, clean and 36 • Investigating SFN Effects on Geneseo Community reliable conversion/pretreatment system. Gene Regulation and Protein ALEXANDRA ROCKWOOD, OLIVIA LEWIS Dissolution of cellulosic material in ionic liquids, ILs Expression in HL-60 Cells FACULTY SPONSOR: TAMARA KENNEY, CENTER FOR (a unique class of solvents) has been reported to COMMUNITY make the material susceptible to chemical attack by JULIA SANGER, KRISTEN LEHNER The poster will include survey data, information various reagents/catalysts/acids. Digitaria FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY about student knowledge and use of Fake IDs, and sanguinalis (hairy crabgrass, a weed) is reported to Sulforaphane (SFN), a naturally occurring strategies for continuing to educate the Geneseo have high cellulose content. In this research isothiocyanate, has shown promising population on Fake ID use. crabgrass was pretreated with a series of chemopreventive and anti-cancer potential. imidazolium ionic liquids, for 3, 6, and 9 hours Preliminary studies have shown that SFN has a CHEMISTRY followed by acid hydrolysis. The results attained so positive effect on apoptosis induction in HL-60 cells. 39 • Conversion of Cellulose Into far, including those of glucose and total reducing These data show a significant increase in apoptotic sugar quantification work are presented and and dead cells, as well as slowed cellular division Glucose in Ionic Liquids: A discussed. Selected for presentation at American over 72 hours when treated with SFN. However, the Comparative Study on the Efficacy of Chemical Society Undergraduate Research mechanism by which SFN effects HL-60 cells to Microwave Heating Symposium, Rochester, NY. induce these results is not well understood. CODY ORTON ______Microarray data for HL-60 cells treated with SFN FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, 41 • From the Thickets with Hope; provided evidence to suggest the changes in gene CHEMISTRY regulation which may account for SFN's mechanism A comparative and quantitative study on the effects the Analysis of Douglas Fir as of action. Of particular interest was a 3.52 fold of microwave heating of cellulose using various Lignocellulosic Biomass for Biofuel upregulation of Bcl-2 and other Bcl-2 related genes ionic liquids was carried out. Cellulose is insoluble in Production in the presence of SFN and a 0.01 fold water and most organic solvents. The intent of this downregulation of Myc after treatment with SFN. PAUL DONAT experiment was to use unique properties of these FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, Using FITC labeled monoclonal antibodies and flow organic salts to break down the cellulose into the cytometry we are currently investigating SFN's CHEMISTRY constituent monomeric glucose units. This is a Recent studies indicate that there is at least 50 effects on protein expression of Bcl-2 and Myc to process normally done by enzyme action or determine the consistency or inconsistency with million dry tons of sustainable woody biomass concentrated acid at very high temperatures. The feedstock available for less than $40/ton! Break microarray data. Preliminary data has suggested a ionic liquids used were 1-Ethyl-3- difference in Myc expression between SFN treated down of such biomass has been shown to lead to methylimidazolium chloride ([Emim]Cl), 1- Butyl-3- glucose yields of between 70-92% that is then and untreated HL-60 cells while no difference was methylimidazolium chloride ([C4mim] Cl and 1- observed in Bcl-2. Subsequent experiments will look readily converted into ethanol for use in biofuel hexyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride [Hmim]Cl. production. This alone is enough to meet 2% of the 28

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US demand for fuel. Moreover, the rise in pollution replace fossil fuels. Cellulose, an abundant cancer cell lines. Selected for presentation at and fuel costs associated with fossil fuels has indigestible plant sugar, is favored for the process of American Chemical Society Undergraduate increased the demand for cleaner alternative forms making biofuels because it can be broken down into Research Symposium, Rochester, NY. of fuel. Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas fir) is glucose, which then can undergo fermentation to ______reported to have high hemicellulose content. ethanol. The development of an efficient 45 • The Effect of Cholesteryl vs. Hemicelluloses are polysaccharides in plant cell breakdown/pretreatment pathway, from cellulose Methyl Biphenoxy Esters in Gel walls that strengthen the cell wall through to glucose faces many challenges. One method is interaction with cellulose and lignin. The quandary promising and is the basis of this study. It involves Formation is in conversion of such plant material into cellulose the treatment of the raw biomass, in this case PAUL HUTTUNEN and then glucose; i.e. designing an efficient alfalfa hay, (a non-food feedstock) with ionic liquids, FACULTY SPONSOR: CRISTINA GEIGER, CHEMISTRY pretreatment system. Ionic liquids ILs, (a special ILs (a unique class of non-volatile, recyclable and The synthesis and gelation properties of 4,4'-bis-(7- type of solvents), of varying carbon chain lengths, nonflammable chemicals that have applications as cholesteroxy carbonylheptyloxy)biphenyl (BBO8-C were used as pretreatment systems to break down plasticizers and solvents in synthesis) namely; 1- and 4,4'- bis-(7-methoxy carbonylheptyloxy) biphenyl (BBO8- the hemicellulose (and also lignin) into cellulose ethyl-3- methylimidazolium chloride, 1-butyl-3- M) is reported. The structures of both compounds after which, acid hydrolysis was used to convert the methylimidazolium chloride, and 1-hexyl-3- were identified by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy. cellulose into glucose. The amount of glucose methylimidazolium chloride prior to acid hydrolysis. Both gelators form stable gels in butanol and obtained was compared to the carbon chain lengths This breaks down the rigid biomass networks, octanol, however only BBO8-M forms a stable gel in in the series of ionic liquids. The results are enhancing glucose yields upon hydrolysis. heptane. Absorption, emission and induced circular presented and discussed. Selected for presentation Furthermore this method is cleaner and sustainable dichroism spectroscopic studies, used to at American Chemical Society Undergraduate as the ILs are reusable. The samples were analyzed characterize the aggregative nature of the gelators Research Symposium, Rochester, NY. for glucose content and morphological details, the in n- octanol gels and in dilute solutions, are ______latter using scanning electron microscopy. The reported. 42 • From Wastelands to the Gas results of this study are presented hereafter. ______pPump: Exploring the Promise of Selected for presentation at American Chemical 46 • Detecting and Quantifying Society Undergraduate Research Symposium, Radioactive Elements in Soil from a Rice Husks as Biofuel Feedstock Rochester, NY. KARINA TSAREVA ______SUNY Geneseo Archaeological Site FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, 44 • Synthesis, NMR, and X-ray JOSH HALPERN CHEMISTRY FACULTY SPONSORS: ERIC HELMS, CHEMISTRY In 2008, the World produced well over 130 million Characterization of Novel DAVID MEISEL, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY tons of rice husks; with virtually all of it going to Nitrobenzimidazole-thiophene Neutron activation analysis (NAA) is a sensitive and waste. In the USA alone, it is expected that the Derivatives with Possible Antitumor reliable analytical technique that is used for amount of corn/maize ethanol for fuel production simultaneous quantitative and qualitative will top 15 billion gallons by the year 2015. Activity measurement of a wide variety of elements in a Meanwhile, 1.5 million children die from starvation JOSEPH GERAGHTY, LAURA SZCZESNIAK, SEAN sample. NAA operates by irradiating the target each year and 800 million human beings are COLLIGAN nuclei of a sample with a beam of neutrons leading considered starving with 11% of the US population FACULTY SPONSORS: CRISTINA GEIGER, CHEMISTRY to excited radioactive nuclei that ultimately at risk of hunger. The continued use of human food JANI LEWIS, BIOLOGY transmute to gamma ray emitting daughter species. for fuel production, while vast amounts of usable In efforts to construct a library of benzimidazole- These characteristic gamma rays are then detected non-food plant material that can be used for fuel based derivatives, several compounds have been and analyzed for the presence and quantity of these production instead lays waste, defies common synthesized by reacting 1,2-diaminobenzene daughter elements from which the presence and sense. This coupled with the the rise in pollution derivatives and 2- thiophenecarboxaldehyde under quantity of the parent nuclei can be inferred. Our levels from the use of fossil fuels; make it all the various reaction conditions including solvent, group successfully used neutron activation analysis more imperative to develop alternative sources of temperature, catalyst and reaction time. to detect the presence of certain trace elements in fuel. This research work explores the use of rice Substituents at the fourth position of o-1,2- soil samples from an archaeological site on the husks/hulls as renewable, clean and non food diaminobenzenes have been chosen for their SUNY Geneseo campus. This nearby site is believed feedstock for biofuel production. Rice hulls were electron- donating or electron-withdrawing effects to have been previously inhabited and actively used pretreated using three ionic liquids, (a unique class of on the reactivity of the benzene ring. The synthesis as a hunting camp by early Native Americans. ionic salts), namely; 1-ethyl-3- methylimidazolium chloride, 1- and structural characterization of several Analysis of samples for several different strata on butyl-3- methylimidazolium chloride, and 1-hexyl-3- benzimidazoles is reported. 1H NMR, 13C NMR, site will be presented and interpreted. The excellent methylimidazolium chloride, to make them amenable to DEPT, and COSY spectra were obtained to confirm support of this project by Dr. Charles Freeman and acid hydrolysis, after which the amounts of glucose their structures and purity was analyzed by thin Drew Ellison of the SUNY-Geneseo Nuclear obtained were quantified. A description of the layer chromatography. Single crystals obtained from Structure Research Lab is gratefully acknowledged. methods, discussion of the results plus future vapor diffusion of hexanes in propanol or ______directions follows. Selected for presentation at chloroform solution were suitable for X-ray 47 • Using an Elimination Reaction of American Chemical Society Undergraduate crystallography and the structure's parameters are Tropic Acid as a Simple Example of Research Symposium, Rochester, NY. described. Since benzimidazoles possess a wide ______spectrum of biological activities, we are currently an E1cb Reaction 43 • Investigating the Potential of investigating the effect of 6- nitro-2-(thiophen-2-yl)- KATHERINE BEST, DIANA LI 1-(thiophen-2-ylmethyl)-1H- benzimidazole on FACULTY SPONSOR: ERIC HELMS, CHEMISTRY Alfalfa as a Renewable, Low Cost, various human carcinoma cell lines. Using a We have developed an economical and Non-food Biofuel Feedstock colorimetric MTT assay that detects cytoplasmic simplelaboratory exercise that demonstrates an CHRISTA PAPPALARDO NADPH-dependent oxidoreductase enzymes E1cbmechanism using inexpensive tropic acid FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, characteristic of viable cells, the antitumor activities andpotassium hydroxide. The reaction involves a 40 CHEMISTRY of these compounds can be quantitatively minute reflux followed by neutralizationand In recent years scientists have recognized the need determined. Following analysis of the preliminary recrystallization. Student resultsgenerally yield 50 - to discover and develop alternative source of fuel results, it appears that the nitrobenzimidazole 70% of pure atropic acid(2-phenylpropenoic acid) for our growing population as reliance on fossil fuels derivative demonstrates antitumor activity in an product. This exercise involves reflux, is untenable. Biofuels (fuels produced from SCV-7 squamous vulvar carcinoma cell line. Further neutralization,recrystallization, and melting point biomass), are promising and have the potential to investigations will look at several other human analysis. If one chooses to run the NMR onthe final 29

Posters 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual product, there is an opportunity to teach about FACULTY SPONSORS: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, measure the speed of acid flowing into the gel as diastereotopic protons on terminal alkenes as well. CHEMISTRY the acid (pH 2 buffer) interacted with the QD. We Both the starting material and final product have no HAROLD HOOPS, BIOLOGY discovered that acidic flow rate greatly depended known health hazards and the only solvent used is Nanoparticles have recently accrued increased on the size of the gold dopants. water. The hazards are confined to the small interest as a sensing material for neurodegenerative ______amount solid potassium hydroxide (0.8 g) and dilute diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's 53 • Controlling a Reversible Self- hydrochloric acid that are used. Selected for diseases. Our group has succeeded in visualizing the Assembly Path by a Nanoscale Metal presentation at American Chemical Society initial process of fibrillogenesis, a key onset Undergraduate Research Symposium, Rochester, mechanism for Alzheimer's disease. We Surface -Study of the Fibrillogenesis NY. investigated a morphology of a gold colloid in water of Alzheimer's Disease ______and in DMSO by Transmission Electron Microscopy CHRISTA CATALFAMO 48 • Concentration Dependence of (TEM). The aggregation process was irreversible FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, Amyloid Beta Peptide when the pH was changed from pH 7 to pH 4 in CHEMISTRY both water and DMSO. However, in water, a Self-assembly of amyloid beta peptide (Aβ) is a Conformational Change over Gold reversible aggregation was observed when albumin crucial step of fibrillogenesis, which is considered to Colloidal Nanoparticle was attached to the gold surface. In DMSO, no be a hallmark mechanism of Alzheimer's disease. QUEENY PAN, DAEUN NOH reversible process was observed even when We have succeeded to reproduce an oligomer FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, albumin was attached. It implies that a solvent formation of Aβ monomers over a nanogold CHEMISTRY environment can control the self-aggregation colloidal surface as an external pH was changed Concentration Dependence of Amyloid Beta Peptide process. Furthermore, for the first time, we between pH 4 and pH 10. Under pH 4, an unfolded Conformational Change over Gold Colloidal investigated the morphology of Aβ1-42 in a DMSO Aβ monomer constructed a dimer or trimer based Nanoparticle Self-assembly of amyloid beta peptide environment. There were signs of formation of a oligomeric form with the hydrophobic segment (Aβ) is known to be a crucial step of fibrillogenesis string shaped aggregate in acidic conditions. opened outward. On the other hand, a which is the hallmark mechanism for the onset of Selected for presentation at American Chemical conformation of Aβ constructed under pH 10 Alzheimer's disease. We have discovered that an Society Undergraduate Research Symposium, consists of a folded monomer with the hydrophilic initial process of fibrillogenesis of Aβ 1-40 monomer Rochester, NY. segment folded inward. While amyloid beta was can be controlled over gold colloid by varying ______attached to both a silver and gold surface, a more temperature as well as the sizes of gold colloid 51 • Reversible Self-Assembly of polarizable silver surface was found to restrict the under an alternation of external pH. Recently, we Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic channel of the unfolding process. There was a also found that the indicative condition of specific size/temperature dependence in a conformational change of the Aβ 1-40 monomers Amyloid Beta Peptides Over reversible self-assembly. Based on the temperature on the nanoparticle's surface can be drastically Functionalized Gold Colloid and size co-dependence of a reversible self- altered. This is due to a coverage ratio of CHRISTA CATALFAMO assembly, the most probable oligomeric forms nanoparticle and interaction between monomers FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, constructed over 20 nm gold colloidal and that over on the surface and over the surface. This study CHEMISTRY 30 or 40 nm gold colloidal surfaces were concluded explores the quantitative investigation of Fiber formation of amyloid beta is a hallmark of to be a dimer and trimer based unit, respectively. conformational change relying on the Alzheimer's disease. There are roughly two types of We exhibited that there is a high potential to use a concentrations of Aβ 1-40 monomers. amyloid beta which are critically important in the gold size, temperature and solvent to control the ______mechanism of Alzheimer's disease. One is a water initial stage of Alzheimer's disease. Selected for 49 • The Investigation of the soluble (hydrophilic) amyloid beta of sequences 1- presentation at SUNY Undergraduate Research Mechanisms of Alzheimer's Disease 40 and the other is water insoluble (hydrophobic) Showcase, Albany, NY. amyloid beta sequences 1-42. Both Aβ-40 and Aβ- ______CHRIS HEIMBRGER, KWANGWON KONG, PATRICK 42 do not exhibit a reversible self-assembly in MILLER-RHODES 54 • Dynamic Nature of Amyloid DMSO when they are directly placed over the gold FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, Beta Peptide Self-Assembling over colloidal surfaces. However, both amyloid beta CHEMISTRY proteins exhibited a reversible self- assembly when Nanoparticles The amyloid beta (Aβ) 1-42 sequence is they were attached over disulfide functionalized CHRISTA CATALFAMO, CHRISTINA BERTI, DAEUN hydrophobic and is known to aggregate easily. This gold colloids. We investigated with various sizes of NOH has prevented us from studying the reversible self- gold nano-colloids ranging between 10 nm and 100 FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, assembly process of Aβ 1-42 monomers as well as nm in diameter. Although there was no strong size CHEMISTRY the properties of an intermediate protein structure dependence, the disulfide stabilized an Understanding the properties of amyloid beta fibrils in this process. We successfully observed the intermediate of the self-assembly process. associated with Alzheimer's disease is critical in intermediate involved in the reversible self- ______order to monitor the progression of the disease. assembly by placing the Aβ 1-42 over the nanoscale 52 • Kinetics and Dynamics of Recently, fluorescent markers, derived from gold colloid in dimethyl sulfoxide, in which Aβ 1-42 thioflavin T (ThT) have been developed as markers is soluble. The diameter of nanoscale gold colloid Protein on the Surface of Quantum of Alzheimer's disease. We examined the intrinsic used was between 10 nm and 100 nm, and a Dots Encapsulated in Silica Gel fluorescence of ThT bound to amyloid beta peptide significant sign of self-assembly was observed only CHRISTA CATALFAMO under various pH conditions ranging between pH 2 for 20 nm and 30 nm gold colloids. It implies that a FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, and pH 12. We were able to relate the fluorescence stable intermediate has a cage-like structure with a CHEMISTRY properties with the structural and binding diameter of 20 or 30 nm. Furthermore, temperature Modern drug delivery technology uses sophisticated properties of these amyloid fibrils as they self- dependence of a reversible self-assembly process systems that allow drug targeting and a sustained or assembled over nanoparticle's surface. Furthermore was investigated and a non-monotonic feature was controlled release of the drug .We have been we investigated the fluorescence lifetime of the ThT observed. Selected for presentation at American working on a design for a silica sol-gel based capsule conjugated amyloid beta in order to characterize Chemical Society Undergraduate Research which can control a drug delivery rate by using a the dynamic nature of amyloid beta monomers, Symposium, Rochester, NY. nanoparticle as a dopant manipulating solution flow aggregates, as well as oligomers (intermediate of ______rate. A nanosize semi-conductor (Quantum Dot - fibrillogenesis). 50 • Solvent Dependent Morphology QD) was used as a probe material to monitor the ______in Gold Colloid dynamics of diffusion taking place in a silica based 55 • The Adsorption of Alpha- CHRISTA CATALFAMO, MARY SPENCER sol-gel material. Optical information was used to synuclein Peptide on Gold Colloidal 30

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Nanoparticles' Surfaces: Relevance these therapeutic drugs bind to DNA. The abietane 60 • Face Management in Post- diterpenes are a class of natural products isolated to a Mechanism of Parkinson's from a certain plant (Hyptis verticillata) known in Relational Dissolution Disease Jamaican folklore for its medicinal benefits, Communication PATRICK MILLER-RHODES, KUNIL CHUNG including anti- microbial, anti-oxidants, anti- EMILY WAGNER FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, inflammatory as well as anti- cancer activities. The FACULTY SPONSOR: MEREDITH HARRIGAN, CHEMISTRY goal of this project is to carry out preliminary COMMUNICATION The insoluble fiber formation in the brain is a major studies on selected members in the abietane This study investigates the communication of ex- pathological hallmark of both Alzheimer's and diterpene class of compounds in order to determine relational partners, known as post-relational Parkinson's disease. We investigated reversible self- whether these compounds bind to DNA, and if so, dissolution communication, in college-aged dating assembly of amyloid-beta peptides over to characterize their preferred DNA binding mode experiences. Interviews were conducted with nanoparticle and clarified a critical conformation and affinity. As a result, isothermal titration participants who had recently experienced break- associated with a mechanism for Alzheimer's calorimetry (ITC) was used to carry out preliminary ups and post-relational dissolution communication. disease. The alpha-synuclein peptide is classed in a studies on selected members in the abietane Employing facework (see Brown & Levinson, 1987; same family as the amyloid beta peptide and is diterpene class of compounds. Initial results Cupach & Metts, 1994; Goffman, 1959) as a lens, known to be a hallmark peptide causing Parkinson's indicate strong binding to DNA, even at low the research reflects the face-threatening situations disease. We applied the same methodology used concentrations of compound. of ex-relational partners. Facework theory aims to for amyloid beta to alpha synuclein and investigated ______identify and explain the communication techniques whether or not alpha-synuclein can be adsorbed on 58 • Development of a Means to used to address perceived face threats to the self the colloidal surface. Interestingly, we found that Detect Large-Scale Deletions in and/or others. The care and communicative actions alpha synuclein possessed completely different people take to preserve their own image and the property than that of amyloid beta. There was a Human Mitochondrial DNA images of others is known as face management. sign of no adsorption with 10 and 20 nm gold ABIGAIL KLUTTS Through a qualitative analysis, the facework nanoparticles but with 30 nm and larger, while FACULTY SPONSOR: WENDY POGOZELSKI, strategies avoidance, politeness, apologies, negative amyloid beta adsorbed to all tested sizes of gold CHEMISTRY identity management, de-escalation, and disclosure colloids. Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is subject to are identified in the study. Ex-relational partners ______large- scale deletions of several thousand base apply these forms of facework in communication 56 • The Reversible Self-assembly of pairs. These deletions increase with age and can be with one another and others following the markers of oxidative stress to cells. However, they Alpha-synuclein Peptide on Gold termination of their romantic relationship. A occur at low levels and are difficult to detect. We possible supplement to the existing Knapp and Colloidal Nanoparticles' Surfaces show efforts to develop a Polymerase Chain Vangelisti (2000) relational stages model is also PATRICK MILLER-RHODES, KUNIL CHUNG Reaction (PCR)-based assay to detect these introduced, with the goal of out ing post- relational FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, deletions. Using DNA extracted from MRC-5 human stages of communication. Selected for presentation CHEMISTRY lung fibroblasts, weshow that we are able to amplify at Eastern Communication Association Conference, The insoluble fiber formation of the alpha synuclein large sections of the mitochondrial genome, Providence, RI. peptide in the brain is a major pathological hallmark compare the lengthsof the amplicons and thus ______of Parkinson's disease. Since the mechanism of fiber detect the presence of deletions. We have begun to 61 • Parent Communication in formation involves a very unstable intermediate, no use this technique to determine effect of insults report on this intermediate was made in the past. such as gamma rays on the creation of deletions. Donor-Conceived Families We discovered that an intermediate can be ______BRIDGET SOVOCOOL, KRISTIN D'AMICO stabilized by using the surface potential of a 59 • Development of a New FACULTY SPONSOR: MEREDITH HARRIGAN, COMMUNICATION nanoparticle. For the first time, we successfully Quantitative Assay for Measuring captured this intermediate on the gold This study involves a systematic investigation of nanoparticles' surface. By undergoing a repetitive Mitochondrial DNA Deletions communication in families formed with the help of change of pH between pH4 and pH 10, a surface SHIKHA GAUTAM, MICHELLE GULFO a sperm donor. Of specific interest is how gender in potential of 60 nm gold colloid enabled an alpha FACULTY SPONSOR: WENDY POGOZELSKI, heterosexual couples affects the disclosure process synuclein to form an unfolded conformation at pH 4 CHEMISTRY in donor-conceived families. Trends from previous and re-assembled to a folded conformation at pH Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is subject to studies have shown that mothers are more likely 10, repetitively. Very interestingly, the smaller size large-scale deletions of several thousand base pairs. than fathers to initiate conversation with their than 60 nm did not exhibit any signs of this A deletion of 4977 bp called the "common deletion" donor-conceived child about their origin. reversible self-assembly. It implies that there is a results in cells that are viable but shorter-lived due Investigation of this topic will be carried out threshold surface area at over that value, enough to being energetically compromised. Dr. through interviews with heterosexual mothers or surface potential to conduct a reversible self- Pogozelski's lab has been studying how these fathers of donor-conceived children. The primary assembly. deletions arise after treatment with gamma rays. goal of the interviews is to obtain information about ______Previously, the lab measured these deletions using a the disclosure process. The research question asks 57 • Using Isothermal Titration plasmid quantification standard. This method relied what, if any, role does parents' gender play in the on an assumption of how many cells were process of disclosure in donor-conceived families. Calorimetry (ITC) to Investigate the represented in a sample and this assumption was DNA Binding Properties of Abietane untested. Our goal is to develop an alternative assay COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & Diterpene Natural Products in which we can be more confident. Our approach is to co-quantify a nuclear single-copy gene along with SCIENCES GAVIN GULLICKSON the mitochondrial DNA. Then the data can be 62 • The Deaf American Dream FACULTY SPONSOR: RUEL MCKNIGHT, CHEMISTRY normalized to this nuclear DNA to obtain the MARY COBLE, CHRISTINA DORNBUSH, JULIA It now well established that several known number of copies of mitochondrial DNA per cell. We GANGLOFF, BRIDGET MCGOVERN, MARGARET therapeutic drugs interact with DNA as a means of have been testing primers for this assay on DNA WAYNE, NICOLE ZINGMAN carrying out their actions. Some of the most notable extracted from human lymphoblast cell es known as FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, members of the DNA binding therapeutic drug class 848, 847 and 849, derived from a family in which COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES are either directly derived or inspired from natural the 4977-bp deletion is elevated. Does deafness limit one's ability to succeed in the products. Information on the exact DNA binding workforce? This poster presents current research mode as well as the relative binding affinity can on the socioeconomic status of the Deaf provide insights into understanding why and how COMMUNICATION 31

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Community including statistics and census Culture thrives through communication. American ______information. Limitations in career options and Sign Language plays the most important role in 71 • Eye Movement Miscue Analysis workforce/career advancement and salary will be American Deaf Culture. Outsiders assume American Research: Focus on Young Readers discussed as well as college and other placement Sign Language is another form of English. This KELSEY HORAN, CHRISTINA MARCONI options for those finishing high school. assumption is inaccurate. ASL is like any other FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIWANAG, EDUCATION ______language with grammar and sentence structure. Our research study focuses on how young students This language makes for a tight-knit and united 63 • An Exploration of Balance (emergent readers) construct meaning when culture. Disorders ______reading picture books (fiction and nonfiction) using SAMANTHA HARTNETT verbal and visual information from the text. We FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, 67 • Autism have explored how children make meaning of a text COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES JENNA DISKIN by utilizing illustrations. Does the use of illustrations For my GREAT day poster project, I intend to FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HALL, EDUCATION impact the ability to comprehend a text? Our study compile an overview of balance disorders and the In this presentation, Jenna will present: the current focuses on two second grade boys and one first anatomy behind this. I will go into detail about basic definition of the disability, tell how common is that grade girl from Livonia and Geneseo Central anatomy of the vestibular system. I will also disability, what are the signs of that disability, Schools. We will use the Eye Movement Miscue introduce several common disorders associated educational implications of that disability, tips for Analysisprocedure to determine the effectiveness of with balance. Finally, I will explain how they are teachers/professors, and tips for students. The illustrations on young readers ability to diagnosed, testing that is undergone to diagnose presentation will conclude with the LIVES Program comprehend texts. Selected for presentation at these disorders and treatment and/or therapy student (Jenna) telling how the disability has/has National Council of Teachers of English: Whole options. not impacted her life. Language Umbrealla Literacies for All Summer ______Institute, Pasadena, CA. EDUCATION 68 • My Road Map: Where I've Been ______64 • How Civil was the Civil War? and Where I'm Going 72 • How Well Do Schools Promote MATTHEW KLEIN ALEXANDRA LIONETTI, HANNAH COHEN, SARAH Diversity? FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HALL, EDUCATION FASHONA, GINNY TATE ANDREA BAZIN, JESSICA DOYEN This presentation will focus on an exploration of FACULTY SPONSOR: ANN MARIE LAURICELLA, FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIWANAG, EDUCATION skills college students need to be successful in EDUCATION Our goal in this research poster is to understand college and how these skills generalize to life after The Civil War was a brutal affair, but outlining the how teacher candidates, teachers, and a popular school. Living in a rural area and jobs being very body counts of the battles is not enough to show book resource contribute to our knowledge of how competitive, having the right qualifications and how inhumane the war was. Although this war diversity is promoted in schools. We will conduct experience is no longer enough to ensure the right happened about 150 years ago, there are startling surveys and examine the January through March job. The LIVES Program students have learned that similarities to wars we are fighting today, especially 2014 Scholastic catalog to identify how diversity is they have to differentiate themselves from the next in the medical field. As time passes, history tends to supported. We will survey reached candidates' person, convey a professional working image, and be romanticized. Thus, we pose the question: just views and experiences on: 1) how often they plan to project their best qualities in the way they look, how civil was the Civil War? The unit plan we have utilize multicultural literature in their classes, 2) sound, and behave. how often they think they will actually be able to designed facilitates student discovery and delivers ______historical content regarding the brutality of the Civil incorporate it into their lessons, and 3) how easily War. By examining the bullets, medicine, and the 69 • My Road Map: Where I've Been they think they'll be able to find multicultural lives of the soldiers of the Civil War, students will and Where I'm Going literature that aligns to their curricular goals. We discover the brutality of the war that separated the ROBERT MAPLESDEN will also interview selected teachers in both urban United States. FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HALL, EDUCATION and rural settings to identify: 1) how often they ______This presentation will focus on an exploration of incorporate multicultural literature in their 65 • No Piece Wasted: How Did skills college students need to be successful in curriculum, 2) how much access they have to Animals Provide More than Just college and how these skills generalize to life after multicultural literature, and 3) how much the school. Living in a rural area and jobs being very utilization of multicultural literature in classrooms is Food? competitive, having the right qualifications and encouraged by the administration. Although this is LAUREN MCKNIGHT, HANNAH CUMMINGS, experience is no longer enough to ensure the right an ongoing project, we still anticipate that teachers, ASHLEY LEE job. The LIVES Program students have learned that teacher candidates, and teaching resources like FACULTY SPONSOR: ANN MARIE LAURICELLA, they have to differentiate themselves from the next Scholastic will demonstrate various means of EDUCATION person, convey a professional working image, and advancing diversity in schools. In Livingston County, it is evident that animals were project their best qualities in the way they look, used for more than just their meat. Native people to sound, and behave. ENGLISH Livingston County were very resourceful in their ______73 • Haiti: The Real Story ways. As a way to be frugal with what was provided 70 • Understanding Me and My by nature, often they used the parts of animals that PAIGE O'CONNOR were not necessarily a food source in other ways. Disability FACULTY SPONSOR: WESTON KENNISON, ENGLISH These other ways consists of the making of tools PATRICK CHMELA We plan on going to Haiti over spring break for a that were used by the people of Livingston County FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HALL, EDUCATION service learning trip and we hope to share our life- for hunting. Some of the tools were Powder Horns, The students in the LIVES Program researches changing experience with others at Geneseo's Bone Knives, and Antler Chairs. All these tools were his/her own disability. In this presentation, Bea will GREAT Day. made from a part of an animal and were useful in present: the current definition of the disability, tell their own ways. how common is that disability, what are the signs of GEOGRAPHY ______that disability, educational implications of that 74 • Mapping Residential 66 • Deaf Culture: An Overview for disability, tips for teachers/professors, and tips for students. The presentation will conclude with the Architecture in a National Historic Outsiders LIVES Program student telling how the disability Landmark District, Geneseo, NY BRIANNA ROGERS has/has not impacted her life. Selected for WILLIAM TAMURA FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, presentation at National Council of Teachers of FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID ROBERTSON, EDUCATION English: Whole Language Umbrealla Literacies for GEOGRAPHY All Summer Institute, Pasadena, CA. 32

