10Th Annual Graduate Research Symposium

10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium May 9, 2014 McHenry Library

Media Presentations Program Presenter TITLE Computer Science Dustin Adams WalkAbout: A Game for Exercising while Learning about Extant Flora and Fauna Digital Arts & New Media Danielle Williamson Exquisite Corpse in 2.5D Film & Digital Media Rolando Vargas Walking Kids of Choco Film & Digital Media FLATLANDS Games and Playable Zachary Rubin Speech Adventure: Using Automatic Speech Recognition and Mobile Media Games for Speech Therapy Music David Kant Thresholds and Fragile States: The Music of Chaos Social Documentation John (Jack) Bread or Blood, A Documentary Film That Follows The Route Of Chapman Kelly's Army Across Contemporary America. Social Documentation Lena Jackson Crenshaw Social Documentation Marissa kitazawa Legacy of Resilience Social Documentation Ricardo Velasco After the Crossfire: Memories of Violence and Displacement Among the Civil Population of Colombia's Northern Pacific Coast Sociology Kristin Miller Public/Transit

1 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium May 9, 2014 McHenry Library

Live Presentations Program Presenter TITLE Anthropology Rosa Ficek Latin American Integration and the Pan American Highway: Anthropology on the Road Astronomy & Magnetar Powered Supernovae Astrophysics Biomolecular Engineering Adam Novak There Is No Genome & Bioinformatics Computer Engineering Judith Samson Herding Packets: How to Get Packets in a Network to Go Where You Expect Computer Science Aaron Reed Ice-Bound: An Interactive Book Enabled by Research in Technology and Arts Digital Arts & New Media Harris David Harris d0ntb33vil: The Bus Stop Displacement Project Digital Arts & New Media Wayne Marci Shift - Indian Country's Changing Landscape Digital Arts & New Media Wes Modes The Secret History of American Shantyboaters Earth Sciences Danica Roth Rocks Go Boink: How Much Does River Bedload Shake the Bed? Earth Sciences Kerri Johnson Meandering Keeps Bedrock River Networks, and therefore Landscapes, from Achieving a Steady State. Earth Sciences Mikael Witte Why the weatherman is always wrong: a broken link in cloud models Ecology & Evolutionary James O'Donnell Finding Nemo using social media Biology Ecology & Evolutionary T E Angela Quiros What is more important for seagrass conservation? Measuring Biology environmental and ecological parameters in seagrass beds with different forms of protection Economics Eric Fischer Bank Avalanche Model of Systemic Risk Feminist Studies Veronika Zablotsky Transnational Social Justice and Implications of Diasporic Return to the Republic of Armenia History Jessica Barbata Historicizing the Lynchings of Italians in 1890s Louisiana Jackson History Melissa Brzycki Children and the Trauma of War: the Place of Children in Mainland China, 1945-1953 History Stephanie Nufan: Gender, Criminality and the Prison in 1930s Qingdao Montgomery History of Consciousness Jessica Y. Neasbitt Of Lasers and Labia: An Examination of the Major Players, Investments, and Stakes of Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery in the U.S. Mathematics Felicia Tabing String Homology of Spheres Molecular, Cell, & Adam Aharon Characterization of Neuronal Abnormalities in Fragile X Mice Developmental Biology Molecular, Cell, & Andrew MacRae The Human Spliceosome: An Essential Molecular Machine Developmental Biology Music Elisse La Barre Cultural Intersections: Music Written for the Golden Gate International

Exposition of 1939/40. Music Robin Sacolick Resistance and Transcendence through the Son Jarocho Movimiento: Bay Area Women, Music and Dance Ocean Sciences Rachael Orben Bigger is not always better: Body size predicts individual winter foraging strategies of thick-billed murres (Uria lomvia) in the Bering Sea Philosophy Kyle Robertson Humility as a Virtue Physics Hal Cambier How to hard-boil a star on your laptop's graphics card Politics Jessica Whatcott Secularism's Inscrutable Subjects: The "Feminist and Faithful" Mormons Sociology Jim Misencik An Ethnographic Look at US "State-building" in Afghanistan Sociology Stephen Sepaniak Toward Participatory Water Governance in the Central Coast: Discourse, Desalination, Drought Sociology Yvonne Kwan Transgenerational Trauma and Mental Health: Cambodian American Collective Memory

