GREAT Day 2019 Program

EAlbers Welcome to SUNY Geneseo’s Thirtheenth 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. http://www.geneseo.edu/great_day

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2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Table of Contents/Schedule

TABLE OF CONTENTS SCHEDULE

Schedule ...... 1 8:00 – 8:50 AM Opening Coffee Hour Honoring Milne 1st Floor 10 Year Supporters & 2018 Proceedings GREAT Day Honors ...... 2 9:00 – 10:15 AM Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 Keynote Address ...... 3 Bailey, Doty, ISC, Milne, Newton, South, Welles

Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 ...... 4 9:40 – 11:00 AM Music Festival Doty Recital Hall Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 ...... 14 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM GREAT Battle of the Artists Show CU Kinetic Gallery Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 ...... 23 10:30 – 11:45 AM Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 Poster Abstracts • Session 1 ...... 31 Bailey, Brodie, Doty, ISC, Newton, South, Welles

Poster Abstracts • Session 2 ...... 50 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM GEO Dumpster Dive Between College Union and Mary Jemison Music Festival ...... 70 11:20 – 12:00 pm Jazz Ensemble Artwork Exhibits ...... 71 South Hall Quad (rain location, Wadsworth 21)

Special Presentations ...... 72 12:00 – 1:30 PM Poster Presentations 1 College Union Ballroom Insomnia Film Festival ...... 73 12:00 PM Geneseo String Band Performance Index of Student Participants and College Union Balcony Faculty/Staff Sponsors ...... 74 12:30 PM Buffet Luncheon Acknowledgements ...... 79 College Union Lobby Sponsor in part: Geneseo Student Association

Poster Map ...... back cover 1:45 – 3:00 PM Keynote: Dr. Stephanie Singer The Jack ’76 and Carol ’76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship Cover design by Joanna Walters ’13 Alma Mater: NICOLE ACQUAVELLA with MICHAEL MASETTA Wadsworth Auditorium

3:15 – 4:30 PM Concurrent Presentations • Session 3

Sustainable GREAT Day 3:15 – 4:30 PM Music Festival Cabaret College Union Hunt Room

 Look for the Leaf 4:35 PM Geneseo Winter Guard Sustainability at Geneseo has selected GREAT Day College Union Plaza presentations which include topics that promote 4:45 – 6:15 PM Poster Presentations 2 & Reception sustainability and are designated by. College Union Ballroom Keynote Speaker Book Signing The badge holders are biodegradable and the lanyards are made from 100% recycled plastic. 5:30 PM GREAT Battle of the Artists Awards CU Kinetic Gallery Recycle your Namebadge/Lanyard 6:30 PM reception, 7:00 PM screenings If you would like to recycle your namebadge/lanyard you can leave it at the GREAT Day Check -In Desk in the Wadsworth Auditorium Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival College Union, give it to a GREAT Day Volunteer or drop it off at Erwin 202.

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GREAT Day Honors 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual

The GREAT Day Opening Coffee Hour 8:00 – 8:45 am, Milne Library Honoring

Ten Year Sponsors

GREAT Day would not be possible without the dedicated faculty who work with students throughout the year on the projects that are presented annually. As we observe the 13th Annual GREAT Day, we would like to acknowledge the following faculty who, as of this year, have served as faculty sponsor for 10 GREAT Days:

ENGLISH HISTORY Maria Lima Catherine Adams

GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES SOCIOLOGY Amy Sheldon Elaine Cleeton

Students and Faculty Mentors Published in the Proceedings of GREAT Day 2018:

COOKING CONFRONTATIONS À LA MOZART MIGHT HAVE TOUCHED IT: A CLOSE FRANCOPHONIE UP LOOK AT AN 18TH CENTURY VIOLIN SOPHIE BOKA RYAN LEE MARIA LIMA, ENGLISH ANDREW BERGEVIN, MUSIC

BLACK WOMEN BE KNOWING: DOUBLE WRITING A MODERN MISSA BREVIS CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE MAID'S TEAR IN SIMONE LOUIE GET OUT MICHAEL MASCI, MUSIC ERIK BUCKINGHAM LEE PIERCE, COMMUNICATION SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND DC COMICS KYLIE MATHIS THE EFFECTS OF FICTIONAL PORTRAYALS OF MELANIE BLOOD, WOMEN & GENDER STUDIES

THERAPY ON ATTITUDES ABOUT SEEKING MOSQUITO BITES MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT SANG WOOK NAM, LUC TURNIER JULIA CAMERON LEE PIERCE, COMMUNCATION STEVEN KIRSH, PSYCHOLOGY BYSTANDER RESPONSES TO WOMEN’S A STUDY OF LABANOTATION AND ITS SEXUAL OR PHYSICAL ASSAULT: APPLICATIONS FROM 20TH CENTURY MODERATING EFFECTS OF PERSONAL EUROPE TO 21ST CENTURY AMERICA VICTIMIZATION HISTORY LAURA D'AMICO CLAIRE EDGINTON, TESS RAMOS-DRIES JONETTE LANCOS, THEATER/DANCE JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY

AN AMERICAN STUCK IN ANOTHER BODY: INSPIRATION VS. APPROPRIATION: NARRATIVES OF ADOPTED EMERGING REPRESENTATION OF INDIGENOUS STAFF: JONATHAN GRUNERT, ALISON BROWN ADULTS CULTURES IN WESTERN DANCE COMPANIES INTERNS: NICOLE CALLAHAN, DIMITRI WING- ANNI-MING LARSON PAUL SAMANTHA SCHMEER MEREDITH HARRIGAN, COMMUNICATION JONETTE LANCOS, THEATER/DANCE

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2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Keynote Speaker

The Jack '76 and Carol '76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship KEYNOTE ADDRESS Wadsworth Auditorium • 1:45 – 3:00 PM

Introduction by Dr. Caroline Haddad, Professor and Chair of Mathematics

Dr. Stephanie Singer – “Democracy: Your Path to Power ” About Dr. Stephanie Singer, Data Strategist Consultant - Verified Voting; Former Chair, Philadelphia County Board of Elections

Stephanie Singer has assembled, analyzed and explained data for private business, public agencies, campaigns and election oversight as an Elections and Government Data Expert. She serves as a consultant for Verified Voting, the only national not-for-profit, non-partisan voting integrity organization focused exclusively on the critical role technology plays in election administration, working on various projects, including creating web content and materials to promote sound post election audits. Her podcast “Defend Democracy!” is available on iTunes and Anchor.fm and on the Campaign Scientific webpage. In 2017 she served as Project Lead for Free & Fair, a new player in the election technology market bringing the best in computer security and high- assurance design to the voting process, on the development of a risk-limiting-audit system for the Colorado Department of State. Singer studied math and computer science at Yale and Stanford, earned a Ph.D. from New York University. Her first career was in academia where she was on the faculty at Haverford College for eleven years, during which time she created and taught courses, wrote several research papers and her first book on symmetry in physics, and earned tenure in the Mathematics Department. After her departure she finished a second book on symmetry in quantum mechanics. Physicists like her books because they explain the mathematics in terms they understand; mathematicians like her books because they show the underlying connections between mathematics and physics. She then moved to her second career as a Data Strategist/Entrepreneur. Singer owned and ran two businesses, Campaign Scientific and Wise Acre Real Estate. One provided custom data work to political organizations and small businesses. The other provided education, support and research for real estate investors. Many years of years of volunteer work on election-related issues led Singer to her third career as an elections and government data expert. Her efforts included prompting the Pennsylvania Department of State to lower its voter file price to $20 from $1340 and prompting the Philadelphia County Board of Elections to release its raw election results data in electronic form. From 2012-2016 she served on the Philadelphia County Board of Elections improving communication, modernizing processes, rooting out corruption and protecting voters’ rights. She won the post by defeating a 36-year incumbent in a citywide election. Singer co-chaired the statewide Election Reform Committee of the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania and is an active member of the national Election Verification Network. Her work in office included playing a critical role in proving the unconstitutionality of Pennsylvania's Voter Photo ID law, which was enacted in 2012 but ruled unconstitutional in 2014. After leaving elected office in early 2016, Singer has worked on a variety of data strategy and election-related projects, including work with the City of San Francisco and the City of Jackson, MS, funded by the Knight Foundation. She worked on election verification projects in the for-profit (Free & Fair) nonprofit (Verified Voting and government (Orange County Registrar of Voters) sectors and is an active member of the national Election Verification Network.

There will be a book signing and reception in conjunction with the poster session in the College Union Ballroom at 4:45 pm. The bookstore will have copies of several books for sale. All are welcome.

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Session 1 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual

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

1A • ANTHROPOLOGY BAILEY 103 shame in their childhood through developing a these differences have occurred over time to give strong sense of self, gay men fall short of this each species it’s specific selective advantage. MEN AND MASCULINITIES realization and thus suffer a serious identity crisis ______FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JAMES that hinders self-realization and acceptance. The Immune Response and Sexual AIMERS, ANTHROPOLOGY notion of internalized homophobia is thus seen as Ornamentation Trade-offs in ______a barrier toward the formation of gay identity. The From Dapper to Dopey: An adoption of such ideology by gay men is associated Teleopsis dalmanni Historical Survey of TV Dads with several negative effects, such as mental AMY FARNHAM KATHERINE PETER health disorders and participating in unsafe sexual FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, Images displayed on television are unquestionable practices. While much literature on the topic is BIOLOGY indicators of feelings across American culture at focused on internalized homophobia as a symptom Teleopsis dalmanni, otherwise known as the stalk- any given time. Fathers on TV fall into a number of of generalized homosexuality, this survey will eyed flies, are a unique insect known for their categories; all tropes that have evolved identify the roots of internalized homophobic eyestalk projections on the sides on their heads. dramatically. From the intellectual dad, to the thought in terms of identity ¬ as well as the Males have longer eye stalks used as sexual goofy dad, to the gruff, working class dad, TV problems associated with the adoption of such a ornamentation to attract females. The long stalks portrays family dynamics with which everyone can harmful self-image. are a good example of an evolutionary trade-off. relate. By looking at depictions of fathers on ______The resources required to produce these long television, I will analyze how perceptions of Men, Women, and The Concept of stalks are costly and take away from other traits fatherhood have changed across time, and how Contraception: Its History and Our such as a greater immune defense. Our goal is to this reflects American cultural perceptions of ideal determine whether altering the presence of masculinity. Future functioning immunology genes will result in longer ______LEAH CHRISTMAN eye stalks due to freed up energy resources Non-Threatening Masculinity and Birth control is hailed by western feminists as the according to the trade-off hypothesis or if those harbinger of women’s sexual and economic with a higher genetic quality will be resilient to Female Fantasy: Fanfiction Authors’ liberation. So common as to be referred to in the change according to the handicap hypothesis. Use of Queer Men United States as simply “the Pill,” many women Previous work has demonstrated that certain RACHEL MCLAUCHLIN take some form of contraception for pregnancy genes involved in immunity also have female- This paper explores the constructions of prevention or overall health every day; yet, despite biased gene expression in tissues of the developing masculinity present in fanfiction, primarily reaping its many benefits, most women, and even eye. A female-bias in expression could indicate a fanfiction written by and for straight women about more men, never consider birth control’s trade-off between longer eye stalks in males and queer men. While much of the existing literature contentious history based in gaining control of the immune function. We choose 2 such genes for on fanfiction studies the fanwork environment of female body. In this presentation, we will briefly further analysis, CRISPR/Cas-9 will be used to fanfiction.net, I will instead focus on a newer site: explore the socially dynamic, gendered, and create null mutations in the immunity genes. Archive of Our Own (AO3). In order to study ideals historic conception of contraception, including ______of masculinity in fanfiction, I will combine a survey where men and masculinity have helped and/or Mutagenesis of De novo Genes in of existing literature on the topics of fanfiction and hurt it’s reception in western societies. We will also Drosophila Melanogaster discuss where the future of contraception is fan spaces from a variety of fields, and case studies JULIA NICOSIA headed for women and men in the 21st century. of popular fanfictions on AO3. I selected three FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, fandoms, differentiated by original media format ISC 115 BIOLOGY and subject matter, and have chosen one popular 1B • BIOLOGY New genes have always been particularly work from each fandom to examine. And while the SESSION CHAIR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, BIOLOGY interesting to biologists because they help explain ______works differ in a variety of ways, the ways fan how organisms have evolved to become authors construct the masculinity of their male Can Signals of Adaptive Evolution increasingly complex over time. De novo genes are characters is strikingly similar. By considering the be Detected in Genes Known to be especially interesting because they arose from treatment of masculinity and queer men’s Involved in Egg Traits within previously non-coding DNA. The Drosophila de sexuality in these recent fanworks in comparison to novo genes we are studying are expressed mainly scholarship that focuses primarily on early- to mid- Schistosomes? in the male testes, and previous work based on 2000’s fandom, I will explore fanfiction and JAKE FORMAN RNA interference showed these genes may be fandom as a safe space for girls and women to FACULTY SPONSORS: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, essential to male fertility and viability. However, explore their sexuality and interests, and how that BIOLOGY we do not know whether these genes function as environment’s fetishization of queer men has SUSAN MUENCH BIOLOGY proteins, like most genes, or as functional RNAs. potentially shifted over time. Schistosomiasis is a debilitating disease, mostly We are using CRISPR-Cas9, a gene modification ______found in tropical and subtropical regions. This tool, to create null mutations in Drosophila Evaluation of Internalized disease is caused by infection with parasitic worms, melanogaster’s de novo genes to answer this Homophobia in Gay Men and most of the symptoms are associated with the question. CRISPR-Cas9 works by inducing a frame- DANIEL BRUSH eggs, with different species exhibiting species- shift mutation in a gene, but it can also be used to This paper considers the causes and effects of specific pathology associate with the differences in delete a large section of the gene. With a frame- internalized homophobia in gay men. life history. Using genomic analysis I will determine shift, the gene will still be coded into an RNA Contemporary views on homosexuality indicate what egg genes within schistosomes have changed strand, but the protein translated will be that most gay men or men who have sex with men as life history traits have evolved within nonfunctional: while the deletion will affect the (MSM) exhibit some degree of internalized schistosomes. Using two model organisms, function of the RNA and protein. By comparing homophobia, defined as the adoption of negative Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis phenotypic and genotypic outcomes of the or harmful ideas that exist in the broader elegans, I was able to identify likely orthologs to frameshift and the deletion we can answer the community toward homosexuality. In a egg genes within Schistosomes. Using this question about how de novo genes perform their predominantly heterosexual society, gay men are information I am able to create phylogenetic trees functions. often projected as a deviant sexual minority, of these genes to determine where changes have causing one to experience shame. While occurred throughout life history in different heterosexual males can overcome this sense of species of schistosomes. This shows us where 4

2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Session 1 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM

1C • BIOLOGY MATHEMATICS JOSHUA BOYER, OLIVIA CARD, JULIAN LEE employee and a manager. If a breach is to occur, Intelligence is the ability to recognize stimuli and the level of employee engagement will be ISC 131 produce behavior of self-preservation in response. drastically affected. The breach can be attributed FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: The intelligence model was designed to be to a lack of clarity and it can lead to a decrease in CHRISTOPHER LEARY, MATHEMATICS applicable at the level of both organisms and the level of trust. A potential breach can be FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, species, with the objective of understanding which avoided by increasing the level of psychological BIOLOGY factors influence intelligent behavior to produce an safety within the workplace, which in turn may ______evolutionarily successful outcome. The modeling lead to an increased level of organizational The Effect of Community Structure approach operates in discrete time, where the commitment for an employee. One way this can be on the Spread of Tuberculosis agent makes a series of decisions which are each achieved is through emotional intelligence training LAURA WILLIAMS judged to raise or lower the survival score. The for both managers and employees. Tuberculosis is an airborne disease most often parameters affecting the survival score include ______caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis which rates of attempting to store memory, correct Impact of Employee Participation in induces respiratory distress in its hosts. Despite its memory storage, and risk-taking behavior. We Decision-Making/Participative gradual decline in recent years, tuberculosis is a seek a specific set of parameters producing the dangerous disease that can be fatal, and is most intelligent species. This model integrates the Management on Organizational particularly difficult to track due to its ability to REM model of memory recall, serotonin- Citizenship Behavior of Employees remain latent within a human host for years dependent learning, decision making and tradeoff JULIA FLOCCO, ANDREW CARLSON, DAVID without symptomatic presentation. Using graph models. The model shows that the largest AVALLONE, NIKOLETTE NREKAJ, TULSI PATEL theory, a model was created that combines the contributing factor to the long-term success is the Organizations today are increasingly providing concepts of networks and SIR dynamics to risk-taking probability; with a moderate risk-taking opportunities for employee involvement in demonstrate how population interactions alter the behavior producing the greatest success. However, decision-making for a variety of reasons. One of spread of tuberculosis in a community. Effects of risk-taking behavior influences survival score only these reasons is the impact on organizational household size, number of random interactions in the long term. This finding shows which citizenship behaviors (OCB), i.e. when employees with other households, and probability of having characteristics of an organism or species are most feel motivated to go above and beyond their job latent tuberculosis within a given household were impactful in determining intelligence, leading to description to help their manager and coworkers in analyzed. In each instance, the number of evolutionary success. effectively achieving organizational goals. We individuals infected with tuberculosis was ______found that participative management increases recorded over time. Results indicate that the more Modeling the Transmission of HIV employee’s sense of responsibility, goal-alignment, people that live in a given household and the Between Female Sex Workers and and trust, leading to higher OCB. Based on our greater amount of random connections there are, findings, we developed recommendations for the more individuals become infected in a Senior Male Clients in China managers and organizations who are looking to network. Understanding how community structure CLAIRE PRUNIER, SARAH LOPRIENO, YITONG LIU effectively implement participative management impacts the spread of disease may help to The spread of the human immunodeficiency virus resulting in increased levels of OCB from their accelerate the decline of tuberculosis and may (HIV) affects the Chinese population, and is largely employees. Our presentation will provide further subsequently reduce economic strain and improve influenced by the commercial sex industry details about our findings on this topic and quality of life for many. between female sex workers and senior male recommendations to managers and organizations. ______clients. Mathematical modeling of HIV ______Modeling the Bioaccumulation of transmission allows us to test the impact of various Ingratiation and How it Impacts factors surrounding the transmission of this PBDE Contaminants in the disease. We use a differential equation model to Employee Performance Columbia River Ecosystem test factors such as rates of entry of males and BRADLEY MCPHERSON KATELYNN WARNER, EMMA MCMAHON, ERIC females into this industry, rate of transmission of This presentation will cover the topic of KOESSLER the disease, and the rate of diagnosis of infected ingratiation, or "brown nosing," and how it is Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are toxins female sex workers. A bipartite network model also impacts employees and the workplace. regularly found in flame retardants and are used in was constructed that allows us to test the effects a variety of electronics and textiles. PBDEs are of changing relationships between female sex 1E • INTERDISCIPLINARY BAILEY 203 known to bioaccumulate in aquatic ecosystem workers and their male clients. The model shows CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS food webs and alter thyroid functions, reduce that low entry rates, low transmission rates, and SESSION CHAIR: RABEKA ALAM, CHEMISTRY sperm counts, and delay sperm maturation in high diagnosis rate minimizes the total infected ______many vertebrates. We developed a model population in the system. Controlling the Sustainable Energy Education incorporating both predator-prey dynamics and transmission rates allows us to find the best toxin bioaccumulation to test the effects of PBDEs strategy to reduce the number of infected through Demonstration (SEED) on the population dynamics of a Columbia River individuals in the Chinese commercial sex industry. SCOTT WILLIAMS, CATHERINE FEDOR, GRANT food web. A system of differential equations was GRIEBLE used to model the effect of PBDEs on the 1D • BUSINESS SOUTH 233 FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS population growth rate of a simple food web BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: & ASTRONOMY where macroinvertebrates are preyed upon by Sustainable Energy Education through Demonstration largescale suckers, which are preyed upon by CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES (SEED) is a ten-week program that educated students osprey birds found in the Columbia River FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: AVAN on the mechanics of renewable energy production and ecosystem. We find that at moderate toxin JASSAWALLA, BUSINESS the value of these energies in combating climate concentrations, the macroinvertebrate population ______change. The students garnered a better understanding thrives while the populations of the largescale Importance of Psychological of the issues of anthropogenic climate change and suckers and osprey are reduced. Understanding Contract Breach and Employees environmental degradation, how different forms of the effects of PBDEs on stable populations will renewable energy function, and what sustainability allow us to better predict how pollution Engagement initiatives look like in Livingston County. Through this management strategies will affect the ecosystem. KYMBERLY RUBINSTEIN, ERDE YILDIZ, RYAN program, students became more engaged in issues ______KINKADE, ANDREW DIRNHOFER, LIAM RUSSELL relating to sustainability, all the while creating a greater The Contributing Factors of This study is an in-depth analysis of the relationship connection and sense of community between the between psychological contract breach and college and the central school. This project funded by Intelligence: An Evolutionary employee engagement. Psychological contracts the Frank Vafier ’74 Ambassador in Leadership Approach are common in the workplace and involve an ______unspoken set of rules or expectations between an  Promotes sustainability 5 Session 1 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual

Synthesis and Subsequent Anion Chaf1b is a subunit of chromatin assembly factor-1 exon of the neurod4 gene, ending before the first (CAF-1), which is known to load histones as part of intron. We generated a neurod4 GFP transgene Exchange Reactions of Cesium Lead DNA replication and repair. It has also been and compared the reporter gene expression with Halide Nanocubes postulated that Chaf1b may be involved in the endogenous neurod4 expression detected by in LUKE HOLTZMAN switch from cellular proliferation to differentiation. situ hybridization. Gross morphology analysis of FACULTY SPONSOR: RABEKA ALAM, CHEMISTRY The good effort (gef) mutant was identified by a the retina at 3dpf showed GFP expression from the Metal halide perovskites are new materials of mutagenesis screen in Danio rerio and is neurod4 GFP transgene closely matched in situ interest in the field of nanoscience due to the characterized by a small eye phenotype by 3 days data already published, and indicated that the increased efficiency of solar cells containing them. post fertilization (dpf) and death by 7 dpf. This transgene displayed similar expression from the Our work surrounds the synthesis of cesium lead mutant has been found to have a three base pair endogenous gene. Because neurod4 is expressed in bromide (CsPbBr3) and subsequent halide deletion in the chaf1b gene. Two potentially CAF- the retina during embryogenesis, we tested its exchanges to cesium lead chloride and iodide. By 1-stimulated genes, notch1a and her15.1, have requirement on cell proliferation in the retinal varying ratios of chloride and iodide ions in been selected for in situ hybridization based on during the regeneration following constant intense solution, homogeneous nanocrystals were created being downregulated globally in gef mutants light damage to photoreceptors. We that were mixtures of the original parent compared to wild type embryos prior to observable electroporated zebrafish retinas with neurod4- compounds and the emission spectra showed morphological differences. Bioinformatics analysis morpholino to cause loss-of-Neurod4 expression maxima across the entire spectral region. The through DAVID highlighted these genes as they are and subjected them to light damage for three to photoluminescence of all CsPbX3 nanocrystals was both part of the Notch signaling pathway, which is four days. The results of these experiments suggest characterized by absorbance and fluorescence essential for vertebrate retinal development. The a requirement of the neurod4 gene during spectroscopy, and crystal structure and size were Notch signaling pathway is ideal for studying the zebrafish retinal regeneration.. determined by x-ray powder diffraction and hypothesized function of Chaf1b in regulating ______transmission electron microscopy. Further studies transcription involved in neuronal differentiation. Novel Identification of Natural Viral into these materials are underway such as In situ hybridization using notch1a and her15.1 Infections in Zebrafish RNA probes will be used to look for downregulation core/shell studies and extinction coefficient PATRICK BUCKLEY in proliferating cells of the retinas of gef mutant determination. Knowledge of the extinction FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY embryos. coefficients is imperative for further studies on The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a vertebrate that is ______these materials, as precise concentrations are being increasingly used as a model organism in known. Also, the ability to easily tune the optical Exploration of Fox Den Family biological studies due to its large clutch size, properties of the nanocrystals make these Dynamics Using Camera Trap transparent embryos, and genetic similarity to perovskites very appealing quantum dot humans. Investigations of other model organisms semiconductors for solar cell use. Analyses have established that viral infections have the ______CHRISTINE SCHULTZ potential to alter the results of biological studies. Fluorescence Quenching FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY The potential confounding effect of viral infection Mechanism by Amyloid Beta Vulpes vulpes (Red Fox) is an animal traditionally makes the observation and elimination of viruses thought to live in solitude, hunting and living alone. Peptide and Nano-gold Particle in a model organism colony of significant Most research supports the idea that foxes live importance. Artificially-introduced viral infections Interaction – now poster 131 solitarily; however, there have been some studies of zebrafish have demonstrated this organism’s BRIANNA PAULINO, STEPHANIE LEE that report communal denning among adult foxes. susceptibility to viral infections, but only one FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, The present study uses camera trap images taken naturally-occurring viral infection of zebrafish has CHEMISTRY from 3 different cameras, all set to observe a single been observed to date. This investigation aims to The fluorescein attached Amyloid beta 1-40: FAβ fox den in the Roemer Arboretum. We identify one of the first observed natural viral was utilized to create a hydrophilic-charge hypothesized that this den exhibits a case of infections of zebrafish. Degenerate primers were interaction at the nano-scale interface of FAβ and communal denning in Red Foxes, because there used with PCR and RT-PCR to probe for the gold nano-particle under DMSO (dimethyl appeared to be two different litters of pups living presence of viruses that are known to infect sulfoxide) environment. As FAβ interacted with in the den in Spring 2018. Over 60,000 photos were closely-related fish species such as carp and koi. various sizes of gold nano-colloidal particles analyzed in Digikam photo management software, ranging in size between 10 nm and 100 nm in which involved applying tags to categorize the 1G • EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 2 foxes (adult, young vs. older pups) and their diameter, we observed intensive quenching of the WELLES 132 fluorescence for majority of pH conditions. We behavior captured in the images. These image metadata were then analyzed in R using the SESSION CHAIR: LISA MEYER, EDGAR FELLOWS hypothesize that the FAβ adsorbed over the nano- ______colloidal surface through the hydrophilic (N- package camtrapR. CamtrapR is used to organize terminal side) segments. Since the entire photos and produce activity plots of the foxes. When Robots Talk: The Impact of dynamical profile of fluorescein can be understood Preliminary results suggest that there are at least Voice Clarity on the Production as a relative degree of interaction between a two adult foxes using the den, perhaps three, and Effect fluorescein and the gold nano-particle surface, that there were at least 8 pups, likely from two different litters, in Spring 2018. We are searching LUKE BAMBUROSKI observed quenching features must imply that FACULTY SPONSOR: JASON OZUBKO, fluorescein attached side (C-terminal) is very for a greater understanding of how foxes interact with each other in communal dens. PSYCHOLOGY closely located to the nano-gold colloidal surface. The production effect is the finding that words read ______aloud are remembered better than words read 1F • EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 1 Examination of neurod4 in silently. One proposed explanation for the WELLES 131 Retinogenesis production effect is that the act of reading aloud or SESSION CHAIR: CARLY HEROLD, EDGAR FELLOWS ALEXIS SAUNDERS hearing a word makes memories more distinctive ______FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY than reading silently. If this account is correct, then Using Changes in Expression of Zebrafish exhibit eye development similar to that hearing a more distinctive computer “voice” (such Notch Pathway Genes in the gef of humans. The neurod4 gene encodes a as a distorted voice) should result in a memory transcription factor that may be important in benefit. The present study examined the effect of Mutant to Investigate the Functions neuroretinal development. neurod4 is also auditory stimulus degradation on the production of chaf1b in Retinal Development moderately conserved from zebrafish to humans, effect. In a set of three experiments, participants SARA FEINLAND and might have an equally important function in studied a list of words. In each experiment, FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY the cell cycle. The transgene contains 2.1 kb of the participants read some words aloud, read others upstream genomic sequence and includes the first silently, listened to the computer “say” other

6  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Session 1 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM words, and read other words aloud with the satirical works was examined. In the first study, the alley in American society is examined and computer. A memory test followed the study phase rhetorical devices utilized in American and Russian contextualized. Next, the spatial patterns in the wherein participants were shown studied words written satirical works (two of each) from the early distribution of bowling centers across the intermixed with new words. Participants rated 1900's was analyzed. The frequency of rhetorical industrial Midwest are examined, with a specific each word as either new or old. Across devices used in each piece was examined and focus on three states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, and experiments, different levels of auditory distortion compared. Some of the rhetorical devices evaluated Illinois. Through the use of census records taken were used: high, low, and no distortion. include the specific category of satire (whether it is from the Economic Census of Selected Service Preliminary data shows that the computer “voice” horatian, juvenalian, or mineppean) and whether Industries, regional spatial trends in the location of impairs memory overall, with the high distortion there was situational irony, hyperbole, and bowling alleys are discovered and examined over and no distortion "voices" leading to the greatest understatement present. In the second study, time. The extent by which the distribution of impairment. participants read one of the satirical works and bowling alleys is affected by urban context is ______provided their reactions to the pieces. In this study, it explored through comparisons between large Shakespeare and Gender was determined whether the rhetorical strategies urban centers, such as Cleveland and Columbus, MARIANNA SHEEDY analyzed in study 1 resulted in a similar or diverse and smaller cities. The decline of the bowling alley FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE BLOOD, ENGLISH interpretation of particular pieces and which can therefore be treated as a symptom of broader Because Shakespeare has been taught in rhetorical devices participants found most humorous. Midwestern economic and socio-demographic classrooms for hundreds of years, it is important to Afterwards, utilizing the rhetorical devices that trends. understand the extent to which his works promote participants found most humorous or produced a ______certain patriarchal views of women and gender. greater understanding, a satirical magazine with Fan Violence in Soccer Therefore, this presentation examines the content focused on Geneseo was created to tailor the RYAN THOMPSON relationship between gender roles and the works specific rhetorical devices previously studied to FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, of Shakespeare. The performative nature of Geneseo students. GEOGRAPHY gender, when expressed through Shakespeare’s Despite being the most popular sport in the world, the plays, has the effect of illustrating gender as a 1H • EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 3 game of soccer has often been marred by violence and domain of agency or freedom. Although WELLES 133 abuse among various fan bases. From racism, anti- sometimes his works reinforce traditional, and SESSION CHAIR: MICHAEL MILLS, EDGAR FELLOWS Semitism, homophobia, vandalism, and more, the oftentimes restrictive, gender roles, the cross- ______beautiful game continues to be negatively impacted gendering aspects of his plays bring Shakespeare Exploration of X-Ray Tomography by pervasive incidences of abuse worldwide. This out of a universalist perspective of gender and paper seeks to anecdotally examine well-documented instead transform his works into vehicles of social Using a CCD Detector incidences of violence and abuse in the history of change. During the course of this project, I have LAUREN FARRELL soccer, and seeks to explore possible commonalties. researched and analyzed how cross-gendering FACULTY SPONSORS: CLINTON CROSS, PHYSICS & Various factors that may have led to these acts of within both Shakespeare’s texts and performances ASTRONOMY violence and abuse will be evaluated, such as historical (both in film and live theater) influences how his DAVID MEISEL PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY rivalries between teams, country and location of works are interpreted by a contemporary Tomography is a technique used to visualize the games, and the presence of alcohol, among others. audience. interior of an object. Linear images of transmitted x- When all incidences are viewed together in this ______rays penetrating the sample are taken to reconstruct context, this paper will theorize what factors or The Future of Automation in a series of planar cross-sectional images. These cross- combinations of factors seem to represent causal sectional planes can be stacked into a 3D visualization Accounting qualities of violent incidents, while other factors are of the sample’s interior using special Mathematica deemed unimportant or unrelated. SARA PROVENZANO programs. The x-ray source and detector will be ______FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH FELSKI, BUSINESS stationary and the sample, roughly 12-15 mm2, will be Cultivation Theory: A Lens for Accounting has always been the foundation of placed in the x-ray beam and twisted around an axis successful companies, and therefore a target for perpendicular to the line between the CCD and x-ray. Modern Nationalism and Social implementing technological innovation. The practice A stepper motor is programmed to turn the sample at Disunity has recently seen major advancements in terms of precise angles so all images can be taken at the same NOAH COATES automation, transitioning many previously repetitive, exposure time. A rectangular container made of FACULTY SPONSOR: ATSUSHI TAJIMA, manual tasks into ones which can be completed more aluminum houses the sample holder assembly. Close COMMUNICATION accurately and efficiently through the use of fitted holes were drilled at opposite ends for inserting This study seeks to reanimate George Gerbner’s technology. In this presentation, I will explore the the x-ray source and CCD camera. The transmitted x- cultivation theory through an exploration of features and significance of the most popular types of rays from the sample (theoretical resolution ~ 6.2 whether the nature of mass-mediated messaging accounting automation, including blockchain, robots microns) will be picked up by the CCD for processing. has paralleled contemporary American political and drones, artificial intelligence, and continuous Radiation scattered from the inside of the container trends toward polarization and nationalism. An data. Each section will include a brief discussion of the hopefully can be removed later. A 6-micron thick analysis of 399 nationally-broadcast presidential technical components of the respective technology, as aluminum foil covers the CCD to prevent stray visible campaign advertisements, strictly commissioned well as advantages and disadvantages in terms of the light from the X-ray source being detected, but may by candidates themselves, will be conducted to area of accounting most relevant. I will conclude by cut down the final x-ray intensity requiring more determine whether recent trends toward political discussing the potential future prospects involved extended exposure times. polarization and rising nationalist movements with each area and their implications for the ______were matched by an increase of divisive and fearful profession overall. Bowling Alleys of the Industrial messaging in widely-viewed television. The topic is ______explored via the following premises; first, that Analysis of Rhetorical Devices’ Midwest SAMUEL GALLIVAN mediated messages are essential in the creation of Influence on Common FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, a nation and the maintenance of a sense of Understanding of Satirical Written GEOGRAPHY national community, second, that televised media have a capacity to shape or cultivate realities, Works The bowling alley is among the most prominent social recreational establishments of the industrial particularly fearful ones, for their viewers over ANNIE RENAUD Midwest. Supported by bowling leagues which time, and finally, that nationalist sentiments are FACULTY SPONSOR: SARAH BROOKES, derived much of their membership from blue- predicated on fear. COMMUNICATION collar unionized laborers, the bowling alley In this series of two studies, the usage of specific remains a visible cultural institution of what rhetorical devices in written satirical works and their became known as the Rust Belt. In this project, the impact on individuals’ common understanding of the cultural and historical background of the bowling  Promotes sustainability 7 Session 1 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual

1I • ENGLISH WELLES 216 Roland and a Middle English romances Floris and What is a speech buddy? A speech buddy is a Blancheflour, this transformation becomes student trained to help International students to CROSS-CULTURAL CONTACT IN apparent. The grandeur that usually follows a improve their English. One of the other goals of this MEDIEVAL LITERATURE military conquest of a land is replaced in Floris and program is to enable International students to FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: LYDIA Blancheflour by the cross-cultural and cross- become friends with an American student. For my KERTZ, ENGLISH continental love of the main hero and heroine. part, unlike the other students, I am not American ______What once would have been a military conquest but I’m an exchange student from France. Patriotism and Violence in “The and then an alliance by Blancheflour’s male Throughout the semester, I am helping two relatives is now a love affair, complete with a American students to enhance their oral and Song of the Cid” religious conversion on the part of Floris’ people written skills in French. LUKE EDELMAN and a wedding for the two ‘countries’. Both texts It is a very interesting and stimulating journey and Just as we’re plagued by propaganda and attempts center religious difference as an insurmountable It will be a real pleasure to share this experience to influence how we think, so too were the peoples conflict, resolved only through violence or with you. of Medieval Spain. While surviving works such as conversion. ______"The Song of the Cid" are not unbiased in their ______Teaching Thais: Writing Buddy author’s sensibilities, we can use them like puzzle Woe of the Weeping Prophet pieces to achieve a full picture about how the Edition SYDNEY SCHMIDT religious elite and those in power and wealth can MACKENZIE GRIFFIN In this paper, I answer the question: “Does the use the written word to influence whole waves of Many college students would consider writing papers Prophet Jeremiah express a deeper anguish than is thought and policy, and how often and easily to be a daunting task; however, it seems even more expressed in the Psalms?” My answer is yes, for normal people can be riled up to commit terrible intimidating for students whose first language is not several conventions in Hebrew poetry and literary atrocities. The pain experienced by people should English. My journey of working with Thais has included structure in general indicate that unlike the always be something we’re mindful of, no matter crafting and executing a plan to help her feel better authors of the Psalms, Jeremiah expresses an the time or circumstance. In the epic poem we see equipped to tackle both her mandatory writing class adversarial relationship with God Himself. Rather its author and his or her motivations clearly and humanities class. This presentation showcases than cast judgement this relationship, I show how enough, but we can also see past them. On its what we have accomplished and learned along the Jeremiah struggles to make sense of it, and therein surface, "The Song of the Cid" is about the way as well as what we plan to do. becomes a complex Biblical figure. archetypal Christian Warrior and what’s expected ______Jumping from Japan to Geneseo: A of him, but in the subtext of the work we’re shown 1J • ENGLISH WELLES 121 the larger concepts of reclamation of land and Speech Buddy Experience coexistence of peoples. Whether this is the (UN)HEARD VOICES IN THE OLD HANNAH SULLIVAN intention of its architect or not we can never know, TESTAMENT Being a first semester student is not easy for but the interpretation of the work is its lasting FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH anyone, but it could be said that also being an influence. SESSION CHAIR: OLIVIA BINDA international student also adds to this challenge. In ______efforts to make this transition to the States and Preaching Mysticism from the Dinah and Tamar: Voiceless and Geneseo easier, the Speech Buddy program can be Margins: A Queer Analysis of Daring utilized to smoothen the adjustment period. My speech buddy, Ayaka, left Japan in hopes of finding Margery Kempe BRIANNA RIGGIO an ideal university experience. My goal has been to SAKSHI KUMAR In Ancient Israel, as in many ancient societies, the make her experience at Geneseo easier, while The landscape of the European Middle Ages social standing of a woman was directly tied to her offering her some language and cultural tips, too. presents an explicitly gendered and social marriageability and her ability to produce male Take a look at the journey we’ve gone on thus far, homogeneity. This is not to say that there were not heirs to continue the family line. Women who and feel free to learn a little bit about Ayaka and figures who attempted to defy communal experienced barrenness, widowhood, or rape Japanese culture along the way. expectations. While drawing on scholarly research carried a constant mark of shame in social circles. ______surrounding gender and sexuality in the Middle Because of this cultural dynamic, many stories in Ages, I argue that we can and should examine the Old Testament center around the female desire My Speech Buddy Journey: A these deviating figures through both a historical to preserve her good name through marriage or Experience to Change the Seoul and contemporary understanding of the term through producing heirs, as well as the intensity of ABBY GRIFFIN “queer,” with consideration to the multitude of heartbreak that comes when a woman cannot live The Speech Buddies Program has allowed me to identities the term encompasses. This paper pays up to these standards. There are many examples of connect with a wonderful student Jae, who wishes to particular attention to the narrative of fifteenth- women going to extraordinary lengths to achieve learn English so that he can be trilingual. Our journey century female Christian mystic, Margery Kempe. them, leading to countless tales of rivalry, jealousy, involves learning more about the English language and The Book of Margery Kempe traces Kempe’s and conniving in households. Two stories that its complexities, while also becoming friends. He has journey as a mystic and prophet and the discord present an especially interesting perspective on taught me a lot in return about the South Korean that this produces between her and the people and this dynamic are the stories of Dinah, a woman culture and language, because I would like to visit the institutions she communicates with. By applying a whose rape inspired a mass murder at the hands of country one day. This program provides a wonderful broad understanding of ‘queerness’ to Kempe’s her vengeful brothers, and Tamar, a woman who exchange of information and gives both the mentor character, we see how Kempe’s identity as “this achieved her desire for a child through trickery and and the speech buddy a way of gaining new and creature” becomes both what causes her social borderline incest. Side by side, the stories of these unique information. Come learn more about my exile and simultaneously becomes a tool to two women show both how powerless women experience, and the benefits of the Speech Buddies legitimize herself. often were in Israelite society and how strong and Program that the wonderful Professor Belyakov ______clever many women became to overcome this. established! How Romance Replaced War: from Song of Roland to Floris and 1K • ENGLISH BAILEY 202 1L • GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES ISC 136 Blancheflour THE SPEECH BUDDY EXPERIENCE HONORS THESIS MERRIN SARDI FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: IRENE SESSION CHAIR: NICHOLAS WARNER, GEOLOGICAL This essay explores the boundary between epic and BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, ENGLISH SCIENCES ______romance by focusing on the narrative shift from conquest and grandeur of epics and military travel Returning the Favor: Teaching your Anthropogenic Effects on into amatory quests and marriage alliances. In a Speech Buddy French Lacustrine Fidelity: A Study of Live- comparative reading of an Old French epic Song of KECYNA LIATARD 8  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Session 1 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM

