Welcome to SUNY Geneseo’s Seventh 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 Patrice Case, Studio Art Andrea Klein, Campus Scheduling and Special Events Graham Drake, English Jessica Shepard, GREAT Day Intern Jennifer Lofkrantz, History Erin Pipe, Chamber Music Festival Coordinator Susan Salmon, School of Education Chelsea Butkowski, Kinetic Gallery Coordinator Aaron Steinhauer, Physics & Astronomy 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, Jennifer Glieco, Becky Glass, Paul Jackson, Nancy Johncox, Minh Bui, Enrico Johnson, Laura Kenyon, Chip Matthews, Sean McGrath, Nicole Muraco, Traci Phillips, Mark Scott, Rio Takemura, Helen Thomas, Julie Rao, Katie Tierney and the SA Tech Services.

Thanks to Student volunteers: Abigail Golfo , Aja Guzman, Ama Acheampong, Anna Choo, Anna Tiburzi, Ayumi Yamazaki, Brieanna Cervoni, Brittany Gliboff, Bruno Villazhinay, Cameron Rinaldi, Camille Mackey, Casey Berg, Christopher Ecklund, Christy Agrawal, Cindy Trieu, Coli Bacharach, Daeun Noh, Dan Bender, Devin Geraghty, Devon Coulter, Emma Wang, Eugenie Ma, Gina Suriano, Hannah Parfitt, Hannah Wang, Ivy Wang, Jackie Nocita, Jane Coons, Jess Diefendorf, Jiwon Kim , Karlene Gallese, Kasey Cole, Katie Becker, Kelsey Colberg, Kristen Norrgard, Laura Sharpe, Nadia Abdulwahab, Rozina Portelli, Sarah Hooven, Sarah Kucharski, Sean McCarthy, Shannon Dempsey, Shannon Gallagher, Shannon Quinlivan, Staci Weiss, Steph Coffman, Steph Liotta, Tushara Surapaneni, Will Gladstone, William Jockers

Special Thank You: President Christopher Dahl and Provost Carol Long for their support of GREAT Day. Jack and Carol Kramer for their support of Geneseo and the Keynote address. Dava Sobel for delivering the Keynote address. Tom Fisher for the online submission form and web program design. Erin Pipe for organizing the Chamber Music Festival. Dara Gell for serving as liaison to the Student Association. The Student Association for sponsoring the Luncheon. Campus Auxiliary Services for sponsoring reception beverages. 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 Service and the Jack '76 and Carol '76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship.

http://www.geneseo.edu/great_day

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual

TABLE OF CONTENTS SCHEDULE

Schedule ...... 1 8:30 – 9:30 AM Welcome College Union Ballroom Artwork Exhibits ...... 2-4 Remarks William Brower, Vice President for College Advancement Alma Mater – Jessica Carl and Nick Ellsworth Chamber Music Festival ...... 5 Poster Presentations College Union Ballroom & 3rd Floor

Dance Performance ...... 5 8:30 – 6:30 pm Artwork Exhibits Keynote Address ...... 6 College Union Kinetic Gallery & Brodie Lederer Gallery

Poster Map ...... 7 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM Poster Abstracts ...... 8 - 36 Chamber Music Festival Part 1 College Union Fireside Lounge

Concurrent Presentations Quick View Guide . 37-38 9:40 – 10:55 AM Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 ...... 39-46 ISC, Milne, South, Sturges, Welles

Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 ...... 46-52 11:05 – 12:20 PM Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 ...... 53-60 Brodie, Knightspot, Milne, South, Sturges, Welles

Concurrent Presentations • Session 4 ...... 60-67 12:30 – 1:30 PM rd Special Presentations/Insomnia Film Festival ..... 68 Poster Presentations College Union Ballroom & 3 Floor Buffet Luncheon College Union Lobby Index of Student Participants ...... 69-71 Sponsored by the Geneseo Student Association Bhangra Performance 1:20 pm College Union Ballroom Stage Cover designs ...... back cover

Cover design by PHILIP ROMANO 1:45 – 2:45 PM For more information on the GREAT Day Program Cover design project, see back cover. The Jack ’76 and Carol ’76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship Dava Sobel, author of popular expositions of scientific topics Wadsworth Auditorium

Publish your paper or poster! 2:55 – 4:10 PM Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 Did you know that a publication is released College Union, ISC, Milne, South, Sturges, Welles, every year containing a selection of the 3:00 – 4:30 PM papers and posters presented at GREAT Day? Chamber Music Festival Part 2 College Union Fireside Lounge To have your GREAT Day presentation or poster considered for the 2013 GREAT Day 4:20 – 5:35 PM Proceedings, contact Sue Ann Brainard at Concurrent Presentations • Session 4 Milne Library, [email protected], x5062. ISC, Milne, South, Sturges, Wadsworth, Welles

5:30 – 6:30 PM

Closing Remarks College Union Ballroom Christopher Dahl, President Check out Starbuck’s new Poster Presentations & Reception Sponsored in part by Campus Auxiliary Services GREAT Day Latte rd College Union Ballroom & 3 Floor It is sweet, bold, and nutty – something for everyone, just 7:00 PM Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival Sturges 219, Auditorium like GREAT Day!

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ARTWORK EXHIBITS

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS FOR PREPARING THE EXHIBITS KATELYN COLLINS, RAY FERREIRA, IAN GABRIEL, MOHAMMED HOSSAIN, SAMANTHA HUEBLER, MAYUKO KUBO, NATE LOEWENSTEIN, KYRA RHOADES, JOO YEON SHIN (JANE), ALEKSANDRA SZCZUREK

MACVITTIE COLLEGE UNION KINETIC GALLERY

______different image standing two inches or two feet ______EMMA JACKSON away. Created with permanent marker. KARA FINEGAN FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH FALK, SCHOOL OF ______FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART EDUCATION MEAGAN TURNER Sterling Parrot Pendant: This pendant was Look to the Sun: Painting of a flower using FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART made using a unique method called sand casting. To acrylics, on 30x30 canvas. Brushstrokes: This piece is an enlargement of make this piece, I made a clay parrot to use as a ______a section of ink brushstrokes. The enlargement was positive. The positive was then pressed into a sand HOLLY KANDEL redrawn by hand using Sharpie. mold and removed. The sand mold was then filled FACULTY SPONSOR: NEAL BROOKS, RESIDENCE LIFE ______with molten silver. Once it cooled, the metal bird Dorm Room Project: This was a photo TRICIA CREMO was removed from the sand mold, followed by project I decided to do at the end of spring FACULTY SPONSOR: RIO TAKEUMURA, ART hours and hours of filing, and sanding to clean and semester, 2012. I went around all the residence Brush Stroke Study: Magnified image of a shape the metal. Once the cleaning was finished, a halls throughout Geneseo, mainly Niagara and series of brushstroke studying patterns. texture was hammered onto the wing and a 2 Onondaga, and knocked on all the doors and asked Abstract Gridded Pig: Abstract scene millimeter cubic zirconia stone was flush set into the eye of the parrot to give it a sparkling finish! people to pose in front of their dorm room walls. studying foreground and background. The message from this project was to answer the ______BENJAMIN FREIMAN question: what do people's dorm room walls say NATHAN LOEWENSTEIN FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART about them? Each wall is unique in character, FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART Steel Spider: Materials: 14, 16, 18, and 20 symbolically like the people who created them. Crying: Watercolor painting of a girl crying. ______gauge steel wire. The intricate and creeping IAN GABRIEL Laughing: Watercolor of a girl laughing movements of arachnids and insects inspired me to FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART ______choose a spider as my subject for a wire sculpture. The Adoration: It's a somewhat fantastical MARGARET GERARDI Wire has both organic and mechanical qualities in FACULTY SPONSOR: RIO TAKEMURA, ART scene of the washing of the Indian Deity known as the way it moves and bends, similar to the way a Ganesh by one of his handmaidens. It's purpose was Brush Strokes: Picture is 9" by 11" with a 1.5" spider does. While building the body, I tried to keep to elicit a similar response of awe and sexual unease inch border. Medium: sharpie. Picture depicting the proportions somewhat anatomically accurate, that one was to find in classical works depicting brushstrokes drawn with sharpie. although I'm no entomologist. My goal is to one day more western pantheon gods. ______build a full-sized steel sculpture in the same vein as ______CHRISTINE KIRKPATRICK this one. KYRA RHOADES FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART ______FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART Brushstrokes: A Sharpie drawing imitating ALEKSANDRA SZCZUREK THOMAS MACPHERSON, ART artist's brushstrokes. FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MACPHERSON, ART Tentacle Set: Sterling Silver set designed and ______Hand of God: 24"x36" Watercolor, ink, pastel, created through Lost Wax Casting processes. HEATHER MATTHEWS gouache and charcoal on paper FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART Intended to explore the evolution of an idea based Golden: 18"x24" Pastel and gouache on paper upon movement, texture, contrast and Brushstrokes: A sharpie drawing imitating ______functionality. artist's brushstrokes. ERIN DONOVAN ______Sculptural figure formed and FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART The Silver Man: EMILY WALDMAN This is a bound book made of 7 carved from moldable bees wax. Casted from FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART 7: The Book: sterling silver, 3 oz. pages, each representing one of the seven deadly What is it?: Is this painting meant to resemble Representational of sins. Three of the pages are embossed; a mold was Memories of a Dream: an offering of drink, washed by waves on an ocean places visited while taking a semester abroad to made and pressed into the pages. The other four shore underneath a twilight sky? Or is it jugs of pages feature the use of photography and the Rome, Italy. Roman drink being set up by a lavish host, who ______playing of black and white features with colored MAYUKO KUBO mixed slices of pizza to ironically transcend time accents. The book had a cover made mostly of FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART between old and modern Italy? You decide. cardboard and paper, and the binding is that of the ______Japanese Book Binding style. Medium: paper, Untitled: From St. Patrick's Day Parade CHELSEY BARKER cardboard, photography. FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Untitled: From St. Patrick's Day Parade ______Cornwall: Pen & Watercolor HANNAH GLASER RAY FERREIRA ______FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART GREG D'AIELLO Master Copy of The Fruit Inspector drip. ooze…dribble: honey and wax FACULTY SPONSOR: TZEKI HON, HISTORY by Morgan Weistling : 30 x 30 inch oil on ______The Dollarback of the Globe: The effect stretched canvas. This painting was done as an JACLYN VETRANO and influence of the U.S dollarback in todays global instructional copy of Morgan Weistling's original FACULTY SPONSOR: RIO TAKEMURA, ART economy cannot go unnoticed as being hegemonic "Fruit Inspector." Painted with water miscible oil Ink with Ink: The challenge was to create the same in and of itself. My painting will abstractly represent paints, and using the same color palette as the tones as a brush freshly dripped in ink and dragged the overwhelming influence of the dollarback and across clean white paper. The illusion from master artist. its encompassing influence on the rest of the globe. stippling, dashes, and line weight create a very

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______MICHAEL HARTMAN Charcoal Portrait Monochromatic Interpretation of ______FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART BIANCA BETTS Sophie Anderson's Autumn Princess Wire Helmet FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART It is a monochromatic interpretation of Sophie Inspired by Elven Helms seen in "The Lord of the Anderson's Autumn Princess Aqueduct Rings" film series, the piece guides the viewers eye Aqueduct in Italy done in watercolor with use of implied and contour lines. ______EDITH ALAVEZ

JESSICA KIM FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART

BRODIE FINE ARTS – LEDERER GALLERY

______JULIA ANDALORA ALISON BROCKETT Charcoal Portrait of Tȟatȟáŋka FACULTY SPONSOR: EUGENE DEZARN, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART Íyotake: A portrait of the famous Hunkpapa The Feast: A set of forks come alive to devour A Little Slice of Peacock: A transformation chief Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake, or Sitting Bull. some fast food. Sculpture. from a lemon to a peacock. Charcoal Landscape ______A take on the four Apocalypse Steeds: KATELYN COLLINS ASHLEY FENIMORE horsemen of the apocalypse. Small but detailed FACULTY SPONSOR: CASE PATRICE, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART steel sculptures. Cash Money: Cash died of Lyme's Disease at Charcoal Landscape: Mainly vine charcoal, When You've Hit Rock Bottom: A plate only 4 years old, last spring. This painting is for him. but some compressed charcoal as well. steel sculpture depicting the inevitable. ______Portrait of Jacob Trost, a ______ZOE VAN ORDEN Charcoal Portrait: LIURAN CHEN FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART best friend at SUNY Geneseo. FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Monochromatic Master Portrait: This Charcoal Still Life: Final project for the A portrait of a Charcoal Portrait, Glory: is a monochromatic copy of an original portrait Drawing I class. Consisted of many objects found in girl in charcoal created in full color by a master artist. our classroom and the room next door. ______A still life drawing of an The Studio at Night: Still Life: This still life was created with a limited THOMAS MULHOLLAND art studio palette with emphasis on the strategic use of color. FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART ______ELIZABETH NEEVES Geneseo Plein Air: This painting, completed Charcoal Portrait: Portrait of David Lynch in FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART in one sitting, was done outdoors in December with charcoal. "Portrait of Elinore": This work of my a view of the Geneseo Valley from the Saratoga Charcoal Hand: Charcoal drawing of hand. younger sister Elinore. This project was the second Townhouses. ______to last assignment of the semester and arguably one SAMANTHA HUEBLER MARLEE CAVALLERO FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MACPHERSON, ART of my best. FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART ______PATRICE CASE, ART MOHAMMED HOSSAIN Zain: Line and wash portrait (ink and watercolor) Dance of the Kathakali: Watercolor FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART ______YULIYA MURADOVA painting that depicts an Indian dance known as A head made of metal with wood Sculpture 1: FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Kathakali. placed in the center of the head. Charcoal Hand: A study of the artist's hand in Crane Lake: Watercolor painting of a crane. Sculpture 2: A building blocks. made of metal ______a contorted position done in charcoal. sheets. MICHELLE BAIER ______Charcoal portrait: A self portrait of the artist FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART PAM HOWE in charcoal from a black and white photograph. Plein Air Oil Painting: The Geneseo valley in FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MACPHERSON, ART ______BENJAMIN WOLF the winter Charcoal and ______Grandiose Romanticism: FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART watercolor on paper. The face of a sad old man. BEVERLY HIRSCHMANN Charcoal Still Life: When looking at the FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Charcoal Lenny Haunts You Haunt Me: massive still life we were presented with the task of on paper A man seeing Lenny Bruce behind his own Still Life: My still life is a close up focusing on a drawing, I decided that I would try to go a different pair of old boots thrown aside. reflection route than others. By concentrating in on one part A Jar Fulla Butterflies: Acrylic on canvas of the still life I was able to create a mood separate Charcoal Portrait: My charcoal portrait is a weird man holding a jar of monarchs from the one denoted by the overall still life. self portrait based on a picture of myself taken by ______Ashley Fenimore. EMILY DIPAULO STEPHON LAWRENCE ______HANNAH MAISONET FACULTY SPONSOR: RIO TAKEMURA, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART I'm Whaley Dreaming: Whales amidst Still Life with Pear & Tomato: Oil Paint Perfection Portrait: This is probably my swirls and lines... Sharpie. color study of a still life with a pear and tomato piece of work that I am most proud of. It is my first ______Color Master Copy (Portrait): Color JOO YEON SHIN charcoal portrait from Drawing I. A variety of Master Copy of a work from a past painter techniques were used in creating this, including FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART ______painting with charcoal dust and drawing with Untitled: Sculpture of 4 skulls KEENAN TAYLOR FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART tortillons. The original reference photo, titled Untitled: Wood carving "Perfection," can be found in the deviantart gallery Untitled: plaster statue of DarkVenusPersephonae.

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______HEATHER CHOI ______FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART AMY-LYNN HALLER MICHAEL HARTMAN Portrait of Johnny Depp in Charcoal: FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART This portrait was done as the last project for Still Life: Vibrancy in Hue: This was the Abstract Cardboard Staircase: A Drawing I class. final project completed at the end of Oil Painting I. cardboard structure that accentuates the use of Still Life of a Painter's Studio in This piece was kind of an "aha!" moment for me. It contour and implied lines in an abstract portrayal of was my first project that I really grasped the oil a staircase. Charcoal: This still life was done as the final for painting technique. ______Drawing I class. Master Copy: Renoir's Portrait of JESSICA KIM ______FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART LARA ELMAYAN Jeanne Samary: The best way to learn is by Monochromatic Master Copy: The FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART copying a master artist. This painting is a copy of Bather Charcoal Portrait: When initially assigned Renoir's "Portrait of Jeanne Samary." ______Color Master Copy: Dusk this project, I scoured the internet for a face that AMBER RIED was interesting enough to draw. Almost everything ______FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART BIANCA BETTS was too low-resolution, too highly Photoshopped, FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART or taken in too flattering and perfect light. I wanted Youth: A Charcoal Perspective: to go into extreme detail with charcoals and convey Charcoal portrait of young child Still Life: Still life containing a vase, pepper, and beauty in imperfection. So I photographed my ______glass container done in oil paints. MICHELLE MOSHON mother in harsh side lighting and tried to replicate FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Untitled: Monochromatic copy of Jules Joseph every wrinkle, line, and imperfection. She still hates Monochromatic Master Copy Lefebvre's "Young Woman with Morning Glories in me for it. her Hair" done in oil paints. Charcoal Still Life (portrait): "Portrait of an Unknown Woman" by ______Ivan Kramskoi HANNAH CUMMINGS EMILY SWEET Plein Air FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART ______Landscape in Charcoal: An Italian villa in Butterfly Effect: 14 x 17 , Medium: Sharpie ALEKSANDRA SZCZUREK the countryside FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MACPHERSON, ART ______Cupid's Madness: 14 x 17, Medium: Sharpie STEVEN ROSENZWEIG 3'x5'5" Charcoal and and Watercolor, 2D Final Project Self Portrait (Throne): FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART ______pastel on tinted paper GINA ABRAHAM, MARISSA BENSON ______Inside the Artist's Studio: A charcoal still FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART ERIN DONOVAN life of a scene resembling an artist's studio. Box Project: This box project was for our FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART Pre-angst Sunshine: A charcoal replica of a second art studio project for 3 Dimensional Design. Mad Tea Party: An Object Study: An portrait of a child laying on the ground. We have 3 people in our group, Michael, Marissa object study of cups featuring some abstract ______and Gina. Our task was to create a life size piece of concept. Mainly using teacups and a top hat as my KELSEY COLBERG art that followed criteria such as patterns, object, the abstract took form with Alice from Alice FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART movement, line quality and more and project it on in Wonderland flying into the tea cups with help Charcoal Portrait: This is a piece done in to our art piece while maintaining good from the checkered band around the top hat. The Charcoal of a small child. The child's eyes and the craftsmanship and detail. We could tape or glue scene lays a top a book meant to represent Lewis foreshortening add to the piece's composition. cardboard together. However, we can only use Carroll's books, paint medium used on pages. Charcoal Hand: This piece is done in charcoal Colored pencil, blended, some sharpie marker used. cardboard. We have the option to design with of a hand. The lighting and shadows within the covering paper later on. Our idea was to make stairs Notes on Fire: This project uses a mirrored piece help add to the composition making it unique. that go up with a figure standing somewhere on the pattern, with a tetrad color scheme. Created first Still Life: This piece is done in charcoal depicting stairs. Since the project has to be taller than the was a 3"x3" square, which reflected off a point in a still life image set up in a studio. tallest person in our group, our project has to be the bottom right corner to create a larger 6"x6" taller than 5"7 - Marissa. We decided on the height ______square. From there the 6"x6" square was repeated EDITH ALAVEZ to be around 6 ft. After that we started cutting out three other times to create a 12"x12" square. A FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART strips of cardboard to make steps. Each step had to tetrad color scheme with the colors yellow orange, A landscape painting of be about 8 inches and different inches long. We had red orange, blue violet and blue green were used. Plein Air Painting: different lengths because each step was going to They vary in each 6"x6" frame. Medium: Colored Geneseo get be descending or ascending in different sizes. pencil - blended. Interpretation of Frank Cowper's We also had to plan where to put or point of ______Molly, Duchess of Nona: A color master contact-we decided to put it in the middle. HANNAH GLASER ______FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART copy painting of Frank Cowper's, Molly, Duchess of NICOLE CURTIS Nona painting FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART Still Life with Yellow Pepper

Perspective: This was a project for my 2D art class, our assignment was to create a drawing that had a focal perspective. The work includes a winding road and dice raining from the clouds.

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CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL FIRESIDE LOUNGE, MACVITTIE COLLEGE UNION

9:00-9:10 Freshman Foundation 12:00-12:30 Saxophone Quartet Yasunori Three Ducks Went Wandering Alto/soprano: CHRIS MARTIN Alto: NICK ELLSWORTH CHRISTOPHER JONES, JAMES ARCIDIACONO, HOLLY DESMITT, PAUL Tenor: JOE DITURSI Baritone: TRAVIS O’SULLIVAN

GARING, STEPHANIE SCHECHTER 12:30-12:50 String Band Traditional American, Irish, and 9:10-9:20 Pedziwiatr Stranger Suite: Watch, Wait, Take Scandinavian folk tunes Student composer: PAUL PEDZIWIATR LYDIA CURRAN, RHONDA DIPRONIO, KRISTEN DRUSE, KRISTEN Piano: EMI OKADA HADLEY, MARIE KALET, LEANORA KARNATH, ABIGAIL KLUTTS, STEPHEN KOWALEWSKI, DANIEL LYNCH, CATHRYN MENARCHEM, 9:30-9:40 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8, Mvts 1, 2 JOSEPH NEJATHAIM, NICOLE RAHN, THOMAS ROBINSON, SALLY Violin: BOB GAGLIONE Violin: REGINA CARRA SCHAEFER, ISAAC SCHULTZ, CHARLES TURNER, RITA WHEELER, MICAH Viola: XINYUAN CHANG Cello: KEVIN HANSEN WIESNER

9:50-10:10 Horn Quartet: Nikolai Tcherepnin Six Horn 1:00-1:30 Jazz Combo Quartets Cheesecake CHRIS JONES, HANNAH OSGOOD, KALYNN SMITH, PETER THOMPSON, Autumn Leaves ELIZABETH WAYE Strasbourg St. Denis 10:20-10:40 Flute Choir: Handel Water Music CHRISTOPHER PIKE, CHARLES TURNER, SAMUEL WEINSTEIN, ANDREW PATT, STEVEN ROSENZWEIG, DANIEL KROLIKOWSKI SAMANTHA YELLE, JAMIE JAQUAY, AMANDA THOMAS, MARY- MARGARET GALLUP, EMILIE SCHMELZER, KADY ROMIG, DEVIN GRAU 1:45-2:45 Break for Keynote Address 10:50-11:00: SamulNori: Traditional Korean Drumming: 3:00-4:00 Thursday Night Jazz Ensemble Byeoldalgeori HEATHER CHOI, ERIC CHOO, JOANNE WOO, JESSICA MOODEY, JINBOK Caravan LEE Passado The name of this korean drumming, "SamulNori," means four objects Michael (Samul) play (Nori). There are four types of instruments- Kkwaenggwari, a small metal instrument that typically leads the group; a Janggu, an Stella By Starlight hour-glass shaped drum, which provides the most complicated I’ve Got You Under My Skin variations of the beats; Buk, which serves as the bassline, and typically STEPHEN BARRON, STEVEN COCHRANE, DEREK D’ARCY, JOSEPH carries the strongest and most basic beat; and the Jing, which is a large DITURSI, KARL DIENER, SAMUEL DOLE, NICK ELLSWORTH, RACHEL gong that provides a subtle undertone to the rhythm. SamulNori was HARE, NICK IANNARELLI, JUSTIN JOYCE, DOUGLAS KNOWLES, traditionally performed in farming villages to ensure good harvest- it is MATTHEW LAWNICZAK, ROBERT LEON, KAITLYN MORGAN, HANNAH therefore characterized by strong, accented beats and energetic spirits OSGOOD, JOSEPH RACANELLI, TARA REBUCK, ANDREW ROBERTS, and body movement. NATHAN TROMBLEY, ADAM ZACZEK

11:10-11:30 Brodie Brass Quintet 4:10-4:30 Exit 8, a cappella John Cheetam Scherzo Sopranos: SHELLY MASSACHI, ALI NIEMIEC, EMILY RITTENHOUSE, MELISSA NIKNAM Henry Purcell Two Trumpet Tunes Altos: JULIA MASOTTI, ALEX MENDES, ELYSSA RAMIREZ, NICOLE Paul Dukas Fanfare from “La Peri” PEINKOFER, NICOLE SIMONS Trumpet: SAM DOLE Trumpet: RACHEL HARE Tenors: PATRICK DANIELS, JONATHAN MUSHOCK, RUSSELL ALLEN, Horn: PETER THOMPSON Trombone: PHIL CHU SHAWN WARD Tuba: COLLIN STILLMAN Basses: DAVE DUHAMEL, ANDRE HERRING, ERIK PERRY, BEN DURLAND, SAM WEINSTEIN 11:40-11:50 Iris String Quartet Beat boxer: PHIL LONGO Violin: HANNAH GARFIELD Violin: MARIE KALET Viola: MAGGIE MILANO Cello: ERIN PIPE

DANCE PERFORMANCE 1:20 pm Union Ballroom Stage Geneseo Bhangra 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- SHADMAN SINHA, ASHLEY BURKE, BILLY O'DONNELL, AMANDA SHAPIRO, energy dance that was originally a celebration of harvest and is now DALE IGLESIA, CHAMODI RAJAPAKSE commonly performed at weddings and competitions. FACULTY SPONSOR: RANDY KAPLAN, THEATRE/DANCE

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. The Jack '76 and Carol '76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship KEYNOTE ADDRESS Wadsworth Auditorium • 1:45 – 2:45 PM

Introduction by Christopher Dahl, President

Dava Sobel “Bringing Copernicus to Life in Prose and Script”

About Dava Sobel Dava Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, is the author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter, The Planets, and A More Perfect Heaven. In her forty years as a science journalist she has written for many magazines, including Audubon, Discover, Life, and The New Yorker, served as a contributing editor to Harvard Magazine and Omni, and co-authored five books, including Is Anyone Out There? with astronomer Frank Drake. Ms. Sobel received the 2001 Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board "for fostering awareness of science and technology among broad segments of the general public." Also in 2001, the Boston Museum of Science gave her its prestigious Bradford Washburn Award for her "outstanding contribution toward public understanding of science, appreciation of its fascination, and the vital role it plays in all our lives." In October 2004, in London, Ms. Sobel received the Harrison Medal from the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, in recognition of her contribution to increasing awareness of the science of horology by the general public, through her writing and lecturing. In 2008 the Astronomical Society of the Pacific gave her its Klumpke-Roberts Award for "increasing the public understanding and appreciation of astronomy."

Her GREAT Day keynote is entitled "Bringing Copernicus to Life in Prose and Script." In 2006 her stage play about sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, called And the Sun Stood Still was commissioned by the Manhattan Theatre Club through the Alfred P. Sloan Initiative, and was also supported by a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Sobel stated that "My play about Copernicus, And the Sun Stood Still, portrays the events that made him buck common sense and received wisdom to defend the Earth's motion around the Sun. The theme of the piece is a familiar favorite of mine: the great transformation of humankind's worldview through science."

In May 2011, as the Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Doenges Visiting Artist/Scholar, Ms. Sobel taught a course called "Writing Creatively about Science" at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. Starting in 2013, she will begin a two-year appointment as the Joan Leiman Jacobson Writer-in-Residence at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Lecture engagements have taken Ms. Sobel to speak at The Smithsonian Institution, The Explorers' Club, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The New York Public Library, The Hayden Planetarium, The Royal Geographical Society (London), and the American Academy in Rome. She has been a frequent guest on National Public Radio programs, including "All Things Considered," "Fresh Air," and "The Diane Rheem Show." Her television appearances include CSPAN's "Booknotes" and "TODAY" on NBC. She contributes an occasional column to Discover Magazine called "Field Notes," describing what scientists actually do when they are "doing research." A 1964 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, Ms. Sobel attended Antioch College and the City College of New York before receiving her bachelor of arts degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1969. She holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from the University of Bath, in England, and Middlebury College, Vermont, both awarded in 2002.

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COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & articulation errors, language delays, fluency and Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) is autism, but could easily be adapted for use with any an alternative communication system that uses SCIENCES population. pictures instead of words. It was originally designed 80 • Is Geneseo Hazardous to Your ______to be used with children on the autism spectrum, 83 • The Importance of Literature on though it may be used with any person who exhibits Hearing? An Examination of Popular Language Development a delay in speech development. PECS is an easy, relatively low cost system of communication that Places At Geneseo and Noise Levels ANNE HALSTEAD, CALLI RAINES can be implemented in a wide variety of through the Day FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, environments. MARY-CLARE STOKES COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES ______FACULTY SPONSOR: CAROL IVSAN, Getting children to read is an important aspect of COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES preparing them for success in school. While there 87 • Swallowing Disorders in Using a sound level meter, the decibel level average are several variations of philosophies as to how Relation to Speech Language will be taken at some of the most popular sites children learn language, most agree that exposure Pathology around campus when the space is empty and then to diverse usage of language is an important part of BRYNNE STURGE, EMILY MECI again during peak hours. Sustained decibel levels of the developmental process. Children's literature is FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, over 70dB can have harmful effects of a person's significant because it enhances development of COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES hearing and this study will examine the possibility of language skills and other critical thinking skills that Our presentation will explore the roles of Speech- aural harm in the most visited locations around provide the foundation of learning. Language Pathologists in swallowing and feeding ______campus. disorders, including the causes, symptoms, ______84 • Traumatic Brain Injury: prevention, and rehabilitation. We will include how 81 • When Your Brain Can't Hear: An Rehabilitation and Role of the swallowing disorders impact oral motor functions, Overview of (Central) Auditory Speech-Language Pathologist specifically how they impact speech. One procedure that we will focus on is the barium swallow which Processing Disorders APRIL RUIZ, DANIELLE WILLIAMSON helps the SLP determine the severity and cause of SEAN FUSTER, JULIA GANGLOFF, SAMANTHA FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, the swallowing disorder. HARTNETT, PATRICK LANGAN, CAROLYN MAHON, COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES ______KATHRYN MAKOWIEC, KRISTEN SCHULTZ, ASHLEY Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is an acquired brain THORNTON injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes 88 • Traumatic Brain Injuries FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, damage to the brain. This project explores the JENNIFER WALPOLE COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES causes and effects of traumatic brain injury, as well FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, It is estimated that 2-3% of school-age children have as the role of the Speech-Language Pathologists in COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES significant difficulty processing auditory rehabilitation of TBI. This presentation will focus on different types of information, with even higher prevalence within the ______traumatic brain injuries, the detrimental effect they adult population. In most cases these individuals 85 • Augmentative and Alternative have on communication, and the role of the demonstrate normal hearing sensitivity. They can Speech-Language Pathologist in rehabilitation. Communication ______essentially hear sound at normal levels but the BRIDGET MCGOVERN auditory signal somehow gets "jumbled" en route to 89 • Laryngectomy FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, the brain. This poster presents an overview of what JOANNA FINNERTY, CHRISTINA DORNBUSH COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES are referred to as (Central) Auditory Processing FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, Augmentative and Alternative Communication Disorders including possible causes, COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES (AAC) are methods of communication that are used behavioral/functional symptoms, methods for A laryngectomy is a procedure dealing with the to replace speech or writing for those individuals diagnosis, and treatment/management options. removal of the larynx and separation of the airway ______who have severe speech and language problems. It from the nose, mouth, and esophagus. Post 82 • Speech and Language Therapy is a form of communication that helps express operation, patients must find a new way to needs, thoughts, wants and ideas. AAC can be used communicate as well as adapt to changes in their Materials: Original Student Works by a wide range of individuals with disabilities. lifestyle. Topics discussed include prevention, ANNE HALSTEAD, KATHRYN MICHALEK, ASHLEY Those with congenital impairments like cerebral etiology, surgical procedure, modes of THORNTON, KAITLYN RAFFE, BRYNNE STURGE, palsy, autism, developmental dyspraxia, or those communication, and maintenance. MANDY OLEVNIK, MARY COBLE, CALLI RAINES, with acquired conditions like Parkinson's, multiple ______CHRISTINA DORNBUSH, JENNIFER WALPOLE, EMILY sclerosis, dementia, etc. There are two forms of 90 • Tourette's Syndrome MECI AAC: Unaided communication which includes body JULIA GANGLOFF, STACIANNE LESTER, BRIANNA FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, language, gestures, or sign language and Aided SERFIO COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES communication that ranges from low-tech aids such FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, Displayed speech-language therapy materials were as communication boards/books or high tech aids COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES constructed by Communicative Disorders & like electronic message boards. The impact Tourette's syndrome has on the speech ______Sciences students in their first semester of clinical mechanisms and how it can affect someone's experience for use with clients in the Geneseo 86 • Picture Exchange everyday life. Speech and Hearing Clinic and local school Communication System: An ______programs. The materials are highly individualized, 91 • Vocal Abuse in Children based on each client's speech and language goals Overview KAITLYN RAFFE, AXITA VORA and interests. Students used these materials to BRIDGET MISKELL, KATELYNN IMAGNA FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, motivate their clients during therapy sessions and FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES teach new communicative skills. The materials on COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES This poster will contain information on vocal abuse display were used with clients demonstrating in children. Specifically, it will address what causes 8

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual vocal abuse in children and situations to avoid or SAMANTHA HARTNETT, MEGAN ALI I am interested in becoming a professional wrestler, monitor. Overall, the poster will include causes of FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, so I chose to research wrestling. I will be talking vocal abuse, signs/symptoms, long-term outcomes, COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES about the history of wrestling, the different types of and techniques that can help reduce abuse and This poster will present an overview of how Speech- wrestling, and how it involves so much more than increase vocal hygiene. language pathologists work with deaf people. Both just wrestling itself. It includes teamwork, acting, ______Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists play physical skills, balance, and strength. I will talk 92 • Dysarthria in Parkinson's an important role in helping the deaf to learn to about what I have learned from wrestling, and how Disease communicate with hearing people and to learn how I can use these skills in my everyday life. to participate and function in every day activities. ______KATHRYN MICHALEK, MICHELLE CERVELLO Speech-Language Pathologists work with the deaf FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, 201 • Heart Surgery: Look How Far on learning to lip read, read and write in English and COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES We Have Come sometimes even teaching deaf people how to This poster will discuss the symptoms and ELLEN BEISHEIM speak. It is necessary for people entering into the treatment of hypokinetic dysarthria in Parkinson's FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HALL, SCHOOL OF communication disorders and sciences field to disease. EDUCATION understand how crucial their role is to the deaf ______I have researched Heart Surgery, and the different community. 93 • Common Misconceptions of types of heart surgery that exist today. I chose this Deaf Culture topic because I had heart surgery. I wanted to learn SCHOOL OF EDUCATION more about it and how it has helped me become MARY COBLE, NICOLE ZINGMAN 198 • Reading Comprehension more independent today. FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, ______COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES Strategies for Primary Students with The purpose of this research project is to explore 202 • Technology: How I Use it Daily Autism JOHN FEIDNER the common misconceptions that hearing persons MARIAH MARIENFELD have toward the deaf community. According to FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HALL, SCHOOL OF FACULTY SPONSOR: ANNMARIE URSO, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Gallaudet University, it is estimated that 2 to 4 of EDUCATION every 1000 people are "functionally" deaf. Since I chose to research technology and how it impacts This research focuses on the implementation of my daily life. I will look at the computer, cell phone, there is a significant deaf population in the United research-based strategies that can be used to States, it is important to understand the culture and and digital camera to show how these different instruct students with Autism, Asperger's technologies impact our lives today, and how they history behind the community. By making the effort Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and to learn about deaf culture, we can break down the have left a mark on society. I will look at how these Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise technologies impact society, the environment, as barriers between the hearing and non-hearing Specified in reading comprehension. Students with worlds. well as my life. these disabilities typically have difficulty with ______making meaning of texts. Being able to comprehend 203 • Alopecia: What It Is and Its 94 • Cleft Lip Palate and the Role of a text is critical, as it is the main reason why people the Speech-Language Pathologist read. Individuals must be able to draw on prior Impact on Me REBECCA LODI, EMILY LEPSKI knowledge in order to make meaning of the texts TYLER GERACI FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, that they read. In order to provide these students FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HALL, SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES with the skills necessary to comprehend texts and EDUCATION This poster highlights the role of a Speech-Language draw key information from them, teachers should I researched alopecia: what it is, how it happens, its Pathologist with individuals born with cleft-lip use specific research-based strategies. The symptoms, the different types, what causes it, is it palate. The characteristics that affect speech, voice strategies used in this case study/single subject genetic and/or life threatening, how many people and language will be emphasized. This will include research design include direct instruction, cloze have it and can it be treated. I chose this topic the assessment and treatment options that a procedures, computer-assisted instruction, and because it affects me and I wanted to know and Speech-Language Pathologist can provide. prompting and drawing attention towards vital wanted others to know how having it can affect Information will also be given on the etiology and information in texts and pictures. Research was people's lives. ______incidence for cleft-lip. conducted in a self-contained classroom setting, ______with students in grades K-3. Students were 204 • Active Learning Through 95 • Augmentative Alternative instructed with fiction books at or slightly above Curriculum Design: Using Bilingual their reading levels. Communication and Autism ______Books to Support Language SARA CARVER, LAUREN BOYCE 199 • Speech Therapy and How it Acquisition FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, Helps People ALEXIS RYTEL COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA PERPETUA LIWANAG, ANDREW MACDONALD The poster will explain the type of augmentative SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HALL, SCHOOL OF alternative communication and its benefits for As part of an undergraduate directed study, a EDUCATION children with autism. One out of every 88 children faculty and an undergraduate education student I researched Speech Therapy and how it helps are diagnosed with autism, and of these children, collaboratively developed a Spanish language people. I have a disability, and I personally need 60% are unable to communicate their wants and curriculum that is centered on the use of authentic speech therapy. It has helped me, and I want others needs. ACC devices allow these children to children's literature. The goal of this student to know how it can help them. I will look at the communicate and interact with the people around designed and faculty guided course is to document different types of speech therapy to explain how them. There is both aided and unaided types of how using literature written in a culturally relevant what I've learned has helped me in school and at communication systems, we will explain both of bilingual language supports elementary students' these providing ample examples. We will also bring my internship. ______Spanish language acquisition. Presentation of in an iPad so that people may observe the use of undergraduate student's active learning one these systems. 200 • Wrestling: It's More experiences in designing and implementing ______Complicated Than You Think curriculum, resources and findings will be shared. 95 • The Speech-Language DUSTIN FREDERICY Selected for presentation at 12th Annual Niagara Pathologists Role in the Deaf FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HALL, SCHOOL OF University International Conference on Teaching EDUCATION and Learning, Niagara Falls, NY. Community 9

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presenting our understanding of how reading works Addressing the Diverse Needs of when reading print and video texts. English Language Learner Students at Maplewood

______MELINDA KUWIK, JOHN BLANK, STEPHANIE TYREE 205 • Multiculturalism in the 207 • Using Eye Movement Miscue FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN NORMAN, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Classroom Analysis to Study How Text Format This poster will describe the SUNY Geneseo tutoring JOANNA SIMONE, ALANNA FAUSEL, CHRISTINE and Genre Influence Reading effort in the city of Rochester at the Maplewood NASSAR, HANNAH TASHMAN, BRIEANNA CERVONI Strategies Library called Rochester Young Scholars Academy FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA PERPETUA LIWANAG, MAGGIE BOQUARD, ALYSSA SMITH Saturday School (RYSASS). RYSASS will provide SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA PERPETUA LIWANAG, fruitful educational experiences for ELL students at Multiculturalism is often discussed as an important, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Maplewood through understanding the yet relatively broad concept. Though an This experimental study using an eye movement sociocultural history of Southeast Asian refugee understanding of different cultures is an integral miscue analysis methodology focuses on examining populations as a foundational base for purposeful part of the well-rounded global perspective, how how a text's format influences reader strategies and educational practices to meet the diverse needs of does one cultivate this understanding in others? comprehension. A fractured fairy tale and a college- English Language Learners (ELL). The following four This study explores how literature can provide level textbook were used to gain insight into the intercultural approaches will be utilized to break information on various multicultural views, effects of page layout, font size, genre and content down language barriers, make content area expressed using themes ranging from cultural on how college readers navigate texts. Eight college connections, and provide safe educational spaces to traditions and the celebration of holidays to the readers who participated in the study read two foster an environment that encourages open struggle of immersion in a new culture. Resources separate texts while their eye movements and oral communication and effective use of the English for finding multicultural literature on campus, like readings were recorded. Following the reading, the language. Multicultural literacy, vocabulary building, those found at SUNY Geneseo's Teacher Education subjects were also asked questions regarding their learning through play, and transcultural Resource Center (TERC) or the Office of reading strategies and approach to the text. This is communication methods will be implemented by Multicultural Programs (part of Geneseo's Center an on-going research study so our process and the RYSASS tutors with ELL student populations at for Community) will be examined to contribute to a results may change. However, we believe our study the Maplewood Library. Pre-service teachers will better understanding of multiculturalism. This study will demonstrate initial insights regarding effective gain teaching experience with refugee communities also aims to highlight the diverse range of literature reading habits of college students. while broadening their own understanding of the that enables students of various ages and levels to ______students' unique cultural history. Through the learn more about themselves and the world. 208 • The Basal Reading Approach: RYSASS tutoring effort, ELL students will build ______confidence, increase social capital, and improve 206 • Collecting and Analyzing Eye- Where Did the Magic Go? English language proficiency. Tracking and Miscue Data to STEPHANIE WILLMARTH ______FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA PERPETUA LIWANAG, 210 • RYSASS: Rochester Young Examine What Readers Do When SCHOOL OF EDUCATION The Basal Reading Program is designed to teach Scholars Academy Saturday School Reading MELISSA TEMPLETON, KIM WILLEY, KELSEY CAREY LAUREN FONTE, DEVEN COULTER, BREANNE children to read, with a basis in vocabulary instruction, language skill, and grammatical FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN NORMAN, SCHOOL OF RAFFERTY, MACKENZIE GRANT EDUCATION FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA PERPETUA LIWANAG, structuring. Children learn to read by reading - it is the most effective way to understand the This poster will represent the Saturday School that SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Susan Norman runs with student volunteers called The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) initiative technicalities of language, to learn to comprehend a story, and to, most importantly, discover the magic RYSASS. RYSASS work with inner-city youth to has brought new demands and challenges for how provide academic support to a range of students. teachers should teach reading. As a result, pre- of books. The Basal Program, created to support educators in providing readers with necessary We provide student volunteers to tutor students in service teachers need to better understand reading all topics. In addition, this year we are running a research and how readers read if they want to be language skills, has been criticized as a threat to the art of picture books and the adventures of reading. college readiness curriculum to inform our students co-constructors of future K-12 literacy curriculum. of the college admissions process, financial aid, and This study is our response to the CCSS With controlled vocabulary, uninteresting stories, and scripted lessons, it is questionable as to paths to careers. Over the years RYSASS has built a comprehensive reform to equip ourselves with community of students who come every week for knowledge about how the reading process works. In whether the implementation of the Basal Program is beneficial for developing lifelong learners. help and support, as well as opened the program to this research, we present how we used eye new students. Our student population represents a movement miscue as a research methodology to Evidence will be provided, proving that the Basal Program's intention to instill structure in the art of variety of Rochester City Schools. Our students investigate what the eyes do when people read. Six come from a variety of backgrounds and needs and college readers who participated in the study were literature threatens the magic and joy that excites young readers. With the objective of nurturing are paired with tutors who will help them meet asked to read a short passage, a student-developed these needs. The poster will include a description of short passage with embedded errors, a short story, students who love to read, research and fact-based evidence will be delivered to support the use of the program, representations of student work, a fictional story, and a booktrailer video. After the pictures of activities we have run, student readings, participants were asked to retell what authentic literature, as opposed to basalized picture books. testimonies, and an informative section on how the they have read and also respond to questions about Rochester City School District works and how what they noticed about the texts and video they ______209 • Current Trends in Southeast RYSASS is helping these students, and why what we have read. This is an on-going research as we are do is so important. still analyzing our eye tracking and miscue data. Asian Refugee Education: Nevertheless, we anticipate that we will be Interdisciplinary Approaches to

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ANTHROPOLOGY organizing a searchable, online database. People proteins, which regulate actin branching, are known will be able to find photographs based on these four to increase intestinal lumen diameter and to 1 • Middle Late Woodland/Jack's main categories (name, year, subject, medium). We decrease terminal web F-actin levels when Reef Horizon Occupations on believe that this will be the most efficient way to depleted. RNAi experiments were conducted to ensure that people can find what they are looking determine if TMD-1 and WAVE/GEX proteins work Brown's Bottom, Ross County, Ohio for. together or in parallel to regulate intestinal ROBIN QUATAERT development. Preliminary data suggests that TMD-1 FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, BIOLOGY and WAVE/GEX proteins are need in parallel to ANTHROPOLOGY maintain intestinal luminal width in this model Excavations conducted during the Brown's Bottom 4 • Role of Ubiquitination Genes skr- organism. This provides new insights into actin project between 2005-2011, located on the Scioto 2 and skr-10 in C. elegans Intestinal regulation during tubulogenesis and emphasizes the River floodplain portion of the Harness Farm, 10 km importance of both minus-end F-actin capping and south of Chillicothe, Ohio produced evidence of Development CLAUDIA CEDFELDT branching in this process. overlapping Woodland occupations. While the ______FACULTY SPONSOR: ABBI PAULSON, BIOLOGY primary occupations at the investigated sites were 6 • TMD-1/Tropomodulin Regulates Ohio Hopewell in origin, cultural remains dating to Ubiquitination plays a wide spread role in the the Middle Late Woodland period which are regulation of protein degradation, but how this Intestinal Morphology and Vesicle affiliated with the poorly known Jack's Reef or affects tissue and organ development is largely Trafficking in C. elegans unknown. An experiment was performed to assess Intrusive Mound Horizon in Central Ohio were also JAMIE ALBUCHER the effects on C. elegans development when the documented. This poster presents a synopsis of the FACULTY SPONSORS: ABBI PAULSON AND HAROLD ubiquitination genes skr-2 and skr-10 were knocked Jack's Reef subsistence and settlement evidence HOOPS, BIOLOGY down with RNA interference (RNAi). skr-10 is collected during the Brown's Bottom project and The formation of tubes is not fully understood in te homologous to a gene that codes for a ubiquitin then contextualizes and compares them with other field of biology. Tubes are an essential to human ligase protein that is part of the SCF complex, which Jack's Reef materials collected on the Harness Farm development because many organs, including the degrades cellular material in humans. skr-2 encodes and in Central Ohio. Selected for presentation at heart and kidneys, develop as tubes. We use the an additional component of this degradation Eastern States Archaeological Federation, intestine of the transparent soil nematode, complex. Interestingly, RNAi for skr-2 and skr-10 Perrysburg, OH. Caenorhabditis elegans, as a model organism to resulted in a high percentage of embryonic study tube formation. The C. elegans intestine is ruptures, which are caused by failed gastrulation. ART comprised of 20 cells surrounding a fluid-filled Gastrulation is a developmental process in which lumen, which forms using a cord-hollowing 2 • The Harmon Collection: Pueblo the three germ layers (ectoderm, mesoderm, and mechanism that is likely to involve apical exocytosis. endoderm) are established and properly positioned. Pottery from the Rio Grande Valley Tropomodulins are actin-regulatory proteins that In embryos that did gastrulate normally, skr-2 and BRIDGET KELLY control the slow-growing ends of actin filaments skr-10(RNAi) resulted in disrupted intestinal FACULTY SPONSOR: CYNTHIA HAWKINS, ART and nucleate the formation of new actin filaments. development in some cases. In initial experiments, Geneseo LLB Galleries received 34 ceramics from To examine the roles of TMD-1 in the intestine, I the percentage of embryos with disrupted Lucy Harmon in 1976. They were purchased from have been examining the structure of tmd- intestines was determined to be 40.8% for skr- the Zuni, Acoma, Isleta, Zia, Santo Domingo, 1(tm724) mutant intestines using transmission 2(RNAi) and 29.5% for skr-10(RNAi), and this Tesuque, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, San Juan, electron microscopy and characterizing and included both intact and ruptured embryos. In the Picuris and Taos Pueblos of the Rio Grande Valley. quantifying the intestinal vesicles using light future we will focus on examining properly Maps of the area, photographs, a large number of microscopy and a tracker for acidified vesicles. We gastrulated skr-2 and skr-10(RNAi) embryos with news articles and a lecture written by Lucy Harmon have found that worms that lose the function of the disrupted intestines, and analyzing parameters such accompanied the collection. I examined these tropomodulin, TMD-1, have many intestinal defects, as lumen shape and number of intestinal cells resources to gain a better understanding of the such as abnormal lumen shape, buildup of acidified cultural resources in Geneseo's possession. This present. ______vesicles, and decreased intestinal terminal web poster matches the ceramics with the groups that thickness. These mutant phenotypes may be caused produced them and looks at the historic and 5 • Investigating the Role of by vesicle transport defects. These studies should cultural circumstances under which they were Tropomodulins in C. elegans provide new insight on the role of actin in the produced and sold. Intestinal Tubulogenesis Using RNA- development of biological tubes. ______3 • 47 Years of Photography Interference 7 • Role of the Actin Regulator MIG- Research DAVID NOVITZKI FACULTY SPONSOR: ABBI PAULSON, BIOLOGY 10 in Tubulogenesis of the C. elegans CARLY FOWLER, LAUREN HANNEL Tropomodulins (Tmods) cap the pointed ends of FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL TERES, ART Intestine actin filaments (F-actin) to regulate actin dynamics Professor Teres has started a collection of student KATELYN LUDWIG and turnover. C. elegans has two genes that encode photography that dates back to his beginnings at FACULTY SPONSOR: ABBI PAULSON, BIOLOGY Tmods; tropomodulin-1 (TMD-1) and tropomodulin- SUNY Geneseo in 1967. The collection highlights the Tubulogenesis is a fundamental part of 2 (TMD-2). Past work from our lab has shown that gradual transition from film to digital photography, development in all organisms, but not all aspects of mutation of tmd-1 results in a flattened, wider black and white versus color, and various forms of this mechanism are currently known. In the C. intestinal lumen, which could be attributed to a matting and printing. Our mission is to make this elegans intestine, many proteins regulate the cord decreased concentration of F-actin in the terminal collection accessible in te form of a searchable, hollowing mechanism that creates this tube. In this web that underlies the luminal membrane. Since visual database, so that this invaluable group of study, the role of the cytoskeleton actin regulator tmd-1 and tmd-2 share 82% sequence similarity, the student-produced artwork can be used as both a MIG-10 in the tubulogenesis of the C. elegans role of TMD-2 was analyzed via multi-generational learning tool and to in some small way display of intestine was examined using feeding RNA RNA-interference (RNAi). Results suggest that TMD- our school's rich history. We are working on a interference (RNAi) studies. MIG-10 is homologous 2 does not perform a functional role in C. elegans process to make this as efficient as possible, and to vertebrate lamellopodin, RIAM, and Grb intestinal tubulogenesis, whether alone or in strive toward making this collection available for cytoplasmic adaptor proteins and is responsible for collaboration with TMD-1. Like TMD-1, WAVE/GEX usage as soon as possible. This is the foundation for actin cytoskeleton organization by transferring 11