Poster Presentations Program Presenter TITLE Biomolecular Engineering Dent Earl Results of the Alignathon: a collaborative competition to assess the & Bioinformatics state of the art in whole genome alignment. Biomolecular Engineering Logan Mulroney Sequential Analysis of Individual Multi-Domain Proteins Using ClpX & Bioinformatics Coupled to a Nanopore Biomolecular Engineering Rachel Droan Learning from veterans: A Closer look at Elite Controllers of HIV for & Bioinformatics HIV vaccine development Biomolecular Engineering Functionalized Nanoporous arrays toward bio-marker detection & Bioinformatics Chemistry & Biochemistry Andrew M. Smith Steps towards sequencing real RNA - Detection of individual tRNA molecules using a nanopore Chemistry & Biochemistry Joseph Dahl Dynamics of Translocation and Substrate Binding for DNA Polymerase Mutants Computer Engineering Jonathan Bruce Design and Evolution of a Modular Tensegrity Robot Platform Computer Science Cameron Alston Automating Camera Control in Games Using Gaze Computer Science Christopher Maraffi Performatology: A Computational Framework for Modeling Artistic Gesture Computer Science Elahe Rahimtoroghi Identifying Simple Narrative Structure in Personal Narratives Computer Science James Ryan Toward Recombinant Dialogue in Interactive Narrative Computer Science Preeti Gupta Economic Modeling of Long-Term Preservation Computer Science Spencer Sevilla Evolving the Internet by Redesigning the Network Stack Computer Science Stephanie Lukin Adaptive Narrative Discourse Generation from Structured Models of Time, Action and Agency Digital Arts & New Media Deirdra "Squinky" Coffee: A Misunderstanding Kiai Earth Sciences Allison Pfeiffer Habitat from topography: using grain size to predict salmonid spawning distribution Earth Sciences Earl O'Bannon A single crystal x-ray investigation of trona at high and low temperature: A pollutant-sequestering material Ecology & Evolutionary Courtenay Ray Ecology and management of an invasive veldt grass, Ehrharta erecta Biology Ecology & Evolutionary Hudson Pinheiro Speciation of reef fishes in the Vitória-Trindade Seamount Chain, Biology Southwestern Atlantic Ecology & Evolutionary Monica Moritsch Identifying environmental and anthropogenic factors associated with Biology sea star wasting disease through large-scale geospatial analysis Ecology & Evolutionary Syngnathus species with virtually no interspecific genetic variation: Biology suggestions for synonymizing four Eastern Pacific pipefishes

Education Ana Paulina Moreno A Pedagogy of Community Building: Re-Imagining Parent Involvement and Community Organizing in Popular Education Efforts Electrical Engineering David Fryauf Photo-emission blue shift of indium phosphide nanowire networks with aluminum oxide coating Electrical Engineering Juan Jose Diaz Sun 2 Fibers Leon Electrical Engineering Junce Zhang Silicon Nanowire Networks For Thermoelectric Applications Electrical Engineering Kate Norris Resistive Switching behavior of Sio2 cosputtered with platinum Environmental Studies Sharifa Crandall Microclimate Matters: Airborne Fungal Spores in a Coastal Forest and Grassland Games and Playable Michael Leece Opponent State Modeling in RTS games with limited information using Media Markov Random Fields History Evan Grupsmith Red Guards Do Not Fear the Difficulty of a Long March : Autonomous Political Action and the State During the Cultural Revolution Chuanlian Movement History Kiran Garcha Beyond Transgressive Pedagogy: A Gendered Analysis of the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School History Noel E. Smyth The Natchez Diaspora: A History of Indigenous Displacement and Survival in the Atlantic World Linguistics The syntax of coordination below the word Literature Ariane Helou Figures of Voice in Early Modern Europe Literature Erica Smeltzer Re-imagining the Spaces of Berlin: Constructing a New Future Literature Joanna Meadvin "Anhelos que aún no se han realizado": Jewish Writers and the Making of the Jewish Americas (1890-1970) Microbiology & Jenna Conner Salinity-Dependent Regulation of Vibrio cholerae Biofilms Environmental Toxicology Microbiology & Jennifer Teschler LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators (LTTR) play a role in Vibrio Environmental Toxicology cholerae biofilm formation Molecular, Cell, & Prestina Smith The role of VANGL2 in the mammary gland Developmental Biology Molecular, Cell, & Ruth Watson RNAseq: Roadmap to the Arsenic Respiration Pathway in Developmental Biology Shewanella sp. ANA-3 Physics Leila Jewell Evidence for Cu_2SnS_3 Formation: An Important Step Towards CZTS for Solar Energy Applications Physics Trevor Keiber Modeling unusual vibration modes in skutterudites containing "rattler" atoms Psychology Joanna Weill Do Capital Jurors Represent the "Conscience of the Community"?: The Biasing Effects of Death Qualification Psychology Virginia Thomas Motivation Matters: Development of a Short Form Measure of Solitude for Adolescents and Emerging Adults

Statistics & Applied Annalisa Cadonna Bayesian flexible spectral modeling and computation for the analysis Mathematics of complex brain signals Statistics & Applied Robert Richardson Flexible Integro-Differential Equations for Spatio-Temporal Modeling Mathematics Statistics & Applied Sai Xiao Nonparametric Bayesian modeling and inference for renewal Mathematics processes Visual Studies Mary Thomas Public Uses: Reconfiguring Race, Space, and Visuality in Los Angeles