Dead Macroinvertebrate Determining the Role of Taxa and Indeed, before the Quiet Revolution, many Quebecers were content with being a part of Assemblages in Conesus Lake, Biovolume of Reef Buildup Stages Canada and did not care much for separation. The Lakeville, NY in the Late Ordovician Kimmswick apotheosis of Catholicism and social traditionalism JAKE OKUN Limestone, East-Central Missouri was epitomized by the policies of Quebec’s Premier Maurice Duplessis, a staunch Catholic and FACULTY SPONSOR: JACALYN WITTMER JOSEPHINE CHIARELLO anti-communist who governed his native province MALINOWSKI, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES FACULTY SPONSOR: JACALYN WITTMER from 1936 to 1939 and from 1944 to 1959. Yet Lacustrine ecosystems, impacted by anthropogenic MALINOWSKI, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES when the ideas, principles, and aspirations of the activities, produce living assemblages less diverse than The Kimmswick Formation of east-central Missouri is supporters of the Liberal Party leader Jean Lesage concurrent death assemblages. Macroinvertebrates dominated by fossiliferous grainstones of Late won office in 1960, the old Christian Quebec was respond within decades to changes in water quality Ordovician (Katian) age. The Kimmswick formed in a scrapped away, and replaced with a more modern, and ecologic shifts, making them suitable for transitional shallow-water environment between the secular Quebec that was more attached to the community assessment. This study focuses on live- present-day Ozark Dome and the deep-water Sebree ideas of separation, nationalism, and social dead ratios of macroinvertebrate assemblages in Trough. The Kimmswick Limestone is relatively democracy. This essay will examine the influence Conesus Lake, a Finger Lake located in Lakeville, NY. homogeneous in faunal composition and lithology of the Church on Quebec politics. More specifically, We hypothesize that the pre-fossil community is more throughout the midwest. Here, however, we report on it will prove Maurice Duplessis crusade against abundant and diverse than the living community. The a unique mound-related paleocommunity of encrusting communism had as much to do with the Church’s north and south ends of Conesus Lake were selected. stromatoporoids, cyathocystid edrioasteroids, crinoids, influence over the Quebec government as it had to The north is a park and beach that is anthropogenically paracrinoids, edrioblastoids, bryozoans, and corals, do with hatred of communism. Lastly, the Quiet controlled. The south is a marsh and fishing inlet. Data including many taxa that are rare elsewhere. Ongoing Revolution’s impact of secularization and that of was collected in two phases. Phase 1: Surface sample examination of the outcrop has identified that initial and how separatism nearly caused Quebec to break up collection at each site, followed by wet sieving, live- main stabilization of this buildup consisted primarily of from Canada is addressed. Selected for dead collection and counts, and grain size analysis. stromatoporoid boundstones with minor echinoderm presentation at Crossing Borders Conference, Phase 2: Coring ~20-40 cm of lake sediment, dry components. The colonization and diversification of the sieving, pre-fossil counts, and grain size analysis. The Lewiston, NY. buildup consisted of various encrusting echinoderms ______final aspect of this study includes quantitative analysis intergrown with stromatoporoids.. The purpose of this of the live and dead assemblages focusing on changes study is to assess faunal diversity and reef community The Disease of Capitalism: A Case in diversity and dominance over time. These analyses structure at a bulk sample scale. Buildup diversity was Study following the impact of could reveal an increased anthropogenic influence on evaluated at macroscale by conducting taxon point Capitalism on the Environment and the lake over the last few decades. The outcomes of counts as well as estimating biovolume. Establishing a this study will help support the conservation of detailed narrative of the community dynamics of this Indigenous Communities Conesus Lake. reef-like mound provides a unique opportunity to assess RYLAND FROST ______the paleoenvironment and ecological interactions FACULTY SPONSOR: JOVANA BABOVIC, HISTORY Degradation History of Impact during the Late Ordovician and can potentially add to This paper will discuss why capitalism drove European Craters at the InSight Landing Site: our knowledge of atypical modern reef systems colonial expansion and how that expansion led to dominated by taxa other than corals. catastrophic environmental malpractice and the Implications for the Origins of attempted erasure of indigenous culture and life. The Homestead Hollow 1M • HISTORY WELLES 123 focus is to bring in the voices of philosophers, ALYSSA DEMOTT SESSION CHAIR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY economists, colonists and, indigenous peoples, to argue FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, ______a context for the sheer magnitude of capitalism's role in GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Religion in American Slave perpetuating immoral behavior and the unchecked The InSight lander successfully landed in Homestead exhaustion of natural resources. In providing this hollow on Elysium Planitia, Mars. Homestead hollow is Narratives context, alternative economic and social perspectives a 20-30 m quasi-circular, sediment-filled topographic JAELYN GREEN can stand on equal footing with the traditional western depression that may be a highly-degraded impact FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY perspective which allows the reader to contemplate the crater. The region surrounding Homestead hollow Religion serves as the basis of hope and belief for history in its entirety. I identify capitalism as the chief contains both young rocky ejecta craters (RECs) and many around the world. It has a theme of believing catalyst for environmental destruction and indigenous more degraded, ancient non-rocky ejecta craters in something that cannot necessarily be seen and a culture loss, which has essentially set the stage for (NRECs). A crater ejecta and morphology-based higher power that provides hope and tranquility to today’s geopolitical world and our current climate crisis. classification scheme was established pre-landing for many. In many American slave narratives, religion RECs, however, no classification scheme exists for is a common theme throughout the books. Some 1N • LANGUAGES AND Homestead hollow-like impact features or more slaves seemed to use religion as a way to get through slavery, it was something that enabled LITERATURES WELLES 138 degraded craters surrounding the landing site. SESSION CHAIR: KATHRYN FREDERICKS, Furthermore, the surface processes involved with the them to get through their limitless toils. In contrast, there were some slaves who saw religion LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES modification and preservation of these craters are ______as something questionable and did not see poorly understood. Using 25 cm pixel-1 High Class and Social Mobility in Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) importance of religion in their suffering. Slave imagery and a 1m high-resolution digital elevation views on religion were not the only viewpoints Enlightenment Literature model (DEM), craters with diameters > 20 m were emulated in these narratives. In many of the books EMILY CECALA digitized in ArcGIS in the region surrounding the slave owners’ point of view on religion was also FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHRYN FREDERICKS, Homestead hollow. Craters were classified based on explained and most of the time they would have LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES crater rim degradation, crater floor morphology, their own definition religion and usually used it as The Enlightenment was a time of change and critical bedform presence/location, depth-to-diameter ratios, a way to belittle slaves and keep themselves higher thought. Throughout the 18th Century as French and slope and curvature data. Eight different than slaves and free blacks alike. society moved towards the French Revolution of 1789, classifications have been established, including three ______Enlightenment-era literature highlighted societal new classifications for degraded NRECs. By analyzing Maurice Duplessis' Influence on the problems that would eventually lead towards crater morphology, and the size-frequency Creation of Modern Quebec widespread political unrest. In my paper I will discuss distribution of different crater classes, the degradation STEPHEN CARON social mobility through the analysis of Marivaux’s "Le history and surface processes that modified FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY Jeu de L’Amour et du Hasard" (1730) and Voltaire’s Homestead hollow were determined. Prior to the Quiet Revolution, Quebec was heavily "Candide" (1759). Both authors use a variety of literary ______influenced by values as expressed by the Roman tools such as symbolism and representations of travel Catholic Church and traditional attitudes of family. to portray the difficulties which heavily permeated  Promotes sustainability 9 Session 1 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual eighteenth-century French society. I reference literary Finally, I will attempt to quantify the foreseeable long- randomness. Next, we shall introduce the basic critics such as Roland Barthes to support the idea that term implications provided that funding be maintained. characteristic of a few discrete probability Marivaux and Voltaire use their works as critical Selected for presentation at National Conference of distributions including Poisson. It should be noted that analyses of the rigid class structure that existed during Undergraduate Research, Kennesaw, GA. Poisson distribution’s real world applications include this time. The theme of social class presented in these ______time and space oriented situations, such as the works remains relevant today, and both texts have Translation of African Francophone numbers of customers entering a restaurant in a given made a lasting impact in global literature. Novels to English: Why Does It certain hours, or the number of eagles nesting in a ______specific region. Lastly, we shall focus on how the Re-visiting and Re-assessing Matter? Poisson distribution may model the number of hits by Evolution and Language in HELEN WARFLE V-1 buzz bombs in WWII London. FACULTY SPONSOR: KODJO ADABRA, LANGUAGES ______Senegalese Educational System AND LITERATURES The Birthday Problem EMILY CECALA This presentation will discuss the research outcomes TESS COLLINS FACULTY SPONSOR: KODJO ADABRA, LANGUAGES of the 2018-2019 Gouvernet Ambassadorship Project. FACULTY SPONSOR: ANTHONY MACULA, AND LITERATURES The focus of this presentation will be a discussion of MATHEMATICS Throughout the world, education is known to provide translation of foreign language novels into English: In this talk, we will discuss the Birthday Problem; a opportunities for advancement and emancipation. what it means, the difficulties of translation, and the problem concerning the probability that, in a set of This is especially true for countries that have broken effect on readers through the lens of Une Si Longue n random people, k of them will have the same the bonds of colonialism. Senegal is a nation that has Lettre, the work of Mariama Ba, a Senegalese feminist birthday. The original problem is based on the improved extensively in education. Literacy rates in writer from the post-colonial period of African assumption that the probability is equally likely for Senegal have grown substantially over the past few literature. A discussion of the research done in Senegal every day of the year, but research suggests that decades. Nonetheless, disparities in gender and in order to do the cultural background research for the this is not true, and we will look at how this affects location continue to exist. There is also an ongoing project will provide the lens through which an in- the problem. We will also look at the Inverse debate about the language of instruction. The depth comparison of the English and French version Birthday Problem; a number of people are language of education in Senegal and most former took place. This study resulted in the discovery of surveyed, you are given the distribution of their French colonies is French, but recently there is a three key trends: the inversion of sentence clauses, birthdays, and asked to compute the number of massive amount of support for Mother Tongue the addition or elimination of verbs from phrases, and people who were surveyed. This problem is one of Medium Education (MTME), namely in the Wolof differences in the way that Wolof words were handled the many illustrating that mathematics often fails language for Senegalese. In this presentation, I will in each version, each of which will be talked about in to align with what we expect from reality. analyze the evolution of the education system in detail, and the presentation will conclude by showing ______Senegal and its continued growth to meet the how the results of this study prove that, when What Is Your Life Expectancy? Buy a demands of an increasingly global economy. Next, I choosing to read a translation of a foreign-language will present the pedagogical advantages and work, it is important to do research on which one best Term Life Insurance to Find Out disadvantages of using MTME in Senegalese preserves the original intent of the author. EKATERINA JONES classrooms in the wake of Wolof being the most FACULTY SPONSOR: ANTHONY MACULA, widely spoken national language in the country, yet 1O • MATHEMATICS 1 SOUTH 336 MATHEMATICS overshadowed in relevance by the school-imposed SESSION CHAIR: ANTHONY MACULA, A term life insurance is a safety net which provides European languages inherited from the colonial era. MATHEMATICS a monetary benefit in the event of death during the Last, I will share my contextualized findings on the ______set period. Premiums for a term life insurance vary implications of pedagogy evolution for Senegalese Modeling of Diseases and the Effect based on life expectancy of an insuree. How an students. insurance company predicts life expectancy is ______Quarantine has on Transmission unknown to a holder of a policy and the insurance State of Desertification and AMANDA ENG company may not share this information with an FACULTY SPONSORS: BERTRAN SEDAR NGOMA insuree. However, a wise consumer can inversely Reforestation in the Western KOUMBA, MATHEMATICS compute life expectancy knowing a premium and a African Region: the Great Green ANTHONY MACULA, MATHEMATICS policy amount. In this talk, we will explain how we Wall Implications Modeling allows researchers to predict the can inversely calculate life expectancy from the outcomes of certain situations. One application of cost of an insurance policy. EMILY YOUNG modeling is through the use of differential FACULTY SPONSOR: KODJO ADABRA, LANGUAGES equations to predict the spread of diseases. In SOUTH 328 AND LITERATURES 1P • MATHEMATICS 2 cases where vaccination is not always feasible, SESSION CHAIR: SUSANNA RUBRIGHT, In addition to natural phenomena, such as decreases in quarantine is an alternative option to fight the precipitation, the over-exploitation of soils and the SPONSORED RESEARCH spread of infection. In this talk, we will discuss the ______deforestation performed by humans have accentuated importance of computational modeling and the The Advancement of Mechanical natural causes and effects of deforestation. In West research applications in relation to the spread of Africa, the rapid spread of the desert is causing severe diseases along with analyzing the effects Calculations consequences for many of the people who live in the quarantine has on the population. Using real data, ROBERT MARINO region. These consequences include deterioration of we will discuss the outcomes of quarantine and FACULTY SPONSOR: ANTHONY MACULA, the environment, threats to soil integrity, and negative how it can be used to minimize the spread of MATHEMATICS impacts on health. Due to the inability to grow food, infection. In this talk, we discuss the methods of mechanized poor soil quality can lead to economic poverty and ______calculations before modern computers and hunger, which, in turn, can incite social tensions. One of History and the Applications of the technology. To begin, the abacus is discussed as an the ways to combat these phenomena is by early counter that was popularly used by merchants to reforestation as promoted by the intervention of the Poisson Probability Distribution take inventory of their goods. Next, Napier’s bones will United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. I WILLIAM BOYUAN CHEN be discussed as a method of multiplication and will emphasize the importance of reforestation, FACULTY SPONSOR: ANTHONY MACULA, division of larger integers before modern day wherein lies the answer of the Great Green Wall. MATHEMATICS calculators were invented. Continuing through the Building on first-hand research I conducted in summer The Poisson distribution was introduced by French 17th century, the arithmetic machine will be discussed 2018 during a study abroad in Dakar, Senegal, I will mathematician Simeon- Denis Poisson in 1837. The as the first calculator or more simply, the first adding unveil the benefits that have emerged from the Great distribution is helpful when creating a model for the machine invented before modern technology. Next, Green Wall initiative. Moreover, this paper will pinpoint number of times an event may occur within an interval Ada Lovelace, often referred to as one of the first the complex human dynamic on the rise within the of time or space. First, we shall discuss the notion of programmers, will be discussed as someone who potential beneficiaries of the project implementation. being random. Often, we do not experience complete looked at computers beyond mathematics and 10  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Session 1 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM pushed social normalities for women in mathematics. how this theorem is important to other areas through The Erasure of Women in Finally, we will discuss the invention of the first examples. handheld pocket calculator by Texas Instruments that Mathematics led to modern day mechanical calculations. 1Q • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 340 TOM BENAMRAM This is a brief history of the women who have been ______MATHEMATICS OF SYMMETRY I Regression Analysis: Predicting involved in the study of mathematics who have FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JEFF been erased. Starting in the 18th century, we will Suicide Rates by Country JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS examine women who opened the doors to future GENA DRISCOLL BRANTLEY, KAYLA TRUONG ______female mathematicians, such as Emilie du Châtelet FACULTY SPONSOR: CHI-MING TANG, How Diamonds Dazzle: A and Maria Gaetana Agnesi, who both studied the MATHEMATICS Symmetrical Analysis of Crystals works of Newton and Liebnitz, Sofia Kovaleyskaya, The purpose of this study is to predict suicide rates, PRANISH SHRESTHA the first woman to receive a doctorate in by country, using indicators such as poverty, Crystals extensively acquire symmetry in their mathematics, and Ellen Amanda Hayes, an early alcoholism, unemployment, and mental illness. structure. Symmetry governs the formation of crystal professor of mathematics at Wellesley College. The These have been identified by existing research as structures. This project studies symmetry in crystals purpose of this study is to bring forward the factors which contribute to a country’s suicide rate. and their mathematical representation. A crystal women who have not been studied extensively, Through regression analysis, we will investigate the structure is formed by a primary building block called credit them with the work they have done, and to influence of these indicators on suicide rates. the lattice. A lattice is an arrangement of atoms or talk about some of the causes behind the erasure Suicide rates will be collected by country, for molecules in a definite order and orientation, which is of women in mathematics. roughly 155 countries for the year 2016, from the repeated infinitely throughout the crystal structure. ______World Health Organization. Indicators will be There are different types of lattices, and among them Archimedes Study of Pi gathered from the World Health Organization and cubic lattices are the most common. In this project, MOLLY DORAN The World Bank. Through multi linear regression, different types of cubic lattices are discussed. Finally, I will be focusing on the work by Archimedes of we will generate several potential models using the discussion leads to explaining the crystal structure Syracuse. First, I will explain his early life and the Minitab, a statistical software. We will then of a diamond. work he did prior to experimenting with pi. Next, I compare the models in order to identify the one ______will explain the method Archimedes used to that best fits the data. The results of this research Exploring Polygons with Schläfli determine pi, explaining that one can use previous will be valuable to policy makers seeking a better calculated values of pi to find a new one. I will go in understanding of factors contributing to suicide Symbols depth on the three propositions that he proved in rates. ALLYSON GIBBONS Measurement of a Circle. I will finish by showing ______In this presentation we will be exploring a different examples of finding pi, using his methods. Model of Truck Traffic Flow way to represent polygons called Schläfli symbols. ______Through Geneseo Schläfli symbols use letters to denote the faces and A History of the Concept of Infinity vertex figures of a polyhedron. We will progressively YEN LINH LE, TRANG PHAM ELENA BORGNA analyze more complex figures and answer how FACULTY SPONSOR: CHI-MING TANG, This paper will discuss the origins of the concept of different aspects within the figure change the symbols MATHEMATICS infinity. Infinity is a concept that has been explored representing them. This is a interesting way to Trucks that are going to Buffalo either take exit 7 extensively, and by several different people and symbolize three-dimensional objects, and after my (highway 390) through Geneseo or stay on the groups, with a variety of focuses, which include talk will be able to find symbols for complicated highway for exit 12. From the data, there are high mathematics, philosophy, and astronomy. The polyhedra. volumes of truck traffic in Geneseo daily. Three ______study of infinity began when the early Greeks schemes are examined, namely: the number of trucks discovered that not everything in nature could be passing through within 5 minutes, the time between The Beautiful Symmetry of Voronoi represented rationally. This paper will look into the the next truck passing through, and possible reason Diagrams development of the concept of infinity, from the that could affect the event. After collecting real data, GILLAN FAULKNER discoveries of the early Greeks to what we know we have noticed that our data fits Poisson distribution The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze today. and Exponential distribution. Therefore, we build and the different symmetries of Voronoi diagrams. The ______examine Poisson Distribution model and Exponential general n-dimensional case of Voronoi diagrams Algebra & Islam: A Hidden History Distribution model from the real data and survey that was defined and studied by Russian mathematician SYDNEY ALEXANDER we collected. Using Poisson Distribution we want to Georgy Fedosievych Voronoi in 1908. However, the When one thinks of the word algebra, they may not find the lambda, the average number of trucks that go informal use of Voronoi diagrams can be followed necessarily tie it to the Islamic Society. In fact, the through exit 7 every 5 minute intervals. Then we want back to Descartes as early as 1644. A Voronoi word algebra actually derives from the Arabic word to use the exponential distribution to model the time diagram is a partitioning of the plane in which meaning completion or “reunion of parts”. During the between trucks that pass through the village by taking regions are formed based on distance to a point in late 15th to 16th century, during what was known as exit 7. General findings indicate the impact of truck the plane. These points of the plane which are the the Islamic Golden Age, many mathematical advances traffic flowing through Geneseo. basis of the formation of the regions are decided of were made. I will focus on the individual responsible ______specified before the regions are created and are for solving the cubic equation: Umar al-Khayyam Taylor’s Theorem commonly known as seeds, sites, or generators. (1084 - 1131 CE). He came about towards the end of CIARA FARRINGTON The regions are then created such that every seed the Golden Age and was greatly influenced by scholars FACULTY SPONSOR: ANTHONY MACULA, has a region that consists of every point that is before his time. Umar al-Khayyam wrote the treatise MATHEMATICS closer to that seed than any other seed. These on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra containing Taylor’s Theorem and Taylor’s Series is a fundamental regions are known as Voronoi cells. Voronoi the systematic solution of cubic or third-order calculus concept that all mathematic students learn. diagrams have applications in many different fields equations, going beyond the algebra of another This series is very important for more then solving including science, technology, and visual art. scholar, al-Khwārizmī. Cubic equations are typically complicated functions, integrals, and limits. It has difficult to solve. This presentation will examine how many Numerical Analysis functions and helps 1R • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 338 Khayyám was able to arrive at twenty-five species of computer approximate functions that otherwise TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF equations and the different methods he obtained to would be insolvable. In this talk we will prove this solve them. Khayyám’s most notable discovery theorem and talk of the historical background and MATHEMATICS I presented in his treatise is his solution to these importance of applications of the theorem. This FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: GARY equations by finding the intersection points of two theorem applies to many other subjects such as TOWSLEY, MATHEMATICS conic sections. I will analyze how he was able to do so physics, chemistry, and finance. We will then show ______and highlight his main contributions to Algebra.

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1S • POLITICAL SCIENCE & 1T • POLITICAL SCIENCE & Indigenous Relationships with INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1 AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 2 Sustainability: A Case Study of the SOCIOLOGY WELLES 119 WELLES 26 Mapuche People  SESSION CHAIR: JOANNA KIRK, POLITICAL SCIENCE SESSION CHAIR: BETSY COLON, GRANTS VICTORIA OZADOVSKY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MANAGEMENT The identity of indigenous peoples is linked to their ______connection with the land and environment around Responses to Domestic Violence in A Clash Between Psychiatry and the them. Very often, loss of land and resources is caused Western New York: A Study of Law: James Holmes and the by a lack of adherence to native beliefs and practices. As with many indigenous groups, the sense of self felt Livingston and Monroe County Colorado Theater Shooting by Mapuche people is not separate from the land CAITLIN WILLIAMS CAMILLE MONTALBANO, GAIL CABAHUG itself. In fighting for their rights, Mapuche individuals FACULTY SPONSOR: JOANNA KIRK, POLITICAL FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MOOR, POLITICAL have often been wrongly imprisoned while also being SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS labeled as terrorists to their own country. This The United States has been subject to significant Today, the world knows him as the Aurora movie research will analyze the history of corrupt political criticism for its failure to provide sufficient remedies and theater shooter, but to his family, James Eagan institutions in nations with ongoing indigenous land services to domestic violence survivors. Because of this, Holmes has always just been their son. Having lived conflict, along with the concept of democratic the responsibility is placed on local governments and a seemingly normal and happy childhood, no one backsliding that causes even democratic states to fail services, resulting in inconsistencies across counties in may have guessed the horrors Holmes was capable to adequately grant recognition and resources to the quantity and quality of services provided. This of committing. Yet, the signs were always there: a indigenous communities. I plan to examine the beliefs presentation will discuss the response to domestic biological predisposition to schizophrenia and and cultural practices of various indigenous groups violence on a local level by comparing two counties in various social and academic upheavals capable of and how these values relate to sustainable Western New York, Livingston (rural) and Monroe catalyzing mental illness. In this presentation, we development, and the concept of land ethicality. I plan (urban). The inconsistencies in upholding the right to will analyze Holmes’ psychiatric health in relation to specifically narrow my scope by focusing on the freedom from domestic violence that occur on a county- to Colorado law. We will trace personal Mapuche people of Chile and their longstanding wide level becomes clear as some municipalities are experiences from Holmes’ childhood through conflict in relation to their beliefs of self and faced with obstacles to providing services. This will be college, drawing on statements from numerous personhood. In doing so, I argue governments shown through a comparison of the levels of funding, psychiatrists, friends, and excerpts from his worldwide--democratic and otherwise--continue to available services, and legal responses to domestic personal diary. After that fateful night when place profit over the land and native communities of violence within each county. Selected for presentation Holmes opened fire on an unsuspecting crowd, a their countries. at International Scientific Conference: University of legal battle pursued surrounding one key question: ______Holguin-Cuba, Holguin, Cuba. was James Holmes a competent, calculated killer, Political Responses to Lead ______or was he simply insane? We will use both Sovereignty Redefined psychiatric and legal lenses to seek a more Pollution in Bangladesh  MADELINE WALKER ADAM HOSSAIN definitive understanding of the justice behind the Lead Poisoning is a global environmental and political FACULTY SPONSOR: RASLAN IBRAHIM, POLITICAL resulting guilty verdict. issue. Bangladesh is home to one of the most polluted SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______cities worldwide and the effects of the lead pollution Sovereignty can be regarded as a fluid social Explaining the Greek Financial Crisis within the state are some of the worst in the world. construct, and over the course of modern history using IR Theoretical Models The mean Blood Lead Level (BLL) in the average we are able to observe how the norms and LINDA SINSKI American is 1.2 ug/dL; children in Bangladesh suffer implications of state sovereignty have evolved due FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT GOECKEL, POLITICAL from upwards of 20 ug/dL of lead within their bodies. to changing ideology. The modern-day human SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS In 2015 alone, 27.5% of deaths in Bangladesh were rights efforts, for instance, have played a I will be researching the Greek crisis and explaining attributed to environmental pollution risks, higher momentous role in redefining the implications of how the economic regime of Eurozone and the than the South Asian average of 25.9%. Lead pollution sovereignty, including a state’s self-determination internal fiscal failures of the Greek state led to the often affects those within Bangladesh’s poorest and supreme authority over its affairs. Whereas crisis. I will use a liberal definition of "regime" in this communities, both urban and rural, at a drastic level. self-determination and non-intervention were case, to help flesh out the underlying political- The Bangladeshi government and international heretofore unconditionally the status quo, states economic policies of the community. This economic community have not responded efficiently to mitigate are now vulnerable to surrendering these low resulted in the change of rules of the game in not the problem at hand. This study describes the gravity privileges when the legitimacy of their actions only the Eurozone, but also the Global economy. I will of lead pollution’s environmental and health effects, becomes questionable. I argue that the global begin my analysis in the late Cold War period, with the how this issue exemplifies wealth disparities, how human rights regime has instituted an ostensible 1974 military coup that led Greece into its current Bangladesh’s political situation has affected the issue, contingency where not only is intervention democratic state. Through neorealist-liberal- and the lack of response of the international warranted, but it is a responsibility and duty of constructivist approaches, I will analyze how the community and state to address this phenomenon. I external actors. This newfound global norm has internal failures within the Greek state tested the will be utilizing various case studies and qualitative extraordinary implications as states will now resilience of the European Union as a regional research to support my argument, relating the issue to actively change their behavior to avoid an integration institution; further, in the face of global the theory Southern Environmentalism. obligatory intervention campaign. Indeed, this is financial crisis and weakness in one member, how the ______quite significant as it indicates that not only are the institutions are constrained against state sovereignty. Life in the Maquiladoras Post- norms of sovereignty redefined for states that violate human rights, but for all states. In my 1U • POLITICAL SCIENCE & NAFTA: The Environment and its investigation, I analyze various cases of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Effects on Mexican Women  humanitarian intervention in the post-Cold War SHEILA BARABINO Era and eventually vindicate the deduction that the WELLES 24 In efforts to modernize Mexico’s economy, NAFTA norms of sovereignty have certainly changed SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT deregulated foreign direct investment and indelibly as a result. FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: KARLEEN eliminated most tariffs. Using Gulia and Alier’s

WEST, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL theory of “The Environmentalism of the Poor,” I RELATIONS argue that despite NAFTA’s plan to eliminate the ______income gap between the US, Canada and Mexico, Mexico remains in an inferior position as poverty levels remain the same. While 85% of those employed in the maquiladoras are women, there 12  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Session 1 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM continues to be wide wage disparities and access personal standards of achievement. This study intend to offer new insight on a sparse segment of the to resources between men and women. While allowed for a deeper understanding of how sibling literature on Latinx sibling relationships. NAFTA initiated side agreements on labor and relationships in non-western countries may form environmental regulation, Mexico continues to and develop over time. Future research, from 1W • THEATRE/DANCE BRODIE 152 lack enforcement on treatment of the disposal of different methodological traditions, should use CREATIVE CHOREOGRAPHIC toxic waste, labor unions, safe working conditions, these findings to develop new understandings and livable wages. This effect on some of Mexico’s about African sibling relationships and how they PROJECTS AND PERFORMANCES most vulnerable, maquiladora women, has led to differ from sibling relationships of other cultures. FACULTY SPONSOR: DEBORAH SCODESE-FRENCH, increased autonomy and solidarity among them. I ______THEATRE/DANCE will use case studies, GDP per capita changes, and Chinese-American College SESSION CHAIR: JONETTE LANCOS, THEATRE/DANCE ______demographics of the maquiladoras in my research. Students’ Concepts of Sibling ______Wavelength Land Rights and Regime Change: Relationships JENNIFER CONFLITTI, KATHERINE COTTEN, Trends in Mapuche Territorial SABRINA CHAN, VIVIAN YE, XIAO JUN CHEN KATHERINE ESTEP, SAMANTHA SCHMEER, KELSEY The current study examined the distinct sibling VILLONE, ALEXIS VINOLAS Conflict from 1970 to Present in relationships of Chinese-American college students and Choreographer: Jennifer Conflitti. Wavelength is South-Central Chile  explored the unique characteristics of Chinese culture based on prisms and how they separate white light CECILIA BREY through qualitative inquiry. This phenomenological out into the visible light spectrum, which the The Mapuche people are an indigenous group located inquiry analyzed focus group data using thematic human eye perceives as the colors of the rainbow. in the Southern Cone region of South America with a analysis (Braun & Clark, 2006). Emergent themes depict The piece draws on the choreographer’s science strong claim to their ancestral lands in south-central the role of sibling responsibilities, maternal influence, and math background, incorporating the idea that Chile, especially in the Araucanía region. Historically, and age difference in the sibling relationships of each color of light has a different wavelength. Each relations between the Mapuche people and the Chinese-Americans. dancer represents a different color of the rainbow, ______Chilean government have been poor, marked by starting together as white light, before separating conflict relating to territorial claims, natural resource Cooperation and Competition out into their individual colors. The piece aims to extraction, and violence against Mapuche activists. During Caribbean, Latinx, and Anglo bridge the gap between the arts and sciences, encompassing what the liberal arts are all about. This presentation will examine both present-day and Sibling Interactions historical conflicts between the Mapuche people and DOMINIQUE ELLIS, SABRINA CHAN, DIMITRI WING- Harbinger the Chilean government since Salvador Allende’s PAUL, SABRINA BRAMWELL, KAMESHA MILLER SAMANTHA SCHMEER, COOPER BREED, JENNIFER presidency in 1970. I will analyze how regime change The present study focuses on the differences CONFLITTI, REBECCA HOPPY, NATALIE KNOX, and neoliberal economic policies have affected between Caribbean, Latino, and Anglo children’s JORDAN WISSET Mapuche mobilization strategies, the efficacy of these sibling interactions by analyzing their cooperative Choreographer: Samantha Schmeer. Harbinger: A efforts, the government’s handling of environmental and competitive behaviors during a series of tasks. person or thing that shows something is going to conflict, and economic activity that has led to These tasks were given in the form of construction, happen soon, especially something bad. In today’s overexploitation and ecosystem damage in Mapuche free-play, and board games in order to elicit world and political climate, humans work toward lands. their flawed perceptions of “progress” and cooperative (construction), competitive (board game), and both kinds of behavior (free play). “efficiency” with little to no regard as to how it 1V • PSYCHOLOGY BAILEY 104 ______affects the earth. Driven by selfishness and greed, CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON Latinx College Students Concepts of humans destroy the planet’s natural beauty. We take and take and take, but never give, and fail to SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS Sibling Relationships realize eventually there will be nothing left. Simply FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: GANIE VANESSA CEPEDA, XIARA COLON, CAMILA DE put: we are killing the very thing that gives us life. DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY VASCONCELOS, CARMEN MARTINEZ, DENIS The title acts on two different levels. First, one of FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS PALUMBO, MAZARIEGOS, CASSIDY GOUCHER the dancers acts as a literal harbinger within the PSYCHOLOGY This research sought to analyze and better understand piece, entering ominously and destroying the ______how earlier relationship quality influences dancers representing nature. On a deeper level, African Immigrant College relationships in emerging adulthood for Latinx college the piece itself should be a harbinger, acting as a Student's Concepts of Sibling students. This phenomenological investigation forewarning of what is to come if we, as humans, analyzed focus group data using thematic analysis. remain on our current path of destruction. “Only Relationships The first emergent theme illustrated that participants’ when the last tree has died, the last river been BRITTANY BEARSS, OUMOU WAGUE, NEHA PATIL, mothers assumed parental duties with their siblings at poisoned, and the last fish been caught will we AWAB SHAWKAT young age; parental practices were adopted in order realize we cannot eat money.” - Cree Indian This work is an extension study of early research to compensate for situational circumstances. The proverb presented at GREAT Day 2018. The purpose of this second emergent theme focuses on participants’ ______extension study is to examine and contextualize perceptions of familial closeness. In answering Origin the nature and relevance of African sibling questions about the quality of their sibling SYDNEY KLEIN, NICOLE ACIERNO, SAMANTHA relationships in emerging adulthood. Data relationships and how it differed from their parents’ BRUNO, EMMA HOLTZMAN collection and analysis has been done on sibling relationships, participants compared the Choreographer: Sydney Klein. “Origin” highlights participants, consisting of 14 African college closeness between themselves and their own siblings the idea that one can create a new life for oneself students at SUNY Geneseo who are either versus the participants’ parents and their siblings. in any time or place. The piece showcases the immigrants themselves or the children of African Participants considered how distance affected the experience of wariness and discomfort when immigrants. Participants were interviewed during closeness of their parents and their siblings. In such starting anew, then expands by illustrating the focus groups to help us phenomenologically cases, participants’ parents had siblings who lived in process of adapting to an environment and investigate the phenomena of interest. The results another country.The third emergent theme culminating experiences as time goes on. Sydney revealed salient themes of sibling influences and highlighted the role age played in their own sibling drew inspiration from her time at Geneseo and her sibling parental roles. Emergent findings led to the relationships, emphasizing how specific age gaps travels in Europe. understanding that older African college students changed the nature of those relationships. influence their younger siblings in both academic Participants describe limited conversations and 1X • THEATRE/DANCE and personal ways of life that shift over time across decreased closeness when age gap was large, whereas adolescence. This has lead to shared ideas of smaller age gaps were consistent with more intimacy ALICE AUSTIN THEATRE success and strong sibling comparisons due to the within the relationship.The current study’s results HONOR'S THESIS IN THEATRE: A desire to be similar to the siblings that have set PROGRAM OF SMILES AND  Promotes sustainability 13 Session 1 • 9:00 – 10:15 AM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual

LAUGHTER, JAPANESE AND ______This project will compare and contrast the Whitewashing: The Erasure of portrayal of queer relationships in these JAPANESE-INSPIRED KYOGEN Identities and Representation in Film independent films, dissecting the influences of race and gender. It will also address criticism of these COMEDY (ALSO PRESENTED AT 3:15)  films and possible underlying meanings for the FACULTY SPONSOR: RANDY KAPLAN, ABIGAIL ROCA SANCHES THEATRE/DANCE Rocha looks at films where white actors are casted queer community that these storylines could hold. ______SESSION CHAIR: LEEANN BRUETSCH as characters who are originally people of color. ______Rather than casting actors who would fit the role, A Decade of Heroics: Women in LEEANN BRUETSCH given the character’s identity, these actors are Following a brief presentation on the history of Superhero Movies denied opportunity, resulting in the erasure of Japanese classical comedy, or kyogen, the audience JEANMARIE RYAN identities and representation. Ryan’s presentation will be about the depictions of will be treated to a classical kyogen ("Poison Sugar"), a ______modern kyogen ("Hole") and an original Geneseo women in superhero films, with a focus on women- kyogen ("A Higher Education") performed by an Analysis of Queer Films Across led superhero films. She will discuss how women ensemble of four student actors. Gender and Race, Looking at are portrayed in these movies, and how the public reacted to said movies. Moonlight, Call Me By Your Name, 1Y • WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES and Blue is the Warmest Color  FILMIC IDENTITIES WELLES 115 CLAIRE EDGINGTON FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE BLOOD, WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES