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual signals between external guidance cues and the intestinal diameter. This mutation may increase lizards were left in the goal for five minutes to actin cytoskeleton. The intestine contains a terminal intestinal susceptibility to more subtle means of reinforce learning. Lizards were tested four times web, which is a mesh of actin and intermediate mechanical disruption, including that of the per day for four days. Using repeated measures filaments that underlies the apical membrane of the microtubule cytoskeleton. To further understand ANOVAs, experienced lizards had shorter latencies intestine, which borders the lumen. Mig-10(RNAi) the regulation of microtubules in the intestine, we to the goal than inexperienced lizards. This study produced lumen diameters that were wider than have been investigating the roles of microtubule- gives new insight into green anoles' abilities to learn the control group, suggesting a role for MIG-10 in associated proteins GIP-2, UNC-89, ELP-1, and PTL-1 about their surroundings and will be used in regulation of lumen shape during development. by knocking down their function through feeding subsequent comparative studies with an invasive Interestingly, loss of TMD-1/tropomodulin, which RNA interference experiments in both wild type and species. Selected for presentation at National regulates slow growing ends of actin filaments, also tmd-1(tm724) mutants. The results of these Conference for Undergraduate Research, La Crosse, results in increased lumen diameter. Currently, an experiments could yield exciting insights into the WI. analysis of tmd-1(RNAi) in mig-10 mutants is being role of microtubules in tube morphogenesis. ______performed to determine if the two genes act in the ______12 • Location Selection by Green same or parallel pathways to regulate intestinal 10 • A Role for Cell Adhesion in Anoles (Anolis carolinensis) shape in C. elegans. ______Regulation of Intestinal ERIN DORSET, JOSEPH BISCARDI, DANIELLE CLARK, Morphogenesis in Caenorhabditis TARYN CULLEN, ALYSSA SMITH, JONATHAN 8 • Rab-11.1 Regulates Cell Polarity MAREANE and Lumen Size in the C. elegans elegans FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID HOLTZMAN, BIOLOGY THOMAS DAVIS The green anole (Anolis carolinensis) is the only Intestine FACULTY SPONSOR: ABBI PAULSON, BIOLOGY KIRSTIN BARBER species native to the United States, typically found The C. elegans intestine is a simple unbranched on bushes and tree trunks, and males are highly FACULTY SPONSOR: ABBI PAULSON, BIOLOGY tube with twenty cells held together by cell-cell Tubulogenesis, or the development of tubes, is a territorial (Losos, 2009). Anoles use spatial junctions containing the Cadherin Catenin Complex information to find mates, food, and shelter. The process very common in biology, although it is not (CCC). The CCC links, via α-catenin, to actin in the fully understood. Tube formation in the ecology of anoles suggests that spatial learning and intestinal terminal web, a structure that underlies memory is crucial to fitness and survival. Squamates Caenorhabditis elegans intestine occurs through the apical membrane bordering the fluid-filled cord hollowing, in which polarized cells assemble (snakes and lizards) can learn how to find the lumen. We have examined the intestines of location of shelter. When presented with a and produce vesicles at the apical surface to form embryos possessing a homozygous mutation in the the lumen. The C. elegans intestine is composed of simulated predator attack, little brown skinks actin binding region of α-catenin (hmp-1), and have (Scincella lateralis) could learn to hide in cardboard only twenty cells, which makes it an excellent model found that they exhibit a more serpentine intestine to study tubulogenesis. Experiments were shelters (Paulissen 2007). We hypothesized that with a large number of invaginations and blind anoles prefer elevated shelters. Male green anoles performed to determine the functions of Rab-11.1, pouches. We believe that unmooring of the CCC a protein involved in vesicular trafficking, (N=12) were provided with both an elevated shelter from the actin cytoskeleton may permit the cell-cell on a dowel, a shelter on the substrate in their home endocytosis, and membrane fusion, in intestinal junctions to diffuse basally, allowing fluid filled development. Knocking down rab-11.1 transcripts cages, and artificial plants hung from the top of the spaces to from between adjacent cells and are dowel. Four observations a day were made over with RNA interference caused sterility in most currently testing this hypothesis. This study also worms. However, in the intestines of produced fourteen days for each lizard. Preferences of each analyzed the role of the transmembrane protein, lizard were determined using Chi-square tests. Ten embryos we have been able to observe a narrowing VAB-9, which is thought to regulate interactions of the lumen and mislocalization of ERM-1, an actin- of 12 lizards preferred exposed locations (i.e. on a between the CCC and the actin cytoskeleton at the plant, dowel, or wall) versus within a shelter. When binding protein that is usually restricted to the level of α- or β-catenin. Preliminary data suggest apical surface. This strengthens existing evidence shelters were used, 9 of 12 lizards preferred that RNA interference of vab-9, results in a 37% elevated locations, which parallel their natural that Rab-11.1 has a wide-spread role in regulating reduction in terminal web actin levels compared to cell polarity in epithelia, including the C. elegans ecology (Losos, 2009). These results form the basis wild type worms. However, this decrease was not for subsequent spatial learning experiments intestine (Winter et al., 2012, Nature Cell Biology associated with any significant changes in lumen 14:666-676). We are currently continuing our described in a companion abstract. Selected for shape. This study will hopefully give new insights presentation at National Conference on studies with Rab-11.1 using immunostaining, to into the role of the CCC in tubulogenesis. determine if other structures such as adherens Undergraduate Research (NCUR), La Crosse, WI. ______junctions are also being mislocalized. These 11 • Spatial Learning in Green Anoles experiments could provide new insights into how 13 • The Development of Electrical cell polarity is regulated during tube formation. With and Without Experience Field Enhanced NanoBondingTM: ______ALYSSA SMITH, ERIN DORSET, TARYN CULLEN, Investigation of Electrical Potential 9 • The Role of the Microtubule JOSEPH BISCARDI, DANIELLE CLARK, JONATHAN Application in a NanoBondingTM Cytoskeleton in Tube Morphogenesis MAREANE FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID HOLTZMAN, BIOLOGY Stack to Enhance the Electrical SEAN COLLIGAN Seeking shelter is critical to the survival of FACULTY SPONSOR: ABBI PAULSON, BIOLOGY squamates, and these reptiles can learn the location Potential at the Interface To Be Tube development plays an essential role in of shelter (Holtzman, 1998; Paulissen 2007). We Bonded organogenesis of the human heart, lungs, and predicted that green anoles could learn the position HEATHER JOHNSTON kidneys, however the mechanisms are not well of an open shelter when exposed to a predatory FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY understood by biologists. The C. elegans intestine, a simulation and learn it faster when experienced Electrical Field Enhanced NanoBondingTM (E- simple tubular structure made up of 20 cells with a with the test arena. A 20-gallon aquarium was used NanoBondingTM) utilizes electrical potential in fluid filled lumen, serves as an excellent model as a testing arena, with shelters suspended by order to activate the electron transfer and chemical system for studying these mechanisms. fishing line in each corner. Three shelters were reaction that leads to the formation of molecular Microtubules are known to be essential for closed off, and one shelter remained open as the cross-bridges. This allows for a bonding interphase establishing cell polarity in the intestinal goal. Five lizards had 48 hours of experience living in between two materials, allowing them to join. The primordium, but how they do this and whether or the test arena prior to testing, and six lizards were two materials used were an insulating silicate glass not they have other roles in intestinal development first tested without experience, with both groups piece and an active opto- electronic Gallium is largely unknown. Worms that are homologous for exposed to a predatory simulation for 90 seconds Arsenide (GaAs) wafer. To maximize the bonding the loss of function of tmd-1/tropomodulin allele, during testing. Lizards that failed to find the goal interphase formation, the application of electrical tm274, have been shown to exhibit decreased actin were placed in the goal at the end of the trial. All potential must be optimized and the breakdown of levels in the terminal web, and areas of expanded 12

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual the potential must be controlled. Also, leakage 16 • Bluebell Abundance and 18 • Influence of Light Intensity on currents, surface currents, and contact resistances must be restricted. We made measurements to Wildflower Distribution in the Stomatal Response in Raphanus develop an optimal electrical design that included Genesee Valley sativus Under Varying Drought all of the above elements and allowed for proper MICHELLE MOSHON Conditions connection to the power supply, ground, and the FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY SAMANTHA WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN CONTI, NanoBondingTM stack. We measured electrical The Virginia Bluebell (Mertensia virginica) is an GEOFFREY WONG, AUSTIN SIMMONS parameters through the use of a multitmeter. We herbaceous perennial plant that grows throughout FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY then determined the amount of effective applied the eastern United States. In this area it is common Plant stomata function primarily to regulate water potential between the top surface of the silicate and usually a minor component of the understory vapor loss in varying environmental conditions, and glass piece and the bottom of the GaAs wafer. flora in forests. However, roughly a mile north of to aid in the diffusion of carbon dioxide during Additionally, the threshold point when electrical the village of Geneseo, bordering the Genesee photosynthesis. Drought conditions are thought to breakdown occurs was pinpointed. At this potential, River, there is a portion of the forest over a hectare influence regulation of stomatal closure, due to the the photocathode (GaAs) becomes conducting and in size has bluebells in a nearly monotypic stand, plant's physiological need to conserve water. no longer can carry the applied potential. After making a beautiful sight in the spring. Particularly Therefore, plants will typically function in a manner optimizing these elements, a proper experimental curious is the fact that these bluebells remain that maximizes carbon dioxide diffusion while design was constructed that would allow for the within a particular area and have not spread up and minimizing water vapor loss across stomates during procedure of E- NanoBondingTM. down the river. The goal of this study is to ______photosynthesis. In order to determine the stomatal determine the reason for the high density of response, we plan to examine leaf conductance. 14 • Floral Production in Brassica bluebells. Several characteristics of the forest, Leaf conductance is a measure of how porous the rapa including tree and shrub species composition, leaf is to movement of water vapor and carbon MELISSA GRAHAM density and size, will be compared between the dioxide. We aim to study the affects of varying light FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY bluebell site and nearby forests. In addition to this, intensity conditions on stomata response in Seed formation follows floral development and slope, soil pH, and nutrient levels will also be Raphanus sativus, under varying conditions of pollination in flowering plants. Formation of the considered. Literary research is being conducted to drought and moisture. seed is the primary role of the flower before fruit obtain information on the preferred living ______production. In the present study, we studied the conditions of plant species present and common in 19 • The Prevalence and Pattern of floral production of Brassica rapa plants. We the area. ______Readmissions at an Urban removed flowers from half the plants to prevent developing fruits, and let the flowers remain on the 17 • Change of Growth Rate in Community Hospital in the other half to allow fruits to develop. We wanted to Brassica rapa Plants upon Extraction Philippines see if the plants that had their flowers removed of Cotyledons and Loss of DELFIN IGLESIA would continue to try to produce more flowers in FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY an attempt to eventually develop seeds. Our results Photosynthetic Surface Area A common problem that hospitals world-wide demonstrated that there was no significant MITCHELL BURKE constantly manage, particularly by those in difference between floral production in the two FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY developing nations, is the unplanned, and possibly groups of Brassica rapa. Photosynthesis provides plants with the matter and preventable, admission of patients who have been ______energy required for growth and one would expect previously admitted into the hospital and 15 • Stomatal Short Term Responses that the amount of photosynthetic area (for most discharged in the past 30 days. At Mary Mediatrix plants the leaf area) should affect the rate of plant to Fluctuating CO2 Concentrations Medical Center (MMMC), an urban hospital located growth. We examined this relationship by in Lipa City, Philippines equipped with 150 beds MICHAEL ARCURI, RAVIV KATZ comparing growth rates of plants which had some FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY serving residents of several high-growth tropical of their leaves removed to the growth rate of intact areas, the readmission of patients into the hospital Stomates, which are regulated pores in the plants. To study this question we utilized the epidermis of plants, allow for carbon dioxide entry has in part resulted in an increase in healthcare Wisconsin Fast Plant Brassica rapa due to their costs and a decrease in the efficiency of care into the plant and its subsequent assimilation in the quick life cycle and maturity within only a few process of photosynthesis. At the same time open provided. As a quality improvement effort, this weeks. Sixty-Four pots of Brassica rapa were study presents various data analytics for the stomates result in increased water loss planted at once and one week after germination, (transpiration) by providing an easier pathway for readmission of patients at MMMC from 2009-2012, cotyledons were extracted. B. rapa has two evenly identifying some of the factors that contribute to water to escape the leaf. Consequently the sized cotyledons which are the first embryonic regulation of stomatal opening (pore size) is the readmission of patients and examining patterns leaves to emerge from the seedling. The pots were by which readmission occurs in order to determine significant to the plants as it balances carbon gain divided evenly into five groups with one group with water loss. Decreased light intensity decreases possible solutions to reduce the readmission rate at being harvested initially and weighed to provide a MMMC. I have found that certain chief complaints the ability to photosynthesize and plants typically base weight for comparison. The rest of the Brassica close their stomates when light is eliminated, by which patients present themselves correlate with rapa plants were split evenly into groups of three, readmissions at MMMC and temporal cyclical thereby saving water. We tested the hypothesis six, nine and twelve days of growth post cotyledon that stomatal response times to decreases in light patterns of readmission emerge, marking potential removal. After each growth period, plants were areas for systematical improvement. intensity would be slower at high carbon dioxide harvested and allowed to dry in an oven for twenty- concentrations than at low carbon dioxide ______four hours upon which they were weighed and 20 • Building a Homebrew EEG concentrations because photosynthesis at the recorded. A plot was created to compare growth higher external carbon dioxide concentrations is rate at different times after cotyledon extraction. Device with ModularEEG and less limited by stomata opening to begin with as With data still coming in, initial results appear to stomates could be partially closed and still provide Arduino show that there is a noticeable trend in initial NICHOLAS COLLISSON, HERB SUSMANN for adequate flux of carbon dioxide into the leaf. In growth stunting followed by a period of recovery in contrast plants operating at much lower carbon FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY which the Brassica plant compensates for lost Electroencephalogram (EEG) machines measure dioxide levels must have more open stomates to resources. We conclude that the loss of cotyledons provide for adequate supplies of carbon dioxide for electrical voltages in the brain through electrodes is initially detrimental to plant's growth rate, but positioned on the scalp. Such machines are useful photosynthesis. the effect is diminished in plant growth over time. ______for medical purposes as well as for hobbyists ______interested in such fields as biofeedback. EEG

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2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual machines consist of one or more electrodes, which star Oreaster reticulatus, a species that is Salvador and they are 4.4 to 5 times the Caribbean measure electrical activity in the brain; an electronic threatened due to harvesting in many parts of its average of terminal phase fish. San Salvador has the amplifier, which amplifies these signals; and an range, from North Carolina to southern Brazil. We highest diversity of species recorded in the analog to digital converter which converts the data are currently trying to obtain adult DNA sequences literature, with all seven of the common species into a digital signal analyzable by a computer. We that can be compared directly to corresponding sighted, unlike the usual three to five of other built a custom EEG device by combining homemade larval sequences for more definitive species islands. San Salvador has little to no excess fishing silver electrodes with an amplifier built to these identification. pressure (p=0.003) and requires no conservation schematics and a low cost Arduino microcontroller ______efforts, thus it is the perfect model of comparison for the analog to digital conversion. We used the 23 • Distribution and Host for other islands with parrotfish population open source BCI2000 software to analyze the signal Occupation Patterns of Flamingo declines. from the EEG device. ______Tongues (Cyphoma gibbosum) on 25 • Emergency Medical Service 21 • Intracellular cAMP Levels Rise in Gorgonians in San Salvador, (EMS) Trends Astrephomene Gubernaculifera Bahamas JASON LEW During a Chemoresponse EMILY WELLS FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY JILL SPERRAZZA, KEVIN FRODEY, EMILY FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY This research project reports whether or not there REDINGTON A study of the distribution and host occupation are daily variations in ambulance calls, more FACULTY SPONSOR: HAROLD HOOPS, BIOLOGY patterns of the flamingo tongue cowrie snail specifically, an increased number of calls during Growth of the colonial green alga Astrephomene Cyphoma gibbosum on gorgonian coral hosts was particular days of the week. The data provided by gubernaculifera depends on the presence of conducted at four patch reefs on San Salvador Livingston County shows if there is a correlation acetate, presumably because acetate is its primary Island, Bahamas. To determine if flamingo tongues between the number of calls and the day of the carbon source. The alga also accumulates in regions exhibit host preference relative to host abundance, week. ______of high acetate, a response that is exaggerated after distribution of C. gibbosum on gorgonian hosts was the alga is starved of acetate. This implies that A. tested for randomness and dependence on 26 • Identification of Bacterial gubernaculifera detects acetate and that this gorgonian family and species. Gregariousness was Symbionts Living with Oceanic Sea studied by observing if C. gibbosum was found in initiates a signaling cascade that alters its flagellar Star Larvae behavior. cAMP is commonly involved in signaling solitary, in pairs, or in larger groups more often than MARISA QUINLAN, KELSEA FLANNERY, BRENT cascades, including one connected to phototaxis in expected based on random distribution. Most C. SANDERSON, CHRISTIAN YOUNG the closely related Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. We gibbosum occurred individually (66%) or in pairs FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY therefore hypothesize the signaling pathway in A. (29%) on gorgonians, indicating more The goal of our research is to identify the abundace gubernaculifera involves alternation of cAMP levels gregariousness than expected based on random and types of bacteria living symbiotically in larvae in the cell. To test for changes in cAMP we first distribution. Fifty-seven flamingo tongues were and adults of the Bahamas sea star, Oreaster prepared a culture of A. gubernaculifera and counted on 41 gorgonians representing 3 families reticulatus. For species identification, DNA was starved it of acetate to maximize the and 12 species. Most gorgonians were extracted from alcohol-preserved larvae collected chemoresponse. We then split it into two samples underoccupied, while a few species, Eunicea spp. from the Gulf Stream, from bacterial cultures and treated one with 30 mM acetate and the other (black), P. flexuosa, G. ventalina, and P. americana, isolated from larvae, and from tube feet of juvenile with acetate-free medium. We lysed the cells and were occupied in disproportion to their availability, stars. Bacterial 16s rDNA primers were used in PCR measured the cAMP levels with an ELISA. We also indicating possible host preference. Only one amplification of extracted DNA. Amplified DNA was measured the protein concentration with a gorgonian, G. ventalina, was found to be a detected by agarose gel electrophoresis and the 450 detergent-compatible protein assay. We found that commonly preferred host. Knowledge of the host base pair amplicons were cloned in E.coli using T- acetate induces a substantial increase of cAMP preferences of C. gibbosum improves understanding Gem plasmid vectors. Sequencing analyses of concentrations in chemoresponsive cells. This is of the snail's behavior, and may provide insights purified amplicons were conducted by the consistent with the idea that cAMP-dependent cell about unique characteristics possessed by certain Genomics center at the University of Rochester. signaling plays a role in the chemoresponse of A. gorgonian species that make them preferential food Results were compared to available data on sea gubernaculifera. resources. ______stars using the B.L.A.S.T. (alignment) tool. We have 24 • The Effects of Fishing on Sex- identified multiple samples of photosynthetic 22 • Species Identification of North cyanobacteria most closely related to the genera Atlantic Clonal Sea Star Larvae Changing Parrotfish Populations in Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus. Fluorescence Involved in Symbiosis with Reef Communities of San Salvador, analyses indicate that similar species may be The Bahamas present in juvenile tissue. Calculations of bacterial Photosynthetic Bacteria numbers based on transmission and scanning HARRY WEISBERG BRENT SANDERSON, PATRICK DITTMER, ANDREA electron micrographs of larvae indicate that an FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY JERABEK individual may carry between 10-100 thousand Due to overfishing of more preferred fish, Bahamian FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY bacterial cells. Ultimately we hope to better parrotfish (Scaridae) are facing an unprecedented The goal of this project is to determine the species understand whether these large numbers of increase in fishing pressure, particularly larger identity of clonal sea star larvae found in the North photosynthetic bacteria help the drifting larvae individuals. Parrotfish are protogynous: they are Atlantic Ocean that are involved in an unusual survive in open ocean environments and how this born female (dubbed initial phase) and some symbiosis with subcuticular bacteria. Isolation of relationship continues into adulthood. DNA and PCR amplification with echinoderm transition into males (dubbed terminal phase) upon ______specific mitochondrial 16s- rDNA primers was reaching sufficient size. Since not all individuals will 27 • Do Patch Reef Size and carried out on field collected larvae and adult follow this progression, low percentages of larger tissues. DNA amplification products were excised males on a reef may become precarious, so an Population Density Determine Blue- from agarose gels extracted using a QIAquick Gel assessment of potentially threatened species is a Headed Wrasse Phase Ratio on Patch necessity. Point counts at four reefs on San Salvador Extraction Kit and cloned. DNA sequences of 650 bp Reefs in San Salvador, Bahamas? amplicons were generated by the Univ. of were done to ascertain the average abundance and MARISA QUINLAN Rochester Functional Genomics Center. These were percent terminal-phase of seven parrotfish species FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY compared to reference sequences using the NIH indigenous to San Salvador and the Bahamas. Most The blue-headed wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum) Basic Local Alignment Tool. The comparisons show species, especially stoplight (Sp. Viride) and redband is a protogynous sex changing fish common to that larvae best match the Caribbean cushion sea (Sp. 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distinguishable phases including juvenile, male and and reared in a liquid algal growth medium. based on known 5-HT7 receptor sequences. We female initial phase, and the terminal male. Female Spectrofluorometric analyses were performed on tested these primers on a land snail and on mussels. initial phase individuals are able to transform into each culture to determine the fluorescent Two primers, 6b and 8, successfully amplified a terminal males (Warner, 1984). Munday, White, and characteristics of the pigments found in the region from each species. The sequences of the Warner (2006) suggest that juveniles demonstrate dominant cyanobacteria in culture. The results amplified regions are very similar to the known developmental plasticity and grow into males or show that the pigments found in our cultures Aplysia gene. This means that these two primers females depending on the population density. This closely resemble the published fluorescence spectra may be used to amplify the gene from many study builds on this concept and asks whether the for the pigments phycocyanin and phycoerythrin mollusc species. Using new primers derived from ratio of initial phase to terminal male T. bifasciatum that are characteristic of cyanobacteria. Fluorescent the exact sequence we hope to isolate the entire on patch reefs is correlated to reef size and microscopy and flow cytometry observations of size Helix gene. We also hope to show that release from population density. Phase ratio data was collected and locomotion are consistent with descriptions of the "catch state" in Mytilis edulis by serotonin is due from patch reefs of various sizes in San Salvador, the genus Synechococcus, a dominant to a 5-HT7 receptor. The anterior byssal retractor Bahamas. The results show that adult population cyanobacterium in tropical oceans. These results muscle allows mussels to close their shells, and density and phase ratio are statistically correlated (t agree with the DNA studies being performed in lab remain contracted in the "catch state" without = 7.781, df = 49, p = 4.136e-10) but that patch reef that confirm the presence of Synechococcus DNA expending significant amounts of energy. size and phase ratio are not significantly correlated signatures in larval samples. ______(t = -0.4554, df = 7, p = 0.6626) and (χ² = 1.5969, df = 32 • Do Invertebrates Have a 5-HT6 3, p = 0.6601). The results of this study suggest that Receptor Gene? an increase in adult population density limits the KARA FINEGAN, MEGHAN MOORE number of initial phase female T. Bifasciatum that FACULTY SPONSOR: JANICE LOVETT, BIOLOGY undergo a sex change to terminal males. ______The 5-HT6 receptors are a class of proteins called G- 28 • Coral Microhabitat Preferences 30 • Differential Response of Vulvar protein coupled receptors. They bind serotonin Cancers to Treatment with the causing the activation of adenyl cyclase and an of Territorial Damselfishes of San increase in cellular cAMP. 5-HT6 receptors are Salvador, the Bahamas Ultrapotent Corticosteroid, expressed in the human central Nnervous system MEAGAN WHEATLEY Clobetasol and are important in cognition, memory, and FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY MEGAN SPELMAN, DOMINGUEZ TRAVIS, MEHEK learning. We identified an Aplysia DNA sequence in Damselfish are small, highly territorial herbivores of MEHTA the NCBI database that we believe codes for a 5-HT6 coral reefs, with several species cultivating algae, FACULTY SPONSOR: JANI LEWIS, BIOLOGY receptor. The amino acid sequence was compared their primary food source, in well-defended algal Vulvar cancer is an aggressive cancer often masked with known proteins using BLAST software. farms. Damselfish have the potential to be highly by diseases such as the vulvar rash known as lichen Nineteen sequences that closely matched were influential in the structuring of a reef by markedly sclerosis (LS). Ultrapotent corticosteroids such as recovered. All coded for a 5-HT6 receptor in increasing its algal biomass while simultaneously Clobetasol are commonly used to treat LS but there different organisms. Clustal was used to align the causing significant coral damage if they are forced is debate over the safety of long-term Clobetasol sequences. It showed that the sequence was onto suboptimal coral habitat. Branching corals, use and development of vulvar cancer. Growing missing the first two transmembrane regions. We acroporids, are preferred habitat better able to cells from LS biopsies has proven difficult, so our have found another sequence that we believe withstand the aggressive farming of the damselfish. objective was to decipher if Clobetasol promotes contains those regions. This suggests an intron in However, the last few decades have witnessed the changes in vulvar cancers in vitro that parallel the the gene. We used seven primers to try and amplify dramatic decline in the abundance of many formation of more aggressive cancer types. We different portions of the gene. We were successful acroporids in the Caribbean from a variety of have shown that Clobetasol, actually promotes in amplifying a fragment covering the 4th to the 7th factors, forcing damselfish to inhabit alternative transformation of one vulvar cancer cell line into a transmembrane regions from cerebral cDNA. To microhabitat substrates. The goal of this study was more aggressive phenotype. Clobetasol treatment obtain the entire coding region for the 5-HT6 to assess suboptimal microhabitat preference on of additional vulvar cancer cell lines indicate that receptor full-length cDNA will be prepared. We will reefs surrounding the Bahamian island of San there are two broad catagories of vulvar cancers; clone the two ends starting from sequences within Salvador. It was found that in the absence of one that shows robust growth and one that shows the amplified region. If successful, this will be the acroporids, damselfish territories often included growth inhibition, in the presence of Clobetasol. first 5-HT6 receptor identified in an invertebrate. ______other hard corals and they preferentially selected Our results indicate some genes of interest related territories within the center of a patch reef rather to this differential growth response as well as 33 • Do Pitfall Traps Reflect Local Ant than along its edge (χ2=7.44, df=1, p<0.01). Further identifying the reversibility of Clobetasol treatment research can determine if this suggested hard coral in each of these cell lines. Selected for presentation Colony Density? preference is statistically supported, and more at Experimental Biology, Boston, MA. ALEXA BRODSKY specifically if the damselfish of this Bahamian region ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY pose the threat to coral diversity that has arisen 31 • Sequencing 5HT7 Receptor Pitfall traps often are used to estimate the diversity elsewhere in the Caribbean. Genes from Molluscan Species and species composition of ground-dwelling ______arthropods in an environment. Pitfall trap have FANGYUAN JIN, NICHOLAS COLLISSON, RAVIV been implemented to assess ant diversity in the 8- 29 • Determination of Pigment KATZ hectare Spencer J. Roemer Arboretum in Geneseo, FACULTY SPONSORS: JANICE LOVETT AND DUANE Characteristics and Cell Size in NY, through recurrent pitfall trap sampling in 2011. MCPHERSON, BIOLOGY Cultured Bacteria Ants were collected from two transects spanning Serotonin, 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), is a NICHOLAS PIEDMONTE, KELLY MCCARTHY the research site. Formica glacialis was among the neurotransmitter that plays an important role in FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY most common ant species in the Arboretum. F. muscle contraction. The 5-HT receptor is a G- Larvae of the Bahamas sea star (Oreaster 7 glacialis is a mound-nesting ant species that is protein coupled receptor. Binding of serotonin has reticulatus) contain symbiotic photosynthetic exploited by the slavemaking ants Formica been shown to activate adenyl cyclase increasing cyanobacteria between their larval cuticle and subintegra and F. pergandei at this site. the concentration of the cell signaling molecule epidermis. These symbionts are thought to provide Slavemaking ants raid colonies of their host species cyclic AMP. The 5-HT receptor is present in various the larvae with valuable nutrients that allow them 7 to steal their brood, which become workers in the animal tissues, including the central nervous system to undergo cloning during larval development. slavemaker nest. The goal of this study is to and foot muscle. Our project's objective is to find Mixed cultures of the cyanobacteria were isolated determine if pitfall trap samples reflect the local and compare 5-HT receptor genes from different from larvae collected during the summer of 2012 7 density of Formica glacialis ant colonies, which have molluscan species. We designed several primers 15

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual been mapped using ArcGIS. The abundances of F. microsatellite markers, we inferred whether or not wild-type and dcm knockout cells. Our data glacialis in pitfall trap collections for each month a colony's queens are related. Understanding the demonstrate that the sugE gene is overexpressed at were compared to colony counts within a set radius colony structure of F. glacialis is important because both phases in dcm knockout cells. SugE expression of each pitfall trap corresponding to typical foraging it may affect their interactions with social parasites also increased in the presence of 5-azacytidine, an distances for this ant taxon. Additionally, we in the Arboretum. The slavemaking ants Formica inhibitor of cytosine DNA methylation. To investigated the possibility that raiding activity of pergandei and Formica subintegra raid the colonies determine if dcm influences sensitivity to different slavemaker ants may suppress host foraging activity of F. glacialis and abduct immature ants. These antibacterial compounds, the sensitivity to ethidium by comparing pitfall trap samples taken before and captured ants are then reared in the slavemaker bromide (EtBr) in wild-type, dcm knockout, and during the slavemaker raiding season. Selected for colonies where they become a labor force to serve sugE knockout strains was compared using Kirby- presentation at Northeastern Natural History the slavemaking ants by gathering food and Bauer disc diffusions assays, MIC assays and growth Conference, Springfield, MA. conducting nest maintenance. Formation of curve analysis. Our data indicate that sugE knockout ______polygynous colonies may affect how F. glacialis cells are hypersensitive to EtBr, whereas dcm 34 • Spatial Ecology of Slavemaking responds to or tolerates pressure from these social knockout cells have increased resistance to EtBr. In Ants and Their Hosts: A GIS Analysis parasites. summary, DNA methylation can influence the ______sensitivity to antibacterial compounds. Selected for DIANA MCGRATH presentation at Experimental Biology, Boston, MA. FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY 36 • Assays for Aggression and Activity in a Host Species of the ______Slavemaking ants act as social parasites, raiding the 38 • The Detection of colonies of other ant species to capture their brood, Slavemaking Ants Formica which are raised in the slavemaker colony and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in subintegra and Formica pergandei become its workforce. Within the 8-acre Spencer J. Trypanosoma brucei DNA Roemer Arboretum located on the south part of the VINCENT STOWELL FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY ERIKA VALENTINE campus, there are fourteen slavemaking ant FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY colonies (Formica subintegra and Formica The slavemaking ant species Formica subintegra and Formica pergandei are social parasites that The goal of this project is to determine whether or pergandei) and over 600 colonies of their host not the modified base 5-hydroxymethylcytosine is species, Formica glacialis. Characteristics of the invade the nests of host ant species in order to steal host brood and incorporate them into the present in T. brucei nuclear DNA. T. brucei is the colonies' distributions were examined in ArcGIS by causative agent of African Sleeping Sickness, and comparing different vegetation compositions workforce of the slavemaker nest. The behavioral responses of individual host colonies may vary in has been previously shown to contain mapped within the Arboretum to colony site 5-methylcytosine, 5-hydroxymethyluracil, and base selection and density. Characteristics of sites ways that could influence the success of such raids and their impact on the victim colony. Assays were J. The T. brucei J-base binding proteins (JBPs) selected by slavemakers who moved colony location synthesize 5-hydroxymethyluracil, and are were assessed to see if preferences remain the developed to rate behavioral traits such as the aggression and activity level of individual colonies of homologous to the mammalian TET (ten-eleven same over time. Raids by slavemakers have been translocation) proteins which synthesize monitored over three seasons (summer 2009-2011). the host species Formica glacialis under the influence of this parasitic pressure. Assays included 5-hydroxymethylcytosine. Thus, we believe is it Circular distribution analyses were conducted in possible that the T. brucei JBPs synthesize order to assess if the slavemakers expressed quantifying foraging activity using baits, scoring reactions to encounters with slavemakers vs. 5-hydroxmethylcytosine in addition to directionality biases when raiding host colonies. 5-hydroxymethyluracil. To test this model, an Directional distributions were used to calculate the encounters with conspecific ants, and monitoring responses to nest disturbance. Lower rates of immunoblot assay was developed to detect mean centroid of raids for each slavemaker colony; 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in DNAs spotted onto a the resulting polygons were used to determine if foraging activity were documented in colonies that were recently raided than in unraided colonies. The nylon membrane. Our data indicate that both T. different slavemaker colonies maintain distinct non- brucei bloodstream form and insect form DNA overlapping raiding territories. Directional biases assays themselves were evaluated for consistency and refined with the intention of maximizing contain low but detectable levels of expressed by individual slavemaker colonies were 5-hydroxymethylcytosine. The same results were analyzed over time to see if they exploit the same efficiency and accuracy while maintaining the integrity of the field setting. The results of these also generated using ELISA assays specific for or different habitat from season to season. Selected 5-hydroxymethylcytosine. We are currently using LC for presentation at Northeast Natural History preliminary assays contribute to our understanding of the dynamics of host-parasite interactions; such MS/MS to confirm the experiments above, and Conference, Springfield, MA. hydroxymethylated DNA immunoprecipitation ______assays can potentially illuminate both the causes experiments to determine the location of 35 • Using Mitochondrial DNA to and consequences of colony-level variation in host species behavior. Selected for presentation at 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in the T. brucei genome. Infer Queen Relatedness Within Northeast Natural History Conference, Springfield, Selected for presentation at The American Society Polygynous Formica glacialis MA. for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual ______Meeting, Boston, MA. Colonies ______37 • Cytosine DNA Methylation JOSEPH ALADEEN, JOANN LAM 39 • Mapping Modified tRNA Influences Drug Sensitivity Through FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY Cytosines in Trypansoma brucei Formica glacialis is one of the most common ant SugE Expression in Escherichia coli species in the Spencer J. Roemer Arboretum on ALEXANDRA MANDARANO Using Sodium Bisulfite Sequencing campus. Much remains to be learned about the FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY SARAH ACKERMAN, LEANNE CHEN, ALEXANDRA reproductive behavior of this species. Based on In Escherichia coli, the second cytosine in the MANDARANO microsatellite genetic markers, we know that sequence 5'CC(A/T)GG3' is methylated by the Dcm FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY Formica glacialis colonies can be either enzyme. Our laboratory has previously shown that Methylated cytosine in DNA is a form of epigenetic monogynous (containing one queen) or polygynous DNA methylation represses expression of ribosomal regulation. Our laboratory is studying (containing multiple queens). Queens in polygynous proteins. The laboratory is currently investigating 5-methylcytosine in Trypanosoma brucei, the colonies can either be recruited from within the other targets of Dcm-mediated DNA methylation. parasitic protozoan responsible for African sleeping nest or adopted from foreign colonies. The sugE gene has been shown to confer resistance sickness. In the T.brucei genome, the TbDMT gene Mitochondrial DNA is useful for investigating the to quaternary ammonium compounds and the sugE may code for a methyltransferase that is origin of queens inside polygynous colonies because gene has one Dcm recognition site in its 5' flanking responsible for cytosine DNA methylation. Recently, it is maternally inherited. By analyzing region, three in the open reading frame and one in there has been evidence of methylation of tRNAasp, mitochondrial DNA from worker ants within a the 3' flanking region. We used qPCR to measure tRNAgly, tRNAval, and tRNAlys in humans and other colony in combination with biparentally inherited sugE RNA levels at both log and stationary phases in organisms by DNMT2, a known DNA 16

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual methyltransferase. Thus we are curious to know if levels. To see if expressions of rbcS genes vary in HTB-4 cells grown in presence of low dose 5- TbDMT is a tRNA methyltransferase. Isolated RNA dark-treated plants, Arabidopsis thaliana grown azacytidine for several weeks will be compared to was treated with bisulfite converting all non- under a 14 hour light:10 hour dark photoperiod control cells to determine if long-term treatment methylated cytosines to uracil. The tRNA sequence were subjected to a 96 hours dark treatment prior will affect this phenotype of cancer cells suggesting was then amplified using RT-PCR and ligated into a to leaf RNA isolation. Real time RT-qPCRs were a novel therapeutic approach for cancer. vector for bacterial cloning. The recombinant performed using primers corresponding to A. ______plasmids were then isolated and sent for DNA thaliana's rbcS1A, rbcS2B, and rbcS3B. The 44 • The Effects of 5-Azacytidine on sequencing. All T.brucei tRNAs to date have shown expressions of rbcS genes were found to reduce to 435 Cancer Cells methylation to be present around C47, C48, and 0.015347 (1.53%), 0.078259 (7.83%), and 0.007561 JENNIFER GASPAREK, JENNIFER HAWES C49. Thus far the effect of TbDMT on tRNA (0.756%) for rbcS1A, rbcS2B and rbcS3B, FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY methylation is unclear. TbDMT appears to have no respectively. This result indicates that like tomato's A characteristic of cancer cells is that they are able effect on tRNAgly but there are lower levels of rbsS, the three rbcS genes tested are down- to grow without adhering to substrate, whereas tRNAasp methylation at C46 in TbDMT RNAi cells. regulated to different extents in the dark. normal cells need to adhere to a substrate. Future experiments will attempt to clarify this effect ______Preliminary experiments show that MDA-MB 435 and examine other tRNAs. Methylation is an 42 • Sulforaphane is Cytotoxic and cancer cells, originally thought to be derived from a important regulator of gene expression and may Able to Induce Apoptosis with breast cancer tissue but current evidence suggests a have an important role in tRNA biology. melanoma origin, are able to grow without ______Varying Efficacies in Three Tumor adherence in a methylcellulose tumor sphere assay. 40 • 5' and 3' RACE cDNA Cell Lines and One Normal Cell Line A cytotoxicity experiment of 5-azacytidine showed Amplification of Disease Resistance FANGYUAN JIN 96%-0% cell death at a range of doses. Based off of Genes from Vitis aestivalis cv. FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY the cytotoxicity curve, a low dose of drug was Sulforaphane (SFN) is an isothiocyanate found chosen that would only kill 10% of cells. The cancer Cynthiana largely in cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli cells will now be treated with the low dose of 5- ANNA LI, LAURA BLUM and cauliflower, which has been shown to have azacytidine over a four-week period, and the FACULTY SPONSOR: MING-MEI CHANG, BIOLOGY anti-cancer effects, including the induction of growth of these cells in the methylcellulose will be Vitis aestivalis cv. Cynthiana, an American grape, is apoptosis and cell cycle arrest. We tested the compared to the cells grown in methylcellulose in known to be tolerant to most grape pathogens. The effects of SFN on three different cancer cell lines: the absence of 5- azacytidine. We expect that the tolerance may be partially due to the expression of HTB-4 (human urinary bladder cancer), MDA-MB- cells treated with 5-aza will show less growth than its disease resistance (R) genes. Many of these R 435 (likely a human melanoma), and HL-60 (a the control cells, indicating that 5- aza has caused genes are found to encode nucleotide-binding site human promyelocytic leukemia) and one normal the 435 cells to lose an important characteristic of and leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) proteins which fibroblast cell line, MRC-5. We found different in vitro tumor growth: to grow without adherence. are involved in detecting diverse pathogens. Our abilities of SFN to induce apoptosis and arrest the ______previous studies have shown that two NBS-LRR cell cycle for the three cancer cell lines. HL- 60 cells 45 • Chemotherapeutic Effect of genes, C2 and M2, are down-regulated in grape were most sensitive to the SFN treatment, followed leaves infected with Botrytis cinerea, a necrotrophic by HTB-4, while MDA- MB-435 were the least Sulforaphane on MCF-7 Breast fungus. Also, the NBS-containing sequences of C2 affected. Our results for the MRC-5 cells showed Cancer Cell Line and M2 were cloned previously. The goal of our that SFN was less toxic to them compared to the JENNIFER GROM, PETER FIELDS current study is to isolate and obtain cDNA clones other three cancer cell lines. To investigate whether FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY corresponding to C2 and M2. Total RNAs were the drug resistance could be induced, we are The objective of this experiment is to determine the isolated from Cynthiana grape leaves and reverse currently testing HL-60 cells exposed to SFN at a mechanism by which chemotherapeutic transcribed into cDNA using a SMARTer™ RACE dose causing approximately 20% cytotoxicity. We sulforaphane upregulates the transcription of genes cDNA Amplification Kit. The 5' and 3' RACE PCRs conclude that the different sensitivities of these that code for tumor-suppressor proteins. Long term were carried out using gene specific primers four cell lines to SFN are consistent with the effects of the drug will be studied by exposing MCF- corresponding to C2 and M2 and/or Universal heterogeneity of different cancers. SFN would have 7 cells to low doses of sulforaphane and gathering Primer Mix (UPM). PCR products were separated on better therapeutic potential if we are unable to survival data. Investigation of sulforaphane's effects 1.2% agarose gel from which unique bands development SFN resistance in HL-60 or other on the cell cycle through tubulin polymerization, amplified by both primers were isolated and tumor cell lines, especially if normal cells are more will be achieved in the study of chromosomal purified for further PCR amplifications. The results resistant. Selected for presentation at Experimental mitotic spreads of MCF-7 breast cancer cells grown will be discussed. Biology , Boston, MA. in the presence of sulforaphane. ______41 • Expressions of Ribulose 43 • Antitumor Effects in HTB-4 46 • Using Carboxyfluorescein Bisphosphate Decarboxylase Bladder Cancer Cells Under Long Succinimidyl Ester (CFSE) to Measure (Rubisco) Small Subunits in Dark- Term Low Dosage of 5-Azacytidine the Effects of Sulforaphane on Cell Treated Arabidopsis thaliana JACLYN HELLREICH, JULIA SANGER Division in a Human Leukemia Cell FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY ANNA LI, TALAL AHMAD Line FACULTY SPONSORS: ROBERT FEISSNER AND MING Methyl transferase inhibitors such as 5-azacytidine KRISTEN LEHNER, OSCAR FELICIANO MEI CHANG, BIOLOGY have shown promise in cancer treatment because FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase of the their ability to allow re-expression of tumor CFDA-SE is a non-permeable fluorescent molecule (Rubisco) which catalyzes photosynthetic CO suppressor genes in cancer cells. Our research is 2 that can be used to measure the number of fixation and photorespiratory carbon oxidation is a investigating the possible anti-tumor effects of this doublings in a population of cells in a given time. rate-limiting factor in photosynthesis. Rubisco has drug on HTB-4 bladder cancer cells at a low dosage. Once inside the membrane, cellular esterase eight small subunits (RBCS) encoded by an rbcS Preliminary studies showed that high doses of 5- cleaves off the acetate groups creating multigene family, and eight large subunits (RBCL) azacytidine are clearly cytotoxic to HTB-4 tumor Carboxyfluorescein Succinimidyl Ester (CFSE). With encoded by a single rbcL gene. The activity of cells. However, we have begun treating the HTB-4 each cell division the amount of CFSE is cut in half, Rubisco is known to be light dependent. Extensive cells to a low dose so that the majority of the cells which can be observed via flow cytometry. The study in a number of species shows that individual survive. We then want to determine if cells grown in preliminary experiment compared concentration of members of a gene family may be regulated 5-azacytidine will lose their ability to grow in serum with number of cell divisions showing an differently. For example, all five rbcS genes are methylcellulose media, a characteristic possessed increase of cell divisions with increased serum. The expressed in the leaves of tomato plants at different by cancer cells but not normal cells. Experimental 17

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual first experiment compared the effect of serum fuel (i.e. development of an effective pretreatment furanyl)benzimidazolium chloride monohydrate, in concentration with cell division along with the drug process) have been cumbersome and/or expensive. which 2-furaldehyde reacts in a three to one ratio sulforaphane's effect on cell division. Lastly, the An attractive substitute is the use of ionic liquids (IL) with 1,2-diaminobenzene to produce a second experiment showed decreased division with - a group of new organic salts that exist as liquids at benzimidazole derivative with three covalently using higher concentrations of sulforaphane. Cells relatively low temperatures, are non-flammable attached furan rings, is also obtained. The latter with 60% death due to sulforaphane exhibited plus chemically and thermally stable. The results compound has been fully characterized by X-ray fewer divisions. Future research will be done to obtained from the use of two IL's 1-ethyl-3- crystallography. The synthetic and structural results uncover why the slow down of division. Selected for methylimidazolium chloride ([Emim]Cl) and 1-butyl- of this and other benzimidazole derivatives will be presentation at The American Society for 3-methylimidazolium chloride ([C4mim]Cl) as presented. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Boston, MA. pretreatment systems are presented and discussed. ______51 • Effect of Strongly Electron 47 • Behavioral Response of 49 • Lignocellulosic Biomass as an Withdrawing Group on Schiff Base Biomphalaria Glabrata to Crushed Alternative Non-Food Biofuel: The Formation Conspecifics Triumph of Destiny Part II JOSEPH GERAGHTY, LAURA SZCZESNIAK REBEKAH STEINKE, MATT MORSE CHRISTOPHER HEIMBURGER FACULTY SPONSOR: CRISTINA GEIGER, CHEMISTRY FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN MUENCH, BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, Three novel Schiff based compounds were Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease that CHEMISTRY synthesized from1,2-diamino-4-nitrobenzene and 2- infects over 200 million people, and is caused by Biomass is renewable organic matter and includes thiophene carboxaldehyde by varying reaction digenetic blood trematodes. Freshwater snails act agricultural crops and residues, wood sources, conditions, such as solvent, catalyst and as an intermediate host for the parasitic worm. animal waste, aquatic plants etc. Concerted efforts temperature. 2-amino-5-nitro-N-[(E)- thiophen-2-yl- Humans become infected through water contact. are currently being devoted into producing fuels methylidene]amine, 6-nitro-2-(thiophen-2-yl)-1- For the past 30 years, efforts to control (called biofuels) from these sources as they are (thiophen-2-ylmethyl)-1H-benzimidazole and schistosomiasis have focused on chemotherapy of renewable, cheap and more readily available than thiophen-2-carbaldehyde azine were obtained. The infected individuals, but prevalence has not fossil fuels. Biofuels that utilize plants rich in purity of the compounds was ascertained by TLC declined. Snail control measures have not been carbohydrates (i.e. sugars and starch) in biodiesel analysis. All compounds were fully characterized by effective in the past, and a comprehensive approach production are called first generation. These, as IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, DEPT, COSY and HETCOR is needed to control schistosomiasis. Although the global food prices show, compete with food spectroscopy. Single crystals of these three snail is an obligate host, relatively little is known sources. The use of fuels derived from inedible part compounds have been analyzed by X-ray diffraction. about these organisms. Understanding their of the plant; lignocellulose (which is made up of A mechanism for the formation of these products is behavior is essential to the implementation of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin) constitutes what proposed. effective control measures. Options for snail control are called second generation biofuels. ______include the use of molluscicides or predators for Lignocellulosic biomass (specifically cellulose) is 52 • Synthesis and Structural biological control. A challenge with the use of either highly favored as a potential non-food source of Characterization of 2-Substituted chemicals or predators is that snails are air- mixed sugars for fermentation into biofuels. breathing, and respond to these threats by leaving Cellulose is a polysaccharide made up of linear Benzimidazoles Derivatives the water (escape response). A fuller understanding chains of glucose units plus the major component of CHRISTOPHER BOND of the escape response will open new avenues for the rigid cell walls in plants and is the most FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID GEIGER, CHEMISTRY snail control. We propose to investigate alarm abundant biopolymer on the planet. However, its Substituted benzimidazole derivatives are of signals in Biomphalaria glabrata, host to the conversion into fermentable sugars (termed interest because of their bioactivity. Pharmaceutical Schistosoma mansoni, by varying the form of the pretreatment) presents important challenges. A uses of this class of compounds include as signal. Possible modifications include starting with novel method involves the use of ionic liquids (IL's). fungicides, herbicides and pesticides. Our interests dead snails, altering the interval between crushing The results obtained from the use of 1-ethyl-3- are in the area of synthesis and characterization of and application, and chemical treatments of the methylimidazolium chloride ([Emim]Cl) IL in the benzimdazoles bearing substituents capable of crushed snail slurry. pretreatment of pure cellulose and raw biomass coordinating transition metal ions. To date, we have (rice hulls) are presented and discussed. synthesized two derivatives: 2-(4-methylphenyl)-1H- CHEMISTRY ______benzimidazole and 2-(4-pyridyl)-1H-benzimidazole. These compounds have been characterized by 1- 48 • Lignocellulose as an Alternative 50 • Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Benzimidazole-Furan and 2-D NMR spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray Non-Food Biofuel: The Triumph of crystallography. We will present these and other Destiny Part I Derivatives findings. JARED DECK ______RYAN PEERS FACULTY SPONSOR: CRISTINA GEIGER, CHEMISTRY FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, 53 • Synthesis and Structural Substituted benzimidazoles have numerous CHEMISTRY Characterization Metal Organic pharmacological uses. Benzimidazolium salts have The increasing demand for energy in the World and many important uses, including as room Frameworks Based on Zinc Acetate the concomitant rise in pollution levels from the use temperature ionic liquids and as antitumor and DYLAN PARSONS of fossil fuels has led to an ever increasing demand other pharmacological agents. Our work has FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID GEIGER, CHEMISTRY for alternative sources of fuel. One such alternative focused on the synthesis and structural Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous is biofuels. Some of these biofuels however, require characterization of benzimidazole derivatives compounds with extended structures in which the use of food crops, and this has been linked to an obtained from the reaction of 1,2-diaminobenzene metal ions are linked by organic ligands. The increase in world food prices especially in poor with 2-furaldehyde. The benzimidazole derivatives structures can extend in one, two or three countries where a large part of the populace rely on synthesized were analyzed using 1-D and 2-D NMR dimensions. MOFs have potential use in areas these very food crops for sustenance. This latter spectroscopy and X-Ray crystallography. The major ranging from separation of mixtures to fuel storage. view requires developing biofuels that do not utilize product as determined by NMR analysis is 2-(furan- We are exploring compounds in which zinc acts as food crops. Lignocellulosic biomass which consist 2-yl)-1-(furan-2-ylmethyl)-benzimidazole, in which nodes linked by bridging acetate ligands and mainly of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, 2-furaldehyde reacts in a two to one ratio with 1,2- monodentate substituted 1,2-diaminobenzene represent one the most promising renewable, non- diaminobenzene to produce a benzimidazole ligands. To date, we have prepared two compounds food and universally available feedstocks for the derivative with two covalently attached furan rings. and characterized them using single crystal X-ray production biofuels. Nevertheless, the methods A minor product, 1,3- bis(2-furanylmethyl)-2-(2- diffraction. Each of the compounds has a two- used in the conversion of this biomass into liquid dimensional layered structure with voids that 18

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual contain ethanol, the solvent used in the FACULTY SPONSOR: ERIC HELMS, CHEMISTRY 59 • Zinc (II) Salicylaldehyde preparation. A subtle change in the substituent on The polycyclic triterpenoid friedelin was extracted the diimine ligand (i.e., nitrile vs. chloro) has a from cork, according to the procedure outlined by Complexes and Their Unexpected profound effect on the coordination geometry of Lefevre et al. 31.493 g of ground laboratory cork Luminescence Properties the zinc and the overall structure of the layers. We was refluxed in hot ethyl acetate for two hours. The ADAM PHILIPS will present synthetic details and the results from cork pieces were removed through gravity filtration. FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCGARRAH, CHEMISTRY our crystallographic analyses. The filtrate was left uncapped in the vacuum hood There has been recent interest in luminescent zinc ______for one week. Spiny needle-like crystal clusters Schiff base compounds. While exploring metal- 54 • Synthesis and Structural formed, with a yield of 0.154 g. The crystals were templated reactions in order to form the Schiff base Characterization of New collected and dissolved in hot deuterated compounds it was discovered that 3,5- chloroform. Using nuclear magnetic resonance dichlorosalicyladehyde and either zinc nitrate or Benzimidazole Derivatives spectroscopy, the crude friedelin was analyzed and zinc acetate yields a highly luminescent precipitate, MICHAEL NELLIST, MATTHEW DESTEFANO the structure elucidated. the zinc(II) salicyladehyde complex. Although similar FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID GEIGER, CHEMISTRY ______compounds have been previously reported the Reaction of 4-bromo or 4-chloro-1,2- 57 • Determining the Mechanism of luminescent properties have not been reported. diaminobenzene with 2-thiophenecarboxaldehyde the Addition of HCl to Atropic Acid This compound is sparingly soluble in most solvents; results in the formation of 1,2-disubstuted the notable exceptions are DMSO and DMF. Crystals 1 benzimidazole derivatives in good yield. Based on H Through Computational Chemistry suitable for single crystal x-ray analysis were 13 and C NMR spectroscopic analysis, two isomers and Molecular Modeling obtained by concentrating a saturated solution of are formed as expected. The isomers can be JORDAN O'MALLEY, DIANA LI DMSO. Various halogen substituted salicylaldehyde separated effectively by column chromatography. FACULTY SPONSOR: ERIC HELMS, CHEMISTRY zinc compounds have been synthesized and their The structures of 5-bromo and 5-chloro-2- According to literature, the addition of HCl to visible emission properties have been studied. The (thiophene-2-yl)-1-(thiophene-2-ylmethyl)-1H- atropic acid produces a non-Markovnikov product, compounds are fluorescent with a maximum benzimidiazole and the corresponding 6-chloro β-chlorotropic acid. Prior work completed in our lab centered 495 nm and quantum yields for emission derivative have been determined by X-ray supported the observation that β-chlorotropic acid ranging from 0.21 - 0.73. crystallography. The chloro derivatives exhibit a is produced and not α-chlorotropic acid, the ______proclivity to co-crystallize with minor amounts of Markovnikov product. There are three proposed 60 • Synthesis and Characterization the second isomer present. All of the compounds mechanisms for this reaction that can lead to the of Luminescent Platinum Complexes exhibit varying degrees of rotational disorder observed non-Markovnikov regiochemistry. These involving the 2-(thiophen-2-yl) substituent. The BENJAMIN NAGASING mechanisms include a 1,4 - addition of HCl, a non - FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCGARRAH, CHEMISTRY synthetic, spectroscopic and structural details will Markovnikov 1,2 - addition of HCl, and the be reported. We will also present the results Luminescent platinum organometallic compounds formation of an intramolecular bond that produces are of great interest for their potential application obtained using other carboxaldehydes. Selected for a β-lactone intermediate. Molecular modeling presentation at American Chemical Society as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Three new techniques and computational chemistry were platinum compounds, Pt(ppy)Cl(PPh3), Meeting, New Orleans, LA. applied to analyze equilibrium geometry energies of ______Pt(46dfppy)Cl(PPh3), and Pt(tpy)Cl(PPh3) (ppy = 2- the four hypothetical transition states and 55 • The Role of Myeloperoxidase in phenylpyridine, 46dfppy = 2-(4,6-difluoro)- intermediates. Energies of the products and phenylpyridine, tpy = 2-thienylpyridine, PPh3 = Apocynin-Mediated NADPH Oxidase reactants were also determined. The equilibrium triphenylphosphine), have been synthesized from Inhibition optimization energies were calculated using the the reaction of the corresponding μ-dichloro bridge PM3 semi-empirical model, a Hartree-Fock model CAROLYN LEVINN, MICHAEL AZZARO platinum dimers with triphenylphosphine. These using a 6-31G* basis set, and a hybrid density FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID JOHNSON, CHEMISTRY compounds are highly luminescent in the solid functional model (B3LYP) with a 6-31G* basis set Apocynin (4-hydroxy-3-methoxyacetophenone) and state. The compounds have been characterized by using the Spartan '10 program. The 1,4 - addition its dimer have been shown to be potent inhibitors one-and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic reaction cation intermediate has the lowest of NADPH oxidase, an enzyme that produces resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, absorption and equilibrium optimization energy in comparison to harmful free radicals in a variety of cell types. The fluorescence spectroscopy, and x-ray the other three. This data suggests that the reaction mechanism and efficiency of inhibition have been crystallography. Continuation of work by William of HCl to atropic acid follows a 1,4 - addition investigated. The dimers of apocynin and two Nack '11. mechanism. structural analogs, vanillin and 4-methyl-2- ______61 • Simultaneous Measurements of methoxyphenol, have been synthesized, and their 58 • Synthesis of relative inhibitory effects analyzed using LCMS and Charge and Fluorescence from Single enzymatic activity assays. It has been shown that 9-Hydroxyphenalenone and a there is a logarithmic relationship between the Quantum Dots Luminescent Platinum (II) Derivative SARAH MIETZ, GAGE BATEMAN concentration of apocynin and the percentage of RITA WHEELER, WESTLEY TEAR inhibition, characteristic of a classic inhibition plot. FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY PETERSON, CHEMISTRY FACULTY SPONSORS: ERIC HELMS AND JAMES Quantum dots (QDs) are semiconductor LCMS data indicates that the method of inhibition MCGARRAH, CHEMISTRY may involve the apocynin dimer preventing the nanoparticles that are helping revolutionize the We are investigating the synthesis of new field of nanotechnology. A major setback limiting formation of cysteine dimer link. This may hinder luminescent square planar platinum(II) compounds. the migration of the p47-phox subunit, which would the use of QDs, however, is the mysterious 9-Hydroxyphenalenone (Hpal) was synthesized from phenomenon of "blinking." Blinking refers to the activate the NADPH oxidase enzyme. This 2-methoxynaphthalene and cinnamoyl chloride with mechanism and inhibition data suggest that random transition between a bright fluorescent a 42.6% percent yield. Hpal was reacted with a state to a dark nonfluorescent state (sometimes apocynin and its analogs have potential in many cyclometalated platinum(II) chloro-bridged dimer, pharmaceutical applications, including treatment called ON and OFF states, respectively). To study [Pt(thpy)Cl]2 (where thpy = 2-thienylpyridine), to this theory, we have attempted to simultaneously for diabetic retinopathy and Alzheimer's. Selected yield Pt(thpy)(pal). The characterization of these for presentation at 245th National Meeting of the measure the charge and fluorescence intensity of a compounds by 1D- and 2D-nuclear magnetic single QD through the novel use of gel American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA. resonance spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy is ______electrophoresis coupled with single molecule reported. Preliminary investigations of their 56 • NMR Analysis of Triterpenoid photoluminescence imaging. Such measurements luminescent properties will also be reported. have not been reported in the literature and could ______Crystal from Cork provide key data to help evaluate different CAROLYN LEVINN theoretical models of fluorescence blinking. 19