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Geneseo is one of the best preserved villages in prevalence of aid and cases of obstetric fistula. Both to provide an understanding of the many uses of western New York. As a National Historic Landmark the SNNP region and the Somali region experience mapping technologies, a better understanding of a District, the town is recognized to contain a high rates of OF with limited access to health care developing country, and a global perspective of the diversity of nineteenth and early-twentieth century facilities and infrastructure Conclusions: GIS can be issues of food security. architecture that is unique in American history. used to spatially analyze and represent contributing ______Adams, Classical Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, factors and occurrences of obstetric fistula. 79 • Commercial Aesthetics and Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, as well as eclectic Obstetric fistula in Ethiopia is directly influenced by Sustainable Tourism and vernacular styles are represented in Geneseo contributing causes that when targeted, decrease TYLER WIDA, AIS N KLEIN neighborhoods. The Association for the the prevalence of this epidemic. Furthermore, the FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, Preservation of Geneseo (APOG) has compiled distribution of infrastructure in Ethiopia is both GEOGRAPHY significant research on village architecture, but no irrational and inequitable to service the country's Studies of locations with successes and failures in attempt has yet been made at spatial analysis. This far reaching health service needs. planning that illustrate the complexities of research fills that void. Building upon partial ______aesthetics on tourism and what makes a town inventories of architectural styles, and utilizing 77 • The Geography of HIV/AIDS and attractive to visitors. By understanding the Geographic Information Systems (GIS), this project Public Health Services in Botswana relationship between responsible planning and the comprehensively inventories, maps, and spatially TUSHARA SURAPANENI affects on a community gives better insight on how interprets Geneseo residential architecture, FACULTY SPONSORS: JAMES KERNAN, GEOGRAPHY communities can develop sustainably. revealing previously unknown patterns and JENNIFER ROGALSKY, GEOGRAPHY ______processes in building styles and construction trends. Very little research has been done regarding the Selected for presentation at Annual Meeting for 80 • Mapping Rural Electrification medical geography of developing countries within the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Potential in Kenya the framework of a geographic information system, FL. IAN MACPHERSON particularly in Africa. Components of Botswana's ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, public health intervention of HIV/AIDS merit GEOGRAPHY 75 • Growing Urban Agriculture in accurate spatial representation. With the third Rural electrification is the process of bringing Rochester highest HIV prevalence rate in the world, the electricity to remote regions of the world. Denser MICHELLE GRAHAM country has witnessed dramatic progress in the population areas close to major electrical grids are FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES KERNAN, GEOGRAPHY curbing the pandemic and providing accessible best served by connecting to those national grids. In This study uses ArcGIS, a Geographic Information health services for its citizens. A wealth of public contrast, extreme rural areas rely on non-grid or System to put into view Rochester's current health information has been published regarding local grid options for their electrical needs. These economic condition, by analyzing the special HIV/AIDS, but the government has produced very include solar panels or small- scale wind turbines. distribution of poverty, unemployment, and vacant poorly made maps. This warrants the creation of Kenya, a developing country in East Africa, is a land. This data is then used to determine where accurate maps of HIV prevalence in Botswana's prime example of a country that is undergoing rural agriculture could be most plausible as well as second-level administrative districts. The purpose of electrification. The Kenyan government plans to beneficial within Rochester. Urban agriculture can this study was to examine the HIV/AIDS epidemic in have universal electrical access by 2030 while the help provide local jobs, increase property value, Botswana using a geographic information system to 2010 rate was less than 25% and the rural decrease crime, increase access to healthy food, better reflect the scope of the pandemic. Across the population was only 5%. This project used ArcMap, and improve environmental conditions. By country, the national average HIV prevalence rate is a computer mapping software, to plot existing calculating the mean center and directional approximately 17.2%. The densest clustering of power grids, population centers and other variables distribution of the three fields, it reveals that there hospitals services approximately 40% of the in Kenya to determine which areas were best suited is a spatial clustering of poverty, unemployment, population. Finally, the ratio of marginal odds of for each method of electrification. The areas where and vacant land in the downtown area. Rochester's infection placed women up to 2.4 times more non-grid solutions were favored underwent further decline in industry most affected the neighborhoods vulnerable of acquiring the virus than men. Positive analysis to determine which renewable resources immediately surrounding the downtown, known as correlations were found between population best suited the region's conditions. Results were the Crescent of Poverty. However despite their density and distribution of hospitals as well as the then compared to current levels of renewable usage struggles there are community development distribution of treatment sites and absolute in those regions to determine if Kenya is pursuing programs located within this area, as well as the numbers of HIV-positive individuals. Selected for the most efficient plan for electrification. Selected Rochester Public Market, which shows the desire presentation at Association of American for presentation at Association of American for the community to thrive and the further Geographers, Tampa, FL. ______Geographers, Tampa, FL. potential for agriculture. ______78 • Food Security in Nepal 76 • The Silent Epidemic: A Spatial LUCAS JOHNSON GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Study of Obstetric Fistula in Ethiopia FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, 81 • CFC Desorption in Aquifers and CHLOE FERNANDEZ GEOGRAPHY Their Implications as Tracers of VOC FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES KERNAN, GEOGRAPHY This semester I have been studying the state of food security in Nepal utilizing Geographic Information Transport in Groundwater Objectives: To show how Geographic Information ROBERT SEMMLER Systems (GIS) can be used to promote awareness Systems. This project analyzes data on agriculture, environmental factors, and factors of poverty in FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL and motivate international action to make informed SCIENCES global health decisions. Specifically, the purpose of Nepal. In addition to GIS analysis, an extensive literature review of Nepal's environment, culture, Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) may be useful as this study is to describe the prevalence and factors reactive tracers that show where and how volatile associated with Obstetric Fistula (OF) in Ethiopia economy, and agricultural practices has allowed me to spatially access food security, the factors that organic compounds (VOCs) are retarded in and to define areas in need of aid. Methods: groundwater. Recent work by our group has Choropleth maps were generated to geographically lead to it, and its effects. Once this is done I plan to offer insight into methods of improving food demonstrated CFCs adsorption -at very high analyze both contributing factors and prevalence of concentrations- to black carbon (BC). In the present obstetric fistula. Select by location functions were security in the future, so that my research may directly benefit those living in the country. The study, groundwater CFC sorption at ambient and implemented to define measureable distances of lower concentrations is evaluated. The initial accessibility to health facilities. Results: Distribution poster will include an extensive set of maps that highlight environmental features, agricultural sample selected for study is the Marcellus shale, of accessible health facilities and primary roads are which is representative of kerogen-containing rocks concentrated around Addis Ababa. The Tigray suitability for certain crops, and human factors that tell the story of food security in Nepal. 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Posters 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual and 160 mg sample sizes. Additional experiments 84 • Glacial Chronology During the During the last Pleistocene glaciation, numerous using 10, 20, and 40 mg sample sizes are ongoing. mountain ranges of the western United States were The contact time to achieve equilibrium for CFC-11, Last Glacial Maximum in the Bighorn occupied by glaciers. Before glaciers recede, they CFC-12 and CFC-113 at less than atmospheric Mountains, Montana, USA, Inferred deposit moraines composed of the sediment once concentrations was two weeks, similar to the by 10Be Cosmogenic Dating trapped within the ice, called till. Cosmogenic patterns observed in sorption experiments at high radionuclide surface-exposure dating, when applied CHRIS CIERVO, KYLIE CAESAR concentrations for the same material. Desorption of moraines, can be used to closely estimate the time FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, GEOLOGICAL CFCs exhibited a non ear behavior. The calculated when ice retreat began. A precise chronology of SCIENCES Koc,C for CFC-12 (2.9E+05 L/Kg) is four orders of moraines can provide the framework for The Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming and Montana magnitude higher than the one estimated from ear understanding Pleistocene climate change of the were subject to extensive alpine glaciation during Energy Relationship. Ongoing experiments are Great Basin, Nevada. Cosmogenic 10Be surface the Last Glacial Maximum based on the widespread documenting CFC desorption isotherms for CFC-11 exposure dating was applied to moraines in physical evidence of glacial features found in this and CFC-113. These results will help us to elucidate Lamoille Canyon, the largest glacial valley of the region. However, the numerical ages of the glacier the potential for CFCs to serve as retarded tracers Ruby Mountains. The ages of these samples place a maxima and retreat are limited. This research of VOCs transport in kerogen-containing aquifers. limit on the timing of glacier maxima and presents 10Be cosmogenic surface- exposure dating Selected for presentation at North-Central subsequent retreat of the last Pleistocene ages from two sectors of a terminal moraine in Geological Society of America, Lincoln, NE. glaciation. The results gathered from 10Be surface North Fork Clear Creek canyon in order to constrain ______exposure dating, showed that the terminal moraine the timing of moraine deposition in the Bighorn was deposited around 22 kyr ago. Cosmogenic 10Be 82 • Analyzing Historical Snow-water Mountains. Cosmogenic 10Be exposure ages from a exposure ages of other moraines indicate that the Equivalent Data for Mountain Glacial moraine in a nearby valley suggest that moraine glacier retreated up-valley until around 14.5 kyr deposition ceased at 17.3 ± 0.8 kyr. The Valleys in Northeastern Utah ago. The ages gathered are consistent with other understanding of the glacial history in the northern DANIELLE WARD reported cosmogenic 10Be exposure ages from Great Basin region is an important area of study in FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, GEOLOGICAL elsewhere in the Ruby Mountains. that it serves as a useful framework to contribute SCIENCES ______Snowpack Telemetry (SNOTEL) stations provide high and resolve the pattern of climate change within 87 • Water Budget Modeling: resolution measurements of snow water equivalent the Rocky Mountain Region relative to the Last in mountain glacial valleys, which can be useful for Glacial Maximum. Evaporation and Soil Moisture ______understanding changes in the modern climate. Such Storage for Pleistocene Lake Clover, 85 • Reconstructing Paleoclimate by records can also provide a useful framework for Northeastern Nevada understanding past climate changes, such as the last Numerical Modeling of Glacier Mass DOUGLAS STEEN Pleistocene glaciation. The focus of this study was Balance and Ice Flow in the Western FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, GEOLOGICAL mountain glacial valleys in the Uinta and Wasatch Ruby Mountains, Nevada, U.S.A. SCIENCES Mountains of Northeastern Utah. Snow water The Great Basin was home to pluvial lakes of KATHERINE TRUONG equivalent data, or the amount of water present if varying size during glacial periods in the Pleistocene, FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, GEOLOGICAL all snow was in a liquid state, for both locations was including Lake Clover, which reached its highstand SCIENCES graphically compared to both longitude and during the Late Pleistocene. Previous attempts to Lamoille Canyon is the largest glacial valley in the elevation to see if snowpack was affected by either model the climatic conditions of Lake Clover have western Ruby Mountains and features terminal variable. The data was then mapped using GIS in encountered obstacles, especially in estimating moraines deposited during the last Pleistocene order to discover trends in precipitation. The results potential evaporation of the lake and watershed. glaciation. The changes in climate that accompanied will be discussed in my poster, as well as if these This study estimates evaporation parameters in glaciation and deglaciation - here and elsewhere in results can give insight into the temperature northeastern Nevada in terms of air temperature the Great Basin - are not well defined. The climate patterns present in previous glaciations. and total solar radiation - defined as a function of ______changes during this period are inferred from extraterrestrial solar radiation, astronomical mid- maximum ice extent simulated by numerical 83 • Cosmogenic Isotopes for month daylight hours, and actual mid month modeling of steady-state glaciers developed by daylight hours. The evaporation expression I Geochronology: Evaluating Plummer and Philips (2003). The goal of these developed is based on empirical data, including Laboratory Methods for Chemical model experiments is limit the range of temperature and evaporation data from Ruby Lake, temperature and precipitation combinations during Purification of Quartz NV and monthly solar radiation measurements at glaciation. The model results indicate that if KYLE MORGAN nearby Elko, NV. Potential evaporation has been precipitation was near modern to 40% greater than FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, GEOLOGICAL reproduced by the expression within 4% error of modern, the temperature depression was ~ 9-10° C. SCIENCES Ruby Lake pan evaporation data for each month Modeling of Pleistocene glaciers in other nearby Secondary cosmic radiation produces beryllium-10 with available measurements (April through valleys reveals similar temperature and in rocks and sediments exposed at the Earth October). Climate inputs will be combined in a precipitation combinations for the last glaciation, all surface. The abundance of cosmogenic beryllium-10 water balance model to determine possible indicating that magnitude of climate change during in quartz- bearing rocks can be used to determine temperature and precipitation conditions during the the last glaciation was greater in the Great Basin the duration of exposure of deposits and landforms. Lake Clover highstand. These results will be than in other surrounding regions. I discuss the To measure beryllium-10 concentrations in rock or compared to glacier mass balance experiments from implications of these model results in the context of sediment, samples must be purified to quartz. the Ruby Mountains to fine tune interpretations of Purification techniques include acid etching, rinsing, other paleoclimate data for the Great Basin. ______regional climate conditions during the Last Glacial magnetic separation, and froth floatation. This Maximum. study focuses on the systematics of etching quartz 86 • Using the Timing of the Last ______grains with dilute hydrofluoric acid (HF). This Lamoille Canyon Deglaciation to 88 • Biostratigraphic and procedure removes non- quartz phases and grain Interpret Pleistocene Climate coatings from the quartz sample. This study Geochemical Analysis of Upper examines the number of HF etchings required to Changes within the Ruby Mountains Devonian Strata from the purify quartz for a variety of rock types. The results of the Great Basin Southeastern Iowa Basin of this study will be discussed at the presentation. OLIVIA KAPLAN ALYSSA HYNES ______FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, GEOLOGICAL FACULTY SPONSOR: D. JEFFERY OVER, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES SCIENCES 34

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Upper Devonian conodonts, the microscopic increase in the Pleistocene; microbivalve diversity RICHARD FRIEMAN phosphatic teeth of an extinct marine organism, ranged from 4.0 to 12.1, with the significant FACULTY SPONSOR: D. JEFFERY OVER, GEOLOGICAL were collected for biostratigraphic analysis from increase in the mid Pleistocene at Walker's Bluff. SCIENCES core samples of the Lime Creek, Sweetland Creek, There was no consistent change in diversity from The fabrics of thin laminations that make up and Grassy Creek formations from the southeastern the Pliocene to Pleistocene samples. Borings by Devonian black shales contain evidence of Iowa Basin. This offers a framework for geochemical predatory gastropods was higher in microbivalves, depositional cycles that serve as a proxy to analysis across the Frasnian-Famennian boundary, up to 24% of valves bored at Register Quarry, but determine paleo-climatic data. Changes in grain size which was determined to be within the Grassy varied between localities independent of the deposition and organic content can be observed Creek Formation. Pliocene- Pleistocene boundary. Selected for through a petrographic microscope and under the ______presentation at Geological Society of America, scanning electron microscope. Deductions of 89 • Conodonts and Magnetic Vancouver, BC Canada. climate changes and cycles will be determined by Susceptibility of the Angola Shale, ______observing fluctuations in sediment deposition and 91 • Paleoenvironmental Facies the composition of grains. West Falls Group, Upper Devonian, ______Change Indicated by Benthic Erie County, Western New York 94 • Tentaculites minutus in the Foraminifera in the Lower JENNA LESKOVEC Williamson Shale FACULTY SPONSOR: D. JEFFERY OVER, GEOLOGICAL Pleistocene, Waccamaw Formation, ERIC KOLAKOWSKI SCIENCES North Carolina FACULTY SPONSORS: D. JEFFERY OVER, The Angola Formation is a shale, mudrock, and BRENNAN PATRICK GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES siltstone stratum, within the West Falls Group, with FACULTY SPONSOR: D. JEFFERY OVER, GEOLOGICAL AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES exposures in southwestern Erie County. The Angola SCIENCES Tentaculites were collected from the lower contains numerous zones of calcareous concretions, Foraminifera are used to interpret Williamson Formation, a lower Silurian rock unit in between layers of black and gray shales, mudrock paleoinvironments based on species diversity and near Sodus NY. The Silurian encompasses strata and siltstone. Precise measurement, and shell-type ratios. Benthic foraminifera from two from the end of the Ordovician, 443 million years identification of fauna including the conodont localities within the early Pleistocene Waccamaw ago, to the Devonian, 419 million years ago. Ancyrognathus iowaensis and the goniatite genera Formation (2.5 to 1.9 Ma) were collected in North Tentaculites are small annulated conical fossils Playfordites, Sphaeromanticoceras, Carinoceras, Caro a at Register Quarry and Acme in order to composed of calcite that first appeared in the Manticoceras, guatornoceras, and Tornoceras, determine changes in depositional environment. Ordovician and diversify in the Silurian and within these layers aids in determination of cyclical Register Quarry near Old Dock, NC yielded 80 Devonian. The Williamson Formation in the C ton sea level changes. Magnetic susceptibility data for a specimens, 5 miliolids and 66 rotalids, with a Group is characterized by a basal phosphate pebble section of the Angola at Point Breeze exhibits Simpson diversity coefficient (D) of 0.41, the most conglomerate overlain by sandy gray-green shale. microcycles and a possible major cycle. abundant genera was Amphistegina gibbosa. Tentaculites minutus, originally described by James Interpretation of these cycles as climatic changes or Acme's fertilizer pits in Columbus county yielded 93 Hall, were identified in the Williamson Shale for the sea level changes will enable a greater rotalid specimen, smaller at D= 0.62, dominated by first time. understanding of the sedimentary environment, as 73 Amphistegina gibbosa. Shell type ratios suggest ______well as allow refined correlation with shallow marine environments at both locations; but 95 • Sedimentology and Stratigraphy biostratigraphic intervals. the one with the higher diversity, Acme Quarry, ______of the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in suggests a deeper depositional environment. 90 • No Significant Changes in ______Riley, Oregon Microbivalve and Ostracode 92 • Preliminary Tentaculitid ELIZABETH HAUSSNER FACULTY SPONSOR: D. JEFFERY OVER, GEOLOGICAL Diversity or On Predation by Biostratigraphy within the Conodont SCIENCES Gastropods Across Pliocene- Biostratigraphic Framework of the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter is an early paleoindian Pleistocene Boundary in Maligne, Perdrix, and Mount Hawk archaeological site located in Harney County, Oregon near Riley. In the 2013 field season, 10 cm Southeastern North Carolina Formations, Upper Devonian, samples were taken from columns of sediment at GRANT HORNER, MICHAEL REED, WILLIAM YEUNG, Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta 10 locations within the site. These samples have KATHRYN CHRISTOFF, ABBY DENNETT, CATHERINE JENNIFER KOHN been analyzed and compared using color, grain size HOBART, MARISSA BELLUSCI, ALLAN ENGELBERT, FACULTY SPONSOR: D. JEFFERY OVER, GEOLOGICAL distribution, organic and carbonate contents, and JENELLE WALLACE, BOWEN WU, BRIAN AUSTIN, SCIENCES magnetic susceptibility to identify distinct NATALIA DEMPSEY, TIMOTHY KROL, SEAN WRAITH Frasnian tentaculitids from the Flume, Perdrix, and sedimentary packages within the sediment FACULTY SPONSOR: D. JEFFERY OVER, GEOLOGICAL Mount Hawk formations were found at Marmot columns. These sedimentary packages were then SCIENCES Crack, Klapper Creek 1, and Klapper Creek 2 north correlated with one another to determine basic The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary in the Atlantic of Pyramid Mountain in the Canadian Rocky stratigraphy throughout the site. Preliminary results Coastal Plain of North America is characterized by a Mountains, Alberta. Ten species of tentaculitids show an uppermost homogenous layer of silty sand, significant extinction of mollusks, including a including eight species of Homoctenus, one species believed to be windblown alluvium, overlaying decrease in predatory gastropods that feed on of Costulatostylio a, and one species of Viriatella sandy silt and clayey sandy silt layers which appear bivalves by boring through the shell. Microbivalves were found as recrystallized fragmented conchs. to gradually decrease in organic content and have and ostracodes were collected from five localities The Perdrix between Marmot Crack and Klapper an overall lower content of magnetic minerals. that span the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary in Creek 1, as well as the Mount Hawk between ______southeastern North Carolina: Natural Well and Tar Marmot Crack and Klapper Creek 2 were correlated 96 • Petrography of Mayan Pottery Heel from the late Pliocene (3.0 Ma) Duplin based on first occurrence of tentaculitid species and Sherds from Ambergris Caye, Belize Formation, Acme and Register Quarry from the conodonts. The correlation of the Perdrix lies within early Pleistocene (2.5 Ma) Waccamaw Formation, ELIZABETH HAUSSNER MN zones 5 and 6 while the correlation of the FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL and Walker's Bluff from the mid Pleistocene (1.9 Mount Hawk lies within MN zone 12. Analysis of Ma). Species of microbivalves and ostracodes were SCIENCES species data indicates that species diversity may be Petrography is a valuable tool in which ceramics are identified, diversity of microbivalves and ostracodes facies dependent. were calculated, and the number of bored valves studied at a microscopic level, revealing structures, ______features, and compositional information determined. Ostracode diversity (Simpson Diversity 93 • Shale Fabric Coefficient) ranged from 3.4 to 6.8, with perhaps an undiscernible at the macroscopic level. This study 35

Posters 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual uses petrography to investigate Coconut Walk crystalline phases are rare in slag, which makes chemical composition was analyzed using the Unslipped (CWU), a pottery type prominent at Late understanding conditions of its formation scanning electron microscope (SEM) to compare it Terminal Classic Mayan archaeological sites on important. with the original sample. Before melting, the slag Ambergris Caye, Belize. All CWU sherds in this study ______samples were highly pigmented and often color are tempered primarily with quartz sand grains 99 • Elemental Analysis of Cosmic banded. Vesicles were also common. The slags although the grains vary in roundness. They also Material ranged from blue and purple to green. Melting did contain small amounts of microcrystalline sparry not drastically change the overall color of the RICHARD FRIEMAN calcite features. These findings are similar to those samples though all banding was homogenized. FACULTY SPONSORS: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL of the 1999 study by Iceland and Goldberg on Small black dots were observed on the top and SCIENCES ceramic sherds of a similar age at two nearby bottom surfaces of the melt bead. These spots are DAVID MEISEL, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY archaeological sites. Their samples were also quartz most likely carbon residue created as the Samples of suspected extraterrestrial rocks brought tempered contrary to the previously assumed surrounding crucible walls degraded in the high from Morocco and elsewhere were analyzed using regional trend of carbonate tempered ceramics. The furnace temperatures. Selected for presentation at the "non- destructive" technique using PIXE. PIXE is study of CWU type ceramics might lend support to Geological Society of America, Vancouver, BC useful in distinguishing terrestrial material from Iceland and Goldberg's theory of a regional shift Canada. meteoritic material because meteorites are from the use of carbonate temper to a quartz ______elementally distinct from terrestrial rocks. Data temper, near the end of the Late Classic period. from PIXE was processed using the program, 102 • Peat Record From a ______Hypersaline Coastal Pond on 97 • A Case for Caddisflies: GUPIXWIN, developed by the Guelph PIXE Group, in order to determine whether or not the samples are Southern Eleuthera Island, Bahamas: Examining Caddisfly Cases for Slag truly meteorites. Once samples were determined to Implications for Sea-Level Change Content be extraterrestrial, they were organized into ALEXANDRA ZOBEL different groups depending on their chemical and Lucayan Occupation FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL composition and internal features. Extraordinary DANIEL MISERENDINO SCIENCES support for this project by the SUNY Geneseo FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL October caddisfly cases ranging in size from 2 mm- Nuclear Structure Research Lab (NSRL), from both SCIENCES 10 mm were collected and studied from creek students and staff. Peat accumulation in coastal lagoon settings have ______sediment obtained in Ironville, NY. The creek bisects been linked on regional to global scales with a pile of industrial debris associated with a historical 100 • Knob Brook, Adirondack State climatic events and sea-level history. We recovered iron smelter. October caddisflies, members of the Park, NY: A Study in the Interaction sediment cores from Eleuthera Island with layers of basal peat that have potential implications for order Trichoptera and suborder Integripalpia, live of a Slag Pile and its Environment on rocks in unpolluted running water and along climate and sea-level conditions that existed in the KELLY O'SHAUGHNESSY lakeshores. During the larval stage caddisflies use Bahamas approximately 5000 yBP. Two basal peat FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL the nearest materials they can find in their habitat layers were collected from site 1, the first occurring SCIENCES and build a protective tubular case to pupate. These between 181-240 cm and the second from 253- 254 Knob Brook is an approximately 2.3 mile-long materials vary depending on what the habitat has to cm with a layer of gray, authigenic, carbonate clay stream that flows north through Ironville, a hamlet offer. The October caddisfly cases from Ironville do in between the two horizons. These horizons in the eastern region of the Adirondack State Park, not appear to be composed of slag material despite yielded radiocarbon dates from ~5000 cal yBP to NY. The brook runs through a slag pile resulting the abundance of it in the area. This study was done ~3700 cal yBP. Peat was not present in any of the from iron smelting. Stream sediments, water to investigate the makeup of the cases to identify cores collected from two sites proximal to the chemistry, and soil pH samples were collected at whether or not the impact of iron smelting and the welded barrier. The presence of peat indicates that discrete intervals along the brook. Sediment presence of slag in the immediate area had an sea-level rise may have affected the sedimentation analyses along the brook indicate that the slag pile effect on the ecosystem of the October caddisflies. in the pond. It is probable that at ~5000 yBP, Shad ______has impacted the sediment load of Knob Brook. Pond was initiated as a mangrove swamp that was 98 • Analysis of Crystalline Phases Angular to subangular slag pieces are only found in smaller and connected to the ocean before being the sediment downstream and adjacent to the pile. separated by the emplacement of the barrier and Zircon Crystals in the Tin Slag of The natural sediments range from subangular to complex. Subsequently (~3700 yBP), a flux of sand Eggworthy Farm, Devon, UK well rounded, indicating that they have undergone from the seaward source buried the basal peat. As ANTHONY PIVARUNAS more weathering than the slag. Stream water has a sea-level rose, the pond broadened and expanded FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL hardness of 100 ppm upstream and 0 ppm at the seaward. The peat may therefore provide a SCIENCES slag pile. Alka ity is 40 ppm upstream and decreases chronological constraint on mid- Holocene sea-level Tin slag samples from Eggworthy Farm, Devon in to 20 ppm at the slag pile. TDS values are position on Eleuthera. Selected for presentation at the UK are almost entirely composed of glass. This consistently 20 ppm until the stream reaches the Geological Society of America Meeting, Denver, slag was formed during the smelting of tin into slag pile. Along the stream, pH ranges from 6.4 to CO. currency in pre- industrial age Great Britain. Crystals 7.8, which is not a function of proximity to the slag. ______do not tend to form in the slag samples because of However, soil pH values are ked to proximity to the 103 • Neo-Tectonic Uplift in the rapid cooling of the slag. However, on thin-section pile. Upstream of the pile, the average soil pH is 6, while around the pile and downstream the pH Adirondack Mountains examination, 100 micron relict zircon crystals and CHRISTOPHER TURNER some black, dendritic crystalline phases were trends consistently towards 8. ______FACULTY SPONSOR: MARGARET REITZ, GEOLOGICAL observed in the glass matrix. The zircons and 101 • Melting of Ironville Slag From SCIENCES crystalline phases were separated from the glass The Adirondack Mountain massif is an anomalous matrix by crushing and hand-picking. Scanning the Adirondacks, NY feature of northern New York State that formed electron microscopy and cathodoluminescence BENJAMIN WOLF during the Grenville orogeny (1.3Ga). The region is were used to determine information about the FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL uncomformably overlain by Paleozoic strata, and elemental makeup of the zircons, crystalline phases, SCIENCES contains extensive outcrops of Proterozoic and the glass itself. Zircon crystals commonly Slag is the byproduct from the refinement of basement rocks. Erosion rates in catchments exhibit elemental zonation. These zircon crystals metallic ores. This research entailed melting associated with the exposed strata substantiate the exhibited blurred zoning, as expected under the experiments involving slag from Ironville, NY. The hypothesis for localized uplift relative to the high temperatures to which they were subjected to experiments used a DT -28 Deltech furnace which drainage. Determining contemporary neo-tectonic during the smelting process. The observed could achieve temperatures as high as 1550°C. The uplift is a relatively new application for cosmogenic 36