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2A • ANTHROPOLOGY BAILEY 201 on a social/institutional level through family, Selected for presentation at International rhetoric, economics and spiritual practices. In our Association of Great Lakes Research, Brockport, NY. CUBAN CONNECTIONS: STUDENT presentation, we will be conveying the intersection ______RESEARCH ON CUBAN & AMERICAN of Cubanidad and community through the use of The Role of Serotonin-2B Receptor STUDENT PERSPECTIVES, transcripts, based on the interviews of Cuban and TGFβ3- in Cardiac Development students at the University of Holguin. Through our ELENA KLEINHENZ EXPERIENCES & IDENTITIES interviews, we observed that nearly everyone had FACULTY SPONSOR: DUANE MCPHERSON, FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE the same idea of what it meant to be a part of the BIOLOGY MEDEIROS, ANTHROPOLOGY Cuban community. They all agreed that being Serotonin (5-HT) is a monoamine neurotransmitter ______Cuban meant being a part of a community in which that is expressed especially in early embryogenesis Language Barriers in International everyone is seen as equal. There are claims of no in order to regulate cell proliferation and racism in the Cuban community, even when there Academic Exchanges differentiation. The complexity of 5-HT’s is such a mixture of people. This is the most MARISA SANQUINI, SHARON BECERRA PACHON, downstream effects is reflected by its 15 receptor common theme in Cubanidad. We argue that RAYAN RAMIREZ, NOAH MAZER subtypes. Specifically, the 5-HT2B receptor (5- community is Cubanidad expressing itself on a This paper highlights the language and cultural HT2BR) has been shown to induce mitogenesis social/institutional level through family, rhetoric, difficulties lived by a group of 10 students from three through the MAPK pathway as well as to trigger the economics and spiritual practices. Thus, the different SUNY universities that participated in an endothelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) presentation will discuss how community anthropology course in Cuba for 15 days. Additionally, through the TGF-β signaling pathway in cardiac it reflects on the capacity and manners in which the reinforces Cubanidad. embryonic development. The goal of this project is students overcame these difficulties at three different to explore the expression patterns of 5-HT2BR and Spanish speaking levels. Furthermore, the paper 2B • BIOLOGY ISC 115 TGF-β3 across different stages of quail heart creates a parallel with the experience lived by Cuban SESSION CHAIR: ELIZABETH HUTCHISON, BIOLOGY development in order to see when these proteins ______students from La Universidad de Holguín that become relevant and how they change as heart accompanied the U.S. students during most of their Water Column Mixing and Internal structures form. Since the 5-HT2B receptor acts time in Cuba. Finally, it presents additional data of the Phosphorus Loading in Conesus and through both the MAPK pathway and TGF-β, it cultural experiences and language challenges Silver Lake, NY should be prominent from early in embryogenesis experienced by other SUNY Geneseo students that through the complete septation-resulting in a four- KATELYNN WARNER have participated in Study Abroad programs. The aim chambered heart- and colocalize with TGF-β3 once FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY of this paper is to reflect on how cultural challenges the endothelial to mesenchymal transition is Internal loading of phosphorus(P) from sediment is a can be crucial for students when creating an honest activated. major contributor of harmful algal blooms in lakes. We engagement in learning new languages. Furthermore, ______it recognizes the importance of group support when studied the amount of phosphorus build up on the Characterization of fsd-1 Mutant overcoming difficulties in day-to-day life overseas. bottom of Conesus and Silver lake to measure the Selected for presentation at 9th Annual International magnitude of phosphorus inputs. Lake monitoring Alleles in Neurospora crassa Science Conference, Holguin, Cuba. with temperature arrays and summer sampling of MARK SOTO ______hypolimnetic P indicated that for Conesus Lake, the FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HUTCHISON, Cubanidad and Community north basin is polymictic and rarely develops anoxic BIOLOGY conditions promoting internal loading. The central NDT80 is a key meiotic transcription factor in KENNEDY HOUSTON, SYDNEY ALEXANDER, HILDA basin is hypolimnetic and accounted for 11.6% of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and NDT80 homologs are GOMEZ internal phosphorus load. The southern basin is also present in filamentous fungi. fsd-1, a homolog of Cubanidad, Cuban national identity, has been hypolimnetic and contributed 88% of the internal NDT80, has been identified as an integral regulator of central in discussing the Cuban identity, as it has load, though it did not mix fully until late October. sexual development in Neurospora crassa. N. crassa, a demonstrated the concept of Cuba as being a Internal loading is even higher in Silver Lake, which well-studied model organism, is a filamentous raceless nation. However, there is less discussion historically has had a higher input of phosphorus due ascomycete fungus that can undergo asexual or sexual on how Cubanidad and community interact on a to agriculture. Understanding the spatial and temporal reproduction. To further understand the fsd-1 gene social/institutional level. Our presentation patterns of internal P loading is essential to planning and its role in N. crassa, we will construct mutant examines how Cubanidad and community interact phosphorus mitigation strategies in both lakes. alleles of fsd-1 and assess whether these mutations 14  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Session 2 • 10:30 – 11:45 AM affect fsd-1 function. In S. cerevisiae, several Ndt80 zero because the population will become extinct. These 2D • BUSINESS SOUTH 233 loss-of-function mutations have been shown to cause results indicate that a combination of spaying/neutering a decrease in both DNA binding and sporulation. Our and euthanasia practices implemented on the cat BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: study focuses on mutating amino acid residues population will be most effective in reducing this threat INCREASING EMPLOYEE located in the DNA binding domain and the carboxyl toward the endangered monk seal population. Selected ENGAGEMENT & PERFORMANCE terminus. To accomplish this, we designed primers for presentation at MMA Seaway Conference, SESSION CHAIR: AVAN JASSAWALLA, BUSINESS and used them for double-joint polymerase chain Rochester, NY. ______reaction, a method used to construct alleles that Impact of Psychological Contract target to the native locus without the need for Modeling the AIDS Epidemic in subcloning. Along with the mutation is the green Southern Africa using an SEIID Violation on Employees’ fluorescent protein tag for protein localization study Model Organizational Commitment and hygromycin resistance for selection purposes. JESSICA HABERLAND, CAROL CHANG EMEL ABID, LAURYN KRUPA, JOSEPH RUGOLO, FACULTY SPONSOR: AVAN JASSAWALLA, KATY TOTH 2C • BIOLOGY MATHEMATICS BUSINESS Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for approximately 70% of ISC 131 In today’s society, employees have many values all reported cases of HIV and 74% of all AIDS-related FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: GREGG and expectations in regards to the workplace. A deaths worldwide. We created a compartment model HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY heavy emphasis is placed on individual values and utilizing a system of differential equations to simulate FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTOPHER LEARY, what they expect from their superiors, as well as the spread of HIV through a population while varying MATHEMATICS what is expected from them. These values may the rate at which people are diagnosed and the rate at ______differ from person to person, and within each which people change their behavior. As an individual company, but it is important for the supervisors to Predicting the Amount of Time becomes aware of their condition, we are assuming be able to understand these differences. By better Before an Ebola Outbreak that this individual will partake in safer behaviors to understanding these differences and values, LUCAS SUTTON, JAMES CANNING, OMAR SURI avoid spreading the disease. This simulates the managers can create a better work environment. Throughout history, West Africa has experienced implementation of a program allowing individuals to ______massive outbreaks of the Ebola virus. Due to lack of be diagnosed and informed of safer sexual behaviors capital for disease prevention, it is vital that we in the Sub-Saharan community. We also use a The Impact of Ingratiation on understand ways to minimize costs while preferential attachment network model to more Employee Job Performance maximizing public benefit. This project investigates realistically test the spread of HIV through a JENNA KRESSE, LEXI BURGER, GEORGE STEELE how Ebola spreads from a bat population into a population of individuals with a varying number of FACULTY SPONSOR: AVAN JASSAWALLA, human population. Using a differential equation connections to other individuals. Over time, the rate BUSINESS model encompassing humans and fruit bats, we of people being infected decreases substantially. By Our presentation will be focusing on the impact of focus on finding human vaccination rates needed varying the rate at which people are diagnosed over ingratiation on employee job performance. More to prevent major outbreaks, while also analyzing multiple iterations, the disease becomes less specifically, we will be discussing how upward costs of interventions. Additionally we test the prevalent in the population as the rate of diagnosis is ingratiation increases employee performance levels duration of time humans have before outbreaks increased. This study should be helpful for and creates desirability in the ingratiating employee, occur. With large initial bat populations, the results organizations designing an intervention program to and how ingratiation has a positive impact on the from our closed system model illustrate that the minimize HIV infection. development of organizational citizenship behavior number of humans that will contract Ebola is not ______values, thus leading to a positive effect on group sensitive to changes in the bat population, but it is Modeling the Progression of effectiveness/employee performance within the sensitive at smaller bat populations. Our results Alzheimer's Disease to Discover the workplace, and how downward ingratiation increases suggest that reducing the bat population can lead employee performance levels as well. to fewer humans contracting Ebola. Our results Most Influential Component in its also indicate an optimal rate of human vaccination Pathway 2E • COMMUNICATION BAILEY 103 that will prevent major outbreaks while also MEAGHAN PARKS, JACOB CONVERSE SESSION CHAIR: KATIE BUCKLEY, NEW STUDENT minimizing the cost of the intervention. Alzheimer’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disorder PROGRAMS ______that destroys cognitive ability within the patient and is ______Modeling Feral Cat Population the most common cause of dementia in the elderly Finding Passion and Discovery in Control Practices to Combat population. The progression of the disease and cause College Radio Talk Show -- A of neuron death is attributed to the deposition of the Transmission of T. gondii to misfolded protein, amyloid-β, creating plaque buildup "Geneseo Today" Experience Hawaiian Monk Seals within the brain. The resulting biochemical cascade JESUS HERNANDEZ MARC CHOI, PHOEBE HARTVIGSEN, COLIN has many different elements that further the disease FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL SAFFRAN, WILCOX and worsen the symptoms. We hypothesize that by COMMUNICATION The introduction of feral cats to the Hawaiian islands slowing a single pathway within the biochemical “Geneseo Today,” an original weekly WGSU public- brought with it Toxoplasma gondii, a destructive cascade, the overall rate of neuron death will be affairs program, features conversations with protozoan parasite which reproduces solely within the slowed. A system of differential equations is used. The community and campus newsmakers about digestive tract of cats. T. gondii readily threatens marine amyloid-β protein and other elements involved in the important issues, trends, and real world topics mammals through runoff of oocysts in cat feces into the biochemical cascade are state variables. The model is affecting the local community. WGSU's Assistant marine ecosystem. This most notably occurs in the based on a closed system which allowed for an Operations Manager and Executive Producer and incidental infection of endangered Hawaiian monk analysis of the equilibria. A sensitivity analysis on the Host of Geneseo Today, Jesus Hernandez, will talk seals. We developed a closed system of differential model identifies the most sensitive state variable. We about about his background and role as program equations to illustrate the spread of T. gondii on and found that the interactions between proteins, glial host during the academic year. He will talk about around the island of Oahu in order to test the effects of cells, and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain are key to how he took on the opportunity, discovered and varying population control methods on feral cats. This progression of Alzheimer’s Disease. By manipulating pursued his true talent, challenges along the way, model quantifies the resulting populations of mice, cats, the model’s parameters we can visualize each factor’s and learning outcomes from being the program and seals over time. Our preliminary results indicate that effect on the rate of neuron death. Finding what part host. there would be a single equilibrium value at zero for the of the disease progression is most influential could ______populations with the implementation of a complete help guide treatment options and lead in the direction In the Blink of an “I” spay/neuter or euthanasia program. If the parasite T. of a cure. 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FACULTY SPONSORS: LEAH HOUK, ACADEMIC HANNAH CHASE, SHANNON MARLATT, ANISSA facilitates object recognition while the dorsal PLANNING & ADVISING; ANDREW HERMAN WILKENS, DANIELLE LEVY, SEVEYN WHYTE, stream processes information for object-related COMMUNICATION CAROLINE GILL, HEATHER WOOD, HANNAH JEWELL, action, such as how the object might be grasped. In the Blink of an ”I” is an interactive presentation in JENNA GERAGHTY, LAUREN SAGGESE, MELISSA Research by Almeida et al. (2008 & 2010) used a which the presenter will engage the audience in order HERMAN, PATRICIA MCCASLAND technique called Continuous Flash Suppression to to assist them in obtaining an individualized perspective FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID PARFITT, INSTITUTE present stimuli to the dorsal stream exclusively, on Blindness, and what it means to ‘Live in a Sighted FOR COMMUNITY WELL-BEING and found evidence that the information World with V”I”sion’. Through living experiences, Give Kids the World is a nonprofit village located in processed by the dorsal stream aids object informational resources, and hands-on activities, such Kissimmee, Florida where children with life- recognition only when the object is manipulable or topics as identity, culture, communication, accessibility/ threatening illnesses and their families can stay for “graspable”. I conducted an experiment in Dr. technology, accommodations/ accountability, and a weeklong, cost-free vacation. For the past 10 Mounts’ Visual Attention Lab to elaborate on this institutional/ organizational and psycho/social years Dr. David Parfitt has taken a group of 12-13 finding and determine whether the orientation of responsibility will be emphasized. Geneseo students down to the village to volunteer the object (whether it is “graspable” by the left or for a week. Students work one to two shifts per day right hand) differentially influences the recognition 2F • INTERDISCIPLINARY BAILEY 104 and help with various activities including serving of target objects of the same orientation. STUDENT IMPACT meals, operating the accessible rides, helping to ______run the evening activities, and doing service SESSION CHAIR: GARTH FREEMAN, CENTER FOR Gender Imbalance: A Comparative projects around the village. They help with weekly COMMUNITY Study of China, India, and South Korea Village events such as the Winter Wonderland and ______ASHLEY QUINLAN Halloween party, scoop ice cream, serve breakfast FACULTY SPONSOR: LISA MEYER, EDGAR FELLOWS Did 1,088 SUNY Geneseo Students and dinner at the Gingerbrea d house, and run the My project is a comparative analysis of population Have the Power to Flip a Seat in carousel. In this presentation, students will discuss policy and sex-ratio imbalance in China, India, and the history of the Village, what it means to Congress? South Korea. China’s one-child policy, India’s mass volunteer there, and their personal experiences. PATRICK BUCKLEY sterilization campaign, and South Korea’s family An emphasis will be placed on how the Village has FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS PALUMBO, GOLD planning program are scrutinized in order to draw affected each student and what they have gained In the 2018 midterm elections, eligible SUNY conclusions about the effects of a forced decline in from the trip, as well as on how others can be Geneseo students had the opportunity to vote for fertility. The role of son preference in encouraging the Congressional representative of NY’s 23rd involved and help the cause. couples to engage in sex selection is also explored. district, where Geneseo and Livingston County are Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the located. Data from a national survey of voter 2G • EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 4 social and economic consequences of having too engagement on college campuses allows us to WELLES 131 many men in a society. answer the question: Did the eligible Geneseo SESSION CHAIR: LISA MEYER, EDGAR FELLOWS ______students who abstained from voting have the ______Exploring Models of Disability to power to change the outcome of this election? Effects of a Ketogenic Diet on Protect a Future with Down Using this data, we will go beyond speculation and Stereotypic Behavior in Mice quantify the power of the vote for Geneseo Syndrome MOLLY BRADY students. SEAN WELCH FACULTY SPONSORS: ALLISON BECHARD, ______FACULTY SPONSOR: KELLY KEEGAN, EDUCATION PSYCHOLOGY "Exploring Models of Disability to Protect a Future Caryn Camiolo Memorial Social TERENCE BAZZETT PSYCHOLOGY with Down Syndrome" provides explanations and Justice Internship at Habitat for Stereotypic behaviors are repetitive, invariant and solutions to the rising trend of the selective- purposeless actions resulting from central nervous Humanity of Westchester abortion of fetuses diagnosed with an intellectual system dysfunction. As one of the diagnostic ROBBIE ECONOMOU disability. My paper explores the primary societal criteria for autism, stereotypic mice have been FACULTY SPONSOR: GARTH FREEMAN, CENTER model, medical, for viewing disability and how this used as a model for investigating mechanisms FOR COMMUNITY model influences our thoughts on the disabled. underlying autism. The ketogenic diet (KD) is a high Last summer I was accepted to SUNY Geneseo's While exploring the medical model's focus on fat, low carbohydrate diet that changes the body’s Caryn Camiolo Memorial Social Justice Internship, normalizing and treating differences, I trace the main source of energy from glucose to ketones. It which provides grants for Geneseo students to do rise of this model from Enlightenment thought. I has been shown to have numerous beneficial a summer internship relating to social justice. For then switch to examining an affirmative model of effects, including reducing self-directed repetitive my internship, I chose to work at Habitat for disability that seeks to celebrate the diverse life of behavior and increasing sociability. In the current Humanity of Westchester, which is a non-profit the disabled child and redefine certain societal study, aged FVB/NJ mice were fed KD for seven that works to build and help provide affordable activities to enable individuals with intellectual weeksto assess its effects on stereotypic behavior housing for low-income people. I chose this disabilities to participate in their own way and and sociability. Home cage observations for organization in part because it is located in the city claim dignity. After examining some challenges to stereotypic behaviors and a three-chamber social I grew up in, New Rochelle, and I wanted to give the potential success of this model, I pitch one way assay were used to evaluate behavior before and back to my hometown. I also chose it because I I could incorporate the affirmative model of after KD administration. Brains were processed for strongly believe in equality of opportunity, and disability into my daily life: building a unit plan for immunohistochemistry of Delta-FosB, a that no person should be barred from a life of well- the general education high school classroom that transcription factor produced from chronic being because of their income level. I see increased represents disability affirmatively and shapes activation of striatal neurons. KD decreased access to affordable housing as part of this goal, potential future parents' views on disability and stereotypy across the test period, however, social and appreciate that Habitat is able to help provide difference in the process. For me, allowing people behavior did not change significantly. this. At Habitat I worked in the family services of varying traits and abilities to live and to live with Immunohistochemistry of Delta-FosB in the department, where I helped needy families work dignity is a statement that every human life, lived through the Habitat program. In this internship I nucleus accumbens is ongoing. ______authentically, has brilliant potential. learned a lot about how non-profits work, gained knowledge about affordable housing issues, got to Dorsal Visual Processing and Object 2H • EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 5 experience working with needy families, and got Recognition WELLES 132 the chance to perform social justice work in my MEGAN HILLIS SESSION CHAIR: MICHAEL MILLS, EDGAR FELLOWS local area. FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY MOUNTS, ______PSYCHOLOGY Finding Geneseo’s Student Voice: A Give Kids The World Service Trip Visual stimuli are processed along two different pathways in the brain. 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MALACHY DEMPSEY Imperialism, and an American Although young adult literature is often dismissed FACULTY SPONSOR: GILLIAN PAKU, ENGLISH as frivolous and poorly written, the genre provides What is the student voice at Geneseo? Has Standard of Living during the teenagers with tools to deal with important life Geneseo been a place for protest? A community Progressive Era problems. For example, the number of young adult that seeks conciliation? When done well, a ASHLEY LAW books with LGBT+ protagonists has increased in newspaper, a radio station, a TV show could FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHLEEN MAPES, HISTORY recent years. These books provide LGBT+ teens provide the people of the community with a voice In 1910, a bill, H.R. 23261, was introduced in with protagonists they can identify with, and and with the sense that they know what the Congress to appropriate $250,000 to import resources to help understand and deal with their community is. For a college community—which animals from Africa to increase and diversify our sexuality in a heteronormative world. For this constantly changes as students matriculate or country’s meat supply. The sponsor of H.R. 23261, project, I examined several recent young adult graduate—the production of a publication ideally Congressman Robert Broussard from Louisiana, books with queer female protagonists. These reflects what is unique to a moment as well as what intended to import hippopotamuses to his home books tackle problems that LGBT+ teenagers face, stays true over time. This project analyzes student- state to be raised for meat. While the bill never sometimes in a metaphorical way, other times led publications over the course of Geneseo’s passed, it garnered significant traction at the time, more literally. They all provide resources for LGBT+ history as a liberal arts college. Specifically, using raising the question: Why did such a seemingly teens, although some of these books succeeded at archives of The Lamron and other now-defunct crazy idea seem plausible? In my paper, I address providing these resources more so than others. student newspapers or productions, this project this question by analyzing primary source papers ______attempts to identify the character of Geneseo’s from the proponents behind the bill as well as a Turning a Short Story into a Musical student voice in contrast to other colleges. variety of media sources from the period. I ______Composition highlight the disconnect between how the TIMOTHY SNYDER Collecting Memory: Stories About sponsors of the bill’s motivations differed from the FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL MASCI, MUSIC Family average public: the proponents of the bill were This project took the short story "And the Moon be JENNIFER GALVAO conservationists, driven by their desires to see an Still as Bright" from The Martian Chronicles by Ray FACULTY SPONSOR: JESSICA FENN, ENGLISH increased and diversified meat supply, whereas the Bradbury and adapted the text and ideas contained My project focuses on the process of constructing average public viewed H.R. 23261 through their within it for performance by a small ensemble of a history, considering the ways that stories are lens as consumers deeply troubled by the high cost instrumentalists and vocalists. The project involved passed down within a family. Over the past year, I of living. Further, the entire saga is filled with composing and orchestrating music based off of have conducted extensive interviews with my tensions of imperialism, race, and gender. I argue this story, as well as adapting the texts of those grandmother, a Portuguese immigrant caring for that the story of H.R. 23261 complicates the history stories for performance by vocalists. Over the her husband with advanced Alzheimer's. From of the Progressive Era by intertwining three course of the year I analyzed the text to determine these interviews, I have written a creative- typically separate areas of study: conservation, what ideas Bradbury was trying to communicate, nonfiction essay which seeks to tell a story about consumer issues, and imperialism. then I explored how to best present those ideas in my grandmother's response to the question: a musical adaption with a variety of compositional "When have you been most afraid?" I intend to 2I • EDGAR FELLOWS PANEL 6 styles that still remained faithful to what Bradbury read a portion of the finished story, while WELLES 133 was saying in his story. discussing what I learned from this process, from SESSION CHAIR: AARON STEINHAUER, EDGAR FELLOWS ______initial interviews to constructing the final story. My ______Evaluation of Geneseo Student presentation will focus on the writing process and Dining Through the Decades: Opinions on Computer Skill on the concepts of familial memory and Bridging the Generation Gap inheritance. How are stories passed down through Education and Computer Resource LEAH CHRISTMAN a family? Design Facilitating Genomic ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY The Experience of Learning English “Dining Through the Decades: Bridging the Research of T. dalmanni Generation Gap” was a project for which I received RACHEL GUINTHER at Geneseo a $3,500 grant from the Center for Integrative FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, KELSEY KWANDRANS Learning as a John A. ’87 and MaryGrace ’84 BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, Gleason Ambassador in Student Affairs. For these An ability to use computers is a growing top skill ENGLISH three intergenerational dinners, each with period- that employers seek in potential hires in the job While Geneseo certainly takes pride in its accurate food from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, I market. Geneseo has committed to providing its international community, it is important to brought together 20 to 30 community members students training in computer proficiency through examine (especially in this time of transition in over 50 years of age with college students in the computer based assignments, learning Geneseo's ESOL program) what services are name of fostering communication between environments, and major specific training in actually offered to those who are not native English polarized age groups through the universal various courses. However, the number of courses speakers, and what could be done differently in medium: food! After the dinners were completed that teach practically applicable computer skills order to help them with language acquisition and in Fall 2018, I used “Dining Through the Decades” related to majors that the school provides are few with life at an English-speaking college. I plan to as a case study in a greater span of research about and intermittently offered. Technical support for identify the process of coming to Geneseo as a the power of community dinners in community students interested in learning to code or use non-native English speaker and what opportunities building, including the process, challenges, and software programs exist, but it isn’t well publicized for improving English skills are available. Next, I will successes of the project. Placing my own work into at this school. This project evaluated the establish, with input from this student population, a greater context of efforts to foster diverse confidence Geneseo students had in their what resources are currently being taken communication in the United States such as Robert computer skills, and their interest in learning advantage of and what students wish to see in Putnam’s Bowling Alone, I analyze the pros and further skills related to their future career. These terms of learning/improving English. Finally, I will cons of modern efforts to build a community of findings will be made available to administration. explore the practices of other institutions and interpersonal relationships through food and In addition, this project included a design of a web recommendations from research in order to otherwise. based resource meant to facilitate the study of determine what could be improved at Geneseo for ______Teleopsis dalmanni flies and the unique biological English language support and acquisition among Magic, Superpowers, Romance: phenomenon of meiotic drive they represent. Few non-native English speaking students. Depictions of Queer Women in web based resources exist to explore this model ______organism. The python microframework Flask was Answering the “Meat Question:” Young Adult Literature used to design a gene finding application based on Debating Conservation, JEANMARIE RYAN characterizing data that creates a more accessible FACULTY SPONSOR: AMANDA ROTH, PHILOSOPHY way for the study of this genome.

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2K • ENGLISH WELLES 216 college students for about 30 years, familiarizing 2J • ENGLISH WELLES 123 the campus and town communities with each THE MEDIEVAL NOW: PHILOSOPHY FOR THE CITY AND other as much as with Marco Polo's diplomatic CONTEMPORARY USES AND journeys. The paper examines the role of Marco THE INDIVIDUAL: PERSPECTIVES MISAPPROPRIATIONS OF MEDIEVAL Polo's "The Description of the World" in the FROM WESTERN HUMANITIES I dinner's creation and its subsequent iterations. The FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE paper features interviews with current Geneseo SESSION CHAIR: MATT FARAGO FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: LYDIA faculty, professors emeriti and long-time ______KERTZ, ENGLISH contributors to the event's success who touch on A Platonic Critique of Democracy ______labor, creating meaning, building community, and SCOTT ANDERSON Indiana Jones as a Contemporary how contemporary communities interpret and Plato reserved much of his staunchest critiques Crusader enact medieval texts. involving Athenian society for democratic HENRY LEVIN institutions, which were still in their infancy. A Steven Spielberg’s film Indiana Jones and the Last 2L • ENGLISH WELLES 119 distrust in the mentality of the voting body, led to Crusade (1989) is the third adventure of the bold THE WORLD THAT NOVELS CREATE: Plato regarding democracy as a deeply flawed treasure hunter, Indiana Jones, and the one that ZADIE SMITH’S ON BEAUTY (2005) system of governance. He instead proposed the epitomizes his role as a seeker of an American FACULTY SPONSOR& SESSION CHAIR: MARIA idea of the Kallipolis where a philosopher king idealism, through the discovery of ruins and relics LIMA, ENGLISH reigned supreme over a populace too lustful, in foreign lands. In this film, Indiana Jones is up ______greedy, and corrupt to effectively lead. This paper against the Third Reich in a quest to discover the debates Plato’s critical stance on democracy by immortality-granting Holy Grail. Indiana takes on Vee is for Voiceless involving contemporary examples of freedom and the role of a Crusading knight, while the Nazis take ABIGAIL RITZ liberty tied to an actively voting electorate. on the role of the Islamic forces as the In On Beauty, Zadie Smith explores the nature of Through more expansive involvement in the dehumanized enemy. As the title implies Indiana beauty in art, in academia, and in relation to democratic system, today’s “free” nations enjoy a Jones and the Last Crusade is a contemporary ethnicity, revealing the myriad ways societal far greater quality of life among their citizens than return to the Medieval era. Indiana is an conceptions of beauty affect expressions of self. Plato previously hypothesized. However, there appropriate character to use to explore historical What does it mean then that the most canonically remain flaws in the system many countries, events like the Crusades and a worthy substitute beautiful character in a novel focusing so explicitly including the United States, have come to cherish, for a knightly figure: like a historical Crusader on beauty and justice is not given her own voice? many which Plato highlighted, helping to justify Indiana is not always, morally, in the right. Eighteen-year-old Victoria Kipps is consistently some of his doubts in this system. ______objectified, stereotyped and sexualized ______The Middle Ages and White throughout the narrative, both by the male gaze The City of Ladies Today and by female judgment. Her objectification is Nationalism: A Distorted reflective of the way society fetishizes the beauty BRIE DERELLA found in women who are not white, and of a My paper, titled “The City of Ladies Today”, Relationship hegemonic stereotyping of her identity that parallels Christine De Pizan’s The Book of the City JAFFRE AETHER separates her from her sense of self, thus of Ladies and The New York Times’ article “Anita Right-wing organizations have long appealed to a sense of romantic traditionalism, and often this appeal rendering her unable to fully come to voice. Hill: How to Get the Kavanaugh Hearings Right.” In ______my paper, I discuss Christine’s revelation that is attained through a rosy reimagining of historic women are severely oppressed and her mission to events. The European Middle Ages is the far-right gold Remaking the University in On build a city where intellectual women can unite standard on how to use those rosy lenses effectively. Beauty and defend themselves from men. I use points The far-right has taken their understanding of SEAN MCANENY from Hill’s article, that defends Dr. Christine Blasey medieval history and symbolism, and firmly A modern reworking of E.M. Forster’s Howards Ford before she testified against Supreme Court attempted, and in some cases, succeeded, to tie their End, Zadie Smith’s On Beauty explores and expands Nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, to argue that brand to medieval history. These links illustrate a on issues of moral behavior and privilege in the women are still living in Christine’s City of Ladies European Middle Ages that is ripe for white nationalist academy. Set on a campus resembling Harvard, today. Anita Hill showed a unification of picking, when in actuality, the European Middles Ages Professors Kipps and Belsey entangle academics, intellectual women by defending her fellow are being grossly manipulated into fitting the students, and each other’s families in scandals woman, who experienced sexual harassment and rhetorical framework of far right-wing movements. surrounding sex, art, and affirmative action. My found herself in a similar situation as Ms. Hill only Consequently, far-right manipulations of medieval paper seeks to illuminate the ways in which the seventeen years later. history have become the latest cultural battleground, novel combines and mixes perspectives about ______and for good reason, as all of their interpretations of these topics in order to demonstrate how Lady Philosophy’s Take on Hamlet’s European Medieval history are either false or blatantly “outsiders”can both enrich and undermine the engineered. Within this essay, I will seek to utilize two Melancholy supposedly liberal project of higher education. frameworks, Geraldine Heng’s definition of Furthermore, I engage with the notions of beauty, SEMEFA AGBOKOU premodern race, and Paul Sturtevant’s framework of aesthetics, and justice in an attempt to reframe The paper focuses on the protagonist Hamlet and Schrodinger’s Medievalism to explain far right-wing them from the outside of a contained academic his recent experiences of feeling sad, melancholic, appropriations of European medieval history, and environment. From the novel, I then move into and angry about his father's death and the how these appropriations are both wrong and reflecting about my own experience at a liberal arts consequences (of this event) near after. Boethius' damaging. As a concluding note, I will address the college and how the novel might actually work to Lady Philosophy could offer some wisdom and efforts made by the general population and scholars inspire policy and action in its readers. insight to Hamlet's discomfort and possibly help his to stop the furthering of these alternative ______find ways to cope with his symptoms. Throughout conceptualizations of medieval history. Erzukiki: Embodiments of the Loa Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet goes through a series ______SABRINA BRAMWELL of trials and tribulations that affect his overall well- Everyone Has a Role: Constructing being. Lady Philosophy powerful words could In Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, Kiki Belsey provides reaffirm Hamlet in his abilities, give him a true Meaning and Building Community insight on the complexity of womanhood, understanding of his life, and a clear path to around the Marco Polo Dinner particularly those aspects which are commonly overlooked or enforced by society despite their becoming someone wiser. She would teach him MARY RUTIGLIANO destructive tendencies. Close analysis of Kiki’s strength, courage, and awareness. This paper explores the role of medievalism in the character development before and after her Geneseo Philanthropic Chefs' Marco Polo Dinner. introduction to Hyppolite’s painting Maîtresse The dinner has fed year-round residents and Erzulie allows for connections to be made between 18  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Session 2 • 10:30 – 11:45 AM

Kiki and the loa (goddess) Erzulie. In Haitian culture “American”. Selected for presentation at Phi analyses is reproduced using the notation there exists variation in the purpose and functions Alpha Theta Central/Western New York Regional presented by Conway, Burgiel, and Goodman- of each manifestation of the loa Erzulie, three of Conference, Buffalo, NY. Strauss, which also explains how the geometric which can be found in a similar pattern in Kiki ______symmetries change when each patter is re- Belsey’s character i.e., Erzulie- Freda, Erzulie- Public and Private: Ideologies of evaluated within the context of color symmetries. Dantó and Erzulie-Lasirenn. On Beauty explores Angkor Wat Selected for presentation at Mathematical how Kiki comes to represent these manifestations Association of America: Seaway Section, JORDAN DESROSIERS of the loa Erzulie through her character’s growth in Rochester, NY. FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY areas like sexuality, self-love and motherhood with ______This presentation analyzes interviews conducted in the purpose of shedding light on the unspoken Cambodia of tour guides; where they were asked Standing in a Room of Mirrors realities of a black woman’s life and identity questions regarding the national and cultural MOLLY MARSHALL struggle in a white university town. Imagine yourself standing in a room full of mirrors; monument Angkor Wat, how Angkor Wat is viewed as central to Khmer (Cambodian) identity, and also each direction you look there are surrounding 2M • MATHEMATICS/ENGLISH how tour guides teach the guests and tourists that copies of you, following each movement. This is BAILEY 202 come to Angkor Wat. This presentation argues that what it is like to stand in a platycosm. There are NEUWRITE/EDU: PAIRING as millions of international tourists visit Angkor only ten varieties of this effect, and in this Wat and use tour guides as a mode of education, presentation we will discuss what each of them SCIENTISTS AND CREATIVE the information that tour guides dispense is vitally are, how they look, and how they are created. In WRITERS important to understanding how the monument is addition we will show what it would be like to stand FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: LYTTON perceived by the world. This presentation also in one, as if in a room full of mirrors. Then we will SMITH, ENGLISH; FACULTY SPONSOR: OLYMPIA argues that it is also equally important to conclude with speculation on the possibility that NICODEMI, MATHEMATICS understand these tour guides’ views and opinions we live in a universe that is fundamentally just a ______on those who come to learn about this monument. room of mirrors. Selected for presentation at NeuWrite/Edu: Pairing Scientists This presentation shows how the practices of Mathematical Association of America: Seaway Section, Rochester, NY. and Creative Writers informing the public both domestic and foreign about Angkor Wat are informed by ideologies of ______MEGHAN FELLOWS, ALEXANDER WEBBER, JILLIAN nationality, ethnicity, and history. Selected for Realizing the Symmetries of a TODD, ERIC PIATO, SARAH MANDANAS, MADELYN presentation at Center for Khmer Studies, Siem DEWEY, CASSANDRA TABER, DANIEL FLEISCHMAN Group Reap, Cambodia. GREGORY VINAL NeuWrite/Edu pairs Geneseo undergraduate FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFF JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS creative writers and scientists who collaboratively SOUTH 328 produce rigorously-informed creative nonfiction 2O • MATHEMATICS In this talk, we will explore the relationship essays about cutting-edge science research at MATHEMATICS OF SYMMETRY II between groups and the symmetries of a Euclidean Geneseo. This presentation explains the process FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JEFF object. In particular, it is known that the set of behind NeuWrite/Edu, discusses the need for JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS automorphisms on a given geometric object or creative science writing, and shares parts of the ______graph form a group. During this talk, we will essays produced by the students. Symmetries Through Fibonacci explore the inverse problem: given an arbitrary LORENZO MAZZUCA group G, is it necessarily true that there exists a 2N • HISTORY BAILEY 203 Discovered by the famous Italian mathematician, Euclidean object whose group of symmetries is SESSION CHAIR: BILL HARRISON, OFFICE OF THE Leonardo of Pisa, the Fibonacci sequence has isomorphic to G? We will also ask if there is a PROVOST implications throughout various categories of systematic way to construct such an object, should ______mathematics. The sequence follows the pattern of one exist. Lastly, we will examine Frucht's Mexican American History through adding the two previous numbers in the sequence, Theorem, which answers this question for finite groups, and how his results were expanded upon Children’s Literature of the 1990s starting with 1 and 1 (i.e. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, … ). Most known for its connections to the golden ratio, with respect to infinite groups. Selected for and Early 2000s the dimensions that follow the sequence can create presentation at Mathematics Association of SHANNON CURLEY complex and intricate images. The well-known basic America: Seaway Section, Rochester, NY. FACULTY SPONSOR: RYAN JONES, HISTORY design looks similar to an exponentially growing spiral. This paper focuses on the themes and messages More complex designs following the sequence can be 2P • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 338 found in Mexican-American children’s literature created through computer programs. Through this Topics in the History Of Mathematics written in English during the 1990s and early project we will be analyzing various symmetries that 2000s. I argue that these texts manage to come about in designs that follow the Fibonacci II showcase Mexican cultural heritage, reflect sequence. Many of the designs are non-Euclidean and FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: GARY moments of migration history, and depict several have hyperbolic patterns. Other designs will follow TOWSLEY, MATHEMATICS ______versions of what it means to be a person of circular patters in which the designs also contain Mexican heritage in the United States. The main gyration symmetry. Mathematics to Melody sources are a combination of picture books and ______KYLEE O'HARA chapter books such as Gloria Anzaldúa’s Friends Analysis of Geometric Symmetries The Pythagoreans in Greece began developing from the other side/Amigos del otro lado, music theory and since then, many groups have Francisco Jiménez’s The Circuit, Valerie Tripp’s in the Islamic Architecture of the used their ideas to further explain how music Meet Josefina and Pam Muñoz-Ryan’s Esperanza Alhambra works. The Euclidean algorithm was applied as Rising. To corroborate the themes present in the JUNIPER TREMPER distance geometry to explain rhythms, and during predominantly fictional texts, scholarly history Due to the characteristics of Islamic architecture the Renaissance, scholars such as Descartes and publications, children’s literature reviews, and and the intersection of Islamic and Spanish history, Rameau studied music as well. I will cover how first-hand accounts are set in dialogue with the the Alhambra in Granada, Spain is rich with music theory began, and how it continued to be books. By comparing the illustrations and plot lines geometric designs. The mosaics and friezes each studied and changed over the years. of the children’s books to relevant moments of have distinct, quantitative mirror lines and points ______Mexican-American history, I conclude that these by which the conceptual design was rotated, so the Fermat and his Lasting texts introduce and reinforce symbols of Mexican building as a whole is a collection of different types Contributions to Modern identity, reflect a moment of increased migration of symmetries with several key commonalities that to the United States, and provide commentary on distinguish those Islamic characteristics. Using the Mathematics what it means for Mexican citizens to become research of Blanco and Harris, each of these MADELYN ROSSI