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______diffusion process of acid or base reaction, an FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, 62 • Effect of Temperature Jump on Arrhenius plot-like analysis was conducted for the CHEMISTRY Protein Aggregation reaction rates. It was revealed that the parameter A modification of the gold colloidal nanoparticles acting as an activation energy for acid penetration has been extensively studied for applications in CHRISTINA BERTI was negligible (i.e., ~0 kJ/mol), though the biomedical field. While a bare metal colloid limits FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, activation energy for the base penetration was the types of proteins or peptides that can interact, a CHEMISTRY found to be 34+4 kJ/mol. We executed an initial proper functionalization of the gold surface enables In addition to studying the effects of both pH and acid penetration by placement of a fluid into vacant interaction of a wide variety of proteins. Recently, solvent content on protein aggregation to gold cavities. The base penetration was considered to our group found that functionalization of the gold colloids of multiple sizes, we have also studied how participate in a neutralization process with pre- colloidal surface with nitro-dibenzyloxy disulfide can a temperature jump affects the behavior of protein. existent acid in the cavities of the gel. Selected for not only adsorb amyloid beta peptide but also To test the effect of temperature jump on the presentation at Western NY American Chemical capture a key intermediate (oligomer) of reversibility of protein accumulation, we used TEM Society 2013, Buffalo, NY. fibrillogenesis which eventually leads to Alzheimer's (Transmission Electron Microscopy) to observe a ______disease. Since an intermediate is extremely difficult morphology of amyloid beta peptide (Aβ1-40) to detect under normal conditions, the surface coated 30nm or 40 nm gold colloid in water before 65 • Reversible Self-assembly of potential created by nitro-dibenzyloxy disulfide is and after a temperature jump from 5° C to 45° C as Nitro-disulfide Functionalized Gold considered to be high enough to stabilize the well as from 45° C to 5° C. For the temperature EUN SOPHIA HWANGBO intermediate. We explored the optimum surface jump from 5° C to 45° C, the morphology obtained FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, condition for an intermediate by varying the size of at 5° C was altered to that of 45° C. For a CHEMISTRY gold colloids and investigated the conformation of temperature jump from 45° C to 5° C, a morphology In order to create a stable oligomer form of amyloid attached amyloid beta peptide (hydrophilic Aβ1-40 created at 45° C was preserved even after the beta peptide (i.e. a key intermediate of the and hydrophobic Aβ1-42) as the external pH was temperature change to 5° C. We conclude that the Alzheimer's disease), we modified the surface of varied from pH 10 to pH 2. It was found that an morphology was controlled by the structure of the gold colloids with nitro-dibenzyloxy disulfide. As the oligomer was almost equally reproduced for the Aβ1-40 at a given temperature, and the structure external pH was alternated between pH 4 and pH entire size ranges tested in this study. supported at 45° C is not reversible. Selected for 10, a reversible color change was observed. This ______presentation at Western NY American Chemical color change corresponds to a reversible self- Society 2013, Buffalo, NY. assembly of the gold colloids. The self-assembly 68 • Reversible Self-assembly of Aβ ______process was investigated over various sizes of gold 1-40 and Aβ 1-42 over Nitro-disulfide 63 • Solvent - Dependent nano-colloids ranging between 10 nm and 100 nm Functionalized Gold Colloid Aggregation to Gold Colloids in diameter. The reversible process showed EUN SOPHIA HWANGBO monotonic size dependence, in which better Investigated Under TEM FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, enhancement was given when relatively smaller CHEMISTRY CHRISTINA BERTI sizes of gold were used. This indicates that the It is known that a fiber formation of amyloid beta is FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, attachment of nitro-dibenzyloxy disulfide softens a hallmark of the Alzheimer's disease. There are CHEMISTRY the surface-curvature-dependent metal surface roughly two types of amyloid beta which are The aggregation of amyloid beta peptide (Aβ) or potential. critically important in the mechanism of Alzheimer's albumin coated gold colloid is known to be sensitive ______disease. One is a water soluble amyloid beta to pH in an aqueous environment. While a majority 66 • Property of Dialkoxy Disulfide peptide of sequences 1-40 (Aβ1-40) and the other is of surface functionalized gold colloids are soluble in a water insoluble amyloid beta peptide of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) but not in water, no Functionalized Nano Gold Colloidal sequences 1-42 (Aβ1-42). Neither Aβ1-40 nor Aβ1- detail studies of aggregation process was Particles 42 exhibited a reversible self-assembly in dimethyl conducted. Using transmission electron microscopy, EUN SOPHIA HWANGBO sulfoxide when they were directly placed over the we directly observed the aggregation process of the FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, gold colloidal surfaces. However, both amyloid beta Aβ- or albumin-coated gold colloids diluted in CHEMISTRY peptides exhibited a reversible self-assembly when DMSO. We found that aggregation process in DMSO Nanoscale gold colloids have been extensively they were attached over nitro-dibenzyloxy disulfide was irreversible after a change in pH from 7 to 4 for studied as a physiologically safe biomaterial. functionalized gold colloids. We investigated over both albumin- and Aβ-coated gold colloids. We However, due to a strong interaction from the gold various sizes of gold nano-colloids ranging between interpret that a weak interaction between protein metal surface, the molecular structure of an 10 nm and 100 nm in diameter. Although strong size and water enable the protein structure to undergo interacting protein is significantly altered and the dependence was not observed, nitro-dibenzyloxy a reversible process. It clarified that the solvent protein loses its original biological function. We disulfide enhanced the stability of the intermediate environment significantly contributes to the attempted to modify the surface of gold colloids to of self-assembly process. reversibility of the aggregation process. Selected for produce "softer" interaction to the adsorbing ______presentation at Western NY American Chemical proteins so that its stability is enhanced and Society 2013, Buffalo, NY. biofunctionality is maintained. As the best 69 • Kinetics and Dynamics of ______candidate for surface modification, we used nitro-, Protein on the Surface of Quantum 64 • Diffusion Mechanism of Water phenyl-, chloro-, methyl-, H-, and methoxy-, Dots Encapsulated in Silica Gel Into Sol-Gel Matrix dibenzyloxy disulfide in a dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) KENNETH SANTOS environment. We obtained a strong evidence of CHRISTINA BERTI FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, disulfide being adsorbed on the colloidal surface. As FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, CHEMISTRY a degree of binding was analyzed, methoxy-and CHEMISTRY A novel design for a drug delivery rate controlling nitro-dibenzyloxy disulfide were found to provide A diffusion of water was spectroscopically capsule system was tested under acidic, stomach- an optimum soft binding to a targeted protein. like conditions using nanoparticle semi conductor monitored by a sequencial insertion of acid and ______base into sol gel matrix in which ethyl-violet dye (Quantum Dot - QD) contained gel material. The was predoped. The ethyl-violet dye exhibits a pH 67 • Size Dependence and Effect of acid (pH 2 buffer) externally interacts with this dependent color change and exhibited a degree of Amyloid Beta Peptide Attachment to material, resulting in optical information that allows diffusion of either acid or base. When an acid was Nitro-Dialkoxy Disulfide us to observe how gel materials control the speed introduced, the diffusion rate of acid into a sol-gel of acid breaking into the gel capsule. We expect matrix was independent of temperature within a Functionalized Gold Colloids that the protein enclosed QDs will behave range between 15 and 75° C. By interpreting that a EUN SOPHIA HWANGBO differently than the QDs without the protein. The 20

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual protein, coated over the surface of the QDs, tends FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, effects. Information on the exact DNA binding mode to protect the surface of the QDs as the acid breaks CHEMISTRY as well as the relative binding affinity have provided into the capsule. This allows us to evaluate how the The amyloid beta (Aβ) 1-42 sequence is insoluble in insights into understanding why and how these capsule can be strengthened by adding protein water and is known to aggregate easily. This has therapeutic drugs bind to DNA. The abietane coated QDs inside. prevented us from studying the reversible self- diterpenes are a class of natural products isolated ______assembly process of Aβ1-42 monomers as well as from a certain plant (Hyptis verticillata) known in 70 • Nanosize Effect on Diffusion the properties of an intermediate protein structure Jamaican folklore for its medicinal benefits, Through a Silica Sol-Gel Matrix in this process. For the first time, our research including anti-microbial, anti-oxidants, anti- group was able to capture the intermediate inflammatory as well as anti-cancer activities. To KENNETH SANTOS involved in the reversible self-assembly by placing date, many aspects of the mode of action of these FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, the Aβ1-42 over the nanoscale gold colloid in compounds are still unclear. One goal of this project CHEMISTRY dimethyl sulfoxide, in which Aβ 1-42 is soluble. is to carry out preliminary studies on selected Effective drug delivery and direct injection to a However, the reversible self-assembly process did members in the abietane diterpene class of targeted region of living cells is a challenging issue. not repeat more than 10 cycles indicating that a compounds in order to determine whether these In the acidic environment of the stomach, the denaturing process was going on simultaneously. compounds bind to DNA, and if so, to characterize efficiency of a drug can be significantly reduced by Currently, absorption spectroscopy is being used to their preferred DNA binding mode and affinity. stomach acid. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly investigate temperature dependence in gold Fluorescence-based ethidium bromide imperative to design an acid resistant drug-carrying nanoparticles of various sizes. Selected for displacement assays, topoisomerase I DNA device for such a harsh environment. Silica sol-gel presentation at American Chemical Society Local unwinding assays and circular dichroism were all was used, as it is an excellent material to use as a Conference, Brockport, NY. used to gather information on the DNA binding platform for the drug carrying substance. In order to ______properties of these compounds. design a capsule with a controlled rate of drug ______delivery at highly acidic condition, the diffusion rate 73 • Controlling Reversible Self- of the acid reaching into the cavity of the silica Assembly Path of Amyloid Beta 75 • Drug Interactions of AT vs. GC based gel material was investigated. We utilized Peptide Over Gold Colloidal Rich DNA Sequences Quantum Dot (QD) as a "host" to observe the LUKE MARR condition of the drug inside the cavity. The change Nanoparticles' Surfaces FACULTY SPONSOR: RUEL MCKNIGHT, CHEMISTRY in lifetime of the QDs was measured as the solvent QUEENY PAN, PATRICK MILLER-RHODES Therapeutically significant small molecules and their penetrated into the gel. The dynamics of the host FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, nucleic acid targets have been under investigation particle was sensitively changed as the size of the CHEMISTRY for many years. Information on the exact DNA guest particles changed between 5 and 80 nm. The Self-assembly of amyloid beta peptide (Aβ) is a binding mode as well as the relative binding affinity penetration rates and the guest particle sizes crucial step of fibrillogenesis, a hallmark mechanism have provided insights into understanding why and exhibited a non-linear relationship, and the rate was of Alzheimer's disease. We discovered that a how these therapeutic drugs bind to DNA. Our maximized at the guest particle size of 5 nm. reversible assembly process of Aβ1-40 monomer recent work has focused on finding robust but ______can be controlled over 20 nm gold colloid, under an simple approaches to determine the preferred DNA 71 • Study of a Mechanism of alternation of external pH, at room temperature. binding mode (whether via intercalation or the DNA The observed reversible self-assembly is a Amyloid Beta Fibrillogenesis: The minor groove) of small molecules with therapeutic reproduction of an initial reversible step of relevance. In order to validate our approach, we Self-assembly of Amyloid Beta 1-40 fibrillogenesis. It is notable that the conformation have carried out preliminary studies using primarily Peptides on Gold Nanoparticles under pH 4 corresponds to an oligomer form, which isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) on several is regarded as an intermediate of fibrillogenesis. PATRICK MILLER-RHODES, QUEENY PAN compounds known to bind DNA via intercalation Furthermore, there was reversible color change as FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, and/or the minor groove. Our ITC studies have temperature decreased lower than 5° C for Aβ1-40- CHEMISTRY shown that compounds that are known to bind via coated 30 nm and 40 nm gold colloid. The unit The aggregation of soluble amyloid beta (Aβ) intercalation (ethidium bromide, daunomycin, constructs an oligomer over 20 nm gold colloid is a peptide oligomers is a key step in the formation of naphthalene diimides) show no significant dimer, whereas a trimer is the main unit for an the insoluble fibrillar deposits observed in preference for an AT- vs GC-rich DNA sequence, oligomer constructed over 30 or 40 nm gold Alzheimer's Disease. However, little is known about while compounds that are known minor groove colloids' surfaces. During the process of self- the chemical intermediates formed as Aβ binders (distamycin, berenil) do show a strong assembly, temperature was shifted up or down and monomers aggregate into Aβ oligomers (i.e. the preference for the AT-rich sequence relative to the an effect of an initial temperature was investigated. initial step in Aβ fibrillogenesis). Using absorption GC-rich sequence. Future work will involve using The Aβ1-40 monomers situated over 20 nm gold spectroscopy, a reversible self-assembly between this approach to characterize a series of abietane colloid tend to maintain the conformational feature the aggregate condition (pH 4) and the non- diterpenes (Hyptis verticillata) natural products constructed at an initial temperature even after the aggregate condition (pH 10) was observed and known in Jamaican folklore for thier medicinal temperature was altered. This study exhibited that enhanced when temperature was lowered below 10 benefits, including anti-microbial and as anti-cancer there are two distinctly different self-assembly degrees Celsius. This reversibility is an important activities. paths existing in an initial stage of fibrillogenesis. implication of the observation of a reversible step ______Selected for presentation at American Chemical reported for fibrillogenesis. It was interpreted that 76 • Effect of X-Rays on Human Society Local Conference, SUNY Brockport. the reversible process takes place when hydrophilic ______Lymphoblasts with and without Aβ possesses a three-dimensional network containing both beta-sheet and alpha helices. 74 • DNA Binding Properties of Elevated Levels of the 4977-bp Selected for presentation at American Chemical Therapeutic Compounds Common Deletion Society Local Conference, Brockport, NY. KEVIN SIEGENTHALER ALEXANDRA RIBAUDO, SHADMAN SINHA ______FACULTY SPONSOR: RUEL MCKNIGHT, CHEMISTRY FACULTY SPONSOR: WENDY POGOZELSKI, 72 • Observation of Pre-Fibrillar Many compounds of therapeutic significance, CHEMISTRY Intermediates in Alzheimer's especially those in the anticancer and antibiotic ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY classes, are known to bind to DNA non-covalently. Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is subject to Disease: The Conjugation of Amyloid Ongoing research into the therapeutic potential of large-scale deletions. A deletion of 4977 base pairs, Beta 1-42 Peptides on the Surface of these types of compounds is therefore essential to called the "common deletion," makes cells viable the development of novel, therapeutic drug but energetically compromised. These deletions Gold Nanoparticles candidates with improved efficacy and reduced side increase with aging and our lab has shown that they PATRICK MILLER-RHODES, QUEENY PAN 21

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual can increase with gamma ray dose. We compared This study is grounded in a systemic investigation of challenging in terms of execution time. I will explore lymphoblast cell lines in which the deletion was communication in families formed through how matrix operations such as addition, either undetectable or at levels of ~7%. These cells anonymous donor conception. Our study has transposition and multiplication can be optimized were treated with X-rays and Gamma-rays with evolved from looking at the communication-related by using pointer arithmetic and threads over doses up to 5Gy. We compare cell growth and levels experiences of donor-conceived offspring, to those multiple cores. The results of my approach will be of the common deletion for these irradiated cell of the parents of donor-conceived offspring, and compared against the available and industry tested lines. Selected for presentation at Experimental currently to those of anonymous sperm donors. approaches. Selected for presentation at The Biology 2013, Boston, MA. After analyzing the results of the interviews with Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges- ______the donor-conceived offspring, we found that Northeast Region, Loudonville, NY. 77 • Development of Assays to donor-conceived offspring discursively engage in ______Detect Effects of Gamma Rays and X mean-making and identity construction. The 99 • Comparison of High analysis of the interviews with the parents revealed Performance Computing Storage Rays on Human Lymphoblast Cell that parents use facework processes such as Lines with and without the 4977- selective disclosure, strategic donor and language Methods choices, and networking when communicating with WYATT GORMAN Base Pair Common Deletion their offspring and others. Important questions to FACULTY SPONSOR: HOMMA FARIAN, COMPUTER CHRISTIAN EVANS, SAM CHIAPPONE address when studying communication-related SCIENCE FACULTY SPONSORS: WENDY POGOZELSKI, experiences with donors include: (a) what makes a Today's computing environment is consistently CHEMISTRY, AND ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY person decide to donate sperm anonymously, (b) moving towards the cloud, in the form of cloud Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is subject to how do donors communicatively construct computing, cloud applications, and cloud storage. large-scale deletions. These deletions occur at low themselves when discussing sperm donation, and Cloud storage, in particular, is growing at an levels and are difficult to detect. We show efforts to (c) how do donors negotiate privacy and disclosure exorbitant rate amongst the general population and develop assays, including a PCR assay, to amplify with others about their sperm donation. It is our other organizations. The backbone of this large sections of the mitochondrial genome, hope that our findings will offer both theoretical technology is High Performance Computing Storage, compare the lengths of the amplicons and thus implications for communication researchers as well a constantly evolving area of information detect the presence of deletions. We also show this as practical implications for those who choose to technology which encompasses numerous technique can be used to determine the effect of undergo the process of donating sperm, donor- methodologies and paradigms. I have taken up the insults such as ionizing radiation. Selected for conceived families, and individuals who task of comparing the most common ways that HPC presentation at Developmental Biology 2013, communicate with donor-conceived families. storage is used, and the most effective distributed Boston, MA storage models to serve those needs. In this pursuit COMPUTER SCIENCE I have analyzed and compared the numerous COMMUNICATION available file systems, distribution archetypes, and 97 • Parallel Processing of Computer 78 • 3D Media Tech Research: software solutions that would suit those purposes. I Graphics with GLSL have compiled the most advantageous Implementation of Technology Into MARCOS DAVILA configurations of software and hardware available Education FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUG BALDWIN, COMPUTER today, while detailing statistics, benchmarks, and AMANDA SKINNER SCIENCE other reasoning that lead me to my conclusions. My FACULTY SPONSOR: ATSUSHI TAJIMA, Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) is a way to goal for this project has been to clarify a field which COMMUNICATION represent complicated three-dimensional geometric is growing extremely rapidly, and which can be The implementation of technology into education models for computer graphics. For example, IViPP is rather difficult to grasp. Selected for presentation for the past several decades has created a shift in a computer graphics program that must display CSG at Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges - the way students learn, and the way teachers teach. models in order to draw the environments of Northeastern Region 2013, Albany, NY. The technological shift that has occurred creates particle physics simulations. Processing CSG entirely ______both advantages and disadvantages to teachers and on the central processing unit (CPU) can slow 100 • Interactive Laptop Computing students in education, depending on their performance to non-interactive frame rates for all Cluster with Video Wall (located in willingness to adapt to the change. 3D technology is but the simplest geometry. Harnessing a dedicated the newest addition to create a new world of graphics processing unit (GPU) allows such College Union Lobby) learning possibilities that can only be adapted and geometry to quickly be rendered to the screen. In STEPHEN KOWALEWSKI, WYATT GORMAN, HERB understood if the current technology gap begins to order to test this hypothesis, I created a version of SUSMANN diminish. Interviews and focus groups of both IViPP's geometry renderer that uses a data FACULTY SPONSOR: HOMMA FARIAN, COMPUTER students and teachers in higher education provided structure known as a BList to enable rendering in SCIENCE valuable information for how this shift could effect the GPU. I measured frame rates, CPU and GPU The WOPR Laptop Cluster is a portable computing the future generations, and how learners and utilization, and rendering times for several variants environment made up of 16 laptops with educators have already been affected. By of this renderer, and compared them to each other corresponding displays arranged in a vertical 4x4 understanding the importance of closing the and to CPU-only rendering. I intend to present the grid. The cluster is capable of displaying interactive technology gap, and embracing the introduction of results of these measurements to show that GPU media on the video wall including photos and video. technology and the wealth it can provide in learning rendering leads to significant improvements over We plan to use the wall to showcase student art, environments, it is possible to extend education to CPU-only rendering. campus photos, and student research projects. not only subjects that were not possible before, but ______Furthermore, it will be interactive through the also to people in all locations with varying degrees 98 • Parallelization of Matrix display of a live twitter feed of all tweets with the of education/learning abilities. hash-tag "GREATDay2013" and a live photo booth ______Operations in C++ feature that will send out photo tweets with the 79 • Communicating About Donor MARCOS DAVILA same hash-tag. FACULTY SPONSOR: HOMMA FARIAN, COMPUTER Conception SCIENCE ENGLISH MEGHAN SOVOCOOL, SHELLY MASSACHI, Matrices remain one of the most widely used data CHRISTINA PICCIOCHI, ALEXANDRIA PIORE, structures in the computational sciences despite 101 • Jane Austen and Religion BRIDGET SOVOCOOL how expensive it is to compute common operations CHRISTOPHER CROCKER, BROOKE PEARLMAN, FACULTY SPONSOR: MEREDITH HARRIGAN, on them. Much progress has been made towards AMELIA SPADE, ANDREA SPRINGER COMMUNICATION optimizing matrix operations, but working with FACULTY SPONSOR: CELIA EASTON, ENGLISH large matrices or a large number of them remains 22

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This poster represents diverse research on religious Severity Index drought and wet conditions by facilities. The locations and real estate information texts that influenced Jane Austen's novels, as well climate division are used in a geographic of the high-end villas and apartments are gathered as her representation of religion and religious information system to extract NCEP-DOE Reanalysis and placed on a map along with the locations of figures in her fiction, letters, and collected prayers. 2 u,v wind vectors at 4 pressure levels in the goods and services that cater to the higher class ______atmosphere: 850, 700, 500, and 300hPa. Results are residents. Selected for presentation at Middle 102 • Jane Austen and the Military presented for the entire region and subregions in States Geographer, Buffalo, NY. CORINNE GREEN, STEPHANIE NAWROCKI, the West, as well as annual and seasonal ______MICHAEL AUGELLO composites. Selected for presentation at 110 • The Rwandan Genocide: FACULTY SPONSOR: CELIA EASTON, ENGLISH Association of American Geographers Annual Prospect and Retrospect Both the Army and the Navy play significant roles in Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. ______JESSICA GILBERT Jane Austen's novels. This poster represents FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY collective research on contemporary military 107 • Spatial Analysis of Spending This study of the Rwandan Genocide focuses practice, with a particular focus on Austen's interest per Student in New York School primarily on the atrocities that occurred during the in the Royal Navy and her two successful naval Districts 100 days of murder from April 6 through late June brothers. 1994. It isolates three significant elements of the ______CLAIRE COSTELLO genocide and attempts to show both their 103 • Jane Austen and Film FACULTY SPONSOR: COLLEEN GARRITY, GEOGRAPHY individual importance and how they are connected. DIANIELLA INSALACO, EMILY OLMSTEAD, KARA The first of these elements includes the major PALLADINO, SHANNON WILLOUGHBY, MEGAN Using maps to visualize spatial distributions is helpful for identifying and understanding spatial massacres that took place across the country, telling WAGNER-FLYNN a story of when and where the genocide FACULTY SPONSOR: CELIA EASTON, ENGLISH patterns. In this research project, I compare school district spending per student across New York State. progressed. The second examines the progression This presentation coordinates research and analysis of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) as it halted the done by students in ENGL 358 Major Authors: Jane Every school district in New York produces a 'report card' that reports how much the district spends per genocide town by town. By mapping the RPF Austen on representations of Jane Austen in film. advancement and the location and date of the The examples draw particularly from contrasting pupil. This varies greatly between districts and especially between counties throughout the state. I atrocities, one can assess why the killings were interpretations of Pride and Prejudice by recent film much more prevalent in some parts of the country makers. use a geographic information system (GIS) to map and visualize the data as well as to conduct spatial than in others. The final element studies the term ______known as "gendercide," or the targeting of a specific 104 • Jane Austen and Popular analysis. Maps of different variables related to school district spending are displayed, including gender. Discovering which gender was targeted Culture spending per pupil and total spending per district. when reveals a great deal about the Rwandan KRISTEN ANDRYSHAK, RACHEL EISENMAN, EMMA Subsequent maps explore the connection between culture, the progression of the genocide, and some GREENMAN, SAMANTHA MERGENTHALER, data spending by district and demographics by of the after effects that have continued through to DANIELLE WARD overlaying district spending data such as population the present. The push and pull of these three FACULTY SPONSOR: CELIA EASTON, ENGLISH of districts as well as with demographics of race and elements demonstrate how the legacy of This poster represents collective research on the poverty levels to examine possible correlations. catastrophe embraces much more than just the popular culture phenomenon that has arisen in ______million lives lost and the survivors who mourn regard to the English novelist, Jane Austen. From them. 108 • China's Missing Children ______blogs to sequels to novelty items, the array of BETHANY FRIDAY Austen popular culture objects and practices FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY 111 • Geography of Twitter continues to grow. By tomorrow this time, 190 more Chinese children PATRICK HEFFERNAN, ALLISON ROOSA ______will have been kidnapped. A cultural gender bias for FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY 105 • Jane Austen and Education males paired with China's 1978 "One-Child-Policy" Our poster will examine the global distribution of MEGAN EICHAS, TASMIA NAZ, MELANEY REBELLO, have contributed to the abductions of thousands of tweets. We collected data on the global distribution CHRISTIANE STELLRECHT young boys across the nation. My research seeks to of tweets over two separate 24 hour periods. These FACULTY SPONSOR: CELIA EASTON, ENGLISH identify and explain geographical patterns in were conducted on a Tuesday and Saturday so as to This poster represents collective research on kidnappings across Chinese provinces. I first examine differences between weekday and educational attitudes during the Regency. extracted key variables from 400 reported weekend Twitter activity. We will compare and Participants discuss Jane Austen's representation of kidnapping cases via a national missing child contrast our data sets in order to inspect the trends attitudes about education, especially women's database. These variables include the child's and patterns currently occurring on Twitter. ______education, during the late 18th, early 19th gender, age, and province of abduction. I then centuries. analyzed these against provincial figures such as 112 • In the Age of Cannon and population and GDP per capita. Graphical Musket: Sackets Harbor's Military GEOGRAPHY representations of this data have confirmed the Geography during the War of 1812 vastly disproportional abduction of boys over girls 106 • Relationships Between ROBERT BRIWA and has also revealed new findings such as a FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY Monthly Western U.S. Surface positive correlation between the rate of child During the War of 1812 the naval base at Sackets kidnapping and both population and GDP. I have Hydrological Extremes and Upper- Harbor became a site of military significance. Naval thus concluded that while it would not be incorrect control of the Great Lakes determined the success Level Winds to partially attribute China's child kidnappings to its or failure of military operations and settlements ADRIENNE TUCKER traditional preference for male heirs, such trends with good anchorage were the focal points of FACULTY SPONSOR: COLLEEN GARRITY, can and should also be considered alongside military conflict. Sackets Harbor's strategic position GEOGRAPHY geographical features–namely population and GDP relative to British lines of communications made it a In an effort to further examine surface hydrological per capita. extreme conditions in the western United States as ______target of British military action. The site came under volumetric phenomena, this research investigates 109 • Geography of Elite Cairo direct assault by British forces of two occasions. relationships between surface drought and wet Each outcome hinged upon the defenses of the EUGENIA TANG, ATOSA GHASRIPOOR conditions and their corresponding upper-level harbor and contemporary military technology and FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY winds on a monthly time scale for the period 1979- tactics. This poster is a summary of a research A study of the demographic of wealth in Cairo, 2012. Surface severe to extreme Palmer Drought project that examined the military significance of Egypt, and its correlation to luxury services and Sackets Harbor through a geographic lens that 23

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual identifies the relationship between geography and conditions. While oak openings were once however, affect crime rate with varying significance. military technology and tactics so vital to waging widespread, the Rush Oak Opening is the only one Detroit, Michigan is one city that exemplifies the effective warfare during the early nineteenth in New York State today. Oak openings are causes and effects these factors have on the rate of century. The tactics were fundamentally rooted in dependent on fire as a natural disturbance that crime. Throughout the 1900s, the crime rate in time and space, specifically the phased advance of favors oaks and native grasses, and prevents woody Detroit continuously increased. During the late densely packed infantry on a prepared defensive encroachment. The Rush Oak Opening is managed 1900s, the homicide rate increased to the point position. Sources include scholarly treatment of by the New York State Department of Conservation where Detroit was called the Murder City. The Napoleonic warfare, sources focused on Sackets through periodic prescribed burns. This study 2000s, however, has seen a decrease in crime rate. Harbor, military databases, and an examination of examines the effectiveness of the management The purpose of this study was to analyze the local topography and ground conditions. system after a prescribed burn event on March 23rd distribution of crime throughout Detroit, Michigan ______2012. We used a transect micro-plot sampling and the factors that may influence and contribute 113 • Demographic Analysis of method in which shoots were measured to estimate to the crime rate in order to formulate a plan to Geneseo Student Origins growth rate, and burn marks were measured to further reduce the rate of crime. estimate burn intensity. Plant and wildlife diversity ______RUSSELL ALDAVE were analyzed. Our study found that growth of new FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY 118 • Detroit Schoolchildren in Crisis: shoots and burn intensity varied significantly among This study focuses on investigating the reasons The Street Lamp Problem Facing Our transects. This can potentially be attributed to the behind the students who apply, are admitted, and fragmentation of habitat by burning small plots. Most Vulnerable accepted to SUNY Geneseo. Data for the number of There is evidence that some herbaceous invasive JOSEPH CORBIN students admitted in 2011 was obtained from the species were eliminated by the prescribed fire. A FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, Office of Admissions. On top of that, data from each variety of wildlife was noted suggesting the GEOGRAPHY county population as well as the number of high importance of the ecosystem in conservation This poster is designed to illustrate the street school graduates from each county was obtained efforts. We concluded that prescribed burning is lighting problem facing Detroit by focusing on the from the census bureau and NYS Education necessary to maintain the Rush Oak Openings and dangers it poses for school children. In some department respectively. After analyzing the county should remain an integral part of management neighborhoods in Detroit, over half of the street population with the amount of students that end up efforts. lamps do not function. Additionally, an enormous in Geneseo, data for 'college bound' high school ______percentage of houses in the city are vacant, graduates was acquired. This ratio of students was 116 • The International Jew: The attracting crime and clandestine behavior. With then analyzed using Microsoft Excel and ArcGIS. early sunsets during the winter months, many After mapping and analyzing the data, the first World's Problem: Anti-Semitism in parents do not allow their children to go to school hypothesis assumed driving distance had a negative Detroit out of fear for their children's safety, because they correlation with the amount of students that come AYELET HAREL know their children will have to walk home through to Geneseo. This hypothesis was true for both FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, a dark and dangerous neighborhood. Detroit has a students who applied and who were accepted, but GEOGRAPHY plethora of issues as America's fastest declining city it was not true for the number of students Detroit, Michigan, in its heyday, was a booming and there is much discussion regarding which issues admitted. This project remains on-going and more industrial center filled with job opportunities and a to address first. This poster seeks to open people's hypotheses will be tested in attempt to explain the popular entertainment scene. The city has seen an eyes to the fact that society's most vulnerable major reasons for students to attend this astounding level of economic and population group, children, are put in unnecessarily great institution. decline since this peak, stemming from a multitude danger because of such a simple problem as street ______of factors. One of the biggest contributing aspects lamps. I would argue that these simplest solutions 114 • InterVarsity: The Geography of of the city's current situation is arguably racism and ought to be enacted first. a Christian Contemporary Campus its effects on targeted groups, including Detroit's Ministry in the United States Jewish population, one of the most historically GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES victimized Jewish communities in America. PAT GREGORY Infamous propagators of anti-Semitism such as 119 • Data Compilation for the FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID ROBERTSON, Catholic minister Father Charles Coughlin, Henry Characterization of Local Pre-Facing GEOGRAPHY Ford, and others were based in Detroit, adding to Some have suggested that college campuses are Groundwater Conditions the significance of the city as a center for anti- localized reflections of the nation's level of spiritual JENNIFER GEORGEK Jewish sentiments. Today's Jewish Detroiters are curiosity. If a nation has higher rankings of church FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL still targeted through anti-Semitic acts, many of adherence rates, the colleges and universities SCIENCES them violent hate crimes. This poster is a collection should have more campus ministries. This study The potential health risks and environmental effects of research detailing the history of Detroit's Jewish describes the geography of InterVarsity, one of the associated with hydrofracing of shales for natural population and ensuing anti-Semitism, including largest Christian campus ministries, serving over gas extraction have been in the forefront of today's current information on anti-Jewish hate crimes. 34,000 students and faculty. The spatial distribution controversial issues among citizens and lawmakers Looking forward, Detroit can benefit from of InterVarsity is analyzed at the national level using in the Northeastern United States. Few studies, implementing low- cost education and social ArcGIS 10, and data from InterVarsity, the however, have collected the baseline data helpful in programs to ease this tension. proving or disproving the validity of these concerns Association of Religious Data Archives (ARDA), and ______the U.S. Census. The InterVarsity chapter locations after hydrofracing has begun. This study compiles will be mapped and their distribution interpreted 117 • The Murder City: Crime in existing data relevant to characterizing the pre- with reference to religious adherence rates and Detroit, Michigan fracing conditions in groundwater within Livingston, other geographical data. BONNIE BROWN Alleghany, and Steuben Counties, New York. ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, Included in the data are topographic and geologic 115 • Evaluating the Efficacy of GEOGRAPHY features, and the occurrence of methane in Prescribed Fire in Rush Oak Opening, Crime rate is defined as the ratio between the groundwater. In addition, the locations of number of crimes in an area and the population size hypothetical hydrofracing wellsites compiled by New York in that area. Throughout history, it has continuously Benjamin Wunder were included to assist in DIANA MCGRATH, BRIAN WOLFF been influenced by a number of factors such as identifying regions potentially more susceptible to FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES KERNAN, GEOGRAPHY population size, demographics, poverty, methane migration towards the surface. The Oak openings are a diverse and rare ecosystem unemployment, graduation rate, neighborhood computer program, ArcGIS, was used to organize characterized by savannah and savannah-like environments, and police density. These factors, the geographic, topographic, geologic, and 24

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual groundwater data to more effectively choose future CLAIRE HUANG ALYSSA HYNES, RACHEL ATKINS groundwater sampling sites. In the future, samples FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, GEOLOGICAL FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL will be collected throughout the study region and SCIENCES SCIENCES geochemically analyzed for the occurrence of In cosmogenic exposure dating of moraine The San Sebastian Formation exposed in the Rio naturally-occurring methane and other boulders, numerous studies have emphasized the Guatemala in northwestern Puerto Rico consists of hydrocarbons related to geologic materials. If importance of sampling the tallest boulders. This is a series of clastic marine and terrestrial sediments. horizontal drilling occurs within New York State, this based on the assumption that tall boulders yield the A marine cycle overlying a distinct red-colored soil study will enable the identification of methane leaks most accurate ages because they have experienced was collected at the bottom, middle, and top of a from hydrofracing processes by identifying natural continuous exposure since deposition. Exposure measured interval. Common to all three sections methane sources for comparison. dating of shorter boulders atop moraine crests were echinoid spines, which indicate that the ______could possibly yield ages younger than the true age salinity during formation was normal marine (~3.5% 120 • Petrology of the Pillow Basalts of a moraine because of the effects of burial and salinity). Ostracods varied between the layers of the Lapas Lava Formation, Puerto surface cover on the production of cosmogenic where the top and bottom layers contain Cytherella isotopes. Statistical analyses of 173 boulders from and Actinocythereis, both of which indicate a Rico 25 moraines in the western US were completed to shallow shelf environment. From the middle layer MICHAEL KEDENBURG, CHRISTA STELL test for a correlation between boulder height and Haplocytheridea was common, which signifies a FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL exposure age. For nearly all the moraines evaluated, middle shelf environment. In this 2 m interval the SCIENCES no correlation between height and exposure age depositional environment changes following the This study seeks to investigate the petrology of the was found. This finding is significant because it marine flooding from shallow shelf to middle shelf pillow basalts of the Lapas Lava Formation in Puerto implies that either the effects of burial and shielding back to shallow shelf. Rico. By analyzing the chemical content and are minimal on most sampled boulders, or that ______mineralogy of several sections of a selected pillow other processes affect the distribution of exposure 125 • Comparative Analysis of the basalt, we hope to gain insight into the formation of ages. Current work is exploring the relationship Lapa Lava Chert and the Mariquita these basalts as well as determine what alteration between modern climate and the distribution of these basalts have been subjected to since their cosmogenic exposure ages of moraine boulders. Chert emplacement. We also hope to determine if any This comparison may help to understand how the CHRISTINE RAO, DAVID DUHAMEL differences in cooling and alteration history exist moraines have eroded over time, which could affect FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL between the rim and inner portions of the basalts the accuracy of their exposure ages. SCIENCES by analyzing their mineralogy through thin section ______Two suites of chert were collected from Puerto and x-ray diffraction analysis. Preliminary results 123 • An Investigation of Laterite Rico. The Mariquita Chert from southwestern suggest that the outer rim of the pillow under Puerto Rico is part of the Sierra Bermeja Ophiolite investigation has undergone rapid cooling, as Accretion Processes in Puerto Rican Complex; chert from the Lapa Lava Formation in indicated by the ubiquitous presence of amorphous Soils eastern Puerto Rico is associated with pillow glass in the crystal structure, and some degree of JORDAN BAKER, MATTHEW HILL basalts. The Lapa Lava chert is red from hematite alteration as indicated by the presence of accessory FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, GEOLOGICAL that is pervasive through the unit, and has distinct minerals and pseudomorphs thought to be oxides SCIENCES bedding with poorly preserved radiolarians. The or rutile. Alteration is further indicated by the During the winter intercession trip to Puerto Rico, Mariquita Chert is green, contains no biogenic ubiquitous presence of weathered plagioclase in the we investigated an outcrop of laterite soils on a remains and seems to have been highly altered and crystal structure of samples taken from the rim. road cut of PR 100, southwest Puerto Rico above deformed. ______the Bermeja Complex. We examined soils in the ______121 • Microstructural/Petrologic field, documenting their physical characteristics and 126 • Shallow Shelf Conditions in the Analysis of the San Lorenzo Batholith collecting samples. Numerous features suggest that Oligocene Ocean Indicated by the laterite weathered directly from the bedrock. and its Xenoliths Evidence includes fracture patterns cross cutting Clypeaster Concavus from the Lower BRYAN STRESSLER, CARL BENO both lithologies, as well as the abundance of mafic Lares Limestone in Northwestern FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, GEOLOGICAL materials in the soil (magnetite bands, as well as SCIENCES records of attempts to mine the soil formation), and Puerto Rico The San Lorenzo Batholith is the largest batholith in the similar textures evident, as well as the CHRISTOPHER CIERVO, JENNIFER KOHN Caribbean. This intrusion is granitic in composition observable weathering gradient of the bedrock. To FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL and contains both pegmatitic veins and mafic test this, we plan to measure mineralogical SCIENCES inclusions. This study seeks to characterize the composition and compare the chemical makeup at The Lares Limestone consists of upper Oligocene to origin of the host granitic rock in relation to the various layers of weathering by examining soil and lower Miocene age carbonate rocks that overlie the mafic xenoliths. We hypothesize that the mafic serpentine samples both in thin section and by San Sebastian Formation in northwestern Puerto xenoliths were included in the melt that eventually electron microprobe. We will measure samples Rico. The lower Lares contains high biodiversity solidified into the San Lorenzo Batholith during from the soil surface, the middle column, and the including various gastropods, corals, and emplacement in the Cretaceous. By comparison of un-weathered bedrock. Soil mineralogy, including echinoderms which are most often preserved as the chemistry and microstructure of the San clay mineralogy will be determined via x-ray internal molds, calcite replacements, or original Lorenzo to that of the xenoliths we determine any diffraction. Results will then be compared to test material. The large irregular echinoderm, Clypeaster differences in rock type and gain insight into the the degree of alteration in the soils relative to the concavus, was abundant in the lowermost Lares at origin of the inclusions. Using the SEM and the XRD serpentine, as well as the degree of chemical PR 10 km 67.1 and is indicative of warm shallow these differences are established and quantified. similarity. With this it should be possible to shelf conditions. ______Thin section analysis also allows for the understand the degree of weathering during soil determination of microstructural differences as well formation. 127 • Conodont Biostratigraphy of as mineralogical signatures of the distinct species. ______the Maplewood Formation, Silurian, ______124 • Facies Changes Indicated by 122 • Statistical Analysis of Boulder Western New York Marine Ostracode Fauna in a CHRISTOPHER WAID Height and Cosmogenic Exposure Flooding Sequence, San Sebastian FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Age of Terminal Moraines in the Formation, Oligocene, Rio Western United States Conodonts were collected from the bottom and top Guatemala, Puerto Rico of the Maplewood Formation at Densmore Creek, 25

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual near Rochester, and at Budd Road, near Lockport. fine to medium grained calcarenite containing contains a mix of carbonate and siliclastic sediment. The bottom bed is the Densmore Creek Phosphate marine fossil beds of varying thicknesses. The Tentaculitids were recovered from the Mt. Hawk Bed, and the top bed is the Budd Road Phosphate thickest exposure of the Lares occurs along road PR- and Perdrix formations in relatively offshore strata, Bed. Ozarkodina gullitensis, Panderodus 111 at kilometer 27.5 in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico. many preserved as inner molds or pyritized. Most unicostatus, Chirognathus sp., and all of the This outcrop displays an overall marine specimens are thick shelled and have annulations, elements of the Icriodella discreta apparatus were transgressive sequence containing multiple but some also possess longitudinal ribs. recovered from the Densmore Creek Phosphate parasequences. Four distinct stratigraphic layers ______Bed, and are indicative of the Icriodella discreta- within one 6-meter thick section were sampled for 132 • Offshore Deep Ocean deflecta Assemblage Zone. Icriodella discreta, foraminifera. The layers sampled include a coral Depositional Environment Indicated Ozarkodina hadra, Apsidagnathus sp., and floatstone, a biograinstone, a clam-rich Panderodus unicostatus were recorded from the biowackestone, and a second biowackestone. The by Planktic and Benthic Foraminifera Budd Road Phosphate Bed, which overlies the large foraminifera Cyclorbiculina compressa is in the Parguera Limestone, Maplewood Formation. These species are also present within the biocoral floatstone and abundant indicative of the Icriodella discreta-deflecta zone. within the clam-rich biowackestone; Cretaceous, Southwestern Puerto Icriodella discreta specimens are much less Quinqueloculina or Miliolinella is present within the Rico abundant in the Budd Road Phosphate Bed, which is biograinstone. The biowackestone that caps the JESSICA LAM, JILLIAN MCPHERSON dominated by Ozarkodina hadra and Panderodus section is composed of unidentified fossil FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL unicostatus. fragments. The abundance of miliolids suggests a SCIENCES ______shallow carbonate platform environment. Lack of The stratum of the Parguera Limestone at PR 122, 128 • Foraminifera in Near-Shore diversity in foraminifera specimens suggests a San Germán, Puerto Rico, is composed of a dark Environments, Southwestern Puerto minimal change in depositional facies. The grey bio-packstone that weathered to a light lithologies coincide with an organic reef or platform brownish-yellow. Foraminifera within the rock are Rico edge environment and an overall decrease in mainly order Rotaliina, with biserial, triserial, and CHRISTOPHER WAID, JOANNA CLARK depositional energy moving up the section. trochospiral test shapes. There are both planktic FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL ______and benthic varieties found in the collected SCIENCES 130 • Ordovician-Silurian Conodonts samples. Planktic foraminifera are found in the Sediment samples were collected from six localities from the Gobi Altai-Mandalovoo upper zones of the open ocean, and benthic in Southwest Puerto Rico in order to determine the foraminifera are considered "bottom dwellers," and variation in foraminifera populations in different Terrane, Southern Mongolia are found in a wide variety of ocean zones. These near-shore environments; a minimum of 75 ERIKA DANIELSEN have been preserved as calcite tests, some of which specimens were collected from each locality to FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL have been filled with pyrite, indicative of an anoxic ensure meaningful measurements. No foraminifera SCIENCES substrate. The limestone was deposited in a neritic specimens were recorded from samples collected The geology of southern Mongolia, composed of a setting below storm wave base in a deep shelf to from a saline mudflat or from a beach at Caba Rojo. collage of exotic terranes, is poorly understood. In slope facies. Foraminifera specimens were recorded from a the Gobi Altai-Mandalovoo Terrane, the Zalaa and ______lagoon near Caba Rojo, a muddy bay near Caba Sharchaluut formations contain Ordovician to 133 • Provenance of Beach Sand in Rojo, the carbonate platform off the coast of La Silurian strata. This boundary is marked by the Parguera, and from Phosphorescent Bay. The second largest mass extinction in the Phanerozoic. Southern Puerto Rico foraminifera from Phosphorescent Bay are The carbonate dominated Sharchaluut Formation is KRISTINA NELSON, CHRISTOPHER GAMBLE dominated by textularids, have a Shannon diversity considered to be early Silurian based on brachiopod FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL index (H) of 0.66, and a Simpson Diversity Index (D) and coral remains, while the underlying clastic SCIENCES of 1.1. The foraminifera from a lagoon near Caba dominated Zalaa Formation has been considered Beach sand, especially in short systems, is an Rojo are dominated by rotalids, have an H of 1.2 Ordovician and possibly Silurian, although little indication of provenance - the bedrock source area and a D of 0.88. The foraminifera from the shelf research has been done to define the boundary. of the sediment. Three sand samples from the sand off the coast of La Parguera are dominated by Ozarkodina, Oulodus, and Panderodus from the southern shore of Puerto Rico and a fourth from the rotalids, have an H of 1.5 and a D of 0.52. The upper Zalaa Formation are indicative of the lower Rio Grande de Loiza within the San Lorenzo foraminifera from the muddy bay near Caba Rojo Silurian. Selected for presentation at 2013 Batholith were collected to determine the sediment are dominated by miliolids, have an H of 0.85 and a Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, origin and influence of the granitic batholiths. Punta D of 0.99. Sample analysis suggests that the Denver, CO. Tuna on the southeastern shore had large specimens collected at the lagoon were transported ______quantities of quartz and shell material; Salinas on from other locations, and therefore are not 131 • Upper Devonian Tentaculitids the middle southern shore contained large quantities of magnetite and olivine; Cabo Rojo on representative of the living foraminifera population. from the Alberta Platform in the Based on both diversity index calculations and the southwestern shore contained large amounts of sample analysis, the most diverse locality was the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta quartz and shell fragments. Magnetite is an shelf, followed by the muddy bay at Caba Rojo, and and British Columbia accessory mineral component of the San Lorenzo then the Phosphorescent Bay. Batholith and a good indicator of provenance. 13% JENNIFER KOHN of the sand taken on the San Lorenzo Batholith was FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL magnetite. The sample from Cabo Rojo was found SCIENCES to contain no magnetite. The sample taken at

Upper Devonian tentaculitids were collected and Salinas had 73% magnetite. The sample from Punta ______described for the first time from the Alberta 129 • Depositional Enviornment and Tuna had 3% magnetite. The San Lorenzo Batholith Platform in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, in was a primary source of the sands from Salinas and Energy Changes Indicated by Alberta and British Columbia. Tentaculitids are small a contributor to the sand at Punta Tuna. Foraminifera, Lares Formation, marine organisms with unknown affinities - possibly ______related to phoronids - that secreted a conical 134 • The Nature, Range, and Utility Puerto Rico calcareous conch and thrived from the Ordovician DOUGLAS STEEN, KEITH LINDABURY through the Upper Devonian, going extinct shortly of Stratigraphic Distributions of FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL after the Frasnian-Famennian boundary. Morphotypes of Polygnathus SCIENCES Tentaculitids have proven useful for biostratigraphy The Lares Formation is a massive Upper Oligocene- across Europe but have not yet been described in linguiformis linguiformis (Hinde), Lower Miocene limestone unit comprised mainly of much of North America. The Alberta Platform 26

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Middle Devonian, Northern Boundary, Southeastern North are typically found in smectitic clays. Both of these clays are formed from the weathering of volcanic Appalachian Basin Carolina ash deposits, suggesting that they are volcanic in NICHOLAS HOGANCAMP PAISLEY CERRO, JESSE CRUZ, BENJAMIN FREIMAN, origin. FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL MICHAEL JOHNSON, ERIC KOLAKOWSKI, BENJAMIN ______SCIENCES MCCRACKEN, KELLY O'SHAUGHNESSY, MICHAEL 138 • Paleontological and The Hamilton Group is a package of marine shales, O'SHEA, JULIA SHEA, PETER THOMPSON, MARY silts and limestones deposited during the Middle BARROSO, THOMAS CLARK, MATTHEW HILL, Stratigraphic Analysis of Late Devonian noted as a time of evolutionary stasis for MATTHEW KEYS, ZACHARY MARTIN, JAMES Oligocene Corals of the Lares ~5 million years. The Cherry Valley Limestone, RICOTTA, CHRISTOPHER TURNER Formation, San Sebastian Centerfield Limestone, Windom Shale, and North FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL Evans Limestone in New York State, and the SCIENCES Quadrangle, Puerto Rico Hadrophyllum Bed of the Delaware Limestone in The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary is characterized SCOTT EVANS, ELIZABETH HAUSSNER Ohio were analyzed to determine if there were by a significant reduction in bivalves - including FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL detectable changes in Polygnathus linguiformis adult pelecypods - and predatory naticids in North SCIENCES linguiformis (Hinde) through this interval. America. Three sites, one in the Duplin Formation The Lares Formation represents a 25 km wide reef- Morphometric analysis supports the ranges and from the late Pliocene (3.0 Ma) and two from the dominated deposit on the northern coast of Puerto differentiation between Walliser and Bultynck early Pleistocene Waccamaw Formation (2.5-1.9 Rico during the late Oligocene. The Lares is a light (2011) γ1a and γ1b morphotypes, and proposes two Ma) of the southeastern North Carolina coastal grey limestone that contains abundant coral, new γ morphologies in New York and Ohio, the plain yielded 378 microbivalves assigned to 45 foraminifera and other marine biota. It was Cherry Valley morph, and the Centerfield morph. species. Natural Well produced 35 specimens within deposited above the San Sebastian Formation and is Each of these four morphologies exhibit unique 12 species, with a Simpson diversity coefficient (D) overlain by the Montebello Member of the Cibao ranges of occurrence throughout the Hamilton of 6.8; the most abundant genera were Formation. Outcrops of the Lares Formation have Group, and prove to have stratigraphic utility within Rhynchonella, Codakia, and Crassattellites. Register been documented between 270 and 301 meters the Hamilton Group of western New York State. Quarry, at the base of the Pleistocene, yielded 25 thick and have been interpreted to represent a Selected for presentation at Subcommision on specimens represented by 16 species, D = 7.7, shallowing upward sequence. Within this larger Devonian Stratigraphy, Morroco. dominated by Crassattellites and Codakia. Walkers sequence several repeating parasequences have ______Bluff, the youngest, contained 31 specimens within been described as progressing from calcisiltstone to 135 • The Depositional History, 17 species, D = 13.3, primarily Crassattellites and boundstone. We collected coral and other fossil Mineralogical, and Trace Fossil Chione. Faunal diversity across the Pliocene- samples from the lowermost Lares parasequence Pleistocene boundary remained constant and was from an outcrop along PR-111. Analysis of Analysis of the Montserrat succeeded by an increase in diversity above the stratigraphic and paleontological samples of Formation, Southcentral Puerto Rico boundary. In addition, boreholes in the pelecypod different layers within this parasequence indicates a NICHOLAS HOGANCAMP, AMANDA LANIK valves indicate predation by naticid gastropods. Six facies change from a quieter, further off-shore FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL valves (3.4%) were bored in Natural Well. Bored environment to a near-shore, reef dominated SCIENCES valves rose to 9.5% (nine valves) above the environment. ______The Montserrat Formation of south-central Puerto boundary in Register Quarry. Walkers Bluff Rico is an Eocene (~40 million years ago) package of contained four bored valves (3.7%). The increase in 139 • Analyzing Topography of marine sands, silts and muds interpreted to be predation of adult pelecypods above the Pliocene- Buttermilk Creek Near Western New Pleistocene boundary is also found in juvenile deposited by turbidity flows. Sediment, mineral, York Nuclear Service Center, West and trace fossil analysis were conducted on pelecypods. collected samples to determine the depositional ______Valley, NY environment at the exposures along PR 139 near 137 • Analysis of Thin Recessive JENNIFER CRAMER, JEFFREY GREEN Ponce. The strata are composed of interbedded Eocene Stratigraphic Units from FACULTY SPONSOR: RICHARD YOUNG, GEOLOGICAL sands and silt with lenticular bedding and ripple SCIENCES cross lamination. Trace fossils include Chondrites, Central and Northeastern Puerto The Western New York Nuclear Service Center Planolites, and Thalassinoides. Mineralogical Rico (WNYNSC) is located in the Buttermilk Creek analysis of the whole rock as well as the RICHARD FRIEMAN, MATTHEW THIES drainage basin in West Valley. The site contains Thalassinoides burrow fill were performed using an FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL 660,000 gallons of radioactive byproducts in X-Ray Defractometer (XRD) indicate the whole rock SCIENCES underground trenches and storage tanks. Two of is composed of calcite, albite, quartz, glauconite, Five samples of fine grained sediment were the problems on site are: 1) a radioactive and celadonite, while the burrow fill is composed collected from recessive beds within turbidite groundwater plume beneath the facility, and 2) primarily of celadonite. The presence of glauconite sequences in two locations in Puerto Rico, one from leakage from unlined trenches containing low-level and celadonite suggest a low oxygen depositional the Monserrate Formation in the south-central part waste. The trenches are located at the top of slopes setting and a proximity to weathering basaltic rocks, of the island and the other from the Fajardo susceptible to erosion. The Department of Energy the sedimentary structures indicate deposition by Formation in the northeastern part of the island. has been tasked with the maintenance and cleanup turbidity flow, and the trace fossils are all deposit Samples were analyzed using x-ray diffraction and a of the site, but without a clear plan, progress has feeding traces and are indicative of a deep marine, flocculation procedure to get a better idea of their been slow. Geologists have used fieldwork, nutrient poor, relatively dysoxic environment. All of physical and chemical properties, since fine grained topographic maps, and aerial photography to these results agree with the previous interpretation sediment is hard to properly identify in the field. X- characterize the site. Recently, detailed Light of a turbidite deposit, in close proximity to the ray diffraction--a process that measures the spacing Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data has allowed volcanic Puerto Rican island block. between layers in the crystal structure of minerals-- researchers to study the site in much greater detail. was used to identify the specific minerals that made LiDAR is a method of imaging in which lasers are beamed at the earth and bounce back to give ______up the collected samples. It was found that the samples from the Monserrate Formation contained detailed elevation information. The lasers can 136 • Increase, Followed by a quartz, albite, analcime, glauconite, diopside, penetrate tree cover producing an extremely Decrease, in Predation on montmorillonite, and illite--suggesting that it is a accurate map of the Earth's surface topography. We Microbivalves by Naticid Gastropods sample of bentonite clay. Samples from the Fajardo imported the LiDAR data into ArcGIS, a mapping Formation contained muscovite, quartz, nontronite, software, in order to better characterize the surface across the Pliocene-Pleistocene kaolinite, anatase and Fe-Tapiolite. These minerals geology of the site and to calculate stream erosion 27