2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual Posters nuclide 10Be surface exposure dating. Nine and basin hypsometry in the Central Range. These preliminary data suggest a three-phase history for approximately sand-sized samples of sediment data reveal a history of recent uplift and differing this flank of the laccolith. During the first phase of weighing 1000 grams each were collected from six basin maturity based on stream size. Due to the activity, the strata were already tilted, due to rivers where they exit the massif, one river in the relatively low quality of our data our conclusions intrusion of the main body of Mt. Hillers. HL13-5 NW lowlands, and one in the central highlands, so are conservative. A future study with higher quality and -8 were emplaced, followed by more main-body as to indicate region wide fluctuations in uplift. data may be able to provide more precise results. emplacement that resulted in vertical axis rotation Samples underwent quartz isolation, with an ______of these sills. HL13-2 and -7 were emplaced after estimated average quartz retainment of 7%-12% 106 • Paleomagnetic Constraints on tilting ceased. Additional paleomagnetic data from per sample, and will be analyzed for a ratio of The Relative Timing of Emplacement Gold Creek should allow for further testing of this 9Be/10Be by mass-spectroscopy. This will allow the hypothesis. Selected for presentation at Geological determination of specific erosion rates per sampled of Igneous Intrusions from the South Society of America Meeting, Denver, CO. catchment. A low ratio is expected, inferring Side of Mt. Hillers, Henry Mountains, ______regional uplift. Continued work on this study will 108 • Paleomagnetic Insight into examine the mechanism driving the uplift. Utah ______JENNIFER CRAMER Pluton Growth, Mt Hillers, Henry 104 • Geologic Issues Related to FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL Mountains, Utah SCIENCES SIMON NASH, MATTHEW THIES, PHILLIP LONGO, Radioactive Waste at the Western Large igneous rock bodies called plutons are JENNA CHERVIN, ANTHONY PIVARUNAS New York Nuclear Service Center, important to the geologic community due to their FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL West Valley NY mineral resources and geothermal capabilities and SCIENCES thus understanding their formation helps geologists Plutons are large bodies of magma that cool ALEXANDER DASILVA, MATTHEW BRIARS locate these resources. Recent research suggests FACULTY SPONSORS: RICHARD YOUNG, underground and are often associated with that plutons are assembled from a series of magma economic mineral deposits. Pluton growth occurs in GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES pulses. Paleomagnetic data, the record of the AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES pulses, with each influx of magma adding layers to Earth's magnetic field preserved in rocks, was used the structure. However, the sequence of these The Western New York Nuclear Service Center, to determine the timing of emplacement of igneous located in West Valley, NY, served as a private pulses is poorly understood. To better understand intrusions. The pluton analyzed for this study was pluton growth, we measured the magnetic processing site for nuclear waste beginning in 1962, the mid-Tertiary age Mt. Hillers complex in the taking in over 600,000 gallons of high-level orientation of individual pulses from a shallow Henry Mountains of Utah. The orientation of the crustal pluton. When an intrusion cools, its radioactive waste. Poor containment strategies and magnetic field of approximately 30 cores was accidents at the site led to its shutdown in 1975 and magnetic domains tend to align with Earth's measured. The deviation from the expected, mid- magnetic field. Knowing the overall structure of the transfer to the U.S. Department of Energy and the Tertiary orientation of the Earth's magnetic field, New York State Energy Research and Development pluton, and the average remnant magnetization of provided constraints on the number of tilting events the various pulses, we can construct (or constrain) a Authority in 1980. Since then, cleanup efforts on the each intrusion experienced. A greater number of site have progressed, but active geologic processes chronological history of pulses, and better tilting events suggests an older intrusion. The understand the mechanism that leads to pluton on the site are a concern of both the organizations igneous intrusions analyzed are presently in the managing the cleanup and the surrounding growth. In this contribution we present same orientation as during emplacement. This paleomagnetic data collected with a spinner communities. Three stream channels are actively implies that these were late stage intrusions that eroding glacial tills in which the waste is stored, magnetometer and a demagnetizer from diorite intruded towards the end of the main pluton's plutons in the Henry Mountains of Utah. Results presenting a hazard to groundwater and stream formation. The data also suggest the magnetic contamination. In 1993, a plume of strontium-90 suggest the outermost portions of these plutons signature of the surrounding sedimentary rocks was were emplaced during the last stages of pluton was discovered in the groundwater of the upper reset by thermal alteration from the magmatic plateau. Groundwater pumping and the installation growth. intrusions. Selected for presentation at Geological ______of a permeable treatment wall has reduced and Society of America Meeting, Denver, CO. 109 • Quantitative Analysis of contained the plume. Local communities are ______concerned about the eroding stream channels and 107 • Paleomagnetic Constraints on Channel Morphology in Relation to the plume, which feed into a larger watershed that Active Tectonics in Northern Range, flows into Lake Erie. Our project is part of a larger the Timing of intrusions in Gold ongoing study to clarify geologic issues affecting Creek Canyon, Mt. Hillers, Henry Trinidad cleanup at the West Valley site. KYLIE CAESAR ______Mountains, Colorado Plateau, Utah FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL 105 • Applications of ArcGIS in PETER THOMPSON SCIENCES FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL A large amount of research in the past decade Tectonic Geomorphology, Central SCIENCES demonstrates that incising stream channel systems Range Mountains, Trinidad Paleomagnetic data from tilted rocks in the Henry play a central role in setting relationships between ROBERT WOJCIKIEWICZ Mountains provide constraints on the chronology of topographic relief and differential rock uplift rate. It FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL emplacement of the igneous bodies. Sites with a has been established that quantitative analysis of SCIENCES paleomagnetic orientation consistent with either the channel morphology of a region can provide Trinidad is a seismically active island nation, located depositional age or mid-Tertiary emplacement were insight to its tectonic geomorphology and on the Caribbean-South American plate boundary, likely emplaced in situ; those that demonstrate deformation history. Stream profile analysis can just off the coast of South America. GPS data tells us deviation from the expected direction experienced help to determine rates and patterns of uplift in that a fault moving through the middle of the island post-emplacement deformation. In Gold Creek, active mountain belts such as the one in Northern is active, but we do not know for how long the fault located east of Mount Hillers, we collected Trinidad. The Northern Range of Trinidad is an has been active. However, the fault has also paleomagnetic data at 13 stations. Four of the uplifted mountain block in the Caribbean-South produced a range of low relief, called the Central igneous sites yield paleomagnetic signatures. Sites American plate boundary zone with a complex Range Mountains. An understanding of the age of HL13-2 and HL13-7 are sills whose paleomagnetic tectonic history. Current studies suggest rapid uplift uplift could provide information about the history of signatures match the expected direction in the mid- occurring from the Late Miocene to Recent. This the fault's motion, which in turn may shed light on Tertiary, suggesting they were emplaced into tilted study is focused on using ArcMap, a Geographic the threat of earthquakes in the region. In this study strata. Sites HL13-5 and HL13-8 record post- Information System, to analyze and interpret ArcGIS (geographic information system) is used to emplacement rotation and suggest 90° and 30° of hypsometric curves and stream profiles derived find the relics of uplift by examining stream profiles vertical-axis, counter- clockwise rotation.These from drainage basins in the Northern Range to get a 37

Posters 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual better understanding of the past and present Alongside the rise of China's economy has been an The purpose of our research is primarily based on tectonic uplift patterns. It is important for increase in the quality of their education system. option's pricing and the Black-Scholes Model. Using geoscientists, engineers and public policy makers to Their system produces some of the most educated historical stock data we intend to price options understand Trinidad's complex geology in order to students in the modern world. In order to better through the Black-Scholes Model. Using the effectively mitigate the seismic risk associated with understand this system it can be compared to the theoretical options prices, we will attempt to create the present active tectonic structures. education system here in the United States. a trading model that we can back- test through Through several angles of analysis, including: how approximately fifteen years of data. The data that HISTORY much money and resources are put into the we collect will consist of thousands of intraday education system, the availability of access to the stock prices of a stock in the Dow Jones Industrial 110 • Beyond Main Street: Interning education, and the different educational standards Average. We will use Monte Carlo simulation which at the Livingston County Historical required by students. These comparisons will be will consist of randomly generating a sample of Society and Museum made mainly through a statistical breakdown of the possible values for the terminal share price ST. We GABRIELLE KINNEY, ALLYSON PEREYRA two systems. will use a formula from the random normal samples ______FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY (epsilon values) to generate share prices at a call Our unique experience at LCHS has provided us with 113 • Development of Catholicism maturity ST = S exp new knowledge, local connections, and foundation and its Effects on Peoples of the [(r-q-0.5^variance) T+episolon*variance*sqrt(T)] Selected for presentation at Upstate Chapters of for our future endeavors. Participating at this local Americas from 1500 to the Present organization gave us the opportunity to tailor this the American Statistical Association, Geneseo, NY. internship to our interests, skills, and personalities. Day Because of this, we were the leaders of our PAUL PEDZIWIATR PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY internship. FACULTY SPONSOR: ROCÍO VALLEJO ALEGRE, 116 • A New Age Determination of LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES Star Cluster NGC 581 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES After a comparative analysis, similarities of the religions of the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan Civilizations MICHAEL RAMSEY, THOMAS FATICONE, KURT 111 • College Students' Motives For compared to many aspects of Catholicism have BRECHT, ALYSSA WERYNSKI, KRISTEN DOHERTY Studying a Second Language been shown to have aided in the downfall of these FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS MARIA-GRATIAS SINON great empires. Meanwhile, stark differences & ASTRONOMY FACULTY SPONSOR: BEVERLY EVANS, LANGUAGE between the Mapuche people and Catholics The age of a star cluster can be determined by AND LITERATURES prevented indigenous conversion in the southern examining its main-sequence turnoff point - the The objective of my study is to find out the motives Viceroyalty of Perú and have allowed this people to point on a cluster's magnitude vs. color plot where behind learning a second language at the college retain autonomy. The development of Catholicism the most massive stars begin to evolve beyond the level. To that end, I conducted a survey at SUNY in Central and South America in postcolonial times main sequence. During a previous study of NGC Geneseo Department of Languages and Literature. I has also been analyzed, and set up for the present 581, the most massive stars of the cluster were too took the great opportunity of being named the 2013 day decline in Catholic religiosity reflected across luminous to be processed by the utilized image Dr. Gerard Gouvernet Student Ambassador at SUNY most Spanish-speaking countries today. sensor, resulting in over-saturated images that Geneseo Department of Languages and Literature could not be analyzed. The goal of our recent study to extend the population, [that is, the entire group MATHEMATICS was to revisit NGC 581 and collect useable data of of people of interest (Arnett, 2013, p.16)] in this its most massive stars by utilizing the ISC rooftop survey to the international students at the FIAP Jean 114 • Moving Pictures: Animating 20-inch. This data, combined with the previously- Monnet residence in Paris, France, in the summer Still Images gathered data, provides a more complete and accurate magnitude vs. color plot for the cluster, 2013. All the students of that population study a MICHAEL PILOSOV foreign language. The survey was under the allowing its turnoff point and age to be calculated. FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS BALDWIN, ______mentorship of my French professor and major MATHEMATICS advisor Dr. Beverly Evans. The sample was a mosaic We present a means of developing digital image 117 • Deeper Simulations of the of Caucasians, Hispanics, Africans, African- transformations that allow a still image to be turned Orion Trapezium Cluster Americans, Asians, and Brazilians, intended to be as into a short and visually pleasing animation. Rather MATTHEW COON large as 200, the sample, [or set of people who than manually altering successive frames to create FACULTY SPONSORS: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS represent the target population (Arnett, 2013, the illusion of motion, the method presented here & ASTRONOMY p.16)], shrank to only 78 because of the requires only the input of a few parameters for each DAVID MEISEL, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY participants' feedback. There are many reasons why transformation. To implement this work, we have Using N-Body simulations, we studied the lifetime college students learn a second language. About built a library of composable functions that stream of the Orion Trapezium Cluster. Simulations have 78% of the respondents study a second language e the process of turning still images into novel been run on this cluster in the past by Geneseo because they aspire to be better global citizens, if animations. Examples include manipulation of students. The same Mathematica program was used not for fulfilling their curriculum requirement; contrast, intensity, and colors of pixels, as well as for this project, and repeated 25 of the same runs, about 22% of them study a foreign language for warps of contours, positions, and size of select using the same initial conditions, but with the career opportunities. The analysis of those results regions. The transformations allow for easy addition of the previously ignored effects, such as through statistical hypothesis testing fails to animation of regions of interest, giving some the gravitational potential of the cluster and of the confirm the tendency because of lack of enough semblance of life to still images by turning them galactic disk, and dynamical friction. We calculated evidence. Also, from the results, we cannot tell into animated GIFs, and allowing for the creation of the cluster's lifetime and energy to see if they whether fewer female college students than males artwork in a popular on e medium. We will also deviated from the original results. The significant study a second language for reasons other than discuss a possible application of the program to the deviations that were found point to the importance standout in the job market. amelioration of color perception deficiencies. of this added physics in simulations of the lifetimes ______of clusters. 112 • Educational Comparative of 115 • BackTesting Big Data with the ______China and America Black-Scholes Model 118 • WIYN Open Cluster Survey: JARED JONES, HYUKJAE LEE, ANDREW CHAU, JAMES HILTUNEN, NICHOLAS SORTISIO, MARINA Lithium Abundances of Giant Stars in MICHAEL MARANO MASSARO the Open Star Cluster NGC 2158 FACULTY SPONSOR: JASMINE TANG, LANGUAGE FACULTY SPONSOR: YUSUF BILGIC, MATHEMATICS DANIEL KROLIKOWSKI, LUKE TAVERNE AND LITERATURES 38

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FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS An experimental procedure was developed to decay depth was calculated from the gathered data. & ASTRONOMY measure the decay time of light in an optical cavity CR-39 was found to be nearly transparent for light We present high resolution spectra of candidate for the purpose of determining the extinction of between 400nm to 1100nm while strong absorption member stars of the open cluster NGC 2158. The light by aerosols. A tunable diode laser was created was present for UV light shorter than 400nm. The abundance of lithium was determined for these and directed into an optic cavity filled with filtered reflection of CR-39 was found to be relatively stars and analyzed. Interesting to note is the life dehumidified air. As light intensity hit a maximum in constant averaging at 7%. An anomalous dispersion stage of the stars we present, as they are giant the cavity, the incoming laser was blocked allowing feature appeared centered at 290nm. Selected for branch stars, and therefore more evolved than the light in the cavity to decay and this decay time presentation at American Physical Society's previously studied populations. Theories predict was measured. This process is repeated for several National Meetings, Savannah, GA. that at a certain time in a giant star's life, lithium wavelengths to find the spectral relationship of the ______may actually be produced, not depleted. Several of decay time in the optical cavity. 124 • A Time-of-Flight System for our stars provide evidence for this previously ______Low Energy Charged Particles unobserved effect. 122 • Using LS-DYNA to model MICHAEL GIORDANO, KRYSTALYN SADWICK ______Ballistic Impact on Granular Ceramic 119 • Measurements of the FACULTY SPONSOR: KURT FLETCHER, PHYSICS & Armor ASTRONOMY Sensitivity of Radiochromic Film BRIAN MARTIN A time-of-flight system has been developed to Using Ion Beams FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & measure the energy of charged particles in the keV JUSTIN SHORTINO, JEFFREY STEIDLE, DREW ASTRONOMY range. Positively charged ions passing through very ELLISON, TIMOTHY FILKINS This semester I have been working on developing a thin carbon films mounted on grids generate FACULTY SPONSOR: CHARLIE FREEMAN, PHYSICS & model to demonstrate the effectiveness of granular secondary electrons. These electrons are ASTRONOMY ceramic armor. Using the LS-DYNA simulation accelerated by a -2000 V grid bias towards a Radiochromic film (RCF) is used in several software package and the cluster computer on grounded channeltron electron multiplier (CEM) diagnostics as a dosimeter that chromatically campus, ballistic impact of armor-piercing rounds which amplifies the signal. Two CEM detector responds to incident particles. This response striking said ceramic armor can be modeled and assemblies are mounted 23.1 cm apart along the depends on the fluence, energy, and species of the simulated. I have been revisiting simulations that path of the ions. An ion generates a start signal by incident particles. A 1.7 MV tandem Pelletron have been run in the past, but with more refined passing through the first CEM and a stop signal by accelerator is used to create a monoenergetic ion material models, and on a finer grid for the impact passing through the second. The start and stop beam which is scattered off a thin gold target onto a points. The bullet is modeled using different signals generate a time-of-flight spectrum via strip of RCF. A surface barrier detector is positioned materials, and different material models are conventional electronics. Higher energy alpha behind a small hole in the film to measure the ion appropriate for these various materials. Before the particles from radioactive sources have been used fluence on the nearby film. Once the film develops, main simulations will be run, some final steps are to test the system. This time-of-flight system will be it is scanned to examine its optical density. A being taken to finalize the models used. Potentially deployed to measure the energies of 15 to 30 keV response curve is acquired by fitting a three more accurate material parameters for steel are ions produced by a duoplasmatron ion source that parameter formula to optical density and dose. being tested, by running some test simulations with is used to characterize ICF detectors. ______These calibration curves can be used to help the new numbers. Next, a potentially more useful determine incident doses in a variety of situations model for lead, developed by Steinberg, is being 125 • Physics Demonstrations and ______tested to see if it more accurately describes the Student Learning 120 • Precession of Foucault situation we are simulating. When these last models MICHAEL EISINGER, OLIVIA KAPLAN, CHRISTOPHER Pendulum Oscillatory Plane are finalized, the full amount of testing can begin. WEILBACHER For this poster, I expect to have results of the first FACULTY SPONSOR: KURT FLETCHER, PHYSICS & Captured with Headless Raspberry Pi of these fully- improved simulations for ASTRONOMY TIMOTHY FILKINS presentation. Are in-class physics demonstrations more effective FACULTY SPONSOR: CHARLIE FREEMAN, PHYSICS & ______when students are asked to write down predictions ASTRONOMY 123 • UV and Heating Effects on CR- prior to observing a demonstration? To investigate Though it was long understood that the Earth spins 39 Etch Parameters with Spectral this question, a demonstration was created and on its axis, it wasn't until 1851 that Leon Foucault performed in front of 81 students in six local physics devised the first simple terrestrial experiment to Analysis of CR-39 in the UV-Vis-NIR. classrooms. After hearing the basic premise of the demonstrate the rotation of the Earth. He showed CHRISTOPHER MCLAUCH , NATHAN TRAYNOR, demonstration, the 50 students constituting the that a pendulum's oscillatory plane will precess KENNETH DODGE experimental group were asked to write down a clockwise if it's in the Northern hemisphere and FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & prediction about the outcome of the counterclockwise in the Southern hemisphere. To ASTRONOMY demonstration. The 31 students in the other three observe the precession of the Foucault Pendulum in CR-39 plastic is a common ion detector used in classes, constituting the comparison group, were the atrium of the Integrated Science Center (ISC) at nuclear experiments. High-energy charged particles told the basic premise of the demonstration and SUNY Geneseo, an inexpensive Raspberry Pi model leave tracks of chemical damage along their path, observed it without making a written prediction. B was used to control a camera module mounted which form pits when etch with NaOH. It has been After observing the demonstration and learning the above the pendulum in the ISC catwalk. A short found that exposure to UV light after ion exposure explanation given by pre-service physics teachers, video was taken of the pendulum every fifteen enhances the etch rate in both the bulk material as all classes completed a worksheet with follow-up minutes for a period of 10 days. The plane of well as along the latent track while maintaining a questions regarding the physics involved. These oscillation was measured using the Tracker software constant track-to-bulk etch rate ratio. The addition worksheets were evaluated using a rubric designed package. The precession rate of the plane was of heat was found to dramatically increase the etch for this study. The students in the experimental calculated and plotted as a function of time and rates by a factor of five, although at higher group averaged a score of 10.0 ± 2.0 on a 14-point compared to the Foucault Sine Law. temperatures pits became irregular in shape. scale, while the comparison group averaged a score ______knowledge of CR-39's interactions with this light of 9.5 ± 3.3. While the experimental group scored 121 • The Decay Time of Light in an would improve understanding of this enhancement higher than the comparison group, analysis Optical Cavity and pave way to greater enhancement. The spectral indicates that these results are not statistically reflection and transmission of CR-39 for JACOB WIRTH significant. This result may be due to variations in wavelengths between 200nm and 2500nm for FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE MARCUS, PHYSICS & both prior knowledge of the students and various thicknesses of plastic were measured. Using ASTRONOMY instructional methods of the pre-service teachers. an exponential decay model for absorption the ______39

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126 • Effects of Light Color on Solar experiments were performed at the State University over the years many people look towards the of New York at Geneseo to determine the absolute equality of opportunity that is present in the United Panel Performance detection efficiency for both a single detector and States. If everyone has the same opportunities to WILLIAM RYAN two in-line coincidence detectors using 511 keV advance in society, why are there so many that FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & gamma rays. A low activity Na-22 gamma ray point struggle to make ends meet while at the same time ASTRONOMY source was placed flush against the detector faces the top 1% hold more wealth in America than the Photovoltaic solar cells are currently used of a pair of matched 3''x3'' cylindrical NaI-Tl bottom half combined. Upward mobility in the throughout the world to generate sustainable detectors. The source was then moved relative to United states is at a lower rate than many other electricity in both remote and grid-tied applications. the detector face to determine geometric and off- industrialized nations, so the idea of the "American As their price and efficiency continues to improve axis effects on the detector's absolute efficiency. Dream" can be better described as a myth in they promise to be one of the primary energy The manufacturers of the NaI-Tl detectors quote modern society. Our individualistic culture could be sources of the future. In order to gain a better the absolute photo peak efficiency, at a distance of one of the major factors contributing to the rise in understanding of this emerging technology, an 10 cm from the detector face, to be 1.2% for a low inequality in America, so it is necessary to take a experiment was performed to analyze the activity 511keV point source. Using this information deeper look at just how prevalent upward mobility performance of silicon solar cells under different the efficiency as a function of position was actually has been over recent decades. It could be lighting conditions. The maximum power output, determined and compared to calculated values. the case that the American Dream is used by the minimum light intensity for power generation, and Funded in part by a LLE contract from the DOE. super-rich as a way to place the blame of poverty efficiency were measured for several light Selected for presentation at American Physical on those who can be considered to be not taking frequencies. Society's National Meetings, Savannah, GA. advantage of the opportunities available to them. ______127 • 12C(n, 2n)11C Reaction Cross 129 • Gamma-Gamma Counting 131 • Are Charter Schools the Section Measurements for Station Dead Time Corrections Solution?: Politics and Public Opinion Bombarding Energies 20-26.4 MeV ANGELA SIMONE on the Inequality of Charter Schools MOLLIE BIENSTOCK FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & MARTY ROGACHEFSKY FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL ASTRONOMY It has been proposed that neutron activation of SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS The (n,2n) threshold for 12C is nearly 6MeV above graphite could be used to measure tertiary neutron The poster will cover the history of politics the primary neutron energy in DT ICF implosions. production in ICF experiments. Graphite samples surrounding charter schools from the think tank's of This makes it a good candidate for measuring the were activated by 20- 26.4 MeV neutrons at the the 1990's to DeBlasio's anti-charter school crusade tertiary neutron yield above 20MeV using neutron Edwards Accelerator Facility at Ohio University to of today. It also looks at the debate surrounding activation of graphite. In order to use this method simulate an ICF activation. Once activated by the charter schools and as a source and potential cure the 12C(n,2n)11C reaction cross section must be 12C(n,2n)11C reaction the 11C decays via positron to economic inequality. Lastly, it shows the changes known accurately. However, the published data for emission. The positron promptly annihilates with an in public opinion regarding charter schools over the this reaction is bifurcated in the energy range of 20- electron producing two back-to back gamma rays. A past decade. 30MeV. An experiment to measure the cross counting station consisting of a pair of on-axis ______section for these neutron energies has been NaI(Tl) detectors was constructed to measure the 132 • Constrained Democracy and performed at the Ohio University Accelerator. 511 keV gammas in coincidence. Due to the high Deuterons from the accelerator struck a titanium initial specific activity of the graphite samples the Fragmented Working Class tritide foil releasing neutrons via the T(d,n)4He following intense neutron bombardment the dead PAMELA ZAITER reaction producing neutrons with energies between time in the NaI-Thl detectors was high but tapered FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL 20.0-26.4MeV. The geometry of the experiment was off over the duration of measurement. In order to SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS chosen so that the incident neutron energy would correct for lost counts in the decay curve the dead- An analysis of the American working class not vary by more than 0.5MeV across the graphite time as a function of dwell time must be known. A demonstrates a strong fragmentation. A continuous target. After neutron exposure, the decay of the script was written to sort dead-time from the problem for our working class has been a strong 11C nuclei by positron emission was measured with acquired data as a function of dwell time interval. division along party lines and voting behavior. This an array of NaI detectors to determine the activity These values were then used to correct the division can be attributed to geography, religiosity, of the graphite. The neutron fluence through the measured decay curve which produced an and race, among other imposing factors. It seems carbon was measured using a particle telescope to exceptionally good fit to the theoretical decay that a portion of the American working class votes detect recoil protons from CH2 target, allowing the curve. Ultimately this information was used to on issues which do not effect their economic absolute cross section for the 12C(n,2n)11C reaction determine the total number of activations in the prosperity. A close analysis will also illustrate that a to be determined. Funded in part by a LLE contract graphite samples. Selected for presentation at portion of the American higher classes vote in favor from the DOE. Selected for presentation at American Physical Society's National Meetings, of policies that will aid the working class, this American Physical Society's National Meetings, Savannah, GA. division among the middle and upper class can also Savannah, GA. be attributed to the factors mentioned above. This ______POLITICAL SCIENCE & research aims to analyze the variables which affect 128 • 3 by 3 Sodium Iodide Absolute this division and possible solutions to unify our INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS working and lower classes. Efficiency Determination 130 • The Rise and Fall of the ______DREW ELLISON 133 • Higher Education Preserving FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & American Dream: An In-Depth Look ASTRONOMY at the Changing Rates of Upward Class Division Thallium doped sodium iodide (NaI-Tl) detectors are ANTHONY HERNANDEZ frequently used to measure the activity of samples Mobility in the United States in FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL exposed to ICF neutrons. The absolute detection Relation to Increasing Economic SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS efficiency for NaI-Tl detectors cannot be Insight into the study of educational inequality in Inequality Higher Education in America and how it affects represented by a single quoted value. Detection SARAH LENHARD efficiency is largely dependent on gamma ray economic inequality. Study will look into factors FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL presents in our state of higher education and energy, source location, activity, source and SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS detector geometry and composition, all of which whether class division is expanding. Is the American Dream still alive in the United ______are quantities that are situational. A series of States today? As economic inequality has increased 40