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This presentation will be an in-depth account of the price. An experiment will be run to gather data in well as draw connections between poker and mathematical findings and impact of French an attempt to compare four different tuners. The Information Theory, mainly conditional entropy. lawyer, Pierre de Fermat. I will discuss Fermat’s data will be graphed and statistically analyzed. At background as well as the possible motivations for the end of this experiment the question should be 2R • PHILOSOPHY BAILEY 102 his preoccupation with advanced mathematics. As answered: Does an increase in price mean an PHILOSOPHY OUTREACH PROGRAM for his mathematical impact, I will examine his increase in accuracy? In this talk the trigonometry FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: DAVID contributions to modern-day calculus and and mathematics behind the standard six note LEVY, PHILOSOPHY geometry including his method of infinite descent, guitar scale will be discussed in detail as well as an ______analytic geometry, his “Last Theorem,” and his explanation of the experiment and observations of DANIELLE DALPORTO, LILA KLATZ, HOPE MELENDEZ, method of systematically finding the area under a trends in the gathered data. NICHOLAS RAUCHBAUER, LAUREN STERNBERG, curve. ______MATTHEW WOLFE, HAYLEA ZIMRING ______Optimizing the Dealer Algorithm in Students will discuss their experiences surrounding The Golden Ratio Blackjack their involvement with the Philosophy Outreach IMASHA SILVA ANDREW MCFAUL Program, a program developed to integrate The Golden Ratio is an irrational number Blackjack is a casino game in which a player and a philosophy into local high school curriculums. (sometimes called phi or tau). Also known as the dealer each attempt to get a hand total as close to Topics covered will include the inspiration behind golden cut, the golden mean, the golden section, 21 as possible without going over. In this game the the program as well as the goals it seeks to achieve, the divine proportion, mean of Phidias, and the dealer plays their hand according to a the development and execution of various lesson Fibonacci Number. The golden ratio distinguishes predetermined algorithm, while the player may plans, and the challenges faced along the way. itself from its family of irrationals through its vary their strategy. In general, the rules of Students will also reflect on how their participation significant and unique properties. The Golden ratio blackjack are in the favor of the dealer, however, in the program expanded their understanding of is evident in structures of honeycombs, shell- the game can be played in such a way that the philosophy, enriched their learning experience at patterns of nautilus, and arrangements of leaves. player gains the advantage in the long run. We will SUNY Geneseo, and provided them with a skill-set The golden ratio has been instrumental in look at methods used to beat blackjack and apply that is not otherwise cultivated in a typical achieving beauty and harmony of elements in those strategies to different potential dealer classroom setting. fields of art, architecture, music, and poetry algorithms to see if there is a more ideal way for through out history. Today, its unique properties the dealer to play to give the house the greatest 2S • MATHEMATICS 2 WELLES 121 are additionally utilized in number theory, search edge against players who are set on beating the SESSION CHAIR: JULIE RAO, INSTITUTIONAL algorithms, minimization of functions, network game. RESEARCH theory, atomic structure analyses, and growth of ______biological organisms. Forecasting Ice Cream Production ______The Monte Carlo Method and Its Applications DANIELLE NAPOLI Tunnell's Theorem on Congruent FACULTY SPONSOR: CHI-MING TANG, JENNIFER BRYK MATHEMATICS Numbers and its Connection to the The Monte Carlo method was invented by In this presentation, I will introduce my data set Birch Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture Stanislaw Ulam. The Monte Carlo method is a from the federal reserve that marks monthly ice IAN PARKS technique in which a large quantity of randomly cream and frozen dessert production in the United Congruent numbers are natural numbers that are generated numbers are studied using a States over a span of 552 months. This data set is the areas of rational right triangles. The problem of probabilistic model to find an approximate solution useful in applying regression and time series determining what numbers are congruent is still an to a numerical problem that would be too difficult techniques because it exhibits both seasonal open problem. Fermat studied congruent numbers to solve by other methods. It allows people to fluctuation and a higher order secular trend. I will and made some progress on this problem. account for risk in quantitative analysis and propose a handful of different models, address However, greater progress was made by Jerrold decision making. In this talk we will discuss the their strengths and weaknesses and attempt to Tunnell in 1983. Tunnell’s theorem relates the Monte Carlo method and its real life applications. build the most useful model possible for search for congruent numbers to finding the rank The Monte Carlo method is an important part of prediction. I will address the issue of auto- of elliptic curves, but for Tunnell’s theorem to be a quantum physics, specifically for the scattering correlated residuals which almost certainly appear complete solution we must invoke the yet angle of an electron colliding with atoms, and in when using time series data, and I will propose unproven Birch Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. aerospace engineering, specifically to simulate different ways to account for this issue. Once I have Proving the Birch Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture is aerothermodynamic characteristics during the found what I believe is the best model after considered to be one of the hardest questions in reentry process of the Tiangong- 1. Additionally, comparing each of the proposed using a handful of mathematics today. This talk will provide the Monte Carlo method is being used in fantasy different parameters, I will attempt to predict the background on congruent numbers, then will dive sports to quantify the relative roles of skill and future values for ice cream production using that into Tunnell’s theorem and explain the relationship chance in games. respective model and assess how accurate the between elliptic curves, and the talk will conclude ______predictions are by seeing if the prediction lies with an explanation of what the Birch Swinnerton- The Math Behind Bluffing in Poker within a 95% confidence interval (there are values Dyer conjecture is and why it is necessary for CAMERON WEST available outside of the data set to use for this Tunnell’s theorem's full resolution of the Poker is a game of measuring the probability that forecasting). congruent number problem. you are going to win the given “hand,” generally ______

involving monetary risk. Generally, the better hand The Probability You Win a Tic-Tac- 2Q • MATHEMATICS 1 SOUTH 336 you have the more money you are willing to risk. FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: ANTHONY Bluffing where even with bad cards you bet a high Toe Game Based on Your Starting MACULA, MATHEMATICS amount of money to trick the other players into Position ______believing you have goods cards. This act is DAVID KIM The Trigonometry of a Musical generally viewed more as an art or instinct but it FACULTY SPONSOR: CHI-MING TANG, Note can actually be quantified and measured. MATHEMATICS Therefore, determining the probability that MELISSA LUBEY Everyone knows what Tic-Tac-Toe is and has played someone has a good hand is key to succeeding at Applying trigonometry to basic musical notes and before. X goes first, O goes second, and whoever gets bluffing. Measuring both the number of players as beats is a helpful way to visualize the music that we three in a row wins. But what is the best starting well as the known cards can allow for various hear. It is also helpful in visualizing the difference position? Keep in mind that a standard game is played conditional probabilities to be found. In this talk, in frequency of two notes and therefore can be an on a 3x3 board. After seeing different probabilities we will calculate these conditional probabilities as aid in tuning a musical instrument. There are many based on starting positions, we will look at an irregular guitar tuners and tuning apps with a great range in 4x3 board, and a 4x4 board. Would winning chances 20  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Session 2 • 10:30 – 11:45 AM for X, or O, increase or decrease depending on these By August of 2018, it was estimated that over nontraditional policies has more questions than board sizes? 700,000 Rohingya refugees fled from Myanmar’s answers, but to come up with new solutions for ______Rakhine State to refugee camps in Bangladesh. By new issues, requires the conception of an The Great Escape: An Overview of 2018, 15,000 more refugees followed suit. In innovative and original idea. Maze-Solving Algorithms and the Myanmar’s Rakhine state, Rohingya Muslims’ faced torture, mass murder, rape, the burning of 2V • POLITICAL SCIENCE & Shortest Path Problem their homes, and more violence. The Myanmar INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SAMUEL COOPER government has been accused of genocide after a FACULTY SPONSOR: ANTHONY MACULA, United Nations report declared the military to be WELLES 26 MATHEMATICS responsible for crimes against humanity. Within ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE AT SUNY Attempting to solve more and more complicated the refugee camps, Rohingyas fear for their lives GENESEO mazes has been a research question explored by daily—particularly women and children who are FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JOANNA mathematicians for over 150 years. This talk targeted for sex trafficking. This crisis has affected KIRK, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL discusses, compares and contrasts a variety of Bangladesh, which faces strains by housing so prevailing maze-solving algorithms and identifies RELATIONS many refugees and reached a point where the ______the best methods for solving a given maze Rohingya Muslims were going to be forced to structure, matching different types of mazes with repatriate. This has resulted in refugee suicides and Public Transportation Access in their most efficient respective algorithms. murder of those who were forced to return to a Livingston County  Procedures that a human could conceivably place where they were not welcome. Forced HANNAH GARTY, EMILY YOUNG implement while inside a maze are explored, as are repatriations have led to those that feel exiled by Members from the Roosevelt Institute at SUNY more complicated algorithms used for finding the their communities turning to radicalization as well. Geneseo will be presenting their research on access to shortest possible path when there are multiple While the violence within the refugee camps is public transportation in the Livingston County area answers. Finally, real-life applications of shortest unacceptable, forcing refugees to return home and what this means for employment, economic, path algorithms are identified. when the conditions are not safe only exacerbates educational, and healthcare opportunities across the the violence from both those in the home country region. Comparative research from demographically 2T • POLITICAL SCIENCE & and refugees. similar regions to Livingston County will also be INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______examined in the analysis of implications of Political Patronage in Putin’s Russia transportation access on local populations. FRASER 116 JOHN RIPA ______INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS This presentation is an analysis of the effects of The Financialization of Higher HONORS THESES political patronage on Putin’s regime and the Education in the SUNY System: potential impact of political patronalism on FACULTY SPONSOR: GOVINDA BHATTARAI, Student Research Perspectives  POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS democratic reform in Russia. Putin has established SOREN JUNG, LIAM TANCHICK, KATRINA TILLAPAUGH, SESSION CHAIR: JEREMY GRACE, POLITICAL himself as a master player of patronal politics and JULIA MULLER SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS the result of this has been a more centralized ______network of patronage. However, the oligarchs' fear Through a grant awarded from the Roosevelt of a destabilizing succession in 2008 shows that the Network to the Roosevelt Institute at SUNY A War of Worldviews Geneseo, student members conducted financial MICHAEL CECERE stability of this network is tied to Putin, and this raises questions about how oligarchs will react to analyses on SUNY Geneseo's budgets from 2001- I will advance an argument of how we as citizens of 2016. They present their findings as well as their western society should receive, perceive, and the end of Putin’s term in 2024. implications for the broad national trend of the responsibly prepare for the way the Islamic belief 2U • POLITICAL SCIENCE & financialization of higher education. system will continue to grow and expand across the ______globe in the decades to come. I will provide historical INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS The Blindfold Law and Criminal context on the relationship between the Islamic belief WELLES 24 Discovery Reform in New York system, the Judeo-Christian, and the devoted secular FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MOOR, POLITICAL worldview. A thorough and objective discussion of the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS State  history of these belief systems is intended to shed light SESSION CHAIR: KYLIE GRIFFITH HANNAH GARTY, KATRINA TILLAPAUGH, ABIGAIL on misperceptions of the relationship between Islam ______SICKLES and the West today. Along with historical reference, On The Fringe: Alternative Sources New York State has some of the most restrictive this thesis will focus on current challenges imposed on laws on criminal discovery in the entire country. society by the confrontation of these worldviews for United States Foreign Policy With legislation being introduced in the New York including, but not limited to, recent extremist attacks KYLIE GRIFFITH, EMILY PASCALE, ANNA DI FEDE, State Senate and Assembly, student members of in Western Europe, the way the Sunni/Shi’a schism is JACK TERWILLIGER, WILLIAM SNYDER the Roosevelt Institute at SUNY Geneseo provide still unleashing violence across the Muslim world, and To many in the Western World, it seems as though insight into the proposed legislation as well as the elements of Islamic doctrine themselves that pose the long-standing international liberal system is on advocacy that Geneseo's Roosevelt chapter has clear and present danger to the gains made by civil the brink of collapse. Rising tides of nationalism, engaged in surrounding the "Repeal the Blindfold society. The argument will ultimately attempt to international terrorism, and populism have created Coalition." promote several strategies that might be pursued by uncertainty about what was thought to have been both sides of this relationship in order to improve an immutable bulwark of peace. The United States, 2W • THEATRE/DANCE BRODIE 154 chances for understanding and stability across the the primary constructor of this liberal order, is at a Middle East as well as greater security for an crossroads: continue with this broken system or INNOVATORS OF TWENTIETH increasingly connected global society. develop a new strategy for international politics. CENTURY AMERICAN DANCE ______This presentation argues through visionary lenses FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JONETTE An Exploration of the Link between that rather than using liberal solutions to illiberal LANCOS, THEATRE/DANCE Forced Repatriation of Refugees, problems, the United States should seek to imagine ______more creative and unique methods of foreign The Life and Times of Isadora Refugee Camps and Extremist policy to retain its global economic and political Duncan and Loie Fuller Violence: The Case of Rohingya supremacy. Today’s complex world requires leaders to think “outside of the box” and use SAMANTHA ANDOLINA Muslims and Myanmar alternative means of power to ensure international My paper discusses the impressive lives and careers of ANNA CHARNY stability and a safer, more prosperous world for all. two well known dancers: Isadora Duncan and Loie We realize that the implementation of these Fuller. I compare and contrast the two, and talk about  Promotes sustainability 21 Session 2 • 10:30 – 11:45 AM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual the personal lives and backgrounds of both dancers. sought to challenge the status quo, whether by Our Strengths and Struggles: Most importantly, I discuss their accomplishments in removing women’s corsets and incorporating the dancing world, and end with the impact they natural movements into pieces as Isadora Duncan Similarities and Differences made on people's lives, and how they influenced did, or by creating dances with political subject Between College Students with and generations of dancers to come. matter, like in Kurt Jooss’s The Green Table. without Disabilities ______Despite the clear importance of the arts, securing NICHOLE BOURGOINE, KAYLA BRADY, EMILY funding has always been and continues to be an American Modern Dance - Loie BRUSHAFER, HANNAH FINCH, KRISTEN GUYETT, uphill battle. The period of the Great Depression in Fuller and Isadora Duncan TYLER HEIMAN, NICHOLAS KAHL, BRIANNE the 1930s saw huge growth in many artistic MADISON HARDING KUBALA, DOUG SCHLENKER, KAILIN FOOTER spheres through the implementation of Franklin Both Loie Fuller and Isadora Duncan paved the way The first-year students in the LIVES Program Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. The art projects and for Modern Dance in America. Bringing new and surveyed Geneseo college students to determine programs of the New Deal acted as a harbinger of individual elements, breaking previous stylistic their strengths and struggles as college students. the National Endowment for the Arts and laid the restrictions, and changing the look of dance in The LIVES students then compared/contrasted the foundation for dance to be recognized as its own America at the turn of the 20th century, these two college students' answers to their own genre separate from theatre. This presentation will women are considered the forerunners of strengths/struggles as first-year college students. explore the history of dance and dance funding, American Modern Dance. With their free and The LIVES students found that the Geneseo college beginning with and focusing on the Federal Theatre natural movements, and as well as their dance students had similar strengths and struggles thus and Federal Dance Projects. It will go on to discuss clothing, they were also able to liberate the female helping the LIVES Program students understand the National Endowment for the Arts and engage form from standards previously faced by all that college students have similar experiences with larger ideas about artistic funding. women. regardless of ability. ______The Legacy of Paul Taylor: 2X • WOMEN AND GENDER What is LIVES?: Inclusion Trailblazer of Modern Dance STUDIES WELLES 115 THOMAS COBURN, ALEX DALY, ALEXIS HERMAN, JESSICA CLAGNAZ GENDER STUDIES IN MEDIA, DYLAN MCCLURG, CHELSEA WATERS A brief discussion on the life and legacy of The LIVES Program is one of 250 Inclusive Higher- MUSIC, AND LIBRARIANSHIP Education Programs in the United States, so American Modern Dance Paul Taylor. The FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE presentation will discuss his impact on the modern inclusion is a main goal for this program. Like any BLOOD, WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES college student, the students in the LIVES Program dance world as a dancer and choreographer. From ______hope to feel included in the college community. his roots with Martha Graham, to his own personal How #MeToo Changed Media search to look at modern dance from a new and The sophomores and juniors of the LIVES Program different perspective, Paul Taylor has left a great Coverage  will discuss their own definitions of inclusion and impact on the dance world. In light of his recent ISABEL KEANE how inclusion, or lack thereof, has affected their passing, this presentation will discuss his amazing A tweet produced in October of 2017 by actress lives. Through collaboration with Dr. Gillian Paku’s accomplishments and how he established himself Alyssa Milano brought light to the #MeToo English 427 class, the LIVES students gained new as a prominent figure in this art form. It is a movement, created by activist Tarana Burke over a perspectives on the meaning of inclusion on the celebration of his commitment and determination decade earlier. The aftermath of this widespread Geneseo campus. ______to create and share his passion. It will also look into battle cry from victims of sexual harassment and his vast lineage -- where he came from and who in assault has changed how the media covers these What is LIVES?: Audit Classes and turned learned from him and how his legacy will topics. From The New York Times breaking the Internships live on. Harvey Weinstein scandal to The Indianapolis Star CHRISTINA LUONGO, LAURA NEWTON, LEAH ______exposing Larry Nassar's abuse, not only are more RHOADS, ARIANA LEE Loïe Fuller and Isadora Duncan’s stories of the #MeToo movement being covered, This presentation will focus on skills learned by the but they are being covered more diligently than Impact on Modern Dance LIVES students while participating in non-paid ever before. internships on campus and in college courses that EMMA HOLTZMAN ______the students audit. The students will discuss how Modern dance is usually regarded as an American, The Female History of Librarianship twentieth-century art form. Even at its most these skills generalize to life after school. Each MERRIN SARDI student has different goals while attending audit expressive, modern dance is nonliteral, “creating Librarians are often the ones we turn to, to help abstractions and exaggerations of movement to classes and doing internships in order to help them find research material, and more than half of them succeed. The students are learning to work hard in generate an illusion in time-space through the use are women. This is a look into how a librarianship of force.” Dancers everywhere know Modern the classroom and workplace, and they are became female oriented, was it always that way, learning about skills that are still in need of dance for its wonderful rebelliousness from the and why? What factors effected the profession to classical ballet structure, but what people don’t improvement as well as their strengths. have the slant in gender that it does today. ______realize is that this aspect of modern dance ______Our LIVES Experience originated in the works of Isadora Duncan and Loïe Popular Music Consumption by Fuller. At a time when women were denied access ELIZA COX, VIRGINIA ELEY, JORDON MCKINSEY, to education and jobs, these women lived a Preteen Girls  ALICIA TAUSCHER, JULIE JOHNSTON liberated life. They expressed a freedom in their art EMILY ARPINO This presentation will be a summary of the that relatively few other women possessed. In Arpino will examine the effects of popular music on students' three to four years at Geneseo in the dance, Duncan and Fuller freed their bodies by the identity formation of preteen girls by applying LIVES Program. Each student will describe the skills discarding the conventions of Victorian society, media research to the work of five popular female she/he has learned in the LIVES Program, in audit seeking to synthesize movement and expression recording artists. Her study is also being presented classes, while being involved in clubs/activities, through individuality. as a series of blog posts intended to engage girls and during internships, and discuss the ______and their families in discussions about the music development of their social skills and where the Dance and the New Deal: An girls are consuming. skills they have developed will lead them in the future. Examination of Funding for Dance 2Y • EDUCATION NEWTON 204 and the Arts LIVES PRESENTATIONS 2Z • ENGLISH BAILEY 101 SAMANTHA SCHMEER FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: LEIGH BUILDING A BRIDGE FOR Throughout history, art has acted as an important O'BRIEN, EDUCATION LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY IN AMERICA factor in social change. 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FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, America; speak English!” Those who speak a In America, at least 350 languages are spoken in US ENGLISH nonstandard variety of English or speak it with a Homes. But, what role does your native language SESSION CHAIR: JOSE ROMERO foreign accent are likely to incur negative play in school? This presentation focuses on ______judgments about their intellectual capabilities, answering the following questions: How effective The Influence of Linguistic Purism while those who speak a foreign language in public can dual language education be in America for on Biases toward ESL Students in (whether out of necessity or choice) may be students whose first language is not English? What treated as if they were behaving offensively. I are the different processes that students with a America would like to examine the root of these attitudes second language go through in order to BRIANNA RIGGIO and how they affect ESL learners, who are often comprehend and articulate the English language? Growing up in America, it is impossible to avoid negatively impacted by the gate keeping nature of How are higher education institutions –specifically encountering strong language ideologies about America’s devotion to linguistic purism. SUNY Geneseo– supporting students whose native linguistic purism. It is not uncommon for those who ______language is not English become more proficient? speak a language other than SAE in public— No Child Left Behind: Benefits of whether that is a foreign language, a less common Bilingual Education in America variety such as AAVE, or even an accented variety of SAE—to experience criticism such as “You’re in JOSE ROMERO

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3A • ACADEMIC PLANNING & Using Poetry to Enhance Literacy ______Traveling Towards Better Care: ADVISING BAILEY 102 Skills of Students with Disabilities Transportation Barriers for DIVERSITY AND DISRUPTION – ELIZABETH BRIERTON, EMILY FLAHERTY, ERIN MCQUADE Immigrant/Migrant Farmworkers PUSHING KNOWLEDGE AND THEORY FACULTY SPONSOR: BRIAN MORGAN, EDUCATION Access to Healthcare Poetry is a topic that is not always explored in the OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION ABIGAIL GUISBOND classroom, especially when working with students THROUGH THEATRE FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, with disabilities. This presentation will act as a FACULTY SPONSORS: CELIA EASTON AND ANTHROPOLOGY reflection on a semester-long poetry workshop HEATHER WILHELM, ACADEMIC PLANNING & The question of access to health care for immigrant that took place with students from the L.I.V.E.S. ADVISING and migrant farmworkers has been widely Program on campus. While some of the L.I.V.E.S. SESSION CHAIR: MYA NAZAIRE, BARAK STOCKLER discussed in the public health field, as many students were passionate about writing and had ______struggle to find proper, consistent care. However, much experience with poetry, others were just MYA NAZAIRE, BARAK STOCKLER, ROHAN past studies have not adequately addressed the experiencing poetry for the first time through BHUCHAR, EMILY CARROZZI, BAILEY CHAPIN, issue of im/migrant farmworkers’ access to health. these workshops. Throughout this presentation, MEGAN CONNELLY, CONNOR CURLEY, SAMANTHA However, past studies have no adequately the presenters will delve into the following topics: DEJESUS, VALERIE DESROSIERS, DINETRA GOWDIE, addressed transportation as a barrier to prior research about teaching poetry to students ALLISON GREENBERG, MELAYA HARRIETT, WILLIAM im/migrant farmworkers’ health care utilization. with disabilities, the need for differentiation within HECHT, KIANA HENDERSON-KIRNON, NICHOLAS My presentation addresses this issue with special poetry instruction, students’ pre and post KABATSKY, IAN KIRKPATRICK, CHRISTIAN LANZETTA, attention to transportation as a barrier to perceptions of poetry, as well as sharing some EMILY MATURA, EDWARD MURPHY, CHAUKIM accessing health care for immigrants and migrants works from the Literary Magazine created by the PETERS, SHAYLEN PHILBERT, IAN RIEGER, JOSHUA working on dairy and fruit farms in Western and RUDBART, LEAH SHERMAN, TAYLOR SICARD, JULIA L.I.V.E.S. students throughout the workshop. ______Central New York. Specifically, I will be looking at SISTI, MOLLY ST. THOMAS, COREY WILKINSON, the effects of current policies that prohibit HANNAH ZIMMER The Analysis of 19th Century undocumented immigrants from obtaining drivers “Disruption and Diversity” is a course, a process, Ceramics from Archaeological Sites licenses, and the lack of programs that offer performance, analysis, theory, and practice. Surrounding Hemlock Lake, NY transportation to rural residents. I demonstrate Starting from readings on diversity ranging from how barriers still exist despite former interventions the Harvard Business Review to Chrystal Fleming’s MARISA SANQUINI FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, made by migrant centers and clinics. In conclusion, How to Be Less Stupid About Race, the spring 2019 by closely examining the lives of the INTD 251 class has used various forms of social ANTHROPOLOGY The content of this project will focus on the immigrant/migrant farmworkers in Western and justice theatre to learn and critique campus Central New York, this project sheds new light on perspectives on diversity and equity. This session is archaeological analysis of late 19th century ceramics found at various sites surrounding the little recognized issue of lack of transportation a culmination not only of the class members ‘ for the sake of the health of immigrant and migrant theatre projects but also visible and invisible social Hemlock Lake. Specifically, most of the artifacts were collected from the Rix House Site and will be farmworkers. justice theatre moments that bystanders in public the primary focus of the project. The analysis spaces across Geneseo’s campus may experience 3C • BIOLOGY ISC 115 by interacting with class members throughout portion will allow for a better understanding of when the site was inhabited and how the ceramics FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JOSEPHINE GREAT Day. During this session, class members will REINHARDT, BIOLOGY share an overview of what it means to disrupt what played a role in everyday life for folks living around Hemlock Lake. Furthermore, the project also ______we think about diversity along with The Effect of Meiotic Drive on demonstrations of how theatre can bring that includes background research on historic ceramic disruption about. Participation by spectators during the 19th century, specifically on the East Aggression in Male Stalk-Eyed Flies coast. A paper also accompanies the study that (“spect-actors”) is encouraged but not required. MACKENZIE HINTZE, AUSTIN AINSWORTH gives significant historical relevance to the artifacts This study examines whether or not aggression in 3B • INTERDISCIPLINARY BAILEY 104 that will be analyzed. It includes examples of other territorial behavior exhibited by male Stalk-Eyed historic archaeological sites that provide essential flies is impacted by meiotic drive. Meiotic drive is a ANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION comparisons in distinguishing and analyzing the natural phenomenon that increases the likelihood SESSION CHAIR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, ceramics correctly. In all, the project encompasses of some genes to be inherited more than others. ANTHROPOLOGY a study that will conclude the age of the ceramics Our presentation addresses whether or not an ______that will aid in dating the site. increased likelihood of female offspring due to  Promotes sustainability 23 Session 3 • 3:15 – 4:30 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual meiotic drive on the X chromosome could lead to a 3D • BIOLOGY MATHEMATICS density during dry- and rainy-seasons, where male becoming more or less aggressive when rainfall is inversely related with snail density. The combating other males, ranking the intensity of his ISC 131 basic reproductive number R_0 and disease behaviors against his component and examining FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: equilibrium dynamics governed by R_0 were his genetic data. This study is a continuation of pilot CHRISTOPHER LEARY, MATHEMATICS calculated and examined. data derived from the 2017-2018 academic year. FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, ______BIOLOGY Modeling Invasive Species Using a Impacts of Meiotic Drive on the ______Limiting the Spread of Influenza in a Stochastic Spatial Model Expression and Abundance of KATY TOTH Population that Cannot be Transposable Elements Invasive species often disrupt natural ecological CHLOE LADIAS, MELANIE KIRK Vaccinated processes by excluding native species and altering This project aims to characterize the abundance ERIN KESEL biodiversity across the globe.I test the conditions and expression of transposable elements in the Last year, the CDC reported 49 million symptomatic under which introduced species spread through stalk-eyed fly genome, with particular focus on influenza cases and attributed 23 million medical ecosystems to understand how we might better addressing whether the expression of meiotic drive visits, over 900,000 hospitalizations and 79,000 deaths control them. I developed a lattice model in R to in males leads to transposable element “release” to influenza but reported less than 40% vaccination test the spread of an invasive plant species through via disruption of piRNA pathways. This project coverage. Limited coverage may be due to vaccination an area previously occupied by a native species. By analyzes genomic sequencing data from standard refusal or for medical reasons. In this study, varying a competition coefficient I identified the and meiotic drive T. dalmanni males in order to epidemiologic techniques and graph theory were used threshold at which the invasive species becomes determine if the abundance of major TE families on to characterize community structures prone to dominant over the native species. The competition the meiotic drive X chromosome is different than influenza epidemics, identify individuals likely to coefficient was calculated based on a number of the standard X chromosome, due to accumulation contract influenza, and explore ways to modify characteristics a particular species may exhibit (e.g. over evolutionary time. In addition, this project behavior to decrease influenza risk. A small world seed dispersal, light harvesting ability, drought analyzes RNA sequencing (RNAseq) data from network model was built to represent a population tolerance, etc). The results from this study could standard and meiotic drive males to determine if that would not or could not receive the influenza help researchers estimate the ability of an invasive the expression of shared TE copies is higher in vaccine. Based on the number of infectious individuals species to out compete a native species. By meiotic drive males. We are using PoPoolationTE2 within a susceptible individual’s neighborhood, the characterizing the invasive species based on its to uncover the insertion frequencies and positions probability of contracting influenza was modified to competitive ability, my work suggests strategies for of TEs as well as a comparison of TE abundance simulate changes in this individual’s behavior. The more effective management protocol for different between population samples; and transposome is highest number of influenza cases occurred in invasive species. used to estimate TE abundance and diversity. In communities with high clustering coefficients and addition, we will be performing statistical analyses short average path lengths. Individuals exhibiting high 3E • BUSINESS SOUTH 233 to determine if the differences observed between betweenness were more likely to get sick. Increasing THE MACROECONOMY AND THE samples are significant. the size of the neighborhood considered when ______modifying interactions with neighbors caused the GREEN NEW DEAL: ECONOMIC Aggregation Behavior of Sympatric total number of people infected to decrease. These ISSUES IN 2019, WITH THE FED results suggest influenza risk can be decreased by Cryptic Species of Stalk-eyed Flies reducing interactions with immediate neighbors CHALLENGE TEAM CHRISTINA YI, SABRINA GENCARELLI, KRISTEN based on extent of influenza in a wider neighborhood. FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: LEONIE HALL ______STONE, BUSINESS T. dalmanni sp 1 and T.dalmanni sp 2 are two Modeling Schistosomiasis in Ghana ______The Macroeconomy and the Green species of T. dalmanni that coincide in similar Using Modified Ross-Macdonald environments and can interbreed, producing only New Deal: Economic Issues in 2019, sterile offspring. While this is evolutionarily Differential Equations unfavorable due to a post-zygotic barrier (sterility), SYDNEY NG with the Fed Challenge Team it is unclear if pre-zygotic barriers also exist t o FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN MUENCH BIOLOGY EMMA HOLTZMAN, CALLAM KURTZ, DILLON MEDD, prevent unfavorable mating. Physically the two Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease CONOR KIRBY, BEN SWISHER, JOSEF DIGIORGIO, ELI species appear identical, so this form of (NTD) caused by parasitic trematode worms of the AVELLINO, TYEE MACDONNELL-MILLER, ABDUL reproductive isolation must be caused by other genus Schistosoma. This chronic disease, with two SANDERSON, MATTHEW WEBSTER, MADALYN means, such as active female choice, sperm main forms – urogenital and intestinal YOUNG, HANNAH UESHIRO, JOHANNA CORONEL, precedence or male avoidance. We utilized an schistosomiasis –is transmitted through skin ROISIN O'NEILL, PAVLO HUDA, KIERSTEN COLVIN, assay developed by Lorch et al. to assess female contact with free swimming cercariae in snail- KIGI MAEDA, FELICIA PONIKAU preference for conspecifics, which involved infested freshwater in tropical and subtropical The Fed Challenge team presents an overview of exposing female T. dalmanni sp 1 and T. dalmanni areas. Per conservative estimates, 230 million the macroeconomy and related issues including tax sp 2 flies to male flies of each species. The number people are infected globally with 90% of cases in reform, trade, immigration, and the Green New and duration of matings that occurred within 30 sub-Saharan Africa. In Ghana, it is mostly prevalent Deal. minutes between the flies each morning were in poorer communities lacking improved water and recorded. These recordings were analyzed through sanitation. Although mortality rates are low, 3F • BUSINESS DOTY TOWER ROOM the program JWatcher, to assess the role of active morbidity rates are high and considered VENTUREWORKS INVESTOR female choice vs. other mechanisms. Additionally, underestimated, leading to important PRESENTATIONS – SESSION TIME 3:50 the species identity of individuals in aggregations socioeconomic and public health implications. FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JUDITH of field-caught flies was determined molecularly Therefore, modeling the dynamics of ALBERS, BUSINESS and genetically. These results provide insight into schistosomiasis prevalence and treatment can ______whether the females can differentiate between the advise public health decision-making. I used a KELLY ABRAMS, JAKE ARBEITMAN, MEGAN AVENIA, two male species, establishing a mechanism for system of differential equations modified from the JEFF CALDERON, RACHEL CHOSET, HILDA GOMEZ, pre-zygotic isolation between the T. dalmanni sp 1 classical Ross-Macdonald equations to model the HARRISON HARMON, MARY HIGGINS, REBECCA and the T. dalmanni sp 2 flies. prevalence of both S. haematobium and S. mansoni HOPPY, BLAISE JACOBSON, SARAH LANGAN, in humans, and in Bulinus truncatus and CHRISTOPHER MALACHOWSKI, JAKE MILLER, MAI Biomphalaria pfeifferi snails. Treatment via NGO, AUSTE NORVILA, EMMA PIESTER, TYLER preventative chemotherapy was added to the RODRIGUEZ, SHOSHANA ROSENSTEIN, CHRISTOPHER model and a Fourier analysis using seasonal data RUDIN, RORY SCHNYDER, DAWUD SHAH, DILLON was done to incorporate time-dependency for snail 24  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Session 3 • 3:15 – 4:30 PM

SZMALA, ALIS URENA, EMILY VANDEREEMS, BROOKE ______This paper expounds the differences between two MADRY, JUAN JIMENEZ Women’s Hygiene and Self Care pseudo-religious works, (John Milton’s "On Students in Geneseo’s VentureWorks THASFIA CHOWDHURY Leaping over the Moon" and Thomas Traherne’s entrepreneurship program will be competing again FACULTY SPONSOR: GARTH FREEMAN, CENTER “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity”) and this year in the annual New York Business Plan FOR INTEGRATIVE LEARNING discusses how the effectiveness of Milton’s surreal Competition (NYBPC). The competition begins with This presentation will discuss the success of my work lies in its introspective tone. Milton’s usage of regional semi-final rounds in each of New York’s 10 Caryn Camiolo Memorial Social Justice Summer symbolism and metaphor, particularly through his Regional Economic Development Council zones: Internship, centered around promoting self care references to the Mythological tale of Icarus and Capital Region, Central New York, North Country, and hygiene for young women in NYC in the Daedalus, cautions against human arrogance, Mohawk Valley, Finger Lakes, Western New York, summer of 2018. pointing instead to a life of contented enjoyment. Southern Tier, Mid-Hudson, NYC, and Long Island. ______He frames these arguments in a dreamlike The top teams from each of the 10 regions will then Violence Against Women: An experience of his late brother. Milton believed one advance to the final round of the statewide should enjoy the wonders of the world around competition, where they will go head-to-head for Epidemic them, to experience their faith in an empirical and monetary prizes in Albany on April 26, 2019. OLIVIA LECLERC naturalistic way. His poem is warm and human-like Geneseo is in the Finger Lakes region and our FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, WOMEN in a way that few other religious authors of the student teams will be competing in the semi-final AND GENDER STUDIES period were able to frame their works. rounds on April 10th at the University of Rochester. This paper examines the violence against women ______GREAT Day is an opportunity for our Student in the United States. The violence women face is an The Value of Silence in the all too common reality that is further described. Teams to deliver their Investor Presentations on Economy of Rage: The Inadequacy campus. Selected for presentation at New York Heartbreaking stories of women who have faced Business Plan Competition, Rochester and Albany, violence are exposed and laws are questioned to of Words in ‘Silences’ NY. help stop this monstrous problem. This violence SYDNEY SCHMIDT affects all of society, and is not just a problem that In this paper, I analyze Canadian poet E.J. Pratt’s women alone should be fighting to fix. In order to 3G • ISSUE'S REGARDING WOMEN piece “Silences” to demonstrate how his choices have real and lasting change, an extensive BAILEY 202 with imagery and structure suggest that human education program, which addresses the causes of language falls short of describing sensation. In SESSION CHAIR: MONICA SCHNEIDER, violent behavior toward women, combined with particular, by unpacking his comparisons between PSYCHOLOGY creative solutions, is essential for progress to be ______animal interactions and those between humans, I made. argue that Pratt reveals how language may not be #MeToo, Immigration, & The as sophisticated as it is often made out to be. Media: Symbolic and Realistic 3H • ENGLISH WELLES 131 Threat as Mediators of System POETIC CRAFT FROM MEDIEVAL 3I • ENGLISH WELLES 132 SESSION CHAIR: ROBERT DOGGETT, ENGLISH Justification and Attitudes LONDON TO MODERN CANADA ______VANESSA CEPEDA, LESLIE TETTEH, CHALYNE FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH Visualizing Poetry Through BARROW SESSION CHAIR: HENRY LEVIN FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA SCHNEIDER, ______StoryMaps PSYCHOLOGY Chaucer’s Agency Through the Lyric SARAH HOLSBERG The MeToo Movement and the issue of immigration Mode, Repetition, and the Envoy FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH This presentation will show how I used StoryMaps have received a significant amount of attention in the LEAH CHRISTMAN to help readers visualize the many contexts of a media, with some framing both issues as threats to Caught between nobility and the peasant class, creative work, a book of poems by David Herd various social systems. We examined the role of two Chaucer was poised at the apex of two cultures, called Through, and I will share my own poems that types of intergroup threat, symbolic and realistic, in wielding agency in both yet welcome in neither. His were influenced by helping creating the the relationship between system justification and ability to seamlessly traverse the boundary attitudes toward MeToo and immigration.We collaborative StoryMap. between classes proves particularly insightful in ______examined how media exposure regarding MeToo and The Canterbury Tales, the work for which he is immigration were related to system justification, most famous. In this piece, he gives the reader a New Technologies in Tokyo 2020 intergroup threat, and attitudes. Symbolic and realistic look into the cross section of a stratified social Summer Olympics threat associated with feminists mediated the system: a unique ability he brings into his shorter KATSUNOBU OKAZAWA, NAO YOSHIKAWA relationship between gender system justification and lyrical pieces and ballades. Observing as a universal FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, attitudes toward MeToo; symbolic and realistic threat outsider, yet speaking through his works to open ENGLISH associated with immigrants mediated the relationship ears, he strategically makes use of this literary In 56 years ago, after finishing WWII, Tokyo held between economic system justification and attitudes platform to display his opinions to those who hold the Summer Olympics as the first place in Asia. A toward immigration. Perceived value differences and power. Chaucer manipulates the emotions of the bullet train and highway were invented and perceived conflict over power and resources between average reader by utilizing the personal, often developed with this 1964 Olympics. The Olympic groups play a central role in understanding negative dramatically metaphorical aspects characteristic of games are one of the most important chances to attitudes toward MeToo and immigration and help the lyric mode in “Troilus’s Song,”as well as the introduce the host country to all over the world. 56 explain why people who are motivated to justify the repetitive metric scheme of the ballad in years later, in 2020, Tokyo will host the second legitimacy of gender and economic inequalities are “Truth”and “Complaint to his Purse.” In so doing, I summer olympic games in their history. We will more likely to endorse these attitudes. Exposure to argue that he simultaneously capitalizes on the talk about what kind of new technologies will more positive media about MeToo and agreement persuasive stylistic choices of this mode and appear with this upcoming olympics. In this with those messages predicted less symbolic and metrical effect, pairing them with an envoy and presentation, we will focus on some most realistic threat regarding feminists and more positive ultimately using all three poems to enact agency advanced technologies which will be used in this attitudes toward MeToo; agreement with media over figures of great influence under whom he olympic games. about immigrants (which were predominantly writes. ______negative) predicted more realistic threat and negative ______Glocalization of the Disney Parks attitudes toward immigration. Selected for On Leaping Over the Moon and presentation at Annual American Psychological and Resorts in the World Science, Washington, DC. Icarus: A Hopeful Perception of AYUMI KONO, YUKI MORITA Human Nature FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, ENGLISH DAVID BEYEA