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual rates. The studies will be used to determine future tectonic history. Samples were collected from a data was tabulated and used to construct a rose site management. riverbed along the Arroyo Cajul valley in Cabo Rojo diagram. The rose diagram indicates two sets of ______County, Puerto Rico at three 100 m intervals. For fractures: (1) a major set oriented about 150 140 • The San Lorenzo Batholith: each of the three rock suites, thin-sections were degrees east of north; and (2) a minor set oriented Timing of Emplacement of Pegmatite created and analyzed for chemical and mineral approximately 87 degrees east of north. These composition using a Scanning Electron Microscope fracture data were then compared to a regional Veins (SEM) and X-ray diffraction. In the field, rocks varied compilation of large sinkholes, features which are BRIANNA SOVAK, MELANIE BECK from a green phyllitic chert-like rock, to soft chlorite characteristic of karst topography. Analysis of these FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL and actinolite-rich green-schist, and lastly a harder data indicates that the orientation of large sinkhole SCIENCES green schist. Characterization of the metamorphic arrays near the outcrop are not aligned in The San Lorenzo Batholith is located in the Central facies using mineralogy and geochemistry provides orientations similar to the fractures observed at the Igneous Province of Puerto Rico, on the great constraints on the pressure and temperature outcrop. This suggests that the fractures sets Puerto Rico Fault zone. This research looks at the gradient. Our results suggest that temperature observed in the Lares formation do not control the mineralogy and petrology of the pegmatitic veins increased from rock type 1 to rock type 3. This data, formation of large scale karst features in the region. that appear through-out the San Lorenzo Batholith. in combination with data from Montgomery et al. ______From this research we will attempt to determine (1994), suggests that there is significant vertical 145 • Analysis of Metabasalts to the timing of emplacement of the pegmatitic veins displacement between each of these closely spaced Determine Origin of Protolith in reference to the granodiorite host rock. Thin outcrops. KATHERINE TRUONG, MICHAEL GUDEMA sections were made from samples collected from ______the San Lorenzo Batholith to study the mineralogy 143 • Quantifying Fracture Density FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL on a microscopic level. X-ray diffraction (XRD) was SCIENCES also done on these samples to provide additional as a Function of Distance from a An outcrop located at kilometer 7.7 off Puerto Rico information about the mineralogy of the veins vs. Brittle Fault Zone, Puerto Rico 303 is cut by a nearly vertical fault. Located within a that of the host rock. The XRD and thin section JENNIFER GEORGEK, JENNIFER CRAMER meter are a series of serpentine belts, oriented analysis gives insight into the geologic history of the FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL parallel to the fault. A meter to the north of the pegmatitic veins and the San Lorenzo Batholith. SCIENCES serpentine belts was a semicircular patch of a green ______Strain analysis of individual grains is often used to schist which we interpret to be metabasalt. A 141 • Stress Analysis of Various determine the occurrence and extent of similar exposure of fine grained rock exists in arroyo just north of PR 303. Hand sample analysis of this Rocks from Puerto Rico deformation at a ductile fault. Evidence of deformation at a brittle fault zone is present green schist metabasalt yielded both amphibole and CLAIRE HUANG, KYLIE CAESAR primarily in the form of fractures, and quantifying chlorite grains. Thin section analys using the FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL deformation at this setting is less common. In this Petrographic and Standard Electron Microscopes SCIENCES study, fracture density within a brittle fault zone in provides constraints on mineral compositions for In construction aggregates (a type of rock Southwestern Puerto Rico was analyzed in an both samples and will inform an attempt to identify particulate used for the foundation of roads and attempt to decipher a trend in the deformation the protolith of samples from each location. In buildings), the strength of the rock is crucial to resulting from a brittle fault. Five photographs of addition to the geographic proximity of both prevent differential settling under roads or the rock unit were taken at increasing distances localities, if both samples have similar composition buildings. This strength is determined by measuring from this fault. Using Adobe Illustrator, fractures and protolith then their formation may have took the applied normal stress necessary to induce within each picture were traced, and the lengths of place at the same time under the same tectonic failure. Samples of limestone, siltstone, chert, and the fractures were obtained using the computer event. granite were obtained from various locations in ______program Shape Preferred Orientation (SPO). Puerto Rico in order to test their individual strength. Fracture density was calculated by dividing the sum 146 • Comparison of the Magnetic Each of the samples were cored and trimmed to of these lengths by the areal extent of each ensure homogeneity and to avoid existing fractures. Signatures of the San Lorenzo photograph. It was concluded that fracture density, Fractures would inaccurately lower their differential Batholith and its Enclaves and therefore deformation, is greatest closest to stress because the rocks would be more prone to MARAH DAHN, THOMAS GLOSE the fault, followed by an initial steep decrease. At breakage on a previously formed plane. The FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL greater distances from the fault, fracture density samples were then placed in a rock press and the SCIENCES remains more constant. In order to more precisely applied pressure was increased, which served as The San Lorenzo Batholith, located in southeast quantify a trend in deformation additional data is normal stress, until the point of failure was Puerto Rico, is a granodiorite plutonic rock body necessary from a greater number of brittle fault observed. Results showed chert samples to with a surface outcrop area greater than 500 km2. It zones. withstand the most stress and limestone to ______also includes enclaves, volumes of rock within the withstand the least. granodiorite, that are of a similar but distinctly ______144 • An Interpretation of Regional different composition. Through paleomagnetic Karst Development from Fracture techniques - i.e. measurement of the Earth's 142 • Metamorphic Facies Change Sets in the Lares Limestone magnetic field preserved in the samples - the Along the Arroyo Cajul Valley: relationship between the host rock and the enclave Formation were examined. The host rock was found to have a Tectonic History of the Sierra JOHNNY RAMUS, JEFF GREEN magnetic signature greatly affected by chemical Bermeja Complex in Southwestern FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL weathering, rendering us unable to determine its SCIENCES origin. The enclave was found to have a strong, Puerto Rico Fracture sets observed in the Lares limestone of JENNA LESKOVEC, MEGAN PUTNAM consistent magnetic signature, indicative of the northern Puerto Rico were measured and analyzed sample acquiring the signature at the time of FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL to determine whether or not they acted as a control SCIENCES formation. The enclave had an average trend of on the formation of the regional karst topography. 210° and an average plunge of 18.2°. This is 35° The unusual Sierra Bermeja Complex in The strike of several fractures sets were southwestern Puerto Rico has a complicated clockwise of the expected value. This could be photographed and measured in the field. accredited to ductile magma deformation or tectonic history: it is significantly older and has a Photographs were superposed on each other to different composition than much of the surrounding rotation by magma flow. form a complete mosaic of the outcrop. 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______four major theories; 1. Catastrophism (17th century), which says the Earth, was formed through 147 • Strain Analysis of Folded HISTORY short and cataclysmic events; 2. Plutonism (18th Strata, Southwest Puerto Rico 149 • James Clerk Maxwell century), which says the Earth was formed over MOLLY MCEVOY, ALEC SPEARS BRIAN DWYER, GAGE BATEMAN, ISAAC SCHULTZ time through heat and pressure; 3. Neptunism (18th FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL FACULTY SPONSORS: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY, AND century), which puts forward that the land of the SCIENCES JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY Earth settled out of a prehistoric ocean; 4. Measurements of strike and dip were collected James Clerk Maxwell was born June 13th 1831 in Continental drift (19th-20th century) which explains along limbs of folded strata of carbonate rocks Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspired by his late mother's the movement of the continents. Together these located in Southwest Puerto Rico. These advice to "look up through nature, to nature's God", theories have formed the principles of modern measurements were plotted on a stereonet Maxwell went on to become arguably the most geology. Looking at these four theories is a way to program along with the poles to these planes. A prominent physicist of the 19th century. The most see how the study of the Earth has evolved from cylindrical best fit was applied to the measured noteworthy of all of his scientific achievements was geology based on biblical texts to the modern poles, which gave the fold axis. The fold axis of this his development of electromagnetic theory, which geological theories on the age of the Earth and anticline-syncline formation was found to have a he developed primarily while at King's College in Uniformitarianism. strike of 121.5° and a dip of 78.7°. This implies that London. This united a multitude of previously ______the movements which caused deformation were determined theories into one consistent theory that 152 • The Royal Society; The oriented 31.5° west of north. Photographs of the gave the world a much deeper understanding of Incorporation of Science into a site were then compiled into a mosaic, allowing the electric and magnetic fields. Maxwell accepted that bedding contacts to be outlined along the entire this required the previously accepted notion of a Religious World fold in Adobe Illustrator. The fold was then divided universal medium, which he called the REBECCA SMARCZ, ERIN MARBLE, BRIDGET JOYCE, into five regions, each increasing in distance from a "luminiferous ether". Maxwell's work inspired other CHRISTINE KIRKPATRICK fault that truncated the fold at its northern edge. physicists (most notably Michelson, Morley and FACULTY SPONSORS: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY, AND Percent shortening in each region was calculated Lorentz) to investigate the properties of this JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY and a relationship between percent shortening and luminiferous ether. The null results of Michelson The Royal Society was established in London in 1660 distance from the fault was established. It was and Morley and related experiments puzzled under the rule of Charles II. The society funded determined that the degree of deformation is physicists and challenged previously held beliefs scientific experiments and promoted public access greatest closest to the fault and decreased regarding the nature of space and time. Einstein to scientific knowledge. During this time science exponentially as distance from the fault increases, was the first to propose that the ether in fact did was clearly becoming more influential in society, which suggests that faulting and folding occurred not exist, instead developing his theory of special yet, rather than being at odds with the already simultaneously. relativity as the proper interpretation of Maxwell's social and political force, religion, the Royal Society ______results. attempted to disregard potential controversies 148 • Xenolith Fabrics of the San ______between the two. 150 • History of Blood Circulation: ______Lorenzo Formation in Southeastern 153 • Robert Boyle Puerto Rico Galen Through Harvey REBECCA SMARCZ, ERIN MARBLE, CHRISTINE PAISLEY CERRO, MICHAEL BARBER JARED BIENSTOCK, MATTHEW MCNEILL KIRKPATRICK, BRIDGET JOYCE FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL FACULTY SPONSORS: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY, AND FACULTY SPONSORS: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY, AND SCIENCES JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY The San Lorenzo batholith in southeastern Puerto This poster will explore the history behind the Robert Boyle was a founding member of the Rico is approximately 75 Ma. At more than 500 development of the theory of blood circulation in Royal Society. He performed numerous scientific km2, it is the largest granitic batholith in the the human body. This history stretches back from experiments that impacted society, including Caribbean. In this study, the preferred orientation the classical views of Galen, through the Islamic experiments with air pressure and experiments of xenoliths in the formation was to be calculated Golden Age, and concludes with William Harvey and involved with mystical happenings, all while using image analysis. Photographs of the mafic his groundbreaking description of both pulmonary maintaining a very religious background. His enclaves on a small portion of the one outcrop were and systemic circulation. For almost 1500 years experiments were driven not only by his taken in various orientations and then evaluated society followed Galenic teachings,which were a scientific inquiries but by his religious interests as using an Rf-Phi analysis implemented by the logical evolution from the teachings of Aristotle and well. program "GeoShear." Two dimensional, sectional other classical Greeks. People were skeptical about ______data taken from GeoShear were then input into an any new theories challenging Galenic thought. 154 • Nikola Tesla: The Forgotten Ellipsoid program to calculate the three dimensional Contrary to popular beliefs, the first challenges to shape preferential orientation. This information can Galenic theory came about, not from 16th century Engineer potentially be used to relate the deformation of the figures like Andreas Vesalius and Michael Servetus, VICTORIA SILLIMAN, BRITTANY LAUDA, MICHAEL batholith to the tectonic past of Puerto Rico. Our but rather by Ibn al-Nafis during the Islamic Golden KEDENBURG data show a shape preferred orientation of the Age. Harvey's accurate updates to the circulation FACULTY SPONSORS: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY, AND mafic enclaves, with the long axis aligned southeast theory incorporated the findings of these JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY to northwest following a 345.5 degree trend and a predecessors, but his work was still questioned for Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor best 26 degree, northeast plunge. The short axis has an some time after his publication of De Motu Cordis known, but often forgotten, for his design of the orientation of 200°, suggesting this granitic ("On the Motion of the Heart and Blood") in 1628. alternating current (AC) electrical power supply. batholith has experienced NE-SW directed His findings were finally given their due diligence From his humble beginnings in modern day Croatia, shortening along a plane parallel to the northern during the 19th century. Tesla rose to prominence as one of the premier and southern Puerto Rican fault zones. To fully ______engineers of the late nineteenth and early understand the implications of this relationship 151 • Age of the Earth twentieth centuries, only to die penniless and between the San Lorenzo batholith and the faulting JARED JONES, JEFF GREEN, CHRISTOPHER TURNER forgotten in 1943. Tesla immigrated to the United of Puerto Rico, a larger portion of the formation FACULTY SPONSORS: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY, AND States in 1884, to work in the laboratory of Thomas must be studied. JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY Edison, one of the leading electrical engineers of We will examine the leading theories on the the time. Often Tesla and Edison were at odds over formation of the Earth and its features, from 1650 their different designs for electrical power supply. This is the background for what became known as to 1900, in order to better understand the rise of the "War of the Currents" between electrical 29

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual engineers, Tesla and Edison, fighting for control 157 • The Education Industry culture. No matter the color, material or texture of over whose power supply design would prevail. KATHLEEN HAIG the chopsticks, the only thing that affects their With financial support from entrepreneur George FACULTY SPONSOR: TZE-KI HON, HISTORY ability to operate is their dependence on one Westinghouse, Tesla patented his AC power supply For my presentation I would like to examine the another. My research examines the economic and design and established his own laboratory effects of capitalism on the American educational industrial relationship between this pair of independent of Edison. Tesla's eccentric ideas system. Specifically, I would like to focus on the role chopsticks, and how it affects global markets. The beyond electrical supply led to his exile from the of standardized testing and the market it has found competition between the East and West of the scientific and engineering community, causing him in American education. I would separate this topic world is admired by developing countries across the to be forgotten by time. into two categories: Pearson Education (the largest world, and without the balance they have created, ______producer of standardized exams) and the No Child neither country would have reached the high level 155 • The Wadsworth Family's Left Behind Act (legislature requiring standardized of development which they currently maintain. I Homestead Papers exams). Pearson Education has recently dominated believe this kind of research will educate people of these two differing cultures and bring a better SARAH NAFIS the education market by becoming the sole provider of national school wide exams, state understanding of global unity to the world. FACULTY SPONSORS: KATHLEEN MAPES, HISTORY, ______AND ELIZABETH ARGENTIERI, MILNE LIBRARY exams, teacher certification testing, and the new In the age of email and digital media, letters and teacher performance assessments. Major 161 • A Study of Personality and other written documents are becoming a thing of stockholders in the company include legislators and Second Language Learning: Do the past. These papers are an important means of other prominent figures in the educational field, Personality Traits Motivate Us to preserving history for future generations. I am who are often trying to promote their own fortunate enough to be able to participate in the capitalistic interests. The No Child Left Behind Act of Study a Particular Language? cataloging and preservation of Wadsworth family 2001 was intended to increase standardized test COLLEEN HALBOHN documents at the Homestead. These documents scores and create responsible school districts, but FACULTY SPONSOR: WESTON KENNISON, complement other collections of the Wadsworth instead resulted in withdrawal of funding for low- LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES family papers, including the collection at Milne income neighborhoods and "failing" schools. Studies have been conducted to examine the Library. James and William Wadsworth came to the Ultimately, the No Child Left Behind Act was a major relationship between personality and proficiency in Genesee Valley in 1790 and the family has lived in failure, which resulted in lower test scores for second language (L2) learning. This study, however, Geneseo ever since. The Wadsworths have been students and decreases in school funding. hopes to look at the personality traits that may be prominent business people, politicians, and ______correlated to motivation for learning L2. Wes and I generals but above all else, they have been farmers 158 • Casino Capitalism in Macau have noticed that Latin classes in particular are and members in the local Geneseo Community. My KEVIN DYER made up of mostly introverts. We hope to see if job as an intern is reading, describing and FACULTY SPONSOR: TZE-KI HON, HISTORY personality traits (more specifically, the Big Five) inventorying letters, deeds, wills, military and legal Macau is one of the People's Republic of China's draw individuals to learning specific L2s. We would documents from the 18th and 19th centuries that two Special Administrative Regions. The also like to look at a group of students who have cover the lives of the Wadsworth family and their proliferation of casino capitalism in Macau has studied Humanities abroad in order to see if a role in history. fostered economic growth and created social background in the language itself is a sufficient ______problems. motivator to study abroad. This is one of the 156 • The Implications of Cultural ______important implications of our study of L2. This 159 • The Shocking History of poster will display the results. Significance on Rapid Economic Growth in Southeast Asia Following Capitalism MATHEMATICS THERESA BOYLE the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 FACULTY SPONSOR: TZE-KI HON, HISTORY 162 • Thermodynamic Chaos and AKANE ISHIBASHI Shock theory economics will be defined and Quasiperiodicity in Self-Repeating FACULTY SPONSOR: TZE-KI HON, HISTORY discussed, including how and why it is used, as well This presentation will focus on the economic growth as some notable examples of its use throughout the Vibrating Media of countries in SEA following the financial crisis that world. A brief history of shock theory will be JACK JENKINS affected Asia in 1997. Specifically, in South Korea, explained as well as where it might come up in the FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDRZEJ KEDZIERAWSKI, Thailand, and Indonesia, a severe mismanagement future. MATHEMATICS of finances and overseas investment with lenders Given the couplings of a discrete mechanicalmodel and borrowers led to a burst in the economic LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES and the initial conditions of its parts, it is a matter of bubble. A crash in the value of credit as well as a effort to describe the dynamics of a "small" system - weakening of currency contributed to this financial 160 • Chopsticks as a Global one with reasonably few discrete elements. crisis, during which many businesses went bankrupt Ambassador: An Allegory However,when the system is arbitrarily large, it is and the stock market lost much of its value. In the CHRISTINA LU important to take advantage of symmetries and next several years, these countries managed to FACULTY SPONSOR: JASMINE TANG, LANGUAGES regularities in the couplings that make the solution rebuild their economies by making big changes in AND LITERATURES process less computationally expensive. Exploiting how their governments and businesses dealt with Chopsticks: What are they to you? To most, powerful theorems from Linear Algebra, recursive finances. A major problem cited in the financial chopsticks are simply an eating utensil used to pick formulae for an eigen frequency polynomial with crisis was the overemphasis of SEA countries on up food, that originated in ancient China during the complex-valued roots can be determined in the case foreign investment, with developed nations, in Shang dynasty. Chopsticks might seem simple at of self-similar (fractal) or self-repeating (coordinate particular the U.S. By reducing financial reliance on first glance, however there is more significance invariant) coupling algorithms. These polynomials Western nations and building up more reserves of behind them than one might think. As ties between are interesting in their own right, since each currency, countries were able to better maintain Eastern and Western cultures continue to grow interpolates a harmonic function near the origin, their growth internally, without relying too heavily stronger through industries including trade, tourism but elsewhere (due to chaos) appears to interpolate on the West. The impressive economic growth and cultural exchanges, it is of value to look at the several phase-shifted harmonics all at once. ______stands out in how countries have learned to grow two regions as a pair of chopsticks. One chopstick self-sufficiently, a characteristic shared by many SEA cannot function on its own; it depends on its 163 • Long-Term Sustainability of countries. By examining culturally significant counterpart in order to fulfill its true function. 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FACULTY SPONSOR: GARY TOWSLEY, differential equation solving package NDSolve FACULTY SPONSOR: CHARLIE FREEMAN, PHYSICS & MATHEMATICS within Mathematica was to be used to calculate the ASTRONOMY The overarching goal of this study was to investigate motion of the stars over a large number of time Simultaneous measurements of the energy the long-term sustainability of the San Miguel steps. Plots and videos were created to show the spectrum of protons and electrons accelerated from Escobar coffee cooperative associated with the non- behavior of the cluster. Due to the inherently the rear side of thin targets illuminated with ultra- governmental organization As Green As It Gets. A chaotic behavior of several-body systems, different intense laser light have been carried out at the computer simulation determined that while coffee sets of initial conditions will result in different Multiterawatt (MTW) laser facility at the Laboratory yields are projected to increase at a positive rate results for the stability of the cluster. Sets of initial for Laser Energetics. The particles enter a Thomson over the next five years, long-term sustainability conditions were generated using two different parabola ion spectrometer consisting of a would be a challenge as a result of the timing of statistical methods. Lyapunov coefficients were permanent magnet and a pair of electrostatic coffee tree growth cycles. The focus of the study used to calculate the stability of the cluster based deflector plates. A Fujifilm imaging plate mounted was to analyze the efficacy of various strategies on the initial conditions, and the results of these at the rear of the device was used to detect the aimed at leveling major crop yield fluctuations calculations were compared to the behavior seen in protons. A thin tantalum foil was placed on top of projected by the simulation. This investigation was the simulations. the imaging plate to prevent all ions other than the conducted to aid sustainable economic ______protons from reaching the plate. Electrons, with a development for the Guatemalan coffee farmers in 167 • Determining the Age of the much smaller magnetic rigidity, are deflected the cooperative. Cluster M103 by Measuring the strongly by the Thomson parabola permanent ______magnet and exit the magnet before entering the 164 • Are Government Initiatives Photometry of its Brightest Stars electrostatic deflector plates. Another imaging plate Effective in the Fight Against PHILIP CHU, RYAN FORD, DANIEL KROLIKOWSKI placed on top of the permanent magnet was used FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS to detect these electrons. A computer program has Childhood Obesity? & ASTRONOMY been written to analyze the resulting data from the ELISE NEYERLIN We commissioned the 20-inch telescope on the roof imaging plates. This enables the proton and FACULTY SPONSOR: LISA SMITH, MATHEMATICS of the ISC to obtain photometry of the brightest electron energy spectrum to be determined What are the primary factors contributing to the stars in the young open cluster M103. This cluster simultaneously for a particular shot. Selected for rise in childhood obesity in the United States? Is the had already been studied by our group with the presentation at 54th Annual American Physical increase in rates statistically significant or just hype? WIYN 0.9m telescope at Kitt Peak in Arizona, Society Department of Plasma Physics Conference, Are the increasing number of policies and public however the very brightest stars, which are crucial Providence, RI. school physical education programs aimed at for determining the cluster age, are saturated in ______childhood obesity prevention having any effect on those images, and we were unable to obtain 170 • Characterization of Pneumatic childhood obesity rates in America? Do some accurate photometry. We observed M103 with B regions of the United States have statistically higher and V Johnson filters. Using aperture photometry Transport System rates than others? Through data collection, analysis we determined their brightness' and calibrated JACOB FALLICA, ISAAC SCHULTZ and statistical testing, I investigated these and them using other stars in the cluster. With these FACULTY SPONSOR: EDWARD POGOZELSKI, PHYSICS several other, finding both answers and more new measurements we were able to derive a new & ASTRONOMY unsolved issues. age for the cluster. An experiment was performed in order to ______characterize the performance of a pneumatic tube 165 • Calculating the Average 168 • Measurements of the transport system. The pneumatic tube system is designed to move radioactive material, contained in Without Using Math Sensitivity and Spatial Resolution of a cylindrical carrier, from a collection station to an PAMELA RONEY Radiochromic Film Using Ion Beams analysis station. To characterize the system, the FACULTY SPONSOR: YUSUF BILGIC, MATHEMATICS JUSTIN SHORTINO, COLLIN STILLMAN, MICHAEL carrier was driven by air through a 100-foot linear This research focuses on how to teach elementary SCHEPIS, KYLE CROMPTON track of PVC pipe. The air itself was moved by fans, students the concepts of mean (arithmetic average) FACULTY SPONSOR: CHARLIE FREEMAN, PHYSICS & set to push or pull. Sensors were placed along this without using any computations. I explored ASTRONOMY track, which recorded a time when triggered by the previous research and studies completed, and from Radiochromic film (RCF) is used to study protons passing carrier. This data was used to predict the air this, I discovered needs and ideas necessary to be and other ions that are accelerated from the rear speed in the pipe, the terminal speed of the carrier, successful in teaching mean to young students. I side of targets illuminated with ultra-intense laser and the Reynolds number of the flow around the then created activities based on the research that light. An experiment is underway to characterize carrier. Carrier mass was varied from .85 kg to can be implemented within an elementary the response of RCF to protons, and alpha particles roughly 3.5 kg. Data was taken with two types of classroom to teach this concept. In teaching math, of various energies using the 1.7 MV tandem fans, large (set to push or pull) and small (set only to students need experiences that emphasize Pelletron accelerator at SUNY Geneseo. A pull) in various combinations. Using three small conceptual understanding, so by teaching mean monoenergetic ion beam from the accelerator is fans, carrier speeds ranged from 8 to 16 m/s, and without using math, students can engage in incident on a thin gold foil placed in the center of a reached 90% of its terminal speed within 0.5 to 1.25 activities that are hands-on that develop the scattering chamber. A strip of RCF is positioned in a seconds. necessary understanding of mean before moving on circular arc that is centered on the gold foil. The ion ______to the computational aspect. beam strikes the gold foil, causing the RCF to be 171 • The Saturated Absorption

exposed to elastically scattered ions. The scattered PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY Spectrum and Hyperfine Splitting of ion fluence on the RCF strip varies as a function of Rubidium Atoms 166 • Gravitational N-Body the scattering angle. After removal from the chamber, the RCF is scanned using an Epson 10000 ANGELA PAOLUCCI Simulations of the Trapezium Star XL flatbed scanner and the resulting image is FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE MARCUS, PHYSICS & Cluster analyzed to determine the optical density. ASTRONOMY DANIEL GOLE ______Spectroscopy is a method used to learn more about FACULTY SPONSORS: AARON STEINHAUER AND 169 • Simultaneous Measurement of atoms, molecules and their structures. With a diode laser spectroscopy apparatus from TeachSpin, both DAVID MEISEL, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY Proton and Electron Energy Spectra The Trapezium is a cluster of stars located in the the hyperfine splitting and saturated absorption constellation Orion. The interactions of these stars Using a Thomson Parabola Ion spectrum of rubidium atoms was measured. Initially were modeled using numerical n-body simulations. Spectrometer an optical set up involving a 780 nm diode laser was The Hamiltonian formulation and the numerical assembled and used to saturate rubidium atoms in KYLE CROMPTON a vacuum, by overlapping a pump and probe beam. 31

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This set up was than used to obtain a saturated physics involved, all students completed a post- the 2H(3He, p)4He reaction by bombarding a absorption spectrum, showing the different energy assignment with follow-up questions designed to deuterated polyethylene target with 4.5 MeV 3He states of the rubidium atoms. Finally, the hyperfine test their understanding of the physics. The ions. The high-energy protons then pass through a splitting of the atoms was measured by adding a assignments were then graded and the individual Kapton window from vacuum into air where they Michelson interferometer to the optical layout. The scores were recorded. The classes that did the pre- were detected by the particle telescope. The addition of the interferometer allowed for assignment scored higher on average than the dependence of the detector response on various calibration of frequencies, and calculation of the classes that did not, although the results are not proton energies was then investigated for various hyperfine splitting. The hyperfine splitting and statistically significant. Future work will focus on detector geometries. This data was extremely useful saturated absorption spectrum help to give a better reducing the variability in instruction between the when performing the graphite activation picture of the structure of rubidium atoms. experimental and comparison groups. experiment at the Ohio University accelerator lab. ______Funded in part by a grant from the US Department

174 • X-ray Enhancement of Etch Of Energy through the Laboratory for Laser Parameters of Nuclear Tracks in Energetics. Selected for presentation at American ______Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics and 172 • Modeling the Extinction of CR-39 Lawrence Livermore National Lab's National Light from Aerosol Particles MIKE GIORDANO, KRYSTALYN SADWICK Ignition Facility's User's Group Meeting, 2013, FACULTY SPONSOR: KURT FLETCHER, PHYSICS & Livermore, CA. SARA GEARHART ASTRONOMY ______FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE MARCUS, PHYSICS & The nuclear track detector CR-39 is a polymer used 176 • Ballistic Drag Force in a Liquid ASTRONOMY to measure charged particles produced in inertial A simulation program was created in order to model confinement fusion experiments. Alpha particles Environment the extinction of light from aerosol particles due to stopping in CR-39 produce nanometer-scale damage CORY COX, AUSTIN REISS, TIMOTHY FILKINS, both scattering and absorption. Aerosol particles sites. When the CR-39 is etched in 6-N sodium MARCUS ELIA that can contribute to climate change are hydroxide at 80° C for six hours, the difference in FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & comparable in size to the wavelengths of light etch rates between the damage sites and the bulk ASTRONOMY present in the atmosphere. The scattering of material results in the formation of pits 20 to 25 The goal of this experiment was to examine the incident light from these particles is dictated by Mie microns in diameter. These can be characterized ballistic properties of a CO2 powered air rifle using a scattering, which depends on both the radius of the and counted using optical microscopy. A modest high speed video camera capable of filming at up to particle and the index of refraction relative to the increase in the pit diameter is observed when the 10,000 frames per second in order to observe the medium. However, any absorption of light by the CR-39 detector is irradiated by x-rays from a patterns of drag forces on pellets as a function of aerosol particle can change the index of refraction tungsten cathode after exposure to charged their geometry, composition and initial velocity. To and alter the scattering. Kramers-Kronig relations particles and before etching. This enhancement of magnify the effects of the drag force on the pellet, were used to calculate the amount of change in the the diameter increases as the total x-ray dose the rifle was discharged into various mediums index of refraction for a given absorption feature. increases, with enhancements of about 1.10 for which slowed the pellet to an observable velocity. This change can then be applied to a Mie scattering 1000 Gy doses. Controlled experiments show that The computer software Tracker was used to calculation, and a theoretical extinction spectrum the effect is due to the x-ray dose rather than a generate plots of the projectile's position versus the can be produced for any particle size distribution difference in the handling or the environment. The elapsed time. ______and any range of wavelengths. Measured extinction ratio of the track-etch rate to bulk-etch rate seems spectra for polystyrene beads suspended in water to be independent of x-ray dose. The mechanism 177 • Cross Section of the (n, 2n) 12 (representing aerosol particles) were fit with these for this effect is currently under investigation. These Reaction in C in the Energy Interval theoretical spectra. From these fits, particle size and results show that modest increases in pit diameters 20-30 MeV absorption information, such as the mean radius or can be obtained through irradiation with x-rays. DANAE POLSIN, MOLLIE BIENSTOCK, DREW the wavelength of peak absorption, can be Funded by a grant from the US Department Of ELLISON, MICHAEL KRIEGER, MEGAN RUSS, extracted and used to better understand the optical Energy and LLE. Selected for presentation at ANGELA SIMONE, COLLIN STILLMAN properties of aerosols. American Physical Society Division of Plasma ______FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & Physics, Providence, RI. 173 • Improving Student ______ASTRONOMY The behavior of the (n, 2n) reaction in 12C and other Understanding with Interactive 175 • In Situ Calibration of a Proton light nuclei is known with much less certainty than Lecture Demonstration Methods Particle Telescope Using the SUNY for heavy nuclei. The published cross section data MIKE EISINGER, OLIVIA KAPLAN, CHRISTOPHER Geneseo 1.7 MV Tandem Pelletron for the 12C(n, 2n)11C reaction is bifurcated in the WEILBACHER energy range of 20-30 MeV. An experiment to FACULTY SPONSOR: KURT FLETCHER, PHYSICS & Accelerator measure the 12C(n, 2n)11C cross section for these ASTRONOMY COLLIN STILLMAN, DREW ELLISON neutron energies has been performed using the How can in-class physics demonstrations be made FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & Ohio University Tandem Accelerator. Deuterons more effective? According to previous research, ASTRONOMY from the accelerator struck a tritium foil releasing 3 2 4 student learning can be enhanced if the students Neutrons produced via the H( H,n) He reaction at neutrons via the T(d, n)4He reaction. Deuteron are required to make a written prediction of the the Ohio University Accelerator Lab were used to bombarding energies between 3.3-8.7 MeV resulted 12 11 outcome of the demonstration and discuss that activate a graphite sample via the C(n,2n) C in neutrons with energies between 20-26 MeV. The prediction before observing the demonstration. reaction in an attempt to measure the (n,2n) geometry of the experiment was chosen so that the Eight physics classes were selected from area high reaction cross section. Before striking the graphite, incident neutron energy would not vary by more schools for the experiment. In all cases, the physical the neutrons struck a thin polyethylene foil and than 0.5 MeV across the graphite target. After demonstration was first described by an instructor. elastically scattered protons in to a surface barrier neutron bombardment, the decay of the 11C nuclei Four classes were given a short written pre- detector telescope. The recoiling protons were used by positron emission was measured with an array of assignment to complete before the actual to determine the energy and number of neutrons NaI detectors to determine the activity of the 12 demonstration. They recorded their individual which struck the C activation sample. To verify carbon sample. The neutron fluence through the predictions, discussed them in a small group, and that the particle telescope's predicted response carbon was measured using a particle telescope to then recorded a group prediction. The other four function for 15 to 27 MeV protons was correct, a detect protons from the 1H(n, p) reaction in a classes did not do the pre-assignment, and instead calibration of the detector telescope was performed polyethylene target, allowing the absolute cross proceeded directly to the demonstration. After in air on the SUNY Geneseo tandem Pelletron section for the 12C(n, 2n)11C reaction to be observing the demonstration and discussing the accelerator. High energy protons were created via determined. Funded in part by a grant from the DOE 32

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual through the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. 2013, Newport Beach, CA and Lawrence Livermore factors, and social physique anxiety. Findings will be Selected for presentation at American Physical National Laboratory, Livermore, CA. presented on the influence of these psychosocial Society Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting, ______characteristics on participants' activity decision- Newport Beach, CA. 180 • Design and Characterization of making and future exercise intentions. ______a Collimated Neutron Beam User ______178 • Equine Gait Analysis with 182 • Assertive and Affiliative Facility at SUNY Geneseo PEGASYS MICHAEL KRIEGER, MEGAN RUSS, DANAE POLSIN, Language in 7-Year-Olds' Interactions MARINA MASSARO, JARROD LAFOUNTAIN, MARIE DREW ELLISON, MOLLIE BIENSTOCK, ANGELA with Siblings and Friends KALET, SAVANAH RUSS, DAN MOORE, JACK SIMONE, HOLLY DESMITT GABRIELLE TIEDE, DEVIN MCGUEY, OLIVIA JENKINS FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & DERELLA, DANIEL VOLK, MEGAN MCLAFFERTY, FACULTY SPONSORS: STEPHEN PADALINO AND ED ASTRONOMY LAUREN AULET POGOZELSKI, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY The Collimated Neutron Beam (CNB) Facility at FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY The diagnostic force plate system, PEGASYS SUNY Geneseo provides users an opportunity to As part of a longitudinal study, we examined seven- ("Portable Equine Gait Analysis SYStem"), is a 3-axis perform neutron experiments that require a low year-olds' use of assertive, or goal-oriented, and equine force plate developed to measure the hoof- neutron background. Neutrons with energies up to affiliative, or socially-interactive, language during ground reaction forces produced by an equine 10 MeV are produced by a Plutonium-Beryllium (Pu- sibling and friend interactions. Our results suggest subject as it strides over it. The system is composed Be) source and are collimated to form a well that specific gender-related patterns in assertive of a stainless steel plate, encased in a rectangular characterized beam. A six foot high, 18 inch thick and affiliative language use are influenced by age aluminum housing containing 10 piezoelectric force shielding wall made of water-bricks was built to and partner. Seven-year-olds were videotaped sensors. These sensors are capable of measuring reduce neutron background in the target area. during free play sessions with a sibling and a friend. forces up to 1,000 lbs in the vertical, forward, and Neutron and gamma radiation were extensively Videotapes were transcribed and coded for lateral directions. Through additional analysis, hoof mapped throughout the facility using a calibrated assertive and affiliative utterances. Assertive and torque, impulse, center of force, resultant force Bonner sphere, Geiger counter, plastic scintillator affiliative utterances, either positive or negative, magnitudes, and angles of impact are calculated. A and an HPGe detector. Potential uses for the CNB were further coded as mitigated or unmitigated; healthy horse and an injured horse distribute their include neutron activation, time-of-flight, mitigated utterances were those that softened the weight across their legs differently; those attenuation and neutron detector calibration impact of the utterance. Some aspects of past differences are what the force plate aims to experiments. A detailed description and layout of research results were supported. At age seven, boys quantify. After establishing a healthy gait pattern, the facility will be displayed on the poster. Funded used more assertive language than girls; however, any deviations from the normal are evaluated and in part by a grant from the DOE through the this was only found to be true when interacting suggest evidence of an injury, sometimes even Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Selected for with peers. In sibling dyads, boys and girls used the before there are visible signs. The data acquired by presentation at American Physical Society's same amount of assertive language. Further, target the force plate system will be useful to equestrians Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting, 2012, children used more negative and positive mitigated and veterinarians in determining lameness and Newport Beach, CA and Lawrence Livermore assertive language with friends than with siblings. evaluating an animal's progress through medical National Lab's National Ignition Facility's User's This trend was also marginally significant for treatment and recovery. Group Meeting, 2013, Livermore, CA. positive assertive language. Our results support past ______research indicating that boys use more assertive 179 • Coincidence Efficiency language with peers than do girls. Target children, 11 11 PSYCHOLOGY Measurement Using B(p,n) C 181 • Psychosocial Determinants of regardless of gender, used more mitigated language MEGAN RUSS, MOLLIE BIENSTOCK, ANGELA in general with friends than siblings. Selected for SIMONE, DANAE POLSIN, COLLIN STILLMAN, KYLE Activity Decision-Making Among presentation at Society for Research in Child CROMPTON, DREW ELLISON, MICHAEL KRIEGER Sedentary College Students Development Biennial Conference, Seattle, WA. ______FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & AMELIA TRAINOR ASTRONOMY FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS RAYNOR, 183 • Conflict in Latino Immigrant 12 11 An attempt to measure the C(n,2n) C cross PSYCHOLOGY and Anglo Children's Sibling section for high energy neutrons in the range of 20- Most Americans do not engage in sufficient physical Interactions 30 MeV was conducted using Ohio University's activity (PA) to prevent chronic disease risk. The KARINA MORALES, CECIBEL MONTALBAN, SANNY accelerator facility as a fast neutron source. The young adult population is particularly important PERALTA, CARLY MENDOZA neutrons were incident on a graphite target and the because individuals who fail to adopt a physically FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY β+ decay of the activated carbon-11 nuclei were active lifestyle during this critical developmental Research conducted on Latino immigrant children's observed in an on-axis gamma ray detector pair. To stage may be less likely to do so in the future. family relationships has focused on parent-child pre-determine the efficiency of this gamma ray According to the displacement hypothesis, screen- relationships, with little attention to sibling detector system, a boron-11 activation experiment based sedentary behavior is substituted for time relationships. In limited existing research, Latino was performed. Using SUNY Geneseo's 1.7 MV spent being physically active. Therefore, the goal of parents have been found to encourage greater child tandem pelletron accelerator, 3.1 MeV protons the present study is to examine psychosocial factors 11 responsibility for siblings than is commonly found in were incident upon the B foil inducing the influencing sedentary college students' choice to 11 11 Anglo-American families. In a previous study, our B(p,n) C reaction to occur at a high rate of engage in PA during their discretionary leisure time. 11 research group found lower rates of aggression for activation. The C decays via β+ emission, then Participants were 90 healthy undergraduate Latino immigrant siblings than for a comparison upon annihilation with an electron creates students who did not meet PA recommendations group of Anglo siblings. To continue our exploration characteristic 511-511 keV photon pairs which were and were regularly engaged in screen-based of Latino immigrant children's sibling relationships, counted using coincidence methods. Since the sedentary behavior. Participants attended two 11 we examined conflicts during sibling interactions in B(p,n) cross section is well defined, a calculation individual 45-minute sessions during which they had semi-structured play situations. Overall, Latino was performed to determine the expected number access to a range of activities typically available for sibling pairs had fewer and shorter conflicts than of activations and later compared to the total college students. During the second session, Anglo pairs. Latino and Anglo sibling pairs were number of decays observed in the counting system. participants could engage in any of the available equally likely to argue about objects, but Latino Funded in part by a grant from the US Department physically active or sedentary options during a 25- siblings' conflicts were more likely to center on Of Energy through the Laboratory for Laser minute free-choice period. Time spent engaging in plans for play and less likely to involve objecting to Energetics. Selected for presentation at American the activities was observed and recorded by sibling behavior or arguing about ideas or facts. Physical Society's Annual Meeting of the Division experimenters. Self-report measures included Anglo siblings were more likely to use direct of Nuclear Physics 2012, NIF User's Group Meeting achievement goal orientation, Big Five personality 33

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual strategies for ending conflicts, whereas Latino harmony. Friend semi-engagement was negatively that are either high or low in affiliative tendencies. siblings were more likely to use indirect strategies. correlated with assessments of asymmetry and We also measured participants' materialism levels. Gender composition of sibling dyads mattered more conflict. Sibling unengagement was positively Results indicated that when participants were than ethnicity in some cases; conflicts of Latino and correlated with mothers' assessments of reminded of money within a high affiliation Anglo older sister/younger brother dyads looked relationship conflict, and negatively correlated with situation, low materialists were more affiliative than remarkably similar, and Latino older sister/younger sibling asymmetry, intimacy, and harmony. Friend high materialists. brother pairs had higher rates of conflict than other unengagement was negatively correlated with ______Latino sibling dyads. Selected for presentation at sibling symmetry and intimacy. These results 189 • The Effects of Victim Gender Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, illustrate a significant relationship between social and Group Status on Bystander WA. engagement and relationship qualities. Siblings with ______positive relationships are likely to have better social Responses to a Potential Party Rape 184 • Sibling and Peer Aggression skills and are therefore more engaged. Onlooker LIANE COLANGELO from Early Childhood Through behavior is appropriate at this age as younger FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY siblings watch their older siblings, revealing a The present research examined whether group size Adolescence healthy relationship. More conflict is likely to occur affects bystander responses to a potential party MARYSABEL GOMEZ, ASHA UNNI, KATHLEEN in siblings who are more unengaged. Selected for rape involving either a male or female victim. TALBOT, DARIA SEIFERT, CARMELA TAYLOR, presentation at Association of Psychological Undergraduates (N = 178) were randomly assigned KATHRYN LEINUNG Sciences, Washington, DC. to read one of four scenarios in which they attend a FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY ______party (either alone or with three friends) and watch As part of an ongoing longitudinal study, we 186 • The Effectiveness of a a sober man lead an intoxicated potential victim conducted an exploratory analysis of verbal, into a bedroom. Results showed that lone physical, and relational aggression during sibling Sexualized Pro-Environmental Public bystanders were more likely to offer help than and peer interactions. Aggression is defined as a Service Announcement bystanders in groups. Bystanders also were more behavior to intentionally hurt or bother the partner. JIM ALLEN, MATTHEW COUCH, SARA TONTARSKI, likely to offer help to a female victim than a male Verbal aggression is characterized by the use of ASHLEY ANDERSON, JOANNA CASTROGIVANNI, victim, especially when in groups. These differences verbal utterances. Physical aggression is observed JOANNA OSTROOT, ALLISON CROPSEY, MELISSA in help offered could not be explained by through physical acts or threats and relational VETRANO, SHANNON SWIATEK, MING SHAN ZHU differences in risk identification; participants were aggression is defined by damaging or threatening to FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY just as likely to identify risk for sexual assault when damage a relationship. We looked at groups of This research investigated the effectiveness of an they were in a group and when the victim was male. siblings and peers from 30 different families at ages eroticized pro-environmental message. Erotic and Results suggest that the classic bystander effect 4, 7 and 17. They were recorded performing a series control Public Service Announcements, modeled on inhibits bystander helping behavior but not risk of tasks. Videotapes were transcribed, and efforts of environmental groups, were compared. identification when men are at risk for assault. transcripts were coded for the presence of Consistent with findings from the consumer Because situational influences affect bystander relational, verbal, and physical aggression; episodes products marketing literature, results indicated that behavior, bystander education may not be sufficient of aggression were further coded for duration, eroticization decreased energy conservation to promote campus safety. To the degree possible, affective intensity, and interactional context. Our intentions if eroticization was not linked to the ad bystander education might focus on enhancing research focuses on the rates of physical, verbal and message. Selected for presentation at Association feelings of personal accountability, even in group relational aggression. Our results indicate that with for Psychological Science, Washington, DC. situations and even when men are at risk for same- relational and physical aggression, children at age 4, ______sex assault. regardless of gender, had higher rates of aggression 187 • The Effect of an Eroticized Pro- ______towards their siblings than towards their friends, Environmental Message: A Test of 190 • Social Self-Identification and which then declined through ages 7 and 17. When Responses to Sexual Assault comparing gender overall, girls engaged in more the Oily Cassandara Peak Oil Video relational aggression than boys. Selected for SARA TONTARSKI, MATTHEW COUCH, JOANNA Prevention Posters presentation at Society for Research in Child CASTROGIVANNI, ASHLEY ANDERSON, MING SHAN RACHEL OLIN Development, Seattle, WA. ZHU, JOANNA OSTROOT, MELISSA VETRANO, FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY ______SHANNON SWIATEK Media campaigns are a method for preventing 185 • Social Engagement and FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY campus sexual assault, but research is needed to A popular video on the internet depicts an identify effective prevention messages. The Know Relationship Quality in Preschoolers' attractive and provocatively dressed young woman Your Power posters depict students responding Sibling and Friend Interactions who dances seductively while speaking about the proactively to risky situations. Exposure to these SARA HIRSCH, WHITNEY SALAMONE, CHEYENNE dangers of oil supply shortages. This study tested bystander posters may encourage prosocial HIGGINS, JOANNA SANTOS, LAUREN WEISBERG the effectiveness of this video. Specifically, do attitudes and behaviors, especially among students FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY sexually suggestive videos such as this promote perceiving poster content as self-relevant. Certain The goal of this study was to assess how sibling and more positive attitudes toward environmentalism? types of posters may foster social self-identification peer social engagement is related to qualitative Participants were randomly assigned to view either more than others. Students may be more likely to aspects of their relationships. We videotaped 64 4- a control or a sexualized video in which an identify with Know Your Power posters than Don't year-old children with siblings and friends during attractive young woman advocated on behalf of the Be THAT Guy provocative posters featuring graphic 15-minute free-play sessions. Videotapes were environment. images of risky situations. This study assessed coded for social engagement using six interaction ______students' social self-identification and willingness to categories (Cooperative, Associative, Parallel, and 188 • Money Affects Social help after exposure to either bystander or Solitary Play, Onlooker, and Unoccupied). Mothers Affiliation provocative posters. Students (N = 69; 58% men) completed questionnaires to assess asymmetry, responded to self-report measures of exposure to SARA TONTARSKI, MATTHEW COUCH, ASHLEY intimacy, harmony and conflict in their children's posters, social self-identification with poster ANDERSON, JOANNA CASTROGIVANNI, MELISSA relationships. Sibling engagement was negatively content, and willingness to help. Although VETRANO, JOANNA OSTROOT, MING SHAN ZHU, correlated with mothers' assessment of sibling provocative posters were more likely to be noticed, ALLISON CROPSEY, SHANNON SWIATEK conflict. Friend engagement was positively exposure to provocative posters was unrelated to FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY correlated with positive relationship indicators. willingness to help. Students identified more with Recent research indicates that money primes lower Sibling semi-engagement was positively correlated bystander posters. Students who saw and identified affiliation motivation. This study investigated the with mothers' assessments of asymmetry and with bystander posters reported greater willingness money prime/affiliation relation in social situations 34

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual to help. Overall, results suggest bystander posters the adolescents who most frequently used self- that callous-unemotional traits are associated with encourage bystander intervention and students presentation strategies overall were more likely to prior experiences of bullying victimization and personally identify with bystander-themed content. decrease in self-esteem. Together these findings perpetration. In addition, we examine whether Such posters visibly communicate prosocial suggest that hiding academic achievement and callous-unemotional traits and previous bullying messages encouraging helping behaviors that may effort from peers may be effective strategies for experiences are associated with hazing perpetration help reduce incidents of sexual assault, improving improving one's social standing, but that the social and victimization in college. We hypothesize that a campus climate. Selected for presentation at benefits associated with presenting a false self to combination of victimization experiences and Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies peers may come at a cost to one's self-esteem. callous-unemotional traits are associated with poor (ABCT), Nashville, TN. Selected for presentation at Association for mental health. The data-collected from self-report ______Psychological Science , Washington, DC. questionnaires-reveal that callous-unemotional 191 • Predicting Bystander Response ______traits are positively associated with prior bullying to a Potential Party Rape: Who is 193 • The Effectiveness of Coping perpetration, and that the combination of these Flexibility in Managing Daily traits and bullying experiences are negatively Helped, and Under What Conditions? associated with mental health. However, callous- SAM COLBERT Stressors unemotional traits are not associated with hazing FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY MARY BETH PANDOLFINO, EVAN ROONEY, experiences, and prior bullying perpetration is Increasingly, college campuses offer bystander JENNIFER PARR, JULE DEREN, EMILY BOLAN, inversely associated with current hazing education to encourage students to help prevent ALEXIS BRIEANT experiences. Selected for presentation at 25th rape. This study examined situational factors (group FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, PSYCHOLOGY Annual Association for Psychological Sciences size, victim sex, and victim sexuality) expected to The current study examines how people cope with Convention, Washington, DC. affect willingness to help potential victims. Due to daily stressors. The goal is to determine whether ______the "bystander effect," bystanders in groups may be coping flexibility is associated with effective 195 • Defensive Self-Esteem and less likely than lone bystanders to help someone at management of daily hassles and contributes to risk. In addition, bystanders may be less willing to individual well-being. Coping flexibility represents Narcissism as Predictors of College help men than women at risk; men are expected to an individual's ability to assess a situation and Students' Reactions to Threat be self-sufficient and less in need of help. deploy appropriate coping strategies (Cheng, 2001). ANDREW CHRISTY, LAURA O'BRIEN, GENEVIEVE Furthermore, because sexual assaults are often The current study examines coping with daily MARTIN, RACHEL BOWEN, NICOLE JELONEK minimized as "just sex," men at risk for male- hassles in a sample of 78 undergraduate students. FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA SCHNEIDER, perpetrated rape may be perceived as gay and may Participants were asked to identify and rank-order PSYCHOLOGY be less likely to receive help than other potential five stressors for that particular day. Participants' Recent research in self-esteem has distinguished victims. Undergraduates (N = 178) were randomly usage of various coping styles, their flexibility in between secure and defensive self-esteem types. assigned to read one of four party rape scenarios in coping with daily hassles, and their effectiveness in Compared to secure individuals, those with an experimental analogue design. Participants achieving coping goals are assessed. Results from defensive self-esteem exhibit greater sensitivity to imagined attending a party (either alone or with the study reveal significant correlations among threat, and are more likely to respond to threats three friends) in which they see a sober man lead an coping flexibility, coping styles, and effectiveness of with avoidant strategies such as suppression of intoxicated (male or female) potential victim into a coping. Specifically, coping flexibility is positively threatening thoughts and self-handicapping bedroom. Perceived victim sexual orientation and correlated with effectiveness. Additionally, flexible behavior. Given that these subtypes of self-esteem attempt to help were assessed. Bystanders were coping is associated with increased use of problem- predict differential use of coping strategies, it is less likely to help male victims perceived to be gay focused coping styles. Finally, participants who reasonable to speculate that coping strategies may than all other victims. Results suggest the need for employ avoidant coping are significantly less mediate the relationship between defensive and explicitly inclusive rape prevention education on effective in meeting their goals than those who use secure subtypes and more distal outcomes. To college campuses. Selected for presentation at problem-focused coping. These results demonstrate address these issues, we conducted a study that Morgan State Intersections Symposium, Baltimore, the value of a novel and multi- layered assessment assessed students' self-esteem, defensive self- MD. of coping with daily hassles. The data highlight the esteem, level of narcissism, the coping strategies ______importance of problem-focused and flexible coping. they use when facing various threatening academic 192 • Presenting a False Academic Given the efficacy of these coping styles, it is and social situations at college, and their college Self: Effects on Adolescent expected that they will be associated with better adjustment. In addition, we asked students to bring mental health outcomes. Selected for presentation a friend (who attends SUNY Geneseo and knows Popularity and Self-Esteem at Association for Psychological Science, them well) to the session. The friend was asked to KEVIN CLEARY, PETER KEARNS, STACI WEISS Washington DC. complete a survey about the participant who FACULTY SPONSOR: JOAN ZOOK, PSYCHOLOGY ______brought him/her to the session. Self-esteem and In this longitudinal study, we investigated early 194 • Associations Among Callous- overt narcissism predicted positive coping strategies adolescents' (N = 101) use of a variety of self- Unemotional Traits, Bullying, Hazing, and adjustment; covert narcissism predicted lower presentation strategies to manage how peers self-esteem, increased threat, negative coping perceive them academically. We were interested in and Well-Being strategies, and lower adjustment. Students' overt the effects of these strategies on participants' NETTA ADMONI, BRIGID HEENAN, LESLIE SHELTON and covert narcissism were not linked. Friends' popularity and self-esteem. Data was collected FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, PSYCHOLOGY perceptions of students mirrored students' self- twice, initially from sixth-and eighth-grade students, The purpose of this study is to examine the role of reports regarding self-esteem, overt narcissism, and and again from the same students one year later. At previous victimization on the development of threat perceptions, but not covert narcissism. both times, participants rated how often they used callous-unemotional traits and future victimizing Selected for presentation at Association for 16 academic self-presentation strategies (e.g., "try behaviors. Callous-unemotional traits are Psychological Science 25th Annual Convention, to hide a poor test score," "avoid doing homework characterized by an absence of guilt, constricted Washington, DC. at school") around popular peers and completed a displays of emotion, lack of empathy, disregard for ______self-esteem scale. Popularity was assessed by asking others, and a callous use of others for one's own 196 • Prenatal Exposure to the peers to nominate three popular classmates and gain, and may be a precursor to future summing the nominations. Hierarchical regression psychopathology (Frick & Viding, 2009). This study Brominated Flame Retardant analyses indicated that adolescents who initially assesses the presence of callous-unemotional traits, Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) used self-presentation strategies that involved previous bullying victimization and perpetration, Produces Long-term Reductions in claiming to get a lower grade or claiming to study current hazing victimization and perpetration, and a less had higher popularity one year later. However, variety of mental health variables. We hypothesize 35

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Measures of Response Inhibition in and Measures of Strength and Motor FACULTY SPONSOR: ELAINE CLEETON, SOCIOLOGY Through December 2011 and January 2012, I Rats Control traveled to Vietnam to investigate the healthcare PATRICK MILLER-RHODES, CALLIE GOEKE, RANDY CHEUNG, TARA PHILLIPS, GIDEON COHEN, system and its implementation within Vietnamese SAMANTHA HOCHHEIMER, VINCENT PECORARO MING SHAN ZHU, LARRY BELLOMO society. Despite my expectations of supportive FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, institutions, some of the institutions I tried to work PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY with were unwilling to cooperate and restricted me Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) is a brominated Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are from conducting research in their facilities. Despite chemical used as a flame retardant in many ubiquitous environmental toxicants that are added constant opposition from Ben Tre's established commercial and residential construction materials. as flame retardants to a variety of products, chiefs, I researched patients and their experiences Although HBCD and its metabolites are widely including plastics and foam. They have been shown in different medical practices. This study shows the distributed in the environment, little is known about to bioaccumulate in fatty tissues in numerous different perspectives on medicinal practices of their health effects following exposure. This study terrestrial and aquatic species. DecaBDE is the most people who reside in both rural and urban areas of was undertaken to determine if prenatal exposure abundant congener found in house dust in the U.S. Ben Tre, Vietnam. to HBCD can produce developmental neurotoxicity. and continues to be used worldwide, despite ______Pregnant rats were administered a daily oral dose of accumulating evidence that developmental 212 • Analysis of the Relationship 0, 3, 10, or 30 mg/kg HBCD throughout gestation. exposure impairs thyroid function. The objective of Offspring bodyweights and other measurements the present study was to determine if Between the Geneseo Student Body were examined during the lactation period for developmental decaBDE exposure impairs grip and Patrolling Police Forces evidence of developmental delay. A behavioral strength and motor coordination due to underlying SOCIOLOGY CLUB observation battery was used to detect effects on skeletal development. C57BL/6 mice FACULTY SPONSOR: WILLIAM LOFQUIST, sensorimotor deficits. After offspring reached were bred and their offspring were exposed to 0 or SOCIOLOGY adulthood, their learning and attention behaviors 20 mg/kg/day decaBDE from postnatal day (PND) 1- The Sociology Club looks at the relationship were assessed with random ratio and go/no go 21. Calvarial bone was collected on PND5-7 for between the SUNY Geneseo student body and the operant schedules of reinforcement. A second osteoblast culture. Grip strength was measured on various police forces that patrol the campus and group of offspring were assessed in senescence with PND15, 17, 19, 21, at puberty onset, and in village through the use of collected surveys and the same procedures to gauge latent toxicity. adulthood. Tibias were collected on PND22 for individual interviews. The Sociology Club aimed to Prenatal exposure to HBCD had no effects on early microCT analysis. Exposed animals showed a characterize the relationship by looking at the growth and developmental milestones although it reduction of osteogenic progenitor cells. Grip number as well as type of interactions had by did lengthen the gestation period. However in strength was impaired at multiple ages in the students with the police. In order to do so we adulthood, exposed animals in both age groups exposed males but not the females. MicroCT analyzed whether any particular subsets of the showed a reduction of response inhibition, an effect indicated that exposed males had reduced cell Geneseo student body (such as Residence that significantly impaired their performance in the counts and increased trabecular spacing on PND22. Assistants or those involved with Greek go/no go procedure. Impaired response inhibition is These findings suggest that young males may be organizations) had higher incidence rates, and a key component of impulsivity, a clinical symptom more sensitive than females to the developmental looked to understand what was the cause of these of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. effects of decaBDE. occurrences. This study was built directly out of ______student concerns with over-policing of the Geneseo 197 • Developmental Exposure to SOCIOLOGY community and hopes to serve as a resource that the Flame Retardant DecaBDE 211 • Comparative Study of may improve the relationship between students and the police who serve the community. Impairs Osteogenesis, Body Growth, Medicinal Practices in Vietnam AMY TRAN

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THEATRE & DANCE 213 • A Dramaturgical Study of Parade and the Life of Leo Frank KIMBERLY OLSEN FACULTY SPONSOR: RANDY KAPLAN, THEATRE & DANCE An abridged version of the informational exhibit displayed in conjunction with the Fall 2012 Main Stage Musical, "Parade" (book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown). The intent of the exhibit was to contextualize the production and provide a historical background about the lynching of Leo Frank.