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134 • Losing Political Voice to 137 • Money, Politics, and Economic The last few years have seen a marked rise in income inequality in the United States. This is Interest Groups Inequality occurring at a time when the effective federal JACOB SIKORA JULIA STRY income tax is at its least progressive since its FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL introduction. Reform to the US tax code offers the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS possibility of slowing the consolidation of wealth by Interest groups have long been controversial in This poster will present a literature review that the nation's richest and promoting the long-term American politics. Critics argue that interest groups explores political campaign contributions and success of American democracy. Such policies have corrupt the political process by giving those with Political Action Committees. Research will be the difficult task of balancing the democratic ideals wealth excessive political power. While the advent provided to show the process through which policy of freedom and equality, which, especially in the of interest groups is largely responsible for the is shaped to influence economic inequality in the realm of taxation, are not easily reconciled. involvement of money in politics, proponents argue United States. ______that interest groups do not only represent the ______141 • The Effect of Economic wealthy. Rather, they also serve as a means to help 138 • Exploring the American Dream Inequality on Higher Education in individuals of a lower socioeconomic status, during the Great Depression and providing them an organized and effective political America voice that they otherwise would not be able to WWII (1929- 1949) and the Post War NATHAN JAKWAY attain. My research inquires as to whether the Era (1949-Present), FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL economically disadvantaged are equally KERAN MATTU SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS represented, as proponents of interest groups FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Over the course of the past few decades, economic suggest. My analysis proves that the economically SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS inequality has increased significantly in the United disadvantaged are relatively underrepresented by The foundation of the American Dream lies in The States, expanding the gap between the wealthiest interest groups, severely undermining the Declaration of Independence, where it states that Americans and the rest of society. Educational democratic principles embedded in the United "all men are created equal, that are endowed by attainment has long been viewed as an important States political system. Secondly, I present various their creator with certain unalienable rights, that means of decreasing inequality and improving social potential solutions that might help to restore the among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of mobility. College attendance has soared in recent political voice of the economically disadvantaged, happiness." One hundred and fifty years later, in the years, with levels currently at an all time high. How which has been impeded upon by moneyed book "The Epic of America", James Truslow Adams have these changing trends affected American interests. defines the American Dream as "that dream of a public opinion in regards to educational attainment ______land in which life should be better and richer and and economic inequality? By conducting research 135 • Marriage and Economic fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each on public opinion polls, academic sources, the inequality; Does marriage work as a according to ability or achievement." Both these census and economic data, we are able to interpretations contain the essence of the American investigate the relationship between economic barrier of class mobility? Dream but how have times altered it? Is the inequality and educational attainment, and JIWON KIM American Dream now a pursuit of materialistic determine how Americans perception of the two FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL items? Do we no longer care about our "unalienable affects public opinion on the matter. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS rights" as long as we have the capacity to buy a new ______I am working on a research question of 'Does car or bigger house? How have the differing 142 • Religion and Economic marriage reinforce the economic inequality and economic and political atmospheres between the Inequality in America: Exacerbating serve as a barrier to class mobility?' There is a big Great Depression and WWII (1929-1949) and the correlation between economic inequality and class Post-War era (1949-present) changed public views or Ameliorating the Growing Gap mobility. Additionally, economic inequality is getting of the American Dream? Between the Haves and the Have worse under the current economic recessions and ______Nots? consequently class mobility is a fixed concept these 139 • Policy for Increasing Economic days. I concluded that marriage is also contributing ALEXANDRA FASULO economic inequality and harder to escalate in upper Equality Through Redistribution FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL class percentiles. By the comparative perspective, I Using a Progressive Tax Structure SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS compared and contrasted the United States and EVAN ANDERSON Since the 1960s, the amount of Unaffiliated and other developed countries or still developing FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Observant Evangelical Protestants in the United countries in terms of marriage affecting inequality. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS States has simultaneously increased. The pressure ______A policy designed around Keynesian economics to these two groups have place on political parties has 136 • Money and Rhetoric: The Think promote demand for work. Progressive tax greatly contributed to the increasing party Tanks of America, Who Funds Them structures can be used to redistribute wealth from polarization, and therefore extremely opposite the top of the income bracket to the bottom, which policy preferences. At the same time, the financially and the Strings Attached should increase consumer demand as a greater secure American citizens have championed cultural NEAL HUNTER number of individuals have an increased income to rights, while the poor citizens have often put FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL spend. The increase in consumer demand should economic conditions before religious worries. This SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS increase the demand for labor, lowering presentation will look at one of the biggest Focus on the major American think tanks that shape unemployment. This also promotes economic questions facing politicians today: why isn't politics political conversation today. There is a significant k equality and equality of opportunity by increasing what you think it would be about? The rich can between the money that flows into these large the economic status and ability of the lower income afford to focus their time and resources on cultural organizations and what they focus on and advocate. quintiles. concerns, whereas the poor often put economic Wealthy donors don't necessarily contribute to such ______concerns as their number one priority. The rich, groups without attaching their own criteria towards 140 • Proposals for Tax Reform to additionally, can afford to have a louder voice in what is researched and addressed. These donations politics due to their access to political networks and are often political maneuvers to shape the Ameliorate Income Inequality in the campaign contributions. Cultural disagreements are conversation about certain policy issues in the United States not leaving politics anytime soon, and will continue public sphere. WILLIAM MELVIN to polarize the country, by region and income ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL bracket. Religion is in fact exacerbating the growing SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS income gap, as well as leaving moderately religious 41

Posters 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual people feeling alienated from the organized church economic inequality has stunted socioeconomic FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL grasp on the Republican Party. mobility; the under-representation of the lower SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______classes; and the problems of a top-down civic The United States of America has always been 143 • Spatial Analysis of Income structure. Additionally, public opinion data and viewed as a land of opportunity. People from all Inequality in the United States quantitative analysis are used to determine the nations have flocked to America with the desire to salience of socioeconomic and opportunity obtain the proverbial American Dream. Lately, STEVEN LUBRANO inequality, and whether high inequality has any however, this Dream has become more of a myth FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL correlation with the perceived attainability of the and less of a reality. Since the 1970s, there has been SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS American dream. a steady rise in economic inequality between the This poster will examine the spatial distribution of ______poor and the wealthiest. To close this income income inequality across the United States. Using disparity, many Americans have supported greater Geographic Information System technology, 146 • The Impact of The Occupy government spending on education. It has been economic, demographic, social and political data Movement on American Politics proven that when citizens attain a higher will be plotted and studied at a geographic DEVIN MCCONNELL educational level, society benefits politically, perspective. Prior research from the Equality of FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL socially, and economically. Unfortunately, however, Opportunity Project will serve as a foundation for SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS not every educational system is equal. Using the this research. An examination of the impact the Occupy Wall St. New York State educational system as a case study, ______movement has had on the trajectory of American my work examines the impact of socioeconomic politics including the 2012 election, the Obama 144 • The Earned Income Tax Credit: status in various regions of the state on individual presidency and the leftward movement of the Does it Help Ameliorate Economic school achievement. By looking at State assessment Democratic party. As well as the lasting efforts of results, my work concludes that school districts with Inequality in America? the movement to affect change in nontraditional families of higher socioeconomic backgrounds ELIZABETH HAYES ways such as the Rolling Jubilee, Occupy The SEC, perform better on assessments than school districts FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Occupy Our Homes and other groups that are an SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS with high levels of poverty. outgrowth of the original movement. This paper will discuss the earned income tax credit ______(EITC) and its impact on reducing the increasing 147 • The Minimum Wage's Affect PSYCHOLOGY level of economic inequality that exists in the 150 • Maternal and Child United States today. It will discuss the law's history, on Income Inequality as well as its evolution over the years during ISAAC BASKIN Perceptions of Latino Children's different presidential administrations. It will discuss FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Sibling Relationships the EITC as it relates to the politics of welfare policy; SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CECIBELL MONTALBAN, SANNY PERALTA, SCARLET should the tax system be involved in "welfare Over the years the minimum wage has steadily risen NUNEZ, NATALIA FIGUEROA reform"? What effect has the EITC had on working while the income gap between the richest and FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY poor, middle class and upper income Americans? poorest Americans has grown as well. As Congress Research conducted on Latino children's family Has the policy actually reduced poverty in the US? debates whether or not to raise the minimum wage, relationships is extremely limited, despite the fact This paper will discuss the challenges of to what extent are these increases related? Does a that the Latino population is the fastest growing implementing the EITC correctly so the right people higher minimum wage mean a larger or smaller minority group in the United States. In previous are benefiting from it. Is economic inequality income gap? Based on its affect on income research, Latino parents were found to encourage reduced more effectively by the EITC rather than inequality should Congress raise the minimum their children to identify with the prescribed roles in other social programs? Do the people who would wage? the family and community, while repressing goals ______benefit most from the EITC understand it and take for individual gain, needs, and self- determination advantage of it? If they receive the benefit, how has 148 • What happened to the (Coll & Garcia, 1995). Surprisingly, there is very little it helped them reduce the stress of being toward American Dream? research on Latino children's sibling relationships the bottom of the economic ladder? What is the KATHRYN CARDINAL and no research at all on how mothers and children level of abuse and cheating? The debate over FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL perceive those relationships. The present study raising the minimum wage will also be discussed. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS examined mothers' and children's perceptions of Does raising the minimum wage reduce With economic inequality at an all time high in the children's sibling relationships. Because of the employment opportunities for lower income America, is there still an ideology that hard work is importance place on family obligations in Latino Americans thereby keeping them down? enough to make dreams come true? This poster will culture, we expected that sibling relationships ______look at the "American Dream" as an aspect of our might be perceived somewhat differently and 145 • The Elusive American Dream: collective American identity. Using recent social perhaps more positively, than in Anglo families. We Inequality and its Effects on mobility data I will demonstrate that the empirical also expected that Latina mothers might have more evidence of the American dream is that it is no intimate knowledge of their children's sibling Representation and Class Mobility longer a strong reality in the United States. So why relationships than Anglo mothers typically do. RYAN DEVITO then do we still hold on to the capitalistic principles Researchers hypothesized mothers and children FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL and values that go along with the American dream? questionnaire scores to be more correlated with SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS I use the data from several political scientists to each other. Selected for presentation at As economic inequality in the United States has show that Americans are simultaneously against Association for Psychological Science, San increased over the past four decades, the redistributive policies yet craving equality of Francisco, CA. quintessential "American dream" has become opportunity. Perhaps on the subject of inequality ______seemingly unattainable for many. Contemporary our American values are too strong for our own 151 • Relational, Verbal, and Americans have moved away from "old line" good. Physical Aggression in 7- Year Olds' association groups with broad platforms and large ______membership towards a sociopolitical atmosphere 149 • Why Is It That Your School Is Sibling and Friend Interactions dominated by advocacy organizations, causing a Better Than Mine? The Inequality of Across Tasks marked decline in social capital as group association DARIA SEIFERT, KATHRYN LEINUNG, CARMELA becomes more exclusive and focused. The lower Education and Why Some Schools TAYLOR, TORIA HERD, ANNA KATOMSKI, BRIAN socioeconomic classes have suffered most from this Educate Better Than Others PENLY transition as economic inequality exacerbates MARIA VOLPE-MCDERMOTT FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY opportunity inequality. This paper discusses how 42

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Children's physically, verbally, and relationally experiment ruled out alternative explanations MATTHEW COUCH, MINGSHAN ZHU, SAM aggressive behavior with sib gs and friends was based on the nature of the neutral pictures, by SCHWARTZ, AIDEN CROPSEY, MELISSA VETRANO, examined during a construction task and a free-play using neutral people rather than objects. The fear BEATRIZ SILVA, SHANNON SWIATEK, JOANNA session. The results suggest that, although task context pictures remained the same, while a third OSTROOT, JOANNA CASTROGIVANNI influences levels of children's aggression and how it context depicted people in thril g scenarios (e.g., FACULTY SPONSOR: JIM ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY is displayed, other aspects of the interaction skydiving). Compared to the neutral context, PoP Current efforts to encourage energy conservation context--specifically, gender and partner--matter as was significantly reduced following the fear and largely emphasize using energy more efficiently well. thrill contexts. These results suggest that selection (e.g., more fuel efficient automobiles). However, ______history biases may be temporarily reset by The Jevons hypothesis predicts that energy 152 • Social Engagement and emotional stimuli, allowing more efficient selection efficiencies will not always reduce energy Relationship Quality in Preschoolers' of new information in these circumstances. Selected consumption. The present study tested this for presentation at Association for Psychological hypothesis. Results indicated support for the Jevons Sibling and Friend Interactions Science, San Francisco, CA. hypothesis, particularly among individuals with JOANNA SANTOS , KALYNN SMITH, AVERY REISIG, ______strong environmental values. EUGENIA CONAWAY, CHRISTOPHER RAMSAY 155 • That's What Friends are For: ______FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY 158 • Striving to be Perceived as an Sib g and friend relationships provide different Bystander Responses to Friends and contexts for interaction and development, in part Strangers at Risk for Party Rape "Effortless Achiever" in High School because of differences in social engagement. As RENA PAZIENZA, RACHEL OLIN STACI WEISS part of a longitudinal study of sib g and friend FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: JOAN ZOOK, PSYCHOLOGY relationships, we examined sib g and friend social Party rape is a common type of sexual assault in This study investigated the influence of popularity engagement in terms of relationship qualities based college. Increasingly, colleges offer bystander and social anxiety on how adolescents want their on questionnaire data. Thirty white, middle class education with the goal of preventing party rape grades and effort (academic public selves) to be children were video taped at home in separate and other types of sexual assault. The present perceived by classmates. In addition, we examined sessions with sib gs and friends. The results suggest research investigated how a bystander's students' use of self-presentation strategies to that social engagement behavior can be indicative relationship to a potential victim affects intent to modify the impressions they make on popular of qualitative aspects of relationships. help. Based on social identity theory, bystanders peers. Participants (N = 179) from a diverse, urban ______were expected to report greater intent to help a high school rated how much they wanted peers to 153 • The Relationship Between friend than a stranger at risk as well as fewer view them as similar to hypothetical students varying in effort and grades (e.g., "Kevin gets As and Prosocial Behavior and Aggression in barriers (lack of personal responsibility, audience inhibition, empathic concern, victim blame) to Bs in all his classes without needing to work hard or 4-year-old Sibling and Peer helping. Undergraduates (N = 151) were randomly study") and self-reports of self-presentation Interactions assigned to one of two party vignettes in which they strategy use (e.g., "When around popular peers, see a sober man lead an intoxicated woman (friend how often do you hide high test scores?"). DANIELA TROCCHIA, BRITTANY LOVE, LENA FREED, Popularity was assessed with peer nominations. CAROLINE GOLDSCHEIN, ALI ARNOLD, LESLEY or stranger) into a bedroom. The primary dependent variable was intent to help. As expected, Results indicated that high social anxiety was DALTON, ZOE MARSHALL positively correlated with self-presentation strategy FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY bystanders intended to offer more help to friends than strangers. Compared to strangers at risk, use. Socially anxious, hard-working, high-GPA Prosocial behavior and aggression are frequently students were most likely to use the "claim to study exhibited in 4-year-old sibling and peer interactions. friends at risk elicited more empathic concern and personal responsibility but did not affect audience less" strategy. These academically successful yet Our results suggest that siblings partake in a greater socially anxious students, as well as popular amount of prosocial behaviors and aggression than inhibition or victim blame. Effective bystander education programs may promote personal students with lower grades, were most likely to peers. Additionally, prosocial behavior was have ideal selves with good grades and low effort. positively correlated with relational aggression in responsibility and empathic concern for others generally to prevent party rape. Selected for Together, these findings suggest that social norms sibling interactions. Selected for presentation at in high school dictate that students should project Association for Psychological Science, San presentation at Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA. an image of "effortless achievement" if they want to Francisco, CA. be popular. Selected for presentation at ______156 • Sexy Environmentalist: Do Association for Psychological Science, San 154 • Arousal Affects Attentional Francisco, CA. Guidance based on Selection History Erotized Environmental Messages ______HANNAH WYLAND Work? 159 • Predicting Individual FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY MOUNTS, MATTHEW COUCH, SAMUEL SCHWARTZ, Differences in Response to Daily PSYCHOLOGY MINGSHAN ZHU, AIDEN CROPSEY, MELISSA Research has begun to examine whether emotional VETRANO, SHANNON SWIATEK, BEATRIZ SILVA , Challenge stimuli might influence visual attention. Here, we JOANNA OSTROOT, JOANNA CASTROGIVANNI JENNIFER PARR, ALEXIS BRIEANT, MARY examine whether selection history biases, in the FACULTY SPONSOR: JIM ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY PANDOLFINO, EVAN ROONEY, JULE DEREN form of Priming-of-Popout (PoP), are influenced by Environmentalists are increasingly using eroticized FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, PSYCHOLOGY emotional stimuli. In the PoP paradigm, messages to promote their cause. This research Profiles of response to daily challenges were homogenous distractors are displayed along with a investigated the effectiveness of this tactic. examined in a sample of 171 undergraduates. target defined by a unique feature (e.g., color). The Participants viewed simulations of an eroticized Participants completed a questionnaire containing features of the target and distractors vary across video currently used by environmentalists, or a measures assessing personality, life experiences, trials, with PoP defined as faster target control video. Results indicated that the eroticized mental health, and coping strategies. For the next identification when the defining feature repeats video was not effective in promoting environmental five days participants identified challenges, and across trials rather than changing. In the first attitudes and behavioral intentions their effectiveness in dealing with those challenges experiment, we induced a fearful or neutral context ______was assessed. Results indicated significant by briefly presenting a picture before the search 157 • Energy Effiency Does Not associations between baseline variables and display. The pictures were of interpersonal violence subsequent response to daily challenges. Problem- or household objects. The results indicated that PoP Necessarily Reduce Energy Use: A focused coping and depression significantly significantly decreased in the fear context Test of Jevons Paradox predicted effectiveness in dealing with new compared to the neutral context. A second challenges. In addition, problem-focused coping, depression, and anxiety each uniquely predicted 43

Posters 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual subsequent goals in dealing with daily challenges. responses may be affected by individual mental a structure in the hypothalamus that plays an Problem-focused coping and anxiety were inversely health status, creating a dynamic and reciprocal important role in the thyroid hormone cycle. To associated - and depression was positively relationship between mental health and coping. investigate, immature mice were exposed to 20 associated - with emotion focused goals. Finally, Selected for presentation at Association for mg/kg/day decaBDE from postnatal day 1-21. Brain detached and problem-focused coping significantly Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA. samples were removed on day 22, sectioned, predicted variability in coping goals. Cluster analysis ______stained, and imaged at 20x magnification. ImageJ identified two groups who demonstrated distinct 162 • Effects of Developmental software was used to estimate the PVN area and coping profiles. The first group was more likely to Exposure to the Brominated Flame obtain an overall cell count. The anticipated result choose problem-solving goals and was more for this work-in-progress is that decaBDE exposure effective in meeting those goals, whereas second Retardant, DecaBDE, on the will produce a volumetric reduction of the PVN group was more likely to choose emotion-focused Hippocampus of the C57BL6/J Mouse and/or a reduction of cellular density. Such findings goals and was less effective in meeting their goals. ISAAC TEBOUL, ZACHARY OLSON, JOHN NG, could suggest that decaBDE disrupts the thyroid MANOVA indicated that the first group had SUDHAT ASHOK, BRIANA PANGRAZIO hormone cycle via decreased cell growth and significantly lower levels of baseline depression, FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, differentiation within the PVN. anxiety, and neuroticism than the second group. PSYCHOLOGY ______These results highlight that pre-existing individual Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) have been 164 • Effects of Prenatal Exposure to differences may contribute to different approaches used as flame retardants in many commercial Arsenic-Contaminated Drinking to meeting daily challenges. Selected for products including plastics, building materials, and presentation at Association for Psychological textiles. PBDEs are also environmental toxicants Water on the Hippocampus of the Science, San Francisco, CA. that bioaccumulate in adipose tissue and disrupt C57BL6/J Mouse ______the functioning of thyroid hormone, an essential MORGAN DAVIES, ANATOLE MALUKOFF, KARL 160 • Temperament Plasticity: The regulatory hormone in the neurodevelopmental WISSEMAN, VINCENT VAN VLIET Effect of Family Discord on Child process of myelination. Previous research in our lab FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, has shown that mice exposed to the fully- PSYCHOLOGY Temperament Development brominated PBDE (decaBDE) performed poorly in Arsenic is a potent nervous system toxicant that has MING ZHU, ALLISON WILCK, DANIEL HU operant behavior tasks. Impaired performance in been shown to impair intellectual functioning in FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, PSYCHOLOGY learning tasks implicates the hippocampus, a brain children following early developmental exposure. This research is based on data from Project STEP. structure with an intricate network of cell body The hippocampus is an area of the brain associated Following the emotional security theory, we are fields connected by myelinated axonal pathways. with memory consolidation in humans and animal looking at the effects interpersonal relationships The objective of this work-in-progress is to studies have shown that arsenic reduces have on young children's temperamental determine the effects of perinatal exposure to 0, 6, hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors and increases development. SPSS analysis of cognitive behavioral or 20 mg/kg/day decaBDE on myelin concentrations neuronal apoptosis. Earlier findings in our lab have questionnaires (CBQ) indicates a negative in the hippocampi of male and female mouse shown that prenatal arsenic exposure produced a correlation between family discord and inhibitory brains. Brain sections were collected and stained life-long pattern of motor and attention control, frustration, and anger displays of the child. with Luxol Fast Blue, which selectively stains impairments in the C57BL6/J mouse. To examine ______lipoproteins in the myelin sheath. Sections were the relationship between these behavioral effects 161 • The Unique Contributions of imaged and staining intensity was quantified with and cellular changes in the hippocampus, pregnant Daily Coping to Subsequent Mental ImageJ software. We hypothesize that myelin C57BL6/J mice were exposed to varying levels (0, 8, Health concentration will be negatively associated with 25 or 80 ppm) of sodium arsenite in their drinking increasing levels of exposure, especially in the CA3 water. The brains from their offspring were MARY PANDOLFINO, EVAN ROONEY, JENNIFER region of the hippocampus. This study aims to collected on postnatal day 21, sectioned, stained PARR, ALEXIS BRIEANT, JULE DEREN elucidate a potential mechanism by which exposure with cresyl violet, and imaged at 20x magnification. FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, PSYCHOLOGY to the ubiquitous environmental toxicant decaBDE ImageJ software was used to estimate the areas of This study examined patterns of coping over a five- impacts neurodevelopment and subsequent the hippocampal fields and to obtain cell counts. day period in a sample of undergraduates. cognitive functioning. The anticipated result for this work-in-progress is Participants' goals in meeting daily challenges, ______that arsenic exposure will produce volumetric effectiveness in achieving those goals, and baseline reduction of the hippocampal fields and/or a and subsequent mental health were assessed. In a 163 • Effects of Developmental reduction of cellular densities. Unfortunately, sample of 83 undergraduates, participants Exposure to the Brominated Flame arsenic exposure in children is common and the completed an initial assessment of baseline Retardant, DecaBDE, on the entire scope of behavioral and cellular characteristics including current symptoms of consequences must be documented in order to depression and anxiety. For the next five days Paraventricular Nucleus of the develop effective remediation. participants identified challenges and their C57BL6/J Mouse ______effectiveness in dealing with them. On Day 5, KEITH MORRIS-SCHAFFER, CAITLYN EDWARDS, 165 • Positive Allosteric Modulation mental health was re-assessed. Results from the JONATHAN LAU, RANDY CHEUNG study revealed significant bivariate associations FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, of mGluR5 Rescues Diminished among baseline symptoms, daily goals and PSYCHOLOGY Sucrose Preference in a Neonatal effectiveness ratings, and Day 5 mental health. Decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) is a widely- Baseline mental health was associated with used brominated flame retardant and MK-801 Model of Schizophrenia subsequent response to daily challenges, and it was environmental contaminant that has been shown to PATRICK MILLER-RHODES, ANNA ESCHLER, KEITH strongly correlated with Day 5 mental health. Daily reduce thyroid hormone levels during critical MORRIS-SCHAFFER, JON LAU effectiveness and variability in effectiveness periods of development. Adequate circulating levels FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, predicted Day 5 depression over and above baseline of thyroid hormone are essential for healthy brain, PSYCHOLOGY depression. In addition variability accounted for Day bone and muscle development. Our lab has Allosteric modulation of metabotropic glutamate 5 anxiety. Results indicate the impact of daily previously shown that decaBDE altered the receptors (mGluRs) represents a novel therapeutic challenges on mental health. Over and above differentiation of osteoblasts and reduced forelimb strategy in antipsychotic drug development. The baseline symptomatology, one's response to grip strength indicating impaired neuromuscular or present experiment used a neonatal N-methyl-D- subsequent challenges can impact current mental bone development in a mouse model. The current aspartate (NMDA) antagonbist mouse model of health: less effective and more variable responses study is examining the effects of decaBDE on the schizophrenia to investigate motivational behaviors to challenge can negatively affect well-being. These development of the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), that might be relevant to the negative symptoms (e.g. reductions in motivation, diminished response 44

2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual Posters to rewards, etc) observed in schizophrenia. To 17-year-olds were videotaped completing separate Sarcasm appears to be associated with both determine whether neonatal NMDA antagonism (on baking or cooking tasks with both a sibling and conflicts and averted conflicts, but the role of postnatal days 7-10) results in a diminished same-sex friend. Pre-established conflict jocularity in conflict and averted conflict seems to response to rewards, we used a widely used interactions within these tape sessions were then be relationship-specific. Sarcasm may serve an preclinical measure of anhedonia: the two-bottle analyzed and coded. Our results suggest that oppositional function in averted conflicts with both sucrose preference test. We found a reduction in differences exist in the use of assertive and sib gs and friends, even though the opposition is not sucrose preference in male mice neonatally affiliative language across 17 year old same-sex and reciprocated. On the other hand, adolescents may exposed to the NMDA antagonist MK-801. This mixed-sex sibling pairs, particularly when context, use jocularity as a way of averting conflicts with sib deficit was rescued by treatment with CDPPB, a gender, and partner relationship are taken into gs, but as a way of softening conflicts with friends. novel mGluR5 positive allosteric modulator, during consideration. Selected for presentation at Additional examination of exactly how sarcasm and adolescence (postnatal days 35-44). Our results Association for Psychological Science, San jocularity are used in conflict and averted conflict demonstrate that positive allosteric modulation of Francisco, CA. will be needed to explain this pattern of mGluR5 during adolescence reverses the diminished ______associations. Selected for presentation at sucrose consumption induced by the NMDAR 167 • Conflict, Averted Conflict, and Association for Psychological Science, San hypofunction mouse model. Francisco, CA. ______Verbal Irony in 17-year-olds' Sibling 166 • Assertive and Affiliative and Friend Interactions INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS BRIANNA HEUSER, NICHOLAS PALUMBO, MOLLY Language use in 17-Year-Old Sibling VIERHILE, MADELEINE REISGERZOG, COURTNEY 168 • My Homeland: Korea: Come and Peer pairs during Conflicts WOOLEVER, AUSTIN SIMON, ROSE ZINKOWSKI Visit, Work and Study DANIEL VOLK, LAUREN AULET, MEGAN FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY YEON BRIANA CHOI, CHAE YOUNG OH, DOHYUN MCLAFFERTY, BRIDGET SOVOCOOL, LAUREN LALO, Adolescents make frequent use of verbal irony, but KIM, SOOHYUN YOO, JISOO YOO MARIBETH EBBERS there has been little research on exactly how they FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV, FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY use various forms of irony in specific social contexts. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS Research on gender differences in children's and One setting in which adolescents seem likely to use International students from South Korea will adolescents' use of assertive and affiliative language verbal irony is conflict with sib gs and friends. introduce their country: interesting facts about its has focused primarily on interactions with same-sex Previous research in our lab has found differences geography, culture, language, Do's and Don'ts for peers in a general setting. Relatively little is known in adolescents' use of sarcasm and jocularity with international visitors. This poster presentation is about how adolescent boys' and girls' use of sib gs and friends, as well as in their sib g and friend especially interesting for those Geneseo students language may change with different partners and conflicts. We examined connections between who are planning to teach English in Korea. within specific contexts. As part of a longitudinal conflict, averted conflict, and various forms of ______study, we examined 17- year olds' use of assertive verbal irony in adolescents' interactions. Our results and affiliative language during conflict interactions suggest that the connections between verbal irony with siblings and peers. Forty white, middle- class and conflict are more complex than we suspected.