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Presenters will talk about globalization and Japanese Brazilians in Japan: Russia is known for foolhardy pedestrians, and localization of the Disney theme parks around the aggressive drivers. Although the government world. There are currently 12 Disney parks in the Challenges of Acculturation strives to impose traffic regulations, chaos rules. following 6 different resorts: Florida, California, GIOVANNA GIUA YouTube and other popular sites provide countless Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. The wants This study covers migration history between Brazil compilation videos featuring traffic accidents and needs of guests vary widely depending on the and Japan. As Brazil has the largest population of captured on dashcams. What is it about Russia that location; therefore, each Disney resort has Japanese outside of Asia and Japan has the largest makes it an epicenter of car and pedestrian different characteristics such as the quality of guest number of Brazilians outside of Latin America, this accidents? For the longest time, drivers have been service, parades and shows, and costumes. Such has led to a special relationship between the two. using dashcams to protect themselves from theft customizing is significant and indispensable not This research focuses on Japanese Brazilian second and false accusations. These videos provide data only to accommodate but also to respect cultural and third generation descendants embedded in that can be extracted and categorized for analysis differences and showcase the local uniqueness. Japanese society. It reveals the geographical and purposes. With a sample size of over 500 incidents, Presenters will explain the history of the Disney social challenges of the Japanese Brazilians in significant patterns are apparent. Circumstance, parks and resorts and how they make the Japan. season, and geographical context are mediating experience of every single guest magical. They are ______factors in a commonplace milieu of excessive also looking forward to sharing their own Disney Scale and Propulsion in Armored speed and high - risk behavior. Selected for experiences! Warships, 1860 – 1945 presentation at Middle States Division of the ______CONNOR HARGROVE Association of American Geographers, Montclair, Exploring the Seven Woods with W. The era between 1860 and 1945 witnessed an NJ. B. Yeats unprecedented naval arms race between the major KIRA BARAN, JOHN LATHROP, EMMA MEDINA sea powers of Europe and Japan. Competition 3L • HISTORY WELLES 123 FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT DOGGETT, ENGLISH between these powers provided advancements in CONFLICTS OVER GENDER, NATION, For Dr. Robert Doggett’s “ENGL 425: Enterprises: naval warship design at similarly unparalleled IDENTITY, AND SYMBOLS IN THE Editing Yeats” class, students Kira Baran, Hannah levels. However, the rate of advancement and Fahy, Jack Lathrop, and Emma Medina created a strength varied greatly between powers, resulting CIVIL WAR ERA website that digitized W. B. Yeats ‘ 1903 poetry in a wide array of design differences. One area in FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JUSTIN volume, In the Seven Woods. We focused on particular where contrasting approaches became BEHREND, HISTORY helping the reader experience the volume in an apparent was in the field of warship scale and ______unprecedented way, and kept both the casual speed. Larger powers, primarily Great Britain but Unmasking the Southern Belle & reader and scholarly reader in mind. The casual including others such as the United States, came to the Black Mammy: The Intertwined reader can find biographical and contextual prefer constructing larger and heavier ships at the information about the poetry and woods that expense of sacrificing speed. Comparatively and Violent Nature of Southern inspired it, or merely enjoy reading and listening to smaller powers, such as Italy, came to rely on Antebellum Womanhoods the poems online. The poems can be enjoyed increased propulsion as an attempted means of KRISTA BORST aesthetically by their thematic grouping (i.e., by exploiting flaws in the scales of larger nations. This essay aims to shed light on a topic that is not season) via an interactive map of the real-life Seven While later analysis would come to show that a often talked about, mistress/female slave violence. Woods in Coole Park, Ireland. A scholarly reader, balanced approach between design characteristics The long and unchallenged ideology of paternalism however, has the option of finding notes, critical is more preferable, competing ideologies of the era only focuses on white men and lends itself to reviews, and citations to sources that would be produced substantial examples of unique and lumping together all human beings that weren’t helpful in any type of literary research project noteworthy designs. slaveholding men into one ‘inferior’ category, relating to Yeats and/or this specific poetry ______which suggests there were not extremely complex volume. The scholarly reader may be inclined to Power and Protection in Armored hierarchies at play. When studying the contours of think more theoretically, while the casual reader Warships, 1860 – 1945 womanhood and gender in the antebellum south, might be pushed to enjoy the volume more LUCAS SMITH many historians revert to long held stereotypes aesthetically. But, ultimately, readers can choose History has repeatedly proven that one of the and refuse to acknowledge that gender in this the experience they want to have and broaden greatest catalysts to technological innovation is context is intimately tied to race relations and their own literary knowledge in the process. competition. When this competition is rooted in power that is often manifested through violence. military technology, the effect is significantly Consistently brutalizing slaves was part and parcel 3J • ENGLISH WELLES 133 increased. The naval arms race that occurred of slave mistress’ identity. Slavery was not left at SPOKEN WORD ON CANCER between the world’s great powers between 1860 the front door of plantation households, it was and 1945 stands as a prime example of such. This brought into the home; it cemented deeply AWARENESS & BLACK HISTORY section of time spans the inception of the armored ingrained racial and gender hierarchies that can be WITH CHRISTIAN & MOE warship on to its peak as a weapons platform, and boiled down to the tension between back female FACULTY SPONSOR: WESTON KENNISON, ENGLISH the developments that led from the former to the slaves and their white mistresses. The power that SESSION CHAIR: CHRISTIAN ALFIER latter came at an unprecedented rate with this mistresses could and did wield has to be ______aforementioned international competition. As with acknowledged, and the seemingly insignificant Spoken Word on Cancer Awareness any weapons platform, the goal now appreciated ways that female slaves resisted was essential to claiming their identities as human beings and as & Black History with Christian & for it is the optimal balance between propulsion, protection, and power. While all the great naval women. Moe powers were innovating, however, their decisions ______CHRISTIAN ALFIERI, MOUHAMAD BERTE on which of these three elements deserved the In Pursuit of Union: The Eleventh Mouhamad Berte and I doing spoken words about most focus notably varied. An analysis of the ships Pennsylvania Reserves and the 2 subjects then combine them. So Mouhamad produced within this time frame demonstrates the Berte will talk about black history then I'll talk national differences, displaying how some nations Forging of Common Ground During about cancer awareness and then we'll merge our devoted so much to producing extremely well- the Civil War spoken words. armed and extraordinarily well-armored warships. WILLIAM MCLELLAN ______This paper focuses on the lived experiences of the 3K • GEOGRAPHY BAILEY 201 Dashcam-based Analysis of Road Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves Regiment during FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: DARRELL Accident Contexts in Contemporary the Civil War and how those experiences alter and NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY inform their perceptions of the causes they were ______Russia ostensibly fighting for as well as the notions of JULLANAR SUPRUNCHIK 26  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Session 3 • 3:15 – 4:30 PM patriotism that often accompanied the decision to ______among all threshold graphs on n vertices, the anti- enlist. Throughout the paper, I make the argument Queer Migrations: The Perceptions regular graph An has the eigenvalues closest to the that the regiment’s experiences throughout the of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in boundary points of Ω. war helped to overcome the partisan divide ______present in Western Pennsylvania at the time and Modern United States Immigration Exploring Graph Theory: create a sense of unanimity and common cause ISABEL OWEN Preliminaries, Algebra, and an amongst both the men of the regiment and their Using a comparative national lens, this project local communities in Western Pennsylvania, and seeks to understand and unravel the racialized, Introduction to the Eigenvalues of that this experience was not unique but rather sexualized, and gender-based rhetoric embedded Anti-regular Graphs emblematic of some of the larger historical themes in U.S. immigration policy and the resulting ERIC PIATO unfolding in the United States at the time. Selected reactions, focusing on the Mexican and Filipino FACULTY SPONSOR: CESAR AGUILAR, for presentation at Phi Alpha Theta conference, immigrant communities. At the same time, it will MATHEMATICS Buffalo, NY. chart the individual queer realities of immigration What do network engineering, biological systems, ______that persisted despite the meso- and federal-level knots, and chemical bonding have in common? All Cognitive Dissonance: Confederate impositions imposed on immigrants' movement four fall in the breadth of disciplines modeled using and existence. graph theory. We begin this talk by exploring the Memorial Associations and the intuition, and some of the formalities, behind key Confederate Flag 3N • LANGUAGES AND components of graph theory. We move on to JEANMARIE RYAN LITERATURES WELLES 119 consider graphs from a linear-algebraic In the years following the Civil War, Confederate TOGETHER: THE CROSS-CULTURAL perspective, introducing the eigenvalues of graphs. memorial associations, such as the United Daughters We conclude this talk with an introduction to my of the Confederacy, shaped the Confederate flag into BRIDGE BETWEEN ENGLISH & summer research into anti-regular graphs. the symbol it is today. They connected the flag to the SPANISH ______deaths of Confederate soldiers. They also used the flag A Mathematician’s Perspective on as part of their campaign to control the way that the FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: ROCIO history of the Civil War was taught, in part by depicting VALLEJO-ALEGRE, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Art the Confederacy as an innocent, peaceful country that FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER HAINES BRITTNEY BENNETT ______was unfairly attacked by the North. This history was FACULTY SPONSOR: OLYMPIA NICODEMI, steeped in racism and misinformation, as were the TOGETHER: The Cross-Cultural MATHEMATICS Confederate memorial associations themselves, and Bridge Between English and In this presentation, I will explain the underlying this racist history became inextricably tied to the Spanish mathematics of perspective drawing. We will Confederate flag. However, while the flag was steeped discover that there is an optimal position from JOSE ROMERO, EMILY CECALA, EMILY COOK, in racist ideology, Confederate memorial associations which to view an artwork drawn in perspective and KATELYN SULLIVAN, LINSI OUYANG, MACIE demonstrated a great deal of cognitive dissonance how to find it. The same mathematics can be used SHUM, NEHA MAROLIA, TOMMY CASTRONOVA, toward the flag, continuing to claim that the flag was to find where a camera was when we look at a ALICEN AMBROSIA, ISABELLE CIRULLI, MADELINE an innocent symbol of heritage, even as it was used by photo. LOFASO, RACHEL HEYM, AMANDA LARA SOSA, organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan. The symbolic KAREN CASWELL, ODALIS BRITO importance of the Confederate flag was created after 3P • MATHEMATICS 2 SOUTH 338 TOGETHER has the objective of providing literacy the Civil War in a way that deliberately hearkened SESSION CHAIR: AARON HEAP, MATHEMATICS education to ESOL families in our community. back to idolization of the Confederacy and was ______While their needs and outcomes all vary, the adults steeped in the idea that preserving slavery was a enroll in the program with the intent to develop Credible Intervals vs Confidence righteous goal. The flag cannot be divorced from that English literacy skills--reading, writing and Intervals history. Selected for presentation at Phi Alpa Theta speaking. The children of these families are in need JONATHAN DECARLO conference, Buffalo, NY. of academic and, in some cases, literacy support FACULTY SPONSOR: ANTHONY MACULA, which will be provided through tutoring. This MATHEMATICS 3M • HISTORY WELLES 121 project was created to serve as a merging network Bayesian and Frequentist methods of constructing HONORS AND RESEARCH PANEL between students who would like to tutor in a precision interval around a parameter are FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY Geneseo, and families who would like to learn. philosophically and fundamentally different. A SESSION CHAIR: RYAN JONES, HISTORY We'd like to share our experiences, passion, and Bayesian credible interval holds the interval ______thorough execution of this project with the bounds as fixed and the parameter in question as a Michael Collins: Making A Martyr? Geneseo community. random variable. While a Frequentist confidence EAMON DANIEU interval holds the parameter as fixed and the Historical memory of Michael Collins, the Irish 3O • MATHEMATICS 1 SOUTH 340 interval bounds as a random variable. This has revolutionary, has been contested since his death SESSION CHAIR: CESAR AGUILAR, MATHEMATICS implications on how to construct and interpret in 1922. Popular sentiment in Ireland has ranged ______these intervals, yet students and even researchers from a willingness to leave his memory in relative Spectral Characterization of Anti- misinterpret these intervals. In this talk, we will obscurity to promoting him as a hero of almost Regular Graphs discuss the differences between these two mythic proportions who was cut down and intervals and their methods. Through examples JULIAN LEE betrayed in his prime, leaving a legacy unfulfilled involving different distributions will show how FACULTY SPONSOR: CESAR AGUILAR, and Ireland left off far worse for it. Upon his death, these intervals can be different or the same and MATHEMATICS his life and achievements were celebrated. When his why they are easily misinterpreted. From the eigenvalue equation we obtained by political rivals came to power in the 1930s however his ______using Chebyshev polynomial of the second kind, we memory became more veiled, the shroud only being The Ellsberg Paradox deduce three functions in terms of ϴ.Through lifted starting in the 1970s which began the phase of DALTON LOSON analyzing the functions, we discovered that the heroizing. Thus, the aim of this paper is to explore FACULTY SPONSOR: ANTHONY MACULA, interval Ω = [(-1-√2)/2, (-1+√2)/2] contains only the what social, economic, and political factors have led to MATHEMATICS trivial eigenvalues 0 and -1. We also figured out these swings, to trace the course of Collins In this talk, we will analyze a variation of a common that as n increases, the eigenvalues of An become historiography, and to attempt to tease out broader experiment related to the Ellsberg paradox: almost symmetric about the number -1/2. Finally, themes of historical memory and commemoration in Molina’s Urns. In this version of the problem, there we conjectured that the eigenvalue-free interval a contested past. Finally, the paper seeks to reconcile are many urns containing red balls and green balls. bound Ω does not contain an eigenvalues of any the numerous interpretations of the infinitely complex For one game, players pull from an urn where the threshold graph other than 0 and -1, and that character of Michael Collins. proportion of red and green balls is split 50-50, and  Promotes sustainability 27 Session 3 • 3:15 – 4:30 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual in the other game, players will randomly select an Mathematical Control Theory and GEORGE CLAPPER urn where proportions range from 100-0 to 0-100, For this talk, I will be exploring the different uses of and then pull a ball. A player will pay $X, and if a Self-Driving Cars the Lagrangian, named after the French player pulls a red ball out of an urn, that player HARRISON KLIPP mathematician Joseph-Lewis-Lagrange. The wins $10. The Ellsberg paradox states that players Control Theory is the branch of mathematics and Lagrangian is often used to model various concepts are more likely to pay more to play the first game, engineering that helps how we design and of energy, and motion in physics. Some topics in even though the second game has the same implement control systems to operate and Lagrangian mechanics include momentum, both expected payout. Assuming a person can only play regulate dynamic environments. The primary goal angular and linear momentum. In this talk I will one round of each game, how much money are is to apply the optimal control system to a problem cover the following concepts: The double they willing to pay to play each game? that results in the most precise regulation of the pendulum, problems in both angular, and linear ______system. In recent years self-driving cars have momentum, the transfer of energy, and Space-Efficient Knot Mosaics of Size 7 drastically improved but are still far from being oscillations. In describing these phenomena, we GREGORY VINAL perfect. One area in which automated vehicles are will be exploring the following concepts: The Euler- FACULTY SPONSORS: DOUGLAS BALDWIN, lacking is the ability to react to accident prone Lagrange equations, Noether’s Theorem, and MATHEMATICS situations. An example where the self-driving car various other models that quantify these, for AARON HEAP MATHEMATICS will fail is when an object enters the path of the car. example; The Atwood machine, moving plains, In this talk, we will discuss knots, their projections, and The system must be able to distinguish between mass in a spring, cycloidal pendulum, and many representations of those projections. In particular, we things it can go straight through such as a paper others. In this talk, I will show derivations, and will define knot mosaics, a more structured way to box or snow versus things it must avoid such as a applications for these theorems, and equations. represent knots, and look at some rudimentary person or a cinder-block. This talk and presentation Selected for presentation at Mathematical questions that this representation produces; namely, will discuss what must be done for self-driving cars Association of America Seaway Section Meeting, what is the smallest n such that a given knot can be to overcome the trolley problem and whether the Rochester, NY. represented on an n by n grid, and what is the smallest Stochastic model or the Robust model better suit ______number of tiles that can be used to represent the knot. these needs. Modeling of the Implication of ______Lastly, we will look at my ongoing research into finding How Netflix, Pandora and Amazon Edible Cutlery at SUNY Geneseo knots with mosaic number 7 and their space-efficient BRIDGET BRUEN representations. Selected for presentation at Tailor Your Experience: An In this talk, we will discuss the method for the Seaway, Rochester, NY. gradual implication of edible or 100% degradable ______Overview of Recommender Algorithms (should you choose not to eat them) cutlery. I will The Applications of the Quotient model this as a logistic model, to introduce a rate JACK MCALEVEY at which to initiate the purchase of proper cutlery, Topology In 2006, Netflix introduced a $1,000,000 prize for so it comes at no extra cost to SUNY Geneseo, and CHRISTOPHER NIELSEN anyone who created an algorithm that could reduce the using of plastic cutlery. Selected for FACULTY SPONSOR: GARY TOWSLEY, recommend movies to users 10% more accurately presentation at Mathematical Association of MATHEMATICS than their current algorithm. This prize pushed The quotient topology is a way of creating new America Seaway Section Meeting, Rochester, NY. recommender algorithms into popularity, and now ______topological spaces from already existing ones by different types are present in many websites, with partitioning the space via a function. The quotient vast effects on how we consume media and purchase Hybridization of Particle Swam topology can be used to create theoretical spaces, products online. With collaborative filtering, the user’s Optimization and Pattern Search and it is an integral component of digital topology. ratings are put into an enormous matrix where Algorithms The digital line models the pixels on a computer techniques like K-nearest-neighbor are used to find screen. In the quotient space the pixels become ERIC KOESSLER similar users. Then, recommendations are generated We test two methods of Hybrid Particle Swarm single-point open sets and the boundaries from the ratings of similar users. With content-based between each pixel become single-point closed Optimization (HPSO) algorithms that hybridize approaches (such as Pandora), each item has a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Pattern sets. discrete set of attributes describing it, and Search (PS) to improve the global minima and recommendations are generated by comparing the 3Q • MATHEMATICS 3 SOUTH 336 robustness. Both methods let PSO run first attributes of items the user liked to other items. In this followed by PS. The first method lets PSO use a FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: ANTHONY talk, we examine how these algorithms work, and the MACULA, MATHEMATICS large number of particles for a limited number of advantages and limitations of each type. iterations. The second method lets PSO run ______The Terrors of Inaccuracy normally until a tolerance is reached. Numerical Order Statistics in Baseball results using non-differentiable test functions ROBERT JUDA ALYSSA PERSICH reveal that both methods improve the global When is a test acceptable? At what point should a test Does who is pitching impact who comes to a minima and robustness versus PSO. The first be considered “good” enough for implementation? It baseball game? In this talk, we will discuss how one method uses fewer function evaluations than the is necessary for these questions to be answered in can decide which attributes or combination of second method. Selected for presentation at relation to all testing situations, regardless of attributes of the pitcher is best correlated with Mathematical Association of America Seaway significance. In order to search for solutions to these attendance. The starting pitchers will first be Section Meeting, Rochester, NY. inquiries, one may turn to Bayesian statistics and the assigned a ranking based off of their average ______use of conditional probabilities. The existence of attendance for the 2018 season. We will then look New Comparison Methods for inaccuracy within testing experiments is largely due to at different items such as earned run average their imperfect nature. In fact, it is common for rarer (ERA), strikeouts, batting average against, wins, Derivative-Free Optimization events to yield higher rates of false positive outcomes. and other attributes of a pitcher and rank them. Algorithms The resulting error probabilities can be detrimental to We will see which attribute or combination results JONATHAN MCCART the success of a given test, particularly when dealing in the lowest average difference in ranking. For many situations, the function that best models a with circumstances of greater consequence. Although situation or data set can have a derivative that may be often effective, using the findings of Thomas Bayes can 3R • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 328 difficult or impossible to find. Thus, numerical lead to certain counter-intuitive results. We will OPTIMIZATION & SUSTAINABILITY methods for finding these important values without examine a higher-stakes scenario involving Bayesian the direct involvement of the derivative have been analysis. Suppose a testing system for recognizing FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: AHMAD ALMOMANI, MATHEMATICS developed to find the optimal value of the function. terrorist trends in an airport. We will discuss how even This is our motivation to use Derivative-free a rather accurate test can fail disastrously when ______The Theory Behind the Lagrangian  optimization (DFO) algorithms. In our analysis of these applied to large population sizes. algorithms, we tested three global solvers: Genetic ______28  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Session 3 • 3:15 – 4:30 PM

Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), funding are considered as policy measures. To find a government’s hands, intervention may help to and Simulating Annealing (SA) on a set of 25 problems more comprehensive nationwide effect of the ACA all support and strengthen the markets. In the case of of varying in convex/non-convex, separable/non- fifty states were considered in a regression analysis sub- Saharan Africa, many of the financial separable, differentiable/non-differentiable, and which considers Medicaid expansion, voting in the regulations are much more complex than their unimodal/multimodal. For each algorithm, we used 2012 presidential election, partisanship of state ability to enforce them, and thus, more relaxed the built-in code from MATLAB, unedited or revised. legislature, infant mortality rates as a primary regulations are needed. For all problems, we varied the number of dimensions, measure of access to quality health care, the ______increasing from 2 dimensions to 100 dimensions. We uninsured rate, and state poverty rates as a control. China in Africa: The Role of introduce new criteria to compare DFO solver The ACA, subsequent Supreme Court ruling, state Neocolonialism and Corporate performance using certain generalized characteristics: expansion, and effects of will all be discussed and speed, accuracy and efficiency. Numerical results analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. Irresponsibility on State Weakness  proposed for most known standard benchmark ______HANNAH FROHM problems. Selected for presentation at Mathematical A Machiavellian Analysis of This paper follows China’s involvement in resource Association of America Seaway Section Meeting, Vladimir Putin and foreign investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, which Rochester, NY. has been highly underregulated. Due to the MELISSA HARTLIPP subcontinent’s rich supply of natural resources, it has 3S • POLITICAL SCIENCE & Niccolo Machiavelli is often considered one of the become a hotspot for resource-based conflict and founders of realism. His political philosophy is intervention by foreign actors interested in securing INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS often known for its unpopular observations about their own access. With a history of state fragility and FRASER 116 human nature and how that translates to political violent conflict, Sub-Saharan African states currently leadership. In modern times Vladimir Putin is struggle to find the balance between accepting foreign HONORS THESES known as the former KGB officer that managed to FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: CARLY involvement and protecting their own interests due to rise to power in the new democratic Russia and the many strings attached to attractive foreign aid. A HEROLD, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL centralize authority for the last twenty years. Since RELATIONS global manufacturing giant, China has come to the coming to power, Putin has centralized his forefront as an investor in the continent, performing ______authority and changed the future of democracy in The Evolution of Presidential Power resource extraction operations on African soil to Russia as the Russian political system evolved after provide its domestic commercial empire with highly NICHOLAS RAUCHBAUER the fall of the Soviet Union. This paper analyzes valued minerals, oil, and textiles for industry. Due to It is presumed that the U.S. Constitution contains Putin's political actions to understand the regime the lack of regulation of donor relationships, all of the answers to fundamental legal questions change as he came to power and possible irresponsible Chinese corporate behavior has regarding the political structure of the polity and theoretical explanations for his actions. First, I will perpetuated economic instability and lack of diversity, the functions of each branch of government. start by looking to Machiavelli’s The Prince to try to human rights abuses, and the damaging effects of the However, the Constitution is silent on several understand Putin’s rise to power and leadership. I ‘resource curse.’ While foreign direct investment in issues, one being the executive branch’s implicit will then analyze modern international relations Sub-Saharan Africa has been influential for sustainable power of prerogative, especially during times of theory, such as structural realism and development and state strengthening, the case study crisis or war. This paper examines the presidency constructivism, to look for an explanation for of China’s exploitative investment relationships and its powers (particularly those relating to war Putin’s actions to try to understand what illustrates the need for increased regulation and and prerogative), from the founding to the modern framework provides the best explanation for his capacity building. era. In effect, this will provide a comprehensive actions. ______account of how the presidency has evolved and China in Africa: The Emergence of grasped more powers without significant pushback 3T • POLITICAL SCIENCE & from either the legislature or the public. This Economic Opportunity at the INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS project begins by looking to the founders for their Crossroads of Global Change  WELLES 26 insight into the justification for each of the ERIC ZENZEROVICH executive’s powers and how they relate to the ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL Unequivocally, there is no denying that the other branches, particularly the legislature. It turns DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA development of the African continent via economic next to the Lincoln presidency, which exhibits the forces, both internal and external, will represent a clearest uses of executive prerogative and its FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JEREMY GRACE, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL substantial proportion of global economic growth implications for future presidents during times of in the upcoming century. By 2100, Africa is crisis. On this basis, the final section of the paper RELATIONS ______expected to have a population of about 3.5 billion, will consider the presidency of FDR during the Financial Development in Sub- more than China and India combined. In 2014, Second World War and modern presidents such as China had a total trade of $215 billion with Africa, Bush and Obama during the “War on Terror.” Saharan Africa more than double the American figure for the same ______ALEXANDRA BASILE year. This figure is even more impressive when put Affordable Care Act’s Implications This paper will analyze the role of the financial into the context of time; since 2000 China was able on States’ Health Measures sector in the economic development of sub- to increase its trade with the African continent MARISSA HIGGINS Saharan African countries. First, I will provide an nearly twenty fold, a truly staggering change. In a States adopting the Affordable Care Act and industry analysis to delve into the competitiveness 2017 report, researchers suggest that there are expanding Medicaid, regardless of partisanship, saw and concentration of the banking industry in sub- more than 10,000 Chinese-owned businesses on greater positive changes to their uninsured rate, infant Saharan countries. The high barriers to entry and the African continent today. However, the same mortality rate, and other relevant health and funding limited competition, lead to the problems of report estimates that 90% of Chinese companies in measures. In addition, democratic states saw greater adverse selection and moral hazard. Next, the Africa are privately owned. Experts agree that access to and quality of care improvement than paper will delve into the policies necessary in order these Chinese companies have “flown under the republican states in the years following the ACA. Eight for a country to deepen its financial sector. By radar,” and little data is available on their influence states are deeply examined to explore the effect of looking at a case study across several different and importance to African countries. It is for this ACA adoption or lack thereof. To measure the health countries, we will find that there is no set policy reason that a critical analysis of their dealings and condition of a state, infant mortality, premature prescription that will necessarily destine a given operations will yield a new and revealing death, low birth weight and preventable financial market for success. Each case has many perspective of the emerging nature of China-Africa hospitalization will be considered. The uninsured rate, different external variables that all play important relations. percentage of the population on Medicaid, roles. In some cases, the inept government is the percentage of the population enrolled in employer cause of market failure, and gradual liberalization sponsored coverage, and each state’s public health can help to rebuild markets. 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3U • POLITICAL SCIENCE & FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JOANNA as a spiritual experience by Americans though it is not KIRK, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL named such as in Thai culture. Through examining the INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS RELATIONS documentary, Nightmare, I found that many TRUMP: 2020 WELLES 24 ______Americans do in fact view sleep paralysis as spiritual in FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JAMES ALEA TIBERI, SAVANA CONRADE, AUDREY HOLLICK, nature. MOOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL JILLIAN O'CONNOR, RAINA SALVATORE, DANIELLE ______RELATIONS CROWLEY, LAURA KIRKPATRICK, ADRIENNE BRAICO, 3% is Still a Percent ______BETINA POPNIKOLOVA, ERIN CARLIN, MATTHEW MAIAH WALTON Trump: 2020 Success? BROWN, JOSEPH SALVATORE FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIMA, BLACK STUDIES On June 29, 2017, celebrity animal handler Danny MAURA MACNEILL, ANNIBELL COOLICAN, It is hard to see the issue that a culture faces when you Kosack was scheduled to appear on the highly- JULIANA KURYLA have no experience interacting with people from that rated show Midlands After Dark with Alex Grace This presentation group will investigate whether or culture; it is even harder when you attend a (produced by Midlands Television Studios) with not Donald Trump can be successful predominantly white institution that does not focus one of Kosack's animals, Elias the chimpanzee. But in his 2020 presidential campaign. In the 2016 on the issues these communities face. The media puts a rehearsal before the show went terribly wrong: presidential race between the two major party out an image of minorities, especially African Elias the chimpanzee killed one of the Midlands candidates, Democrat Hillary Clinton and American/Black, that allows for those in areas lacking After Dark writers! Now a person is dead, the show Republican Donald Trump, many watched in shock such diversity to build up biases and rigid opinions is cancelled, and Kosack's career is in shambles. as states predicted to swing Democrat turned about them. It is important to provide a course at Accusations are flying from all sides, and litigation Republican red, resulting in a stunning defeat for Geneseo that exposes students to the harsh realities looms....You, members of the jury, must determine Clinton. By primarily appealing to white, blue- their African-American classmates may experience if Midlands Television Studios or Danny Kosack is collar, rural populations, Donald Trump was able to throughout their time here. The class will study how liable for this attack after hearing the testimony of attract the “forgotten” constituents of the United race is represented in media today vs. how it has been a variety of witnesses. Presented by the Geneseo States, those that Hillary Clinton and the political represented historically, and how that impacts Mock Trial Team, a group dedicated to the pursuit establishment had abandoned. These flipped society, highlighting the correlation of how racism and of legal excellence. The Geneseo Mock Trial team districts, where Democrats had previously won yet micro-aggressions are strengthened by media. To competes in local and regional competitions Trump managed to gain traction among voters, answer the question of how movies play a central role throughout the year. The club develops members' resulted in unexpected wins in several key swing in how we understand race, racial categories, and public speaking, argumentative skills, and states. Looking forward, the “Trump effect” ethnic/ cultural identities, I have been comparing the courtroom etiquette. representations of African Americans when Barak analyzes how Trump has affected his party’s Obama was president to representations now, to popularity, as many states and counties are being BAILEY 103 pushed towards a “blue wave” of voters taking a 3W • INTERDISCIPLINARY examine the ways these images speak to the history of stand against him. The panel will analyze the BLACK STUDIES & SOCIOLOGY the nation. elements of dance and equipment Senate voting history of Pennsylvania, Michigan, SESSION CHAIR: WILLIAM LOFQUIST, SOCIOLOGY spinning in a show that is performed in competitions and West Virginia; and compare the current ______within the North East Color Guard Circuit. This is opinions of Trump 2016 voters. In doing this, we Does Race Play a Factor in Sapphire Winter Guard's fifth year participating in can begin to determine if President Trump’s Wrongful Conviction cases? competitions as well as GREAT Day. Sapphire invites popularity will continue into 2020. you to a performance of whimsy and true love with AMANDA BLUVER ______our 2019 production, “Enchanted.” Based on the FACULTY SPONSOR: WILLIAM LOFQUIST, Taylor Swift song of the same name, the show follows 2020 Election: The “Trump Effect” SOCIOLOGY BRYCE KELLY, EMMA NUGENT strangers who fall in love at first sight. But when the In my research I hope to conduct a thorough time comes, will that love be reciprocated? FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MOOR, POLITICAL examination of race in the American criminal SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS justice system and how it may play a role in 3X • THEATRE/DANCE The fundamental question of this project is: Are the sentencing. I hope to find whether or not there is a constituents seeking a candidate who will defend link between race and the number of wrongfully SCHRADER 152 the position of President Trump, or are they convicted felons in the system. While wrongful CHARACTER ANALYSIS AND looking for a candidate to oppose the Trump convictions have been a topic that scholars CHOREOGRAPHIC presidency and be an instrument of change for regularly discuss, I hope to dig deeper into these their respective district? To answer this question rates of wrongful convictions to see if I can find a INTERPRETATIONS we first evaluated past voting histories of Senate, pattern among them, specifically a racial one. FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: MARK House, and Presidential elections in Minnesota 1 ______BROOMFIELD, THEATRE/DANCE and Michigan 11. By focusing on these two districts Sleep Paralysis in American Culture ______that held what were deemed competitive House REBECCA GEORGE Interpretations of Love Found, Love elections, we were able to make a more accurate FACULTY SPONSOR: STEVE DERNE, SOCIOLOGY judgment on the “Trump Effect.” Because neither Lost Cassaniti and Luhrmann state that local cultural district had an incumbent, either party had a fair EMILY THAMM, MADISON HARDING practices shift the pattern of spiritual experiences, chance of being elected, clearly showing whether In the Africanist tradition of versioning, two even those such as sleep paralysis and out of body Trump still held favor in the respective district. different dancers will perform the new experiences that might be imagined in some ways as Based on the results of these two House elections choreographic work Love Found, Love Lost, a solo culture free. They also recognized that the more the it is unclear how Trump will fare in the 2020 danced to the music of Keith Jarrett's Blame It On spiritual experience is constrained by a specific election; however it is clear that Trump has had a My Youth/Meditation. Each dancer will share their physiology, the more the frequency of the event will revolutionary effect on politics across the country. approaches to researching the character of the be constrained by an individual’s vulnerability to those dance and their individual interpretations of the 3V • POLITICAL SCIENCE & experiences. This phenomenon is known as ‘cultural choreography. kindling’. They say, “Sleep paralysis has a specific INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS name among the Thai (Phi Am), but not among the 3Y • WOMEN AND GENDER Americans, and the Thai report it more often”. Their BAILEY 203 STUDIES WELLES 115 MOCK TRIAL PRESENTS THE CASE OF studies showed that through the process of naming, some non- ordinary experiences are made common LAW AND POLICY EFFECTING THE YEAR: MIDLANDS TELEVISIONS and given characteristics. Therefore, among GENDER AND SEXUALITY Americans, sleep paralysis is not as common as it is in STUDIO V. DANNY KOSACK FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE Thai culture, as it doesn’t have a local name. Hence, BLOOD my study focused on whether sleep paralysis is viewed ______

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Livingston County Family Court Planned Parenthood Clinic Escort  Prostitution Policy and the Impact Internship Experience  VICTORIA OZADOVSKY on Feminism  KATHERINE GRANT Ozadovsky is currently serving as a clinic escort to ALEXANDRA LANE Grant will discuss the overall experience that she ensure patients get safely into the Planned The research presentation will cover how had while observing cases at the Livingston County Parenthood building, while also serving as a prostitution laws vary throughout the international Family Court while also explaining some cases in distraction and buffer between them and anti- community. What will be explored is four nations which the courts may have let down individuals of choice protesters. Every individual should be able and their policies: two developed nations and two marginalized groups and benefitted members of to receive medical care without harassment, and, underdeveloped nations. Each category will more privileged identities. She will use this as a clinic escort, she works to help facilitate that. examine one nation that deems prostitution legal presentation to help spread awareness about both She has also been working to be as involved as and the other illegal. Finally, it will examine how the benefits and potential limitations of family possible in Planned Parenthood events and rallies this enforcement has an impact on feminism and court that she has observed while participating in such as the Planned Parenthood Albany Day of women’s lives. her internship. Action. ______.

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ANTHROPOLOGY Malnutrition has been defined as deficiencies, experiences and needs of immigrants and children excesses, and even imbalances of macronutrients or located in the Western New York area. Selected for 209 • The Importance of micronutrients via a person’s intake of energy and presentation at SUNY Undergraduate Research Postmortem Biochemistry to nutrients (WHO, 2016). In the 19th and early 20th Conference, Sanborn, NY. ______Forensic Cases: A Biochemical century, malnutrition in children, and even older adults, was very common and seen as a serious threat 212 • Clean Water Saves Lives: How Elemental Analysis and its to overall health and wellbeing. However, the Introduction of Hemlock Lake Correlation to the Postmortem malnourishment was especially problematic in children due to its connection to proper growth and Water Improved Health in 19th- Interval development. Illnesses including marasmus, inanition, Century Rochester ALEXANDRA MASSEY worms, and anemia were severe diseases that DREW O'NEIL FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, ultimately led to death in children. The purpose of this FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, ANTHROPOLOGY study is to track and analyze the number of child ANTHROPOLOGY “Biochemistry is the study of the structure, deaths from nutritional illnesses, including the time Medical and scientific knowledge was scarce in the composition, and chemical reactions of substances in period when they were most prevalent, sex and age early 19th century, the beckoning of Rochester’s living systems” (ACS 2018). This field emerged as its incidence patterns, and how these illnesses have existence. Without the understanding of own discipline when scientists decided to combine changed and developed over time. The death records causations of diseases, illnesses, and sicknesses, biology with physical, inorganic, and organic chemistry examined for these nutritional diseases were treatment and prevention remained nonexistent, to begin to study how living things obtain energy from collected from Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester Orphan leaving suffering and death frequent and food, the chemical aspects of heredity, disease and Asylum, and the Monroe County Poorhouse. inevitable. During this period, illness proved to be the fundamental changes associated, and so on (ACS ______the most challenging hardship to overcome and 2018). During forensic pathological investigations, 211 • Language Barriers Impacting survive. The emergence of health maladies, paired case variations/postmortem interference can have a with a lack of sanitation, proper hygiene, and a significant effect on the body postmortem causing Children of Im/Migrant clean and reliable water source, increased the need for topographic analysis (Madea 2009). Case Farmworkers incidence and effect of illnesses and diseases. variations that show up in biological profiles during JOHANA ROCHA Water-borne diseases, especially cholera, struck autopsies can involve: “preexisting disorders, the FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER GUZMAN, Rochester during numerous epidemics. However, cause of death, complications, survival period”, etc. ANTHROPOLOGY without any knowledge of the disease, it was not (Madea 2009:S46). Furthermore, potential Expected to speak Spanish at home and English dealt with in a proper fashion and death rates postmortem interferences, such as status at time of outside of the home, children of im/migrant inflated. I looked at Mt. Hope Cemetery records death or cell leakage can result in the need for testing workers navigate a linguistic environment different from the University of Rochester’s River Campus of topographic distribution (Madea 2009). When you to that of their monolingual peers. Children and Libraries from 1837 to 1906 to observe trends in take all of these factors into consideration, the newly young people with immigrant parents often act as the incidence of waterborne diseases. I attribute emerging field of Postmortem Biochemistry may be the linguistic and cultural bridges between their the introduction of Hemlock Lake water to the City able to aid in forensic case investigations in many families and American society. As a result of my of Rochester in 1876 as the source of the decline in ways. This field and its potential contributions to personal experiences and my involvement with the waterborne causes of death. forensic investigation, specifically in determining the local, Western New York im/migrant farmworker ______postmortem interval, will be evaluated via an community and advocacy on the Greenlight NY: 213 • Disease and Stillbirth of 19th elemental analysis of bodily fluids, in particular Driving Together campaign, I decided to ask the vitreous humor, used in biochemical analysis. question; how do children of migrant farmworkers Century Rochester ______navigate language barriers between themselves QUINN COUGHLIN 210 • Nutritional Illness and and the adults in their lives? I sought to answer this FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, Disease in 19th and 20th Century question in regards to the young people’s ANTHROPOLOGY relationships with influential adults in their lives. The goal of this directed study was to explore Rochester By means of recorded interviews and short health and disease in Rochester during the OLIVIA MANCABELLI surveys, I looked deeper into the ways that first- nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Research was FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, generation youth navigate the language conducted on the records of the Mt Hope ANTHROPOLOGY differences between their parents and their Cemetery, where we transcribed death records teachers. With this project, I hope to highlight the from the 1800-1881 timeframe, recording names,  Promotes sustainability 31 Posters 1 • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual death dates, and specifically, the cause of death. to detect tumor cells. A lack of HLA expression allows with Bacillus subtilis. We characterized sequence The goal of my individual research was to tumor cells to escape immune detection. It has been variation of the divIVA gene in epulos through PCR, determine whether there was a correlation previously shown that 5-AzaC is able to upregulate sequencing, and subsequent nucleotide and protein between maternal health and disease, and HLA expression in the cell line MDA-MB-435. alignments. Our data has revealed the presence of stillbirth. Prior research has shown that there are However, the long-term stability of increased HLA different alleles, several of which encode for amino many correlational effects between maternal expression, following a transient absence of 5-AzaC, is acid changes. Sequence variations are more prevalent health and stillbirth, including maternal age, not known. Two flasks of MDA-MB-435 cells, one at the C terminus. We are continuing with further weight, and socioeconomic status. While the being continually treated twice a week with 5-AzaC at sampling of divIVA allele diversity. We also examined identity of the mothers of stillborn babies were 0.1 μg/mL, and the other, an untreated control flask the genetic variation within single cells of epulos since anonymous, my research goal was to determine if are being propagated for long periods of time. little is known about allele diversity within single cells. there were any months in particular that were high Periodically the cells are harvested and incubated with We hypothesized that we would observe variations in in stillbirths, and whether these months correlated control antibodies or the experimental antibodies, both the nucleotide and protein alignment for single to any particular disease that may impact a fetus’ Anti-HLA-ABC and analyzed via flow cytometry. We cells due to the extreme polyploidy of epulos. chances of living. Another research question was observed a sustained upregulation of HLA expression ______whether the residence of the stillbirths had any in MDA-MB-435 cells following a two-week absence of 161 • Characterization of the correlation with lower SES, and whether there was drug. Understanding the long-term stability of HLA Expression of Female Sexual a specific gender that was more susceptible to upregulation may prove to be beneficial and stillbirths. And finally, I will be looking at whether applicable to cancer immunotherapy, an expanding Development-1 (fsd-1) in the cholera infantum and summer complaint have an field of improved cancer treatments. Fungus Neurospora crassa effect on stillbirth and premature babies. ______KATHERINE COTTEN, MARGAUX HALES 151 • Membrane Potential and Ion FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HUTCHISON, BIOCHEMISTRY Channel Activity in Chara Cells BIOLOGY 110 • Investigating Drug-DNA Neurospora crassa is a filamentous fungus that can Using the Two Electrode Voltage- undergo either asexual or sexual reproduction. Interactions using Topoisomerase I Clamp Technique Little is known about the signaling mechanisms DNA Unwinding Assays SAMANTHA DORN, JENICA ACHETA that control reproduction in N. crassa, as CHRISTINA CHACKO, ANNIKA MOUNTS FACULTY SPONSOR: DUANE MCPHERSON, compared to what is known about sexual FACULTY SPONSOR: RUEL MCKNIGHT, BIOLOGY reproduction of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). BIOCHEMISTRY Cell membranes innately have a voltage potential A key regulator of the sexual cycle in yeast is the DNA is a common binding target for anticancer and as a result of varied charged species, called ions, transcription factor NDT80 of which N. crassa has a antibiotic compounds, which bind non-covalently via within the cytoplasm and extracellular matrix. The homolog called fsd-1. There are three different two primary modes: intercalation or minor groove transport of ions is maintained by voltage-gated variants of the fsd-1 gene which differ by the binding. Assessing the intercalative and/or minor ion channels, such as Ca2+ and K+ channels, from position of the transcriptional start codon and their groove binding properties of potentially therapeutic which directly coordinate the signal transduction 5’ untranslated regions. qRT-PCR data has shown compounds may uncover novel, less toxic drugs for of a cell through action potential. The voltage that the second transcript is most highly expressed. cancer treatment. Benzothiazoles are known to clamp technique involves impaling a membrane However, further experiments are needed to verify display anticancer, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, with two electrodes in order to complete an that the protein is expressed in N. crassa. Previous and antiviral activities. The McKnight lab seeks to electrical circuit that will allow an applied current western blot data for FSD-1 was inconclusive due examine the binding properties of synthetic to hold the membrane potential at a desired value. to the overall low abundance of the FSD-1 protein. benzothiazole/benzoquinone derivatives to DNA via The researchers of this study experimented on the We are currently in the process of constructing noncovalent interactions. Preliminary studies on internodal cells of Chara algae from which they copies of the fsd-1 gene with an overexpression several benzothiazole/benzoquinone series were manipulated their specific ion channel activities by promoter and a GFP tag at the N-terminal end, completed using an electrophoretic gel-based applying current through electrodes. The Nernst which will be targeted to the native location in the topoisomerase DNA unwinding assay. Our preliminary potentials of specific ion species can be genome. These strains will not only allow us to topoisomerase assay indicate that the compounds of determined by depolarizing and hyperpolarizing study the phenotype of overexpression strains, but this study do not adopt an intercalative mode of DNA the cell in steps of 20V increments. Varying the they will also be a valuable resource for protein binding. Given that fluorescent displacement assays concentration of the cell bath solution can provide expression. on these same compounds showed strong DNA further insight on the functionality of the channels ______binding, we presume that the compounds adopt a responsible. In future studies, the researchers 162 • Does Phototaxis and DNA groove-binding mode. Some of the compounds hope to adjust concentration values to observe the Chemotaxis in Astrephomene were able to displace Hoescht33258, a known minor- effect on induced action potential to further groove binder, from its DNA binding site, arguing for analyze the kinetics of ion transport of the cell. Involve the Same Mechanism for them adopting a minor groove mode. While all ______Steering? compounds in this study contain fused ring systems, 152 • Analysis of Sequence LEA CARINA RIVERA, STEPHAN HEDDON normally associated with DNA intercalation, added Variation in the divIVA Gene in the FACULTY SPONSOR: HAROLD HOOPS, BIOLOGY bulky substituents (such as -OMe) presumably The volvocalean alga, Astrephomene gubernaculifera, precludes intercalation. These initial results are Giant Bacterium Epulopiscium accumulates in response to both chemicals interesting and warrant further investigations. Species (chemotaxis) and light (phototaxis), but the ERIN CLOUGH, WILLIAM BLANDING, CAMERON mechanism is unclear for both cases. In the closely- BIOLOGY LINDSAY related Volvox, the kinetics of colonial rotation and 150 • The Effects of 5-Azacytidine FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HUTCHISON, flagellar activity together result in steering. Artificially BIOLOGY changing the kinetics of rotation abolishes phototaxis on the Long-term Stability of HLA Epulopiscium spp. (“epulos”) are the second largest (Drescher, et al., 2010, PNAS 107: 11171). We want to Class I Upregulation bacteria known to date, and are gut symbionts of confirm this relationship in Astrephomene phototaxis ADAM HANSEN tropical surgeonfish. Epulos are extreme polyploids, and determine if it holds true for chemotaxis as well. FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY harboring anywhere from hundreds to thousands of Varying concentrations of methylcellulose (MC), a The epigenetic modifiers such as 5-Azacytidine (5- chromosome copies per cell. It is thought that the thickening agent, in algal media may result in less AzaC), a DNA methylation inhibitor, and Vorinostat, a extreme number of genome copies contributes to directed movement towards a light stimulus as the histone deacetylase inhibitor, have been shown to their unique lifestyle dynamics and cell division colony’s rotational rate and thus its ability to scan the increase human leukocyte antigen (HLA) expression. mechanisms. The gene divIVA is a known key environment is hindered. We found that in 0% MC The expression of HLA is required for a T-cell response regulator of chromosome positioning and cell division there was a strong phototactic response, a weakened in bacteria, as shown in previous research response in 0.4% MC, and abolished in 0.6% and 0.8% 32  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 1 • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