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SESSION 1 CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS 9:40 – 10:55 AM SESSION 2 CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS ______11:05 – 12:20 PM 1A • ACCESS OPPORTUNITY PROGRAMS MILNE 105 ______Rights versus Reality: Girls and Education Around the World 2A • ANTHROPOLOGY STURGES 106 ______1B • ANTHROPOLOGY moved to 4Y 2B • ART HISTORY WELLES 115 ______Theory to Practice: The 2nd Annual Museum Studies Symposium 1C • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS WELLES 24 ______2C • BIOLOGY KNIGHTSPOT 1D • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY I WELLES 121 ______Healthcare Disparities Monologues 1E • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY II WELLES 123 ______2D • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS WELLES 24 1F • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY III WELLES 119 ______2E • COMPUTER SCIENCE SOUTH 235 1G • ENGLISH WELLES 115 ______2F • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY IV WELLES 121 Interdisciplinary Connections to Humanities II in Concord ______2G • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY V WELLES 123 1H • ENGLISH WELLES 131 ______Words, Words, Words: History of the English Language I 2H • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY VI WELLES 119 ______1I • ENGLISH WELLES 138 2I • ENGLISH, Humanities: The Soundtrack WELLES 128 ______1J • GEOGRAPHY STURGES 104 2J • ENGLISH BLACK BOX THEATRE ______1K • GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES, HONORS DEFENSE ISC 115 Student Directed Productions in Theatre and Musical Theatre ______1L • HISTORY STURGES 112 2K • ENGLISH WELLES 133 Perspectives on Culture and Capitalism Virtue or Desire? Medieval and Renaissance Literature ______1M • HISTORY History Honors Theses STURGES 109 2L • ENGLISH WELLES 131 ______Words, Words, Words: The History of the English Language II 1N • MATHEMATICS Math Miscellany I SOUTH 338 ______2M • OFFICE OF THE PROVOST SOUTH 328 1O • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 336 Geneseo Ambassadors ______1P • MILNE LIBRARY SOUTH 235 2N • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SOUTH 244 Geneseo Storytelling Institute Panel of Tellers Haiti and Nicaragua ______1Q • PHILOSOPHY STURGES 114 2O • HISTORY Augustine and the Problem of Evil US Corporations and Global Capitalism STURGES 104 ______1R • SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SOUTH 340 2P • HISTORY MILNE 109 Research in the Real World Wal-Mart: A Case Study of the 21st Century Retailer ______1S • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SOUTH 328 2Q • MATHEMATICS Math Miscellany II SOUTH 338 Keeping Kids in School Year 7 ______2R • SCHOOL OF BUSINESS WELLES 26 1T • SOCIOLOGY WELLES 133 ______Learning While Doing Good: Service Learning and Sustainable 2S • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SOUTH 340 Development in Nicaragua and Uganda Pre-service and Graduate Education Students' Research on Literacy ______1U • SOCIOLOGY STURGES 108 2T • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION NEWTON 204 Common American Beliefs about China Geneseo LIVES Program ______1V • CENTER FOR COMMUNITY WELLES 26 2U • SOCIOLOGY STURGES 108 Student and Campus Life US Health Care in Transition ______2V • SOCIOLOGY MOVED TO 3W ______

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SESSION 3 CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS SESSION 4 CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS 2:55 – 4:10 PM 4:20 – 5:35 PM ______3A • ANTHROPOLOGY Anthropoplgy 1 STURGES 106 4A • ANTHROPOLOGY STURGES 106 ______3B • ANTHROPOLOGY Anthropology 2 STURGES 109 4B • BIOLOGY MILNE 105 ______3C • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY VII WELLES 121 4C • BIOLOGY Honors Thesis in Biology WELLES 26 ______3D • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY VIII WELLES 123 4D • CHEMISTRY ISC 115 ______3E • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY IX WELLES 119 4E • ENGLISH WELLES 133 ______Grace and Deceit in Ancient Texts 3F • ENGLISH WELLES 133 ______The Bible Begets Literature: Biblical Influences on Literary Texts 4F • ENGLISH Screening Othello WELLES 134 ______3G • ENGLISH Voices from ENG 201 WELLES 131 4G • ENGLISH WELLES 131 ______3H • GEOGRAPHY STURGES 108 4H • GEOGRAPHY STURGES 108 ______3I • INTERDISCIPLINARY Health Care WELLES 128 4I • MOVED ______3J • HISTORY Capitalism and the European Union STURGES 104 4J • HISTORY STURGES 104 ______Terror, Territory, and Technology 3K • HISTORY STURGES 112 ______4K • HISTORY STURGES 112 3L • INTERDISCIPLINARY Pot Pourrie ISC 115 ______4L • LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES WELLES 121 3M • INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM MILNE 105 Literary, Scientific, and Cultural Studies: Spain and Latin America Speech Buddies Go Dutch - and Other Languages ______4M • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 338 3N • LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES STURGES AUDITORIUM Math tricks for simplifying music, magic, games, and randomness. En un dos por tres: Three One-Act Comedies ______4N • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 328 3O • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 338 ______Mathematical problem solving. 4O • PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY ISC 131 ______3P • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 328 4P • POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______International Relations Honors Theses WELLES 24 3Q • POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______Research on American and Russian Politics WELLES 24 4Q • SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SOUTH 233 ______3R • SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Fed Challenge SOUTH 340 4R • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SOUTH 340 ______3S • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SOUTH 233 4S • SOCIOLOGY MILNE 109 Join the Adventure Aboard the Titanic Sociological Studies of Well Being and Emotion ______3T • MILNE LIBRARY & GOLD MCU 114 (GOLD CENTER) 4T • STUDY ABROAD WELLES 123 Session on Service Lessons in Development: El Sauce, Nicaragua ______3U • SOCIOLOGY MILNE 109 4U • THEATRE/DANCE WADSWORTH AUDITORIUM Sociological Studies of Well Being An Overview of the Pioneers of American Modern Dance ______3V • WOMEN'S STUDIES WELLES 115 4V • WOMENS STUDIES WELLES 119 Senior Capstone Projects in Women's Studies 1 Breaking the Stereotype: Activist Muslim Women in Religion, ______Politics, and Culture 3W• SOCIOLOGY STURGES 111 ______WHO AM I?: Identity Issues 4W • WOMEN'S STUDIES WELLES 115 ______Capstone Projects in Women's Studies 2 ______4W • HISTORY MYTH OF THE BRICS STURGES 114 ______4Y • ANTHROPOLOGY STURGES 109 ______38

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1A • ACCESS OPPORTUNITY increase the chances for human survival. We most effective treatments for HIV worldwide is demonstrate that initial population density and the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART). This PROGRAMS MILNE 105 speed of zombie movement affect the spread of the aggressive treatment uses three or more FACULTY SPONSORS AND SESSION CHAIR: PATRICIA virus. Although a zombie disease, like rabies, does antiretroviral drugs and has been shown to GONZALEZ, ACCESS OPPORTUNITY PROGRAMS, not yet exist in humans, it's helpful to have a model decrease viral loads, which are associated with a AND KRISTIN WYLIE, POLITICAL SCIENCE & of how it might spread in case this kind of disease decrease in the overall transmissibility as well as INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS does mutate and spreads to humans, so that we increased life expectancy. A differential equations ______know how to better react to such a dangerous model and a network model were developed to Rights Versus Reality: Girls and outbreak. reflect the progression of HIV in the country of Education Around the World ______South Africa. The models demonstrate how various KAWAI JANA WONG, JENNIPHER COLAS, YANYING Optimal Intervention Following a levels of treatment affect transmission and LIN, ALYSSA MORALES, SHEILA RAMIREZ, Smallpox Bioterrorism Attack mortality rates. As the number of infected individuals taking HAART increased, the overall ALEXANDRA SALERNO, SHAINA SMITH, DIANA OLIVIA PANEPINTO, JONATHAN MAREANE, transmission rate of HIV decreased. Over time EDOUARD, KLARISSA GARCIA, NIA GUMBS, KARINA GREGORY KETCHUM, MAXWELL EISENBAUM mortality caused by HIV related secondary MORALES, MARIA-GRATIAS SINON, PAMELA Smallpox is a contagious virus that plagued infections in the population decreases, therefore ZAITER humanity before its eradication in 1980. The the overall life expectancy of the population is One of the United Nations Millennium Development weaponization of smallpox has been of concern to expected to increase. Widespread implementation Goals is to close the gender gap through means of the public due to the pathogen's airborne mode of of HAART programs in South Africa is a vital strategy education by 2015. The significance of education is transmission. We created a differential equations that would significantly decrease the time it takes especially critical to girls and women. Education model and used it to test for the most effective serves as an entry point to opportunities and can HIV to reach an endemic state. vaccination and quarantine strategy in order to have a ripple effect within families from generation contain a smallpox outbreak. In comparing various to generation. For example, girls who have been strategies we calculated the time to eradication and 1D • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY I educated are likely to marry later and to have how many deaths resulted due to the disease. The WELLES 121 smaller and healthier families. Educated women can model shows a combination of vaccination and SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE BLOOD, ENGLISH recognize the importance of health care and know quarantine to be the most effective strategy in ______how to seek it for themselves and their children. limiting the outbreak. This study aims to shed light Music, Sex, and Politics: Researching Education helps girls and women to know their on the importance of emergency preparedness rights and to gain the confidence to claim them. and Producing the Musical Cabaret policies in the event of smallpox bioterrorism event. JULIA MASOTTI, KATELYN HEARFIELD Most importantly, education is one of the most ______FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE BLOOD, ENGLISH, effective ways to reduce poverty. The Women's Diabesity: A Nation Forever Growing Leadership Institute (WLI) advocates for women and AND ANNE-MARIE REYNOLDS, MUSIC RACHAEL BURGANOWSKI, PATRICIA CALLAHAN, This presentation will be a discussion of the girls locally and globally, and has chosen education EILEEN HAYES, ARA KIM as its advocacy issue for this year. WLI will present production of Kander & Ebb's Cabaret directed by Diabesity, obesity-dependent diabetes, is a major Julia Masotti and musically directed by Katelyn information in a multimedia format to create health epidemic plaguing America in the 21st awareness about girls and education around the Hearfield. As students of the arts, Julia and Katelyn century, affecting 100 million Americans and 50% of have long felt that a nontraditional capstone, based world. those over 65. A differential equations model was around performance, would be a better used to examine the socio-environmental representation of their college experience than a 1B • ANTHROPOLOGY MOVED TO 4Y transmission of Type 2 diabetes in three different traditional academic paper. Julia spent the fall weight classes: normal, overweight, and obese. We semester doing research on the growth of the 1C • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS also used a network model to compare the effects cabaret movement from its birth in the cafes of WELLES 24 of locally implemented intervention strategies on Paris through its peak in Weimar Germany, as well FACULTY SPONSORS AND SESSION CHAIR: diabesity to the results obtained from the as doing intensive textual research and analysis on CHRISTOPHER LEARY, MATHEMATICS, AND GREGG differential equations model. We estimate that by the libretto and score of Cabaret. She also put HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY 2030 one in four Americans will have diabesity if together a student production team of designers ______trends of weight gain continue at the rate observed and stage managers to assist on the production. In Zombies: Preventing the Apocalypse from 2000 to 2010. We also found that increasing three weeks during winter break, Julia staged the educational programs targeting the overweight entirety of Cabaret, resulting in a full production at Through Mathematical Modeling class is the most effective way to slow the spread of ALEXANDER CLARK, JOSEPH BOYCE the end of January. During this process, Katelyn diabesity. These results should motivate Americans taught the music, worked with the pit musicians, The modern zombie, according to pop culture, is a to implement proactive measures to reduce the human that has become infected with a virus that and eventually conducted in performance. Her population of both diabetic and obese individuals, research compares the musical score of Kander & alters the infected individual's mental state, leading to a healthier America. inhibiting their intelligence while increasing their Ebb's Cabaret to the cabaret music of the time ______period, focusing on the influences of Klezmer, jazz, aggression. This is similar to the effect that rabies Effects of Highly Active Antiretroviral has on other mammals. If a similar virus mutated to and the fusion of "classical" and "popular" musical infect humans, the resulting infection would be Therapy on HIV Patients in South styles. ______extremely dangerous. In order to simulate a zombie Africa What Happened to the Sixth?: A infection in humans, a differential equations model ROBERT PAYEA, NICK PIEDMONTE, CELIA SOTO, and a lattice model were constructed to test the JULI GIACOMINI Comparative Study Between the First dynamics of such a disease. Our results suggest that Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest incidence rates Edition and Critical Edition of increasing the rate that humans kill zombies, of HIV in the world, making the region a primary decreasing the likelihood of getting bit by a zombie, location for aggressive treatment efforts. One of the Bruckner's Sixth Symphony or increasing the rate at which zombies die all LOUIS LOHRASEB 39

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FACULTY SPONSOR: ANNE-MARIE REYNOLDS, of motivation and anxiety. The results of these two statistically typical caseload for a school of this MUSIC experimental groups were compared with a control description. Often considered the "ugly duckling" of the nine group that received no intervention. This talk will ______epic symphonies by the German composer Anton include a discussion of the self-determination A Multicultural Approach to Speech Bruckner, the Sixth symphony has suffered from a theory and its' history and also discuss this specific and Language Disorders and lack of proper research and analysis. Never study's methodology, the results, and the performed during the composer's lifetime, the implications of this research for college students in Disabilities manuscript of the symphony is lacking in necessary Geneseo. DIAHANN CUEVO markings to ensure a fruitful performance of the ______FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, piece. However, the solutions to many of these Factors of Fear Among Targets of COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES problems can be found in the first edition of the Obsessional Pursuit Due to a dramatic and steady growth in the Spanish symphony, published posthumously by Bruckner's speaking population in the United States, it is HILLARY RICH students. Previously neglected by musicologists as becoming increasingly important that Speech- FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY unauthentic and fraudulent, tit posses many clues Language pathologists are able to approach therapy Stalking is a relatively recent and conceptually as to how the symphony was originally conceived. sessions with a multicultural mindset. Due to a lack nebulous legal issue. Anti-stalking legislation was This presentation will touch on the major issues of comprehensive knowledge of the bilingual initially instituted to address concerns regarding present in the symphony, and how the modern population, many SLPs tend to misdiagnose and celebrity stalking; this foundation, despite its performer can grapple with them to make informed ineffectively treat various language and misrepresentation of the most common forms of musical decisions. phonological disorders. This presentation discusses stalking, continues to shape legal decisions and the phases of typical and disordered monolingual societal reactions. New York State's legal (English and Spanish) and bilingual (English-Spanish) 1E • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY II requirements of stalking are contrasted with WELLES 123 language and phonological development. By being research on the actual experiences of targets of understanding and sensitive of cultural differences, SESSION CHAIR: DAVID LEVY, PHILOSOPHY obsessional pursuit with a particular focus on the ______SLPs will be able to deliver more effective therapy requirement that targets exhibit reasonable fear. As services. Extensive research was done in current Anxiety and Dominance in the only crime in which the legality of a behavior is techniques and suggested improvements in the Adolescents dependent on a victim's reaction, it is important to profession of Speech-Language pathology. PETER KEARNS understand which factors of target experiences are ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JOAN ZOOK, PSYCHOLOGY predictive of fear. Preliminary results of campus Historical Perspectives in Speech- surveys of participants' experience of obsessional Aggression, particularly bullying, in schools is an Language Pathology: A Look at the important issue with a host of negative related pursuit and stalking after the breakup of a romantic outcomes for both the victim and the aggressor. relationship are discussed. Additionally, the legal History of the SUNY Geneseo One particular outcome that is inconsistently implications of these findings are addressed. Communication Disorders and related to perpetrating aggression is anxiety. This research seeks to explain that inconsistency by 1F • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY III Sciences Program illuminating the different causes and motivations WELLES 119 KATIE KREIDLER for aggression. Some kids are hostile to gain control SESSION CHAIR: ROSE-MARIE CHIERICI, FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, over their peers by bullying them. Some kids are ANTHROPOLOGY COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES aggressive to establish themselves in the social ______The Communication Disorders and Sciences pecking order. Other kids act aggressively because Curriculum Design for English Program at SUNY Geneseo has undergone vast changes and developments from its founding in they don't know how to cope otherwise with Language Learners uncertain and potentially threatening situations. 1939, to its deactivation in 2010. Before it is ALLISON BARCLAY This presentation will present evidence regarding scheduled to close in June of 2014, it is appropriate FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV, these motivations in the hopes of illuminating the and necessary to document these changes and COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES origins and incentives of aggression as well as developments. 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The broader focus of this project is to KRISTIN RABB languages) certified specialist, either during regular examine the historical precursors to the FACULTY SPONSOR: JOAN ZOOK, PSYCHOLOGY classes or in "pull out" sessions. These teachers help interdisciplinary field of Speech-Language This presentation details the results of a psychology them to develop their social and academic Pathology. These two goals intertwine to form the study measuring test anxiety through the vocabulary, as well as providing whatever support body of this project, as the history of a varied and framework of the self-determination theory, which and adaptations are needed for them to succeed in unique field is examined in concert with that of an focuses on three factors that foster intrinsic school. TESOL teachers work by collaborating equally varied and unique academic and clinical motivation: competence, autonomy, and closely with grade-level teachers. My project program. relatedness. 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In his book Falling into Theory, critic David Richter condition of the monster as similar to the visual and to Modern English speakers on more than just an uses Thomas Kuhn's paradigms of scientific literary depictions of African American slaves in gluttonous level. knowledge to make sense of the crisis in the Antebellum culture. The monster describes himself humanities--the loss, since the 1970s, of a as "not of the same nature as man. I was more agile 1I • ENGLISH WELLES 138 "consensus" on "what," "why," and "how" we read. than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I SESSION CHAIR: MICHAEL HERMAN, ENGLISH Richter, following the scientific philosopher's model bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury ______of tension and synthesis, offers the possibility that to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs." This SUPERNOVA: A Screenplay by Joseph the literary community will reach another new and paper discusses the extent to which Frankenstein's better "consensus." The brand of reception history creation is the representation of a holistic symbol of Scott O'Connor that expects this synthesized interpretive society's ills, particularly the enslavement of blacks. JOSEPH O'CONNOR community--that is, in the words of Charles Darwin, FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL HERMAN, ENGLISH "as perfect as, or slightly more perfect than" what it 1H • ENGLISH WELLES 131 Joseph O'Connor spent the Fall 2012 semester writing (and rewriting) the screenplay to a short film succeeds--is analogous to the linear "March of Words, Words, Words: History of the Progress" illustration of evolution: it is a with heated topics at its heart such as sexuality and representation that biologist Stephen J. Gould has English Language I internalized homophobia. This project has truly condemned as a poor, if not wholly inaccurate, FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH been a labor of love; Supernova takes on the interpretation of Darwin's theory. Darwinian SESSION CHAIR: SEAN FISCHER mythology of star-crossed lovers but with a evolution, Gould says, builds "a copiously branching ______completely modern twist. The play traces the tragic bush...not a ladder of predictable progress." This Waltzing Into Obsolescence relationship between childhood friends turned paper examines the current crisis in the context of JOHN BOSELLI lovers, Charlie and Derek, as they are torn apart, Darwin's theory and what it might suggest about Using the Oxford English Dictionary as a cultural not by two opposing households, but by themselves the not-so-neat future of literary criticism. Selected framework, this paper unpacks the term waltz's in our heteronormative society. Drawing on classic for presentation at Sigma Tau Delta 2013 linguistic history, surveying its bawdy beginnings, literary allusions such as the works of the famously Convention, Portland, Oregon. adoption (in toothless form) by Jane Austen's flamboyant Oscar Wilde, the film opens with the ______aristocracy, and its emigration to Mark Twain's oft-quoted line from Lady Windermere's Fan: "We Synthesis through Symbiosis: The America. are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" (Act III, Scene I). His screenplay seeks to Human Narrative's Necessity for ______Becoming "Blue in the Face": give textual space to the issues surrounding queer Disciplinary Confluence teens that are all too often left unexamined in the JEFF HANDY Exploring the Word "Blue" media. At the Thoreau Society's Annual Gathering in the ELIZABETH RECK ______summer of 2012, speaker Ty Reeb presented a Each of the myriad words in the English language 35MM: A Musical Exhibition paper titled "A Philosophy of Narrative Synthesis: has a unique history and the word "blue" is no PHILIP ROMANO, SALLY SCHAEFER, MARTY Uniting 21st Century Scholars Through Narrative." exception - it is much more than just a color that we ROGACHEFSKY, ELYSSA RAMIREZ, ERIN DONOVAN, Reeb argued that a full human narrative--a from-all- see everyday. Analyzing the history of the forms and JONATHAN MUSHOCK, CJ ROCHE, CHRIS angles look at humanity's place in the universe--can senses of "blue" as an adjective, substantive, verb, MCLAUCHLIN, MEGAN KILLEA be arrived at only when the work wrought by the and basis for many phrases listed in the Oxford FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE BLOOD, ENGLISH different disciplines (i.e., generally speaking, "the English Dictionary, an invaluable resource to anyone 35MM is a multimedia "musical exhibition" in which Sciences" and "the Humanities) are synthesized. My interested in the development of words and photographic images inspire music and lyrics, and paper is in many ways a recapitulation of the ideas language, it becomes clear that "blue" has found its inversely music and lyrics inspire photographs. The expressed first by Reeb. I look closely at what way into many corners of the English language. The piece is made up of seventeen songs by composer exactly a "narrative" is and what it means for one to Oxford English Dictionary allows the chronological Ryan Scott Oliver and 35 images by photographer be "synthesized" in this context. I argue, along with history of "blue" to come to life in the words of Matthew Murphy. Philip Romano is directing and Reeb, that a human narrative is necessarily reliant writers, such as Shakespeare, who crafted the producing the first college production of the on the synthesis of the Sciences and the phrases that we know to be so familiar today, and it musical, April 25-27 in the KnightSpot. He has Humanities. Where I move forward from Reeb, also records those expressions and senses that have worked directly with the creators to ensure a great however, is in the inspection of the consequences fallen out of regular common usage. As this pattern production, along with Melanie Blood as advisor, of the modal operator "necessarily" in this instance; continues and more slang phrases appear "out of Marty Rogachefsky as executive producer, Megan this examination will be the focal point from which the blue," while others leave the idiom, becoming Killea as choreographer, and Sally Schaefer as my thesis emerges: a human narrative indeed aware of the twists and turns of word history can musical director. They were also awarded an cannot be obtained without a disciplinary synthesis, shed light on the seemingly insignificant but Undergraduate Research grant to aid financially. as Reeb argues, but the obstruction of this synthesis certainly integral building blocks of our language. The cast consists of Elyssa Ramirez, Erin Donovan, ______is, thankfully, nearly impossible due to the way CJ Roche, Chris McLauchlin, and Jonathan Mushock. humans are constituted to be self-interested Stomach: A Word of Considerable This presentation will consist of a few performances agents. Lingual Girth of songs from the show, as well as discussion ______MARGARET CRAFT regarding the challenge, benefits, and intricacies of Mary Shelley's Depiction of Slavery Now the source of our hunger pangs or a measure putting up a full-scale show as a completely of Frankenstein of tolerance, once the seat of passions and secret independent project from start to finish. thoughts, stomach has gone through many TONI OVIEDO 1J • GEOGRAPHY STURGES 104 Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein, in its portrayal of permutations of usage and meaning since its adoption to Middle English. By tracing its history SESSION CHAIR: DAVE ROBERTSON, GEOGRAPHY the uncontrollable creations of science, ______technological advancements, and of societal through now obsolete spellings and lingual senses, pressure to progress, also illustrates conditions of stomach's past reflects various time periods' Permaculture Regenerative Design: the slavery sentiment that was so vividly expressed changing social connotations of the word as well as Reflections from Goias, Brazil by Henry David Thoreau and abolitionist John common language trends that altered its KRISTEN BALSCHUNAT, SHELBY TOMPKINS Brown. Shelly intelligently shapes Frankenstein's pronunciation and spelling; what remain are today's FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVE ROBERTSON, creation, not only with biblical similarities, but also multiple lexical usages of stomach that have GEOGRAPHY with the social, gender and racial issues that survived such influences, rendering it still relevant We know that humans degrade the environment. plagued society. Mary Shelly brilliantly describes the We exploit resources and destroy ecosystems. But 41

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual what if our impact could instead be positive? What Cosmogenic Exposure Dating and Exhumation Along the Central Range if our design techniques were regenerative instead of harmful? Permaculture design is a practical Numerical Modeling of South Fork Fault Zone, Trinidad framework for ecological community design that Deep Creek Valley Glacier, Montana, CARL BENO FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL works congruently with nature to provide for during the Last Glacial Maximum human abundance while at the same time SCIENCES ALEC SPEARS respecting and remaining interconnected to nature. The Central Range fault zone records During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) numerous The presenters took a Permaculture Design Course transpressional kinematics and accommodates most ranges in the Northern Rocky Mountains were at the Ecocentro IPEC ecovillage, Brazil in the of the slip between the Caribbean and South occupied by valley glaciers. Geologic dating of the summer of 2011. This presentation reflects on that American Plates in Trinidad. Global Positioning record of these glaciers provides new insight on the experience and describes how permaculture System data suggest this zone is active today and timing of glaciation and allows for comparisons of principles apply to everyday life including life on the has been active for at least the past several paleoclimate across the Northern Rocky Mountains. campus of SUNY-Geneseo. thousand years. Thermochronology data from ______Nine boulder samples were collected for Eocene and Oligocene sandstones in the Central 10 A Visual Analysis of a 4-Dimensional cosmogenic Be exposure dating along the left Range were collected to constrain the thermal lateral sector of the terminal moraine in South Fork history associated with exhumation driven by Data Set Using R Deep Creek Canyon, Absaroka Mountains, Montana. transpression. Previously collected apatite PATRICK HAMILTON, ASA WHALEN These exposure ages will provide important new fission•track (AFT) data yielded mixed results. AFT FACULTY SPONSOR: YUSUF BILGIC, MATHEMATICS limits on the timing of the local LGM. In addition to cooling ages range from 30 to 15 Ma, however most We visualized 4-D data and built a predictive linear the exposure dating of moraines, a 2-D, physically sites fail the chi-squared test suggesting multiple model for the sale price of thousands of houses, based, numerical glacier model was applied to the age populations. Pooled AFT ages tentatively given three predictors along with some dummy study area and to the adjacent Pine Creek and suggest that rocks presently at the surface were variables. Using the R statistical software package, Cascade Canyons. The goals of the glacier modeling exhumed through part of the apatite fission•track we were able to use multivariate data structure to are to simulate the known extent of glaciers in partial annealing zone in response to Miocene explore the visual relationship and, thus, build a these canyons during the LGM and to limit contraction. Unfortunately, apatite grains >50 linear model that would accurately predict the price temperature and precipitation that accompanied microns in diameter are not present, therefore we of a house. To aid us in this, we needed a special R glaciation. Glacier modeling experiments indicate were unable to collect apatite (U•Th)/He data. In package that allows making interactive applets in that a temperature depression of 7.9° C with this contribution we present the results of visualization of 4-D data structure. To do this, we modern precipitation may have accompanied the (U•Th)/He analysis on zircons collected from eight plotted three of the variables along 3 axes and had LGM in the Northern Rocky Mountains. samples, and look towards a future project using them dependent on the fourth, thus, with the tools ______monazite as a thermochronometer. These data of this package, the continuously changing 3-D Conodont Biostratigraphy and Zircon provide insight into the Miocene tectonic history of representation would be obtained. Age Dates of the Belpre Ashes, and a the Central Range and constrain the total amount of exhumation due to Miocene to recent deformation. 1K • GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Possible Belpre Equivalent from the HONORS DEFENSE ISC 115 Lower Portion of the Rhinestreet 1L • HISTORY STURGES 112 FACULTY SPONSORS AND SESSION CHAIRS: Shale, Upper Devonian, Eastern Perspectives on Culture and BENJAMIN LAABS AND SCOTT GIORGIS, North America GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Capitalism ______AMANDA LANIK FACULTY SPONSOR: TZE-KI HON, HISTORY New Limits on Timing and Climate FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL SESSION CHAIR: EMILY JENNINGS SCIENCES ______Change During the Last Deglaciation A collaborative effort between SUNY-Geneseo and The Origin of a Stereotype: in the Ruby Mountains, Boise State University has been undertaken to refine the Late Devonian timescale using high- Capitalism, the Media, and the Northeastern Nevada resolution U/Pb dating and conodont Materialistic Woman JESSICA LAM biostratigraphy. As a part of this effort, two ash EMILY JENNINGS The Ruby Mountains of northeastern Nevada suites are being compared, the Belpre Ashes found This presentation will examine the if women's social hosted the largest system of valley glaciers in the in the Chattanooga Shale at Little War Gap, position as "the other" leads to negative Central Great Basin during the last glaciation, which Tennessee, and an unnamed ash, possibly the stereotypes of women appearing in the media, occurred approximately 20,000 to 15,000 years ago. Belpre, found in the Rhinestreet Shale along especially the depiction of women as materialistic. The precise timing of the subsequent deglaciation is Eighteenmile Creek, western New York. Conodonts The theories of Guy Debord, David Harvey, and not completely understood because of a lack of from Little War Gap include Palmatolepis punctata, Simone de Beauvoir will be used to examine this numerical ages of recessional moraines and other P. housei, and Ancyrodella nodosa, and indicate trend in the media portrayal of women within the glacial features exposed during ice retreat. To placement in MN Zone 8. Conodonts from last half-decade. address this problem, samples of erratic boulders Eighteenmile Creek include Palmatolepis ______atop a recessional moraine in North Furlong Canyon ljaschenkoae, Polygnathus dubius, A. nodosa, and The Fetish with Football in the and samples of glacially polished bedrock near Icriodus symmetricus, which indicate MN Zone 7 or United States Angel Lake, the type locale for the last glaciations in MN Zone 8. However, this bed is also associated 10 NATHANAEL GERACI the Great Basin, were collected for cosmogenic Be with the goniatite Naplesites iynx, which indicates There is no need to argue how popular the NFL is in exposure dating. Additionally, numerical models of MN Zone 7. The Eighteenmile Creek ash has yielded the United States. But why is professional football mass balance and ice flow were applied to North an absolute date of 375.32 +/- 0.14 Ma, the such a big deal? Karl Marx's concept of commodity Furlong Canyon to simulate both the maximum and Tennessee ash dates are pending. Selected for fetishism helps explain the United States' obsession recessional extents of the glacier in this valley. This presentation at 2013 Geological Society of America with the NFL. The National Footbal League is the research will set important new limits on the timing Annual Meeting and Exposition, Denver, CO. of the last deglaciation and the pace and magnitude ______product of a capitalist system. A closer look at this of climate change that accompanied this event. Thermochronologic Constraints on industry will give insight into how capitalism works Moreover, this research will quantify the decline of in the United States. I will use the work of Karl snowpack from a glacial valley during the last Miocene Transpressional Marx, Theodor Adorno, Guy Debord, George Lukacs, interval of major global warming. etc. to expand on the idea of commodity fetishism. ______42

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An Excerpt from Alan Ginsberg's ______really hardwired the brains of animals to be able to Contextualizing "Drunken Paddy": solve certain "calculus" like problems? Howl Origins and Influence in Great Britain EMILY MCDEVITT 1O • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 336 This will be a reading an excerpt of Alan Ginsberg's and Ireland SESSION CHAIR: YUSUF BILGIC, MATHEMATICS poem Howl that expresses aggression toward the LILA CHAMBERS ______capitalism's grip and influence of society. FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY Now Trending My talk deals with the pervasive and complex STURGES 109 JEFFREY MAGGIO 1M • HISTORY history of the "Drunken Paddy" formulation within FACULTY SPONSOR: CHI-MING TANG, Jefferson, the Underground Railroad, Great Britain, Ireland, and to some degree the MATHEMATICS United States. Although the association between and Irish Drinking Culture: History This presentation outlines the general procedure for Irishness and excessive drinking is now commonly modeling trends in a particular stock price (Google) Honors Theses regarded as harmless aspect of St. Patrick's Day with a multivariable time series. Topics covered SESSION CHAIR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY celebrations, the roots and dispersal of the include: identifying possible variables and selecting ______stereotype had and continue to have serious only those of statistical relevance, modeling the For Family Use: Slavery, the implications. While there is almost limitless material data with multiple regression using Minitab, Monticello Plantation, and the on the subject to draw from, I will focus on primarily identifying possible issues with multicollinearity, English articulations of, and reactions to, real and and adding an autoregressive when appropriate. Letters of Thomas Jefferson imagined Irish drinking culture. Selected for Finally, the model obtained is used to predict a CORY YOUNG presentation at Phi Alpha Theta, West/Central future price of Google stock. Anyone with a basic FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY New York Regional Conference, Geneseo, NY. knowledge of linear regression should be able to

The controversy surrounding Thomas Jefferson's follow the procedure. Disclaimer: Invest at your peculiar relationship with plantation slavery has 1N • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 338 own risk! expanded now that we know, thanks to DNA Math Miscellany I ______evidence, that he fathered slaves. As such, his FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: OLYMPIA The Statistical Analyses of Website commitment to antislavery seems all the more NICODEMI, MATHEMATICS Pageviews Using a Robust Poisson tepid. Joseph Ellis, a Jefferson biographer, described ______the statesman as an "American Everyman for our Counting with Catalan Numbers Regression more permissive era," suggesting a legacy that is as GREGGORY LESTER every bit as benevolent as it is national. Although MEGAN REED, MICHELLE BRECHUE, CHARLES DACHS FACULTY SPONSOR: YUSUF BILGIC, MATHEMATICS contemporary historians are beginning to push back Page view statistics are beneficial for describing and against decades of hero-worship, the public at large Catalan numbers count the number of ways a set of n balanced pairs of parentheses can be arranged. predicting behavior of clients on Internet websites. shows little sign of modifying the "Declaration-first" From a theoretical point of view, the number of construction of its great father of liberty. This paper Surprisingly, they also count diagonal-avoiding paths, multiplication orderings, and the number of page views during a day should follow a Poisson considers Jefferson's evolving opinions on slavery distribution. In this study, we will begin by and blackness through the lens of his private ways in which one can shake hands across a circular table without crossing arms. Along with these reviewing the traditional Poisson Regression and its correspondence during his first retirement to applications. We will then retrieve and analyze the Monticello in 1794. By analyzing the language the examples, we will discuss the recursive definition of Catalan numbers and how that can be used to gain data set from my website statistics as well as a well- founding father used to discuss slavery in this known data set found in the literature. We will period, I hope to demonstrate that by the mid- a better understanding o four examples. In contrast, we will use our examples to formulate a closed compare the results of the traditional data analyses 1790s, Jefferson had abandoned any sincere with a robust Poisson regression, which will be abolitionist convictions he may have once harbored formula for the Catalan numbers. ______developed using a rank-based regression approach. in favor of the mild, philosophical opposition that The Cycloid Before Calculus Through the validation of our cooperative data now characterizes America's most famous results, the efficiency and coverage of the proposed ESTHER MENEZES-PINTO, JULIA ADDEO slaveholder. Selected for presentation at Phi Alpha Robust Poisson Regression will be tested in with We know how to find the area under a curve using Theta, West/Central New York Regional Monte Carlo Simulations. In particular, attention integrals, and tangent lines using derivatives. But Conference, Geneseo, NY. will be paid to the occurrence probabilities of large how do we solve for these geometrically? Before ______numbers of page views on different types of slightly the discovery of calculus, the cycloid curve was the The Mystery of the Underground correlated websites in addition to the number of target of these calculations. Galileo named the page views on my single website. Our study will Railroad: How Race has Muddled the cycloid and guessed its area; Roberval, Cavalieri,and furthermore present models for the forecasting on Descartes each contributed to the understanding Examination of the Institution the number of page views for potential users. MATTHEW MCNEILL the cycloid. In this talk, we will explore their ______FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY methods. The Growth of Nations Compared to This paper examines the Underground Railroad as it ______has so far been understood and the role race has Do Dogs Know Calculus? China played in the discussion, with special attention paid RYAN KLIMEK, MARCUS HOY LESLYE BURLESON, BINGJIE WANG to the Western New York area. This place in the The question we are after is obviously not whether FACULTY SPONSOR: CHI-MING TANG, 19th century, now sometimes referred to as the dogs can figure out calculus problems. Rather, on MATHEMATICS "Burned-Over District" for its religious zeal and some level, can dogs subconsciously optimize travel The rate of natural increase of a nation is the crude social activism, became one of the most important time between two points in a way that would birth rate minus the crude death rate of a areas of the Underground Railroad. Despite this suggest they have calculus like accuracy? Tim population. If there are more births than deaths, liberal atmosphere, however, activist leadership Pennings wrote a paper on exactly this topic. While the population grows, but if there are more deaths and New York State as a whole remained divided on playing fetch on the beach with his dog he noticed than births, the population decreases. We will issues involving slavery and race, a reality indicative that it would very efficiently run along the beach specifically look at the population of China, a of the entire institution of the Underground before jumping into the water to retrieve the ball. growing developing nation. The aspects of the Railroad. He wanted to put it to the test and compare his population that will be examined are the urban to Selected for presentation at Phi Alpha Theta, dog's times to the optimum times using calculus. rural ratios, the male to female ratios, and the age West/Central New York Regional Conference, The results he found were surprising. Has nature distribution. After this information is gathered, we Geneseo, NY. will examine the growth rate and death rate, as well 43

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual as the rate of natural increase. We will be using NICHOLAS KREUDER GRIFFIN MERVINE, ALEXANDRA LIONETTI, time series and regression to estimate what the rate The Problem of Evil has been one of the great issues CHRISTINA HEIM, CAMILLE ARTER, KATHERINE of natural increase will be for the next year in China. which believers of the traditional theistic of God BAUM, KATHERINE LOMAZZO Finally we will be observing the rate of natural must contend with. Augustine offers a rather As preservice teachers, it is our responsibility to increase of other nations. We will compare the rate unique solution to this problem, which denies that ensure the success and progress of school-aged of natural increase of China to the United States evil exists as a positive substance. However, even children. Neighborhood effects impact a child's and to Japan because the United States is a his conception of evil still seems less than development and school success (Berliner, 2009). developed growing nation and Japan is a developed compatible with the attributes of God as all Specifically, participants in our study have stressed shrinking nation. knowing, all powerful and all good. Perhaps, if we the importance of the proximity of role models both are willing to reconsider commitments to the inside and outside school. It appears that the 1P • MILNE LIBRARY & SCHOOL OF nature of the afterlife, a solution to this problem presence of a single role model in a neighborhood is EDUCATION SOUTH 235 can be reached. enough to encourage a child to stay in school, thereby increasing his or her opportunities for Geneseo Storytelling Institute Panel 1R • SCHOOL OF BUSINESS future success. Role models can come from many of Tellers - Participants in the SOUTH 340 places in both the school and community; what is important is not their career but their expression of Geneseo Story Telling Institute Will Research in the Real World interest and continued dedication to the student Share Their Stories FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: PAUL (Van Etten, 2011). The child's environment is very FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHELLE COSTELLO, MILNE SCIPIONE, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS influential in shaping his or her identity in regards to LIBRARY & SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ______both school and social life (Kling, Liebman, and Katz, SESSION CHAIR: MICHELLE COSTELLO, MILNE Measuring the Effectiveness of CSBG 2007; Keels, 2008). We have examined the impact LIBRARY Programs and Agencies that Serve of role models within other neighborhood effects, Each participant has learned a such as friends, family, culture, racism, and At-Risk Populations: the Poor, participation in activities, sports, and work. This personal story or a fable. Disabled and Elderly presentation will be of particular interest to ______LANDON HURLEY, LEANDRA GRIFFITH, MICHAEL education, psychology, anthropology, sociology and Three Days From Chatham STOIANOFF, BRIANNA VANSOEST human development majors, and anyone else ANNA HOYLER These students worked with Dr. Scipione on concerned with the education of our children. FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHELLE COSTELLO, MILNE federally-funded evaluation research of six social ______LIBRARY programs/agencies in Livingston County. They will Students' Assessment of School: Anna will tell an original family tall tale about an an present methodologies and key study findings. Teachers' Methods, Testing, and experience that her Great Grandfather had many ______years ago involving taking a cow on a box car. How High School Seniors and Their Discipline ______Parents View SUNY Geneseo vs. MEGAN DIBARTOLOMEO, CHELSEY BARKER, The Helpful Raccoon ALISON PAYNE, APRIL MEYER, ERICA GIORDANO MICHELLE MOSHON Competitive Colleges The voices of inner-city youths are too often absent FACULTY SPONSOR: SHARON PECK, SCHOOL OF MARY ALDRIDGE, AARON DORFMAN in discourse on school reform. In a seven-year EDUCATION In addition to describing the process by which HS longitudinal project, a research team of pre-service Michelle will share a Native American porquoi tail seniors and their parents select an Undergraduate teachers explores the urban school environment about a helpful, or not so helpful, raccoon. College, the students who worked with Dr. Scipione from the perspective of inner- city youths. Using ______on this research for the Geneseo Admissions Office, biannual interviews and focus groups, we asked Once Upon a Time will also describe their innovative use of participants to reflect on their experiences in DANIEL COUGHLIN MultiDimensional Scaling (MDS) and Conjoint school, commenting on how teaching methods, FACULTY SPONSOR: MARK SULLIVAN, MILNE Analysis to measure the Mental Maps of curriculum, and discipline affect college readiness. LIBRARY prospective students and their parents. For example, as a discussion prompt, we showed Daniel will share an original story that he wrote to ______participants a newspaper clipping which stated that, amuse his many younger siblings. Expanding Wadsworth (Geneseo in 2010, the Rochester City School District admitted Public) Library: Public Opinions and that only 5% of its students graduated prepared for 1Q • PHILOSOPHY STURGES 114 career or college (Lankes, 2010). This came as a Suggestions surprise to our participants. In other interviews, we Augustine and the Problem of Evil LANDON HURLEY, ELIZABETH PATRICK, CASEY found that participants overwhelmingly preferred FACULTY SPONSOR: CARLO FILICE, PHILOSOPHY QUINN hands-on activities to lectures, benefitted from SESSION CHAIR: CHARLOTTE HERN These students worked on a community survey of teachers' high expectations (Beverley, James, and ______Geneseo residents to get their reactions and Keyona, 2010), and appreciated attention from their See No Evil: Morality, Mortality, and suggestions about the planned expansion of teachers. We coded various responses as Value in Augustinian Theology Geneseo's public library and how to finance the "narratives of success" and found many stories that SAMUEL PREMINGER expansion of facilities and services. might be missed by research that omits student

What's good about evil? In this presentation, we voices. The narratives of our student participants will explore a tenebrous side of Christian theology, 1S • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION reflect and amplify findings in current research. drawing on the works of Augustine to reconcile the SOUTH 328 ______existence of evil with that of a benevolent, Keeping Kids in School Year 7 Role of Agency and Locus of Control omnipotent deity. This will necessarily entail FACULTY SPONSORS AND SESSION CHAIR: JANE in Students' Success in School discussion of free-will, sin, and mortality, but will MORSE AND BRIAN MORGAN, SCHOOL OF STEVEN BENNETT, JOSEPH CERIELLO, MICHAEL further consider biblical possibilities of divine EDUCATION EISINGER intention, misrepresentations of evil, and the true ______The longitudinal study, Keeping Kids in School, elegance of our universe. External Influences on Students' focuses on the social, emotional, academic, and ______environmental factors affecting a cohort of The Problem of Evil: A Question of Success in School students, mainly in the Rochester City School Presuppositions? District, who are succeeding despite the odds 44