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SESSION 3 CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS SESSION 4 CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS 2:25 – 3:40 PM 3:50 – 5:05 PM ______3A • ANTHROPOLOGY SOUTH 338 4A • ANTHROPOLOGY I WELLES 133 Global Health II: Global Reproductive Health ______4B • HISTORY WELLES 131 3B • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS II NEWTON 201 New Perspectives on New York History ______3C • BUSINESS SOUTH 340 4C • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS III NEWTON 201 Fed Challenge: The Current State of the Economy ______4D • BUSINESS II SOUTH 328 3D • CHEMISTRY NEWTON 203 ______Chemistry Honors Research Presentations 2 4E • CHEMISTRY NEWTON 203 ______Chemistry Honors Research Presentations III 3E • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 8 WELLES 123 ______English, Languages and Literatures, Philosophy 4F • EDUCATION MILNE 208 ______Geneseo Storytelling Institute 3F • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 7 WELLES 121 ______Art, English 4G • EDUCATION WELLES 123 ______This is Ghana-be Fun: Reflections on the Ghana Student 3G • EDUCATION SOUTH 328 Teaching Experience Keeping Kids in School: Year Eight ______4H • ENGLISH WELLES 111 3H • ENGLISH DOTY TOWER ROOM What we've been up to: The Thoreau-Harding Project Love & Line Breaks ______4I • ENGLISH WELLES 121 3I • ENGLISH WELLES 131 Three Perspectives in Anglo-Irish Drama The Individual Quest for Justice and Truth ______4J • GOLD II CU 319 3J • GEOGRAPHY II WELLES 216 ______4K • HISTORY WELLES 140 3K • GOLD I CU 319 Encountering the Nazis ______3L • HISTORY WELLES 140 4L • ENGLISH WELLES 119 History Honors Theses: Reform Movements, Historical Memory, Interdisciplinary: English & Language and Literatures and Immigration Litigation ______4M • MATHEMATICS III ISC 131 3M • MILNE LIBRARY MILNE 213 ______Interdisciplinary: Give Kids the World and Insomnia Film Festival 4N • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 336 ______Logic, philosophy, and aesthetics in an artificial language 3N • INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM MILNE 109 ______4O • MUSIC WELLES 26 3O • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 336 Writing About Music History of Mathematics III ______4P • PHILOSOPHY WELLES 138 3P • MATHEMATICS II ISC 131 ______4Q • POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 3Q • MUSIC WELLES 138 International Relations Honors Theses WELLES 24 Beethoven Everywhere ______4R • ENGLISH MILNE 105 3R • POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Stories from Service Abroad MILNE 105 ______Enjoy Courtroom Drama at the Mock Trial of the Year 4S • THEATRE/DANCE BRODIE DANCE STUDIO ______Exploring the Choreographic Process Through Dance 3S • SOCIOLOGY WELLES 115 Composition and Performance Making a Difference Internationally ______4T • WOMEN'S STUDIES SOUTH 340 3T • PSYCHOLOGY WELLES 119 Senior Capstones in Women's Studies: Activist Projects Factors Predicting Unwanted, Yet Compliant, Sexual Behavior ______

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3A • ANTHROPOLOGY SOUTH 338 education as well as the role of gender bias and showed that the drug significantly reduced the stigmas. amount of prions in the system. The potential Global Health II: Global Reproductive predictive power of our models is demonstrated Health 3B • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS II mathematically and supported by recent literature. Further research into the mechanism of Quinacrine FACULTY SPONSOR: ROSE-MARIE CHIERICI, NEWTON 201 ANTHROPOLOGY can lead to more realistic models in the future. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GREGG SESSION CHAIR: MADELYN SAYED ______HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY ______Modeling the Evolution of Predator- FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTOPHER LEARY, Barriers to Contraceptive Use and MATHEMATICS Prey Dynamics Access in the U.S. and Sweden ______MARY BAILEY, NATHAN CHAU, BRIANNA TYLEC HEATHER CALNAN, EVE SUTHERIN, MEAGAN A Temperature and Precipitation Predator-prey dynamics are complex systems with MULCAHY, TSUKINO ISAKA, ELIZABETH PIPER Dependent Model of Dengue Fever numerous variables that affect the result of the Our project examines the religious, economic, interactions between predators and their prey. We cultural and social barriers that prevent access and with Control Factors in Florida created our own theoretical predator-prey system, use of contraceptives. We will compare two JACLYN HELLREICH, KIMBERLY MOVSESIAN, employing an agent-based model with variables developed countries with different perspectives and ANDREW PENSONEAULT such as speed, predation and evasion. We simulated approaches to contraceptive use. The United States Dengue fever is a vector-borne viral infection which the evolutionary change of these variables over has had a historically conservative approach to is transmitted to humans by the Aedes aegypti and multiple generations to determine the impact they contraceptive use while Sweden has been more Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. These species thrive have on predator-prey relations. We found that liberal. Data for this project will come from a review in warm, wet environments, like those found in over successive generations, the average speed of of scholarly and popular sources. Additional data South and Central America, Southern Africa, and both the predator and prey populations increased. will come from interviews with health care workers Southern Asia. Although A. aegypti and A. Modeling predator-prey systems would allow us to at Planned Parenthood centers in the United States. albopictus species are both found in the Southern make predictions for the interactions of real We will identify the barriers that prevent access to United States, dengue fever has not been found in populations and how they change over time. and/or use of various contraceptive methods. this area. However, dengue fever could emerge due ______to the climate of southern United States. A Modeling the Effects of Temperature Human Papillomavirus differential equations model was developed to on the Spread of Yellow Band ELIZABETH LIPUMA, PAIGE WESOLOWSKI, MARIA predict the spread of dengue fever, if introduced to BLATNER, EMILY FALSTEWART, ESTEFANIA the southern US state of Florida. Stochastic disease in Coral and Subsequent TRUJILLO elements for temperature and precipitation were Bleaching Research shows that sexually active men and added to the model to predict fluctuations in the KELSEY WATKINS, GORDON WONG, CHRISTOPHER women will get at least onetype of Human populations of the Aedes species in the state of SUMMERVILLE Papillomavirus (HPV) in their lifetime Florida. If implementation of control strategies, Bleaching is a phenomenon in which corals expel (http://www.cdc.gov/STD/HPV/STDFact-HPV.htm). such as larvicide, were increased over the Aedes their pigmented symbiotic zooxanthellae in The Center for Disease Control suggests that the population before an introduction of dengue fever, response to stressors such as infection. Over a HPV vaccine can prevent nearly 20,000 cases of there would be a decrease of cases in the initial particular temperature threshold, susceptibility of cervical cancer each year in the U.S. alone. Around epidemic and the disease would not become corals to infection by the bacterium Vibrio the world 466,000 women develop cervical cancer a endemic. This model could predict a successful increases, causing the disease known as yellow year and half of them perish from the control strategy for a dengue fever outbreak in band disease. When the surrounding ocean reaches disease(http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/06/3 Florida. the threshold temperature, particularly in the /gr060304.htm l). Most of these deaths occur in ______Caribbean, the rate of growth of Vibrio increases Africa, South Asia and Latin America. Why has no Modelling Prion Replication and the enough to outcompete the beneficial microbes progress been made to prevent this virus when Effects of an Anti-Prion Drug living on the mucus substrate of the coral. A system treatment is available? This project will explore the THOMAS HARTVIGSEN, BRANDON BERRY, JACOB of differential equations was created to model the education programs, preventative care policies, and GOLDBERG, ZACH STREEM infection. Temperature variability was incorporated available treatment options to address Prions are misfolded proteins that attach to other to test the sensitivity of the corals to infection by papillomavirus infections and how the disease proteins and cause them to misfold. One relatively Vibrio and subsequent bleaching. Our model affects people specifically in the U.S., South Africa, common prion disease, called Creutzfeldt-Jakob suggests that temperature spikes over the threshold Argentina and India. disease, is diagnosed in about one in every one value will initially cause coral to become more ______million people in the United States each year. Two susceptible to infection, but extended periods over Fertility in Egypt and Lebanon models were developed to predict replication of the threshold will cause corals to become infected CARLY BIONDI, JENNIFER LEVY, CAMERON prion molecules using experimentally determined and bleached. The temperature range and interval RINALDI, LINDSAY RYTEL parameters of propagation. A differential equation necessary for either survival or bleaching of the Our research will examine issues related to fertility model and a lattice model were constructed to coral were investigated in this model. This interval is in Egypt and Lebanon. We will focus on the beliefs compare the am of prions compared to the number vital to understanding and predicting how global and practices that surround fertility in Egypt and of correctly folded proteins over time. The models climate change may reduce the abundance of coral, Lebanon by evaluating key factors including: fertility displayed successful continuous growth of prion and how this may impact the coral reef ecosystem. trends, birth practices and reproductive technology. forms while the number of correctly folded proteins Although these countries share common cultural decreased. To alter these models, a hypothetical 3C • BUSINESS SOUTH 340 elements, it is important to evaluate the societal anti-prion drug was introduced to the system at Fed Challenge: The Current State of norms, socio-economic factors and governmental different concentrations to see its effect on prion structures that affect the way each country views replication. The model drug was based on the Economy fertility. This project will evaluate f barriers to Quinacrine, which is currently being studied for its FACULTY SPONSOR: LEONIE STONE, BUSINESS maternal health, contraceptives and sexual potential treatment of prion diseases. The models SESSION CHAIR: SEAN ETTER ______47

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SEAN ETTER, STEPHANIE ALLEN, JIMMY HATEM, pyridyl)benzimidazole and 2-(2- presentation will provide counter-evidence to the JUAN LOPEZ, LUCAS LEHMKUHL, MIKE HURSON, thiophene)benzimidazole. These compounds were false conceptions about both fields that have MATT BROOKS later used as starting materials for the construction provoked and perpetuated this crisis. A thorough discussion of the factors influencing the of unsymmetrical disubstituted benzimidazoles. By ______direction of the economy with a specific look at building benzimidazole with two unique The Conscious Mind and Quantum monetary policy. substituents, we hope to maximize functionality of Measurement: A Philosophical these molecules. This project is ongoing. 3D • CHEMISTRY NEWTON 203 Spectroscopic and X-ray structural results of the Analysis of Entanglement and Other Chemistry Honors Research mentioned compounds will be presented. Phenomena in Quantum Mechanics ______NEAL PLOFKER Presentations 2 Isolation and Investigation of Natural FACULTY SPONSORS: THEODORE EVERETT, FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JAMES Products from Anaphalis PHILOSOPHY AND MCGARRAH, CHEMISTRY KURT FLETCHER PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY ______margaritacea The Cartesian doctrine of mind-body interactionism Photophysical Characterization of CAROLYN LEVINN has long been ridiculed for being philosophically Luminescent Square Planar Secondary metabolites (Natural Products, NPs) are 'spooky' and therefore subject to skepticism. Many non-ubiquitous biological compounds synthesized Pt(C^N)Cl(PPh3) Complexes modern philosophers have adopted physicalism in mostly by plants, but also by some other organisms, order to avoid the problems associated with BENJAMIN NAGASING such as fungi and bacteria. These products interactionism, and more importantly to remain Luminescent platinum complexes are of great frequently serve as a defensive barrier for their consistent with recent developments in interest for their potential applications in organic host, and often translate in some form to humans neuroscience and psychology. Scientific light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The emission energy as pharmacologically active compounds. The Helms developments are essential in driving research in of these organometallic complexes can be tuned at group has worked to characterize the philosophy of mind. One experiment in quantum the molecular level by changing the ligands of the physiologically active NPs present in Anaphalis mechanics, originally conducted by John Bell in complex, which alters the electronic structure. A margaritacea, a perennial dicot that has been used 1964 and inspired by the thought-experiments of series of Pt(C^N)Cl(PPh3) complexes, where (C^N) = for centuries for its medicinal properties. The Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen in the 1930s, gave 2-phenylpyridine , 2-(2,4-difluoro)-phenylpyridine, compounds present in the roots and tops of A. rise to the theorem that a purely physicalist theory or 2-thienylpyridine, and PPh3 = margaritacea were extracted and then isolated of science cannot adequately account for the triphenylphosphine, have been prepared from the through column chromatography. Fractions predictions made through quantum mechanics. This reaction of PPh3 with the corresponding µ-chloro collected were characterized via NMR and GCMS work, known as Bell's theorem, produced bridged dimers. These complexes are highly analyses, and prominent compounds were controversy in the scientific community at the time luminescent in the solid state but exhibit little to no identified. The Helms group has also extracted and of its publication, for it experimentally confirmed luminescence in solution. They have been analyzed the essential oils of A. margaritacea, and the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum characterized by NMR and IR spectroscopy and X- their relationship with Vanessa virginiensis, the mechanics and therefore rejected local realism ray crystallography. Absorption and solid-state American Painted Lady butterfly. In vivo tests were through the phenomenon of entanglement. Bell's emission spectroscopies have been performed on performed with V. virginiensis. Additionally, NMR work suggests that physicalism does not provide a these complexes in order to understand the studies of friedelin, a NP from cork, were conducted complete picture of reality and some non-physical differences between isolated solution and the solid as a model for investigating triterpenes isolated component of the universe may be necessary to state, and how these different environments from A. margaritacea. Results will be presented. explain quantum phenomena. This analysis of Bell's influence the electronic states. Additionally, theorem provides a scientific basis for the existence preparation of the 2-(2,4-difluoro)-phenylpyridine 3E • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 7 of a kind of non-physical entity which yields an dimer resulted in the formation of an additional 'intelligent observer', and therefore ontological product, Pt(C^N)2Cl2. This compound is particularly WELLES 121 SESSION CHAIR: DAVID LEVY, EDGAR FELLOWS AND grounds for interactionism. interesting because it crystallizes in a P212121 ______space group and is chiral. The characterization data PHILOSOPHY of these compounds lends significant insight into ______Sustainability in Geneseo's the fundamental photophysical processes occurring English and Physics are Totally Humanities Program within and between these complexes. Different, Right? CHRISTINE O'NEILL ______GREGORY PALERMO FACULTY SPONSOR: WES KENNISON, LANGUAGE Synthesis and Characterization of FACULTY SPONSOR: ROB DOGGETT, ENGLISH AND LITERATURES Novel Substituted Benzimidazole Those who talk of a current "crisis" in the SUNY Geneseo's singular Humanities program humanities are usually referring to the flight of challenges students "to think critically about moral, Derivatives students to majors in the supposedly more lucrative social, and political arguments in the Western MICHAEL NELLIST fields within science, technology, engineering, and intellectual tradition." One such argument that Benzimidazoles derivatives are an important class of mathematics. Enrollment statistics, however, do not continues to grow in importance is sustainability organic compounds that exhibit anticancer, support this narrative; the real "crisis" is what Penn and its environmental, economic, and social antiviral, and antifungal properties, among many State Professor of English and higher education implications. Offering a sustainability-themed others. Our research efforts focus on the synthesis writer Michael Bérubé calls one of "legitimation." section of Humanities, in which students are and structural characterization of novel mono- and The STEM fields are represented--in popular exposed to the curriculum through the lens of this di-substituted derivatives that possess the potential discourse, in academe, and here at Geneseo--as issue, would invite them to consider how to interact with transition metal ions. Thus far, two more valuable, objective, and rigorous than are the "intellectual traditions" can become solutions to structural isomers have been isolated of a chloro- humanities. As a result, students and faculty in the today's problems. Research conducted on campus substituted benzimidazole by reaction of 4-chloro- humanities, unlike their colleagues in the sciences, supports the idea that a sustainability-themed o-phenylenediamine with thiophene-2- are under constant pressure to justify the value, section of Humanities could not only situate these carboxaldehyde. We attempted chromatographic rigor, and relevance of their work. In spite of the courses in a more applicable and relevant context, separation of the two isomers. Contrary to traditional separation between the humanities and but could also address a handful of students' expectations, the two isomers co-crystallize and sciences, however, the methodologies employed by suggestions for improvement regarding the current single crystal X-ray diffraction studies reveal a small English and Physics, my two major fields of study, program. A careful examination of several required amount of minor isomer present in each sample. are not all that different. Synthesizing some literary Humanities readings demonstrates the potential for We have also synthesized 2-(2- theory with concepts from physics, this sustainability-related discussion and teaching 48

2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual Session 3 • 2:25 – 3:40 PM opportunities without changing the reading list or twice a year, although attrition has been high in this to his struggles with his faith in the Church of the core content of the program. A sustainability- highly mobile cohort. One theme that has emerged England after the loss of both his wife and younger themed section of Humanities is forward-thinking, is the sense of agency students feel. Our definition brother. The two poems, "They Are All Gone into sure to be well-received, and in fact quite plausible. of agency is the capacity of individuals to act the World of Light!" and "Cock-Crowing," feature independently and to make their own free choices. very different structures, but both contain images 3F • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 8 We have found that outside sources affect agency, of birds and symbols of light to highlight the and although individuals know that they cannot importance of belief in the face of grief. In both WELLES 123 implement their own choices, they feel agency over poems, the speaker appeals to God in an attempt to SESSION CHAIR: RON HERZMAN, ENGLISH their lives sometimes. A related theme is locus of better understand His ways, as his experiences with ______control-- the structure of institutions that loss and the Puritan victory in England cause him to Building Reclaimed Materials participants recognize as impacting their action. We question his relationship with God and reveals his ELIZABETH FAULISI will present other threads related to the narratives frustrations. FACULTY SPONSOR: EUGENE DEZARN, ART of success described by our participants. The aim of For my project I looked into sustainable furniture the research is to investigate what keep kids in WELLES 216 construction techniques and implemented some of 3J • GEOGRAPHY II school in order to recommend policies that will FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: DARRELL these in building a 3x7 dining room table from reduce the unconscionably high dropout rates reclaimed lath boards. I will be discussing the NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY among urban youth. ______benefits of sustainable construction. I will detail the Perceptions of Pyongyang process of acquiring materials, and the limitations 3H • ENGLISH DOTY TOWER ROOM that come with working with reclaimed materials. I AIDAN COFFEY will explain the construction process for my piece Love & Line Breaks For Great Day I will present a PowerPoint entitled and the setbacks I faced throughout the process. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: CORI "Perceptions of Pyongyang." The PowerPoint is ______WINROCK, ENGLISH based off of a paper I wrote for Professor Darrel Rodin in Plato's Republic: An Artist's ______Norris' "Developing World" class. Perceptions of GREAT Day Poetry Reading Pyongyang will focus on both the domestic and Experience with the Intangible AMY BISHOP, LUCIA LOTEMPIO, ERIN KOEHLER, foreign perceptions of the North Korean regime. LAUREN SLEZAK DEVIN STABLEY-CONDE, JOSEPH O'CONNOR, ANNA Specifically, I look at how North Korea is viewed on FACULTY SPONSOR: RON HERZMAN, ENGLISH KUSHNIR, CHRISTINA MORTELLARO, CHRISSY the internet through social media sites such as This project involves determining whether or not MONTELLI, ASHLEY OLIN Google +, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Many nineteenth century French sculptor Auguste Rodin Eight students from Poetry I & II will read 2-3 poems view the North Korean regime as a bizarre place, is a platonic artist and whether or not he, and/or his produced in class over the course of the Fall 2013 and assume everyone feels the same. Before body of work, might be theoretically admitted into semester. detailing my research, I will go over the standard Plato's Republic. This has been done by considering Western perception of Pyongyang. My research both Plato's artistic theories and the classical art 3I • ENGLISH WELLES 131 shows a significant level of sympathy, even within and artists that he deemed unacceptable; by the industrialized world, towards the North Korean analyzing Rodin's artistic, literary, and philosophical The Individual Quest for Justice and regime. Additionally, my reconnaissance of North influences; by investigating his memoirs; and by Truth Korea through Google Maps revealed several examining his collection of sculptures and artistic FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH suspicious profiles and activities which cannot be movements. Through the consideration of these SESSION CHAIR: ANDRE DOEMAN explained conventionally. The suspicious profiles elements, along with the factors that might impede ______will be the focus of my presentation. Rodin's admission into the Republic, we discover On Security and Justice ______the artist's experience with the intangible world. NOAH SIDER Human Rural Micro-Geography in a ______In The Republic, Plato set out to define justice. He še'i napšāti: A Series of Paintings Haitian Roadside Setting touches on the concept that justice could be the MATTHEW MCCLURE OLIVIA ASCIONE D'ELIA advantage of the stronger, creates a tripart soul FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART Western perspectives on the Developing World that holds a love of truth and wisdom keeping our often overlook the details of human activity space Flood mythology appears almost universally. This base desires in check, and believes that the pleasure series of large scale oil paintings and the at a micro level. In Developing World settings, of knowing the truths of the world is greater than including rural Haiti, the road is primarily a accompanying presentation explore the recurring any other. Parallels to these concepts can be drawn symbols and themes of deluge stories, the pedestrian space and is apt to supplement the to the situation of Edward Snowden, who revealed traditional role of the city center. My study focused representation of contemporary flood narratives, the truths of the NSA's spying to the American and the nature of oral tradition. on the activity on along a 4km portion of a people. He, like Plato, felt that the truth is not only pedestrian road in Northern Haiti, a transect from a desirable but necessary for a just existence and took 3G • EDUCATION SOUTH 328 coastal setting to a zone of hill farming. The transect it upon himself to tell the world what was exhibits two obvious segments, a coastal stretch Keeping Kids in School: Year Eight happening, at the cost of his personal livelihood. It and its interior counterpart. Two volunteers and I FACULTY SPONSORS: JANE MORSE, EDUCATION is also not unreasonable to draw connections walked this 4 km portion twice in one day. We AND between Plato's escaped prisoner in the Allegory of recorded several characteristics of all people on the BRIAN MORGAN, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION the Cave and Snowden, who struggles as the road including group size, gender make-up, age, and SESSION CHAIR: ALEXANDRA LIONETTI prisoner does in his attempts to bring the light (or activity, including photographic documentation. The ______truth) beck to the other chained prisoners. In total, results show significant differences between the CAMILLE ARTER, KATIE BAUM, CHRISTINA HEIM, Snowden's story serves to remind us that the human activity in the coastal region and the ALEXANDRA LIONETTI, KATE LOMAZZO, GRIFFIN lessons taught even in the past can still be relevant mountain region. On our second walk of the road MERVINE, APRIL MEYER today. later that day, the amount of people, activity, and ______Keeping Kids in School is an eight year longitudinal make-up of groups were noticeably different. It is study of a cohort of Rochester City School students Grief and the Struggle for Faith in striking that these socio-demographic and other who were enrolled in the Rochester Young Scholars Henry Vaughan's Poetry differences are manifest over a distance of no more Academy at Geneseo. The cohort started in the JULIANNE DE than 4 km. The human geography of the Developing study after their first summer camp experience. The My paper discusses two poems by seventeenth- World often can only be understood through its participants were in seventh or eighth grade at the century poet Henry Vaughan, and their connection micro-geography. time of recruitment. We have interviewed members ______49

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Main Street Canandaigua Adapts to adoption events, picking up dogs from the airport BRITTANY LAUDA when we moved to getting dogs out of California This is a senior thesis research project that is an the Automobile: 1900-1930 shelters, email communications. During my time analysis of a selection of Japanese media such as NATHAN TROMBLEY with the pet rescue, I was considered one of the films and animation. While film's role in creating All American main streets faced the prospect of "core" people, volunteering roughly 25 hours/week and maintaining the relationship between history accommodating the needs of the motor vehicle as for just over two years. We held events with and memory has been analyzed in other contexts the twentieth century unfolded. Canandaigua, NY, a adopters and fosters in parking lots, stores, outside and themes, the study specifically focuses on city and county seat numbering roughly 8,200 restaurants, airports, wherever we could. GPR has historical narratives of disaster and victimhood in a residents in 1900, was no exception. The passing of now saved over 6,000 dogs. My dedication and Japanese context. The post-WWII Japanese society the horse-and-buggy era and growing evidence of strength led me to being somewhat of an had to internalize and rationalize the nation's 'auto-adaptation' are apparent from a series of five authoritative figure in that when we needed a unique history in the early twentieth century, where City Directories and three Sanborn Fire Insurance strong, resolute, voice, mine was it. This was all the nation experienced its unique imperialistic Maps between 1904 and 1930. A common done when I was 22-24 years old. nationalism, WWII, and numerous natural and assumption that the operators of horse-dependent ______manmade disasters. This paper analyzes common enterprises were apt to pioneer automotive lines of Volunteer Experience at Livingston themes as well as the literary devices such as the business is largely not borne out by Canandaigua's Youth Center and Plan Proposal plot, conflict, and setting of various films and experience. Some premises, however, did cross animation. By doing this, this study aims to prove JEFFREY BOECK both eras, and logical conversions occurred too, the correlation between nationalism and concepts This paper presentation, which is for the Great Day such as blacksmiths' shops that switched to depicted in films and animation and how this relates Presentation required for the Diamond Certificate automotive repair. The transition was surprisingly to a larger historical narrative. The Japanese society of the GOLD program, is a reflection of my late. The first vehicle-related businesses had has used films as a medium that uniquely serves this volunteering at the Goodwill Livingston Youth appeared by 1914, a delay attributable perhaps to role of internalization and rationalization of its Center, as well as an analysis of why the program Canandaigua's easy electric inter-urban link to historical memory. Rochester. The last horse-related businesses had was re- designed, as well as a proposal for things to ______disappeared by 1924. By then, Main Street's dozen consider with future attempts. The beginning of the Litigation and Language: Operation auto-enterprises were relatively clustered along a paper presentation will go into the history of the two-block segment on the West side of the road. Youth Center, which will be followed by my Babylift Reinterpreted Through the Later decades of the twentieth century would see a experience there. Then the analysis will look into Courts diaspora from Canandaigua's Main Street core to its the factors that resulted in a 'redesign' of the CINDY TRIEU margins, and to US Highway 20 and NY Highway 332 program. The proposal will be a plan that will take During the fall of Saigon in April 1975, strip development. Selected for presentation at into account connections with other organizations, approximately 2700 orphans were airlifted out of Pioneer America Society Annual Meeting, Utica, day of operation, attitudes toward the program and Vietnam to the United States in what would NY. those it is for, just to name a few factors I hope to become known as "Operation Babylift." Many saw discuss. I wish to create a plan that hopefully helps the operation as an example of American altruism, 3K • GOLD I CU 319 to keep future organizations like this running and while others viewed it as another form of western FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: THOMAS continue to be an asset to those that the program is imperialism or even kidnapping. My paper will MATTHEWS, GOLD targeted toward. argue that Operation Babylift shows that one of the

______main challenges Vietnamese refugees faced was Livingston County CARES: Planning & 3L • HISTORY WELLES 140 accessing the U.S. legal system. Unlike other types Participating Diaster Relief Work History Honors Theses: Reform of refugee adaptation, there were neither alternatives to the U.S. legal system nor any way to ALYSSA STEFANESE Movements, Historical Memory, and contest the way it operated. The important role that This presentation is part of the GOLD Diamond Immigration Litigation documents, language, and translation played in Certificate requirement. This presentation will walk FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHY ADAMS, HISTORY meting out justice was often misunderstood or through my own personal experience helping to SESSION CHAIR: KATHY MAPES, HISTORY inaccessible to these refugees. By examining several plan and successfully execute the first Hurricane ______court cases in which the natural mother or relative Sandy Relief trip. It will also mention the social Women and the Dress Reform seeks custody of their child from the child's new issues and challenges that this volunteer effort adoptive parents, I will show how Operation faced in Staten Island, NY communities. It will also Movement Babylift not only highlights the difficulties in the detail a step-by-step process or procedure on how CASEY BERG refugee experience but was also a watershed in to plan a disaster relief trip. It will utilize civic I am researching the dress reform movement in the United States adoption history for it compelled U.S. engagement and leadership practices, which I have second half of the 19th century. I am looking at how lawmakers and statesmen to address and resolve learned as a Livingston CARES Board member, a two women's dress has evolved, how society responded the issue of international adoption both in time trip leader, three time work trip volunteer, to these changes, and the greater implications dress international and domestic law. GOLD, and as a presenter at the Western NY reform had on society. As health reformers and