MC. To test for chemotaxis, we plan on submerging biodiversity and relative abundance of corals column per day compared to 1-25% filtration the algae in media lacking acetate—the algae’s main focusing on increasing P. astreoides composition. capacities of zooplankton in nearby lakes. source of carbon. Viscosity will be increased using MC Transect data collection conducted by snorkelers Measures to protect the zooplankton from invasive and observed for algae accumulation patterns and photographic surveys of reef cover are used as planktivorous fish should be a priority for matching that of media without acetate, 0% MC. If metrics of reef health. The 2019 data are compared management of Silver Lake. changing viscosity abolishes one behavior without to data from previous studies of these reefs to ______abolishing the other, then this is evidence that the better understand long-term trajectories in coral 167 • Species Composition and mechanisms must differ between these two cover and coral community biodiversity. Colony Abundance of behavioral responses. ______165 • Factors affecting infection Cyanobacteria in Harmful Algal 163 • Competition Interactions of rates of Aspergillus Sydowii in G. Blooms of Silver Lake, NY Reef Corals with Chemically DAVID SHING SHUN LEUNG, DANA CEBULSKI ventalina and G. flabellum in San FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY Protected vs. Non-Chemically Salvador Island, Bahamas Cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green Protected Sponge Species in San ADRIANA DELELLA, ALEXA SPARACIO, ALEXANDRA algae, are a phylum of photosynthetic bacteria that Salvador, Bahamas TATUSCH, GLORIA BENOIT occur as small single cells or as conspicuous LEAH RUSSO, JAMIE WHELPLEY, JULIAN WISUN, FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY colonies of tens to thousands of cells. Due to their ALEXANDER CLAPSADL In recent decades, the spread of diseases affecting ability to produce harmful hepatotoxins and FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY corals in the Caribbean have threatened the health neurotoxin that pose a health hazard, threaten The decline of coral reefs worldwide has been a of coral reef ecosystems. Sea fans, related to stony water supplies and hinder recreation, concern since marine biologists began to notice corals, have declined due to damage caused by cyanobacteria are a concern in lakes worldwide. biodiversity losses in the early 1970’s. Besides the aspergillosis, a disease resulting from the Blooms of cyanobacteria, referred to as harmful general effects of climate warming, eutrophication pathogenic fungus, Aspergillus sydowii. For this algal blooms, or HABs, tend to occur in lakes with and other large-scale factors, corals are affected by study, we investigated factors affecting rates of high nutrient levels, such as Silver Lake, NY. During competition for space with other reef species, infection by A. sydowii in both common (Gorgonia the fall, 2018, samples were collected in Silver Lake particularly sponges. Sponges can produce toxins that ventalina) and venus (Gorgonia flabellum) sea fans and analyzed to determine the composition and deter predators, but also harm corals. Sponges that do living on patch reefs surrounding San Salvador abundance of cyanobacteria colonies. Between not produce these toxins can invest more energy into Island, Bahamas. The factors examined included September 6 and October 4, colony numbers fast growth but are vulnerable to predation by reef the size and age of the sea fan, as well as the increased from 77 to 509 per mL and all other fishes, while chemically protected sponges can deter location of the sea fan on the reef, specifically, metrics of bloom biomass increased accordingly. predators, but suffer a lower rate of tissue whether located on the windward or leeward side The dominant species were in the frequently toxic regeneration. Both types of sponges are abundant in of the reef, the edge or center of the sea fan genera Microcystis and Dolichospermum (formerly Caribbean coral reefs. The goal of this project was to assemblage, and closer or farther from shore. Data Anabaena). Our project explores the factors that assess the intensity of competition between sponges was collected by counting and photographing influence the growth of cyanobacteria, the species and corals on patch reefs of San Salvador Island, infected sea fans from different parts of several composition, and the concentration levels of Bahamas. The intensity of interactions and patch reefs and analyzing photographs for extent cyanobacteria colonies. ______overgrowth of corals by palatable and non-palatable of damage using the image processing program, sponge species was examined to determine if the ImageJ. Comparisons of data from different sites 168 • New Snake Fossils From the faster growing palatable species are the more served to assess the overall condition of the sea fan Fayum Region of Egypt Provide populations and provided insight into what factors successful competitors, especially in reefs where Evidence for an Extinction Event potential sponge predators have declined. The results impact the fungal infection rate. The results of this of the study provide insights into the competitive study can help in developing strategies to combat During the Oligocene balance of coral and sponge competition and indirect this infectious disease. SARA MCKIERNAN ______effects of overfishing on the biodiversity of corals in FACULTY SPONSOR: JACOB MCCARTNEY, BIOLOGY Caribbean reefs. 166 • Potential Role of Silver Lake During the middle Oligocene, there was an ______(NY) Zooplankton in Reducing the extinction event caused by global cooling that 164 • Coral - Algae Relationship in affected many vertebrate clades. Africa is a poorly Risk of Harmful Algal Blooms sampled region, and nothing is known about the Bahamian Coral Reefs KAYLA SCHUM effect on reptile faunas at this time. New snake EVAN BURR, CHRISTINA ANGELIU, ERIN KANE, FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY fossils from Egypt from before, during and after HAILIE SEARLES Silver Lake is a mesoeutrophic lake located in Perry, this extinction event allow us to gain new insight FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY NY, that is primarily surrounded by agricultural into changes in snake faunal composition due to Coral reefs are known for their great diversity of land. The lake has experienced harmful algal this extinction. Seventeen snake fossils were fishes and coral animals, their ecological blooms (HABs) dominated by toxic blue-green analyzed for morphological differences in their complexity and their vast ecosystem monetary algae for more than a decade. Herbivorous vertebrae, such as the overall size and shape of value. Unfortunately reefs worldwide are zooplankton are filter feeders and the primary each vertebral fossil. By observing these increasingly under threat as human-related forces consumers of microalgae and cyanobacteria in differences, the snake fossils were separated into such as climate warming, overfishing, and freshwater communities. The filtration rate of their respective families. After further analysis of eutrophication degrade the reef environment. This herbivorous zooplankton increases with their size. the similarities between structures, some trend is especially severe in the Caribbean Zooplankton have the potential to mitigate vertebrae could be further grouped into species. biogeographic region where phase shifts can be problems caused by overabundant phytoplankton. The fossils also were categorized by their region seen as corals die off and algae occupy much of the The extent of the blooms in Silver Lake is less along vertebral column into anterior, mid-, or reef space once dominated by colorful coral severe than would be expected from the amount posterior trunk vertebrae. Among the snake fossils, colonies. The relative percent substrate cover of of phosphorus in the lake. We assessed the species 8 boid and 2 tropidophiid species were found. coral and algae is indicative of reef health. Another composition, the size, and the potential filtration These two families represent survivorship in this indicator of reef health is the declining coral rate of the zooplankton community in Silver Lake region. However, this sample of the Oligocene community biodiversity, as opportunistic, stress- to evaluate its potential to reduce HABs. Samples fauna lacked families previously seen in the older tolerant corals like Mustard Hill (Porites were collected during fall of 2018. We found that Egyptian locality BQ-2. This lack of snakes from the astreoides), are becoming more dominant in the Silver lake supports a thriving herbivorous Colubroidea, Palaeophiidae and Gigantophis may Caribbean. In this study we surveyed reefs around zooplankton community dominated by large be indicative of an extinction event in this region. San Salvador Island, Bahamas, to determine the species of Daphnia. The zooplankton community ______balance of coral-algae cover and to quantify the has the capacity to filter 75% of the lake water

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169 • The Relationship between formation of secondary metabolites that function photographed and damage was quantified using to defend the plant against herbivory. When ESP is ImageJ. To compare herbivory by higher trophic Snake Vertebral Morphology and present, it acts as a coenzyme of myrosinase, levels in addition to herbivores, samples of Ecology Using Linear and Two- meaning it influences product formation. We are arthropods on 10 shrubs each of dogwood, Amur Dimensional Geometric interested in defining exactly how the ESP protein honeysuckle and autumn olive were collected does this. In order to determine the answer to our using a beat sheet method to dislodge them onto a Morphometrics question, we harvest ESP protein from canvas. Although no significant correlation was KEVIN CARRERA transformed E. coli bacteria for use in analytical found in damage per plant between the beginning FACULTY SPONSOR: JACOB MCCARTNEY, BIOLOGY assays. Interestingly, the transformed E. coli do not and end of the summer, there was significantly In order to constrict, snakes need to be able to presently produce ESP. We have identified a higher herbivory in the beginning. These results form strong, tight and twisting coils. Snakes differ possible cause of this problem and we are currently contribute to our understanding of herbivory done in size and shape depending on their habitat. This working to remedy it so that we may perform the by leaf-roll inducing caterpillars and highlight study was performed to determine if a relationship aforementioned assays. differences in how invasive vs. native species was present between a snake’s ability to constrict ______contribute to the local food web. Selected for and their habitat. I measured the cotylar width 172 • Display Behaviors in presentation at Northeast Natural History (CW) of different snakes controlling for individual Encounters Between Males of the Conference, Springfield, MA. differences in size by making three width ______measurements on the vertebrae and dividing the Ant-Mimicking Spider 174 • Relationship Between the CW by these measurements. I conducted tests of Myrmarachne formicaria Incidence of an Ant-mimicking normality and homogeneity of variance of the data JACQUELINE ZHOU in the statistical software program R. After this, I FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY Spider (Myrmarachne formicaria) tested for phylogenetic signal to determine how Myrmarachne formicaria are ant-mimicking and Ant Abundance and Diversity strongly the measured traits were influenced by jumping spiders recently introduced to North ALANNA RICHMAN the phylogenetic relationships between the America from Europe or Asia. These spiders exhibit FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY species. The results indicated that some measured behavior that mimics ants, tapping their front legs Myrmarachne formicaria is a non-native ant- traits were influenced by phylogeny. I performed during pauses when walking, imitating antennae. mimicking spider that was first recorded in New phylogenetic ANOVAs comparing cotylar width When males encounter one another, they halt this York in 2006. Little is known about its natural measurements to prey subjugation. Results from behavior and initiate what we dubbed dueling history in its native range in Europe and Asia or in these analyses reveal no correlation between displays, consisting of two males moving side-to- its newly colonized range in North America. Some morphology and prey subjugation. Additionally, a side head-on, raising their abdomens. Sometimes, spider species are Batesian mimics that resemble two-dimensional morphometric analysis was when more aggressive, they unfold their chelicerae ants in order to avoid being eaten, because many performed to determine the relationship between and raise their front legs. Duels usually end with potential predators will not prey on ants. The aim morphology and ecology. Based on these results, I one male winning while the other decamps. In of this study was to investigate the relationship conclude that there is no relationship between other jumping spiders which exhibit forms of male- between the incidence of this ant-mimicking spider ecology and a snake’s ability to constrict. male display, it has been observed that and ant abundance and diversity to determine if it ______confrontation winners gain access to females is associated with ants. Ant specimens were 170 • Clobetasol Propionate- residing within the territory. Our goal is to collected in plots set up to monitor the incidence Induced Quiescence in UMSCV-4 investigate dueling displays to ascertain (1) does of M. formicaria. Eight different plots were Vulvar Carcinoma Cells size has a significant role in determining who wins, sampled, some located in grassy habitats and some & (2) if there are behavioral indicators for winners. located in wooded habitats. Three different ALEXIS TRAMONDO, NOLBERTO JARAMILLO Spiders were collected in Livingston County, NY. methods were used to collect ant specimens: pitfall FACULTY SPONSOR: JANI LEWIS, BIOLOGY Close-up images were taken and body and traps, bait traps, and leaf litter sampling. Vulvar cancer is rare, mostly afflicting women aged chelicerae lengths measured using ImageJ. Spiders Abundance and diversity data were collected and 60 and older. The cancer is often preceded by a were then sorted into size classes and duels compared to the incidence of M. formicaria in the common vulvar rash, Lichen sclerosis, that is between pairs of spiders were observed and the same plots. Ant collection methods were also treated with the ultra-potent corticosteroid, apparent winners recorded. Ultimately, our compared. As M. formicaria is expanding its range, clobetasol. There is some concern that clobetasol research will aid in characterizing the mating information about its habitat preferences and can promote carcinogenesis in vulvar tissue. We behavior of these spiders, for which little natural interactions with other species is critical to our have found that treatment of the vulvar carcinoma history is known. Selected for presentation at ability to assess its potential ecological impacts. cell line, UMSCV-4, results in cellular quiescence. Northeast Natural History Conference, Selected for presentation at Northeast Natural Removal of clobetasol allows a subpopulation of Springfield, MA. History Conference, Springfield, MA. the UMSCV-4 cells to reenter the cell cycle. This ______subpopulation continues to grow even when clobetasol is replaced in the medium. This 173 • Herbivory and Arthropod 175 • Developmental Differences highlights the potential for vulvar cancer cells to Abundance on Native and Invasive Throughout Spermatogenesis evade cancer treatments in the presence of Understory Shrubs Among Different Ages of Stalk-Eyed clobetasol and may lead to selection for more SAMANTHA MUSCAT aggressive subpopulations. Using BrdU, Ki67, and Flies FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY MIRANDA CALARCO, ESHA PARIKH Trypan Blue analyses, we have characterized the This study focuses on the exploitation of native and dynamics of clobetasol induced quiescence of the FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, invasive shrubs by herbivores and other BIOLOGY UMSCV-4 cells. arthropods. Previous work on the gray dogwood ______Heterochromatin Protein 1 (HP1) is a family of (Cornus racemosa) in the Roemer Arboretum 171 • ESP Protein Characterization proteins that is commonly found in species with showed that this native shrub is subject to higher meiotic drive. Throughout the process of in Brassica rapa rates of herbivory than invasive species like the spermatogenesis, HP1’s function is crucial in the OLIVIA CARD, MADELINE ESS, CHRISTINA WAITE Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) and autumn condensation and reorganization of chromatin FACULTY SPONSOR: JANICE LOVETT, BIOLOGY olive (Elaeagnus umbellata). This study expands on during each meiotic division. The importance of The ESP protein affects the pathway by which these results by targeting specialist herbivores that studying spermatogenesis is the first step to secondary metabolites form in Brassica rapa. This feed on the dogwood shrub, in particular, leaf- identifying the stage at which HP1 expression could pathway is known as the myrosinase-glucosinolate rolling caterpillars. Leaf rolls on randomly selected be a strong candidate in preventing meiotic drive pathway. Myrosinase, an enzyme, cleaves a branches 30 gray dogwood shrubs were sampled within the testes. This project focused on the specific bond in gluconapin, a glucosinolate to quantify leaf area lost to caterpillar herbivory differences between each developmental stage in derived from methionine; this results in the and other forms of damage. Leaf-rolls were spermatogenesis across different age groups of 34  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 1 • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM stalk-eyed flies (Teleopsis dalmanni) to better and TbDmt enzymatic domain is methylating at 180 • The Effects of Epigenetic understand HP1 in situ hybridization. Here we have 5’CCWGG3’, the same site EcDcm methylates. This assessed the testes of male flies varying in age, suggests TbDmt is a DNA methyltransferase, but the Modifiers on PD-L1 and HLA Class I within the species GOM12 and Td2a, through sequence it methylates is unique. Selected for Expression on Tumor Cells dissection and microscopic techniques. We intend presentation at Experimental Biology, Orlando, FL. TRISHA MAINI, LAUREN STERNBERG to find that testes of younger male flies will not ______FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY have gone through all stages of spermatogenesis, 178 • Identification of RNA Expression of PD-L1 on various tumor cell lines while as the testes of older male flies will be fully Modification Enzymes in leads to the inhibition of T cell cytotoxicity. When mature, exhibiting all stages of spermatogenesis this takes place, the T cells are unable to combat ending with healthy, produced sperm. This may Trypanosoma brucei the tumor cells and cancer persists. In the same allude to younger male flies not expressing HP1 WILL SCHULTZ, XIANE SMITH regard, increased expression of human leukocyte orthologs in the same way older male flies will. FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY antigen (HLA) allows tumor cells to be more easily ______RNA methylation is a type of posttranscriptional detected by these T cells. In previous research, 176 • Immune Response and Sexual modification that contributes to gene expression epigenetic modifiers including the DNA Ornamentation Trade-offs in control. The organism Trypanosoma brucei does methylation inhibitor 5-Azacytidine (5-AzaC) and not seem to have abundant promoter regions or the histone deacetylase inhibitor vorinostat, were Teleposis dalmanni transcriptional regulation machinery. Thus, RNA shown to increase HLA expression. However, NICHOLAS SIDOU methylation may play an important role in epigenetic modifiers have also been shown by FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, regulating gene expression. We have identified others to upregulate PD-L1 expression. We hope to BIOLOGY seven putative cytosine RNA methyltransferase elucidate whether or not PD-L1 expression is Teleopsis dalmanni, otherwise known as the stalk- genes in T. brucei. Two of the putative CRMTs, upregulated along with HLA expression upon eyed flies, are an insect known for the males having CRMT4 and CRMT5, are required for maximum exposure to these epigenetic modifiers. If this were longer eye stalks used as sexual ornamentation to parasite growth. Although we suspect these genes to occur, then the effects of both PD-L1 and HLA attract females. The long stalks are an example of to be RNA methyltransferases, we do not have would essentially negate each other. Two cell lines an evolutionary trade-off. The resources required evidence for RNA methyltransferase activity. that are known to express PD-L1 are MCF-7 and to produce these long stalks are costly and take CRMT4 was produced in E. coli but was difficult to MDA-MB-231. Our initial results confirm that PD- away from other traits such as a greater immune purify. SDS-PAGE results for an N-terminal His- L1 is expressed on the MDA-MB-231 cell lines, as defense. Our goal is to determine whether altering tagged protein indicate CRMT4 insolubility. CRMT5 demonstrated by flow cytometry. Future the presence of functioning immunology genes will was produced in E. coli with an N-terminal His-tag experiments are planned to optimize the doses of result in longer eye stalks due to freed up energy and was easily purified. Purified CRMT5 was used 5-AzaC and vorinostat to maximize HLA expression resources according to the trade-off hypothesis or in a series of methyltransferase assays using while not increasing or inducing the expression of if those with higher genetic quality will be resilient luciferase activity as a readout. CRMT5 addition PD-L1. Selected for presentation at Experimental to change according to the handicap hypothesis. results in luciferase activity in the presence of Biology, Orlando, FL. We choose 2 such genes for further analysis. We cytosine-containing RNA. There was little luciferase will use CRISPR/Cas-9 to create a null mutation in activity observed using a mock purification or in CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE the immunity genes. We will be using the Black the presence of cytosine-free RNA. Evidence for gene as a control for our experiment. This gene is the presence of 5-methylcytosine and RNA LEARNING selected because it would cause a noticeable methyltransferases indicates the presence of a 206 • Community Medicine: From phenotypic change to the mutant. It will also serve process to create an epitranscriptome in T. brucei. as proof that that concept of CRISPR/Cas-9 works Selected for presentation at Experimental Rainforest to Coast; Frank Vafier '74 in stalk-eyed flies. Biology, Orlando, FL. Ambassador in Leadership ______Scholarship 177 • Bacterial Expression of 179 • Epigenetic Modifiers and ERIC MACALUSO Chimeric Escherichia coli and Their Effect on HLA and PD-L1 FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, CENTER FOR Trypanosoma brucei DNA Expression in MCF-7 and MDA-MB- INTEGRATIVE LEARNING Through the ambassadorship program and the Methyltransferases 231 Cancer Cell Lines funds provided by the Frank Vafier '74 Ambassador CASSANDRA TABER ALEC TOUFEXIS, NIKHIL REDDY in Leadership Scholarship I was able to take part in FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY a global health program organized by Child Family Little is known about epigenetic information such as Vorinostat is a histone deacetylase inhibitor with Health International - an NGO with a focus on DNA methylation in microorganisms. One epigenetic effects. In previous research, it has been global health. With the scholarship I was able to go methyltransferase being studied at this time is a shown that this drug can result in an increase in to Ecuador for a month over than 2018-2019 putative DNA methyltransferase (TbDmt) gene expression. The goal of our experiments was winter intersession. While in Ecuador I was able to from Trypanosoma brucei. TbDmt strongly resembles to see if Vorinostat could upregulate HLA travel around the country volunteering and bacterial DNA methyltransferases like DNA cytosine expression without upregulating PD-L1 expression. shadowing in different local health clinics and methyltransferase (EcDcm) from E. coli. To test our While an increase in HLA expression would be hospitals as well as living with a tribe in the Amazon hypothesis that TbDmt is a DNA methyltransferase, beneficial for immune cells to kill cancer cells, an where I learned about medicinal plants and how we expressed TbDmt in bacteria and created chimeric increase in PD-L1 expression would be detrimental different tribes approach health issues. The poster protein sequences switching the DNA binding domain because it prevents the activation of T cells, will focus on my personal experience and growth and enzymatic domain of EcDcm and TbDmt. thereby allowing cancer cells to evade the immune while in Ecuador and how it has affected my future Exchanging the domains of TbDmt with a known response. To demonstrate the effects of Vorinostat aspiration to become a physician. This project methyltransferase may help us discover the function on cancer cells, we conducted flow cytometry funded by the Frank Vafier ’74 Ambassador in of the enzyme and its target sequence. Plasmids were experiments on the MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 Leadership. made containing sequences for EcDcm, TbDmt, and cancer cell lines, two breast cancer cell lines. The both chimeric proteins and they were introduced initial results indicated that HLA expression for CHEMISTRY into E. coli. The plasmids were re-isolated and were both cancer cell lines unexpectedly decreased then digested with various restriction enzymes while the PD-L1 expression remained unchanged. 101 • Solar Vapor Generation using blocked by methylation. All four proteins were Experiments are planned to modify the Gold Shell Silica Core Nanoparticles produced at 20°C. EcDcm methylated at its expected concentration of the drug used and to test other CODY ESPOSITO site, 5’CCWGG3’, but TbDmt showed no signs of epigenetic modifiers of gene expression. FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY PETERSON, methylation at any of the sites tested. It appears that ______CHEMISTRY the chimeric protein with the EcDcm DNA binding site

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Due to their plasmon resonance, metal nanoparticles 113 • Alfalfa Hay as Non-human ______are strong absorbers of a broad spectrum of light. 115 • Activation of Diffusion Feedstock for Second Generation When these particles are in solution the energy from Monitoring System To Transfer absorbed light generates vapor without having to heat Biofuels: Hope or Hoax?  the entire liquid volume. As a result, metal SOFIA KOSTRINSKY, ARIANNA SORIANO Proteins from Calcium Phosphate nanoparticles have great solar energy applications. FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, Cements to Fractured Bone Site While absorbing sunlight gives more efficient vapor CHEMISTRY PEMA SHERPA, SIMRAN SINGH generation, this experiment instead focuses on Fossil fuels negatively impact the environment due FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, photothermal vapor generation, with a laser being to greenhouse gas emissions. Many are searching CHEMISTRY used as a light source. Surprisingly, photothermal for ways to counterbalance the damage done to Bone defects caused by trauma, tumors, and vapor generation did occur and a 3 kPa pressure the Earth after years of greenhouse gas emissions. inherent genetic disorders require the use of increase was recorded. A synthesis of gold shell silica Alternatives to fossil fuels include biofuels, an grafting materials to facilitate bone regeneration at core nanoparticles is also presented. underappreciated and overlooked source of cheap the affected site. However, the lack of bone supply ______energy. Great efforts have been geared towards and donor site morbidity associated with 111 • Investigating the Effect of production of 1st generation biofuels which are autografting pose significant challenges. A Precursor Chain Lengths on CdSe fuels sourced from human food sources such as promising alternative approach to autograft is the corn. The issue with 1st generation biofuels is that use of bone cement prepared with calcium Nanoplatelets it has been linked to increasing price of food which phosphate cement (CPC). An effective synthetic EMILY VERHAEG, EMILY BAYHAN greatly and negatively impacts many developing bone cement establishes an equilibrium between FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY PETERSON, countries. This research focuses on the production porosity, mechanical strength, and the rate of CHEMISTRY of second generation biofuels, which rely on non- diffusion. The overall objective of this project is to RABEKA ALAM, CHEMISTRY human food sources, specifically alfalfa hay. design a diffusion monitoring system that can track The thickness of CdSe nanoplatelets is difficult to Second generation biomass such as alfalfa hay, are the diffusion of proteins and other biological alter due to the lack of understanding of how they ideal as a biofuel feedstock, because they are materials from CPCs to the site of fracture to aid in are formed. Cadmium precursor chain lengths have cheap if not free, they have the power to curb the bone repair process. The diffusion of copper not been investigated thoroughly, and hold the greenhouse gas emissions while not taking away an sulfate from copper sulfate loaded CPCs is potential for controlling nanoplatelet thicknesses. important human food source or causing monitored using absorption spectroscopy over This is investigated by using cadmium oleate, competition for new land. For this project, an ionic varying time intervals to assess the potential of the myristate, and decanoate as precursors and liquid (1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride) was CPCs to deliver proteins to the fracture sites. The cadmium acetate, propionate, and butyrate as used for the pretreatment of the hay to yield results are presented and discussed hereafter. postcursors. Each synthesis uses the same glucose. Glucose quantification methods applied ______procedure, and the same molar amounts of each include refractometry, and DNS analyses. The 116 • Critical Bone Fracture Repair: reagent. The relative abundance of the various results are presented and discussed within. thicknesses resulting from each synthesis was ______Characterization of the Mechanical estimated using absorbance spectroscopy. It was 114 • Green Synthesis Properties in Calcium Phosphate determined that the combination of cadmium myristate with cadmium butyrate typically results ofSsemicarbazones: A Comparison Bioactive Cement in 96% six monolayer nanoplatelets and only 4% of Two Green Solvents MARK SOTO, JUSTIN GABRIEL five monolayer nanoplatelets. This synthesis has DANIEL BRUSH, CASSIDY MCGINN FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, been repeatable and shows that manipulating the FACULTY SPONSOR: ERIC HELMS, CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY carbon chain lengths on the cadmium reagents can Semicarbazones are small organic molecules that are Understanding the mechanical properties of bone control the thickness of nanoplatelets. frequently used in pharmaceuticals due to their anti- is critical to the design of materials that are to be ______convulsant and anti-tumor biological activity. Previous used in repair of bone fractures. In turn, the 112 • Investigating the Promise of synthesis of these molecules involved lengthy, high mechanical properties of the materials determine Rice Husks as Non-human temperature reactions that used toxic and harmful the behavior of the body under a load or force. This reagents. The focus of this research was to study compares the mechanical properties of Feedstock for Lignocellulosic demonstrate the use of a green chemical synthesis in Calcium Phosphate Cement (CPC) to pig bone with Biofuels: Part II  creating these molecules, ultimately optimizing a the aim of determining its suitability and ARIANNA SORIANO, SOFIA KOSTRINSKY reaction process for mass-scale production. Green applicability for use on load bearing bone fracture FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, chemistry involves chemical research that is carried sites. CPC has been reported to be a bioactive and CHEMISTRY out with safe, environmentally friendly reagents in biodegradable material with potential resorbability The progressive demand for energy in the world and low-energy conditions. Using novel green solvents, an and molding capabilities. CPC is composed of the increasing rise in pollution levels from the use of array of semicarbazones were synthesized in an hydroxyapatite (HA), a major component of human fossil fuels has led to a rapid demand for alternative efficient and eco-friendly matter, satisfying green bone, and a base constituent of the continuing sources of fuel. A number of alternatives being utilized chemistry requirements. The reaction was optimized efforts are geared toward addressing challenges of require the use of food crops, which in turn has led to using two solvents – ethyl lactate and dimethyl adequate mechanical strength of the cement to an increase in world food prices, especially in poor isosorbide – both of which qualify as green and are ensure compatibility to human bone. The cement countries. In 2008, the world produced well over 130 found in cosmetic products. In these two sustainable was synthesized and characterized using published million tons of rice husks; with almost all of it going to solvents, we have demonstrated that the reaction can methods and the data obtained is presented and waste. With 1 in 8 people suffering from chronic produce quantitative yields of product at room discussed herewith. Selected for presentation at undernourishment in 2010-2012, and so much temperature in minutes. These reactions can now be American Chemical Society's 63rd Annual biomass available that can be converted into biofuel, investigated for industrial scale-up, while other small- Undergraduate Research Symposium, Brockport, the pursuit of the efficient, non- polluting, and scale syntheses in these solvents are being developed. NY. ______recyclable pretreatment system. In this study, ionic The results of this study have promising implications liquids (1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride) was for the development of other green routes to 117 • Optimizing Nitrogen used for the pretreatment of the rice husks to yield molecules of industrial importance under efficient, Concentrations to Maximize Lipid environmentally friendly conditions. glucose. Glucose quantification methods applied Yields for Biodiesel Production  include refractometry, and DNS analyses. and The COLLEEN STEWARD, FELICIA PASCALE, WADY results are presented and discussed. 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Third generation biofuels, which utilize algae as a lactate racemase active site in order to study their have great potential to stop the production of renewable feedstock, have the potential to reactivity and improve our understanding of the reactive oxygen species in the body and treat a revolutionize the energy industry. In addition to mechanism of lactate racemization. We have variety of inflammatory conditions. Selected for reducing greenhouse gases by sequestering CO2, synthesized key precursors to a series of related presentation at American Chemical Society growing under an assortment of conditions, and enzyme models and characterized the products by Collegiate Research Symposium, Rochester, NY. functioning as a mechanism of bioremediation, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. microalgae provide an alternative, cleaner energy We anticipate this project will shed light on the role ______source with the capacity to minimize our current of the unique organometallic cofactor of lactate 122 • Anion Exchange Reactions dependence on fossil fuels. However, widespread racemase and may inform the design of biomimetic and Phase Transfer of Cesium Lead marketability of biofuel derived from microalgae is catalysts for related reactions, particularly currently hindered by the expense of production reactions relevant to hydrogen storage and Halide Nanocubes and inconsistency of lipid yields. Our research renewable fuels. Selected for presentation at LUKE HOLTZMAN, LAURA BARRECA, VICTORIA examined growth conditions intended to maximize SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, RIVERA lipid content within Chlorella algae cells. Nitrogen Sanborn, NY and American Chemical Society FACULTY SPONSOR: RABEKA ALAM, CHEMISTRY depletion in media has been shown to contribute Collegiate Research Symposium, Rochester, NY. Metal halide perovskites are new materials of to lipid optimization within the cell during late log ______interest in the field of nanoscience due to the phase. Bold’s basal medium was supplemented to 120 • Creosol and Other Aromatic increased efficiency of solar cells containing them. three established Chlorella cultures with varying Inhibitors on the Effects of Our work surrounds the synthesis of cesium lead sodium nitrate concentrations: 0 mg/mL, 0.25 bromide (CsPbBr3) and subsequent halide mg/mL, and 1.0 mg/mL. Algal growth in these Myeloperoxidase exchanges to cesium lead chloride and iodide. By samples was monitored for 45 days. After ERIC CHROSTOWSKI varying ratios of chloride and iodide ions in harvesting the cells, non-polar lipids were FACULTY SPONSORS: DAVID JOHNSON, CHEMISTRY solution, homogeneous nanocrystals were created extracted using a 2:1 chloroform-methanol ratio ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY that were mixtures of the original parent and lipid yields were calculated. IR spectroscopy Myeloperoxidase (MPO) is an anti-microbial compounds and the emission spectra showed was used to verify the isolation of lipids. The ratio enzyme found in immune cells such as neutrophils, maxima across the entire spectral region. The of lipid mass per gram of algae was compared but there is evidence that MPO-derived oxidants photoluminescence of all CsPbX3 nanocrystals was between samples grown in varying concentration can lead to tissue damage and inflammatory characterized by absorbance and fluorescence of nitrogen. Selected for presentation at SUNY disease. Finding ways to help inhibit some of these spectroscopy, and crystal structure and size were Undergraduate Research Conference, Sanborn, negative effects of the enzyme have been a topic determined by x-ray powder diffraction and NY. of research. Through the use of the Cayman transmission electron microscopy. However, these ______Chemical Myeloperoxidase Inhibitor Screening particles are unable to be stable as a colloidal 118 • Bimetallic Catalysis for Energy Assay Kit and drugs synthesized by students in the solution in water. As a solution to this problem, chemistry department, I have been able to histidine-mediated phase transfer studies were Sustainability measure the activity of MPO in the presence of explored. Further applications will these materials AMANDA DANIELS, KALEIGH ROSS, JAYESH PATIL various drugs through a fluorescence assay. require aqueous solutions and the ability to easily FACULTY SPONSOR: BRANDON TATE, CHEMISTRY Furthermore, I was able to statistically measure the tune the optical properties of the nanocrystals The ability to store renewable energy in chemical IC50, concentration of drug that cuts enzyme make these perovskites very appealing quantum fuels is crucial for the development of a sustainable activity in half, of each of the drugs to determine dot semiconductors for solar cell use. global energy cycle. Hydrogen gas, produced by the which are better at inhibiting MPO. Out of the 5 electrolysis of water, is a clean renewable fuel, but drugs tested so far only 2 have had positive COMMUNICATION has a very low energy density compared to inhibitor results and they are Creosol and 4- conventional fuels. Our project aims to develop aminoguiacol. I determined that Creasol has an 100 • The Fear of Missing Out: catalysts for the conversion of hydrogen gas to IC50 of 4.53e-7 M, and 4-aminoguiacol has an IC50 Implications for Personal carbon-based liquid fuels with high energy density. of 9.47e-7 M. Furthermore if there is more time Our approach involves bimetallic catalysts, Relationships and Student Success and experimentation on different drugs, these EMILY LAROCCA, RACHEL RENDERS, STEPHANIE supported by bifunctional ligands, which have the drugs can be seen as a precursor to a way of potential to break the symmetry of the hydrogen RONEY, IRIS BENZ, CHRISTOPHER HAUCK inhibiting current inflammatory diseases. FACULTY SPONSOR: MEREDITH HARRIGAN, molecule. Oxidative addition of hydrogen across a ______COMMUNICATION metal-metal bond is expected to produce a metal 121 • Investigating Apocynin hydride complex featuring both a hydridic metal This paper involves a qualitative investigation of hydride and an acidic metal hydride hydride. We Derivatives for the Inhibition of the fear of missing out, colloquially known as anticipate metal dihydrides of this nature will be Myeloperoxidase FoMO. Using relational dialectics theory as a lens (Baxter, 2011), we analyzed 35 interview poised for the hydrogenation of a carbon source ARIANNA OSGOOD, MICA PITCHER transcripts comprised of emerging adults talk such as carbon dioxide. Here we report the FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID JOHNSON, CHEMISTRY about their experiences with FoMO. Findings synthesis and NMR characterization of key Myeloperoxidase (MPO) is an enzyme involved in indicate two relational-level contradictions: bifunctional ligand scaffolds and our plans for the the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) connection and disconnection and inclusion and preparation of metal complexes with the potential inside the body that are known to lead to many exclusion. These tensions can be understood by to act as catalysts for the conversion of hydrogen inflammatory diseases such as asthma, diabetic examining a cultural level contradiction between gas to liquid fuels. retinopathy, and atherosclerosis. Apocynin, an the discourses of carpe diem and investment in the ______anti-inflammatory derived from natural plant future. Implications of these findings related to 119 • Biomimicry: Synthetic Models sources, has been found to inhibit this process and physical health, emotion well being, and academic treat these diseases, and it's dimer has been even of an Organometallic Nickel Enzyme success are discussed. SATNAM SINGH, JOHANNA PARSNICK more effective in inhibiting MPO. As a result of this, ______FACULTY SPONSOR: BRANDON TATE, CHEMISTRY we are searching for the mechanism by which 107 • Shhh… We Swiped Right: Lactate racemase is an enzyme whose active site myeloperoxidase is inhibited and looking for features the only known example of a biological derivatives of apocynin that could have the same Communicating About Long Term pincer complex. The enzyme catalyzes the effect in order to halt ROS production. 4- Romantic Relationships That aminoguaiacol and 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol interconversion of the two optical isomers of lactic Started on Dating Apps acid. The cofactor of lactate racemase is an have been found to effectively inhibit MPO, and KATHLEEN ROCK organometallic complex containing a nickel ion the synthesis of their dimers has been attempted. FACULTY SPONSOR: MEREDITH HARRIGAN, coordinated by a pincer ligand and a histidine If more compounds are synthesized and inhibit COMMUNICATION residue. We are developing synthetic models of the myeloperoxidase, there are more compounds that