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual against them. Researchers asked students questions intellectually disabled children in educationand offering financial education units focused on about their beliefs and perceptions of "agency" and health needs. As such, UPACLED organizes Parent investing and spending, the Microloan program "locus of control." Agency is the capacity of a Support Groups (PSGs) to create a communal dually increases small businessowner's capacity to person to act in the world and alter their savings fund to assist withschool and medical fees. produce capital. experience; locus of control is the extent to which The presenters worked with the PSG of the Kilowa individuals believe that they can control events that community. In an open forum discussion, the PSG 1U • SOCIOLOGY STURGES 108 affect them. Our participants, for example, gave informed them of the need to expand thecommunal Common American Beliefs about instances of feeling a lack of control over choosing savings fund. Several members had tailoring skills their courses while maintaining a sense of agency in and were inclined to the idea of creating a tailoring China determining their future. These students business. Creating the Kilowa Women Development FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: ELAINE demonstrate persistence by staying in school and Group tailoring business required several CLEETON, SOCIOLOGY focusing on their education. Our conversations with workshops and the provision of start up kits. All ______these students provide a unique look at how self- twenty members were given business training Common American Beliefs about motivated action can afford students greater through two weekly workshops to increase their China success in school. marketing, record keeping, and savings skills. A KATHRIN GALLO, KIRSTYN APPLIN, JAMES BAE,

tailoring workshop was held to train five community CHEYENNE CALLERAME, LINDSAY CROCETTI, 1T • SOCIOLOGY WELLES 133 members to become Trainers of Trainees (TOTs). COLLEEN GAVIN, SARAH KOHLER, NICOLE Learning While Doing Good: Service This creates sustainability because the TOTs within LEMASTER, XERIUS LEWIS, SASKIA TALAY, the community are able to further train other Learning and Sustainable MOSSAMMAT AKTER, JOBINA ALEXANDER, community members in tailoring. This project also ALEXANDER BEIDECK, KRISTEN BIERSBACH, LAURA Development in Nicaragua and includes the provision of start-up kits, which were BULGER, CHARLES CAPLAN, PATRICE CUMMINGS, initial capital investments. These consisted of RACHEL FRIEDMAN, AVA ISAAC, AVERY KRAFFT, Uganda sewing machines, threads, fabrics, scissors, tape FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: DENISE JENNIFER KYNE, ADAM LASHINSKY, STEPHANY measures, buttons, zippers, elastics, and needles. ROMERO, CHELSEA SKINNER, JOSHUA TOBIAS, SCOTT, SOCIOLOGY Additionally, a business plan was created to outline ______SOFIA WEBB, REGINA WHYTE their role allocation and profit management. During Poverty's Flown The Coop: Ten college students, their parents, and the course of the project, an additional need arose. grandparents were interviewed regarding their Microfinance Project in Rural Registering the PSG as a Community Based beliefs about China, and the sources of these beliefs Uganda Organization (CBO) at the sub-county and district and interests. Informants reported similar beliefs levels allows them to apply for grants and other DARA GELL, ALLISON HOPPE, ANDREW PERRY regarding China's one-child population policy, funding, creating a higher standard of legitimacy for In the summer of 2012 the presenters traveledto manufacturing, the 2008 Beijing Olympics, their microfinance endeavors. The Kilowa CBO Uganda and, for a period of two months,worked as government organization, and censorship. Varying hopes to serve as a pilot project for other interns for the Foundation for Sustainable across generations was the extent to which China is communities. Future participants and donors can Development, a San Francisco based NGO. As viewed to be a threat to the US, with the lowest support this project by advertising the business, interns, they were placed at Mukisa SACCO, a small level of concern being reported by the college providing seed grants for more capital materials, savings and creditcooperative servicing primarily students. Prospects for challenging persistent and by purchasing products from the Kilowa widows and single mothers, a majority of whom had stereotypes about Chinese/American relations will Women Development Group. be discussed. HIV/AIDS. In an attempt to ameliorate the dual ______deficiencies of insufficient organizational capital and low individual profit margins, their project sought to Microfinance in El Sauce, Nicaragua: 1V • STUDENT AND CAMPUS LIFE increase individuals' income generating capacity Combining Education and Financial WELLES 26 while bolstering Mukisa SACCO'scapital base by Opportunity SESSION CHAIR: KIM HARVEY, CENTER FOR providing an initial, sustainable investment. To this MEGAN STAUDENRAUS COMMUNITY end, members were provided with broiler chickens - In January 2013 the presenter participated in SUNY ______used for meat - along with sufficient feeds, vaccines, Geneseo's study abroad and service learning #RAProblems: Social Media in the RA and professional supervision. Ovet he course of an experience in El Sauce, Nicaragua. For two weeks, eight-month period, the value of all elements of the Role and Professional Settings she worked alongside Enlace, a New York based JACLYN VETRANO loan is paid back to the SACCO at a 1% monthly non-profit organization that offers comprehensive interest rate. In this way, participants are provided FACULTY SPONSOR: ELLIOT ZENILMAN, RESIDENCE training for businesses and individuals, provides LIFE access to a sustainable income generating activity, microloans to stimulate economic growth, and to as profits generated may be used to buy more As students, we use social media sites to interact strengthenthe economic capacity of the community. with our friends and family on a constant basis. It chickens, and Mukisa SACCO gains an additional As a microloan institution, Enlace seeks not only to source of capital which may refinance similar has also become popular within professional increase availability and access to capital amongst settings, which means that our social media pages product-based loans. Overthe course of the local business owners, but to also improve the program's initiation both Mukisa SACCO's manager require more careful maintenance. Students who capacity of lenders to make optimal fiscal decisions, are Resident Assistants at Geneseo also face the and loan committee played important roles in the both personally and professionally. The Enlace loan's implementation. This program is sustainable added responsibility of properly representing microloan program has eliminated hindering themselves online to residents, along with potential on two fronts: expanding the organization's service requirements from its lending model, like cosigners delivery capacity; and increasing individuals' income employers. This presentation will highlight the and high interest rates, which have been recognized challenges of social media use in the RA position, generation potential. as barriers to loan access. Instead, the potential ______along with helpful tactics when maintaining social loaners undergo a screening process and then Sustainable Development Initiative media sites in a professional light. complete financial education classes. 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FACULTY SPONSORS: FATIMA JOHNSON, CENTER classism, racism, ableism, sexual orientation, the program is to further promote understanding, FOR COMMUNITY AND SUSAN NORMAN, SCHOOL gender, etc. During this panel presentation four respect and acceptance of diversity within the OF EDUCATION students will offer their unique experiences of Geneseo campus community. Selected for The planning of Real World Geneseo started in 2007 having gone through the program as well as helping presentation at IMPACT Conference, Albuquerque, and was implemented in 2009. This program to facilitate the four day living retreat. This award New Mexico. incorporates individuals across all different winning program has proven to increase cultural identities and walks of life. Its focus is to provide competency as well as change in attitudes and awareness about individuals and ideas that students behaviors around difference among the students may have previously not been exposed to, including who have attended the program. The purpose of

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2A • Anthropology STURGES 106 Extended Mind Theory proposes the possibility of programming, and the behind-the-scenes work of SESSION CHAIR: PAUL PACHECO, ANTHROPOLOGY embodied cognition: the assertion that external museum studies and exhibition design. ______objects can literally be active parts of our minds. Of Bronze Age Burials in the Altai course, acceptance of the most extreme version of Student Support in the Lockhart, externalism, the belief that the things in the Lederer, and Bridge Galleries Mountains external world are a literal part of the mind, would MARY MARGARET SODERQUIST KATELYN BRAYMER result in a revolution, is almost all fields of thought. The Lockhart, Lederer, and Bridge Galleries are FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, I argue, however, that even the rejection of the critical components of the arts on campus ANTHROPOLOGY literal externalism still allows for Extended Mind particularly with the waning of the Studio Art Major. I will present and analyze data from four burials I theory to greatly influence our views of archaeology These galleries along with the Kinetic will ensure the helped excavate during my experience in the Altai and sexuality. Objects can be recognized not just for continuation of arts programming on campus. As Mountains in Bayan-Olgii aimag, Mongolia this their symbolic purpose in a society, but for their one of a team of students interning and working for summer. I researched general anthropological/ effects on the cognitive ability of those who used Cynthia Hawkins, Mary Margaret will discuss the archaeological theories surrounding death and them. In addition, by blurring the divisions within role of the galleries on campus, as well as the work burial and will attempt to apply these theories into commonly accepted binaries: internal and external, that she and other students do promote and install the cultural context of the burials. nature and nurture, it becomes necessary then to exhibitions for the campus gallery system. This work ______question our beliefs about the innateness, or lack includes preparing graphics and editing promotional A Spatial Analysis of Datum H thereof, of gender and sexuality. material, installing labels and hanging work. ERIN STEINWACHS ______FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, 2B • ART HISTORY WELLES 115 Collections Work at the Livingston ANTHROPOLOGY Theory to Practice: The 2nd Annual Datum H was originally located by the Hopewell Site County Historical Society Catchment Survey, conducted by Dr. William Museum Studies Symposium KALA DESTEFANO Dancey in 1994. It is a small site, situated just FACULTY SPONSOR: LYNETTE BOSCH, ART HISTORY The Livingston County Historical Society is an outside Hopewell Mound Group on a terrace of SESSION CHAIR: BRANDON ENG important local institution and repository of Anderson Run. The archaeological record at Datum ______regional history. Two students including an H produced a large proportion of Hopewellian 19th Century Porcelain in the Americorps worker and an Intern will discuss their diagnostic lithic artifacts, including 299 bladelets. Collection of the Livingston County work in collections management, research, and Spatially, the main concentration of artifacts occurs education. The experience of inventorying, in a ring shaped pattern located in the northern part Historical Society cataloguing, and transferring records into the of the research area within an area of a little bit less LINDSAY MANAS PastPerfect system combined with forays into than 1000 m2 (Pacheco et al 2012: 6). Combined, The Livingston County Historical Society is making a object conservation synthesized a multifaceted these archaeological and the use of spatial analysis major push towards inventorying their collections. work environment. The size and community programs suggest that Datum H may represent an Spurred by a group interest in American decorative education focus of the institution allowed example of a specialized camp, which are part of arts and material culture, three students began an involvement in public programming that exemplifies the vacant center ceremonial model created first by independent study supervised by Professor Dr. the goal of Strategic Community Partnerships. Such Olaf Prufer and modified by William Dancey and Bosch at the Historical Society. Their work will have visitor outreach programs have brought Geneseo Paul Pacheco. In addition predictive spatial analysis several components, the first will explore the students in contact with the local community and techniques in ArcGIS were utilized in order to history of porcelain and its development into major educated them about their college town. By identify other potential specialized camp site industries in England particularly production of bringing History, Anthropology, and locations such as Datum H. Staffordshire and Wedgwood porcelains, the second Interdepartmental classes into the museum we've ______will examine the material conditions and production worked to promote local history, museum studies, Extending Beyond the Binaries: methods of Western porcelains, and the last will and use and presence of the museum as a resource involve specific examples from the collection. for academic research. Implications of Embodied Cognition ______for Archaeology and Sexuality Museum Studies at SUNY Geneseo 2C • BIOLOGY KNIGHTSPOT LAUREN AULET CHELSEA BUKOWSKI FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES AIMERS, Chelsea Bukowski, Student Association Arts and Healthcare Disparities Monologues ANTHROPOLOGY Exhibitions Coordinator and Curator of the Kinetic FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI, BIOLOGY Extended Mind Theory, a recent controversial Gallery at the MacVittie College Union will discuss SESSION CHAIR: QUEENY PAN ______theory in the philosophy of mind, established by her work in the ARTH 388: Museum Studies Theory Andy Clark and David Chalmers (2000), is not only to Practice class. She will introduce the work of the Healthcare Disparities Monologue important to philosophy, but also provides new and three artists the class will be showing in an QUEENY PAN, HANNAH CIVITA, SEAN ENDRESS, interesting framework for many other fields, exhibition at the library and draw on her experience JOANN LAM, MARIANNE MACALOSO, ALEJANDRA specifically studies of archaeology and sexuality. as Curator of the Kinetic to talk about public ROMERO, BRYAN ALERTE, JENNIFER BROODY

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Geneseo's Minority Association of Pre-health vaccination. We have also allowed for variation in of disease and in what types of communities students is holding a program on healthcare government response time to the epidemic by educating individuals to encourage them to alter disparities in a series of vignettes. Healthcare delaying the onset of vaccination. Our model their behavior will ever be an effective use of disparities refers to the gap in the quality of health suggests that ring vaccination is the most effective resources. and healthcare due to socioeconomic status, at limiting the total number of individuals infected, ethnicity, and education level. By performing the the number of individuals infected at the peak of 2E • COMPUTER SCIENCE SOUTH 235 lives of those directly affected by the gaps in the epidemic, and length of the epidemic. These Computer Science healthcare, we hope to raise awareness of the results are of interest to epidemiologists, especially FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: HOMMA situations caused by a healthcare system that can those working in government, because they can be FARIAN, COMPUTER SCIENCE be improved. In this theatrical performance, we used to hinder the severity of epidemics. ______hope to not only raise awareness but provoke Investigating Optimal Beer Pong thought, evoke discussion, and incite action in Modeling the Effect of Temperature regards to eliminating these disparities. Strategies through Stochastic on the Spread of Chikungunya NICOLAS PETERSON, MATTHEW SALHAB, MARK Computational Modeling 2D • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS BURGESS, YALE LEE HERB SUSMANN WELLES 24 Chikungunya is a vector-borne viral disease Monte Carlo algorithms are a class of computational FACULTY SPONSORS AND SESSION CHAIR: transmitted to humans by Aedes spp. mosquitoes. techniques that use randomized simulations to CHRISTOPHER LEARY, MATHEMATICS AND GREGG Originating in central Africa, Chikungunya emerged investigate the behavior of complex systems. Such HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY in several Indian Ocean islands and southeast Asia an approach has been used to investigate the best ______in 2006. Chikungunya virus has undergone a genetic strategies for board games including Chess and Go. Strategies for Controlling mutation that has allowed it to emerge in more We applied a randomized algorithm to the problem Poliomyelitis in Pakistan temperate Europe and pose a greater threat among of finding the optimal strategies for the popular game of "Beer Pong", in which two teams of two MICHAEL COOPER, MEGAN SMITH, DANIEL PAYNE, susceptible populations. We have modified a players each take turns throwing a Ping-Pong ball at RACHAEL RUTLEDGE differential equations model of Chikungunya a pyramidal arrangement of circular receivers. Poliomyelitis is a viral disease that is contracted transmission between mosquitoes and humans to Strategies are determined by the order in which when an individual is infected by the poliovirus. The incorporate the effect of temperature on the receivers are targeted and when special rules are wild poliovirus was eradicated from the United mosquito population. We investigated the effects of invoked. The game was modeled as a series of States in 1979 (Strebel et al. 1992), but it is still temperature shifts and temperature variability on throws in which each throw's probability of endemic in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria (The the spread of Chikungunya. Higher temperatures successfully landing in a target was sampled from a Global Polio Eradication Initiative 2010). We studied are correlated with increased larval survival and a random distribution. Data was collected for the the dynamics of poliovirus in Pakistan using a reduction in larval development time. Our model number of throws required to win the game if differential equation model. We examined how suggests that a temperature-driven increase in the played by a specific strategy. The data was analyzed vaccination strategies and efforts, levels of susceptible mosquito population will result in a in order to determine the optimal strategy within dehydration, and public sanitation affect the spread greater number of infectious humans. Many models of mosquito-borne diseases do not incorporate statistical significance. of the virus. The model shows that there is a need ______for vaccination in order to eradicate poliomyelitis in temperature despite its effect on mosquito Pakistan. High levels of dehydration in the population dynamics. Consequently, our model is of A Distributed Evolutionary Approach population increase the length and severity of interest to epidemiologists modeling Chikungunya to Image Approximation and epidemics. We found that better systems of public and other mosquito-borne diseases because of predicted increases in temperature due to global Compression sanitation decrease the rate of contact with the HERB SUSMANN, STEPHEN KOWALEWSKI poliovirus at a young age, therefore increasing the climate change. ______Genetic Algorithms find optimal solutions to number of susceptible individuals. The disease Modeling the Spread of Disease on problems by modeling the biological processes of remains endemic in the population unless the natural selection, mutation, and genetic number of people in a population who have Small-World Networks with Adaptive recombination. We used genetic algorithms to find acquired immunity through infection or vaccination Host Behaviors a set of overlapping colored polygons that closely reaches a certain threshold. Our results suggest the NOAH DUKLER approximate a raster image in order to investigate best approach to limit the spread of polio is to focus Individuals exhibit the behavior best suited to the value of such a method for image compression vaccination efforts on younger individuals. and scaling. As this approach takes a large amount ______preserve their well-being in a given situation. During an epidemic an individual may change their of memory and processing, we developed a more A Model to Evaluate the behavior to reduce the chance of infection based advanced algorithm that runs in parallel on a Effectiveness of Random, Ring, and upon how severe they perceive the risk of infection computing cluster. Each node in the cluster evolves Hub Vaccinations as a to be. This model examines the consequences of its own subpopulation and periodically shares its individual's dynamic adoption of disease avoidance best results with the nodes. Our presentation will Countermeasure Against Influenza strategies based upon knowledge of their contain an overview of genetic algorithms, a Epidemics neighborhood's conditions. Our work suggests that discussion of how they apply to our project, and will STEPHEN RUSWICK, ELIZABETH WAYE, TARABETH behavior is important solely when hosts are highly conclude with a demonstration of our results. GERRITY, WALTER SOJDA aware and little rewiring of the network has Selected for presentation at Consortium for Influenza is one of the most widely spread diseases occurred under condition in which the hosts have a Computing Sciences in Colleges — Northeastern in developed countries. Although influenza short memory. We suggest this occurs because the Region 2013, Albany, NY vaccinations are commonly available, further rewired edges normally act as shortcuts for the research into viable vaccination strategies could be disease to cross the network and under conditions 2F • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY IV applied to prevent future epidemics. We used data of high host-sensitivity and low rewiring enough of WELLES 121 from a paper from Samzuzzoha et al. and developed the bridges are effectively "shut down" to return SESSION CHAIR: JOE COPE, HISTORY a network based model of influenza epidemic the network to a circulant-like state which is ______dynamics. We tested three vaccination strategies: naturally unfavorable for disease transmission. This From Eggs to Aardvarks: A Cross vaccinating random individuals, vaccinating all the has implications for determining how strictly self- contacts of infected individuals in a ring, and imposed disease avoidant behaviors must be Cultural Study on Factors that Affect vaccinating highly connected individuals, called hub adhered to in order to prevent the systemic spread How We Eat 47

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AVERY KRAFFT beliefs also function to protect us from anxiety available for students of varying racial and FACULTY SPONSOR: ELAINE CLEETON, SOCIOLOGY related to death. Specifically, I am investigating socioeconomic backgrounds, such as the Campaign An exploration into how religion, gender, ethics, whether reminders of mortality cause participants for Fiscal Equity and Amber Paynter decisions. This and culture influence dietary practices. The study to react more negatively to an innocent victim, and investigation seeks the root of the indisputable compares eating practices common to the United whether these negative reactions reduce educational disparities in New York, including States, France and Japan. participants' awareness of death and mortality. housing policies and school funding methods that ______Offering negative evaluations of an innocent resulted in segregation, and hopes to offer plausible Eating Disorders in Literature victim's personality is a way of preserving justice in solutions to provide a better education to students LOGAN MAHLUM the world; if the victim is a worse person, they are affected by these disparities. FACULTY SPONSOR: KEN COOPER, ENGLISH more deserving of their victimhood. A measure of In the past several decades, eating disorders have individual differences in just-world beliefs is also 2H • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY become a familiar concept to Americans. Anorexia included, to determine whether these effects are VI WELLES 119 limited to participants who explicitly endorse justice nervosa and bulimia nervosa in particular have SESSION CHAIR: RON HERZMAN, ENGLISH become iconic in celebrity culture, but are also a beliefs. If mortality reminders do cause an increase ______growing medical concern primarily for young in victim derogation, this suggests that justice Narrating 9/11 women in their teens and twenties, but increasingly beliefs are at least partially motivated by our CONNOR BURGEVIN other demographics as well. My presentation will concern with death, and that perceiving justice in FACULTY SPONSOR: BETH MCCOY, ENGLISH focus specifically on how this growing awareness of the world is a way of alleviating existential anxiety. How does one both interpret and reconcile a eating disorders is reflected and perpetuated in ______disaster such as 9/11? Having lived through such an literature from the late 1970's to the present day. I Examining Behavioral and Social event, I remember the following weeks only as a will look specifically to changing patterns of genre, Outcomes Among Maltreated blur of newspaper clippings and TV reports. In my agency, and the glorification of eating disorders in talk, I will examine the role that the media plays in particular texts in an attempt to analyze how Children in Therapeutic Group the reporting of such events to the public, and I will anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervous are treated Homes touch on how we as various societies form our own differently over the decades. The ultimate goal of OLIVIA DERELLA narratives about events that break the predictable my research is to establish trends in eating disorder FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY routine of our modern day lives. Do such events literature from the past fifty years and attempt to As an introduction to my Capstone project, I will provide us with a momentary glimpse at the determine how these trends reflect or influence the provide a brief background on the field of underlying structural inconsistencies of our nation, perceptions of eating disorders in American culture. developmental psychopathology, a discipline ______or do they bring us together, or both? What I find focused on the understanding of the development most fascinating is the role that the media plays in The Blame Game: How Cholera of problem behaviors and psychological disorders our interpretation of such events, and I hope you Discourse Relates to Relief Efforts not as a function of simple cause and effect, but as will take a few minutes on April 16th to come KAITLIN WILCOXEN reciprocal processes between the individual and the engage in a discussion of these issues. FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY environment that over time may lead to pervasive ______In the modern era, cholera is a highly treatable dysfunction. The primary focus of my presentation Environmental Scanning in Small will be the results of my independent exploration disease and yet outbreaks routinely kill thousands Local Businesses of people a year. Most of these outbreaks occur in into this topic, within a population of children with SAMANTHA CATRON countries that do not have well organized and diverse maltreatment histories and high levels of FACULTY SPONSOR: PETER MARKULIS, SCHOOL OF institutionalized health care systems, therefore problem behaviors. While all of the children in the BUSINESS treating and containing the disease is difficult. Once study have experienced trauma, most have been In my presentation I will be discussing the effects of a cholera epidemic begins both internal and placed in therapeutic group homes because of "environmental scanning", a strategic planning tool, external relief efforts are influenced by societies' failure to integrate well in typical foster care on small businesses in Geneseo and the surrounding perception of the epidemic, especially who is to settings, due to disruptive behaviors, towns. Environmental scanning, which basically blame. Therefore, it is important to analyze the psychopathology, or unhealthy attachment amounts to keeping an eye on trends that affect kinds of meaning attributed to outbreaks of cholera patterns. My research provides an opportunity to your business operations and reacting accordingly, in order to understand the relationship between examine whether various types of maltreatment or is a topic that few scholars have researched. how we discuss the disease and how we respond to other developmental traumas are related to certain However, it is an important tool for small business it. I will be discussing these issues as related to clusters of problematic outcomes. I will discuss how owners, and that is why I want to understand it and historical cholera outbreaks in India and Great differences in risk factors for developmental trauma share my understanding with anyone who cares to Britain and more modern epidemics, including the may be connected to psychopathology, specific types of maladaptive behaviors (e.g., anxiety, listen. outbreak in Haiti. ______depression, aggression), and social competence. My 2G • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY V findings suggest that age, gender, and number of The Media, Political Talk and Debate previous foster placements also influence WELLES 123 Programs, and Public Opinion outcomes. SAMUEL WHITE SESSION CHAIR: DAVID LEVY, PHILOSOPHY ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL ______De Facto Segregation in New York Justice Beliefs and Existential SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS State Public Schools Since the founding of our country, media has played Motivations ANNIE O'NEILL a role in public opinion. Through written word, ANDREW CHRISTY FACULTY SPONSOR: JANE FOWLER MORSE, SCHOOL politicians rose and fell as public opinion formed FACULTY SPONSOR: JIM ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION based on the stories printed about them. With the Social psychological theory has suggested that we This capstone project explores the current reality of advent of television, a new type of journalism began are motivated to believe that the world is a just, fair de facto segregation in public schools in New York to form as, for the first time, people could watch place. This belief is psychologically adaptive; it State. It evaluates the Brown v. Board of Education politicians and pundits debate and discuss the enables confidence that our efforts and sacrifices in decision as well as other Supreme Court cases that issues. Some would use this new medium for the present will be rewarded in the future, and have dramatically impacted schools throughout the electoral purposes, others to seriously discuss the more generally supports our understanding of the United States. Additionally, it focuses specifically on problems facing our country. Some would yell and world as orderly and understandable. 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The Humanities Soundtrack: Handiwork's handiwork is a contested etymological 2K • ENGLISH WELLES 133 mystery. Its evolution is often set into three Beethoven, Dvorak and Shoenberg Virtue or Desire? Medieval and separate avenues of possible explanations. By SARAH DEMARCO analyzing the past of the English language, discovery This session will explore the alignment of classical, Renaissance Literature of the lineage behind "handiwork" becomes popular, and folk music with the major themes of FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH apparent through word appearance and grammar Humanities II. Just as the visual arts reflect the SESSION CHAIR: SARAH LAWSON conventions. The likelihood of the creation of enduring questions of Philosophy, History and ______"handiwork" through hand, a conjunctive, and Literature, we also find that music offers key Gender Roles in Elizabeth Cary's work; handy and work; or as a backformation is insights into our study of the Humanities. Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen explained through word dating. The shifts from Old Beethoven music reflects many of the same trends to Middle English and from Middle to Modern we find in 19th c. Romantic authors. Just as Alexis of Jewry English explain the uncertainty of a commonplace de Tocqueville found inspiration in American CASEY STILLER word. democracy for the first French Constitution, Antonin My paper argues that Elizabeth Cary's play, The ______Dvorak found inspiration in American folk music for Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry, Jungle: From Sanskrit to Semen his New World Symphony. Arnold Shoenberg's challenges the traditional gender roles of Cary's REBECCA MILLER break from the standard tonality reflects the loss of time, where women had to be obedient and loyal to This paper describes the origins of the word first principles in the mid 20th c. This session will the men in their lives. This is shown through "jungle," from its beginning as the Sanskrit jangal to unveil a prototype web-based tool for Humanities Mariam's main speeches, the strong the modern jungle juice, meaning mixed drinks or faculty and students that provides easy access to characterization of the women in the play, and the seminal fluid. The word has changed over time, and video, audio, and other online resources for the genre of the play as a closet drama. It also is used in settings as varied as the military and the inclusion of music in the study of the Humanities at demonstrates how Cary's own life influenced the stock market. However, "jungle" has continued to Geneseo. play and its theme. In my essay, I show how the play describe those things the societies who use it find demonstrates the hypocrisy of the idea of how a most confusing, tangled, or untamed. 2J • ENGLISH woman was supposed to act in this time period versus how she was treated if she actually did hold 2M • GENESEO AMBASSADORS BRODIE BLACK BOX THEATRE onto the virtues that were expected of her. Student Directed Productions in ______SOUTH 328 Finding Balance: Inner Conflict and SESSION CHAIR: CAROL LONG, OFFICE OF THE Theatre and Musical Theatre PROVOST FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE Frame Narrative in Gower's ______BLOOD, ENGLISH ______Confessio Amantis Provost Ambassador in Diversity – JAMES RYAN Street Stories - The Narrative Shleter William Shakespeare and the Lesbian In Confessio Amantis, John Gower makes use of Continuum frame narrative to examine two conflicting sides of Project his personality: the pious and the sexually obsessed. KEVIN CASTANEDA

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FACULTY SPONSOR: CAROL LONG, OFFICE OF THE The Union School in Port-au-Prince Haiti strives to discount consumer products it affords us, or do we PROVOST empower all their students to become successful revile it for it's deconstruction of the Fordist labor Through a grant from the Center for Inquiry, and lifelong learners who are creative, engaged, model and dismantling of local economies? Discovery and Leadership, I was given the empathetic, and productive global citizens. In the opportunity to listen to the life experiences of wake of natural disasters and the rise of technology, 2Q • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 338 homeless individuals in New York City. With the there has been a steadily increase in bullying Math Miscellany II resources given to me by the center, I was able to amongst students. By applying the best practices FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: OLYMPIA collect interviews from a diverse and unique model from the University of Arkansas Clinton NICODEMI, MATHEMATICS spectrum of humans who have experienced a view School of Public Service, we have been able to ______of society many of us never have to encounter. address the issues of bullying by teaching the Through their recollections, recorded outside of students how to identify behaviors, and how to be Net-Present Value of a Wind Turbine churches and shelters and in subway stations, these an upstander in their efforts to combat bullying. Purchase at SUNY Geneseo individuals shared their life stories to be read by ______JAMES MCLOUGHLIN others. Projects Benefiting Haiti and In the past decade, wind energy has emerged as a ______Nicaragua popular source of renewable energy in both the United States and Europe. In many areas of the Gérard Gouvernet Ambassador in GINA VILLAZHINAY United States wind energy has proven to be an French Language and Culture – FACULTY SPONSOR: WESTON KENNISON, SCHOOL extremely clean and cheap energy source. In my OF EDUCATION Studying Abroad in Quebec talk I will analyze whether or not it will be beneficial Organizing projects through the Community Heath ERIN O'BRIEN for SUNY Geneseo to purchase and operate a wind Alliance club, such as the school supply drive, FACULTY SPONSOR: CAROL LONG, OFFICE OF THE turbine. The analysis makes use of the Net-Present handmade picture books, International Night Dinner PROVOST Value technique to determine the current value of a will benefit Geneseo students and communities in This presentation will seek to share my experiences wind turbine purchase and installation over a as a Study Abroad Student in Quebec as part of the Haiti twenty year timeframe. We will delve into the group presentation to be made by the Geneseo STURGES 104 various costs and benefits of providing energy with Student Ambassadors on their various experiences 2O • HISTORY a wind turbine, and touch upon what variables and projects. US Corporations and Global would affect the value of a wind turbine to ______Capitalism Geneseo. ______Frank Vafier ’74 Ambassador in FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: TZE-KI Leadership – Improving Clinical Care HON, HISTORY Statistical Analysis for Soleo for the Uninsured: A Community ______Communications Inc. NICHOLAS SIMMONS, REBECCA BARBER, ANDREW BRENDAN MURPHY, ZARINA QUANDT Partnership for Social Justice and KIRK, JERRY LEE, JESSICA STEUBING We will discuss the use of data analysis as an Transformational Learning This presentation will deal with the supply chains effective tool for improving the business strategies GRACE TROMPETER, STEPHANIE KELLY, HAYLEY and other key aspects of various corporations of Soleo Communications Inc. Using principles of MARTIN, MICHAEL MATTIUCCI including Samsung, Apple, SONY, and Wal-Mart. conditional probability on data compiled by the FACULTY SPONSOR: ROSE-MARIE CHIERICI, OFFICE Supply chain will be analyzed and compared with company we will illustrate the most successful OF THE PROVOST overall business efficiency. A question session will methods for the company's Direct Merchant The Community Health Alliance (CHA), a student-led follow. Referral service. service organization committed to promoting ______healthful lifestyles in our local and global 2P • HISTORY MILNE 109 Approximations of Pi: A Modern Day communities, partnered with the Geneseo Parish Wal-Mart: A Case Study of the 21st Approach Contrasted with Biblical Outreach Center (POC) to purchase an electronic Century Retailer medical records system for the Center. This system Explanations FACULTY SPONSOR: TZE-KI HON, HISTORY will allow the POC to better serve its clients, while MATTHEW SEDAGHATFAR SESSION CHAIR: KATHLEEN MAPES, HISTORY I will be explaining the Monte Carlo method and allowing CHA members to gain experience with a ______technology they are likely to see in future careers, CHRIS MATEER, KATHRYN GEEN, BEN MILLER, how one could use it to approximate Pi. I will then participate in data analysis, recognize health JOHN OTRUBA contrast with ancient ideas about the value of Pi. disparities, and apply the skills learned in the This will be an abstract examination of the current, From a cursory reading of Kings, one might lead one Geneseo classroom to a problem in need of a 21st century capitalistic template, as reflected in to believe that the ancient Israelites believed that Pi solution. This presentation will show the sustainable the retail business model. We will introduce Wal- equals 3. Perhaps the ancient Israelis believed Pi to benefits afforded to CHA members and the clients Mart as the primary case study. We will ask the be 3 but perhaps a hidden different answer is found of the Parish Outreach Center through the audience to identify with their opinions BEFORE we in the script. opportunity of the Student Ambassador Program present, and then the first presenter will begin. with funds provided by the Center for Inquiry, Following the presenter, we will have a brief Q&A 2R • SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Discovery, and Leadership. session. Audience members will thus have to be WELLES 26 circumspect in their opinions, evaluating their 2N • HAITI AND NICARAGUA School of Business perspective after each segment. We don't want this FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: AVAN SOUTH 244 to be cut & dry; we want the audience to feel JASSAWALLA, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SESSION CHAIR: BETSY COLON, GRANTS involved, because this presentation is relevant to ______MANAGEMENT their lives. This topic broadens on a national and Differences in Conflict Management ______global scale, and affects every student's local Service Learning Project: Addressing economy.We will juxtapose the contrasting Across Cultures contemporary viewpoints on the retail business CASEY QUINN, JACOB BLISS, HOLLY GARY, MARY Bullying in Haiti model, through the critical lens of Wal-Mart. We ALDERIDGE, CHARLES CAPLAN MAYA SHAH, DALYA KEFI will compare perspectives that highlight suppposed Techniques for handling workplace conflict vary FACULTY SPONSORS: BECKY GLASS, OFFICE OF THE benefits of such a business model with a Marxist amongst workers across the globe. There are five PRESIDENT AND FATIMA JOHNSON CENTER FOR contention.The two schools of thought will be basic styles of conflict management that are COMMUNITY brought to bear: Do we laud the model, for the depicted with regard to assertiveness and 50

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In explores readers' strategies and comprehension. then compared their strengths and struggles to light of these findings, recommendations will be Findings regarding effective reading habits of those of Geneseo's college students and will tell provided to American managers at home, as well as college students will be shared. Implications of what they learned from this survey. The results of expatriate managers traveling from the United these findings will also bediscussed. the survey showed that the both populations of States to each of these countries. ______students had many of the same struggles and ______Challenging the Use of Basals in strengths. The results of the survey will be shared. The Impact of Impression ______Teaching Literacy The Next Step in College - Management on the Supervisor- STEPHANIE WILLMARTH Subordinate Relationship This presentation will highlight evidences on why Advocating for One's Self and JENNY KELLER, CASEY NEELS, RYAN BURNS, IRIS basal reading programs are not the best option for Selecting the Right Path Program HUANG, JASON SNOOK teaching reading. An alternative approach using PATRICK CHMELA, ANDREW SASS, MARIELY Impression management (IM) is the process authentic children's literature will be shared and VAZQUEZ, LAUREN DALY, KEITH HOLMES whereby a person attempts to influence the way discussed. The Next Step in College - Advocating for One's Self they are observed and perceived by others. Virtually ______and Selecting the Right Path Program Students in all people engage in some level of IM; it is an Using Bilingual Children's Literature the LIVES (Learning Independence, Vocation, and instinctive habit we take part in when we join a to Teach Spanish to Grades 4-6 Education Skills) Program (a program for students group or an organization. For managers, IM is an with intellectual and/or other developmental inescapable reality of the business world. Therefore, Students disabilities on campus), surveyed approximately 75 it is critical that supervisors and subordinates alike ALEXIS RYTEL Geneseo college students on "What are the Next understand how IM can be used effectively. This undergraduate directed study focuses on Step in College". The students developed a survey Workers at all levels in an organization use IM to examining the use of authentic children's literature about advocating for oneself, how to determine the influence how they are perceived by bosses, to teach Grades 4-6 students Spanish. Findings next step in college, what classes to take, how to be colleagues and underlings. In many cases IM can regarding how using literature written in a culturally successful in college classes, what strategies helped play a crucial role in establishing and maintaining relevant bilingual language supports elementary them to be successful learners, etc. The students office relations. Though IM can be a powerful tool students' Spanish language acquisition will be will share the results of their survey and tell what of influence for supervisors and subordinates within presented. Discussions about the implications of are some of the strategies they use(d) as they an organization, excessive use can create a highly active learning experiences in an undergraduate audited classes for the first time and what were political work environment and can even hinder program will be shared. Selected for presentation strategies that college students use when taking motivation. IM, if used appropriately, can build trust at 12the Annual Niagara University International classes. The sophomores will share their between supervisors and subordinates, but the use Conference on Teaching and Learning, Niagara experiences with auditing Geneseo's college classes, of too many harmful IM tactics can lead to a University, New York. how they selected the classes and strategies that workplace where cultural and gender differences were successful for them. become issues of concern between managers and 2T • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ______their employees. NEWTON 204 What the Future Holds: Looking ______Geneseo LIVES Program Ahead to Life After Graduation Work-Family Conflict in Relation to FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: ELIZABETH MELISSA PRICE, CHRISTOPHER SCHEIB, FRED Human Resources HALL, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION YOUNG ROBERT KAHRS, KERRI REUTER The LIVES Program is a four-year transition that Students in the LIVES (Learning Independence, Work-family conflict is defined as a discord in which provides students with intellectual and/or other Vocation, and Education Skills) Program, (a program the responsibilities and stress of work affect the developmental disabilities the opportunity to learn for students with intellectual and/or other daily non-work life of employees of an organization. independence, vocational skills, and functional developmental disabilities on campus), surveyed Our study on work-family conflict helps conclude educational (academic) skills within an inclusive Geneseo's college students on their views about why it is important for a Human Resource educational community supported by university "Employment and Advocacy". The students will Department to be concerned about the levels of students, educators, administrators, and discuss employment opportunities available to work-family conflict their employees face and community leaders. Students in the program them both on and off campus, their hopes and provides some recommendations to HR managers complete a specialized course of study, audit dreams for future employment, and how the LIVES to prevent instances of this conflict. In this college classes, complete internships on campus, Program has enabled them to expand job presentation, we will share our research findings on participate in clubs and activities on campus, and opportunities to them. The students surveyed their the main causes, coping strategies, and long-term present at state level special education conferences. internship college students as to what skills and effects of work- family conflict. ______behaviors do they think employers are looking for in Comparison and Contrast: First Year new hires and they surveyed their internship 2S • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION College Students with and without supervisors to determine what they are looking for SOUTH 340 in new hires. The LIVES students will provide tips Disabilities and suggestions based on their experiences and Pre-Service and Graduate Education ROBERT MAPLESDEN, TYLER BUSH, KRISTA what they gathered from their research. They will Students' Research on Literacy COBURN, JONATHAN KEE, MATTHEW KLEIN, EMILY also share how they have advocated for their FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA PERPETUA LIWANAG, COOK, JENNA DISKIN, BEATRICE RHOADS, ELIMARY choices, strengths and struggles in their SCHOOL OF EDUCATION VAZQUEZ employment decisions and that the future holds for SESSION CHAIR: ALYSSA SMITH Student in the LIVES (Learning Independence, them job wise. ______Vocation, and Education Skills) Program (a program for students with intellectual and/or other

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______2U • SOCIOLOGY STURGES 108 NAGEL, CHRISTOPHER PREZIO, FORREST REGAN, How to be an Effective Role Model MARY ROSS, JACQUELINE ROULETTE, RHEA RUBIN, JEWLEY SPENCER US Health Care in Transition MICHAEL SCHOLE, MICHAEL SKROUPA, BRIAN Why do people look up to some people and not FACULTY SPONSORS AND SESSION CHAIR: ELAINE SULLIVAN, JOSEPH TERESI, JOSHUA TOBIAS, ZOE others? Why do people try to copy other people? I CLEETON, SOCIOLOGY AND VAN ORDEN, KRISTIN VICECONTE, ZACHARY VICK am a role model to others and people look up to me SUE ANN BRAINARD, MILNE LIBRARY During the 2012 US Presidential election, American ______for help, friendship, and leadership. I researched health care became a political issue dividing how to be an effective role model, why be a role US Health Care in Transition personal responsibility voters from supporters of a model, the benefits and problems with being a role SADIE BAKER, DONTE BOTHEL, JASON CHON, social safety net. A study of shifts in beliefs about model, characteristics of good role models, and THOMAS COLLINS, JOON MIN CHUN, MATTHEW the Affordable Care Act, as influenced by campaign famous role models. I surveyed college students to COUCH, DEIRDRE CROKE, LENETTA DAZZELL, and PAC ads, reveals limited understanding of see who is their role model and why? I surveyed SARAH DEWEY, RHONDA DIPRONIO, AARON existing health insurance coverage as well as of LIVES Program students to see who is their role DORFMAN, RACHEL FRIEDMAN, KLARISSA GARCIA, prospects for change with the implementation of model and why? I surveyed professors to see who is AMANDA GARCIA, JENNIFER GHIO, ANNA "Obama Care." their role model and why. I will share what I found GOYZUETA, JILLIAN HALPERN, BRIGID HALPERN, and give tips on how you can be a role model. EUN HWANGBO, MUKARRAM ISMAIL, FANGYUAN JIN, JONATHAN JOSEPH, MATEUSZ KASZA, MOVED T0 3W CHELSEA KROTJE, ANGELA MARESCA, MATTHEW 2V • SOCIOLOGY

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3A • ANTHROPOLOGY STURGES 106 for different reasons, in order to achieve certain ERIN GIRARD, DANA FITZPATRICK, HAYLEY MARTIN ends. This session will use a sociolinguistic Somalia has a rich cultural history. A patriarchal Anthropolgy 1 perspective to analyze this complex relationship, social structure and stratified gender roles, FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: DENICE touching on accommodation theory, agenda setting augmented by conservative religious beliefs create SZAFRAN, ANTHROPOLOGY and media bias, and will end with a brief summary an oppressive environment for Somali women. The ______of a research project done on the 2012 Presidential female genital mutilation practice reflects the male What Does a Liberal Arts Education Election. dominated power structure in Somali society, and is Mean? perpetuated by traditional myths and lack of CARLY ANNABLE 3B • ANTHROPOLOGY STURGES 109 education. Devastating physical and psychological While there has been a significant amount of Anthropology 2 complications following the procedure are amplified by a lack of access to medical care due to a "quasi- quantitative research on higher education, there FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: ROSE- irrelevant" health care system. This tradition has has not been as much qualitative research on the MARIE CHIERICI, ANTHROPOLOGY liberal arts. This presentation will be on original ______lasted for generations and continues today despite research dealing with what students are looking for Cross Cultural Exploration of Patient international outcry. Misconceptions based on in a liberal arts education, interspersed with data on religious grounds, economic status, social stigma, professors' view of the curriculum. Perception and Experience in and arguments in support of FGM as a cultural ______Borgne, Haiti and the Geneseo Parish practice has continued this tradition in Somalia, and The Effectiveness of Indirectness today, globalization has led to the spread of FGM Outreach Center onto a global scale. However, despite the practice's GREGORY PALERMO GRACE TROMPETER A paper I wrote for last semester's Dante and persistence, in recent years there has been a Each illness we experience is an individual journey. growing movement to outlaw and eradicate the African American Literature course linked the We first recognize undesirable symptoms, question practice of signifying in African American culture cutting of young girls. Actions have been taken not their origin, and then seek care to ameliorate our only by non-governmental, multilateral, and with the poetics of Dante in his Divine Comedy. suffering. Once we have recovered, we share our Signifying, a practice that the Oxford Companion to international organizations, but also by individuals story with others. Depending on the culture one like Edna Adan. Global awareness of the issue, the African American Literature calls a "culturally- lives in, different societal forces contribute to and specific form of irony," relies on indirection and promotion of women's health rights, and the control perceptions of illness and healing, as well as education of Somali women will be essential to the social context in order to insult. While writing the access to health care. The goal of my research is to paper, I came upon an idea that I wanted to further abandonment of this tradition. identify similarities and differences in patient explore: that type of linguistic indirectness is more experiences cross-culturally, including what brings 3C • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY effective than directness as a mode of discourse--or, patients to the doctor, what are the boundaries that in the case of Dante's poem, political protest-- prevent patients from seeking care, and what are VII WELLES 121 because of the resourceful use of community. Using the expectations patients have for their visit. In this SESSION CHAIR: JOE COPE, HISTORY a combination of formalism, speech act theory, and presentation I will report on the results of my ______a little quantum mechanics, this paper examines the fieldwork, which I carried out through patient Yeats as Bard: Poetry and effectiveness of indirect language and camaraderie interviews and participant observation both at a in present-day mass media satire like The Colbert Performance hospital in rural Haiti and at the Geneseo Parish TIMOTHY CAUGHLIN Report. Outreach Center in rural Livingston County. I hope ______FACULTY SPONSOR: ROB DOGGETT, ENGLISH to show that although patients in both the Political Discourse in the Media Often dismissed as an eccentricity, in the first developed and developing worlds face barriers decade of the 20th century, William Butler Yeats BRANDON SHUFELT when seeking care, they persevere with the hope experimented with, and championed a new style of There is a complex relationship that exists between that their health can be restored and their suffering poetic performance. He and his colleague Florence the media, political candidates, and the electorate. put to an end. Farr gave lectures explaining and demonstrating Especially during election seasons, these three ______chanted poetry accompanied by a lyre-harp, or groups influence each other in different ways, and Female Genital Cutting in Somalia 52

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"psaltery." Their goal was for a poetic experience various pathways affect people's abilities to detect WELLES 119 that was accessible, enchanting, and aurally change in sequences of stimuli. A pathway is simply SESSION CHAIR: ALICE RUTKOWSKI, ENGLISH stimulating. This presentation will include a the imaginary line that connects each stimulus as it ______discussion of the historical significance, and appears in a sequence. In particular, this study An Experiment in Artificial Language implications of these ventures, their applicability, examined the differences in change recognition in and a demonstration of this style of performance. pathways that crossed versus pathways that did not Creation For his senior capstone project, Timothy Caughlin cross. JOE FLYNN has attempted to construct a lyre-harp akin to the ______FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH unique and customized "psaltery" that Yeats and Synthetic Optical Spectra of Active Artificial languages, colloquially called "conlangs," have sprung up in recent history for a variety of Farr used. Please join and enjoy a re-creation of a Galactic Nuclei with Derivations of lost art. reasons. L. L. Zamenhof's Esperanto is an attempt at ______Physical Parameters from BOSS Data a universal lingua franca to break cultural Monoliths: A Work in Progress EVAN LOSH boundaries; John Quijada's Ithkuil is a language so RAY FERREIRA FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS precise and logical that certain nationalist groups FACULTY SPONSORS: DAN DEZARN, STUDIO ART, & ASTRONOMY learn it to sharpen their minds; and J. R. R. Tolkien's AND CRYSTAL FERRELL, THEATRE & DANCE Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are the most luminous Elvish colors The Hobbit for millions of readers and In Monoliths, I attempt to create two 20 ft tall objects in the universe, and AGN spectra studies can moviegoers. My project has been to create a sculptures and 7 performance pieces. I will be provide information about extreme astrophysical conlang, called Vedh, for artistic use in fiction. Vedh discussing the theoretical framework surrounding processes and the early universe. We present model explores what could happen if a creole arose from the production of this project. In addition, I will be spectra from 370 nm to 1000 nm of AGN that are the pidgin (makeshift crossover) between a discussing the physical construction of the project, synthesized with physical parameters fit to synthetic language, which can express a whole the problems that have arisen, and the current state calibrated spectra from the Baryon Oscillation sentence in a single word and which does not of the project. Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), yielding results for distinguish between an object and the action it ______central black hole mass and other quantities, using performs; and a proto-Germanic language, which Behavioral Plasticity: The Responses redshifts from the BOSS calibrations. The physical relies on word order and structure. More than just a processes considered in the synthesized spectra compromise between these two forms of language, of Non-Human Primates to Human include thermal emission from an accretion disk at Vedh associates concepts in new ways that call Encroachment Local Thermal Equilibrium, synchrotron radiation, attention to patterns that speakers of English may BENJAMIN SAPADIN atomic emission, and reddening. The BOSS spectra take for granted. FACULTY SPONSOR: BARBARA WELKER, were selected to fill the parameter space of black ______ANTHROPOLOGY hole mass, inclination, and redshift up to 3.6. We Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu Iaido As human populations expand and inhabit new compare our measured parameters to parameters CALLA GOEKE areas, the alteration of the existing habitats can derived independently. FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, have a profound effect on indigenous wildlife. ______PSYCHOLOGY Nonhuman primates, with an uncommon degree of Characterizing the Role of the Actin- Martial arts are very well known throughout the behavioral diversity and flexibility, exhibit a wide binding protein, Tropomodulin, in C. world as methods of learning how to fight in range of behavioral responses to human different manners. However, what many people do encroachment, which can potentially allow some elegans Excretory Cell not know is that martial arts as a collective, as well species to thrive in altered environments. The Morphogenesis as individually, have a rich history and a full purpose of the present study is to investigate the SAMANTHA SMITH philosophical background. Iaido is one such art, relationship between instances of habitat alteration FACULTY SPONSOR: ELISABETH PAULSON, BIOLOGY being the art of the sword that was popular among caused by human encroachment and the Tropomodulins are proteins widely expressed in all samurai. I have experience in one ryu, or school, of development of novel or altered behaviors in complex animals that help to regulate the shape of Iaido in particular; Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu Iaido. nonhuman primate populations. Although individual cells by modifying the cytoskeletal filament actin. C. And yet, despite my 4 ½ years of experience, I am instances of alterations in nonhuman primate elegans worms lacking the tropomodulin TMD-1 still a raw beginner, simply due to the sheer amount behavior are well documented, the connection show defects in development of the excretory cell, of information and philosophies that lie lurking between these behavioral changes and human which acts as a kidney for the worm. The excretory behind Iaido's deceptively simple surface. With this action is not fully understood. The hope is that an cell extends four canals out from the cell body so in mind, I set about researching everything I could understanding of the plasticity of primate behavior that the entire cell looks like a great letter H find for this thesis project. It is very limited, as there in the face of human expansion can prove to be a stretching the length of the worm. In tmd-1 is enough information to fill a lifetime, but it is a valuable asset for future primate conservation mutants, canals extend partially or not at all, and good basis for a beginner like me. efforts. develop a dramatic crinkled appearance. The ______mechanism for this interference is unknown; Philosophy and Theory of Chinese 3D • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY however several possibilities are being explored. Music VIII WELLES 123 Excretory canals are often affected by mutations in SALLY SCHAEFER SESSION CHAIR: OLYMPIA NICODEMI, genes also needed in neuronal axon guidance. FACULTY SPONSOR: JIM KIMBALL, MUSIC MATHEMATICS Knocking down one of these guidance proteins, Eastern music theory is a topic traditionally ______mig-10, produced a similar phenotype to that of the unaddressed not only by undergraduate music The Role of Pathway Complexity in tmd-1 mutants. However, further experiments did programs in the United States and all of the not uncover any neuronal guidance defects in tmd-1 Western world, but also by most students enrolled Visual Working Memory mutants. Instead, it is more likely that TMD-1 is in university music programs in East Asia. The MADELINE KRAUTSAK essential for structural support or an adhesion apparent lack of student study in Chinese music FACULTY SPONSOR: KEN KALLIO, PSYCHOLOGY complex that anchors the canals as they extend. theory makes it an appealing area for Visual working memory is an important component Insight into tropomodulin's role in single-celled tube undergraduate ethnomusicological research. Many of human cognition; it helps control the type and formation can further our understanding of how aspects of Chinese music theory, from scale systems amount of information that we can process and use these tubes form in many organisms, including the to types of instrumental ensembles, are based on over short periods of time. Researchers are still smallest capillaries in humans. Asian philosophy; therefore, it is largely through a trying to clarify abilities and limitations of this philosophical lens that we interpret Chinese music. system. 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2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual terms of chords and progressions, as is common at work in the crucifixion narrative and central to ANDREW MOWRER practice in Western music theory, there are certain the character of Jesus. Barabbas, the criminal, is Claimed North American sightings of Bigfoot can be aspects of Western music theory that are applicable Jesus' necessary other. There is no Jesus without traced as far back as the nineteenth century and to the study of Chinese music and music theory. In Barabbas. Barabbas is Jesus' Jesus, except his have proliferated in the Internet Era. This this presentation, we will consider the philosophical punishment is his acquittal (a punishment, presentation explores the pattern and typology of background from which Chinese music theory Lagerkvist shows us, in its own right). They are sightings. These reports are undeniably developed, analyze elements of the music from the radically different, but some scholars have gone so questionable, owing to problems of eyewitness perspectives of both East Asian and Western music far as to argue that they are one and the same. reliability, lack of physical evidence, and outright theories, and trace Chinese music theory from its Jesus as savior, then, is indistinct from Jesus as fabrication. Nonetheless, alleged sightings are open historical beginnings to its presence in criminal. He is the extralegal, the exceptional body, to categorization by type, chronology, and location. contemporary compositions. homo sacer, that which exists beyond the Word and Analysis based on 4000 claimed sightings reveals thereby defines and becomes it. distinct clusters in space and time. Are such clusters 3F • ENGLISH WELLES 133 "real" (based, for example, on ecological niches and The Bible Begets Literature: Biblical 3G • ENGLISH WELLES 131 spiking populations) or are they driven exclusively Voices from ENG 201 by the magnetism of local lore and the coverage of Influences on Literary Texts the myth by mass media? While sighting FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: CHRIS FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH concentrations in states like Ohio and Florida SESSION CHAIR: NICOLE HAZLETT PERRI, ENGLISH ______appear to rest primarily on the power of local lore, ______clusters in the Pacific Northwest and California are Anne Sexton, Poet off the Cross Eye of the Beholder certainly suggestive of observer geography. Many JOHN BOSELLI JANE MCGOWAN trends suggest something of a Bigfoot ecological This paper evaluates Anne Sexton's poetry volume I will be reading a creative non-fiction piece that norm worthy of further investigation. Legitimately All My Pretty Ones, exploring its preoccupation with portrays my life experiences growing up and living or otherwise, interest in Bigfoot has survived for inheritance and its ambiguity in the context of the with a condition called Hemifacial Microsomia. centuries, and similarities among alleged sightings Christian faith. A series of close readings charts Through this compelling and humorous piece, I paint a surprisingly distinctive map of the spread of Sexton's quest for a relationship with God outside hope to give the audience a glimpse of what it's like lore and tradition through time. of Roman Catholic orthodoxy. It is argued that to be the girl who looks different from everyone ______Sexton's meditation on God's presence in the poetic else. As the story unfolds through uncomfortable The Arak Dilemma and exposing situations the prevailing message word stems from her inability to find affirmation in APRIL LENHARD remains that acceptance and love can come from the biblical Word. Built on the clash between guilt Exploring arak, a type of liquor commonly made by and love, truth and falsehood, rigidity and fluidity, the most unexpected places. ______the disadvantaged socioeconomic classes in India, and sickness and vitality, the poems are biblical in which has found itself with a mixed bag of provinces their symmetry and their formation of a holy Model A Father which ban liquor and carry heavy social stigma, and constellation of images. MEGHAN BARRETT provinces where alcohol is legal and openly ______A creative non-fiction piece featuring a series of accepted in the community. Through studying the The Modern Teachings of Noah's vignettes about a young girl growing up in her history and cultural norms of India and comparing father's automobile-dominated world. Through the both sides of the prohibition argument, the drinking Flood: Accepting Diversity girl's eyes we watch the father build confidence and CLARISSE BIRKBY patterns and grassroots organization of rural Indians independence through lug nuts and triangle braces. will be uncovered. Then, by examining arak, a fuller Author Timothy Findley changes the well-known The piece is about father-daughter relationships biblical story of Noah’s flood by shifting the theme perspective of the sociological stigmas and political and how passion, when focused, leads to success. effects can be addressed when the question of total of salvation to the theme of disaster in his retelling, ______Not Wanted on the Voyage, in order to comment on alcohol "liquidation" arises. In uncovering the Don't Kill a Grasshopper secrets of this beverage, we are able to follow its the acceptance of diversity in modern society. In AARON WEINTRAUB this paper, I will analyze Findley’s use of narration from the geographical influences, its Don't Kill a Grasshopper explores the idea of cause metamorphosis into a liquor made and consumed characterization of the protagonists of the biblical and effect. The story centers in the belief that our version of the flood, Yahweh and Noah, the primarily from the "lower classes", and examine actions determine our life's sequence of events. what it means to drink in a traditionally dry society. characterization of Mrs. Noyes and Lucy, and finally, Each of these actions or decisions lead us to the the conclusion of the novel, which depicts Findley’s The analysis of this paper and presentation comes next moment in our lives, causing a chain reaction down to the crucial question of the state India is overriding concern which suggests the danger of similar to the idea of the domino effect. It also being incapable accept diversity or the incapability currently in and what, given the history and unique questions the perception that life was preordained culture of this area, would be the best way to of having compassion for others. Findley’s parody, from the beginning of time. It revolves around the Not Wanted on the Voyage suggests the dangerous proceed in the future. idea that life is not laid out from a divine scheme, ______outcomes of not simply religion, but also the and turns away from the notions of fate and A World We Have Lost: The Lost inability to accept change. The inability to accept destiny. 'Grasshopper' is a progressive work that changes or diversity in our world today will result in follows the story of Jason and how his various Villages of the St. Lawrence Seaway the same hopelessness that is suggested decisions affect his life. The piece is divided into Project throughout Findley’s novel. sections, defined by year. Each section contains a ______BRIDGET KELLY significant event that impacts Jason later in life. Plans for bilateral Canadian-American development The Carnivalized Gospel: Jesus, Jason's life is defined by his decisions, and through of the St. Lawrence Seaway and International Barabbas, and the Exceptional Body his example, 'Grasshopper' instills within us, the Hydroelectric Project began in 1924. Resistance SEAN NEILL aspiration to be ever aware of our actions and their from the United States Senate and Congress Barabbas is the prisoner who, in the Gospels, is consequences. hindered progress on the project and negotiations acquitted and released in place of Jesus. Reading between the two countries continued until 1952. the Barabban narrative alongside Par Lagerkvist's 3H • GEOGRAPHY STURGES 108 On July 1, 1958, the flooding began and a portion of novel, Barabbas, and drawing on the work of FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: DARRELL the St. Lawrence River became Lake St. Lawrence, Agamben, Bakhtin, and Foucault, I hope to NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY displacing over 6,500 people. 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2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual discuss and analyze the attachment to place that This presentation will be a panel describing three Americans, especially clergymen and civil rights has let the villages of Aultsville, Dickinson's Landing, countries in the European Union. We will focus on activists, these protests would have failed. Because Farran's Point, Maple Grove, Mille Roches, Spain, Germany and another country and local blacks tended to interpret the toxic landfill in Moulinette, Santa Cruz, Sheek Island, Wales and emphasize what type of capitalism they use, i.e. racial and biblical terms, and because they believed Woodlands persist in local memory more than fifty neoliberalism, Keynesian economics, etc. that God was on their side, they were willing to years after their submersion. Grassroots resistance enter the environmental fight in large numbers and to the project and the conflict between nationalism to stay the course until victory was won a quarter and attachment to place is examined through 3K • HISTORY STURGES 112 century later. contemporary newspapers and interviews. SESSION CHAIR: JORDAN KLEIMAN, HISTORY ______3L • INTERDISCIPLINARY ISC 115 3I • HEALTH CARE WELLES 128 Buried in the Record: Resurrecting SESSION CHAIR: HELEN THOMAS, SPONSORED SESSION CHAIR: MELINDA DUBOIS, HEALTH & RESEARCH COUNSELING Hooker Chemical's Love Canal Legacy ______JUSTIN SHAPIRO Up All Night: The Geneseo Insomnia You Have To Pay For That: How FACULTY SPONSOR: JORDAN KLEIMAN, HISTORY Undoubtedly the Love Canal disaster was integral to Film Festival Experience Insurance Artificially Inflates the the emergence of the environmental justice AARON TOMASSINI, JESSALYN MEEHAN Cost of Health Care movement. Historians writing about this disaster FACULTY SPONSOR: JOE DOLCE, COMPUTING AND RICK BARTON frequently accept a traditional narrative that INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: EDWARD DRACHMAN, understates Hooker Chemical Corporation's true Participants of the 2012 and 2013 Geneseo POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS contribution to Love Canal. In attempting to Insomnia Film Festival will share their experiences. Health care costs in the United States are understand Love Canal's meaning and importance in This 24 hour competition tested the participants significantly higher than those in other the context of the environmental justice movement, time-management and creative thinking skills as industrialized countries. These high costs have historians and other authors have entrenched this well as their nocturnal aptitude. Presenters will created a barrier access to health care and were a traditional narrative in contemporary American discuss the challenges, triumphs and lessons major factor in the passage of the Affordable Care environmental history. This paper will attempt to learned through this 24 hour mad dash to the finish Act. However, the Affordable Care Act does not provide a detailed analysis of Hooker's actions at line. Presentation will include a short discussion, a address the problems of inflated costs in the health Love Canal in order to better describe the origins of presentation of some of the winning films and some sector. These inflated costs are due to hidden costs, the Love Canal disaster. Of specific focus in this quirky anecdotes. ______the methodology of health insurance and the presentation will be the question of condemnation methods of negotiations and billing between health proceedings at Love Canal and the history of Restoration of Past Artworks insurance companies, doctors and hospitals. environmental degradation at the Canal site. This JOO YEON SHIN ______submission was selected for presentation at Phi FACULTY SPONSOR: LYNETTE BOSCH, ART HISTORY Assessing Respiratory Status in the Alpha Theta Conference, Geneseo, NY This presentation will be about the restoration of past artworks, which is mainly focused on Pre-Hospital Setting ______The War on Women: The Ongoing Renaissance art. I will be talking about controversies CAROLINE SCHWARTZ, GIDEON COHEN on these artworks that have been previously FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH VANREMMEN, Struggle restored. UNIVERSITY POLICE DEPARTMENT DANIELLE FERRANTE ______A critical part of an Emergency Medical Technician's FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY The Gentleman is not a Vassal: (EMT) duties involves assessing vital signs (pulse, My PowerPoint will compare the struggle of blood pressure, respirations). Unfortunately, suffragettes in the 19th and 20th century and Confucius, Aristotle, and the Ruler current research suggests that EMS providers do a compare it to the struggle women have now. I will Exemplar poor job analyzing respiratory rate and accurately show the tribulations women faced back then are EMILY JENNINGS recognizing abnormal lung sounds, both of which the same as those modern women face today. I will FACULTY SPONSOR: STEVE BEIN, PHILOSOPHY are critical in assessing respiratory status. In the use selected quotes and works from famous This paper uses Aristotle's Politics and Nicomachean absence of concerning chief complaints or relevant suffragettes such as the Grimke sisters, Alice Paul, Ethics as well as Confucius' Analects to compare the medical history, EMS providers quickly overlook and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and compare them to philosophers' visions of the best state. The paper respirations and focus on the more "popular" pulse modern footage of Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and finds that Aristotle's and Confucius' political and blood pressure vital signs. Many factors play a others who are waging the war on women. This will philosophies are very similar--both philosophers role in our ability of accurately assessing both rate illuminate the strength of this war on women as conclude that the best state is led by an enlightened and quality including ambulance noise, well as prove it has been waged since the individual who shapes the behavior of the populace environmental conditions, and inexperience in suffragettes began their fight. I will use PowerPoint, by setting a virtuous example. Selected for recognizing the different types, rates and presence and an array of different medias to display this presentation at 18th Annual Undergraduate or absence of breath sounds. This lecture will point thoroughly and clearly. I hope to have many Philosophy Conference at SUNY Oneonta. highlight research on current issues with respiration questions from the audience as the topic will have analysis, review abnormal lung sounds and when to many differing opinions. ______expect them, and highlight current strategies for 3M • INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM improving accuracy. Selected for presentation at "Oh, Lord, Don't Let 'Em Drop That National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services PCB on Me": African Americans, MILNE 105 Foundation (NCEMSF) Conference, Washington Speech Buddies Go Dutch - and Religion, and the Origins of the D.C.. Other Languages: Lessons Learned Environmental Justice Movement 3J • HISTORY STURGES 104 ELIZABETH DIERENFIELD from Teaching English and American Capitalism and the European Union FACULTY SPONSOR: JORDAN KLEIMAN, HISTORY Culture to International Students FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: TZE-KI The environmental justice movement had its origins FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: IRENE HON, HISTORY in the dramatic 1982 fight against a state- BELYAKOV, INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM ______sanctioned toxic waste dump in rural Warren ______CHLOE FERNANDEZ, JOSEPH CORBIN, KERRYANN County, North Carolina. This paper argues that CUDDLIPP without the leadership and support of African 55