Leadership Conference. women's rights activists became more involved in ______dress reform, health risks associated with corsets 3M • INTERDISCIPLINARY: GIVE KIDS Saving Death-Row Dogs began to surface. The Bloomer Costume, made THE WORLD AND INSOMNIA FILM popular by Amelia Bloomer, became a symbol of the BRANDON GAYLORD FESTIVAL MILNE 213 Volunteered with Ginger's Pet Rescue in Seattle dress reform movement and the struggle for women's rights. This study will look at these SESSION CHAIR: DAVID PARFITT, MILNE LIBRARY when I lived there. We worked to adopt dogs out of ______shelters with high-kill rates and placed them in changes in women's dress and the ways in which foster homes in our network of volunteers. We set the dress reform movement is connected to the Livingston Cares trip to Give Kids the up adoption events at Petsmart and Petco locations women's rights movement. World along with local businesses. We adopted out ______CASSIDY LESTER, DAVID BAKER, HAYLEE ADLEMAN, anywhere from 10-40 dogs/week over the course of Kaiju, The Apocalypse and the ERIN FROEHLICH, ALEXANDRA MORELL, MARY two years when I volunteered with them. I was Invasion of the 'Other': A Study of SHATZEL, VICTORIA STARR, JESSICA STEENBERGEN, responsible for every aspect of the rescue. This JOSHUA STONE, OLIVIA WOLFRAM, MARISSA included: finding new volunteers, coordinating Japanese Media and Popular Culture ZINONE, EMILY ZSCHOCHE fosters, scouting new locations for events, running as an Expression of Disaster Identity FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID PARFITT, MILNE LIBRARY 50

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Give Kids the World is a nonprofit village located in Misfortunes and Normalcy: A A frieze is an infinite strip that contains arepeating Kissimmee, Florida where children with life- pattern. Friezes are most commonlyfound as threatening illnesses and their families can stay for Discussion of Évariste Galois and his wallpaper borders, but can also beseen in a weeklong, cost-free vacation. For the past 5 years Intuition of Groups and Normal architecture, pottery, needlework,and in numerous Dr. David Parfitt has taken a group of 12-13 Subgroups other places. Despite theastounding variations, we Geneseo students down to the village to volunteer will see that,mathematically, there are really only JORDAN NGUYEN for a week. Students work two shifts/day and help seventypes of friezes and we will discuss The presentation will discuss the history of Évariste with various activities including serving meals, theirsymmetry groups. We will conclude by Galois- his upbringing, and genius as well as his entertainment, participating in the evening divinginto number frieze patterns, explaining howto intellectual and political endeavors as this young activities, and doing service projects around the construct them, their relation to thetriangulation of mind attempted to compete with the well-known village. They help with weekly Village events such as polygons, and we will see what symmetries they names of Cauchy, Fourier, and Poisson. Further the Winter Wonderland and Halloween party, scoop have. insight on his contribution to Group Theory and his ice cream, serve breakfast at the Gingerbread ______"leg up" on other mathematicians given his house, and run the carousel. In this presentation, development of the Normal Subgroup will be Shining Light on the "Lights Out students will discuss the history of the Village, what provided as well. Game" it means to volunteer there, and their personal ______GREGORY HARRIS, RYAN ZAREMBA experiences. An emphasis will be placed on how the FACULTY SPONSOR: OLYMPIA NICODEMI, Village has affected each student and what they How Russell's Paradox Shook up MATHEMATICS have gained from the trip, as well as on how others Cantor's Set Theory Lights Out, an electronic game, released by Tiger can be involved and help the cause. LUCAS MARTIN Toys in 1995, consists of a 5 by 5 grid of lights that ______At the very start of the 20th century Georg Cant's can be either on or off. Pushing any light changes its Set Theory stood on shaky grounds. With Bertrand Insomnia Film Festival Showcase state and the states of its vertical and horizontal Russell challenging the very foundations of Logic at AARON TOMASSINI, BELLA RABINOVICH neighbors. Starting with any initial array of lights, this time, the study of the collection of object FACULTY SPONSOR: JOE DOLCE, CIT the goal is to get all the "lights out." We will look at united by a common property was broken by one The Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival is in its 3rd year how linear algebra helps us to analyze the game, single question: Does the set of all sets that don't at Geneseo. This 24 hour, non-stop competition and in particular, find "easy games." provides students with the unique opportunity to contain themselves contain itself? This mind ______flex their creative muscles and create video shorts bending look at the problem with self-inclusiveness Genus of the k-Ellipse under a set of rigid guidelines. Competitors have to in the theory halted mathematics at the time and JAKE PASANEN, GREG SPITZ manage their time, utilize both creative and demanded what Russell wanted from everyone, to FACULTY SPONSOR: GARY TOWSLEY, technical skill sets and consume large amount of stop further building of a science on the weak MATHEMATICS caffeine, in a race against the clock and other foundations at the time. The importants of thus The standard ellipse is described as the locus of two teams. This presentation will highlight the discovery cannot be overstated. I will be looking at points, called foci. This concept can be generalized challenges, successes and anecdotes of several of its Cantor's Set Theory as it stood before Russell's into k foci, which yields a family of convex shapes in competitors. While also showcasing the works from Paradox, then breaking down the paradox in order the plane. The equations that generate these k- this year's festival, and year's past. to show how it started a widespread "clean up" of ellipses can describe compact Reimann surfaces, mathematics. 3N • INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM ______which live in a four-dimensional space. By adding an Lagrange's Four-Square Theorem additional point to this space, the resulting surfaces MILNE 109 have a property called the genus. The genus KRYSTINA STECK FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: IRENE represents the number of "holes" in the compact This research looks at the history behind the BELYAKOV, INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM Riemann surface associated with the k-ellipse. An formation of Lagrange's Four-Square Theorem, ______open ended problem in algebraic geometry is to which states that any positive integer can be Building a Global Community - One find a formula to compute the genus of a k-ellipse. written as the sum of at most four squares. The This talk will discuss progress made towards Speech Buddy at a Time: Lessons research draws upon sources including journal determining the genus of the k-ellipse for k higher articles and Mathematics textbooks. The goal is to Learned from Teaching English and than 5, as well as the computations and algorithms show how the theorem came to be by examining utilized in the calculation of the genus. American Culture to International the conjectures that lead to its formation. Upon Students. exploration of these conjectures, it becomes clear WELLES 138 MOLLY BLANDA, SEUNG KIM, MADELINE that Lagrange formed his theorem with the help of 3Q • MUSIC ZEBERTAVAGE, MARK ROMIG the work of early Mathematicians such as: Beethoven Everywhere Students from INTD 377, "Methods of Teaching Diophantus, Fermat, Bachet, and Euler. Through FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: ANNE- English to Speakers of Other Languages," will examination of the different people associated with MARIE REYNOLDS, MUSIC present results of their service learning:being the formation of this theorem, and the conjectures ______Speech Buddies for their international counterparts they produced, this research hopes to highlight the Beethoven in Popular Advertising who speak Korean, Dutch,Portuguese, Chinese and importance of the theorem and conclude with ALLISON ABBOTT other languages). The presenters will analyze their various applications of the theorem in the world of Advertising and music share an inherent bond that methods of teaching English and share their cultural Mathematics today. may be traced back to the beginning of radio and and linguistic experiences. One presenter will television. A commercial typically utilizes a discuss his own experiences learning English as a 3P • MATHEMATICS II ISC 131 memorable jingle, aligning the repetition of musical second language and now applying them to SESSION CHAIR: OLYMPIA NICODEMI, gestures with catchphrases and/or visual images to teaching his international speech buddy. MATHEMATICS hook the consumer. Beethoven's music in particular ______serves as a useful tool in many advertising 3O • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 336 The Patterns and Symmetries of campaigns; both its distinctive qualities and his History of Mathematics III Friezes dramatic persona are malleable, allowing companies to exploit them to the end of selling FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JEFF BIANCA BETTS, CHARLENE FRITZ their product. Advertisers insert music into JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS FACULTY SPONSOR: OLYMPIA NICODEMI, commercials to fulfill specific functions; this paper ______MATHEMATICS

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Session 3 • 2:25 – 3:40 PM 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual will consider how and why Beethoven and his music ERIN ROZEWIXCZ, HARRISON HARTSOUGH, addressing mental health on a local and individual so effectively meet these requirements. KATHERINE SILVESTRI, ELIAS VENTURA, SARAH level. I break down three key components of the ______ESPOSITO, RACHEL WILCOVE, DARRELL GETMAN, way the organization approaches mental illness Beethoven in Performance COURTNEY CAVALLO, MICHAEL O'BRIEN, MAX with its service users and compare the Foundation's ROBERT GAGLIONE GARNAAT unique approach to modern research on Modern musicians and musicologists have debated A crowded amusement park, an innocent woman stigmatization of mental illness in the United States. the topic of musical authenticity for most of the robbed at knife point, and an officer struck by a I suggest that perhaps the medicalization of mental twentieth century. Beethoven's music is especially park ride sustaining injuries that leave him in a illness in American society could be reversed if open to interpretation; it is a turning point in the coma: Defendant Whit Bowman has been charged more active, local, self-help programs existed in the history of western music and his legacy endures to with 3 counts of robbery in the first degree and United States. this day. Some musicians and historians wish to theft by deception, is he the criminal mastermind ______strictly regulate performance practice, limiting behind this scheme or the puppet of a much greater What NGOs in Poland Left Me Beethoven's music to historically authentic conspiracy? Hear the testimony of three lively Wondering witnesses that were present at the amusement park instruments and a limited artistic license that SHEILA RAMIREZ where the incident occurred, enjoy the argument of reflects the age in which it was written. Others are On July 2013, for four weeks I was placed in an NGO the contending counsel, and stand in as a jury willing to expand the boundaries of his music, in Krakow, Poland. At MOPS Social Welfare Center I member while Geneseo's Mock Trial team presents altering and manipulating it to create fresh and worked to socially integrate into the center and to the State of Midlands vs. Whit Bowman.Geneseo provocative interpretations that sometimes even be a role model for at-risk/impoverished youth. It Mock Trial was created in 2008 by a handful of move Beethoven into the genres of disco or rock. was an enriching experience personally but left me students interested in gaining a hands-on This presentation will consider the culture and wondering about social problems visible to me experience in law. Since then the team has grown ideals of a historically-informed interpretation of during my service. In my analysis, I explore the into a competitive force on the regional level, Beethoven's music as well as the figures and groups social issues MOPS addresses and I focused on the fielding two teams and facing competitors such as that have reinvented the composer. impact of unemployment on homelessness, and ______the University of Rochester, Syracuse, Michigan educational inequality. The Awakening of Cheerful Feelings University, and Cornell. This year the team performed very well, including a 6-2 record at a WELLES 119 on Playing the Cello University of Buffalo invitational, and 5 individual 3T • PSYCHOLOGY KELSEY WOOD awards across 3 tournaments.For information, visit Factors Predicting Unwanted, Yet This tribute to Beethoven includes motives and https://knightlink.geneseo.edu/organization/genes Compliant, Sexual Behavior During gestures from his first and sixth symphonies, and his eomocktrial 'Waldstein' Piano Sonata. The title is a play on Hook-Ups words from the first movement of his sixth 3S • SOCIOLOGY WELLES 115 FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MONICA symphony, the Pastoral, which is titled "The SCHNEIDER, PSYCHOLOGY awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the Making a Difference Internationally FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY country". I wrote the trio out of a desire to FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: ANNE ______remember Beethoven in modern music today. EISENBERG, SOCIOLOGY Gender Differences in Attachment, ______Bonn to Brooklyn: Beethoven the Helping Children Helps Everyone Self-Efficacy, Motives and Attitudes Revolutionary and Black Power KLARISSA GARCIA as Predictors of Sexual Compliance My American identity and overall worldview has ERIC MALDONADO During Hook-Ups been impacted by my interactions in Poland. The Beethoven is nearly as relevant in modern popular LAURA O'BRIEN, NICOLE JELONEK, RACHEL collectivist and inclusive approach to society and culture as he was to the history of Western music. BOWEN, GRACE RIVERA politics is evident within the first interaction with its Certain patterns emerge in images and notions of Our study examined attachment, self-efficacy, people. My four weeks volunteering at TPD Beethoven, such as his messy, disheveled hair, or sexual motives, and attitudes as predictors of sexual provided me with a clearer understanding of how the fact that he composed while going deaf, and compliance (consenting to sexual activity or powerful and influential a society is to an individual. thus led an extremely troubled life. Beethoven is intercourse without desire) during hook-ups (a The time spent with the children and the staff not even credited with spearheading the Romantic sexual encounter usually lasting only one night, only benefited them but also greatly impacted me period, but does he really deserve the moniker between people who are strangers or brief personally. acquaintances, that may or may not involve sexual "revolutionary"? Throughout history he has been ______represented as such, not least in the Black Power intercourse). Although attachment has been linked movement. As a symbol of revolution, or at the very How Children Changed Me to various sexual behaviors and attitudes, least non-conformity, Beethoven has proven CARLY SOMERS researchers have not examined internal working effective. What is it about Beethoven and his music I volunteered at TPD in Krakow, Poland. TPD is an models as linked to sexual compliance. Past that sets it apart? In my presentation I will discuss NGO that provides a day center for at-risk children. research has linked sexual self-efficacy to risky the revolutionary connotations of the man and the While I thought I knew alot about at-risk children, sexual behavior and reduced risk of sexual assault music, as well as the role both played in the Black having worked with them here in the states, it was for women, but has not examined sexual self- Power movement. seeing how children are treated in Poland that efficacy in relation to sexual compliance. made me rethink everything I know. Because of the Participants were male and female students, who children, I came to know Poland outside of the stuff 3R • POLITICAL SCIENCE & were not in a committed relationship. Participants tourists see. completed questionnaires assessing their INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______demographic information, attachment issues, MILNE 105 Hamlet Foundation: Setting the attitudes about sex, types of sexual self-efficacy, Enjoy Courtroom Drama at the Mock Example to Overcome Stigmatization sexual motives, and the frequency of various compliant sexual behaviors, ranging from Trial of the Year of Mental Illness kissing/sexual touching to penetration (vaginal, FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JOANNA KATHRYN CARDINAL anal). Results indicated that different factors KIRK, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL This paper is a cross-cultural examination of the way predicted compliant sexual behavior during hook- RELATIONS the two countries - the US and Poland - approach ups, depending on gender, sexual orientation, and ______mental health issues. I analyze the role of one the type of sexual behavior. 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4A • ANTHROPOLOGY I WELLES 133 practices inform our management of hazing in the formed to facilitate the boycotts and orders of the SESSION CHAIR: JAMES AIMERS, ANTHROPOLOGY US? Continental Congress, local councils throughout the ______colony soon began to take on larger roles in their A Growing Population: Issues Cross-Cultural Examination of the own governance. As war broke out across North Menstruation Experience America, these committees became the centers of Surrounding LGBTQ Senior Citizens authority for the rebelling colonies, and eventually LAURA VICTOR ALYSSA PENN the governing bodies that regulated day to day life FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES AIMERS, in the colonies during the war. Those who made up ANTHROPOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY the committees were a new breed of politicians and Biology dictates that menstruation is a natural The elderly population is growing exponentially. leaders, distinct from both the former British process experienced by women. Due to cultural With the aging of the baby boomer generation, government and the aristocratic land owners that influences, women across the globe have varying more senior citizens will need care than ever controlled New York before the war. They reactions and practices regarding their menstrual before. Unfortunately many facilities, primarily encompassed a varied socio-economic background cycle experience. These cultural influences include Senior Citizen Assisted Living Centers and Medical that represented a new source of authority and associated taboos, social restrictions, religious Care Practitioners will be unprepared to care for a political power in America. Focusing especially on beliefs and societal notions of menstruation as a growing sector of this population: Lesbian, Gay, the governance of Albany County and New York sickness experience. In this presentation I will Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) senior City, this paper assesses how de-facto authority report on my findings regarding the menstruation citizens. After taking part in a program presented by changed hands in the years before and during the experience of American undergraduate students the Gay Alliance of Rochester on establishing Safe American Revolution. which will serve as a case study for American Zones for the LGBTQ population, I integrated past knowledge, current research and work done with a culture. This will be compared with existing Usurpers of the Eastern Door: War Geriatrician and an anthropologist to modify the literature on the menstrual practices of women program to specifically address issues surrounding from other cultures. Ultimately, this study will Chiefs in the Mohawk Valley, the aging sector of the LGBTQ population. These expose the inner-workings of the privatized 1701-1776 include medical needs specific to these various impressions of menstruation experienced by PETER OLSEN-HARBICH populations, practitioner education, and postmenarchal women on a global scale. The eighteenth century was a time of immense institutional support. The adapted program works conflict and transition for the Mohawk Nation of the to address these issues, particularly on educating 4B • HISTORY WELLES 131 Iroquois Confederacy. Regular contact with practitioners and workers in ways of increasing New Perspectives on New York Europeans, be it the French to the north, the English LGBTQ senior citizen comfort. This is done in hopes History to the east, or the Germans living among them as that when professionals explicitly work to increase neighbors, introduced new challenges that FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MICHAEL their comfort, senior citizens will feel more threatened to overturn the traditional political and OBERG, HISTORY comfortable sharing their sexuality; allowing ______economic structures of Mohawk society. The professionals to address any issues related to this principal of these challenges was a dramatic population in a safe and comfortable way for A Civilized Education: Revisiting the opening of the Mohawk political system, as newly everyone. Selected for presentation at Thomas Indian School ascendant war chiefs began to encroach on the Northeastern Anthropological Association, SUNY ROBERT RUBSAM authority of traditional leaders in Iroquois Potsdam, NY. Opening in 1855, the Thomas Indian School communities. Mohawk warriors, with their highly ______provided education, housing, and a program of valuable martial skills and knowledge of New York's University Rites of Passage in Japan assimilation for members of the Six Iroquois Nations complex geopolitics, were able to construct and the United States in New York for just over a hundred years, leaving a reciprocal, and essentially economical, relationships mixed and poorly-understood reputation. This with colonial elites. Through the distribution of MASANARI YOSHIDA paper, the first academic look at the school in over material goods acquired from these European FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES AIMERS, fifty years, looks at a mixture of government contacts, warriors contested not only the authority ANTHROPOLOGY documents, rosters, letters and other sources to of hereditary "Peace Chiefs" in Mohawk villages, but This paper will examine two major practices in determine the school's purpose and legacy, and also that of the female clan matrons who appointed universities: hazing in the US and the senpai-kohai places it within the context of larger struggles over them. This research attempts to enter the narrative system in Japan. The senpai-kohai is an unofficial sovereignty in the state and the nation in regard to space of eighteenth century Mohawk factionalism system in Japan between one that is designated the Indians, their rights, and their education. by placing a new emphasis on the economic "kohai" and one that is the "senpai". The kohai is ______importance of information, which is understood inferior to the "senpai", and in most cases is here as the most valuable resource available to younger. The relationship usually involves tasks The Butcher, The Baker, The Mohawk warriors in their efforts to acquire power being performed by the kohai for the senpai, but Lawmaker: Authority in using trade with Europeans. the relationship is actually mutually beneficial. The Revolutionary New York senpai will often be expected to provide advice, PATRICK STEGEMOELLER protection, and other mentor-like services for the 4C • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS III Following the Intolerable Acts of 1774, British NEWTON 201 kohai. So what do hazing and senpai-kohai have in authority in the North American colonies began to FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: common, and how are they different? What are crumble. In the colony of New York, local CHRISTOPHER LEARY, MATHEMATICS their functions in the two societies? How are these committees and councils sprang into existence as practices perceived in Japan and the US? Do these FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY colonists sought to create their own systems of ______practices have any redeeming qualities? And as a governance from the vacuum created by the conclusion, how might a comparison of these collapsing British authority on the continent. Initially 53

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Modeling Pneumonia: trees has on the rate of spread. This has allowed us determine technology, IT support & training to find both the density of trees required for the needed. There must also be clear guidelines in Implementation of Preventative disease to spread throughout the entire forest, and place, regular assessments and accurate Vaccination the critical point at which the density of beech trees performance appraisals, and appropriate incentive CARSEN SULZER prevents the disease from lingering in the forest for plans to motivate employees. 2. In order to improve I developed a network model to test the spread of a long period of time. This data allows us to predict work-life balance and job satisfaction, a needs bacterial pneumonia, which is the leading cause of the density of beech trees that would be most assessment should be done to determine if there is death in children worldwide (WHO) as well as one efficient in minimizing the spread of the disease a need for telecommuting and the type of program of the five most frequent causes of death for young through a forest and from one forest to another. that would be most valued. Also, employees should adults (Jacobsen, 110). I created a small-world take a test to see if they would be compatible with network that models the actual contact between 4D • BUSINESS II SOUTH 328 teleworking. neighbors by which the pneumonia bacterium can FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: ______be transmitted directly. This model takes into AVAN JASSAWALLA, BUSINESS Managing Conflict in Virtual Teams account individual characteristics (e.g., whether ______JEFFREY KAY, SONIA TAL, BRYAN FISHMAN they are susceptible, exposed, temporarily immune, The Positive and Negative Effects of The influence of globalization on modern business vaccinated or infectious with pneumonia versus Office Politics on Job Satisfaction cannot be overstated. Increased access to distant, walking pneumonia). The network model was more cost effective labor, and a more diverse RAWEL BAUTISTA , AKSHARA NARSIPUR analyzed to suggest ways to specifically target workforce has provided many companies with the Executive Summary Introduction The recent individuals in order to minimize the number of competitive advantage needed to succeed in the increase in job competition, high unemployment people infected. I implemented vaccination 21st century. One way in which businesses have rates and a weak economy has resulted in employee strategies, based on degree, betweenness, and tried to capitalize on this is through the use of efforts to increase their perceived value to an closeness centrality with random vaccination as a virtual teams. While virtual team use has the organization. As a result, many employees control over varying levels of vaccination effort. potential to propel a business above the participate in political behaviors with hopes to Effectiveness of vaccination strategies varied as a competition, it also unsurprisingly presents a new advance their reputation and worth. Studies function of network and network structure. set of challenges-- especially as they relate to suggested that the existence of office politics have a ______conflict among virtual team members. We explored significant impact on employee job satisfaction. scholarly opinions of these challenges and will Epidemiology of the Airways: Using Organizations where office politics are negatively present what we view as effective methods of World Airplane Flight Paths to perceived are more likely to have lower rates of job managing conflict within virtual teams. Our research satisfaction. On the other hand, organizations Simulate the Spread of Disease showed three main issues that managers of virtual where office politics are positively perceived are NICHOLAS YAGER, MATTHEW TAYLOR teams will face: communication effectiveness, more likely to have higher rates of job satisfaction. Airplanes serve as vital transportation in a highly negativity resulting from cultural diversity, and We were able to collect information identifying globalized and interconnected economy. difficulty with trust building among team members several different factors influencing the perception Unfortunately, airplanes make it extremely easy for that lack face to face interaction. Our research of office politics as either positive or negative. We specific pathogens to propagate quickly and thoroughly addresses each of these issues and were able to classify these factors as either external effectively to distant parts of the world. To model presents a series of solutions that have been tested. and internal factors. Key Findings We developed the spread of a pathogen through air routes, a We examine the methodologies of each of these three key findings influencing this relationship directed network was generated using existing tests as well, and go on to elaborate on the between office politics and job satisfaction. These airports as vertices and their associated routes as successes of the tested teams that used each of the key findings consist of execution of power, edges. Airports were infected for a certain amount recommended managerial techniques. organization structure and personality. The style of of time before they recover. Multiple strategies to decrease the number of infected airports were power that is executed within an organization and 4E • CHEMISTRY NEWTON 203 studied at a variety of efforts, or the percentage of the structure of an organization serve as two total flights to be canceled, to determine the most external factors to perceived office politics. Our Chemistry Honors Research appropriate flights to cancel. We found that by third finding reveals how personality, an internal Presentations III canceling routes based on "edge betweenness" factor, impacts the perception of office politics. FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID GEIGER, CHEMISTRY there was a significant reduction in the number of Whether or SESSION CHAIR: JAMES MCGARRAH, CHEMISTRY ______airports, that were affected. Based on these results ______we would suggest that the FAA develop an The Impact of Telecommuting on Using Computational Methods to adequate response plan to close flights based on Employee Job Satisfaction Explore the Electronic Spectra and "edge betweenness" in the event of a serious RAWEL BAUTISTA , EDWARD ZEBROWSKI epidemic. During this presentation we will be discussing the Geometry of Transition Metal ______impact of telecommuting on employee job Complexes Factors Influencing the Spread of satisfaction. We believe that this topic is important JUSTIN JOYCE Beech Bark Disease in today's ever-changing world, with more and more At the undergraduate level, the physical properties JANELLE GOEKE, SIOBHAN PFAFF employees seeking flexible work arrangements. and bonding characteristics of transition metal Beech bark disease is a devastating affliction that Therefore, HR (Human resources) managers would complexes are usually rationalized in terms of an affects many different North American forests. The benefit from understanding the outcomes of electrostatic model (crystal field theory),which is disease spreads in two waves, first insects come and telework. Four of the most valuable key findings will often modified to take into account covalent destroy the bark of the beech allowing it to be be discussed in details. In addition, interactions between the metal and its ligands infected by the fungus that comes through in the recommendations flowing from these findings will (ligand field theory). The later method relies on a second wave. Currently, one of the main strategies be provided. Summary of Key Findings Based on Our "simple" fragment molecular orbital analysis used to combat this disease is decreasing the Research 1. Telecommuting leads to higher levels of involving ligand group orbitals and (primarily) density of beech trees with a forest, in order to productivity and job satisfaction. 2. Employees have metald orbitals. We have initialed an exploration of prevent the disease from permeating the entire more control over their work-life balance, leading to the electronic structures of a series of forest if the forest does become infected. The increased job satisfaction. Summary of organometallic complexes using density function spread of the disease was simulated with a lattice Recommendations Based on Our Research 1. In theory (DFT) calculations. The research was model. 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The computations CHRISTIE FREYER, SHERRY LEUNG, MICHAEL and Pygmalion (1912) -illuminate the author's provide information concerning the complexes AUGELLO, ERICA GEORGE, EMILY JACKOWICZ radical vision for gender equality in England during energy, bond length, and vibrational frequency. The This presentation will offer an analysis of the Fall the late19th and early 20th century.Shaw's strong results display characteristics of the spectro 2013 Geneseo student teaching program in Ghana, female characters tend to rise above older powerful chemical series and spin transition complexes, West Africa and the effects that the experience had men to achieve their own goals, often through which are compared and contrasted with results, on our view of the world, our view of ourselves, and stunningly direct confrontations. To abet these obtained using crystal field theory and ligand field our view of education. Traveling to a developing confrontations, Shaw depicts women ascending to theory. country took much pre-trip preparation, constant power through verbal and intellectual assertiveness ______collaboration and open-mindedness during our stay that his London society audience would have Synthesis of 9-Hydroxyphenalenone and post trip reflections. Through several associated with masculine behavior and character. and Luminescent Platinum (II) perspectives and stories from various student Instrumental in the founding England's Fabian teaching candidates, the presentation will offer the Society, the unapologetically didactic Shaw utilized Derivative framework for an evaluation of the current state of his plays as public platforms to advocate socialist RITA WHEELER education in America and abroad as a means of positions, the social and political emancipation of We are investigating the synthesis of new drawing the audience into a collaborative discussion women being prominent among them. In Arms and luminescent square planar platinum(II)compounds. on teaching practices and the way that they both the Man, both the aristocratic Raina and her servant 9-hydroxyphenalenone(Hpal) was synthesized influence and are influenced by culture. Louka transcend social roles for women. The from2-methoxynaphthalene and cinnamoyl chloride matriarchies created by the mother and daughter with a 43% percent yield. Hpal was reacted with a 4H • ENGLISH WELLES 111 pair in Major Barbara similarly result in the cyclometalated platinum(II)chloro-bridged What We've Been Up To: The inversion of the traditional hierarchy between men dimer,[Pt(thpy)Cl]2 (where thpy =2-thienylpyridine), and women. The sub textual colonial narrative of to yield Pt(thpy)(pal).Pt(thpy)(pal) was crystallized Thoreau-Harding Project Pygmalion allows Eliza to revolt against and to form dark red crystals. The characterization of FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: EDWARD ultimately dominate Higgins, her superior with these compounds by 1D and2D-nuclear magnetic GILLIN, ENGLISH respect to class, gender, education, and worldliness. ______resonance spectroscopy, matrix-assisted laser Shaw's dominating women thus reveal his desorption/ionization and mass spectroscopy is STEPHANIE DAVIS, THOMAS MCCARTHY, ERIC WEGMAN, KIRSTEN FREIMAN, KYLE MINERLEY revolutionary goal of restructuring society. reported. X-ray crystallography was performed on ______The students on this panel will discuss their work on the Pt(thpy)(pal) crystals and a crystal structure was FECK: The Evocation of a False obtained. Preliminary investigations of their a project to build a replica of Henry David Thoreau's luminescent properties will also bereported. Walden Pond cabin on the Geneseo campus. Ireland in the Works of McDonagh Selected for presentation at Thoreau Society MEAGHAN STEIGER 4F • EDUCATION MILNE 208 Annual Gathering, Concord, MA. The classification of Martin McDonagh's works as absurdist has been somewhat controversial. Despite Geneseo Storytelling Institute 4I • ENGLISH WELLES 121 their cartoonish portrayal of violence and their FACULTY SPONSORS: SHARON PECK, EDUCATION, Three Perspectives in Anglo-Irish often over-the-top characters, McDonagh's works AND MARK SULLIVAN, MILNE LIBRARY are uncharacteristic of the genre when compared to SESSION CHAIR: MICHELLE COSTELLO, MILNE Drama the works of absurdist giants Beckett or Pinter. LIBRARY FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: THOMAS When McDonagh's works take on characteristics of ______GREENFIELD, ENGLISH absurd theater, they generally do so in service of Have to put a hand on it ______the playwright's deconstruction of the myth of AMY CHAN What Defines Gender?: Examining traditional Ireland and the concept of national Amy will share an original story based on a small Masculinity versus Femininity in identity as a whole. Here his use of violence favor that her mother asked her do. becomes violence centered on the destruction of ______Oscar Wilde's Plays false notions of what it means to be "Irish," while A Fisherman's Tale KATIE BAUM his more extreme characters serve as caricatures of JUSTIN IAQUINTA Through the analysis of Oscar Wilde's plays The Irish tropes. McDonagh destroys and satirizes these Justin will share an original tale based on his uncle Importance of Being Earnest (1895), A Woman of No images of traditional Ireland, but also makes it a who may or may not be a fisherman. Importance (1893), and An Ideal Husband (1895), I point to express the inability to establish any sort of ______aim to examine notions of gender in England during national identity. By suggesting the impossibility of How Raven Stole Back the Sun the late 1800's and the societal norms that were national identity and the fault in attempting to often difficult to penetrate. Oscar Wilde's MICHELLE MOSHON construct meaning where there is none, McDonagh, subversive sexual identity has been said to have led Michelle will share a porquoi tale which explains like Beckett or Pinter, can be "outted" as an to his radical plays and their bold claims about why we have light in the sky today. absurdist. ______gender relations and the manipulation of gendered relationships. While the Victorian era upheld 4J • GOLD II CU 319 Twisted Fairy Tales seemingly unbreakable standards of domineering FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: THOMAS HANNAH TIETJE, HILLARY BIALECKI masculinity and submissive femininity, Wilde dared Hillary and Hannah will each share a twisted MATTHEWS, GOLD to challenge these stereotypes and create ______fairytale that can be enjoyed by kids of all ages. characters and relationships in his plays that did not