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This study seeks to understand the experiences of same time period. This research offers insight into 215 • Analysis of Refugee individuals who used dating apps to create long- the parks dynamic landscape that could potentially term romantic relationships. This research will help rangers better manage the unpredictable Resettlement Patterns across the focus on couples who have been exclusively grounds. Selected for presentation at Geographic U.S.  involved in a romantic relationship for at least Information Sharing/Special Interest Group, MAX MORITZ three months. Interview questions address the Rochester, NY. FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, following topics: the way they choose to disclose ______GEOGRAPHY information about how they met to their friends 202 • Structural Racism and Urban In 2018 there were 22.5 million refugees displaced and family, the impact that meeting online has on Public Transportation, Seattle WA around the world. Of the 22.5 million refugees, the their relationship, how they believe others see BRADLEY BERRY United States accepted roughly just over 21,000 in them, among other topics. Following the FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, 2018. The goal of this project is to analyze refugee completion of interviews, I will engage in a GEOGRAPHY resettlement patterns for the most recent year qualitative thematic analysis to locate themes in The existence of public transportation is resettlement data is available (2015) in order to the data. Selected for presentation at Eastern instrumental in developing and maintaining determine where and why refugees are resettled Communication Association, Providence, RI. in the United States. The many organizations that healthy communities in urban areas of all sizes; however, it both reflects and facilitates structural handle refugee resettlement in the United States GEOGRAPHY racism. For example, the safety of bus stops has consider family members, local economies, and 200 • Patterns of and Motivations for less consideration in minority neighborhoods than provisional services when deciding where to resettle. Independent variables such as Student Participation in Planning a it does in white majority neighborhoods; noisy transportation hubs are also typically placed in unemployment rate, poverty indicators, political College Town: Geneseo, NY lower-income minority neighborhoods. affiliation, and other socio-economic factors for JULIA MINTZ Differences in location of transit, demographics, each state will be tested for correlation with FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, policies, and public transit use can determine the refugee resettlement totals by state. The same test GEOGRAPHY successes or failures of public transportation will be run to measure correlation between the Public participation is integral to the urban systems, as well as the effects on the communities selected independent variables and refugee planning process. Planning and community that they serve. Some cities have more successful resettlement per-capita by state. Data on refugee development may be the work of professional public transportation systems; however, poor resettlement was collected from the Office of planners and consultants, but its purpose is to planning for public transit can worsen the effects Refugee Resettlement website, and data for the better the quality of life of a community. Thus, of structural racism. For example, Seattle has independent variables was collected from the U.S. public engagement should come in the form of recently created a successful bus system that is Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, public meetings, advisory groups, and even unique in that it encourages use by all people; they and CNN. Selected for presentation at American citizens’ research into current events and trends in are also optimizing routes and expanding street Association of Geographers, Washington, DC. ______their community. The functions and dynamics of cars and light rail. It has seen an increase in usage, public input have been heavily researched in while most other cities are seeing a decline. By 216 • Assessing the Relative academia; however, as communities are unique examining Seattle’s public transit system and its Influence of Past Native American and complex, an important question arises: what implementation, planners and policymakers can Activity on Oak Distribution in specific factors within a community influence the apply their strategies in other cities across the nature of its citizens’ participation in the planning United States to encourage usage of public Canawaugus, NY process? This research answers this question transportation and reduce the effects of structural LINA CLIFFORD among the student population of the State racism. FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, University of New York at Geneseo. Digital ______GEOGRAPHY surveying was used to gather data on students’ 214 • The Section 8 Housing Choice Past Native American groups impacted the landscape knowledge of the planning field, their participatory through land use practices such as agriculture, and experience, and the factors that influence these Voucher Program: Desegregation controlled burnings to clear land for hunting and practices. Supplemental data was collected and Revitalization in Baltimore, MD travel. Studying past Native American impacts through interviewing local planning professionals.  provides insight into traditional food systems, past Students are an important part of any college town JEN MELFI human-environmental interactions, and historical and should be involved in planning its future. This FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, perspectives on pre-European landscapes. This research provides valuable insight into the GEOGRAPHY research assesses the relative influence of motivations for and influences on student When the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program environment and Native American land use on forest engagement in planning, and provides a basis for was launched by the U.S. Department of Housing and composition at a hyper-local resolution using more strategizing how to improve student participation, Urban Development in 1974, the face of affordable detailed representations of land use. This study area is and ultimately town-gown relations. Selected for housing was forever changed. By allowing a recipient Canawaugus, New York State, 93 km east of modern- presentation at American Association of to select appropriate housing for their family in a day Buffalo, once home 1,000 Seneca Iroquois as late Geographers, Washington DC. neighborhood of their choosing, Section 8 helps to as 1826. Interpolations of tree species abundance ______disassociate the negative connotations of public and were made using witness-trees records from ca. 1806. 201 • Environmental Change in affordable housing. In Baltimore, Maryland, a city that Past Native American land use was mapped using Chimney Bluffs State Park today is plagued by racial prejudices and segregation, archaeological and historical traveler accounts. Soil it is important that policymakers and citizens work moisture and temperature GIS data were additionally MICKAYLA BUISCH toward a more integrated city. The Section 8 Housing collected. Quantitative models were developed in R to FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, Choice Voucher Program can help effectively assess whether Native American land use or GEOGRAPHY desegregate Baltimore and rid the city of outdated environmental attributes, were more correlated with Chimney Bluffs State Park, on the southern shore discrimination. Although it will require increased nut-produced tree species. The results showed high of Lake Ontario in NY, is constantly undergoing government funding, the reopening of the Section 8 abundances of nut-producing tree species near environmental changes that contribute to its Housing Choice Voucher Program waiting list in Canawaugus Native American activity, within signature landscape. Using ArcGIS software and Baltimore, a city with highly concentrated poverty and approximately 7 km. High abundances were due to historic maps to research the area, the park’s land deep racial divides, will empower low income both Native American land use and environmental cover and shoreline were mapped and analyzed residents and promote a diversified city ready for factors. from 1943 to 2015. Results showed that the park’s revitalization. ______shoreline eroded 2 feet per year, about twice the ______average for the entire lake. Forest cover increased 217 • Lake Ontario Flooding in the from less than 25% to almost full coverage over the Greater Rochester Area 

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SCOTT WILLIAMS reviews for 18 parks were gathered from Yelp, monitored after precipitation and meltwater FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, TripAdvisor, and Google Reviews, and analyzed for events throughout the Spring. The total distance GEOGRAPHY themes such as traffic/parking, crowds, cost, and traveled by each rock is being recorded to In the spring and summer of 2017, widespread feeling underwhelmed. Data were collected and determine if one stream moves sediment farther. flooding occurred along the New York State Lake mapped using ArcGIS software. Results show that The results of this study will ascertain if the Ontario shoreline. Lake levels rose nearly one the aforementioned four themes showed the most developed Spring Creek watershed contributes meter above normal levels, damaging key spatial variation between western and eastern more sediment to Conesus Lake than Wilkins infrastructure and causing major damage to parks. Western parks experienced higher Creek. Ideally, this study will help inform future shoreline homes. The following year showed complaints regarding crowds and traffic/parking, Conesus Lake storm water management efforts. higher than average water levels in the lake, but where complaints about eastern parks were ______little flooding. This project examines the effect of generally left by park-goers who felt 205 • Conesus Lake Water Quality Lake Ontario's rising waters on the suburbs of underwhelmed by the physical landscape. This GAVIN GLEASMAN Rochester, New York. In order to assess the cause unique distribution of reviews is indicative of FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL of the 2017 flooding and the lack of 2018 flooding, preconceived notions that people have about US SCIENCES a comparison of the projected water levels of Plan National Parks, and the disappointment when their Conesus Lake is one of the eleven Finger Lakes and is a 1958DD and Plan 2014 was conducted, and experience does not live up to these expectations. tourism haven for residents of the city of Rochester. The International Joint Commission reports written This research provides unique insight into lake serves as a water supply to approximately 15,000 pre- and-post flooding were analyzed. Through dissatisfaction of US National Parks, and could help residents. Within the past decade, the water quality of thematic mapping and 3D visualization using park administrators better manage parks in Conesus Lake has significantly deteriorated. The ArcGIS Pro, this project explores consequences of response to trends in negative reviews. Selected decrease in water quality is induced by a myriad of the flooding, community disaster resilience in the for presentation at Geographic Information problems, including the combination of natural Greater Rochester Area, and examines outlooks for Sharing/Special Interest Group, Rochester, NY. conditions and human activities. Anthropogenic effects the future. Selected for presentation at American on water quality are a result of pollutant runoff due to Association of Geographers, Washington, DC. GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES impermeable surfaces along the shoreline, nutrient ______loading of sediment from poor streambank, residential, 218 • Predicting the Age of Quercus 203 • Searching for Micro-Plastics and agriculture practices, and increase of water rubra and Quercus alba Trees Using in the Genesee River  temperature due to climate change. As a result, water THOMAS HAWLEY, ALEC MINAVIO, KEVIN quality is likely to vary between the lake inlet and outlet. Diameter and Environmental THOMPSON Water quality is tested in the field using field Variables FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL instruments for dissolved oxygen, pH, total dissolved CHRISTINA MORROW SCIENCES solids, oxidation-reduction potential, phosphorus, FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, Microplastics are an environmental hazard that nitrate, and temperature. Water samples are tested for GEOGRAPHY inflicts damage to the local ecosystem through the hydrocarbons using gas chromatography-mass Determining tree age is important in various research. food chain. Microplastics can be found in many spectrometry following EPA guidelines. Testing of these While tree cores can accurately determine tree age, household cleaning products and fleece clothing. analytes in shoreline and streambank environments will they are not always obtainable. As such, research has When cleaning products are disposed of or fleece help quantify the human impact on the shoreline water studied whether external predictors of tree age exist, clothing is washed, microplastics are delivered into quality of Conesus Lake. Selected for presentation at including tree diameter or environmental conditions the sewer system. Unfortunately, wastewater The Geological Society of America, Indianapolis, IN. that would provide a non-invasive means of treatment facilities lack the ability to filter out ______determining age. The purpose of this study was to these small particles. Therefore, the wastewater 220 • Gold in Salt Spring Hills create a regression model that predicts tree age based acts as a major point source of environmental BRADY DERICK, SEAMUS KEARNEY on external variables for red oak (Quercus rubra) and damage. The presence of microplastics is well FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL white oak (Quercus alba). Cores were obtained and documented in the Great Lakes. This project seeks SCIENCES counted from 62 trees in western New York State. to determine the presence of microplastics in the Sediments were collected from the tailing piles of Included in models as predictors were diameter at Genesee River, which contributes to Lake Ontario. abandoned gold mines in the area of Salt Spring breast height (DBH), and environmental (e.g. soil, If microplastics are found, the results with be Hills, California in order to quantify the amount of topographic) variables. Regression models were shared with the Department of Environmental gold remaining. The presence of gold was developed to predict tree age based on these Conservation and the Monroe County Department evaluated to determine whether the area is still an diameter and environmental variables. Notable of Health. economically viable location to continue mining results include that Quercus rubra age is more ______operations. A total of fifteen pounds of sediment correlated with diameter alone (R2 = 0.486, p <0.001) 204 • Bedload Analysis of Wilkens was collected from four different tailings piles in than Quercus alba (R2 = 0.785, p = 0.175). DBH was the Creek  the area. The sediments were processed by two most significant independent variable in models that methods: separating heavy materials from light JAKE SPINELLA included additional environmental variables. Other materials, and thin section analysis. Two silt-sized FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL soil variables showed little to no significance in flakes of gold were recovered through these SCIENCES additional models. Tree age remains difficult to predict efforts, indicating that the area is not economically Wilkins Creek is a significant source of sediment to using external variables but certain species (e.g. viable for placer-type gold. Further analysis is Conesus Lake. Spring Creek is the largest tributary Quercus rubra) may show stronger relationships with necessary to determine if there is sufficient to Wilkins Creek and flows through the village of DBH than others. Selected for presentation at microscopic gold present to be profitable. Livonia, whereas above the confluence Wilkins American Association of Geographers, Washington, ______drains predominantly agricultural lands. This study DC. 221 • Water Chemistry of Wilkins ______seeks to evaluate the impact of land use on the sediment transport in the streams. Thirty gravel to Creek and Spring Creek 219 • The Spatial Distribution of cobble sized rocks were collected from the bed of CAROLINE HURLBURT, NANCY SHEMET Negative Reviews of US National Wilkins Creek. Their dimensions and mass were FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL Parks measured and then each rock was marked to be SCIENCES EMMA BARRETT easily identifiable. Rocks were paired based on Wilkins Creek and Spring Creek flow through FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, size, shape and mass, and then split into two different landscapes in Livonia, New York. Wilkins GEOGRAPHY roughly equal sets. One set was returned to Wilkins Creek flows primarily through residential and farm This research analyzes spatial patterns in the Creek and the other set to Spring Creek in a similar land, while Spring Creek, a tributary to Wilkins content of negative reviews in US National Parks in stream setting. The location of each rock was Creek, cuts through the village of Livonia. The the lower 48 states. A mean of 28 one- to two-star recorded. The movement of the rocks is being resulting water chemistry may vary. Samples from

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Wilkins Creek, Spring Creek, and the confluence of ______analyzing the relative extent of vegetation cover the two will be collected three times a week 224 • Grain Size Analysis and within interdune deposits via spectral analysis. throughout the months of March and April. All Health Risks of Lava Creek Ash, Overall, 1265 dunecrests were digitized and classified. samples will be tested for alkalinity, percent 105 Barchan, 1066 Transverse Barchanoid, 77 chlorides, phosphates, dissolved oxygen, and Shoshone, CA Transverse, and 16 Star dunes were mapped. The nitrate/phosphate ratio, and compared. In addition ELIZABETH SPIZUOCO relative azimuth values of each dunecrest orientation to potential differences caused by differing land FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL are given, respectively: 60° - 240°, 60° - 240°, 105° - use, variations caused by seasonal changes will also SCIENCES 285°, 105° - 285°/75° - 255° (a slash denotes multiple be considered. Measurements will be taken during This study was to determine the grain size wind directions). This data shows a primary wind and after periods of significant snow melt as well distribution and respiratory health risks of a direction traveling southeast to northwest through DV as rain events. The results will highlight how sample collected from the Lava Creek Ash bed in at an approximate orientation of 140° - 325° and a different land uses and seasonal fluctuations Shoshone, California. Wet sieving and pipet secondary wind traveling southwest to northeast at an impact stream water quality. methods were used to separate and measure the approximate orientation of 15° - 195°. The presence of ______amount of each grain size present in our sample. star dunes in the dunefield requires a third wind 222 • Alteration of Slag from Next, a histogram was generated to display the component. We hypothesize this may come from the Standish, NY range of grain sizes and it was determined that the north during abnormal winter wind conditions, but do majority of the sample fell between a φ of 3-4 (63- not have sufficient orientation data to support this. RACHEL KELK, MARIA LEONARD 125 μm). This corresponds to very fine to fine sand- Overall DV wind regimes are likely controlled mainly FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL size particles. 99.57% of all the particles were by topography as well as regional prevailing winds. SCIENCES larger than 10 μm. Airborne particles viewed as ______From the mid 1800’s to the early 1900’s there was dangerous for lung health by the EPA and American 227 • Evaluation of Noachian-Age an iron smelting industry in Standish, NY. During Lung Association were those smaller than 10 μm. this time, a large amount of slag, a byproduct of Because only 0.43% of our sample fell into this High Thermal Inertia Units on Mars: smelting, was created. The slag is now found in a category, we have determined that the overall risk Implications for Early Mars large, 60 ft tall pile that covers ~1 acre of land in to lung health from inhaling the Lava Creek Ash the Adirondacks. The pile is left out in the open and Sedimentary and Volcanic History from Shoshone, California is low. LAUREN BURGESS, SARAH KEENAN is subject to both physical and chemical ______FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, weathering. Within the Standish pile there is a wide 225 • Mineralogy of the Salt Spring variety of slag types that range from glassy to GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES powdery. Our study focuses on how the different Hills Skarn Regions on Mars that exhibit a high thermal inertia are slag types weather. Samples of glassy, rocky, and JONAH STINER, FRANCES BALLEW of high interest for geologic exploration by landers and chalky/powdery slag were placed outside for eight FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL rovers. Thermal inertia is the measure of a materials weeks. Rainwater that interacted with each slag SCIENCES resistance to changes in temperature. Surfaces sample was collected periodically over the testing A rock sample from the Salt Spring Hills in San covered in a regolith have a lower thermal inertia, time. After 8 weeks, samples were weighed to Bernardino County, California. This 13 cm in diameter while those that are exposed bedrock have a higher determine if material was lost due to weathering. sample represents the metamorphic boundary thermal inertia. One of these high thermal inertia The glassy and chalky slags lost the most weight. between the Carrara unit (limestone and shale) and areas of interest on Mars occurs within Noachian-age o o The weathering of slag is important in Standish the Salt Creek pluton. Our rock sample shows a terrain (4.1 to 3.7 Ga) at 29.8 S, 124.4 E. This region because it has a chemical effect on both the water mineralogical change from one side of the sample to was mapped using geomorphic characteristics to and soil in the surrounding area. Further chemical the other. The side closer to the granitoid pluton is evaluate its geologic history and the local surface data was obtained from our water samples which garnet-rich, and the side near the Carrara is more processes. A Hesperian-age (3.6 to 3.0 Ga), regolith- o o should indicate the impact the slag weathering has calcite-rich. To better describe the changes in the covered control region, centered at 29.7 S, 121.1 E, on the local environment. Selected for sample three thin sections were made. The sections was also selected for mapping. Mapping indicates that presentation at The Geological Society of were stained to show carbonate prominence. Calcite the abundance of small craters is significantly higher in America, Phoenix, AZ. is the sole carbonate in each of the 3 samples. Using the low thermal inertia area than in the high thermal ______point counting mineral percentages were also inertia area, suggesting that the surface of high 223 • Clay Composition in Soil on calculated. The results showed that the Carrara side is thermal inertia experiences a higher erosion rate. This 50% calcite, 31% pyroxene and 19% opaques, while dissuades the previous notion that high thermal Flow F, Cima Volcanic Field, CA the more granitoid side is composed of 7% calcite, inertia bedrock terrains on Mars are effusive-volcanic ANGELICA CURTO 76% garnet and 17% pyroxene. In the section closer to in origin and supports a potential sedimentary origin. FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL the pluton, the calcite formed in pores and created In contrast, the low thermal inertia area seems to be SCIENCES veins within the garnet, this is indicative of secondary more competent and are likely regolith-covered lava The Cima volcanic field in southern California calcite growth, but there are also inclusions of calcite plains. encompasses around 40 basaltic cinder cones and within the garnet which is indictive of primary calcite ______over 60 associated lava flows. Flow F is a 580,000- growth. 228 • Near Surface Stratigraphy year-old a’a flow in the region with a 2 m thick soil ______along Fracture Exposures in overlying the flow. On the top of the soil rests a 226 • Comparing Modern and desert pavement, a tightly packed layer of basaltic Western Elysium Planitia, Mars: Ancient Wind Regimes in Death cobbles. There are two main hypotheses for the Implications for the Regolith formation of the desert pavement- the “born at the Valley: GIS and Remote Sensing surface” hypothesis, and the upward migration Beneath the InSight Lander hypothesis. The upward migration hypothesis Analysis of the Mesquite Flat Sand JONATHAN TEBOUL, MICHAEL CHABOREK requires the expansion and contraction of clay Dunes FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, minerals such as smectites. To look for smectites in ANDREW SCHUYLER, CAMERON CUMMINGS GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES the soil, a sample was taken on flow F, and an XRD FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, The objective of this research is to evaluate the near analysis was done to identify the clay minerals GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES surface stratigraphy of Martian lava plains units in present. The dominant mineral phases are quartz, The spatial distribution of sand dunes and their Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software to orthoclase, and potentially vermiculite. Due to a morphologies in Death Valley’s (DV) Mesquite Flat gain a better understanding of regolith properties lack of smectite in the soil, the upward migration Sand Dunes were analyzed. Modern and ancient wind beneath the InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic hypothesis is not supported by this data, and the regimes influencing the dunefield were determined by Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander. “born at the surface” hypothesis is more likely the mapping dunecrest orientations. Dunecrests are Using high-resolution images of locations Hephaestus mode of desert pavement formation on the Cima typically oriented perpendicular to prevailing winds. Fossae and Elysium Fossae captured by the Mars volcanic flow F. Additionally, dune mobility was characterized by Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), it is possible to look

40  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 1 • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM inside potential fractures and outflow channels within the late 1990’s and declines significantly ERIKA ROWLEY, WILLIAM SCIALES, ISABELLE exposing lava plains units previously mapped as after the early 2000’s. CIRULLI Hesperian to Amazonian-age possibly interbedded FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSANA CASTILLO- with sedimentary materials. These units preserve LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES RODRIGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES varying degrees of weathering and resulting soil We will be studying the effects of Spanish bilingualism formation capped by aeolian dust deposits. Using GIS 257 • China’s Changing Diet: Meat in the campus community by surveying and software, the stratigraphy is mapped and correlated and Sustainability Within the interviewing Spanish bilingual students across according to rock-size disparities between layers of Context of Culture campus, asking them a series of questions in order to fine material, brecciated material, or large blocks. ALLY JONES, LAUREN PLEVY find answers regarding topics such as racism and Thickness of examined units will be estimated using FACULTY SPONSOR: JASMINE TANG, LANGUAGES identity. Our goal is to figure out what exactly it's like available digital elevation models and solar inclination AND LITERATURES to be a Spanish speaker on campus. ______methods. Estimated thickness variations in examined Rising incomes, urbanization, and changing palettes regolith units may also provide evidence for are all factors that have led to increased meat 261 • Política educación lingüística hypothesized previous modes of weathering in consumption in China. Historically, pork was the most en Galicia/ Language Educational western Elysium Planitia. commonly consumed meat in China but recently there ______Policy in Galicia has been a shift toward eating more beef and poultry. EMILY WIDGER, ANA SALAZAR, JOSEPH BIENKO 229 • Remote Sensing Analysis of This change in preference poses a problem for FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSANA CASTILLO- sustainability as beef cultivation is the most energy the Kelso, CA Region and RODRIGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES and land intensive. There are sustainable alternatives Comparisons to Ground Truth Data This project will be an exploration of the language to eating meat; plant-based “meats” and vegetarian LILY PEDERSEN, JOANNA SYDOW policies in the educational system of Galicia, diets have long been an option due to Buddhism’s FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, including the the impact it has on the autonomous influence since the Han dynasty. We will be exploring GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES community and politics. To accommodate the rich the relationship between meat and China from the Advanced Space Thermal Emission and Reflection language culture in Spain, each autonomous broad lenses of history, culture, and sustainability. Radiometer (ASTER) multispectral data was used to ______community has interpreted the national education evaluate the age relations of lava flows in the Cima law to their respective community. We will explore Volcanic Field in southern California and the 258 • A Linguistic Investigation the origins of language policy in Galicia, as well as composition of strata near Kelso Dunes in Southern About “El Voseo” / Una how it has affected Galicia. California. Age relationships for two basaltic lava flows investigación lingüística sobre el ______at Cima were determined using band math to reveal 262 • The Effects of Code Switching voseo weathering patterns and using a supervised English and Spanish: Research on classification with known regions of interest (ROI). The OLIVIA ROBERTS, MACIE SHUM, KATIE POULSEN ROIs were visited and mapped in January, 2019. To FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSANA CASTILLO- Immigrant Families in the USA/Los determine lithology of rocks at Kelso, different band RODRIGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES efectos del cambio del código combinations with a decorrelation stretch method This is an investigation on the socio-political factors were used. It was determined that the supervised related to the variable use of “voseo” in Argentina and inglés/español: una investigación classification method was the most useful to Chile. In particular, we will analyze and compare its use entre las familias inmigrantes en determine age relationships of lava flows. This in education as well as its prestige. In addition, we will analyze the Real Academia Española's position on the EEUU method was consistent with known ages for the lava CHELSEA PARDES, EMILY PERUN, JIMMY flows, determined previously from radiogenic dating use of voseo in colloquial and professional terms. This presentation will be given in Spanish. CONNOLLY, ALICEN AMBROSIA methods. No single band combination definitively FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSANA CASTILLO- showed all of the lithologies in the Kelso area, ______259 • Language and Nationalism in RODRIGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES however, band combinations B7 B2 and B1 and B5 B4 Code switching describes the natural phenomenon and B2 proved to highlight different lithologies the Catalonia / Lengua y nacionalismo of someone switching between two or more best, when compared to field observations. languages while speaking. It can happen while ______en Cataluña using any language but specifically, we are focusing 230 • Tracking the Migration of a JULIA LANTIER, KIERNAN MCCARTHY, MARIA SANTIAGO on code switching between English and Spanish, River Meander using Drone FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSANA CASTILLO- including the causes and types of code switching. Imagery and Photogrammetry RODRIGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES We will explore the increased prevalence of code The Catalonia region of Spain has a longstanding switching within immigrant areas and families within the Genesee River, history of fierce nationalist sentiment, which made within the United States. We can hypothesize that Livingston County, NY news with the 2017 independence referendum. There since these families are new to the culture, they SARAH DYAL is substantial support within the autonomous use code switching from Spanish to English to begin FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, community for secession from Spain in order to integrating English into their life; however, they GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES establish an independent Catalonian state. The also use code switching from English to Spanish to A DJI Inspire 1 was used to collect images of a regional language, Catalan, is an important element of express thoughts that they cannot use English for nearby meander to track the geomorphologic Catalonian identity. Catalan is an official language of and to help unite them in a foreign country. changes and migration along the Genesee River, 3 the region alongside Castilian Spanish and is spoken by ______miles south of Mount Morris Dam. 291 images the majority of the population. How has Catalonia’s 263 • Política educativa en Puerto were taken by the drone and processed in Agisoft regional language motivated the desire for autonomy Rico to create a digital elevation model by and how has it been instrumentalized by nationalist FRANCESCA BOVE, JASMINE WEED, NICK FRENCH georeferencing the control points’ latitude, movements to achieve their goals? This investigation, FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSANA CASTILLO- longitude, and elevation. An orthomosaic was conducted in Spanish, will examine the connection RODRIGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES created by Agisoft correcting parallax from the between Catalan language and nationalism This poster is about the educational policies in overlapped drone imagery. ArcGIS was used to throughout history. Puerto Rico. Spanish is the dominant language on observe the orthomosaics and digital elevation ______the island, however, Spanish and English are both model. The meander was found to be migrating at 260 • Los efectos de ser official languages. In the past few years, there has a non-uniform, unsteady rate by undercutting and hispanohablante en el campus de been a debate on whether English should be taught scalping weak material along the cutbank. in schools or if Spanish should remain. The Historical data indicates that the meander Geneseo (The Effects of Speaking governor has been involved in this discussion and migrated at least 65 meters in the past 25 years. Spanish on the Geneseo Campus) proposes there should be a move to an all-English Most of the migration occurred at a rapid rate  Promotes sustainability 41 Posters 1 • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual curriculum, but it is very difficult to accomplish this two code writers, I recreated the code to be easier Speed, Accuracy and Efficiency. Numerical results drastic change. This would eliminate the language to find and change the variables to construct proposed for most known standard benchmark barrier between the United States and Puerto Rico different scenarios. Selected for presentation at problems. Selected for presentation at Mathematical and it would also provide a lot more opportunities Mathematical Association of America Seaway Association of America Seaway Section Meeting, to children in schools. There are many factors that Section Meeting, Rochester, NY. Rochester, NY. pertain to this topic and it continues to be ______discussed in Puerto Rico on a political level. 185 • Real Life Applications of OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY Education is very important to the future of Puerto Differential Equations  Rico and individuals are constantly thinking of ways 108 • Composting at SUNY NIKAULY CASILLA, STEPHANIE ALVAREZ MERLOS to improve the educational system. Geneseo: Potential Improvements ______FACULTY SPONSOR: AHMAD ALMOMANI, MATHEMATICS and Investigations 264 • Raciolinguistics and Latinx We will introduce models for first order, second VIZMA LEIMANIS MADELINE REILLY, ABBY GRIFFIN, CECILIA BREY, order, linear and non-linear differential equations. FACULTY SPONSOR: MEG REITZ, OFFICE OF SARA STAWITZKY We will show four different models and SUSTAINABILITY FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSANA CASTILLO- applications each relating to an aspect of College campuses create a large amount of landfill- RODRIGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES sustainability. These applications can be utilized on bound waste, which produces greenhouse gases. Our research will focus on raciolinguistics within campus and around Geneseo. Not only can these By reducing the waste that enters landfills, the Spanish language, as well as for Spanish models show short-term improvement of greenhouse gas production decreases. Composting speakers in the United States. Particularly, we will supportable techniques to sustainability but the is an easy, effective way to do so, because investigate the implications of being of Latinx effects will also show in the long run. landscaping and food waste decomposes naturally heritage in the United States and how this affects ______with little added effort. SUNY Geneseo’s social conditions within the educational and 186 • Identification of a Time- composting program is relatively new. Its original political sectors. In addition, we will analyze the goal is to prevent compostable waste from relatively new word “Latinx” and the social dependent Outflow Rate in a entering the landfills (rather than creating a movement created around the word as a dismissal Mixing Problem specific finished product). Here, compostable of the gendered terms “Latino” and “Latina” DANE GEORGE materials like landscaping waste and pre-consumer typically used to categorize people from Latin FACULTY SPONSOR: BERTRAN SEDAR NGOMA food waste are deposited in piles, and the resulting America. We will also look at the subsequent KOUMBA, MATHEMATICS product is currently used for landscaping fill as well countermovement against the term “Latinx”. We know through our time in Differential as in the e-Garden. If we took the time to look more Finally, we will discuss how Spanish speakers’ Equations that given the volume of a vessel, the closely at our compost, we could do more than just various identities, including race, sex, and gender, initial concentration of a solution in said vessel, and reduce the waste entering landfills. By combine in society and contribute to their the inflow and outflow rates of a solution into that investigating the composition of the finished experiences. vessel we can accurately predict the concentration compost to determine its nutrient content, of the solution in the vessel over time. chemistry, biodiversity, or possible contaminants, MATHEMATICS Traditionally, we leave the inflow and outflow rates we could contribute to healthier soil on campus, 153 • Recovering a Time-dependent of the solution to be constant, however we are save money on landscaping, and possibly even interested in the case when the inflow and outflow make a profit by selling the finished product, if it is Inflow Rate in a Mixing Problem rates are time-dependent and the inflow rate is found to be desirable. With this project I will be TRENT LAING known while the outflow rate is unknown. We are setting up the possibilities for future research that FACULTY SPONSOR: BERTRAN SEDAR NGOMA also interested in developing a numerical algorithm I intend to carry out in the coming academic years. KOUMBA, MATHEMATICS using the finite difference method to approximate ______A mixing problem is a problem in which we are the time-dependent outflow rate. To show how 109 • Increasing Accessibility to given the volume of a vessel, the initial accurate this approximation is we will compare Environmentalism for Young Adults concentration of a solution in the vessel, and the numerical results with our approximation through rates of inflow and outflow of a solution into the  the use of Matlab. MARGAUX CARMEL vessel. A model of this problem can be solved using ______differential equations. Traditionally, the inflow and 187 • New Criteria for Comparing FACULTY SPONSOR: MEG REITZ, OFFICE OF outflow rates are constant for problems that we SUSTAINABILITY solve, however we are interested in when the Global Stochastic Derivative - Free Environmentalism is increasingly prevalent in today’s inflow and outflow rates are time-dependent and Optimization Algorithms world, but is often seen as inaccessible and expensive, particularly to young adults, and especially to those the outflow rate is known while the inflow rate is JONATHAN MCCART who are lower class and/or people of color. This unknown. In order to approximate the time- FACULTY SPONSOR: AHMAD ALMOMANI, research project will be exploring these differences, dependent inflow rate, we will develop a numerical MATHEMATICS why they exist, and how we can make algorithm using the finite difference method. We For many situations, the function that best models a environmentally healthy decisions more economically will then compare our numerical results to an situation or data set can have a derivative that may be accessible and promoted more. I found that young approximation through the use of Matlab. difficult or impossible to find. Thus, numerical adults see environmentalism as important but ______methods for finding these important values without inaccessible, particularly in terms of affordability. 154 • R-file Mapping Thistle Dispersal the direct involvement of the derivative have been Sustainable alternatives on the market are too developed to find the optimal value of the function. Converted into MatLab-file expensive and often promoted in ways that don’t This is our motivation to use Derivative-free IAN QUINN appeal to lower socioeconomic classes. The most optimization (DFO) algorithms. In our analysis of these FACULTY SPONSOR: AHMAD ALMOMANI, effective way to reach out to young adults concerning algorithms, we tested three global solvers: Genetic MATHEMATICS the environment will be through environmental Algorithm, Particle Swarm Optimization, and The Biology Department at SUNY Geneseo has education in public schools and, as a starting point, Simulating Annealing on a set of 25 problems of used a code in the programming platform R to promoting existing cheap alternatives instead of varying in convex/non-convex, separable/non- analyses and record the dispersal patterns of an single-use items. Environmental education can take separable, differentiable/non-differentiable, and invasive thistle species. However, this code in R is form in multiple ways; there can be a mandatory unimodal/multimodal. For each algorithm, we used about 10 years old and it is not as efficient as it Environmental Studies class and/or a National the built-in code from MATLAB, unedited or revised. could be. The department has expressed concerns Environmental Education Week, where schools are For all problems, we varied the number of dimensions, that this code is too complicated for many encouraged to share information about sustainability increasing from 2 dimensions to 100 dimensions. We undergraduate students to use or adjust to their and plan events to promote environmentalism in their introduce new criteria to compare DFO solver needs. I intended on converting this code in R into school and community. performance using certain generalized characteristics: a MatLab code. Using the notes from the previous 42  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 1 • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY ETHAN SMITH, ETHAN NAGASING, KALLAH EDDY, Plastic scintillators are used in HEDP and ICF COREY WILKINSON research to measure neutron energies using time 155 • Using Rutherford FACULTY SPONSOR: KURTIS FLETCHER, PHYSICS & of flight. The energy resolution and sensitivity of an Backscattering Spectroscopy to ASTRONOMY nToF system is directly correlated to the Neutron time-of-flight (nTOF) measurements have scintillation decay time. To decrease the decay Characterize Targets for MTW Laser been completed using d-d fusion reactions time, xylene scintillators are quenched with oxygen at LLE produced by 25 keV deuterons. Deuterons and consequentially become less efficient at MATT KLEIN, GUNNAR BROWN, ANTHONY produced using the SUNY Geneseo 30 kV Peabody producing light. The scintillator becomes oxygen COOPER Scientific Duoplasmatron ion source are focussed deficient over a period of months which increases FACULTY SPONSOR: CHARLES FREEMAN, PHYSICS onto thick deuterated polyethylene films light production and the decay time. Mono- & ASTRONOMY producing fusion products. In the laboratory energetic calibration neutrons are unavailable at Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy (RBS) is a coordinate system, 2.566 MeV neutrons detected most HEDP and ICF facilities to monitor these useful technique for determining elemental by a BC-412 plastic scintillator at 39° correspond to increases. As a result, it is difficult to determine if composition and thickness of a target. In RBS, light 0.699 MeV 3He ions detected by a surface barrier oxygen concentration has decreased within these ion beams from an accelerator are incident on the detector (SBD) placed at 135°. At these low systems. Here, a possible method of calibrating target to be studied. A surface barrier detector is energies, the charged particle spectra have little to xylene detectors in situ is presented. If the used to study the energy spectrum of the scattered no background. Timing signals from the SBD detectors response to cosmic ray muons is known, ions. The energy of the scattered ions depends on preamplifier initiate a start signal and the it can be used to determine the scintillation decay the elements in the target, and the width of each associated timing signal from the photomultiplier curve produced by a mono-energetic neutron. As a peak is related to the elemental layer thickness. tube initiates the stop signal. By placing the result, the need for the removal of the xylene The computer program SIMNRA is used to analyze scintillator at various distances from the target, the detectors for offline analysis is eliminated. the scattered ion spectra. RBS experiments have time-of-flight spectra can be used to determine an Selected for presentation at American Physical been performed using the 1.7 MV Pelletron experimental value for the neutron energy, and Society Division of Plasma Physics, Portland, OR. accelerator at SUNY Geneseo to characterize this provides confirmation of the method. Using ______samples from the Multi-Terawatt (MTW) laser at this nTOF technique, the neutron response for 184 • The Statistics of the A to B the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE). Hydrogen different scintillation detectors can be determined. Transition in Confined Superfluid and helium beams of several MeV were used Selected for presentation at American Physical determine the composition and thickness of Society Division of Plasma Physics, Portland, OR. Helium Three aluminum (Al) and aluminum-iron (Al-Fe) foils, ______JOHN WILSON each backed by a plastic layer. We have been able 182 • Production of Deuterated FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS to measure the layer thickness of each target, as Polymer Thin Films for Ion-Beam & ASTRONOMY well as determine the ratio of aluminum-to-iron in Helium 3 has two superfluid phases. The transition the Al-Fe target. The SIMNRA software also allows Fusion Experiments between these phases is first order, displaying surface roughness effects to be included in the KALLAH EDDY, ETHAN NAGASING, ETHAN SMITH hysteresis and supercooling. Here, the effects of analysis. Selected for presentation at American FACULTY SPONSOR: KURTIS FLETCHER, PHYSICS & confinement to a thin slab geometry on this phase Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, ASTRONOMY transition are presented. A 1.1 µm channel connected Portland, OR. At ion-beam facilities such as the 1.7 MV Pelletron two chambers filled with liquid helium 3. The first ______Accelerator and the 30 kV Duoplasmatron ion source chamber, the heat exchange chamber, was heated 156 • WIYN Open Cluster Study: at SUNY Geneseo, deuterated polyethylene thin films and cooled via adiabatic nuclear magnetization. are bombarded by deuterons, producing fusion Quartz tuning forks being driven by an AC current Photometry of the Open Cluster products to characterize inertial confinement fusion were present in both chambers. The frequency and Q NGC 6603 detection systems. A refurbished thin films deposition factor of these forks were directly measured. Phase SARAH POPP, DOMINIQUE CESARIO, LYDIA system is being commissioned to produce the transitions correspond to discontinuities within both FILLHART deuterated polymer targets via thermal evaporation. the Q factor and the frequency of these forks, allowing FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS The high vacuum system for the 18-in diameter bell jar for the state of the fluid to be inferred. Using this, the & ASTRONOMY includes a turbomolecular pump and associated location of the A to B transition in the bulk regions The purpose of this study was to complete a valves and gauges. Deuterated polyethylene powder were mapped. Selected for presentation at photometric study of nearby open star cluster NGC is placed in a tantalum boat located in the center of International Symposium on Quantum Fluids and 6603 using data from the WIYN (Wisconsin, the bell jar and attached to high-current feedthroughs. Solids, Tokyo, Japan. Indiana, Yale, NOAO) 0.9m telescope at Kitt Peak Films are deposited on commercially obtained glass ______National Observatory. These images were slides treated by a release agent and covered with 10 188 • Asymmetric Light Deflection processed so that cluster parameters such as age, μg/cm2 carbon films; the slides are positioned above Near a Spinning Black Hole metallicity, reddening, and distance could be the deuterated polymer source on an octagonal BRADLEY MCCLUNG, PETER KAULFUSS recorded. We ran scripts on each frame to detect mount uniquely designed to hold the slides 8 inches FACULTY SPONSOR: SAVITRI IYER, PHYSICS & the stars, measured the point-spread-function of from the source, normal to the incoming material, and ASTRONOMY the stellar light profile, and applied that function to 30 degrees from the vertical. A rate deposition One of the classical tests supporting Einstein’s measure the magnitude of each star in the frame. monitor is used to monitor the film thickness during general theory of relativity was the observation of Stellar magnitudes were then combined and deposition. After the desired thickness is obtained, the starlight bent by the sun. This prediction was done averaged within each of the five filters to create a films can be mounted on target rings using the floating under the weak deflection limit (WDL), meaning single catalog for the cluster stars. Images of technique. Selected for presentation at American that the light ray was far from the sun itself. We photometric standards were used to determine Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Portland, wish to find an analytical prediction for the bending and apply transformations to the data set so as to OR. angle in the strong deflection limit (SDL), when the set it on the standard scale. Finally, likely cluster ______light ray is close to the gravitational source. We members were isolated and compared with 183 • Characterizing Photoflash wish to derive analytical expressions for the models to determine the cluster parameters. Curves in Scintillators using Cosmic deflection angle near a stationary black hole and a Selected for presentation at 233rd American spinning black hole. To do this, we expand the Astronomical Society Meeting, Seattle, WA. Ray Muons exact solution as a series and use the leading terms ______SARAH MANDANAS, MATTHEW SIGNOR, 181 • Neutron Time-of-Flight PRAVEEN WAKWELLA, KEVIN PALMISANO, EMILY to predict image positions and magnifications. We VANDERBILT, HANNAH MCCLOW present in this poster a study of the deflection Measurements Initiated with 25- FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS angle of light as it passes by a rotating black hole, keV Deuterons & ASTRONOMY comparing direct and retrograde sides of the spin axis. The bending angle is higher on the direct side  Promotes sustainability 43 Posters 1 • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual compared to the retrograde side. This results in an taking a Marxist Anthropological approach to OLIVER CROSSMAN asymmetry in the positions of relativistic images on discuss the outcomes of a future statehood FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL the sky. referendum in the format of a non-iterated SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS prisoner's dilemma, using news media cooperation This paper/poster presentation will focus on the POLITICAL SCIENCE & as the dynamic between the United States and causes of income inequality in the United States, Puerto Rico. I will be discussing each option (status the impact it has had on citizens, and how to INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS quo, statehood, or independence) and its relevant address it. It will examine the historical and 250 • The Environmental Benefits of socio-economic factors and what they could mean political factors that led to income inequality since Cash AID  for economic inequality on the island. the 1980s, and the public policy positions the ______federal government should take to reduce the QUINTON AUSTIN problem. FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL 253 • Economic Inequality in the United States: Historical Trends and ______SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 265 • Poisoned Rivers: My GREAT Day proposal will be focused on the Policy Solutions benefits of donating cash directly to African BEATRICE RULE Environmental Movements and countries rather than through U.S. programs that FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Water Quality in Bangladesh  donate food to these same countries. While SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CECILIA BREY without a doubt beneficial, donating direct cash to This paper seeks to evaluate the clear and FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL poor African countries such as Uganda has a long- increasing economic inequality that exists among SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS lasting impact on not only improving the nation, citizens of the United States. Incorporating In developing nations, wastewater pollution remains a but also saving the environment. Privatized research on the history of policies contributing to pressing threat to impoverished communities. donation programs here in the U.S. focus on in-kind this inequality, as well as current data. This paper Bangladesh, a densely populated nation with a large subsidies, such as the Heifer project. These will also propose several policy solutions likely to network of river systems, is especially susceptible to donations rapidly increase domestic animal reduce this marked wealth gap. this problem. In Bangladesh, water pollution as a production such as cows, and fuel over a quarter of ______result of poorly managed industrial waste disposal, agriculture capitalism here in the U.S. People are so 254 • Fighting for the Truth: An especially from garment factories, have poisoned the hesitant to give countries like Uganda and Kenya Assessment of How to Control the water supply and caused deadly health consequences direct aid because of the preconceived notion that in both rural and urban communities. I will try to these undeveloped citizens have no responsibility Spread of Misinformation in the Era explore the effects of industry on water quality in poor or sense of budgeting when it comes to money. The of “Fake News” communities and what steps the government is taking Heifer project is a premise that sets African citizens to try to regulate pollution. Most importantly, I will up with the direct donation of a cow, even though SNOWDON VOSE FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL explore grassroots efforts among the Bangladeshi cow ranches are the leading cause of communities themselves, investigating the main environmental degradation and climate change, SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS In the past decade, the number of media outlets participants of these movements and whether or not more than that of CDCs and car emissions they have succeeded in bringing awareness to combined. In fact, donating the $200 worth of a available to the public has grown exponentially. In trend with the increased polarization of the environmental issues or successfully changing these cow directly to these countries is significantly more companies’ pollution patterns. impactful than an actual cow to a Ugandan citizen. American electorate, many of these media outlets cater to the extreme ends of the political spectrum. ______266 • Chernobyl's Impact Today 251 • A Polarized Society Often, the content shared through these outlets is construed in a way that misleads the public and FRANCESCA BOVE MEGAN SCHWARTZ disseminates fake news. The rational ignorance of FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL a large portion of American voters means that they SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS rely heavily on cues such as the media to form their The damaging effects of the catastrophic nuclear Political parties in the United States have become political opinions. The dependence on media explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in increasingly polarized, and a plethora of social sources that deliberately spread extreme views Ukraine have not ended, 33 years later. The changes have contributed to this great divide. This that are often un-factual, means voters are more environmental impacts of the radiation continue to polarization refers to the increasing “ideological susceptible than ever to being wrongly informed. have damaging effects on the livelihoods of the land uniformity” (Suh, 2014) in both the Democratic and The ability to control the spread of misinformation and people in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. At the time Republican platforms. These social changes include has become an area of growing concern in of the incident, multinational organizations banded changes in American political culture, religiosity, American political discourse. Doing this without together to address the aftermath of the explosion. socioeconomic inequality, elite domination of the infringing on the first amendment rights of citizens Today, international governmental and non- media as a propaganda tool, and the general is a tricky endeavor. This project seeks to identify governmental organizations are continuing to carry structure of the government. A deeper analysis of ways in which this objective might be out plans to deal with the radiation that remains after these changes allows for a greater understanding accomplished. the Chernobyl disaster and create preventative of how and why this polarization has rapidly ______policies regarding the use of nuclear materials in the emerged. future. This poster addresses the current state of the ______255 • Identity Politics in the United environment surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear  252 • A Puerto Rican Prisoner's States Power Plant and the international policies that have Dilemma: What Lies Ahead for HILDA GOMEZ been created because of the incident. FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Puerto Rico as it Considers ______SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 267 • Desertification of Africa Identity has become a central aspect of how Statehood Again? JACK LADD politics is approached in today’s world. Our current HARRISON ANGELINI FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL politics have become more divided because of the FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS rise of identity politics, leading to the most SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Vast amounts of land in Africa, previously suitable polarized political climate in our history. In this I will be looking at survey data provided by the for crops, are turning into desert as we speak. The poster presentation, I will examine why identity Kaiser Family Foundation, and my own survey data effects are profound and can be noted without politics has been on the rise and the impact it has conducted amongst the college campus to look at question from satellite imagery. The desertification attitudes and misconceptions about disaster relief on current policies. ______of soil on this continent has massive impacts on funding given to Puerto Rico following hurricane climate change and on regional stability. The Maria. I will use this data to address the issue of 256 • Income Inequality: The tactics used over the years on the continent to fight Puerto Rico’s status as a commonwealth territory, Origins and Solutions the disappearance of soil have contributed greatly