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Speech Buddies Go Dutch: Student entitled to reclaim unpaid taxes and fines, the how the Jacobian is used to change coordinates in seamstresses fashion a web of lies that end in a multivariable integration, we learned how to apply Teaches English via Skype surprising set of events. changes of coordinate systems to limits of MICHELLE WALPOLE, SHELBY TOMPKINS ______summations. We will discuss which methodswere The student will present results of her work/ El Espejo (The Mirror) useful when determining whether ourdouble teaching English to her "ESL Speech Buddy" via SEBASTIÁN MUNN summation series converges. This talk will be Skype. Her speech buddy is a Dutch exchange What at first glance appears to be two different accessible to students who are currently enrolled in student who requested "a speech buddy" again - takes, from a woman's point of view, of men's Math 223. after he returned home to the Netherlands after a "infidelity," turns out to be the humorous and ______semester in Geneseo. She will comment on her satiric stance of the author (a man) regarding the A Finger Between Any Two Fingers methods of teaching English via Skype, and her prototypical, "victimized" female. ALEXANDER CHICHESTER, PATRICK DANIELS cultural and linguistic experiences. ______Mathematics Magazine, a publication for ______Sueldo Según Capacidades (Salary undergraduate mathematics students, poses Geneseo Speech Buddies Teach Based on Experience) challenging problems at the end of each issue. We attacked a problem involving strictly increasing English and American Culture to In response to an ad for an attractive office clerk, a bijections between countably infinite subsets of the International Students young woman walks into the "shop" of her interval(0,1). Further, we studied the effect that the EVAN PALMER, SHERRY LEUNG, CLARE FLYNN prospective employer, a "seasoned" woman of the concept of "density" had on our results. An intuitive Students from INTD 388, "Methods of Teaching world who immediately proceeds to interview the example of a dense set would be the set of infinitely English to Speakers of Other Languages," will young candidate by subjecting her to a battery of many fingers such that there is a finger between present results of their service learning: being secretarial tests. Will the applicant get the clerical any two fingers. Tackling this particular problem Speech Buddies who teach English to their position, or will she need to assume a different goes beyond the scope of the mathematics Japanese, Korean, and French-speaking poise? curriculum at SUNY Geneseo; recursion, algorithms, counterparts. The presenters will analyze their and advanced techniques in mathematical proof methods of teaching English, as well as share their SOUTH 338 3O • MATHEMATICS areutilized. We will present key definitionsand cultural and linguistic experiences. ______Mathematical Problem Solving include examples that illustrate thedefinitions of FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: PATRICK dense and strictly increasing before discussing the Geneseo Speech Buddies Teach RAULT, MATHEMATICS progress we have made towards solving the English and American Culture to ______problem. This talk will be accessible to students International Students (cont.) How Matrices Can Paint Pictures who are taking MATH239.

KIMBERLY SHERMAN, ALICE HYEIN KIM, JESSICA JACOB PASANEN GILBERT If you've ever taken a linear algebra course, you've 3P • APPLIED MATHEMATICS Students from INTD 388, "Methods of Teaching seen matrices, and many of them. A square matrix SOUTH 328 English to Speakers of Other Languages," will has a property called a "numerical range," which can be illustratedby a 2-dimensional shape in the Mathematics present results of their service learning: being FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: CAROLINE Speech Buddies who teach English to their Korean complex plane. These shapes can be extremely different based on the entries of the original matrix. HADDAD, MATHEMATICS and Chinese-speaking counterparts. The presenters ______Under certain conditions,the shape produced is an will analyze their methods of teaching English, as Math Madness: Using Mathematical well as share their cultural and linguistic ellipse, where the two foci are the eigen values of experiences. One presenter will discuss her own the matrix. An n-ellipse is defined to be the set of Methods to Examine Sports Rankings experiences in learning English as a s second points such that the sum of the distances from n and Predict Basketball Outcomes foci is constant. We'll list the four possible shapes of language and now applying them to teaching her GREG SPITZ, VICTORIA SILLIMAN the numerical range of a 3-by-3 matrix and the international speech buddy. Sports ranking algorithms have used statistics for situations in which they arise. One of the shapes years, however, more and more analysts in the that the numerical range can take is a poorly 3N • LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES sports community are finding that mathematical understood "ovular shape," which looks strikingly techniques and models using least squares and STURGES AUDITORIUM similar to the 3-ellipse. We will discuss the possible eigenvectors may be used to effectively rank sports En Un Dos Por Tres: Three One-Act relationship between the"ovular shape" and the 3- teams. Many are at least as effective as those of ellipse. This talk will be accessible to anyone Comedies by Mexican Playwright professional pundits. We will present several currently enrolled in Math 233. Emilio Carballido. A Spanish ______different methods for ranking teams starting with some very basic techniques and working up to more performance acted and directed by advanced algorithms. A background in linear students and faculty of the Double Trouble with Summations algebra will be helpful, but not necessary to Department of Languages and AIDAN BELL, SHANE CLARK understand our presentation. Come see if our Throughout the world of mathematics, summations predictions beat the bracketologists! Literatures. appear in unexpected places. Pi Mu Epsilon, an ______FACULTY SPONSORS AND SESSION CHAIR: ROSE undergraduate mathematics journal, publishes Linear Programming and the MCEWEN AND FELISA BREA, LANGUAGES AND challenging problems everysemester. During an Assignment Problem LITERATURES attempt to solve such aproblem we encountered a ANH TRAN ______double summation in an infinite series. One of the The assignment problem is one of the fundamental El Censo (The Census) main difficulties of solving the problem came from optimization problems in a branch of applied SCARLET NÚÑEZ, MARINA FABRE, AMELIA YOUSEY, the "limits of summation" being dependent. (An mathematics known as operations research. The SIMONE MASON, SEBASTIÁN GUTIÉRREZ, KEVIN example of limits of a summation is the pair of solution has many practical applications, especially ÁLVAREZ numbers 1 and 100 in Gauss's famous formula 1 + in business and production management. In this talk The owners and the employee of an unlicensed 2+ 3+... +100 = 100(101)/2.) Due to the unique we will introduce a way to formulate the problem seamstress shop receive the unexpected visit of a nature of the problem we were led to explore many mathematically as a linear program, and taking state census-taker (el empadronador). Fearing that mathematical techniquesfor streamlining advantage of its special structure, present an this state "authority" figure may turn them in to the summations. We used Sterling's approximation to Treasury Department (el Fisco), which would be simplify the binomial expansion. In a similar way to 56

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual algorithm known as the Hungarian method to solve of the imprisoned politicals as tough as possible. The Sinking of the "Unsinkable" A it. Finally, despite the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, labor camps continued to be used to punish Unit Plan Designed to Explore the 3Q • POLITICAL SCIENCE & ordinary criminal in the Russian Federation. Despite Question: Who is Responsible for the INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS their stated purpose, as the jailing and Sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic imprisonment of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the LAUREN FONTE, ROSE HENDERSON, DEVEN WELLES 24 members of "Pussy Riot" in these prison camps COULTER, BREANNE RAFFERTY show the reader, these camps could once again be Research on American and Russian Washington Times columnist Seth Borenstein used as a means to silence opposition to the ever Politics writes, "epic disasters, the anguished cries, the more authoritarian Putin regime. SESSION CHAIR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL SCIENCE ______stories of heroism, are the central narratives of our & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS age, both enthralling and horrifying. And our ______Lenin's Life After Death: An Analysis obsession began [over] a century ago, unfolding in The Economy and Citizens' Vote of the Politics Surrounding the Lenin just 160 terrifying minutes, on a supposedly Choice Mausoleum as a Symbol of Power unsinkable ship, as more than 1,500 souls slipped into the icy water of the North Atlantic." At 11:40 LAURA RAHEB Throughout History p.m. on the fourteenth of April, 1912, the fate of FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL MARTIN ROGACHEFSKY the so-called "unsinkable" ship was sealed when the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT GOECKEL, POLITICAL lookout on the RMS Titanic spotted an iceberg This presentation examines research on economic SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS directly in the ship's path amidst the North Atlantic. voting, defined as citizens' assessment of the state This presentation will cover the history ofpolitics From the moment the tragedy captured the globe's of the economy and how these judgments translate surrounding the Mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin, attention it was more than news. To this day, the into vote choice. This research will include a review which sits below the Kremlin wall in the Red Square sinking of the Titanic remains a legacy, a macabre of political science literature on the topic. The of Moscow, Russia. In it, I explore the question of form of fascination. Still, the history of the sinking of presentation will also include data analysis as a whether Lenin's death, embalmment, and the Titanic and the ethical and controversial means to support an argument for trends in placement within the mausoleum was used for questions this historical event poses often go economic voting and voting behavior in American political gain by leaders in the Soviet and post- untaught in elementary school classrooms. This politics. Soviet era of Russian history. I also note that the ______presentation is designed to offer an overview of a mausoleum started as and continues to be seen as a unit plan that focuses on the Titanic legacy as a The Affordable Care Act as a Case symbol of power in accordance with Marxist- staple of both cultural and ethical literacy and Study of Major Policy Change Leninist ideology and the Soviet Union as a whole. encourages students to question who or what is SAMUEL WHITE The paper covers contemporary debates about responsible for the tragedy that was the sinking of FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Lenin's final burial as well. the Titanic? This submission was selected for SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS presentation at New York State Council for the When major pieces of legislation are pushed 3R • SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Social Studies/New York State Social Studies through Congress and become law, we often look at SOUTH 340 Supervisors Association Conference, Rye Brook, NY. the result as opposed to the process. The fact is, Prospects for the U.S. Economy, ______with every piece of major legislation that passes A Road Trip Through Westward Spring 2013, with the Fed Challenge through Congress, several conditions must be Expansion present for major legislation to be introduced, Team! CHRISTIE FREYER, BRITTANY HACKBARTH debated, and passed. In the United States, FACULTY SPONSOR: LEONIE STONE, SCHOOL OF As a key assignment for our Social Studies healthcare has been among the most difficult areas BUSINESS curriculum class, we developed a comprehensive to achieve major policy change. It invokes deep SESSION CHAIR: ANDREW HESSLER unit plan on Westward Expansion. This unit plan divides on the role of government, directly impacts ______includes three interactive lesson plans, a Document the profit margins of billion dollar companies, and Macroeconomic Analysis of the U.S. Based Question assessment and a fifteen-lesson is, quite literally, a life and death issue for many synopsis of the month-long unit. We believe it is Americans. Yet, for the first time in decades, major Economy extremely important for students, as citizens of the healthcare legislation did pass in the form of the ANDREW HESSLER, RAJAN BURATHOKI, KATRINA Unites States, to comprehend how their nation Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This STEINLEY, OLIVIA SLUZAR, NOAH SEIFERT, DAVID became so large and diverse. Understanding both, presentation will focus on the factors that made this CEELY, TYLER DERUBIO, DANIEL COUGHLIN, what motivated Westward Expansion and the major reform possible. ZACHARY CAVALLINI, JASE STAHLECKER, MADELINE ______SMITH positive and negative outcomes of this time period Russian Labor Camps, Continuities The Geneseo Fed Challenge team discusses the is crucial to grasping United States history. Our goal prospects for the U.S. economy. Sequestration! was to create lessons that do not just teach our and Changes Since the Stalin Era Fiscal cliffs! Debtceilings! And much, much more…. students about history but lessons that allow our MATTHEW ANDREWS students to do history. It is important for students FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT GOECKEL, POLITICAL 3S • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION to be actively engaged in their learning and to work SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS together as a community to explore and discover Since the GULAGs birth in the 1920s, they have SOUTH 233 who and what made our world how it is today. This been associated with the repressive policies of Join the Adventure Aboard the presentation will consist of a brief overview of the Joseph Stalin. Although Stalin's death in 1953 lead Titanic, Across Westward Expansion, contents of our unit plan, please join us on A Road to a shrinking of the GULAG system, successive Trip Through Westward Expansion. Selected for Soviet administrations continued to use there and through PEACES of Religion: presentation at New York State Council for the maining labor camps as a means to silence Ambitious Social Studies Units for Social Studies/New York State Social Studies discontent with their authoritarian regime. In the Elementary Grades Supervisors Association Conference, Rye Brook, NY. addition, memoirs published by dissidents ______FACULTY SPONSOR: ANN MARIE LAURICELLA, imprisoned within the GULAG in the post-1953 era SCHOOL OF EDUCATION PEACES of Religion show readers that although changes took place SESSION CHAIR: LAUREN FONTE YASMINE QAZI within these camps following Stalin's death, new ______This presentation will consist of an overview of a and traditional methods were used to make the life unit plan focused on the topic of "Religions." This

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2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual unit was created because I feel that in our a weeklong, cost-free vacation. For the past 4 years seven interviews were conducted for Sociology 376, globalized society, the issues regarding differences Dr. David Parfitt has taken a group of 12-13 a course devoted to subjective well-being, that help between people comes down, almost always, to the Geneseo students down to the village to volunteer to address whether or not future oriented people over dramatization and fanaticism of their religious for a week. Students work two shifts/day and help are more likely to mention consumption as a source differences. Religion, for some, plays very strongly with various activities including serving meals, of well-being. By looking at the data collected it is within their culture itself. It can dictate what entertainment, participating in the evening clear that consumerism, in many cases, does lead to language you speak, where you live, values you activities, and doing service projects around the an increased sense of well-being. The interviews hold, dietary choices, customs, clothing, jewelry, village. They help with weekly Village events such as further show that well-being is multifaceted, and music, etc. Through my unit, I hope to challenge the the Winter Wonderland and Halloween party, scoop rather hard to quantify, as it largely differs from "automatic" thinking within my students when it ice cream, serve breakfast at the Gingerbread person to person. Furthermore, each person draws comes to the topic of religion. Stereotypes, house, and run the carousel. In this presentation, well-being from numerous sources, and their generalizations, wrong information as shown or students will discuss the history of the Village, what understanding of well-being is ever changing. heard from various sources, as well as interactions it means to volunteer there, and their personal ______the students engage in are all things that can be the experiences. An emphasis will be placed on how the Well-Being: The Past, The Present result of restrictive, "automatic" thinking. In our Village has affected each student and what they and The Future ever shrinking world, as a future teacher, I feel it is have gained from the trip, as well as on how others JENNY LIU my duty to prepare my students for the inevitability can be involved and help the cause. Studies on well-being are essential to help that they will be interacting with people not only ______individuals find self-satisfaction in their lives. from other places, but who also hold to different Send a Smile to Cystic Fibrosis Research has suggested that the young, the middle belief systems. By including this unit in the school LAUREN SMITH aged and the elderly find their well-being in the year, I hope to promote acceptance and a better FACULTY SPONSOR: TOM MATTHEWS, GOLD future, present and past respectively. However it understanding of other belief systems within my Send a Smile to Cystic Fibrosis aims to recruit fails to consider that perhaps individuals can find students. Selected for presentation at New York student organizations to send smiles to children well-being in the past, present and future regardless State Council for the Social Studies/New York State with Cystic Fibrosis who are currently hospitalized of age. This study attempts to examine this Social Studies Supervisors Association Conference, at Buffalo Children's Hospital by creating greeting suggestion more thoroughly. People can perhaps Rye Brook, NY. cards for them. reflect how their personal circumstances in the

past, present and future will contribute to their 3T • SESSION ON SERVICE MCU 114 3U • SOCIOLOGY MILNE 109 well-being in the present and into the future. The SESSION CHAIR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD Sociological Studies of Well Being study reviews 30 interviews in which any reference ______FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: STEVE to time was first recorded and later the individual's Imagine It: A Community Recycling DERNE, SOCIOLOGY age was reflected upon. The results suggest that age Initiative (GOLD Diamond Project) ______does not necessarily dictate where one might find SAIF RATUL, LINDSAY GIACALONE, NIKOLAY CLARK Not What, But Why?: The their well-being or lack of well-being rather; the FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD Importance of Emotions in individual personal circumstances affects when in Printer and copier cartridges are recycled through a time a person finds his or her well-being. ______variety of methods. Chi Alpha Epsilon National Understanding Subjective Wellbeing Honor Society (affiliated with Access Opportunity MICHAEL COOKE The Multiplicity of the "Self" = The Programs) has been working with a private recycling Research suggests that it is an individual's personal Cause of Ever-Changing Conceptions biography that shapes the sources of their program called "Imagine It" based in Rochester. The of Well-Being program provides a campus-wide structural wellbeing. According to wellbeing scholar Ed LYN CRUZ recycling system. Although this partnership with Diener's definition, wellbeing stresses the The purpose of this study is to focus on the Imagine It organization and Chi Alpha Epsilon experience of pleasant emotions, but little is known multiplicity of the self and its intricate National Honor Society has been in place for over about the relationship of positive and negative underpinnings. More specifically, I will be linking ten years, it was extremely limited. By collaborating affect to the individual's sources of wellbeing. how the self's ability to change over time affects with the SUNY Geneseo Environmental Health and Through analysis of thirty qualitative interviews I one's own conception of well-being. Previous Safety Department, we recently helped to expand suggest that biographical experiences are studies on well-being including an important cross- the program throughout the campus. This fundamentally emotional experiences and that it is cultural study by Gordon Mattews have tied the self PowerPoint presentation seeks to explore how we the experience of emotions, not simply of with well-being but have not developed and directly utilized local organizations to achieve our recycling biographical events, that shapes the sources of tied the ever-changing nature of the self with well- initiative and promote long-standing relationships one's wellbeing. Investigation of the emotional being. So what Mathews neglects and fails to for the Geneseo Opportunity for Leadership aspect of wellbeing promises to expand the acknowledge in his work is not the fact that the self Development Diamond (Community Engagement discipline by asking not what activities and be tied with well-being but that the self is intrinsic and Social Justice) Certificate program. We will be relationships produce a subjective sense of to change which in turn would affect any preceding addressing our progress with "Imagine It" program wellbeing in an individual, but why these conceptions of well-being. In other words what I call and how it is benefitting both the campus relationships and activities produce such feelings. ______the multiplicity of the self usually goes hand in hand community and local organizations. ______Does Consumerism Lead to an with how one defines his or her own well-being at any given period in time. My proposition was Give Kids the World Village Increased Sense of Well-Being? supported by some in-depth interviews taken from Volunteer Trip ROSEMARY MARTILOTTA Mathews's work What Makes Life Worth Living? JOSEPHINE CHAMPLIN, AMY MALSEGNA, BRANDI While Clive Hamilton suggests that advertisements How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their MARTIN, CARA HALLAHAN, CASSANDRA SAROLI, lead people to believe that taking part in our Worlds as well as from a compilation of interview CASSIDY LESTER, DAVID BAKER, EMILY ZSCHOCHE, consumer-based culture will lead to a heightened transcripts collected from my Subjective Well-being FELICIA VANACORE, JENNIFER LEVY, KAITLYN sense of well-being, he concludes that people do course. MAMAY, NICOLE EMBT, SHANNON GRUENAUER not have increasingly elevated levels of happiness FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID PARFITT, MILNE LIBRARY as they have more money, and therefore ability to 3V • WOMEN'S STUDIES WELLES 115 consume. 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FACULTY SPONSORS AND SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE disabilities in the United States. Intellectual This paper draws attention to the fact that the high BLOOD, ENGLISH, AND JENNY KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY disabilities are becoming increasingly more visible, divorce rate from the 1970's to the present has ______and with the acknowledgement of the need for affected the children of today. My paper draws Heterosexual Women's Responses to resources for the disabled comes the question of attention to the fact that the tradition of marriage is Lesbian Adoption: Moderating "Whatresources?". Understanding our bodies is being lost and that this divorce culture will become animportant part of development, especially sexual the current and next generation's history. Effects of Homonegativity development. Sex education programs that are ______BRIDGET STITH developmentally appropriate, educational, and Homosexual Identity Formation in a Lesbian couples face numerous legal and other effective for people with intellectual disabilities is Heteronormative World institutional barriers to parenting children. critical to the healthy development of all people, KATIE CARDINAL Compared to heterosexual couples, lesbian couples especially those with intellectual disabilities. The In a society that assumes each individual to be who adopt may elicit negative affect and parenting argument for sex education for intellectually attracted to the opposite sex, it is crucial to the disapproval,especially among heterosexual women disabled individuals is based on reviews ofpast formation of homosexual identity that the with prejudicial attitudes about lesbians. The programs, the expressed needs of the intellectually individual be exposed to positive interactions current study compared observers' responses to disabled themselves, and other related research. regarding homosexuality in order for him or her to lesbian versus heterosexual adoptive parents among women across levels of homonegative be comfortable in the acceptance of that identity. attitudes and social dominance orientation. This paper presents an in-depth analysis of research ______3W • SOCIOLOGY STURGES 111 on the formation of homosexual identities. Planned Parenthood and Its Impact WHO AM I?: Identity Issues ______We Have to Fight for our Right to be of the Lives of Low Income Women FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: ANNE EISENBERG, SOCIOLOGY Who We Are: Being Gay and in High JOBINA ALEXANDER ______This presentation is the culmination of an internship School experience at Planned Parenthood. Alexander will Children of Parents with Cancer and KRISTIN BIERSBACH explore the importance of affordable health care for Its Impact on Their Identity This paper explores the ever present issue of the low income women and how Planned Parenthood is RACHEL FRIEDMAN mistreatment and confusion that LGBTQ youths effectivly delivering health care to low income Children look to their parents as a role model and have to endure during their primary education women. the main source of where they learn vital norms, years. Through an examination of key social issues ______rules and values. When a child's parent is diagnosed framed through personal experiences, this paper Reproductive Rights and the with cancer, their attitude and outlook on life will examines how the treatment of LGBTQ students has Intellectually Disabled in the United directly impact on their children's development. had a significant role in whether or not adolescents ______decide to "come out." States – The Importance of Sex The Effect of Divorce on the

Education Generation that is the Product of the LAUREN WEISBERG This presentation will cover reproductive rights, sex 1970's to Present education, and how it affects those with intellectual KAYLA MARKEL

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4A • ANTHROPOLOGY STURGES 106 The Effects of British Colonialism on KIMBERLY AEBLI This paper is an overview and analysis of the sex FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JAMES Sexual Values in the Indian AIMERS, ANTHROPOLOGY and sexuality of the Aztecs, with a specific focus on ______Subcontinent visual representations of sex and sexuality such as The Rise of the Hemline: An JESSICA KROENERT figurines and paintings. How did the Aztecs portray This presentation will show how Indian cultural sex and reproduction in art, and what do these Examination of Female Sexuality in opinion of sex and sexuality was drastically changed suggest about Aztec society? I will also discuss the America Since 1900 by the presence of British colonialism. It will relationship between sacrifice and sexuality, and GINNY TATE observe Indian sexuality in pre-colonial times, Aztec views toward body modification and As hemlines rise and necklines fall, female sexuality focusing on the influence of material culture, sexuality. has come under fire. This presentation is an Hinduism, and Kamasutra on Indian sexual values. examination of the relationship between skirt The attitudes towards homosexuality and "deviant" 4B • BIOLOGY MILNE 105 length and female sexuality in the United States sexual behavior among both men and women SESSION CHAIR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY from 1900 to present day. Looking at dress patterns during pre-colonial times will compared to the less ______and advertisements from the various decades open sexual culture found post-colonization. It will Network Analysis of Influenza shows that skirt lengths have changed drastically show how British Victorians' reserved sexual ideals Spread in SUNY Geneseo 2012-2013 were imposed on India during colonization, and had over the last one hundred years. We are in an age MICHAEL ARCURI changed Indian sexual culture by the time the where photos on the internet can change one's FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY British left. An in depth look will be taken into reputation drastically, especially for females. Never Prevention against influenza is best through flu modern Indian sexual culture in an attempt to find before has skirt length been so closely linked to vaccinations, either through injection or nasal spray, where British values permeated Indian culture most female sexuality. Examining the rise and fall of the which cause antibodies to develop and allow significantly. The presentation will also look at how hemline leads to an interesting question: Do shorter individuals to fight an infection. However, during hijras (third gendered persons) were treated and skirt lengths reflect a more sexualized woman? the 2012-2013 influenza season, the vaccine was ______what role they played in society both pre and post shown to be only 62% (CI:51%-71%) effective for colonialism. ______adults >18 years old and as low as 9% effective for Sex and Sexuality in Aztec Culture those >65 years old. In Geneseo, a total of 781 59

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual students were inoculated and 84 were diagnosed Honors Thesis in Biology: Combating through formal interviews, observation and with the flu on campus throughout this season. I conversation. I specifically examined questions developed a variation of a Watts-Strogatz small- Cholera and Cardiovascular Disease regarding water purification, handwashing and world SIR network model to investigate this spread in Rural Haiti sanitation practices. My analysis found that the of influenza in the SUNY Geneseo student FACULTY SPONSORS: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY health system has empowered change in water population. This model will help predict how AND ROSE-MARIE CHIERICI, ANTHROPOLOGY purification and hand washing practices, while influenza will pass through the population using SESSION CHAIR: HAYLEY MARTIN sanitation practices have been more difficult to different vaccination efforts. ______improve.The response's grassroots approach, ______An Investigation of Cardiovascular through the use of resources and personnel on Elucidating the Action of Specifier Disease: Prevalence, Perception, and different levels throughout the community has Proteins in Brassica rapa helped it to achieve this change. the Potential to Reduce Suffering in MAX MACBARB, NOAH DUKLER FACULTY SPONSORS: JANICE LOVETT AND GEORGE Rural Haiti BRIGGS, BIOLOGY HAYLEY MARTIN Brassica rapa is an important model plant that is FACULTY SPONSORS: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, 4D • CHEMISTRY ISC 115 closely related to important functional food plants BIOLOGY, AND ROSE-MARIE CHIERICI, SESSION CHAIR: DAVE JOHNSON, CHEMISTRY such as kohlrabi, cauliflower, and broccoli. Specifier ANTHROPOLOGY ______proteins (SPs) are an important component in the According to the World Health Organization, Low Temperature PLE Spectroscopy myrosinase-glucosinolate pathway, which produce cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of PbSe Quantum Dots across the globe, with over 80% of these deaths different secondary metabolites. These biologically WILLIAM STEPHANS occurring in low- and middle-income countries. As active compounds are used primarily in plant FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY PETERSON, CHEMISTRY the poorest country in the western hemisphere, defense and also contribute to the plant's The electronic structure of lead selenide (PbSe) Haiti is expected to have a high proportion of nutritional benefits hence, "functional plants." In quantum dots (QDs) has been investigated via low cardiovascular disease and attributed deaths. A this project we found two putative SPs in Brassica temperature photoluminescence excitation (PLE) differential equations model was created in order to rapa genome by comparing known SPs in the spectroscopy. PLE spectroscopy only samples QDs in test the efficacy of potential cardiovascular Arabidopsis thaliana sequenced genome. The gene a narrow spectral range (<5 meV) and can provide intervention strategies targeted at different age was cloned into an expression vector for E. coli from critical information about the QDs' electronic groups. My model is based on cardiovascular which epithiospecifier proteins (ESPs) were structure that is not seen in traditional absorption disease data that I collected in Borgne, a rural harvested to assess their directing effects on the measurements (peak widths ~50 meV) which look at region in northern Haiti, in addition to rural myrosinase-glucosinolate pathway via gas an entire ensemble. PLE spectra were collected at demographic data from Demographic Health chromatography and mass spectroscopy. Collecting 77 K for PbSe QDs with a first (room temperature) Surveys. I have found that a higher than expected this data will allow future research to find out if absorption peak between 1000-1600 nm proportion of the population is hypertensive, a nitriles/epithionitriles have protecting properties in (corresponding to particle diameters of ~2.5-5.5 major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. plants, or if they possibly play a role as a nm). The low temperature PLE spectra exhibit Interviews have shown that hypertensive patients' transcription factor. Finally we can test the distinct features compared to room temperature conditions are often exacerbated by limited access relationship between up regulation of these genes absorption measurements. The difference in Stokes to healthcare, high salt intake, and other behavioral and stressful conditions of the plant. shifts between low and room temperatures was ______factors. The model shows that the effectiveness of also examined. Selected for presentation at an intervention strategy depends on which age Modeling Pneumonia Using R American Chemical Society National Meeting, New group is targeted. This information was integrated CARSEN SULZER Orleans, LA. FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY with relevant cultural data to provide a set of ______Epidemiological researchers are often hindered by targeted recommendations for community. The Role of Myeloperoxidase in ethics in the study of disease spread because it is ______immoral to inoculate a population with an Cholera in Borgne, Haiti: An Analysis Apocynin-Mediated NADPH Oxidase infectious disease. However, modeling the spread of of a Grassroots Community Inhibition diseases eliminates this concern. Using R, I have Response MICHAEL AZZARO modeled the spread of bacterial pneumonia, which FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVE JOHNSON, CHEMISTRY MICHAEL MATTIUCCI is the leading cause of death in children worldwide Current experimental evidence suggests that FACULTY SPONSORS: ROSE-MARIE CHIERICI, (WHO), in two different ways. I created a oxidative stress, or reactive oxygen species (ROS), ANTHROPOLOGY, AND GREGG HARTVIGSEN, differential equation model that represents the play a major role in the genesis of many BIOLOGY rates at which individuals enter and leave each of inflammatory diseases. These include asthma, The region of Borgne, Haiti currently faces a cholera seven separate classes. This model makes use of a diabetic retinopathy, and atherosclerosis. outbreak that continues to infectand kill its mass-action assumption where susceptible Nicotinamide Adenine Disphosphonucleotide inhabitants. Located on the northern peninsula of individuals come into contact with infectious (NADPH) oxidase has been confirmed as the Haiti, the community has mounted a grassroots individuals. A second model was created using a predominant source of ROS within endothelial cells, response against the diarrheal disease, which seeks Watts-Strogatz small-world network that represents as well as other cells that are affected by to provide treatment and prevention resources that the actual contact between neighbors by which the inflammatory processes. High levels of ROS can are appropriate to the region's isolation caused by pneumonia bacterium can be transmitted directly. cause problems within the endothelial wall, mountainous terrain and lack of basic This model takes into account individual particularly the formation of lesions and increased infrastructure. My research evaluated the efforts of characteristics (e.g., whether they are susceptible, permeability. From these studies it was H.O.P.E., a grassroots community development exposed, recovered, deceased or have pneumonia hypothesized that compounds that inhibit NADPH organization, who uses a three-tiered system to versus walking pneumonia). The results given by the Oxidase may be of potential pharmaceutical value. bring the populationof Borgne access to the two models are similar in that epidemics can occur. Selected for presentation at American Chemical necessary resourcesto fight cholera. My analysis The network model, however, suggests ways to Society National Meeting, New Orleans, LA. included quantitative data on use of these specifically target individuals to minimize the number of people infected. resources, and qualitative data on knowledge, 4E • ENGLISH WELLES 133 attitudes and behavior towards the disease and 4C • BIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY methods of intervention. 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SESSION CHAIR: DEVIN STABLEY-CONDE JANEANNE LEPAGE, HANNAH KINGSLEY, PATRICK orphanage to take responsibility and action for their ______FRANCE, CHELSEA PULLANO, SHAMFA TITTLE, own nutrition. I will also be talking about a From Jerusalem to the Human Heart: MARIAH RUF fundraising project that I started for the orphanage, Psalms and Jeremiah Predict Grace ______which raised over 2,000 dollars. My presentation will rely heavily on images and personal testimony REBECCA MILLER BBC's Othello, Anthony Hopkins, from my trip, as I was truly able to learn and This paper concerns the use of Jerusalem as a 1981 experience so much through working with Jane and literary element in the books of Psalms and MEAGHAN CASTLE, ERIKA SILVA, JUSTIN her children, and the lessons I learned are best Jeremiah. Throughout these books, the Israelites' QUINTERO, CHRISTA LUBANSKI, MEGAN TURNER ______shared. fluid and precarious relationship with Jerusalem ______parallels the relationship between God and his Laurence Fishburne or Kenneth New York's Craig Colony for chosen people. This paper argues that the Branagh? Othello 1995 destruction of Jerusalem in Jeremiah predicts the Epileptics: Tracing the Deepest Roots KIMBERLY PAULIN, ANNA HOYLER, ROBERT coming of grace in the New Testament, and the LAWTON, ADAM LASHINSKY, ADAM SOUZA of Deinstitutionalization difference in the Israelites relationship with God GRACE TROMPETER that will bring. FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY ______4G • ENGLISH WELLES 131 SESSION CHAIR: RACHEL HALL, ENGLISH Under the encouragement and guidance of William Rhetoric and Demagoguery in ______Prior Letchworth, the Craig Colony for Epileptics Thucydides' History of the The Truth Chair was established by the State Board of Charities on Peloponnesian War PAM HOWE the site of a former Shaker colony in Sonyea, NY in 1894. Following an idealistic model of colony life ADAM WAGE FACULTY SPONSOR: RACHEL HALL, ENGLISH popular in Europe, the Craig Colony was the first Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War Literary short fiction about a group of friends and only New York State institution specifically demonstrates how ancient Athenian leaders would struggling to function within a world of dysfunction. designed "to secure the human, curative, scientific, use disparaging oratory in order to belittle their Set in Los Angeles and told from the second-person and economical care and treatment of epileptics, opposition and bring the Athenian assembly to their point of view, three friends participate in an obvious exclusive of insane epileptics." Originally built to side. Careful examination of the dialogue between lie in order to fix what is always broken--the truth. house 800 patients, the colony was home to nearly Nicias and Alcibiades in the "Sicilian Expedition" ______2,600 epileptics at its peak in 1939. The Colony's reveals that this belittlement of one's opposition Chart Your Body from the Seafloor goal was to serve the State's epileptic population does not serve as an effective tool to garner support Up without regard to distance from the facility, but for one's arguments. The reason for this is that LUCIA LOTEMPIO distance decay was in fact a factor in Craig's Nicias focuses on belittling the young military leader FACULTY SPONSOR: CORI WINROCK, ENGLISH catchment. Eventually, an aging population, and a Alcibiades, instead of providing logical rationale for I would like to present a selection of poetry from therefore less productive and increasingly avoiding an invasion of Sicily. Alcibiades, however, my ever-growing portfolio. My series focuses on the dependent workforce, exposed the problems of successfully panders to the nationalism of the development of self through the exploration of the institutionalization and the flaws of the State's Athenian assembly. Similar discourse occurs physical in order to understand the psychological mission. Using data from the Colony's detailed between Cleon and Diodotus during the "Mytilenian and emotional. As the title of this collection annual reports, as well as the Colony Daybook, this Debate." Diodotus manages to use reason to garner suggests, I endeavor to assess how one may seek to paper explores the challenges of demographic support from the assembly in his stance against attain sense of self from the bottom up; the management and the ultimate failures of military aggression. In both of these debates, the external must be understood before the internal institutionalization experienced in Sonyea, "the Athenian assembly supports the orator that seems can be analyzed. My collection also focuses on the Valley of the Eternal Sun". Selected for presentation most concerned about the best interests of Athens, social meaning of what it means to "become a at Association of American Geographers Middle whether these interests involve glory or mercy. woman" and how one defines his or herself through States Division Geography Conference Fall 2012 Belittlement of one's opponent can be used to others. Meeting, Shippensburg, PA. discredit the other side, but it fails to convince others of the credibility of one's own argument. STURGES 108 4H • GEOGRAPHY 4J • HISTORY STURGES 104 SESSION CHAIR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, GEOGRAPHY 4F • ENGLISH WELLES 134 ______Terror, Territory, and Technology FACULTY SPONSOR: JULIA WALKER, ENGLISH The Jane Olevolos Orphanage: FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: TZE-KI SESSION CHAIR: MELANEY REBELLO HON, HISTORY Screening Othello Enabling Children to Plant Their Own ______Race? Revenge? Reality/Appearance? What is this Future Redefining Violence: The Spectacles play about? Love? Hate? Envy? We examine three LUCAS JOHNSON of Terror in Contemporary film versions of Shakespeare's play, coming up with FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, Capitalism GEOGRAPHY more than three answers. The 1965 Othello with NIKITA RUMSEY Last semester I traveled to Tanzania through the Laurence Olivier, the 1981 BBC production with In this paper, I intend to explore the complexities of SUNY Albany HIV/AIDS and Sustainable Agriculture Anthony Hopkins, and Laurence Fishburne's 1995 "violence" as manifestation, conception, and Integrated Course. While there I was introduced to Othello are the heart of this analysis, but we also spectacle as they interweave within the a woman who started one of the many orphanages work with Orson Welles 1952 film, Janet Suzman's contemporary stage of neoliberal capitalism. In in the area. The next day I helped her and her 1987 filmed stage play in South Africa under order to do so, I shall reframe Frantz Fanon's children move all of their belongings to a new Apartheid, and the teen film O from 2001. Besides anticolonial dialectics of violence through the facility 20 miles away. During those 8 hours I was a the issues Shakespeare places on the table, we find strategic processes of globalization as it repositions witness to the madness, love, and fulfillment that that 21st century evaluations of the play must geo-economic centers/peripheries as well as working with orphans has to offer; I was caught in engage the problematic stage history of the work, mediates social relations internal to the capitalist their world. Because of this experience, I launched a most importantly the traditional casting of white structure through fearful representations and the sustainable farming mission at the same actors in the title role. Yes, race matters. The creation of terroristic "monsters". My goal is to orphanage/school, which attempted to increase the question is, what matters most? explore how violence, as representation and ______nutritional yield of the meals that were being given concrete subjective terror, serves to reaffirm the out to over 100 children daily. The goal of this Laurence Olivier's Othello, 1965 institutional relations between states (or initiative was to enable the children at the 61

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual communities) as well as defines our collective with imperialism), in which the land is set up as a participants of the Crusades in the twelfth century, unconscious, thereby negating any critical discrete, bounded (and boundable), delimited (and but also how the Crusades continue to impact our engagement with the material/ physical and delimitable), framed (and frameable) terrain. I will world today. exploitative realities of neoliberal capitalism. look at the ways in which Google Maps, for However, in using Fanon, it may be possible to example, creates a certain visual relationship with 4L • LANGUAGES & LITERATURES develop a critical notion of violence that is relevant the world, in which the world, as discrete entity, WELLES 121 to the globalized subject, that allows for a becomes ultimately knowable, ultimately seeable. structural, transformative step toward the This ability to know and see is never innocent but is Literary, Scientific, and Cultural achievement of agency and self-determination. always bound up with the ability to control, even to Studies: Spain and Latin America ______kill. What happens, then, when we see the world FACULTY SPONSOR: LORI BERNARD, LANGUAGES Territory, Transport, and from above? AND LITERATURES Terracentrism: Intermodal Shipping SESSION CHAIR: MEGAN DIBARTOLOMEO ______and the (Im)Mobile Geographies of 4K • HISTORY STURGES 112 Perspectivism and Don Quijote Consumption SESSION CHAIR: JOE COPE, HISTORY BRANDON SHUFELT NATHAN KAHN ______FACULTY SPONSOR: LORI BERNARD, LANGUAGES & Much of the processes and systems that comprise 18th Century Political, Economical, LITERATURES neoliberal capitalism result in a patchwork global Considered by many the first modern novel, Don landscape, concealed and dematerialized. This is and Social Problems in France and Quijote de La Mancha by Miguel deCervantes especially true in relation to the networks of global England as Revealed Through chronicles the adventures a man driven into trade: the technologies of trade that have Popular Literature madness from reading too much, who traverses the developed in the last thirty years for the most part Spanish countryside looking for adventures with his KALA DESTEFANO pass through spaces largely ignored during sidekick, Sancho Panza. Written in the early FACULTY SPONSOR: JOE COPE, HISTORY discussions of modern capitalism. Intermodal seventeenth century, Don Quijote touches on many Eighteenth century literature from England and shipping is an intrinsic part of our global culture. important Renaissance and Baroque literary themes France can be used as a window into a very Unfortunately, shipping and shipping's secondary and topics, and does so in a humorous fashion. One significant time period for these two countries. The processes' physical situation on the boundaries of important framework for analyzing Don Quijote is popular literature from this period was often of a our visual landscapes and the innocuous language perspectivism, the idea that one's perception of satirical or a libelous nature. These books were that is currently used to describe the movement of reality is different from others' as a consequence of either completely censored, as in France, or an capitalism do little justice to the scope and scale of being derived from variouspoints of view. In fact, attempt at censorship was made, as in England. the global transport system, precariously supported perspectivism is the driving force for the humoristic Censorship did not discourage readers, so they by the various shipping industries that rely on nature of the work, as can be seen through a found various ways to access the material that was intermodal shipping. These capitalist global number of different situations throughout the story, interesting to them. Through an analysis of some of transports system exist in tandem with systems of such as the infamous windmill scene, among others. the most popular literature from this period this socioeconomic disenfranchisement, violence, and This presentation will be in both Spanish and paper will prove that, despite the many different marginalization. Through a multi-media research English. genres, each book tried to educate the public on presentation I will reconceptualize the spaces and ______problems in their respective countries. By processes that intermodal shipping systems addressing specific problems in society, the The Jewish Legacy in Spain produce (cargo yards, megaships, and docks, for economy, and politics each author promoted the MELISSA HILL example) are places of large-scale (re)production of importance of freedom and liberty in addressing FACULTY SPONSOR: LORI BERNARD, LANGUAGES & capitalist violence and marginalization. and solving problems in France and England. LITERATURES Furthermore, I will attempt to prove that Selected for presentation at Phi Alpha Theta This presentation will study the history of the intermodal shipping profits and supports the History Conference, Geneseo, NY. Sephardic Jews before, during and after the Spanish processes of forced deterritorialization and ______Reconquest (8th-15th Centuries). By exploring their reterritorialziation that result from neoliberal Saladin and the Holy Jihad: An daily living situations, religious persecution, and capitalist enterprise. ultimate exile from Spain, this study will attempt to ______Analysis of the Motivations Behind analyze the lasting legacy that the Jews have had on Simulating the Landscape, Visualizing Islam's Most Famous Conqueror and Spanish culture and history as well as their the Vertical: Drones, Google Maps, continued involvement in contemporary society. the Road to Jerusalem This presentation will be in bothSpanish and and Geography's Z-Axis ADAM CAMIOLO English. SEAN NEILL FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL OBERG, HISTORY ______I aim in this paper to look critically at the As one of the most iconic figures of the Midle Ages, Medicine and Scientific Research in intersections between visuality and territoriality, Salah al-Din Yusuf, or Saladin as he is more between landscape and topography, particularly in commonly known, played a key role in the Crusades Spain the context of what Eyal Weizman calls "the politics and ultimately recaptured Jerusalem from the JOSEPH GERAGHTY of verticality." How do aerial and satellite Crusader Kingdoms in 1187. Since then, his life has FACULTY SPONSOR: LORI BERNARD, LANGUAGES & technologies (GPS devices, Google Maps, drones, been depicted countless times as the subject of LITERATURES etc.) activate geography's z-axis and the power of scholarly work and propaganda. He has been This two-part study will explore the development of three-dimensional space? How do these described as a paragon of virtue, a merciless and medicine and scientific research in Spain before and "borderless" technologies simultaneously brutal dictator and the ideal Religious warrior after the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939) and deterritorialize and reterritorialize the landscape? In throughout history. This presentation attempts to the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975). what ways do they work to selectively erase certain analyze Saladin's primary motivations in his early The first part will analyze the history of medicine borders, while forcefully (re)inscribing others? I will career starting in 1169 to his triumph in Jerusalem and scientific research leading up to the stagnation be reading these state-of-the-art imaging in 1187 and determine if he was as dedicated to of such research under the dictatorship of Francisco technologies not only for their radical new-ness, but holy war as his legend implies. By examining sources Franco; while the second part will explore how also for their contiguity within a genealogy of ranging from Saladin's commissioned biography by Spanish scientists have had to compensate for this occularcentric discourses: e.g., the pictorial Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad to his depiction in the stagnation and will discuss the current status of tradition of landscape painting (and its relationship Ridley Scott movie Kingdom of Heaven, we can not scientific research in Spain. This presentation will be only better understand the mindset of the in both Spanish and English. 62