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The Global Student Embassy's SARAH AHEARN 4K • HISTORY WELLES 140 Few Nazi programs are more telling of Hitler's long- Unforeseen Impact in Ecuador Encountering the Nazis term objectives than that of die Hitler jugend-the ABIGAIL KLUTTS Hitler Youth, which aimed to co-opt the entire FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: HELENA Social justice is the goal that all members of a population of school-aged Germans, raise them community, whatever that community may be, WADDY, HISTORY ______within the intellectual, social, and physical principles have equal access to the same advantages and of National Socialism, and create a generation of burdens. This is a very simplistic definition of what A Plot of Desperation: Assassinating fascists who were trained to defend das often becomes a tangled, interconnected web of the "Butcher of Prague" tausenjaehriges Reich. The children of the Third cause and effect. Some obvious social justice issues, REBECCA KOHLMAN Reich were taught at schools, in the Hitler Youth, such as equal human rights and access to healthcare Reinhard Heydrich began his Nazi career in the and at war that they were a part of a large, united and education, are addressed head on and one Schutzstaffel, or SS, under the guidance of Heinrich movement with its roots in an era that came before piece at a time. Sometimes equally problematic Himmler. As Himmler and the SS grew to them, joined in a struggle for a nation they had issues such as environmental degradation become prominence, Heydrich rose with it. After the been taught to love above all else. This philosophy addressed and minimized through work initially outbreak of World War II, he saw a chance to break that guided the Hitler Youth originated in the intended for different purposes. This shows that it is free from his long-term mentor's authority. He went experiences and emotions of the generation that not always direct action that is required to achieve to Prague with the hopes of gaining more prestige was socialized in the late Imperial era, and most social justice. Global Student Embassy's within the Nazi party. Leading Nazis, such as Josef significantly, during the First World War. The Hitler reforestation efforts in Ecuador have become a Goebbels, recognized Heydrich's success in the Youth generation, at the hands of their elders, cause for social change for an ever growing Protectorate. As he was about to be promoted to a learned how to hate and how to destroy in defense community. Through proper planning and the right position in France, his ambitions were cut short. of one of history's most devastating regimes-they amount of direction, a person and/or organization Heydrich was assassinated on the very day when he studied eugenics, marched information, and battled can help lay the groundwork for solving problems was meant to depart for France. Although the against soldiers many times their own age, and that they may not have been aware of initially. assassins were Czech in origin, early Nazi "learned how to die before they had learned how to ______investigations hinted at British involvement. What live." A Rochester Weekend of Service motivated this great power to participate in an LYNN HOROWITZ, CAITLYN EDWARDS assassination? Given that the planning of the 4L • INTERDISCIPLINARY: ENGLISH & The GOLD Diamond Certificate emphasizes assassination was conducted in secrecy, this LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES engagement and involvement in the community presents a number of difficulties in finding an and students wishing to earn this certificate must answer to this historical question. Through a WELLES 119 organize a project promoting community thorough examination of numerous sources, I SESSION CHAIR: BETSY COLON, GRANTS engagement and addressing an issue of public concluded that the desperation of both the Czech MANAGEMENT concern. The Rochester Weekend of Service project, government-in-exile stationed in Britain and the ______sponsored by Livingston CARES, is a service trip British Special Operations Executive united these Reenactment, Resurrection, and the designed to become a recurring trip for Livingston two unlikely parties into planning the assassination Politics of Temporality in Edwidge CARES in addition to their Biloxi, Mississippi and of a leading Nazi. Long Island trips. Unlike the other Livingston CARES ______Danticat's The Farming of Bones trips, the Rochester trip focused on participating in Survivorship in Auschwitz: Work SEAN NEILL FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIMA, ENGLISH community service in the city in our own backyard. On this trip, students also participated in Details and the Process of Memory and trauma are well-rehearsed topics in teambuilding and leadership activities to develop "Organizing" the literature (both scholarly and non-scholarly) on leadership and unite students interested in KYLE HOYNG Edwidge Danticat. It is almost impossible to enter community service. In addition, the intention of this Between the years of 1940 and 1945, the Auschwitz into critical discourse on the Haitian-American trip was to encourage students to become more extermination camp, manifesting itself as the author without in some way engaging with these involved in the community and ease students into centerpiece of Hitler's Final Solution, took the lives themes. My goal in this essay, then, is, with the help being involved in the larger scale Livingston CARES of nearly 200,000registered prisoners and over one of recent postcolonial theories of temporality, both trips. This presentation will discuss the joys as well million unregistered Jews. However, in this world of to contribute to and complicate these discussions of as the difficulties of the many months of planning heinous crimes and constant death, voices endured memory, to show the ways in which Danticat's involved in creating this service trip. It will also and remained. A major component that aided meditations on public and private memories are in discuss the activities and service events that were survival in Auschwitz was the work detail you were many ways engagements with the politics and done on the trip. enlisted into. Although Auschwitz was originally poetics of time, or, perhaps more accurately, times, ______constructed as a detention camp, with later the ways, moreover, in which much of Danticat's Leadership Lessons from the Gay, additions serving to increase the camp's role as an work is characterized by a lateness, a belatedness with respect to an always already absent trauma. Lesbian Straight Education Network extermination facility, the manpower provided by the prisoners proved to be a valuable resource to Reading The Farming of Bones as a sort of re- SAMANTHA CRAMER the German Reich as a source of labor. As a result, enactment of the 1937 Parsley Massacre, a “The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network work details, or Kommandos, developed, and dramatization of historical trauma, a resurrection of (GLSEN) strives to assure that each member of placement often resulted from an accumulation of a the dead by and for the living, of the past by and for every school community is valued and respected variety of factors, namely luck of timing, the present, I aim to show the ways in which regardless of sexual orientation or gender connections within the camp, and prominent skills. Danticat resists the linear, catastrophic time of identity/expression. We believe that such an While numerous work details increased the modernity. atmosphere engenders a positive sense of self, likelihood of survival through the advantages they ______which is the basis of educational achievement and provided, others, such as the infamous "A Pen and a Stethoscope": The personal growth. Since homophobia and Sonderkommando, a detail of prisoners charged heterosexism undermine a healthy school climate, Healthcare Situation in Senegal as with work in the gas chambers, proved to be less we work to educate teachers, students and the opportune. Seen Through Firsthand Experience public at large about the damaging effects these ______MARIANNE MACALUSO forces have on youth and adults alike.” This Generations in Conflict: World War I, FACULTY SPONSOR: KODJO ADABRA, LANGUAGE presentation will examine how working towards AND LITERATURES GLSEN's mission has affected my growth as a leader. World War II, and the German Youth 56

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Several organizations have investigated the a statistical hypotheses in mind. We examine certain special properties that dictate the group's healthcare situation in Senegal and ways to improve significant structures in student test scores and use structure. The theory of groups can explain certain such problems as lack of transportation to qualitative responses from a questionnaire to seek musical concepts, such as the circle of fifths. Along healthcare facilities, malnutrition, and death by relationships between students' self-reported with these more basic applications, composers and preventable diseases. However, this country on the activities and test scores. theorists have utilized abstract algebra in their Western coast of Africa is still underrepresented in ______work. For instance, Greek composer Iannis Xenakis the world of healthcare and deserves more Measuring Influence Over Social wrote his piece, Nomos Alpha, in twenty-four attention. My study attempts not only to Media and Reverse Engineering sections, each section based on one of the elements summarize the shortcomings of Senegalese of the octahedral group. The renowned American healthcare, but to examine their underlying causes Klout Score music theorist David Lewin has written extensively and potential solutions. I have gathered information SEAN COOKE on the applications of abstract algebra to music, both from previous studies and from my own FACULTY SPONSOR: LISA SMITH, MATHEMATICS both tonal and atonal. Though the mathematical interviews and observations conducted while in the How do we measure influence? This talk attempts concepts may seem extremely complex to country during the summer of 2013. This study to answer the question "How can we estimate an musicians, they can be explained simply and should examines the country as a population of individuals individual's influence over social media?" through a be comprehensible even to those with no with a specific and significant culture and history study of the Klout Score. Klout is a website and background in abstract algebra. which affect healthcare in positive and negative mobile app where users link their social media ______ways. While the facts and statistics concerning life accounts which generates a "Klout Score" from 1- Beyond Lyricism: A Study of Form in span, causes of death, and common illnesses are 100 representing how influential that user is across Samuel Barber's Early Compositions important to discuss, it is also vital that we address all of social media. Klout reportedly users over 400 MICHAEL O'BOYLE the underlying issues of trust for medical personnel, variables to generate its numeric score, but can we The orchestral works of the composer Samuel means of care, and health education of the general get a good estimate using far fewer variables? We Barber have attained something of an iconic status population. My hope is that my presentation will will explore this question using research results, in the American concert hall. His early works, encourage organizations and individuals to embrace data collection, statistical analysis and multiple especially, have earned admiration for their lyrical, the cultures of the regions they hope to serve, in regression models and discuss the characteristics of haunting melodic qualities. Less obvious is his order to provide the best and most culturally social media users with high Klout Scores. experimentation with form in these works, which responsive aid possible. Selected for presentation has largely been overlooked in criticism and at National Conference on Undergraduate 4N • LOGIC, PHILOSOPHY, AND scholarship, and yet it's entirely likely that his Research, Lexington, KY. AESTHETICS IN AN ARTIFICIAL lyricism is influenced and underscored by his novel ISC 131 LANGUAGE SOUTH 336 formal structures. Indeed, in this paper I will show 4M • MATHEMATICS III that the unusual forms of Adagio for Strings (1938) SESSION CHAIR: LISA SMITH, MATHEMATICS SESSION CHAIR: PAUL PEDZIWIATR ______and the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1939) ______PAUL PEDZIWIATR support the familiar melodic material. The Essay for Converging Chaos: The Collatz FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFF JOHANNES, Orchestra (1938), in particular, represents one of Conjecture MATHEMATICS Barber's most novel formal structures, and my MARCUS ELIA Artificial language creation has many uses, ranging analysis will demonstrate that it served as a model FACULTY SPONSOR: AMANDA BEESON, from computer science to fictional books and for subsequent compositions. MATHEMATICS television. The processes through which these ______ose any positive integer. If it is even, divide by two. languages are formed vary according to the medium The 'Feminine' in Francis Poulenc's If it is odd, multiply by three and add one. Repeat for which they are created. Some are "engineered Fiançailles pour rire languages," (engilangs) created to serve a function this with the new number, and so on. Most ALLISON ABBOTT or investigate some theoretic linguistic trait, and numbers eventually reach one. Can you find a Much of Francis Poulenc's oeuvre has received others are "artistic languages," (artlangs) designed number that does not? This tantalizing question, surprisingly little scholarly attention to date. This is simply to be aesthetic in some way. The new although simple to state, has stumped thousands of especially true of the songs that feature the writing language and grammar being presented here mathematicians over the years. We will talk about of Louise de Vilmorin, and yet the composer made combines aspects of both, as well as generative patterns we have found in how long it takes this intriguing statement about them: "The poems grammar, propositional and modal logic, and numbers to reach one. This talk will be accessible to of Louise de Vilmorin provide material for truly philosophy to create a speakable language that can anyone who has taken high school mathematics. feminine songs. That is what delights me." While also be used to formulate logical sentences. This Selected for presentation at Mathematical several scholars have recently discovered linkages language incorporates a minimalist design Association of America Seaway Section Conference between Poulenc's ballets and his closeted philosophy in orthography, phonology, and lexical 2014, Buffalo, NY. homosexuality, no one has determined precisely ______class to make it aesthetically pleasing to hear and what Poulenc meant by the "feminine" in this view. While the reason behind the creation of such Data Mining Test Scores and context. Through research and musico-poetic a language was largely just personal interest, it may analysis of the song cycle Fiançailles pour rire, I will Psychometric Analysis have more practical implications in testing the consider why Poulenc hailed Louise de Vilmorin's JEFFREY BIRD, ANDREW HESSLER, JAMES Sapir-Warpf hypothesis in regard to a logical prose as the embodiment of the feminine, and how HILTUNEN, MARINA MASSARO language, or it may simply find its home in fiction. FACULTY SPONSOR: CHI-MING TANG, this characteristic is embodied musically. ______MATHEMATICS 4O • MUSIC WELLES 26 Standardized testing has become increasingly Time, Rhythm and Process: important in the assessment of students' and Writing About Music Techniques for Analyzing and teachers' progress. However, the accuracy with FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: ANNE- which these exams evaluate students is heavily MARIE REYNOLDS, MUSIC Writing Dynamic Music debated; psychometric analysis maintains an ______RUSSEL ANTHONY especially fundamental role in the structure and Putting the Math in Music Video games have created a new genre of music. design of these tests. We study a data set JANE COONS This genre, called dynamic music, is characterized comprised of results from an assessment of 10th Abstract algebra is concerned with the by its ability to interact as a direct response to grade students in Massachusetts. The data are mathematical construct called a group, which is a player actions and adapt to the game environment. retrospective, observational, and collected without set in combination with a binary operation that has As music theorists and composers, we need a new model to analyze these pieces of music and 57

Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM 2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual abstractions from those theories for new SESSION CHAIR: JEREMY GRACE, POLITICAL SCIENCE SEAN HANSEN compositional techniques. I will review theories of & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS The US policy of targeted killing by means of drones time and process described by Jonathan Kramer, ______has engendered a contentious debate in the past Christopher Hasty and Gretchen Horlacher to Analyzing Eight Western European decade. While this discourse is broad and calls into discern new theories on dynamic music. By focusing Cabinets and Parliaments: A question the constitutionality, effectiveness, foreign on how a listener perceives music (especially how policy implications, precision, and legality in the listener's expectations are thwarted), we can Comparative Case Study of Female international law of the drone program, the focus of gain insight into how a composer might write music Representation from 1999 to the this paper will be on the role of Congress.With the without necessarily knowing the order or time at constitutionally enshrined power to declare war, which musical events will occur. For the composer, I Present what is the function of the Congressional branch of will make recommendations on techniques for ALEXANDRA FASULO government in the U.S. policy of drone strikes? Has creating dynamic music that can quickly adapt and This thesis will look at the percentage of female Congress effectively exerted oversight over this interact, while retaining the aesthetics executive and legislative positions held in the covert military program? These concerns, and many characteristic of Western music. United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, others, have produced a lively debate both Norway, Spain, France and Germany since 1999 up nationally and internationally, and will be 4P • PHILOSOPHY WELLES 138 until the most recent elections in each of the addressed. The opaque, clandestine character of respective countries. My hypotheses are that SESSION CHAIR: HEIDI SAVAGE, PHILOSOPHY the drone program underlies many of the concerns nations with strong ties to Catholicism, ______surrounding it. What type of framework is in place The Realities and Unrealities of overwhelming patriarchal society, and a late for ordering and reviewing American-launched establishment of universal suffrage will witness drone strikes? If America seeks to continue its policy Borderline Personality Disorder slower gender equality in politics than the secular of drone strikes while simultaneously preserve its JESSICA HEPPLER nations. Additionally, the use of gender quotas is international hegemonic legitimacy, this framework FACULTY SPONSOR: HEIDI SAVAGE, PHILOSOPHY looked at, and contradictory to what I predicted, must be made more transparent and credible. It is my contention that Borderline Personality quotas do not always yield greater equality. ______Disorder is defined largely in terms of feminine Ultimately, the nations with the fastest inclusion of Constructivism and the Arab Spring: stereotypes, as if there is something deviant about women in politics were not what one would expect. being feminine. First, a diagnosis of BPD does not Factors such as electoral mechanisms, customs, and A Theoretical Approach to allow women to understand the socialized nature of political parties play a much larger role in the Understanding Revolution these traits, thereby silencing political action. process. For the purposes of this study, only the JOE GALLO Second, women are disproportionately diagnosed popularly elected house of each nation's parliament The recent revolutionary movements in the Middle with BPD and a majority of them have experienced will be looked at, as well as the Cabinet selected by East and North Africa, often referred to as the "Arab sexual abuse. Illness implies that something is the executive. Spring," seem to suggest a dramatic change in ideas wrong with the victim; however, when abuse results ______at an international level. Meanwhile, the theory of in BPD, something is wrong with the perpetrator, or Global Energy Security and European Constructivism asserts that such changes can have a the culture that permits this. BPD pathologizes the Dependency on Russian Energy significant impact on the behaviors of societies and response to an issue that is social and political, actors in the international system. It therefore making it the victim's problem to deal with in the Sources appears likely that Constructivism may be able to private sphere of psychiatry rather than through DAN MATTHEWS provide some insight regarding the occurrence of political action. In sum, there are two distinct ways This paper examines how the Russian Federation this movement. The following questions will be in which psychiatry silences women, both of which has used its vast energy sources to influence the discussed: To what extent is Constructivism useful need to be addressed before women can be domestic and foreign policy of neighboring states. for explaining the Arab revolutions, and is it able to completely empowered to deal with mental illness. As the world's leading producer of oil and natural explain why some revolutions have been more Selected for presentation at Exploring Gender, gas, Russia has accumulated hundreds of billions of successful than others? A constructivist explanation Mental Health, and Wellness, San Marcos, TX. dollars in wealth through the sale of these energy would involve the spread of changing norms ______sources to countries in Eastern Europe. Many regarding democratization, political participation, Physician Assisted Suicide and countries throughout Eastern Europe have become and state sovereignty. The strengths and limitations Depression: Rethinking Our increasingly dependent on Russia for their very of the theory will be examined, as will the relative survival, and Russia has taken advantage of this usefulness of rationalist theories for explaining the Standards dependency in order to promote its own interests revolutions. BEN LIEBERMAN within the region. Countries are examined on an FACULTY SPONSOR: THEODORE EVERETT, individual basis in order to determine what 4R • STORIES FROM SERVICE PHILOSOPHY influence Russia may have over the policy making In this presentation I wish to make a case for certain process within each state. Comparisons are drawn ABROAD MILNE 105 patients who have severe clinical depression, whose to OPEC and its ability to use cutoff and price as a SESSION CHAIR: BETSY COLON, GRANTS illnesses are long lasting and cannot be remedied by weapon against consumer states. The Russian MANAGEMENT current therapies and medications, to have access government is able to project its interests beyond ______to physician assisted suicide. I aim to do this by Russian borders through partial state ownership of Medical Service Learning in El Sauce, reevaluating the ethical standards we hold for Russian energy giants Gazprom and Rosneft, so the Nicaragua patients who currently have access to procedures role these two companies play in Russian foreign NICOLETET KANE, MARGARET ARLINGTON, SARAH that hasten death. Then I will show how certain policy will also be addressed. Lastly, the paper will VANEEANAM, JAMIE FLOSS, RYAN MOYNIHAN severe cases of depression satisfy those new ethical address Russia's status as the world's leading FACULTY SPONSOR: GLENN MCCLURE, ENGLISH standards. energy producer in the context of global energy We are all students who participated in a service

security, particularly energy security for the learning trip over winter intersession in El Sauce, 4Q • POLITICAL SCIENCE & European continent as a whole. Nicaragua. On this trip, we shadowed nurses and ______INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSWELLES 24 doctors at various rural health posts around El United State's Drone Strike Policy: International Relations Honors Sauce, and learned about how medicine was Analyzing the Role of Congress and practiced in Nicaragua. We worked alongside a Theses Their Ability to Exercise Effective family health doctor and learned how to give pap FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT GOECKEL, POLITICAL smears, and sat in on client consultations. We are SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Oversight going to discuss the various medical situations that 58

2014 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 8th Annual Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM we observed while working in El Sauce and how Exploring the Choreographic Process presentation will outline 1) the importance of these experiences will benefit us as we look towards challenging status quo understandings of disability our future career choices. Furthermore, we are Through Dance Composition and and 2) the ways that disability can challenge what going to discuss the cultural impact that we Performance we understand about human rights. experienced from living with host families in El FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JONETTE ______Sauce, and the impact that we experienced living LANCOS, THEATRE/DANCE Leveraging the Power of College fully immersed in a different culture. It is a ______Activism: Creating a Campaign for wonderful opportunity that many people do not Exploring the Choreographic Process know exist and we would love to be able to share Women's Equality our experiences with people who are interested in Through Dance Composition and KAYLAN PORTER signing up for the service learning trip in the future. Performance Spending her semester interning at the NYCLU, law ______JENNIFER LEVY, EMILY WAGNER, MICHELLE school hopeful Kaylan Porter will speak on the Haiti: The Real Story GRAHAM internship itself, what she's gained in her PAIGE O'CONNOR, RACHEL BERRYMAN, RACHEL Students who successfully completed DANC 331 experience, as well as detailing her work heading FISHBERG, CARA HALLAHAN, TAMARA KUREK, (Dance Composition 1) and subsequently chose to the organization of a college campaign to pass the TUSHARA SURAPANENI, STEPHANIE WILCOXEN, choreograph dance pieces for the Geneseo Dance Women's Equality Act. AMY LIANG, ERIN O'BRIEN Ensemble Fall 2013 concert will showcase their ______FACULTY SPONSOR: WES KENNISON, ENGLISH works. The all-student casts of the original dances Queer in the Classroom This year, over the week of spring break, a group of will perform live with music. Choreographers will GENTARO RAMADHAN us will be going to Haiti for a service learning trip. discuss the choreographic process, including This project explores feminist pedagogical theories While on the trip, we plan on keeping journals and rehearsals, creation of choreography, importance of and practices with the intention of articulating what taking pictures, and, once we get back, we would intent, emotional investment, and performance may constitute a queer pedagogy that is effectively like to share our journey with others at Geneseo's quality. The session will be open for a critical, useful, and relevant to students and GREAT Day. question/answer period where choreographers and educators today. ______dancers will respond to questions generated by the ______Enlace Project: Non-Profits in the audience. Internet Pornography: Appearance of Reality, Illusion of Consent, and Developing World 4T • WOMEN'S STUDIES SOUTH 340 PATRICK MCCORMICK, CHRISTOPHER PIKE Feminism FACULTY SPONSOR: WES KENNISON, STUDY Senior Capstones in Women's EMILY VANOCKER ABROAD Studies: Activist Projects The topic of the presentation is the ways in which An informative presentation aimed at highlighting FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: ALICE Internet pornography has changed the narrative for the work, challenges, and opportunities done by RUTKOWSKI, WOMEN'S STUDIES the way we view sex on camera. There has been a Enlace Project in Geneseo and how they might be ______shift from desire for the "professional porn star" to applied in other developing countries. First hand An Intersectional Analysis of the "amateur girl-next-door" as a result of the accounts by on the ground staff as well as Disability Experience in Thailand greater accessibility of low-budget porn. The community members in El Sauce will compromise [heterosexual male] interprets a woman's loss of HANNAH HUNTER much of the source of information. control, as well as the appearance of revealing This project will explore what it means to something forbidden, as true reality, rather than the experience a disability in Thailand where factors 4S • THEATRE/DANCE porn star with complete control over her sexuality. that include race, class, gender, religion and culture BRODIE DANCE STUDIO are considered. The significance of these influences on shifting beliefs about the rights of people with disabilities is at the heart of my research. This

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Sláinte Irish Dance 12:40 PM College Union Ballroon Stage BETHANY MARTONE, SARA SHAWE, MARIA BLATNER, KRISTIN REDMOND, KRISTI MELFI, MADI CARTER, BAILEY SAWYER, BROOKE JORDAN, CAITLIN ROCHEZ, EILEEN HAYES, JENNY BOODY, ERIN ROZEWICS, JOCELYN HYLAND, MEGHAN KANE Founded in 2011, Sláinte (slahn-chə) Irish Dance has already grown tremendously on the SUNY Geneseo campus, as well as in the Geneseo Community. The dancers are varied in level, including several regional, national, and World Champion dancers. Unique choreography and dedication to dance enable us to provide entertainment for any event throughout the year.

Geneseo Winter Guard Presents: Hometown Glory 5:10 PM College Union Lobby ERICA SCHLOTT, MADISON WAYLAND, HEATHER BARCOMB, GRACE KENLEY, JASMINE BELOY FACULTY SPONSOR: LISA SMITH, MATHEMATICS Please join Geneseo Winter Guard as they perform their 2014 routine to Adele's Hometown Glory. GWG is a small guard team that tells an engaging story through the use of dance, six foot flags, and rifles. This performance is inspired by the feeling of going home after being away for a while. You suddenly notice the cracks in the sidewalk and the freshness of the air, when nostalgia sets in, and you can't help but want to be near the people you seemed to have lost contact with. Come watch as GWG takes you back to the place you call home.

Geneseo Bhangra ______5:15 PM College Union Lobby ELIZABETH OHMAN, KAITLYN DIRESTA, SHELBY SCIBETTA AND SWETHA SATHASIVAM Geneseo Bhangra is a competitive Indian dance team on campus. This genre of dance comes from the Punjabi culture from Pakistan and India. It is a high-energy dance that was originally a celebration of harvest and is now commonly performed at weddings and competitions.

Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival 6:30 PM Wadsworth Auditorium The third annual Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival took place on March 28th- 29th. 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 most witty, interesting, and creative video. This was a chance for students of all talents to flex their creative muscles and demonstrate their skills, whether they be writers, actors, videographers, or editors. Submissions were judged blindly by a panel of Geneseo faculty and staff. Now we're inviting you to come see the videos during this special GREAT Day screening in Wadsworth Auditorium at 6:30PM! 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 2014 Insomniacs."!

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A Bernal Gallego, Begona · 11 Chmela, Patrick · 17, 32 Diaz, Genesis · 7 Berrios, Caroline · 7 Choi, Yeon Brianna · 19 Dierenfield, Elizabeth · 10 Abbott, Allison · 51, 57 Berry, Brandon · 47 Choo, Mei Yi · 3 DiNatale, Anthony · 15 Abrahams, Josh · 3 Berryman, Rachel · 59 Christensen, Todd · 12 DiPaulo, Emily · 10 Ackerman, Sarah · 15 Berti, Christina · 15, 30 Christoff, Kathryn · 35 Diskin, Jenna · 32 Adabra, Kodjo · 56 Best, Katherine · 29 Chun, Gina · 3 Dittmer, Patrick · 26 Adams, Catherine · 38 Betts, Bianca · 51 Chung, Kunil · 31 Dodge, Cortney · 7, 14 Adleman, Haylee · 50 Bialecki, Hillary · 55 Ciervo, Chris · 34 Dodge, Kenneth · 39 Ahearn, Sarah · 56 Bienstock, Mollie · 40 Clark, Danielle · 24 Doeman, Andre · 49 Aimers, James · 53 Bilgic, Yusuf · 11, 38 Clark, Thomas · 27 Doggett, Rob · 48 Allen, Jim · 43 Biondi, Carly · 20, 47 Cobb, Joshua · 17 Doherty, Hannah · 23 Allen, Stephanie · 48 Bird, Jeffrey · 57 Coble, Mary · 31 Doherty, Kristen · 38 Allison, Brianna · 7 Birdsall, Holly · 2 Coffey, Aidan · 49 Dolce, Joe · 2, 51 Anderson, Devon · 14 Bishop, Amy · 49 Cohen, Hannah · 32 Donat, Paul · 28 Anderson, Evan · 41 Blanda, Molly · 51 Colas, Jennipher · 7 Dornbush, Christina · 31 Anderson, Eve · 18 Blatner, Maria · 47 Colligan, Sean · 29 Doyen, Jessica · 32 Annala, Chris · 9 Blood, Melanie · 13, 19, 20 Collins, Liam · 10 Drake, Graham · 9, 17, 49 Antenucci, Julia · 13 Boeck, Jeffrey · 50 Collins, Thomas · 25 Duclos, Laura · 25 Anthony, Russel · 57 Bosch, Isidro · 26 Collisson, Nick · 7 Dunwoody, Ashly · 7 Apple, Jennifer · 23, 26 Bowen, Rachel · 52 Colon, Betsy · 2, 56, 58 Arieno, Danielle · 3 E Brecht, Kurt · 38 Conaway, Eugenia · 43 Arlington, Margaret · 58 Ebbers, Maribeth · 2, 45 Bressner, Emily · 14 Conte, Alyssa · 19, 20 Arnold, Ali · 43 Edwards, Caitlyn · 44, 56 Briars, Matthew · 37 Cook, Emily · 17 Arter, Camille · 49 Eisenberg, Anne · 52 Brieant, Alexis · 43, 44 Cooke, Sean · 57 Ascione D'Elia, Olivia · 49 Eisenman, Rachel · 7 Briggs, George · 25 Coon, Matthew · 38 Ashok, Sudhat · 44 Eisinger, Michael · 39 Brockett, Alison · 24 Coons, Jane · 19, 20, 57 Athens, Lexi · 11 Elia, Marcus · 57 Broderick, Kevin · 24 Cooper, Rachel · 25 Augello, Michael · 55 Elkady, Djoni · 26 Brooks, Matt · 48 Costello, Michelle · 55 Aulet, Lauren · 16, 45 Ellison, Drew · 19, 29, 39, 40 Buchholz, Mark · 25 Couch, Matthew · 43 Austin, Brian · 35 Enco, Ryan · 11 Buck, Katrina · 3 Cramer, Jennifer · 37 Engelbert, Allan · 35 B Burden, Jennifer · 11 Cramer, Samantha · 14, 56 Ercolano, Emily · 17 Bailey, Mary · 47 Burley, Matthew · 20 Cropsey, Aiden · 43 Eschler, Anna · 44 Baker, David · 50 Bush, Tyler · 17 Cross, Amanda · 17 Esposito, Sarah · 52 Baldwin, Douglas · 38 Butkowski, Chelsea · 2, 12 Cummings, Hannah · 32 Etter, Sean · 47, 48 Bandoni Muench, Susan · 28 C D Evans, Beverly · 38 Barbagiannis, Efthimia · 2, 20 Caesar, Kylie · 34, 37 Da Silva, Dayvid Fernandes · Everett, Theodore · 48, 58 Barber, Patricia · 16 Caifano, Amanda · 24 11 Barber, Taryn · 14 F Calnan, Heather · 47 Da Silva, Elder · 11 Barcomb, Heather · 60 Falk, Jason · 8 Campanella, Gabrielle · 8 Dalton, Lesley · 43 Barnard, Laura · 8 Falstewart, Emily · 47 Cardillo, Julia · 3 Daly, Lauren · 17 Barron, Stephen · 14 Farian, Homma · 23 Cardinal, Kathryn · 42, 52 D'Amico, Kristin · 31 Baskin, Isaac · 42 Farmer, Victoria · 12, 20 Carra, Regina · 11 DAngelo, Jacquelin · 7 Baum, Katie · 49, 55 Farruggia, Peter · 14 Castrogivanni, Joanna · 43 daSilva, Alexander · 37 Bautista, Rawel · 54 Farthing, Dori · 35, 36 Catalfamo, Christa · 30 Davidowicz, Erin · 14, 24 Bazin, Andrea · 32 Fashona, Sarah · 32 Cavallo, Courtney · 52 Davidson, Zoee · 13 Bazzett, Terence · 8 Fasulo, Alexandra · 41, 58 Cerquone, Alicia · 9 Davies, Morgan · 44 Beach, Martin · 20 Faticone, Thomas · 38 Chan, Amy · 22, 55 Davis, Jhennelle · 2 Beaumont, Selena · 7 Faulisi, Elizabeth · 49 Chau, Andrew · 38 Davis, Stephanie · 55 Becker, Katie · 12, 20 Fernandez, Carolina · 7 Chau, Nathan · 47 De, Julianne · 49 Beeson, Amanda · 57 Fernandez, Chloe · 14, 33 Chauncey, Tyler · 7 DeHart, Ganie · 42, 43, 45 Behrend, Justin · 9, 18 Ferreira, Maira · 11 Chen, Leanne · 27 Deiman, Anne · 10 Beisheim, Ellen · 17 Fettinger, Hannah · 11 Chen, Liuran · 19 Dempsey, Natalia · 35 Bellusci, Marissa · 35 Fields, Peter · 27 Chervin, Jenna · 37 Dennett, Abby · 35 Beloy, Jasmine · 60 Fien, Erin · 27 Cheung, Randy · 24, 44 Deren, Jule · 43, 44 Belyakov, Irene · 10, 19, 45, Figliolia, Joseph · 8 Chichester, Alex · 16 DeRoller, Jessica · 13 51 Figueroa, Natalia · 42 Chierici, Rose-Marie · 9, 14, DeRubio, Tyler · 18 Bender, Daniel · 7 Filkins, Timothy · 39 47 DeVito, Ryan · 42 Berg, Casey · 50 Fischer, Sean · 9 Chisholm, Alicia · 23 DeZarn, Eugene · 49 61

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Fishberg, Rachel · 59 H I Kurau, Pamela · 19, 20 Fishman, Bryan · 54 Kurek, Tamara · 59 Haase, Miriam · 19 Iaquinta, Justin · 22, 55 Fitzgerald, Matthew · 13 Kushnir, Anna · 49 Haddad, Caroline · 17 Ingrassia, Deanna · 14 Flannery, Kelsea · 26 Hall, Elizabeth · 17, 32 Inoue, Mizuna · 19 L Fletcher, Kurt · 39, 48 Hallahan, Cara · 59 Isaka, Tsukino · 47 Laabs, Benjamin · 34 Floss, Jamie · 58 Hallahan, Cayley · 24 Ladeairous, Lauren · 3 Flynn, Clare · 9 J Halpern, Josh · 29 Lagatella, Katelyn · 2 Fowler, Carly · 2 Jackowicz, Emily · 55 Hamilton, Patrick · 11 Lalo, Lauren · 45 Freed, Lena · 43 Jackson, Emma · 3 Hannah, Lexi · 2 Lamb, Austin · 25 Freeman, Charles · 19, 29 Jakway, Nathan · 41 Hansen, Sean · 58 Lancos, Jonette · 13, 59 Freiman, Kirsten · 55 Jassawalla, Avan · 7, 54 Hare, Rachel · 8 Lasnicki, Erica · 3 Freyer, Christie · 55 Jelonek, Nicole · 52 Harel, Ayelet · 10 Lau, Eva · 18 Friday, Bethany · 14 Jerabek, Andrea · 26 Harrigan, Meredith · 31 Lau, Jonathan · 44 Frieman, Richard · 35, 36 Johannes, Jeff · 11, 19, 51, 57 Harris, Gregory · 51 Lauda, Brittany · 50 Fritz, Charlene · 51 Johnson, Fatima Rodriguez · Hartnett, Michael · 25 Lauricella, Ann Marie · 32 Fritz, Marni · 10 7 Hartnett, Samantha · 32 Lawson, Sarah · 9 Froehlich, Erin · 50 Johnson, Lucas · 33 Hartsough, Harrison · 52 Lazatin, Justine · 13 Fugina, William · 24 Jones, Jared · 38 Hartvigsen, Gregg · 7, 14, 26, Leary, Christopher · 14, 17, Joyce, Justin · 54 G 47, 53 47, 53 Judkins, Russell · 10 Gaglione, Robert · 52 Hartvigsen, Thomas · 26, 47 Lee, Ashley · 32 Gallo, Joe · 58 Harvey, Kim · 7 K Lee, Hyukjae · 3, 38 Gangloff, Julia · 31 Hasan, Teba · 12 Kane, Nicoletet · 58 Lee, SangYup · 19 Gantt, Calvin · 7 Hatem, Jimmy · 48 Kaplan, Olivia · 34, 39 Lee, Stella · 27 Garcia, Gabriella · 19, 20 Haussner, Elizabeth · 35 Katomski, Anna · 42 Lehmkuhl, Lucas · 48 Garcia, Klarissa · 52 Hayes, Elizabeth · 42 Katz, Jennifer · 8, 43, 52 Lehner, Kristen · 28 Garnaat, Max · 52 Heffley, Caylie · 14 Kay, Jeffrey · 54 Leicht, Erica · 23 Garone, Michael · 27 Heim, Christina · 49 Kee, Jonathan · 17 Leinung, Kathryn · 42 Gasparek, Jennifer · 28 Held, Robert · 11 Kefi, Dalya · 14 Lenhard, Sarah · 40 Gautam, Shikha · 31 Hellreich, Jaclyn · 28, 47 Kelley, Sam · 8 Leskovec, Jenna · 35 Gaylord, Brandon · 50 Helms, Eric · 29 Kelly, Tim · 19 Lester, Cassidy · 2, 50 Geiger, Cristina · 29 Henriksen, Tiffany · 13 Kenley, Grace · 60 Leung, Sherry · 7, 55 Geiger, David · 54 Heppler, Jessica · 58 Kennedy, Paul · 18 Levinn, Carolyn · 48 George, Erica · 55 Herd, Toria · 42 Kenney, Tamara · 28 Levy, David · 2, 8, 48 Geraghty, Joseph · 29 Herman, Andrew · 16 Kennison, Wes · 48, 59 Levy, Jennifer · 47, 59 Gerardi, Margaret · 24 Hernandez, Anthony · 40 Kernan, James · 33 lewis, Bibi · 13 Gersz, Lawrence · 15 Hernandez, Franklin · 26 Ketchum, Gregory · 11 Lewis, Jani · 29 Getman, Darrell · 52 Herschbein, Lauren · 25 Kim, Christine · 3 Lewis, Olivia · 28 Giardino, Jennie · 13 Herzman, Ron · 49 Kim, DoHyun · 19, 45 Li, Diana · 29 Gikonyo, Barnabas · 28, 29 Hessler, Andrew · 57 Kim, Jessica · 3 Li, Zhi · 19 Gillard, Mitch · 27 Heuser, Brianna · 45 Kim, Jiwon · 41 Liang, Amy · 59 Gillin, Edward · 55 Hiltunen, James · 38, 57 Kim, Seung · 51 Liberman, Emma Jean · 13 Giordano, Michael · 39 Hobart, Catherine · 35 Kimball, James · 11 Lieberman, Ben · 58 Giorgis, Scott · 37 Holcomb, Anna · 2 King, Logan · 19, 20 Lim, SooHyun Julia · 19 Glaser, Hannah · 2 Holtzman, David · 23, 24, 25 Kinney, Gabrielle · 38 Lima, Maria · 56 Goeckel, Robert · 58 Hong, SeongSil · 19 Kirk, Joanna · 20, 52 Lin, Cindy · 3 Goehle, Todd · 18 Hoops, Harold · 26, 30 Klein, Matthew · 32 Lin, Yanying · 7 Goeke, Janelle · 14, 25, 54 Horan, Kelsey · 32 Klutts, Abigail · 31, 56 Linchuck, Benjamin · 7 Goldberg, Jacob · 47 Horner, Grant · 35 Koch, Jeffrey · 13, 40, 41, 42 Linde, Laurel · 2 Golden, Laura · 3 Horowitz, Lynn · 56 Koehler, Erin · 49 Lionetti, Alexandra · 32, 49 Goldschein, Caroline · 43 Horton, Maya · 8 Kohlman, Rebecca · 56 LiPuma, Elizabeth · 47 Gorman, Wyatt · 23 Houser, Cameron · 7 Kohn, Jennifer · 35 Liwanag, Maria · 32 Grace, Jeremy · 58 Hu, Daniel · 44 Kolakowski, Eric · 35 Lolakas, Jessica · 2 Graham, Michelle · 33, 59 Huff, Dennis · 26 Kone, Gnire · 7 Lomazzo, Kate · 49 Greenberg, Daniel · 26 Hunter, Hannah · 59 Kong, Kwangwon · 30 LoMonaco, Zackary · 2 Greenfield, Tom · 8 Hunter, Neal · 41 Kosoy, Gabrielle · 27 Long, Carol · 2, 1, 5, 12 Groenendaal, Lucas · 23 Hur, Uiheang · 12 Krebs, Alexa · 26 Longo, Phillip · 37 Grom, Jennifer · 27 Hurson, Mike · 48 Kreutter, Cheryl · 55 Lopez, Juan · 48 Gulfo, Michelle · 31 Huttunen, Paul · 29 Krol, Timothy · 35 LoTempio, Lucia · 49 Gullickson, Gavin · 31 Hyland, Bethany · 8 Krolikowski, Daniel · 38 Love, Brittany · 43 Guterman, Lauren · 14 Hynes, Alyssa · 34 Krumrine, Kristi · 53 Lovett, Janice · 25, 26 Hoyng, Kyle · 56 Kuermanaili, Shatanati · 19 Lubrano, Steven · 42 62

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Lucas, Kevin · 8 Momoi, Miko · 19 Ozbay, Meric · 10 Reisig, Avery · 43 Lynch, Michael · 43, 44 Monroe, Kairra · 7 P Reitz, Margaret · 36 Montalban, Cecibell · 42 Reynolds, Anne-Marie · 8, 51, M Pacheco, Paul · 10 Montelli, Chrissy · 49 57 Ma, Eugenie · 9 Padalino, Stephen · 40 Moore, Rachel · 26 Rhoads, Beatrice · 17 Ma, Mingya · 19 Palermo, Gregory · 48 Morabito, Elizabeth · 7 Rhoney, Mathew · 3 Macaluso, Marianne · 24, 56 Palumbo, Nicholas · 45 Morales, Alyssa · 7 Rinaldi, Cameron · 47 MacBarb, Max · 26 Pan, Queeny · 30 Morales, Victoria · 7 Rivera, Grace · 14, 52 MacDonald, Andrew · 17 Pandolfino, Mary · 43, 44 Morell, Alexandra · 50 Robertson, David · 32 MacKenzie, Douglas · 31, 32 Pangrazio, Briana · 44 Morgan, Brian · 49 Rockwood, Alexandra · 28 MacPherson, Ian · 33 Pappalardo, Christa · 29 Morgan, Kaitlyn · 14 Rodriguez, Shaneka · 7 Maldonado, Eric · 7, 52 Parfitt, David · 50, 51 Morgan, Kyle · 34 Rogachefsky, Martin · 9 Maloney, Timothy · 17 Park, HyeSoo · 8 Morris, Justin · 27 Rogalsky, Jennifer · 33 Malukoff, Anatole · 44 Park, Sujin · 19 Morris-Schaffer, Keith · 26, Rogers, Brianna · 32 Mandarano, Alexandra · 15 Parker, Benjamin · 14 44 Rogers, Connor · 14 Mandracchia, Francis · 9 Parr, Jennifer · 43, 44 Morse, Jane · 49 Romano, Philip · 1 Mapes, Kathy · 50 Parsons, Dylan · 15 Mortellaro, Christina · 49 Romig, Mark · 51 Maplesden, Robert · 32 Pasanen, Jake · 51 Moshon, Michelle · 3, 55 Rommel-Esham, Kathryn · 16 Marano, Michael · 38 Patrick, Brennan · 35 Mounts, Jeffrey · 16, 43 Rooney, Evan · 43, 44 Marconi, Christina · 32 Pazienza, Rena · 43 Movsesian, Kimberly · 47 Rosato, Gabrielle · 14 Marcus, George · 39 Peck, Sharon · 22, 55 Moynihan, Ryan · 58 Rubsam, Robert · 53 Markowski, Vincent · 44 Pedziwiatr, Paul · 38, 57 Mulcahy, Meagan · 47 Rumsey, Nikita · 18 Marshall, Zoe · 43 Penly, Brian · 42 Mulholland, Thomas · 18 Rus, Daniel · 14 Martin, Brian · 39 Penn, Alyssa · 53 Muradova, Yuliya · 3 Rusnak, Kathleen · 26 Martin, Lucas · 51 Pensoneault, Andrew · 47 Murray, Elaine · 7 Rusnak, Sarah · 55 Masci, Michael · 3 Peralta Roja, David Nilson · Ruswick, Stephen · 27 Massaro, Marina · 14, 38, 57 N 11 Rutkowski, Alice · 59 Massé, Rebecca · 19 Nagasing, Benjamin · 48 Peralta, Sanny · 42 Ryan, William · 40 Mateer, Timothy · 27 Narsipur, Akshara · 54 Pereyra, Allyson · 38 Rytel, Lindsay · 47 Matthews, Dan · 58 Nash, Simon · 37 Peterson, Hannah · 1 Matthews, Thomas · 50, 55 Nassar, Christine · 16 Pfaff, Siobhan · 54 S Mattu, Keran · 41 Naz, Tasmia · 14 Piedmonte, Nick · 26 Sadwick, Krystalyn · 39 Mavruk, Uguralp · 10 Neill, Sean · 56 Pike, Christopher · 7, 59 Salerno, Alexandra · 7 McCarthy, Thomas · 55 Ng, John · 44 Pilosov, Michael · 11, 38 Samat, Khilna · 2 McClure, Glenn · 58 Nguyen, Jordan · 51 Piper, Elizabeth · 47 Samer, Andrew · 19 McClure, Matthew · 49 Nicodemi, Olympia · 16, 51 Pivarunas, Anthony · 36, 37 Sanger, Julia · 28 McCormick, Patrick · 59 Niknam, Melissa · 19, 20 Plofker, Neal · 48 Santos, Joanna · 43 McCoy, Beth · 8 Noh, Daeun · 30 Poblaguev, Andrei · 7 Sass, Andrew · 17 McGarrah, James · 15, 48, 54 Norris, Darrell · 9, 49 Pogozelski, Wendy · 8, 27, 31 Savage, Heidi · 58 McGovern, Bridget · 31 Nunez, Scarlet · 42 Porter, Brenden · 17 Saxton, Aaron · 25 McKnight, Lauren · 32 Nunziato, Janna · 18 Porter, Kaylan · 59 Sayed, Madelyn · 47 McKnight, Ruel · 31 O Potischman, Joseph · 12 Schacht, Paul · 8 McLafferty, Megan · 45 Prendergast, Laura · 23 Schaefer, William · 12 Oberg, Michael · 53 McLean, James · 39 Price, Melissa · 17 Scheib, Christopher · 17 O'Boyle, Michael · 57 McPherson, Duane · 25 Pszonak, Lauren · 16 Schell, Carson · 28 O'Brien, Erin · 9, 59 Meijia, Leinni · 19 Schlott, Erica · 60 O'Brien, Laura · 52 Q Meisel, David · 29, 36, 38 Schneider, Monica · 52 O'Brien, Michael · 52 Quinn, Ursula · 3 Melvin, William · 41 Schuman, Benjamin · 25 O'Connor, Joseph · 49 Mendonca, Camille · 11 R Schwartz, Benjamin · 7 O'Connor, Paige · 32, 59 Mercer, Dayna · 2 Rabinovich, Bella · 51 Schwartz, Samuel · 43 O'Donnell, Robert · 27, 28 Mervine, Griffin · 49 Ramadhan, Gentaro · 59 Scioli, Emily · 12 Ofri, Dylan · 28 Meyer, April · 49 Ramirez, Sheila · 52 Seifert, Daria · 42 Oh, Chae Young · 19 Meyer, Lisa · 16 Ramsay, Christopher · 43 Semmler, Robert · 33 Olin, Ashley · 49 Milano, Margaret · 24 Ramsey, Michael · 38 Shafik, Adam · 16 Olin, Rachel · 43 Militello, Kevin · 15, 27 Rathbun, Lindsay · 13 Shakeel, Saarah · 20 Olsen-Harbich, Peter · 53 Miller, Rebecca · 9 Rault, Patrick · 19 Shares, Brianna · 23 Olson, Zachary · 44 Miller, Sasha · 7 Raynor, Doug · 16 Sharpe, Laura · 11 O'Neill, Christine · 48 Miller-Rhodes, Patrick · 30, Rebuck, Tara · 3 Shatzel, Mary · 50 Orton, Cody · 28 31, 44 Redington, Emily · 26 Sheldon, Amy · 33, 35, 37 O'Shaughnessy, Kelly · 36 Minaya, Melissa · 7 Reed, Jessica · 14 Shortino, Justin · 39 Ostroot, Joanna · 43 Minerley, Kyle · 55 Reed, Michael · 35 Sider, Noah · 49 Oswald, Cynthia · 12 Miserendino, Daniel · 36 ReisGerzog, Madeleine · 45 Sikora, Jacob · 41 Over, D. 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Silva, Beatriz · 43 Summerville, Christopher · Tylec, Brianna · 47 Wilcove, Rachel · 52 Silvestri, Katherine · 52 47 U Wilcoxen, Stephanie · 59 Simon, Austin · 45 Surapaneni, Tushara · 14, 33, Williams, Jonelle · 7 Upham, Kent · 27 Simon, Robert · 15 59 Winrock, Cori · 49 Uttamchandani, Suraj · 17 Simon, Sarah · 13 Susmann, Herb · 7, 23 Wirth, Jacob · 39 Simone, Angela · 40 Sutherin, Eve · 47 V Wisseman, Karl · 44 Sinon, Maria-Gratias · 38 Swiatek, Shannon · 43 Vallejo Alegre, Rocío · 38 Wojcikiewicz, Robert · 37 Siu, Michael · 14 Szafran, Denice · 10 Van Vliet, Vincent · 44 Wolf, Benjamin · 36 Slezak, Lauren · 49 Szczesniak, Laura · 29 VanEeanam, Sarah · 58 Wolfram, Olivia · 50 Smith, Alyssa · 24 Szczurek, Aleksandra · 2 Vanocker, Emily · 59 Wong, Gordon · 47 Smith, Kalynn · 43 T Vazquez, Mariely · 17 Wood, Kelsey · 52 Smith, Lisa · 57, 60 Ventura, Elias · 52 Woolever, Courtney · 45 Tajima, Atsushi · 15 Smith, Madeline · 12 Vetrano, Melissa · 43 Wraith, Sean · 35 Takemura, Ryota · 2, 3, 49 Somers, Carly · 52 Vialva, Kayla · 7 Wu, Bowen · 35 Tal, Sonia · 54 Sortisio, Nicholas · 38 Victor, Laura · 14, 53 Wyland, Hannah · 43 Tamura, William · 32 Sovocool, Bridget · 3, 31, 45 Vierhile, Molly · 45 Tang, Chi-Ming · 57 Y Spanos, Dena · 16 Volk, Daniel · 45 Tang, Jasmine · 38 Yager, Nicholas · 14, 54 Spear, Ray · 27 Volpe-McDermott, Maria · 42 Tani, Marika · 19 Ye, Di · 19 Spence, Amanda · 14 Tare, Alec · 18 Yehl, Zachary · 8 Spencer, Mary · 30 W Tate, Ginny · 32 Yeung, William · 35 Spitz, Greg · 51 Waddy, Helena · 56 Taverne, Luke · 38 Yokoyama, Kazushige · 15, Stabley-Conde, Devin · 49 Wagner, Emily · 31, 59 Taylor, Carmela · 42 30, 31 Starr, Victoria · 50 Waldman, Emily · 3 Taylor, Matthew · 14, 54 Yoon, Janice · 3 Stathis, Bonnie · 2 Walker, Julia · 18 Teboul, Isaac · 44 Yoshida, Masanari · 53 Staub, Carmen · 19 Wallace, Jenelle · 35 Terreri, Robert · 18 Young, Frederick · 17 Steck, Krystina · 51 Wanamaker, Emily · 8 Terzakos, Brittany · 7 Young, Richard · 37 Steen, Douglas · 34 Ward, Danielle · 34 Theal, Nicole · 20 Yu, Suhyeon · 19 Steenbergen, Jessica · 50 Ward, Shawn · 23 Thies, Matthew · 37 Stefanese, Alyssa · 50 Watkins, Kelsey · 47 Z Thompson, Peter · 37 Watson, Bryan · 3 Stegemoeller, Patrick · 53 Zaiter, Pamela · 40 Tietje, Hannah · 55 Wayland, Madison · 60 Steidle, Jeffrey · 19, 39 Zaman, Refat · 7 Tobison, Liz · 26 Wayne, Margaret · 31 Steiger, Meaghan · 55 Zaremba, Ryan · 51 Tomassini, Aaron · 51 Weber, Katherine · 17 Steinhauer, Aaron · 2, 16, 38, Zebertavage, Madeline · 51 Toro, Mary · 14 Wegman, Eric · 55 39 Zebrowski, Edward · 54 Torres, Kimberly · 7 Weilbacher, Christopher · 39 Stone, Joshua · 50 Zhu, Jia Wen · 21 Towsley, Gary · 51 Weinmann, Colleen · 7 Stone, Leonie · 9, 47 Zhu, Mingshan · 43 Traynor, Nathan · 39 Weiss, Staci · 2, 43 Stowell, Vincent · 18 Zingman, Nicole · 31 Trieu, Cindy · 50 Wenderlich, Carley · 24 Strassman, Matt · 14 Zinkowski, Rose · 45 Tripp, Dean · 17 Werynski, Alyssa · 38 Streem, Zach · 47 Zinone, Marissa · 50 Trocchia, Daniela · 43 Wesolowski, Paige · 47 Stroz, Leslie · 2, 3 Zobel, Alexandra · 36 Trombley, Nathan · 50 Wheeler, Rita · 55 Stry, Julia · 41 Zook, Joan · 43 Trujillo, Estefania · 47 White, Caralyn · 8 Sugrue, Kevin · 7 Zschoche, Emily · 50 Truong, Katherine · 34 Sullivan, Mark · 55 Whitehurst, Megan · 16 Tsareva, Karina · 29 Sulzer, Carsen · 54 Wida, Tyler · 33 Turner, Christopher · 36 Suma, Hussien · 2 Wilck, Allison · 44

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GREAT Day 2014 Cover Design Project THEODORE BEEBE, CASEY COLEMAN, MATTHEW CUCCURESE, NORA GOZZO, GREGORY HORBATIUK, SHARI IANNUCCI, ELIZABETH KOODIN, HUNG NGUYEN, HANNAH PETERSON, CLOUDIA ROSS, JOSHUA SZEWCZYK, PETER VAN ECK, JAYNI WOODS, TAL YAARI FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL TERES The ARTS 204 Graphic Design Class developed cover designs for the GREAT Day Program. The colver selected was created by Hannah Peterson. A selection of the work submitted by the remainder of 66 the class is featured here.