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______Blackjack. Multiple strategies will be discussed with of all points in the plane the sum of whose distances Historical Memory and the 1932 attention to their relative benefits and efficacy of to the k given points is equal to d. Several Massacre in El Salvador shifting the probability of winning towards the interesting results about these curves will be player and away from the casino. We will explain presented along with pictures of k-ellipses as the KATHERINE MENJIVAR analytical approaches such as the Monte Carlo value of d is varied. Applications of the k-ellipses to FACULTY SPONSOR: ROCÍO VALLEJO, LANGUAGES & Method, a simulation method dependent on unexpected problems will be shown. LITERATURES randomness; and the Kelly Criterion, a popular ______Philosophers, historians and practitioners have long formula for scaling bet sizes. This talk will be debated what exactly constitutes historical memory The Genus of a K-Ellipse accessible to students in Math 239, but is open to and whether history and memory can authentically DEVIN SMITH, JIAN CONG ZENG, ROBERT anyone interested in the subject. coexist with each other in historical discourse. This MAGNUS, DREW ELLISON While k-ellipses are most easily viewed as one- study will analyze the different practices that have helped preserve the memories of the 1932 dimensional plane curves, their equations also Massacre in El Salvador. Through extensive research ______define compact Riemann surfaces, two dimensional and document analysis we hope to shed light on the Making Sense of Randomness objects. This talk presents the work so far on the importance of revisiting and maintaining the past CHRIS MOORE problem of finding the genus of the resulting k- and its role on the present. This presentation will be The flight of a projectile can be exactly determined ellipses when k = 5. The genus is known for k = 2, 3, in both Spanish and English. using the gravity formula and its initial position and and 4 but for more than 4 points the genus is velocity, but flipping a coin 10 times will not always unknown. 4M • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 338 have the same outcome. The latter is an example of a stochastic process, because the end result is not 4O • PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY ISC 131 Math Tricks for Simplifying Music, wholly determined by initial conditions but is SESSION CHAIR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS & Magic, Games, and Randomness instead determined by chance. These stochastic ASTRONOMY FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: PATRICK processes span from simple discrete cases like coin ______RAULT, MATHEMATICS flips, to complicated continuous processes like Light Pollution on the SUNY Geneseo ______random walks. Models of these processes can range Campus Symphony of Sines and Cosines from basic calculations to complicated computer JORDAN POTTER, KUNAL DATTA, LUCA BEALE CHRIS COFFEY simulations. We will look at useful applications of FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS Have you ever wondered about the transition which modeling real world problems stochastically, as well & ASTRONOMY, AND REN VASILIEV, GEOGRAPHY music takes from when it is first recorded in the as discuss computational methods for We have performed a systematic study of the light studio to what you hear through your head phones? approximating solutions that could require pollution on and around campus. Using a sky quality Did you know that every sound can be broken down excessive effort to solve explicitly. Stochastic meter, we have measured the brightness of the into a sum of sines and cosines? We will provide an scenarios around us include stock prices and night-time sky at thirty pre-determined points. We exampleof the role mathematics takes in this movement of particles. We will explore stochastic will present a map of this brightness and its relation process and how it can be used to alter music files. situations and use specific techniques such as to the varied environments on campus. We also We will focus on how the Fourier transform can Monte-Carlo simulations to gain insight into their studied the effects of cloud cover, moon phase, and reduce the size of audio files without loss in quality. tendencies. This talk will beaccessible to students altitude on the brightness. We will conclude by We will make an original recording using LOGIC and who have taken Math221 and have experience with placing our results in the context of astronomical import and alter the file with methods in the basic probability. data gathering and discuss strategies for minimizing mathematics program MATLAB. This talk will be the impact of light pollution. accessibleto students in MATH 239. 4N • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 328 ______FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GARY Equine Gait Analysis using the It's not Magic, It's Mathematics! TOWSLEY, MATHEMATICS KATELYNN GILLETTE ______PEGASYS Force Plate Taking a deeper look into "magic" tricks, one would Origin of Zero: A History of Nothing MARIE KALET, JARROD LAFOUNTAIN be surprised to find out that most can be solved SAIF RATUL FACULTY SPONSOR: STEVE PADALINO AND ED based off mathematical reasoning alone. We will "How can nothing be something?" was the pivotal POGOZELSKI, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY explain how the "21 card trick" works and discuss question that raised many philosophical arguments The PEGASYS (Pressurized Equine Gait Analysis how it can be generalized to use a larger number of regarding the idea of existence in the ancient world. SYStem) diagnostic force plate was developed to cards. Another trick relies on the "nine principle, For centuries, many renowned ancient Greek measure hoof-ground reaction forces exerted by "which states that for any number between 10 and mathematicians used symbols similar to zero as just horses as it strides over the apparatus. The system 19, the sum of the two digits subtracted from the a placeholder. Later, it was an Indian consists of a steel plate mounted in a rectangular number itself will always equal nine. Simple math is Mathematician, Bramhagupta, who first developed aluminum frame and ten sensors which measure behind most magical hoaxes, but presentation and the notion of zero as a number. It was denoted as forces along three axes: forward, lateral, and "wow factors" can distract the audience from 'sunya', a Sanskrit word for void or nothing. Soon vertical. From these force time series, calculations understanding why they work. We will describe after, the concept of the number zero not only of torque, impulse, total force, and angle of various mathematical ruses and will reveal their reached the Arab world, and profoundly influenced application can be used to analyze the horse's secrets. We will include interesting tricks that the modern day algebra, but also became the driving stride. Correlations between the data series may audience can take home and use. This talk will be force of developing calculus. We seek to explore the yield insight into the nature and manifestation of accessible to students in Math 239. formulation of zero and how the number zero specific equine injuries. Data acquired by this force ______influenced the development of modern day plate and information inferred through analysis will So You Want to Count Cards? mathematics. guide the treatment process and allow equestrians and veterinarians to determine possible injuries in MICHAEL PILOSOV ______horses. Selected for presentation at Cornell The use of card counting in Blackjack has received An Introduction to K-Ellipses Vetrenarian School Equine Seminar, Ithaca, NY. considerable media attention in the past decade. JIAN CONG ZENG, DEVIN SMITH, ROBERT ______Basic strategy is simple to understand but the MAGNUS, DREW ELLISON reasoning behind the probabilistic advantage is full K-ellipses are generalizations of the standard UV Enhancement of Track Signal in of nuance and complications. We will provide a ellipses in the plane except that they posses more CR-39 conceptual understanding of the mathematics than two foci. Given k distinct points in the plane GRAHAM JENSEN, DANTE TUFANO underlying the advantage of counting cards in and a positive real number d, the k-ellipse is the set 63

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FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & The relationship between the world's two largest doctrine has had a negative effect on African states' ASTRONOMY economies is often fraught. By analyzing both prospect for success. Did Uti Possidetis in Africa The use of CR-39 plastic as a nuclear particle track government documents and contemporary hinder the process of state centralization, resulting detector is an effective technique for recovering scholarly works, this paper describes the impact of in quasi-states instead of consolidated, functional, data in high energy particle experiments including the People's Republic of China's economic policies and viable nations? Furthermore, have the borders inertial confinement nuclear fusion. To analyze on the United States. This paper also discusses the contributed to the propensity of civil wars, and non- particle track data after irradiation, CR-39 is relative merit of the policy responses available to self-sufficiency among African states. I will my chemically etched at elevated temperatures with the US, concluding that policymakers should resist hypotheses through case studies, including the sodium hydroxide. Because etching proceeds more domestic political pressure to implement punitive Biafra, Katanga, Mali, Burkina Faso, Eritrea, South quickly along the particle tracks than for the bulk, measures against the PRC. Sudan, Somaliland, and Western Sahara. pits at the nuclear track sites that are visible under a ______microscope are produced. When CR-39 is exposed Colonial Origins of the to ultraviolet light below 320 nm between nuclear Developmental State: Ideology, irradiation and chemical etching, an increase in pit 4Q • SCHOOL OF BUSINESS diameter occurs. This is due to either an Contingency, and Institutions in East enhancement in the track etch rate relative to the SOUTH 233 Asia and Africa SESSION CHAIR: PETER MARKULIS, SCHOOL OF bulk etch rate or an overall increase in etch rate. By ANDREW PERRY viewing the cone-shaped pits from the side BUSINESS FACULTY SPONSOR: JEREMY GRACE, POLITICAL ______(through the clear CR-39), we can determine the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Free Ice Cream! An Analysis of the contribution from these two possible effects. If the Since World War II, a small group of East Asian track etch rate is increased relative to the bulk rate, newly industrialized countries (NICs) has been Endowment Effect on Food the signal to noise ratio may be improved. almost singularly successful in closing the income MATTHEW HAYES gap between highly developed Western states and FACULTY SPONSOR: LEONIE STONE, SCHOOL OF 4P • POLITICAL SCIENCE & underdeveloped countries, bringing rapid standard- BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS of-living improvements to their citizens. This Abstract: In behavioral economics, the endowment effect is the phenomenon in which individuals value WELLES 24 success is largely attributable to the exceptional stability and efficiency of these states' politics and goods and services they own higher than those they International Relations Honors to a set of inventive policies designed to spur do not. My research will analyze food Theses exports in internationally lucrative economic consumption, how "nudges" can effect our FACULTY SPONSOR: JEREMY GRACE, POLITICAL sectors. Such development would have been valuation, and how they relate to the endowment SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS impossible had the politics of the NICs become effect. ______SESSION CHAIR: VICKY FARMER, POLITICAL SCIENCE corrupt and dominated by elite extraction of Diverse Teams: The Impact of & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS wealth, as happened across the developing world Diversity on Team Performance ______after the wave of decolonization in the 1950s and LINDSEY BULMAN, ANDREW MAUNG, AARON Chinese and Indian Military 60s. This lack of harmful political intrusion and generally high quality of governance is the result of DORFMAN, JESSICA CRAIG, XIAOYING ZHAO Modernization: An Asian Arms Race? the evolution of political institutions within FACULTY SPONSOR: AVAN JASSAWALLA, SCHOOL ERIC GOMEZ colonialism, which provided the political economic OF BUSINESS FACULTY SPONSOR: VICTORIA FARMER, POLITICAL frameworks for post-colonial success. While We discuss what diversity is and the impact it has SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS colonialism is necessarily designed in the interests on group dynamics. Our presentation talks about This thesis examines the military modernization of the colonizer, to the detriment of the colonized, our research on the topic and the impact it has on programs of China and India. Both states have used the colonial relations in these countries were highly team effectiveness. Within the presentation, we their rising economic status and power to rapidly atypical and governed by unique ideologies and discuss recommendations to enhance performance modernize their militaries. Recent acquisitions have interests. In this way, the economic success of NICs and diversity. ______been aimed at increasing the strategic reach of both is inextricable with their uncommon colonial countries, allowing them to project force far from experiences. Bringing the Working World to the home. China and India's history of armed conflict ______Classroom: Developing an and mutual distrust combined with more advanced State Legitimacy in Africa: The and powerful weapons systems could result in a Organizational Behavior Simulation devastating military conflict. Fortunately, it does not Doctrine of Uti Possidetis Juris and CHRISTOPHER PIKE, KRISTEN CORBISIERO, appear that India and China are engaged in an arms its Role in Relation to Ethnic Conflict CATHERINE BYRNE, NATALIA BAGNOWSKA FACULTY SPONSOR: PETER MARKULIS, SCHOOL OF race with one another. The two countries have and National Identity serious security concerns driving their military BUSINESS CHRISTOPHER CAGGIANO modernization programs, but they do not view one In order to bridge the gap between the theory FACULTY SPONSOR: JEREMY GRACE, POLITICAL another as their primary security rivals. Both learned in MGMT 300: Organizational Behavior and SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS countries have become more assertive and the working world, Dr. Peter Markulis and a team of The colonial borders of Africa, drawn at the Berlin aggressive in their foreign policies since beginning students developed a realistic organizational Conference of 1884, were constructed by the their modernization programs. As both states behavior (OB) simulation. The simulation operates European powers with little to no consideration for become great powers, the question of if they will as a series of interconnected episodes, each the territorial distribution of existing political use their power responsibly and in accordance with covering an OB topic and having a decision focus. entities and ethnic groups. As a result, the international law will determine whether or not Each episode presents the manager with a series of international community and the first set of Asia experiences a peaceful twenty-first century. choices, called decisions options, related to the OB ______pragmatic African leaders found it easier to topic at hand. Students are expected to make OB China's Economic Policy and the US- maintain the existing borders than to risk decisions within the context of a small organization. protracted negotiations and possibly even interstate When the students use the actual simulation they China Relationship conflict over the new borders. The doctrine of Uti must make a choice and justify it, usually by doing EMILY JENNINGS Possidetis Juris was was invoked in an African some additional research. The presentation will FACULTY SPONSOR: CHANG KUK JUNG, POLITICAL context, and made law by the Organization of cover the development of the simulation from SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS African Unity, to assert the legality and infallibility conception to implementation in the classroom. of the colonial borders. This paper explores whether Presenters will discuss the character and scene 64

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Interview results webinar trainings and virtual marches allowing for SESSION CHAIR: ANNMARIE URSO, SCHOOL OF reveal that young people find well being in transient high emotional energies of unification in the field of EDUCATION physical pleasures such as being with friends, Women's Reproductive Rights Movement. To ______eating, sports, or exercise while older people find identify high emotional energy I looked for "up" No Child Left Behind: Its Impact of well being in lasting relationships such as with feeling tones, positive solidarity feelings, feelings of children or spouses, altruistic activities, or religion. confidence, and enthusiasm for social interaction by the United States Education System ______examining blogs of the Silver Ribbon Campaign: JOANNA ROSE-GROSS Well Being: A Force Found Only Trust Women Week, a coalition of pro-choice FACULTY SPONSOR: ANNMARIE URSO, SCHOOL OF Within Oneself or the Product of organizations dedicated in fighting for women's EDUCATION reproductive health rights. My study shows that My presentation will explore the current legislation Material Forces? emotional energy occurs without the need of of No Child Left Behind and its effects in the REBECCA STORKE physical co-presence due to the new technological classroom. The discussion will also include the While Gordon Mathews believes that individuals do era. Common Core Standards and how they do not work not find well being outside of the self, it is evident for every student due to various environmental and that people do in fact find well being from material 4T • STUDY ABROAD WELLES 123 academic factors. I will also hold a panel discussion forces. In the senior seminar class on well being at at the end of my presentation of current teachers SUNY Geneseo, 41 interviews were analyzed to see Lessons in Development: El Sauce, and administrators to discuss how the current if people do in truth find well being from material Nicaragua legislation is affecting their districts and the forces. Out of the 41 interviews that were FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: SAMUEL decisions they face every day. conducted there were 6 strong representations of CARDAMONE, STUDY ABROAD ______individuals who mention material forces as a source ______Assessment of the Interdisciplinary of well being. From this analysis it was perceived Micro-loan in Action: El Sauce, Approaches to Addressing the that people do mention material forces as sources Nicaragua of well being. ERIN CORCORAN, CHIKAMSO ODUME Diverse Needs of English Language ______Microcredit/Microloan programs have played an Learner Students at Maplewood Emotional Gifts in Romantic interesting role in the world. The contemporary ALEXANDRA NIEMIEC, HANNAH RODY-WRIGHT, Relationships version is credited to Nobel prize winner JORDEN STRAPP MEGAN MCPHILLIPS Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank. FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN NORMAN, SCHOOL OF American culture socializes women to feel that they This option was created as a better alternative to EDUCATION should have as few sexual partners as possible and "loan-sharks", who often took advantage of the This powerpoint presentation will describe and try to maintain monogamous relationships. For this people borrowing money. Not only does this display the impact of the SUNY Geneseo tutoring reason women will give their partners gifts in the program support entrepreneurship and help effort in the city of Rochester at the Maplewood form of emotion work in order to keep the alleviate poverty, but in many cases empowers Library called Rochester Young Scholars Academy relationship stable. In The Managed Heart, Arlie women and enriches entire communities by Saturday School (RYSASS). We'd like to conduct an Russell Hochschild explains the concept of extension. In the case of El Sauce, Nicaragua, the informal analysis of the effectiveness of the emotional gifts in this passage: "To sum up, the Enlace Project kicked off its Microloan Program in methods mentioned in the Maplewood RYSASS display and emotion work are not matters of 2012. Similar to other Microloan programs, they poster session. We plan on doing this by giving the chance. They come into play, back and forth. The provide individuals of El Sauce with small business students pre and post content area and attitudinal come to mean payment or nonpayment of latent loans of $50.00 - $200.00. However, what sets them tests during each tutoring session. We will combine dues." This means that people will behave a certain apart are the basic financial education classes the these qualitative pre-post assessments with a way in order to give off the impression they have borrowers are mandated to attend. This second qualitative assessment based on what we feelings they do not and make another person presentation examines the degree to which this has have observed over the 10-week program. happy. In order to find out if women do more made a difference in the success rate of this Ultimately, we will be able to create a visual emotional work, I looked at the relationship advice program. representation of the students' progress as a result website "thelasthonestguy.com." I read different ______of the methods utilized by the RYSASS tutors. problems women face to see if they are giving Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua: A

emotional gifts to their partner because they have Nicaraguan Sign Language 4S • SOCIOLOGY MILNE 109 been socialized to desire a long-term relationship. I Sociological Studies of Well Being found that women are more likely to give emotional Experience gifts to stay in a relationship. NICOLE KENNEY and Emotion ______Nicaragua's revolution, ending in 1979, impacted FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: STEVE Virtual Solidarity Movement: deaf Nicaraguan individuals in a profound way. DERNE, SOCIOLOGY Before the revolution, deaf individuals depended on ______Women's Reproductive Health Rights an undeveloped communication form: home signs. Differentiation in Sources of Well Advances Due to the New Age of These are gestures developed by deaf children Being According to Age Multi Media when they lack a visual language model. An ALEX HIPOLITO JANA WONG outcome of the revolution was an educational Well being is defined by many scholars as an Interaction rituals are what provoke either low or reform movement that brought deaf individuals enduring sense of life satisfaction. Gordon Mathews high emotional energy. Collins states that in order together. The materialization of deaf schools makes the claim in What Makes Life Worth Living for an interaction ritual to generate emotional provided a foundation for home signs to emerge that the sources of well being differ among age energy there needs to be the following: face-to-face into a new and sustainable language: Nicaraguan groups. He claims the young people gain well being focus, attention on the same activity, and a Sign Language (NSL). The language's unique from looking ahead to future lifestages, while old common mood shared amongst the group. Collins development fascinated linguists for years and me 65

2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual as I packed for my two-month stay in Nicaragua. My An Overview of the Pioneers of Capstone Projects in Women's service-learning project was to teach NSL to a twelve- year old girl, Carla who had no basis of American Modern Dance and Their Studies 2 language in a town devoid of NSL. She cannot speak Contributions to Dance History FACULTY SPONSORS AND SESSION CHAIR: ALICE words, sign, read, nor write. I proudly anticipated MEGAN KILLEA, CHRISTINA TSANG, MEGAN RUTKOWSKI AND MELANIE BLOOD, ENGLISH ______that I would get to play Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's ROBERTS, JUSTINE LAZATIN, JACQUELINE DILUGLIO teacher, introducing language for the first time. This presentation will focus on the pioneers of Feminism and Social Media: the However, I was cynically aware that language modern dance Loie Fuller and Isadora Duncan and Dilemma of Pro-Ana Websites couldn't be learned in one month. Despite my how they influenced a generation of modern SASKIA TALAY doubts, my goal deepened; I realized that with a lot dancers, specifically Mary Wigman, Lester Horton Talay studies feminist blogs' use of commenting, of help from the right people, advocating for the and Alvin Ailey, who developed their own anonymous support, and open conversations deaf could lead to sustaining NSL education for techniques and companies. The first section will between women. She discovered an article detailing Carla and other deaf children in her town. discuss Loie Fuller and Isadora Duncan. These the foundation of "pro ana" groups; they are online ______women became the figureheads of American sites and groups, apparently led by young women, Rural Health Care in El Sauce, modern dance by incorporating new theatrical, dedicated to supporting other young women to Nicaragua production and movement style aspects to their continue their anorexia. These groups use many of LAURA SZCZESNIAK, STEPHANIE CLOOKEY works. The second portion of our presentation will the same devices necessary for the creation of a Health care in Nicaragua has seen many focus on Mary Wigman, a prominent modern feminist community. From this discover spring the improvements in the past several decades. While dancer in Germany during the 1920's and 1930's. questions that focus her research. How is this the nation is still considered deeply impoverished, The third presentation will discuss and focus on Cry troubling trend similar to feminist communities there are several advancements being made in its by Alvin Ailey and The Beloved by Lester Horton. online? How do we address this without belittling health care system that have extended beyond the Both of these master works address social issues, the experience and opinions of participants? capital city of Manauga, namely in the city of El specifically issues that deal with the struggles of Especially considering that cyberfeminists hoped Sauce, Leon, and its surrounding rural communities. women. The choreographers use specific movement gender would be left behind in cyberspace, how During our time spent in El Sauce, we traveled to technique, style, staging, and costuming to address does gender function in both communities? several rural health posts where we observed that these issues. The fourth section will be a reflection ______free health care was provided even to the Saucenos and analysis of the social issue of domestic violence Critical Pedagogy Across Disciplines living miles away from the city center of El Sauce. It embodied in Lester Horton's piece, The Beloved, MARY GRACE EGLOFF was noted that emphasis was placed on infant and this work's continued influence in modern day Egloff's project combines research about critical vaccinations as well as birth control. These are dance. The final portion will provide an analysis of pedagogy with being a TA for Intro Women's important indicators of development, as even Alvin Ailey's work Cry, depicting the hardships of Studies. Her research uncovers different classroom Saucenos living in isolated locations make regular slavery and its universal message of empowerment. methods and assists reflection on the way that the check-ups starting at birth. While the extent of the class functions. Finally, she considers the role health care system seems promising, there are still 4V • WOMEN’S STUDIES WELLES 119 critical/feminist pedagogy could serve in a several key aspects that are in need of FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: LINDA philosophy classroom, her major field of study. improvement before the entire health care system STEET, WOMENS STUDIES ______can be considered successful. ______Writing Unapologetically: Creating a ______Breaking the Stereotype: Activist Theatrical Representation of My Understanding Global Community Muslim Women in Religion, Politics, Personal Story Through Humanities and Service and Culture RACHEL TAMARIN Learning in Nicaragua JOBINA ALEXANDER, JENNIFER BURDEN, MELANIE Tamarin will discuss the process of creating a ANNA CASTONGUAY, MANDRACCHIA FRANCIS CERRA, KATHERINE DUKARM, LAUREN WEISBERG theatrical, one-woman show based on life Globalization has caused conflicts of coexistence Muslim women in past and present Muslim majority experiences. Specifically, she will address challenges not only on an international level, but even at the societies have played significant roles as leaders and she encountered, such as how to represent herself intergenerational level. In our time in Nicaragua, we change agents in Islam, political rights, and cultural and the subjects of her anecdotes from a feminist experienced a growing disparity in the way people progress. The panel will present biographies of perspective, in a manner people would find relate, both at the community level and globally. Muslim women that they have selected as worthy entertaining, educational, and relatable. This presentation will attempt to understand the of recognition and celebration, and whose stories forces behind the economic and social changes that break Western stereotypical images of passive 4X • HISTORY STURGES 114 have become apparent in Nicaragua, United States Muslim women. The profiles highlight women's FACULTY SPONSOR: TZE-KI HON, HISTORY and the world. By studying humanities and contributions in fields including sports, the arts, SESSION CHAIR: MATTHEW ANDREWS participating in service learning, we had an gender equity, and religious interpretation. Their ______interesting vantage point to consider our position as work, interests, and talents demonstrate women's The Myth of the BRICs Americans in an increasingly global community. The activism and full engagement in Muslim majority MATTHEW ANDREWS, ERIC GRATIEN, LAURA discussion will draw parallels between the United societies. These notable Muslim women helped RAHEB, THOMAS KEEGAN States and Nicaragua and observe that through shape their worlds, and their biographies re-frame FACULTY SPONSOR: TZE-KI HON, HISTORY establishing ties with the people we met during our the way Muslim women have been presented in the There is speculation among many international time abroad, we may understand that the forces at West. The subject choices were made by WMST scholars that a group of nations, commonly known work in either country are not so different. Through students and reflect their perspectives as American as the BRICs, will soon be able to challenge United this we may see possibility for forming significant college students with no firsthand experience in States hegemony. This panel will discuss the relationships with Nicaraguans and reconciliation. Muslim majority societies. This, therefore, also says viability of these nations to actually overcome the something about how they gauge what counts as current international system. 4U • THEATRE & DANCE important contributions of women. Panel subjects cover a wide range from Prophet Mohammed's wife 4Y • ANTHROPOLOGY STURGES 111 WADSWORTH AUDITORIUM Aisha; to contemporary royalty, Princess Haya; to FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JONETTE SESSION CHAIR: DENICE SZAFRAN, ANTHROPOLOGY feminist Nawal el Saadawi and more. ______LANCOS, THEATRE & DANCE ______4W • WOMEN'S STUDIES WELLES 115

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Migrant Farmworker Health in the health issues amongst migrant populations, This paper looks at two refugee organizations, such as occupational hazards and mental illness. We Mary's Place Outreach in Rochester, NY and Western New York will also touch upon the differential power Journey's End Refugee Services, Inc. in Buffalo, NY, MARIA SIGALAS, STEPHANIE KELLY, DANNIELLA hierarchy involved in health care access for this with regard to their English language programs. This DOWNIE population. Perceptions on health have been study is part one in a larger project that centers on FACULTY SPONSOR: ROSE-MARIE CHIERICI, devised through interviews with farmers, farm the question of first language retention rates among ANTHROPOLOGY workers, and service providers in order to collect a refugees in these two organizations. The first step in Migrant farm workers are a community of people, more holistic understanding of the issues at hand. examining how closely they hold their first largely from abroad, that do agricultural work By studying these facets of migrant farm worker languages is to determine how English is finding its within the United States. The health needs of this health we hope to bring more light to the situation way into their lives. Through informal interviews population often go unattended as their lifestyle as of farm workers within the United States. with employees at each organization, and mobile, manual laborers and lack of access to health ______eventually an observational visit at Mary's Place, care facilities leaves this population at risk. Our The English (Dis)Connection: this paper observes how two refugee organizations research is centered on three areas: analyzing the Refugees and English Language Rates teach their clients English. This information is then current status of farm workers, barriers to health used to posit how that may or may not affect care access, and farm worker perceptions on health. in Upstate New York integration into the community, as well as the The current status of farm workers entails analyzing VICTORIA HAFNER connection between the English language training demographics, policies and preexisting programs FACULTY SPONSOR: DENICE SZAFRAN, and first-language retention rates. suited to meet this community's needs. The focus ANTHROPOLOGY then shifts to the barriers to healthcare access and

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SPECIAL SESSION • WATCH FOR IT FACULTY SPONSOR: DEBORAH SCODESE FRENCH ______EMILY ANDREWS, MARGARET ARLINGTON, BREANNE BLAZEVIC, EMILY BRESSNER, CAROLYN GREENWOOD, JOSHUA HOROWITZ, KATRINA KAASIK, ZAHRA KAMILLA, AIME MABELO, KAITLYN MAMAY, ANTONIA MARIC, JESSICA MUNNINGS, SHEA NAJUCH, MELISSA NIKNAM, QWEST O'REILLY, EMILY OSWALD, ASHLEY PALACIOS, MARY PANDOLFINO, CHRISTINE PICCIONE, SHAYRA REYES, MEGAN RUSS, CASSANDRA SAROLI, ALEXIS SKILL, JENNA-MARIE THEOFIELD Students will be presenting a special program created just for GREAT Day.

The second annual Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival took place on April 5th-6th. Participants had 24 hours to write, shoot, edit, and post a 3-minute video using a set of elements provided. Teams competed for prizes against other SUNY Geneseo students in an attempt to create the wittiest, 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 as well as through social media. All videos were shown during a special award event the week after qualifying submissions were submitted. Now we're inviting you to come see the videos during this special GREAT Day screening in Sturges 219 (Auditorium) at 7:00 pm!

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Index of Student Participants

Betts, Bianca · 3, 4 Cedfeldt, Claudia · 11 Cruz, Lyn · 58 A Bienstock, Jared · 29 Ceely, David · 57 Cuddlipp, Kerryann · 55 Abraham, Gina · 4 Bienstock, Mollie · 32 Ceriello, Joseph · 44 Cuevo, Diahann · 40 Ackerman, Sarah · 16 Biersbach, Kristin · 59 Cerra, Melanie · 66 Cullen, Taryn · 12 Addeo, Julia · 43 Birkby, Clarisse · 54 Cerro, Paisley · 27, 28 Cummings, Hannah · 4 Admoni, Netta · 35 Biscardi, Joseph · 12 Cervello, Michelle · 9 Cummings, Patrice · 45 Aebli, Kimberly · 59 Blank, John · 10 Cervoni, Brieanna · 10 Cummingsc Hannah · 4 Ahmad, Talal · 17 Blazevic, Breanne · 67 Chambers, Lila · 43 Curran, Lydia · 5 Akter, Mossammat · 45 Bliss, Jacob · 50 Champlin, Josephine · 58 Curtis, Nicole · 4 Aladeen, Joseph · 16 Blum, Laura · 16 Chen, Leanne · 16 Alavez, Edith · 3, 4 Bolan, Emily · 34 Chen, Liuran · 3 Albucher, Jamie · 11 Bond, Christopher · 18 Cheung, Randy · 35 D Aldave, Russell · 23 Boquard, Maggie · 10, 51 Chiappone, Sam · 21 Alderidge, Mary · 50 Boselli, John · 41, 54 Chichester, Alexander · 56 D’Arcy, Derek · 5 Alexander, Jobina · 45, 59, 66 Bothel, Donte · 52 Chmela, Patrick · 51 Dachs, Charles · 43 Ali, Megan · 9 Bowen, Rachel · 35 Choi, Heather · 4, 5 Dahn, Marah · 28 Allen, Russell · 5, 49 Boyce, Joseph · 39 Chon, Jason · 52 D'Aiello, Greg · 2 Álvarez, Kevin · 56 Boyce, Lauren · 9 Choo, Eric · 5 Daly, Lauren · 51 Andalora, Julia · 3 Boyle, Theresa · 30 Christy, Andrew · 35, 48 Daniels, Patrick · 5, 56 Anderson, Ashley · 34 Braymer, Katelyn · 46 Chu, Philip · 31 Danielsen, Erika · 26 Andrews, Emily · 67 Brechue, Michelle · 43 Chun, Joon Min · 52 Datta, Kunal · 63 Andrews, Matthew · 57, 66 Bressner, Emily · 67 Ciervo, Christopher · 25 Davila, Marcos · 22 Andryshak, Kristen · 22 Brieant, Alexis · 34 Civita, Hannah · 46 Davis, Thomas · 12 Annable, Carly · 52 Briwa, Robert · 23 Clark, Alexander · 39 Dazzell, Lenetta · 52 Applin, Kirstyn · 45 Brockett, Alison · 3 Clark, Danielle · 12 Deck, Jared · 18 Arcidiacono, James · 5 Brodsky, Alexa · 15 Clark, Joanna · 25 Demarco, Sarah · 49 Arcuri, Michael · 13, 59 Broody, Jennifer · 46 Clark, Nikolay · 58 Derella, Olivia · 33, 48 Arlington, Margaret · 67 Brown, Bonnie · 24 Clark, Shane · 56 Deren, Jule · 34 Arter, Camille · 44 Bukowski, Chelsea · 46 Cleary, Kevin · 34 deRubio, Tyler · 57 Atkins, Rachel · 25 Bulger, Laura · 45 Clookey, Stephanie · 66 DeSmitt, Holly · 5, 32 Augello, Michael · 22, 45 Bulman, Lindsey · 64 Club, Sociology · 36 DeStefano, Kala · 46, 62 Aulet, Lauren · 33, 46 Burathoki, Rajan · 57 Coble, Mary · 8, 9 DeStefano, Matthew · 18 Azzaro, Michael · 19, 60 Burden, Jennifer · 66 Coburn, Krista · 51 Burganowski, Rachael · 39 Cochrane, Steven · 5 Dewey, Sarah · 52 Burgess, Mark · 47 Coffey, Chris · 63 DiBartolomeo, Megan · 44, 62 Burgevin, Connor · 48 Cohen, Gideon · 35, 55 Diener, Karl · 5 B Burke, Ashley · 5 Colangelo, Liane · 34 Dierenfield, Elizabeth · 55 Burke, Mitchell · 13 Colas, Jennipher · 39 Diluglio, Jacqueline · 66 Bae, James · 45 Burleson, Leslye · 43 Colberg, Kelsey · 4 DiPaulo, Emily · 3 Bagnowska, Natalia · 64 Burns, Ryan · 51 Colbert, Sam · 34 DiPronio, Rhonda · 5, 52 Baier, Michelle · 3 Bush, Tyler · 51 Colligan, Sean · 12 Diskin, Jenna · 51 Baker, David · 58 Byrne, Catherine · 64 Collins, Katelyn · 2, 3 Dittmer, Patrick · 14 Baker, Jordan · 25 Collins, Thomas · 52 DiTursi, Joseph · 5 Baker, Sadie · 52 Collisson, Nicholas · 13, 15 Dole, Samuel · 5 Balschunat, Kristen · 41 C Conti, Benjamin · 13 Donovan, Erin · 2, 4, 41 Barbagiannis, Efthimia · 45 Cook, Emily · 51 Dorfman, Aaron · 44, 52, 64 Barber, Kirstin · 12 Cooke, Michael · 58 Dornbush, Christina · 8 Barber, Michael · 28 Caesar, Kylie · 27 Cooper, Michael · 47 Dorset, Erin · 12 Barber, Rebecca · 50 Caggiano, Christopher · 64 Corbin, Joseph · 24, 55 Downie, Danniella · 66 Barclay, Allison · 40 Callahan, Patricia · 39 Corbisiero, Kristen · 64 Druse, Kristen · 5 Barker, Chelsey · 2, 44 Callerame, Cheyenne · 45 Corcoran, Erin · 65 Duhamel, David · 25 Barrett, Meghan · 54 Camiolo, Adam · 62 Costello, Claire · 23 Dukarm, Katherine · 66 Barron, Stephen · 5 Caplan, Charles · 45, 50 Couch, Matthew · 34, 52 Dukler, Noah · 47, 59 Barton, Rick · 55 Cardinal, Katie · 59 Coughlin, Daniel · 44, 57 Durland, Ben · 5 Bateman, Gage · 19, 29 Carey, Kelsey · 10 Coulter, Deven · 10, 57 Dwyer, Brian · 29 Baum, Katherine · 44 Carra, Regina · 5 Cox, Cory · 32 Dyer, Kevin · 30 Beale, Luca · 63 Carver, Sara · 9 Craft, Margaret · 41 Beck, Melanie · 27 Castaneda, Kevin · 49 Craig, Jessica · 64 Beideck, Alexander · 45 Castle, Meaghan · 61 Cramer, Jennifer · 27, 28 E Beisheim, Ellen · 9 Castonguay, Anna · 66 Cremo, Tricia · 2 Bell, Aidan · 56 Castrogivanni, Joanna · 34 Crocetti, Lindsay · 45 Edouard, Diana · 39 Bellomo, Larry · 35 Catron, Samantha · 48 Crocker, Christopher · 22 Egloff, Mary Grace · 66 Bennett, Steven · 44 Caughlin, Timothy · 52 Croke, Deirdre · 52 Eichas, Megan · 22 Beno, Carl · 24, 42 Cavallero, Marlee · 3 Crompton, Kyle · 31, 32 Eisenbaum, Maxwell · 39 Benson, Marissa · 4 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Giordano, Mike · 32 Horowitz, Joshua · 67 Ketchum, Gregory · 39 Girard, Erin · 52 Hossain, Mohammed · 2, 3 Killea, Megan · 41, 66 F Glaser, Hannah · 2, 4 Howe, Pam · 3, 61 Kim, Alice Hyein · 56 Glose, Thomas · 28 Hoy, Marcus · 43 Kim, Ara · 39 Fabre, Marina · 56 Goeke, Calla · 53 Hoyler, Anna · 44, 61 Kim, Jessica · 3, 4 Fallica, Jacob · 31 Gole, Daniel · 30 Huang, Claire · 25, 27 Kingsley, Hannah · 61 Fausel, Alanna · 10 Gomez, Eric · 64 Huang, Iris · 51 Kirk, Andrew · 50 Feidner, John · 9 Gomez, Marysabel · 33 Huebler, Samantha · 2, 3 Kirkpatrick, Christine · 2, 29 Feliciano, Oscar · 17 Gorman, Wyatt · 22 Hurley, Landon · 44 Klein, Matthew · 51 Fenimore, Ashley · 3 Goyzueta, Anna · 52 Hwangbo, Eun · 52 Klimek, Ryan · 43 Fernandez, Chloe · 55 Graham, Melissa · 13 Hynes, Alyssa · 25 Klutts, Abigail · 5 Ferrante, Danielle · 55 Grant, Mackenzie · 10 Knowles, Douglas · 5 Ferreira, Ray · 2, 53 Gratien, Eric · 66 Kohler, Sarah · 45 Fields, Peter · 17 Grau, Devin · 5 Kohn, Jennifer · 25, 26 Filkins, Timothy · 32 Green, Corinne · 22 I Kolakowski, Eric · 27 Finegan, Kara · 2, 15 Green, Jeff · 28, 29 Krafft, Avery · 45, 47 Finnerty, Joanna · 8 Greenman, Emma · 22 Iannarelli, Nick · 5 Krautsak, Madeline · 53 Fischer, Sean · 41 Greenwood, Carolyn · 67 Iglesia, Dale · 5 Kreidler, Katie · 40 Fitzpatrick, Dana · 52 Gregory, Pat · 23 Imagna, Katelynn · 8 Kreuder Kreuder, Nicholas · 13, 15, Flannery, Kelsea · 14 Griffith, Leandra · 44 Insalaco, Dianiella · 22 26, 44, 50 Flynn, Clare · 56 Grom, Jennifer · 17 Isaac, Ava · 45 Krieger, Michael · 32 Flynn, Joe · 53 Gruenauer, Shannon · 58 Ishibashi, Akane · 29 Kroenert, Jessica · 59 Fonte, Lauren · 10, 57 Gudema, Michael · 28 Ismail, Mukarram · 52 Krolikowski, Daniel · 5, 31 Ford, Ryan · 31 Gumbs, Nia · 39 Krotje, Chelsea · 52 Formica, Gabby · 49 Gutiérrez, Sebastián · 56 Kubo, Mayuko · 2 Fowler, Carly · 11 J Kuwik, Melinda · 10 France, Patrick · 61 Kyne, Jennifer · 45 Francis, Mandracchia · 66 Fredericy, Dustin · 9 H Jackson, Emma · 2 Freiman, Benjamin · 2, 27 Jaquay, Jamie · 5 Freyer, Christie · 57 Hackbarth, Brittany · 57 Jelonek, Nicole · 35 L Friday, Bethany · 23 Hadley, Kristen · 5 Jenkins, Jack · 30, 32 Friedman, Rachel · 45, 52, 59 Hafner, Victoria · 67 Jennings, Emily · 42, 55, 64 LaFountain, Jarrod · 32, 63 Frieman, Richard · 27 Haig, Kathleen · 29 Jensen, Graham · 63 Lam, Jessica · 26, 42 Frodey, Kevin · 14 Halbohn, Colleen · 30 Jerabek, Andrea · 14 Lam, Joann · 16, 46 Fuster, Sean · 8 Hallahan, Cara · 58 Jin, Fangyuan · 15, 17, 52 Langan, Patrick · 8 Haller, Amy-Lynn · 4 Johnson, Lucas · 61 Lanik, Amanda · 26, 42 Halpern, Brigid · 52 Johnson, Michael · 27 Lashinsky, Adam · 45, 61 Halpern, Jillian · 52 Johnston, Heather · 12 Lauda, Brittany · 29 G Halstead, Anne · 8 Jones, Chris · 5 Lawniczak, Matthew · 5 Hamilton, Patrick · 42 Jones, Christopher · 5 Lawrence, Stephon · 3 Gabriel, Ian · 2 Handy, Jeff · 41 Jones, Jared · 29 Lawson, Sarah · 49 Gaglione, Bob · 5 Hannel, Lauren · 11 Joseph, Jonathan · 52 Lawton, Robert · 61 Gallo, Kathrin · 45 Hansen, Kevin · 5 Joyce, Bridget · 29 Lazatin, Justine · 66 Gallup, Mary-Margaret · 5 Hare, Rachel · 5 Joyce, Justin · 5 Lee, Jerry · 50 Gamble, Christopher · 26 Harel, Ayelet · 24 Lee, Jinbok · 5 Gangloff, Julia · 8 Hartman, Michael · 3, 4 Lee, Sandra · 45 Garcia, Amanda · 52 Hartnett, Samantha · 8, 9 K Lee, Yale · 47 Garcia, Klarissa · 39, 52 Haussner, Elizabeth · 27 Lehner, Kristen · 17 Garfield, Hannah · 5 Hawes, Jennifer · 17 Leinung, Kathryn · 33 Garing, Paul · 5 Hayes, Eileen · 39 Kaasik, Katrina · 67 LeMaster, Nicole · 45 Gary, Holly · 50 Hayes, Matthew · 64 Kahn, Nathan · 62 Lenhard, April · 54 Gasparek, Jennifer · 17 Hearfield, Katelyn · 39, 49 Kahrs, Robert · 51 Leon, Robert · 5 Gavin, Colleen · 45 Heffernan, Patrick · 23 Kalet, Marie · 5, 32, 63 LePage, Janeanne · 61 Gearhart, Sara · 31 Heim, Christina · 44 Kamilla, Zahra · 67 Lepski, Emily · 9 Geen, Kathryn · 50 Heimburger, Christopher · 18 Kandel, Holly · 2 Leskovec, Jenna · 27 Gell, Dara · 45 Hellreich, Jaclyn · 17 Kaplan, Olivia · 31 Lester, Cassidy · 58 Georgek, Jennifer · 24, 28 Henderson, Rose · 57 Karnath, Leanora · 5 Lester, Greggory · 43

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Lester, Stacianne · 8 McGrath, Diana · 15, 24 O Prezio, Christopher · 52 Leung, Sherry · 56 McGuey, Devin · 33 Price, Melissa · 51 Levinn, Carolyn · 19 McLafferty, Megan · 33 O’Sullivan, Travis · 5 Pullano, Chelsea · 61 Levy, Jennifer · 58 McLauchlin, Chris · 41 Oberdorf, Emily · 49 Putnam, Megan · 27 Lew, Jason · 14 McLoughlin, James · 50 O'Brien, Erin · 50 Lewis, Xerius · 45 McNeill, Matthew · 29, 43 O'Brien, Laura · 35 Li, Anna · 16, 17 McPherson, Jillian · 26 O'Connor, Joseph · 41 Q Li, Diana · 19 McPhillips, Megan · 65 O'Donnell, Billy · 5 Lin, Yanying · 39 Meci, Emily · 8 Odume, Chikamso · 65 Qazi, Yasmine · 57 Lindabury, Keith · 26 Meehan, Jessalyn · 55 Okada, Emi · 5 Quandt, Zarina · 50 Lionetti, Alexandra · 44 Mehta, Mehek · 15 Olevnik, Mandy · 8 Quataert, Robin · 11 Liu, Jenny · 58 Menarchem, Cathryn · 5 Olin, Rachel · 34 Quinlan, Marisa · 14 Lodi, Rebecca · 9 Mendes, Alex · 5 Olmstead, Emily · 22 Quinn, Casey · 44, 50 Loewenstein, Nathan · 2 Mendoza, Carly · 33 Olsen, Kimberly · 36 Quintero, Justin · 61 Lohraseb, Louis · 39 Menezes-Pinto, Esther · 43 O'Malley, Jordan · 19 Lomazzo, Katherine · 44 Menjivar, Katherine · 62 O'Neill, Annie · 48 Longo, Phil · 5 Mergenthaler, Samantha · 22 O'Reilly, Qwest · 67 Losh, Evan · 53 Mervine, Griffin · 44 Osgood, Hannah · 5 R LoTempio, Lucia · 61 Meyer, April · 44 O'Shaughnessy, Kelly · 27 Lu, Christina · 30 Michalek, Kathryn · 8, 9 O'Shea, Michael · 27 Lubanski, Christa · 61 Mietz, Sarah · 19 Rabb, Kristin · 40 Ostroot, Joanna · 34 Racanelli, Joseph · 5 Ludwig, Katelyn · 11 Milano, Maggie · 5 Oswald, Emily · 67 Lynch, Daniel · 5 Miller, Ben · 50 Raffe, Kaitlyn · 8 Otruba, John · 50 Rafferty, Breanne · 10, 57 Miller, Rebecca · 49, 60 Oviedo, Toni · 41 Miller-Rhodes, Patrick · 20, 21, 35 Raheb, Laura · 57, 66 Miskell, Bridget · 8 Rahn, Nicole · 5 M Montalban, Cecibel · 33 Raines, Calli · 8 Moodey, Jessica · 5 P Rajapakse, Chamodi · 5 Mabelo, Aime · 67 Moore, Chris · 63 Ramirez, Elyssa · 5, 41 Ramirez, Sheila · 39 Macbarb, Max · 59 Moore, Dan · 32 Palacios, Ashley · 67 Ramus, Johnny · 28 MacDonald, Andrew · 9 Moore, Meghan · 15 Palermo, Gregory · 40, 52 Rao, Christine · 25 Maggio, Jeffrey · 43 Morales, Alyssa · 39 Palladino, Kara · 22 Ratul, Saif · 58, 63 Magnus, Robert · 63 Morales, Karina · 33, 39 Palmer, Evan · 56 Rebello, Melaney · 22, 61 Mahlum, Logan · 47 Morgan, Kaitlyn · 5 Pan, Queeny · 20, 21, 46 Rebuck, Tara · 5 Mahon, Carolyn · 8 Morse, Matthew · 52 Pandolfino, Mary · 67 Reck, Elizabeth · 41 Maisonet, Hannah · 3 Mosher, Gedney · 52 Pandolfino, Mary Beth · 34 Redington, Emily · 14 Makowiec, Kathryn · 8 Moshon, Michelle · 4, 13, 44 Panepinto, Olivia · 39 Reed, Megan · 43 Malsegna, Amy · 58 Mowrer, Andrew · 54 Paolucci, Angela · 31 Regan, Forrest · 52 Mamay, Kaitlyn · 58, 67 Moynihan, Katherine · 52 Parr, Jennifer · 34 Reiss, Austin · 32 Manas, Lindsay · 46 Mulholland, Thomas · 3 Parsons, Dylan · 18 Reuter, Kerri · 51 Mandarano, Alexandra · 16 Munn, Sebastián · 56 Pasanen, Jacob · 56 Reyes, Shayra · 67 Maplesden, Robert · 51 Munnings, Jessica · 67 Patrick, Elizabeth · 44 Rhoades, Kyra · 2 Marble, Erin · 29 Muradova, Yuliya · 3 Patt, Andrew · 5 Rhoads, Beatrice · 51 Mareane, Jonathan · 12, 39 Murphy, Brendan · 50 Paulin, Kimberly · 61 Ribaudo, Alexandra · 21 Maresca, Angela · 52 Mushock, Jonathan · 5, 41 Payea, Robert · 39 Rich, Hillary · 40 Maric, Antonia · 67 Payne, Alison · 44 Ried, Amber · 4 Marienfeld, Mariah · 9 Payne, Daniel · 47 Rittenhouse, Emily · 5 Markel, Kayla · 59 Pearlman, Brooke · 22 N Roberts, Andrew · 5 Marr, Luke · 21 Pecoraro, Vincent · 35 Roberts, Megan · 66 Martilotta, Rosemary · 58 Pedziwiatr, Paul · 5 Robinson, Thomas · 5 Martin, Brandi · 58 Nafis, Sarah · 29 Peers, Ryan · 18 Roche, CJ · 41 Martin, Chris · 5 Nagasing, Benjamin · 19 Peinkofer, Nicole · 5 Rody-Wright, Hannah · 65 Martin, Genevieve · 35 Nagel, John · 52 Peralta, Sanny · 33 Rogachefsky, Marty · 41 Martin, Hayley · 50, 52, 60 Najuch, Shea · 67 Perry, Andrew · 45, 64 Romano, Philip · 1, 41 Mason, Matthew · 52 Nassar, Christine · 10 Perry, Erik · 5 Romero, Stephany · 45 Mason, Simone · 56 Naz, Tasmia · 22 Peterson, Nicolas · 47 Romig, Kady · 5 Masotti, Julia · 5, 39, 49 Neels, Casey · 51 Philips, Adam · 19 Roney, Pamela · 30 Massachi, Shelly · 5, 22 Neeves, Elizabeth · 3 Phillips, Tara · 35 Rooney, Evan · 34 Massaro, Marina · 32 Neill, Sean · 54, 62 Picciochi, Christina · 22 Roosa, Allison · 23 Masters, Phillip · 52 Nejathaim, Joseph · 5 Piccione, Christine · 67 Rose-Gross, Joanna · 65 Mateer, Chris · 50 Nellist, Michael · 18 Piedmonte, Nick · 39 Rosenzweig, Steven · 4, 5 Matthews, Heather · 2 Nelson, Kristina · 26 Pike, Christopher · 5, 64 Ross, Mary · 52 Mattiucci, Michael · 50, 60 Neyerlin, Elise · 30 Pilosov, Michael · 30, 63 Roulette, Jacqueline · 52 Maung, Andrew · 64 Niemiec, Alexandra · 65 Piore, Alexandria · 22 Royal, Kate · 49 McCarthy, Kelly · 15 Niknam, Melissa · 5, 67 Pipe, Erin · 5 Rubin, Rhea · 52 McCracken, Benjamin · 27 Novitzki, David · 11 Polsin, Danae · 32 Ruf, Mariah · 61 McDevitt, Emily · 42 Núñez, Scarlet · 56 Potter, Jordan · 63 Ruiz, April · 8 McEvoy, Molly · 28 Nwaedozie, Obiefuna · 45 Preminger Preminger, Samuel · 5, 44, Rumsey, Nikita · 61 McGovern, Bridget · 8 48, 57, 65 McGowan, Jane · 54 Russ, Megan · 32, 67

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Russ, Savanah · 32 Smith, Lauren · 58 Taylor, Keenan · 3 Waid, Christopher · 25 Ruswick, Stephen · 47 Smith, Madeline · 57 Tear, Westley · 19 Waldman, Emily · 2 Rutledge, Rachael · 47 Smith, Megan · 47 Templeton, Melissa · 10 Walpole, Jennifer · 8 Ryan, James · 49 Smith, Samantha · 53 Teresi, Joseph · 52 Walpole, Michelle · 55 Rytel, Alexis · 9, 51 Smith, Shaina · 39 Theofield, Jenna-Marie · 67 Wang, Bingjie · 43 Snook, Jason · 51 Thies, Matthew · 27 Ward, Danielle · 22 Soderquist, Mary Margaret · 46 Thomas, Amanda · 5 Ward, Shawn · 5 Sojda, Walter · 47 Thompson, Peter · 5, 27 Waye, Elizabeth · 5, 47 S Soto, Celia · 39 Thornton, Ashley · 8 Webb, Sofia · 45 Souza, Adam · 61 Tiede, Gabrielle · 33 Weilbacher, Christopher · 31 Sadwick, Krystalyn · 32 Sovak, Brianna · 27 Tittle, Shamfa · 61 Weinstein, Samuel · 5 Salamone, Whitney · 33 Sovocool, Bridget · 22 Tobias, Joshua · 45, 52 Weintraub, Aaron · 54 Salerno, Alexandra · 39 Sovocool, Meghan · 22 Tomassini, Aaron · 55 Weisberg, Harry · 14 Salhab, Matthew · 47 Spade, Amelia · 22 Tompkins, Shelby · 41 Weisberg, Lauren · 33, 59, 66 Sanderson, Brent · 14 Spears, Alec · 28, 42 Tontarski, Sara · 34 Weiss, Staci · 34 Sanger, Julia · 17 Spelman, Megan · 15 Trainor, Amelia · 33 Wells, Emily · 14 Santos, Joanna · 33 Spence, Amanda · 45 Tran, Amy · 35 Whalen, Asa · 42 Santos, Kenneth · 20 Spencer, Jewley · 51 Tran, Anh · 56 Wheatley, Meagan · 15 Sapadin, Benjamin · 53 Sperrazza, Jill · 14 Travis, Dominguez · 15 Wheeler, Rita · 5, 19 Saroli, Cassandra · 58, 67 Spitz, Greg · 56 Trombley, Nathan · 5 White, Samuel · 48, 57 Sass, Andrew · 51 Springer, Andrea · 22 Trompeter, Grace · 50, 52, 61 Whyte, Regina · 45 Schaefer, Sally · 5, 41, 53 Stabley-Conde, Devin · 60 Truong, Katherine · 28 Wiesner, Micah · 5 Schechter, Stephanie · 5 Stahlecker, Jase · 57 Tsang, Christina · 66 Wilcoxen, Kaitlin · 48 Scheib, Christopher · 51 Staudenraus, Megan · 45 Tucker, Adrienne · 23 Willey, Kim · 10 Schepis, Michael · 31 Steen, Douglas · 26 Tufano, Dante · 63 Williams, Samantha · 13 Schmelzer, Emilie · 5 Steinke, Rebekah · 17 Turner, Charles · 5 Williamson, Danielle · 8 Schole, Michael · 52 Steinley, Katrina · 57 Turner, Christopher · 29 Willmarth, Stephanie · 10, 51 Schultz, Isaac · 5, 29, 31 Steinwachs, Erin · 46 Turner, Meagan · 2 Willoughby, Shannon · 22 Schultz, Kristen · 8 Stell, Christa · 24 Turner, Megan · 61 Wolf, Benjamin · 3 Schwartz, Caroline · 55 Stellrecht, Christiane · 22 Tyree, Stephanie · 10 Wolff, Brian · 24 Sedaghatfar, Matthew · 50 Stephans, William · 60 Wong, Geoffrey · 13 Seifert, Daria · 33 Steubing, Jessica · 50 Wong, Kawai Jana · 39 Seifert, Noah · 57 Stiller, Casey · 49 Woo, Joanne · 5 Shah, Maya · 45, 50 Stillman, Collin · 5, 31, 32 U Shapiro, Amanda · 5 Stith, Bridget · 58 Shapiro, Justin · 55 Stoianoff, Michael · 44 Unni, Asha · 33 Shelton, Leslie · 35 Stokes, Mary-Clare · 8 Y Sherman, Kimberly · 56 Storke, Rebecca · 65 Shin, Joo Yeon · 2, 3, 55 Stowell, Vincent · 16 V Yelle, Samantha · 5 Shortino, Justin · 31 Strapp, Jorden · 65 Young, Christian · 14 Shufelt, Brandon · 52, 62 Stressler, Bryan · 24 Young, Cory · 43 Siegenthaler, Kevin · 21 Sturge, Brynne · 8 Valentine, Erika · 16 Young, Fred · 51 Sigalas, Maria · 45, 66 Sullivan, Brian · 52 Van Orden, Zoe · 3, 52 Yousey, Amelia · 56 Silliman, Victoria · 29, 56 Sulzer, Carsen · 60 Vanacore, Felicia · 58 Silva, Erika · 61 Susmann, Herb · 13, 22, 47 VanSoest, Brianna · 44 Simmons, Austin · 13 Sweet, Emily · 4 Vazquez, Elimary · 51 Z Simmons, Nicholas · 50 Swiatek, Shannon · 34 Vazquez, Mariely · 51 Simone, Angela · 32 Szczesniak, Laura · 18, 66 Vetrano, Jaclyn · 2, 45 Simone, Joanna · 10 Szczurek, Aleksandra · 2, 4 Vetrano, Melissa · 34 Zaczek, Adam · 5 Simons, Nicole · 5 Viceconte, Kristin · 52 Zaiter, Pamela · 39 Sinha, Shadman · 5, 21 Vick, Zachary · 52 Zeng, Jian Cong · 63 Sinon, Maria-Gratias · 39 Villazhinay, Gina · 50 Zhao, Xiaoying · 64 Skill, Alexis · 67 T Volk, Daniel · 33 Zhu, Ming Shan · 34, 35 Skinner, Amanda · 21 Vora, Axita · 8 Zingman, Nicole · 9 Skinner, Chelsea · 45 Talay, Saskia · 45, 66 Zschoche, Emily · 58 Skroupa, Michael · 52 Talbot, Kathleen · 33 Sluzar, Olivia · 57 Tamarin, Rachel · 66 W Smarcz, Rebecca · 29 Tang, Eugenia · 23 Smith, Alyssa · 10, 12, 51 Tashman, Hannah · 10 Smith, Devin · 63 Tate, Ginny · 59 Wage, Adam · 61 Smith, Kalynn · 5 Taylor, Carmela · 33 Wagner-Flynn, Megan · 22

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GREAT Day 2013 Cover Design Project PHILIP ROMANO, AMY KUEHNERT, DUSTIN FREDERICY, JIHEE LEE, JOANIE DRAKE, JOSEPH SCHWARTZ, JUSTIN LEVITT, MICHELLE DODGE, ROOHULLAH MAQSOODI, SKYE CARDONA FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL TERES The ARTS 204 Graphic Design Class developed cover designs for the GREAT Day Program. The colver selected was created by Philip Romano The work submitted by the remainder of the class is featured here.

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