44  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 1 • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM to carbon emissions. In addition, the same theory raises the question of where humans are able electronic products are discarded after its use. The outdated tactics have actually further damaged the to draw the line for which animals can be killed and rapid expansion of technology has led to the rise of land. With the ideal soils disappearing at an which cannot. Japan sees whaling as part of their global consumption of electronics as consumers alarming rate, regional factions are violently culture, and therefore believes no other country are becoming technology-obsessed. The impact of clashing over the small areas of land that have not should view their acts as unacceptable. Japan also this consumerism has led to the creation of been entirely destroyed. In the already violent believes their actions are important in pushing back significant e-waste, which has a substantial, long- Horn of Africa, this conflict is detrimental to movements that want to place bans on fishing and lasting effect on the environment. I will be focusing political stability. However, recently, there have restrict the use of marine resources in general. on Agbogbloshie, Ghana, presumed to be one of been solutions proposed and implemented to ______the largest e-waste dumps in the world where combat the soil crisis. Organized cattle grazing has 270 • The Hamburger Connection, developed countries ship their e-waste to be shown significant results in essentially Deforestation of the Amazon  recycled. I seek to answer some important reconstructing the soil composition in areas that questions regarding e-waste in Ghana. How did this SHANNON LYNCH have suffered from desertification. This tactic has phenomenon occur and how does this affect the FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL effectively shown that if we mimic nature by residents? Why did the Ghanian government let SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS organizing the constant movement of cattle across this happen? What is happening at the grassroots Brazil is currently one of the leading beef producers in these lands, as they once did, we can bring fertile level? Are there any solutions to combat or reduce the world, second only to the United States. Today soil back to the damaged areas. this problem of e-waste? ______Brazil is home to over two-hundred million cattle and ______the beef industry represents about seven percent of 268 • Yemen’s Environmental Crisis the country’s GDP annually. The industry is wreaking 273 • Soybean Production in Brazil:  havoc on the global environment, and new research From the Amazon to the Cerrado  KYLIE GRIFFITH shows the impact on climate change is much greater GRACE WHITE FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL than current estimates. One key driver in this climate FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS change is the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon. I SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS In the current political atmosphere of the 21st will be looking into the link between the beef sector in Brazil is the world’s largest soybean exporter. For century, the global community has had significant Brazil and its role in deforestation and ultimately its many years soybean production had led to growth and innovation in the sectors of role in climate change globally. The deforestation in deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest. technology, the global market, and production. the Amazon has become an issue of global concern, International and national responses to Unfortunately, the crisis of environmentalism has gaining significant attention and backlash. Changes to deforestation in the past decade have decreased taken a back seat when nations and their political policy surrounding the Amazon could soon be a global soybean production and land-clearing in the actors should have placed the environment as a topic of discussion and have multiple hands in Amazon. Still, overall soybean production in Brazil top priority. One country in particular that has protection. Eighty percent of the new deforestation in grew. By limiting access to Amazonian land, suffered severe degradation to their environment the Brazilian Amazon is directly caused by the agribusinesses moved southwest, to a part of Brazil is Yemen. Despite many environmental issues, the conversion of forest to cattle pasture, therefore known as the Cerrado. The Cerrado is an area of water crisis proves to be the most damaging to the proving the direct causal of climate change. I will tropical savannas that are home to a diverse range country due to the accelerated pace. Though the further research the global implications and next steps of wildlife. Many of South America’s major river entire world is feeling the effects of climate the world can take. systems also originated in the Cerrado. In the past change, Yemen’s climate is extremely vulnerable ______ten years, over 100,000 square kilometers of land because the atmosphere is growing hotter and 271 • The Electric Car Industry and in the Cerrado has been lost to agriculture. The dryer, resulting in prolonged droughts. On top of amount of international pressure to preserve the the climate vulnerability, a majority of the Yemen Hidden Costs of Cobalt Mining Amazon has been largely absent in the case of economy and the livelihood of citizens rely on ALISHAH BHIMANI environmental destruction in the Cerrado. If Brazil, agriculture that requires large amounts of water, FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL and the international community as a whole, don’t further putting a strain on the already short supply SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS begin to protect the Cerrado like they did the of water. The current consumption of water in Cobalt can be found in almost all our electronics, Amazon, there could be major ecological Yemen is unsustainable and is a source of conflict making it a valuable natural resource. Recently, consequences for Brazil, South America, and even for the country. The resource scarcity has, in turn, there is a higher demand for it, in part because of the world. weakened the state from preventing further the new electric car industry that requires cobalt ______depletion and has decreased its ability to put down for their rechargeable batteries. The Democratic 274 • Soil Erosion: A Threat to violent conflicts and stop the civil war. Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responsible for 60 ______percent of the world’s cobalt reserves, as it sits in Global Livelihoods  269 • Why Japan Refuses to Stop the direct line of Central Africa’s copper belt. The CASEY DUNNE increased demand for cobalt has added more FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL Whaling  pressure for the DRC to produce, creating even SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MATTHEW EPP more pressing environmental concerns. These For Great Day I will present a poster that delves FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL mines have detrimental effects on the into the erosion crisis and examines the course of SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS environment such as polluting rivers and drinking events from the middle of the 20th century up to Japan is one of the few countries that still actively water as well as causing breathing problems for the present day. Changes in land use and climate hunts whales. In December, 2018, the Japanese miners. Although most of it is mined with change are widely recognized as culpable for government announced that it was leaving the machinery, artisanal miners are responsible for 1/5 greatly accelerating soil erosion. I will further International Whaling Commission. This is a political of the cobalt that leaves the country. These examine the Nigerian Gully crisis as well as a few showdown between domestic politics and artisanal miners include child laborers, and there is documented cases of land mass disappearance on international politics. Japan plans to resume a high correlation between birth defects and multiple islands that are cause for immediate commercial whaling operations in its waters and fathers who are miners. concern and action. Along with this I will present a exclusive economic zone in July, 2019. This is ______case for alternative options in battling this crisis, problematic because whales are highly intelligent 272 • The Damage of Electronic and consider the pros and cons of each for nations creatures that should not be slaughtered. Prior to this,  such as Nigeria and coalitions of small islands. Japan hunted whales for what it claimed to be Waste ______“scientific purposes.” The Japanese government DAWA SHERPA 275 • Measuring the Effectiveness alleges that it was whaling for the purpose of FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL collecting data so whale stocks could be maintained SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS of Air Pollution Policy in South without instituting a complete ban. The Japanese Electronic waste is one of the rising problems that Korea  government is disputing environmental ethics is contributing to environmental pollution such as HUNG JIN JIN according to the “Significance of Life Theory.” This air and soil pollution. E-waste is created when  Promotes sustainability 45 Posters 1 • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual

FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL JOHAN ZUNIGA FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS South Korea’s air pollution is a serious issue that SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS While there have been record-breaking numbers of threatens the nation’s everyday life. While it is Globalization and the notion that free trade is good women in elected office in recent years, women hard for Korea to avoid the influx of air pollutants for the global economy has dominated the still have far from equal representation in these from China, researchers say half the pollutants are narrative and has left the ecological effect on the positions. Even if women were better represented, generated domestically and can be tackled through back burner of many discussions. International they still would be less likely than men to run for regulations. The South Korean government has institutions like the WTO serve to promote a office. There are various significant barriers that executed regulations to cut the air pollutants. market that is fair to all producers from all women face when running for office. In my However, even with the government’s regulations members, preventing favoritism of local business research I explore the systemic barriers that result to reduce the sources of air pollutants, it is getting through incentives. Yes this is good for business, in this gender disparity. It is imperative to close this worse over time. Korea’s air pollution has but it isn't ideal from a sustainability perspective. gender gap in order to get full inclusion of women exacerbated and it has raised a question whether In many countries such as India free trade in politics. it is the methods that are not effective or it is the dominates the textile and other industries, but ______government that is not enforcing the regulation when favoritism is showed to local industries the 281 • Women's Political Ambition enough. The presenter of this poster will answer WTO steps in to regulate. The import and export of VANESSA VERDE the question by addressing the regulations in effect goods increases carbon emissions across the globe FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL in Korea and evaluating the effectiveness of them. because goods are being shipped from country to SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______country in the name free trade, fair competition, While there have been record-breaking numbers of 276 • Loss of Biodiversity in India  and cheap prices. The production of goods in India women in elected office in recent years, women ASHLEY GRISEWOOD when coupled with the free trade market, which still remain far from equally represented in these FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL increases transportation of goods and increase positions. Even if women were better represented, SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS climate change, drastically increases the ecological they still would be less likely than men to run for India has been a global biodiversity hotspot, but impact. Therefore, in my presentation I will analyze office. There are various significant barriers that over time due to human interaction biodiversity the global institutions that govern India’s free women face when running for office. In my has been disappearing. One reason for this is over trade and demonstrate how the various industries research I explore the systemic barriers that result population within areas of the country. The large in and around India are negatively impacting its in this gender disparity. It is imperative to close this population has led to habit loss for many animals climate due to free trade by global organizations. gender gap in order to get full inclusion of women and the removal of forest to make room for ______in politics. humans, which has caused consequences for plant 279 • Environmental Justice and ______growth. Humans are overusing natural resources; Grassroots Self-advocacy in Orangi 282 • The Personal is Political: How this is upsetting the natural ecosystem within the the Women’s Liberation Movement country. In India, the demand is growing faster Town Slum, Karachi, Pakistan  than plants can grow and animals can repopulate. DREW ARNUM Transformed Democracy This is causing important parts of the ecosystem to FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL COURTNEY BANACH become endangered. Another cause is that SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL humans pollute the soil and water that these plants Orangi Town in Karachi, Pakistan is the largest slum SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS and animals need to survive. Much of the country's in Asia, with a population of about 2.5 million. The second-wave of feminism, beginning in the waste and garbage is disposed of in the river. This Muslim refugees fleeing the Indo-Pakistani War 1960s, was a social movement that challenged has caused problems with the creatures that use created this informal settlement in 1947; it already aspects of inequality in women’s everyday the river to live. The government of India has had a population of one million by the 1950s, due experiences. In the wake of winning suffrage allowed this issue to develop into what is to Pakistani policy allowing refugees to settle on emerged the Women’s Liberation Movement, happening today. In this presentation I will uncover any vacant land. This policy lacked infrastructural which had a profound impact on democracy in the what is happening in India to hurt the biodiversity backing, making Orangi Town a quasi-legal United States by transforming the role women and discover what the government of India has squatter settlement rapidly expanding without played in both society and politics. Problems faced done to allow this to happen. sewers, plumbing, roads, etc. Orangi Town’s by women, once viewed as private to the ______population swelled in the 1970s when Bangladesh individuals, were now viewed as having systematic 277 • Impacts of Deforestation in gained its independence, intensifying preexisting and political origins. The historical disregard of environmental injustices. In the 1980s, Orangi women and their rights led the movement to push  Brazil began self-governing through the Orangi Pilot for social, economic, political, and legal policy JACOB BORTH Project, organizing residents to build their own reforms as a way for the government to ameliorate FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL sewer network, which now reaches 96% of all these inequalities. Uniting under one identity, SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS households despite lacking government funding or women were able to extend the quality of Brazil is a large developing country in South recognition. These infrastructural improvements democracy in America by gaining a more America that is experiencing massive deforestation from within prompted the Pakistani government to representative voice in politics. in both the past and present. This is a major issue incorporate Orangi Town as a municipality of ______for Brazil and the entire world as many of us know Karachi in 2001, transforming the slum’s 283 • The Intersectionality of Race it. While deforestation is a major issue there is no infrastructural administration. Despite this clear cut answer (pun intended) to deforestation in transition, the Orangi Pilot Project still administers and Gender in American Politics Brazil or deforestation in general. As a result, key services, including not just waste management, JOCELYN STUTO research is necessary to better understand but also housing, health and family planning, FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL deforestation in Brazil and deforestation as a education, and microfinancing. This paper will use SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS whole. This poster will look at the background of the theoretical framework of environmentalism of In a field that has been dominated by white males deforestation in Brazil. Then the paper will delve the poor to explore Orangi Town’s extralegal for decades, both women and minorities have into the different internal and external actors that formation, grassroots administration, and the struggled to navigate professions in politics. Here, have precipitated this environmental problem. environmental justice consequences of I will analyze how women running for office have Lastly, the paper will look at the outcomes of the incorporation. been perceived by American voters, and how that deforestation in Brazil, both past and present. ______has impacted their careers. Furthermore, I will ______280 • Women's Underrepresentation examine how the intersectionality of race along 278 • How Globalization and Free with gender has an effect on careers in politics. in American Politics ______Trade are Causing Climate Change VANESSA VERDE 

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284 • The Case for Equal Voting 288 • Is the Supreme Court The present study examined aggression and rough- and-tumble play (RTP) during sibling interactions of Laws Across the United States Becoming More Partisan? Latinx and Anglo children. Because of the HANNAH LOWRY TIMOTHY SNYDER importance placed on family harmony and FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL obligations in Latinx culture, it expected that Latinx SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS siblings might show less aggression and RTP than In this poster, I will examine voting laws as they In the past few years, particularly after the Anglo siblings, particularly considering that Latinx vary across the United States. In addition, I will nomination and confirmation of Justices Gorsuch children are taught from an early age to get along examine who benefits and who is hindered by the and Kavanaugh, many have expressed concerns with their siblings and respect each other. A different voting laws found in the United States. I that the Republican Party is taking over the comparison sample of Anglo sibling dyads, expect that this data will show that younger Supreme Court and making it more conservative. matched for age and gender composition, was generations, minorities, and those in lower Looking at the cases that get the most media drawn from an ongoing longitudinal study of sibling socioeconomic classes will be negatively affected attention, such as those regarding abortion or the and friend interactions. Videotapes were by restrictive voter laws; and therefore, turnout is Affordable Care Act, one will see decisions written transcribed and coded for instances of aggressive lower in those states. Additionally, I expect to find by the narrowest of majorities and the Court behaviors and RTP. Three different forms of that states with more easily accessible voting will splitting along party lines. However, I argue that it aggression and RTP were coded for: relational, experience higher turnout, particularly from is mainly on these issues that happen to have a lot physical, and verbal. Latinx sibling dyads showed younger generations, minorities, and those in of public attention where these partisan splits can lower rates of aggressive behavior and much lower lower socioeconomic classes. Overall, my be seen, and really the Robert's Court is just as rates of RTP than the Anglo sibling dyads across the argument will be that in order to have a more unified if not more so than the Court has been in board. Nearly half of the Latinx sibling dyads representative electorate and therefore, more the past. showed no RTP at all. However, patterns of gender representative legislative bodies, the United States differences in RTP were similar for Latinx and Anglo should enact policy that mandates equal voting PSYCHOLOGY dyads, with pairs of brothers producing more RTP rights and access across all states. 102 • African College Students' with pairs of sisters or mixed-gender pairs. For ______both Anglo and Latinx dyads, pairs with older 285 • Public Opinion of Women in Concepts of Sibling Relationships brothers had higher rates of aggressive behavior Politics BRITTANY BEARSS, OUMOU WAGUE, NEHA PATIL, than those with older sisters. Selected for ASSIA BUKURU DANI ALT presentation at Society of Research in Child FACULTY SPONSORS: NICHOLAS PALUMBO, FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Development, Baltimore, MD. PSYCHOLOGY, GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______This work is an extension study of early research Identity politics is a relatively new but an extremely 104 • Environmental Modification presented at GREAT Day 2018. The purpose of this important focus in political science. When it comes extension study is to examine and contextualize of Post-trauma Anxiety and Alcohol to public opinion, gender certainly plays a role in the nature and relevance of African sibling the public's perception and treatment of people in Use Disorders relationships in emerging adulthood. Data the political arena. It is safe to say that women are KATHERINE KOMPANIJEC, KENNEDY PRIEST, collection and analysis has been done on viewed very differently from men in politics. Within GAVIN VAUGHAN, MELISSA HERMAN, HANNAH participants, consisting of 14 African college the demographic of women, there is even more SESERMAN students at SUNY Geneseo who are either disparity between different identities. For my FACULTY SPONSOR: ALLISON BECHARD, immigrants themselves or the children of African presentation I will be examining and analyzing PSYCHOLOGY immigrants. Participants were interviewed during literature on women in politics and discussing how Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a trauma- focus groups to help us phenomenologically different identities influence the role of women induced anxiety disorder that affects millions every investigate the phenomena of interest. The results and how the public sees them. I will study gender day. However, not all individuals that are exposed revealed salient themes of sibling influences and in general, as well as the intersection of different to trauma will develop PTSD, potentially due to sibling parental roles. Emergent findings led to the races, religions, socioeconomic status, and other differing environmental conditions. Those that understanding that older African college students identities . develop PTSD are 3-5 times more likely to develop ______influence their younger siblings in both academic a substance abuse disorder, which suggests a link 286 • Public Opinion and Tax Policy and personal ways of life that shift over time across in their underlying neurobiology. Alcohol is the adolescence. This has led to shared ideas of success most commonly abused substance among AMANDA RICE and strong sibling comparisons due to the desire to individuals suffering from PTSD. To investigate FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL be similar to the siblings that have set personal effects of post-trauma environmental conditions, SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS standards of achievement. This study allowed for a we are conducting a series of tests using a mouse Why do ordinary Americans support policies that deeper understanding of how sibling relationships model. Young C57BL6/J mice exposed to a guarantee large tax cuts for the rich? Public opinion in non-western countries may form and develop predator odor were housed in either standard or polls show that, despite awareness of rising over time. Future research, from different enriched environments. Tests to assess anxiety economic inequality, most ordinary Americans methodological traditions, should use these levels were conducted using the Elevated Plus support tax policies that will worsen the problem findings to develop new understandings about Maze, Light-Dark Box, and Conditioned Fear of inequality among the rich and the poor. African sibling relationships and how they differ ______Extinction. At adolescence, mice will be tested for from sibling relationships of other cultures. their preference to drink alcohol using the 287 • Political Polarization in Selected for presentation at Association of Intermittent Drinking in the Dark paradigm. Contemporary American Politics Psychological Science Conference, Washington, Following a period of withdrawal, relapse induced REILLY O'BRIEN DC. by re-exposure to the alcohol associated context FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL ______will be assessed. We hypothesize that subjects SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 103 • Observed Aggression and reared in the enriched environments will Literature Review of political polarization in Rough-and-Tumble Play in Latinx demonstrate lower levels of anxiety levels and Contemporary American Politics: alcohol use. Findings have the potential to Why we are seeing increased political polarization; and Anglo Children’s Sibling demonstrate the environment as a developmental Sources/causes of political polarization; If/How Relationships modifier of post-trauma anxiety and alcohol use 2016 Election contributed to political polarization; VANESSA CEPEDA, XIARA COLON, CAMILA DE disorders. Selected for presentation at SUNY Political, economic and demographic VASCONCELOS, CARMEN MARTINEZ, DENIS Undergraduate Research Conference, Sanborn, change/instability and polarization; Elite or general MAZARIEGOS NY. polarization?; Elite effect on polarization; Why are FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY ______people divided by politics; Politics and identity ______ Promotes sustainability 47 Posters 1 • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual

105 • The Role of GABA 123 • College Students’ Responses 126 • Literary Analysis of Turtles All Interneurons in the VTA on to Disparaging Humor About The Way Down By John Green and Attenuation of Cocaine Relapse Intellectual Disabilities Connections to the Research on VICTORIA KANTYMYR DIMITRI WING-PAUL, KATHERINE ESTEP Obsessive Compulsive Disorder FACULTY SPONSOR: ALLISON BECHARD, FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY FRANCESCA BARLOWE, ALEXIS CAREY PSYCHOLOGY Disparagement humor aims to “elicit amusement FACULTY SPONSOR: BRADLEY TABER-THOMAS, Cocaine use disorder is characterized by a high through the denigration, derogation, or PSYCHOLOGY likelihood of relapse. Chronic cocaine use is belittlement of a given target” (Ferguson & Ford, The portrayal of characters living with anxiety- associated with changes in glutamate homeostasis 2008, p. 284). According to prejudiced norm based disorders is prevalent in both classical and that promote relapse. Ceftriaxone, a β-lactam theory, when delivered as a joke, prejudicial contemporary works of literature, and the author antibiotic, has been shown in a rat model of self- speech is seen as more acceptable (Ford & has the option of making the condition of their administration of cocaine to attenuate relapse, as Ferguson, 2004). People who already hold negative characters explicit or inferential. In the a function of its ability to restore glutamate attitudes towards a group disparaged by humor novel Turtles All The Way Down by John Green, the homeostasis mechanisms in key brain areas, such may respond with more tolerance for anxieties of the main character, Aza Holmes, is an as the ventral tegmental area (VTA). The VTA is discrimination. To date, no studies of responses to explicit focus for much of the text. Her experiences well-known for its role in drug addiction due to humor disparaging people with intellectual with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are expressed having both glutamatergic and dopaminergic disabilities (ID). This study investigated college in a literary manner, and this portrayal directly neurons, however, less is known about how local students’ confrontational responses to the correlates with research in clinical psychology on GABAergic terminals influence VTA activation. To disparagement of people with ID as related to type OCD and related disorders. In this literary analysis, investigate this intersection of GABA and of speech (joke versus statement) and their pre- we examine the points of intersection between X glutamate, we used immunohistochemistry to co- existing prejudicial attitudes about ID. Results and Y and analyze how the various aspects of a label GAD67 (for GABA) and c-fos (for glutamate) in showed that in the joking condition, intent to psychological disorder can be expressed through the VTA of rats that had previously self- confront was significantly lower among literature, and from a first-person narrative. For administered cocaine and were then treated with participants who had more prejudicial attitudes example, through literary techniques such as ceftriaxone or saline. The total number of GAD about people with ID than those who had less characterization, anecdotes, diction, and syntax, positive cells and GAD/fos positive cells were prejudicial attitudes. In contrast, in the control one can identify the examples of confirmation bias, counted and the percentage of GAD/fos positive condition, intent to confront was high regardless of avoidance, and the importance of peer acceptance cells then calculated. Although we hypothesized participants’ prejudicial attitudes. These findings within the text. This study utilizes these attributes that rats treated with ceftriaxone would show a provide further support for prejudicial norm theory from both disciplines to investigate the reduced percentage of co-labeled GAD/fos positive as applied to an understudied population: people intertextuality that is contained in a English cells, we found no significant differences across with ID. narrative. ______groups. Findings do not suggest a role for ______GABAergic VTA interneurons in ceftriaxone- 124 • Cooperation and Competition 127 • Gender Differences in Conflict induced attenuation of cocaine relapse. During Caribbean, Latinx, and Anglo ______Initiation in 17-Year-Old Sibling 106 • Diurnal Patterns of Attention Sibling Interactions Interactions Bias DOMINIQUE ELLIS, SABRINA CHAN, DIMITRI WING- NICOLE SPENCER, KAYLEIGH SCHNEEBERGER, PAUL, SABRINA BRAMWELL, KAMESHA MILLER RACHAEL THORP, LILLIANA PROE, ANAHI CHABLA, KENNEDY GARDNER, BRIE DERELLA FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: BRADLEY TABER-THOMAS, CLAIRE RODGERS, KATHLEEN HUANG The present study focuses on the differences FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY between Caribbean, Latinx, and Anglo children’s Previous research has shown a correlation As a part of a longitudinal study of sibling and sibling interactions by analyzing their cooperative friend relationships, we examined 17-year-olds’ between anxiety and attentional bias to threat. For and competitive behaviors during a series of tasks. anxious individuals, attentional bias to threat has conflicts with siblings during preparation of either These tasks were given in the form of construction, pizza or brownies. Sibling dyads were one of four been shown to activate areas in the brain such as free-play, and board games in order to elicit the amygdala, which controls the release of the gender combinations (target female sibling female, cooperative (construction), competitive (board target male sibling male, target female sibling stress hormone. This stress hormone, cortisol, game), and both kinds of behavior (free play). follows a diurnal pattern which has been related to male, target male sibling female) and were paired Selected for presentation at Association of with a sibling either fifteen months older or similar patterns of fluctuations with anxiety during Psychological Science Conference, San Francisco, varying times within a day. This pattern follows low younger. Characteristics of observed interactions, CA. specifically target initiated conflicts, were coded levels of cortisol in the morning and during the ______for. Results suggest a unique difference between evening with higher levels in the afternoon. 125 • Chinese-American College Previous research has yet to study the diurnal female-female dyads compared with the other patterns of attention bias to threat and its Students’ Concepts of Sibling three pairings. More specifically, in female-female association with levels of anxiety. To address this Relationships dyads, older sibling targets initiated more conflicts than their younger sibling. Meanwhile, the gap, we examined whether attention biases to SABRINA CHAN, VIVIAN YE, XIAO JUN CHEN opposite effect was observed for the other three threat follows a similar pattern of daily FACULTY SPONSORS: NICHOLAS PALUMBO, groups of dyads, specifically, that the younger fluctuations, and if the variation in that pattern PSYCHOLOGY, GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY sibling initiated more conflicts. The implications of relates to levels of anxiety. To assess this The current study examined the distinct sibling these results indicate there may be a behavioral relationship, in an ongoing study, SUNY Geneseo relationships of Chinese-American college students difference between sisters, and brothers, or mixed- students will complete the Dot-Probe paradigm, and explored the unique characteristics of Chinese which is a commonly used method to measure sex siblings. culture through qualitative inquiry. This ______attention to threat, at four time periods in one day. phenomenological inquiry analyzed focus group The hypothesis is that attentional biases will follow data using thematic analysis (Braun & Clark, 2006). 128 • Gender, Valence, and a similar diurnal pattern as seen with cortisol Emergent themes depict the role of sibling Mitigation in 7-Year-Olds’ Assertive levels, and this pattern will be related to daily responsibilities, maternal influence, and age and Affiliative Language with fluctuations in anxiety. Selected for presentation difference in the sibling relationships of Chinese- at SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Americans. Selected for presentation at Siblings and Friends Sanborn, NY. Association of Psychological Science Conference, MOLLY O'BRIEN, ELYSE FUERST, KAYLA CORDONE, ______Washington, DC. LINDSEY KRIARIS, MIKAELA FREEMAN, NICHOLAS ______TRELINSKI FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY 48  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 1 • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Early childhood is a crucial time for understanding abuse was identified by only 32% of those assigned American Dental Association and the American the social development of youth. As part of a to the sexual misconduct condition. Similarly, Medical Association in the context of the Center for longitudinal study that follows sibling and peer intent to help the victim and intent to delegate Disease Control's policy recommendations. interactions at ages four, seven, and 17, we were significantly greater among those assigned to ______focused on the use of assertive and affiliative the physical versus sexual misconduct condition. 160 • Laws About Transgender language at age seven. Children were taped during Educational interventions are needed to challenge Equality: Is It Really Progress? a free-play task with a same-age sibling and friend. the normalization of the full range of violence LILIA BRIGGS-MCEWEN, TORI FOX - ST. JACQUES Tapes were coded to examine gender differences against women, with a particular emphasis on FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL RESTIVO, in valence and use of mitigation within assertive challenging the normalization of sexual violations. SOCIOLOGY and affiliative language. Significant interactions Challenging normalization could increase From the year 2000 to 2016, there have been a between partner, dyad gender, valence, and bystander recognition and intervention, as well as multitude of court cases regarding the protection mitigation are discussed. Selected for presentation promote safer environments for women. and rights of members of the LGBTQ+ community. at Association of Psychological Science While these legal approaches to achieving equality Conference, San Francisco, CA. SOCIOLOGY ______may appear to be a form of progress, laws may be 129 • College Men’s Willingness to 157 • Let's Talk About Sex used to hinder progress in the sense that they write (Education), Baby legal discrimination and other forms of inequality be an LGBTQ+ Ally: Exploring into law. On the other hand, laws offer a way to BRIANNA KOPACZ protect LGBTQ+ rights in public accommodations, Associations with Attitudes about FACULTY SPONSOR: ELAINE CLEETON, SOCIOLOGY education, and employment. Another approach This research looks at the lack of sex education that Masculinity, Sexism, and would be challenging the cultural acceptability of is being presented to the youth today. Many school discrimination against transgender people. For Heterosexism systems are not keeping up with minimal there to be long lasting progress, should activists DOMINIQUE BROWN, MADELINE REICHLER requirements that are in place, and this research pursue a strategy of changing hearts and minds FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY looks at the societal impacts and actions due to the first, or should they press for legal protections with Normative male socialization experiences may lack of education. Students are not given the hope that cultural changes will follow the foster attitudes about sexuality and gender that information that is necessary to make decisions inhibit men’s willingness to support people who progress made from winning legal battles? about sex, and when they try to get this identify as LGBTQ+. Three types of attitudes were information, it often comes from invalid sources. hypothesized to be related to men’s ally ______STUDENT LIFE identification. Firstly, precarious manhood is the 158 • Over Prescription of Opioids 207 • The Influences of the attitude that masculinity must be continuously guarded. Secondly, amnestic heterosexism is the and Barriers to Alternative Nuremberg Trials on the attitude that people who are LGBTQ+ no longer Treatment Options for Patients international Criminal Court experience discrimination. Thirdly, hostile sexism is JULIANA RAMOS OLIVA the attitude that male power and dominance over with Spinal Cord Injuries EMILY TOY FACULTY SPONSOR: MEG REITZ, STUDENT LIFE women is justified. Sixty-two undergraduate men At the end of World War II, the Allied powers who identified as both heterosexual and non-trans FACULTY SPONSOR: ELAINE CLEETON, SOCIOLOGY The misuse of opioids is a serious public health (United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union, and completed measures of precarious manhood, France), acknowledged the need in the amnestic heterosexism, hostile sexism, and crisis. This poster will explore how over prescription has contributed to the crisis and why international community to protect human beings LGBTQ+ allyship. Hostile sexism was found to be a and their rights, when the state or government unique predictor of ally behavior while precarious alternative treatment options are not being more widely explored. Convinced by economically driven officials failed to do so, as was the case in the manhood and amnestic heterosexism were not. Holocaust. This historically acclaimed event was These results suggest that sexist attitudes about pharmaceutical companies that patients would not become addicted to prescription opioid pain known as the Nuremberg Trials, which laid out the women were more significantly related to inhibited concept of prosecuting crimes against humanity, allyship than either the instability of masculinity or relievers, healthcare providers began to prescribe them at greater rates. Despite the claims of genocide, and crimes against peace. Five decades heterosexist attitudes among 18 to 25 year-olds. later, after the Rwanda genocide and the ethnic These results highlighting the importance of hostile pharmaceutical companies, these drugs proved to be highly addictive. As such, over prescribing cleansing of Former-Yugoslavia, the international attitudes about women may inform ongoing community felt the need to once again take control campus efforts aimed at increasing ally behavior. opioids for chronic pain has become a key driver of America’s epidemic. Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) are of the protection of individuals, creating a more ______permanent body: The International Criminal Court. 130 • Do Bystanders Respond one of the most common sources of chronic pain and can cause significant quality of life issues. The rules and procedures of this court, in Differently to Physical versus Although not as common as drug treatment, there accordance with historical documents and the are many non-pharmaceutical treatments for SCIs. Rome Charter, was strongly influenced by the Sexual Misconduct? Nuremberg Trials. Both international tribunals ELIZABETH MCCABE However, the nuances of insurance company policies present major barriers to alternative represent a force of protection over individuals FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY when there is none. The poster will establish the This study examined bystander responses to therapies for SCIs. Several laws have been passed by the NYS Department of Health to address the similarities and influences that the Nuremberg different forms of intimate partner misconduct: Trials’ laws and procedures had over the physical (grabbing and imminent slapping) or epidemic, but to reach a true solution we must recognize that healthcare is much more than a International Criminal Court. I aim to provide sexual (groping and unwanted kissing). information about these tribunals to educate Undergraduates (N = 402) read and responded to money-making business. ______people about the importance of these courts in dating conflict scenarios in which they witnessed a protecting humanity. young man verbally insult a young woman while 159 • Pill Popping: The Changing ______perpetrating either physical or sexual misconduct. Practice of Medicine in America 208 • The Investigation of Modern Participants were asked to respond to an open- ANNA SPENCE ended question, “what you think is happening and FACULTY SPONSOR: KURT CYLKE, SOCIOLOGY Climate Change and its Effects on what you would do?” Responses were coded by The opioid epidemic in America has reached into Marine Life  undergraduate researchers blind to condition as to every state, class, profession, race and family. The LEIBIN LI abuse identification, intent to directly help the epidemic has spawned a dynamic environment in FACULTY SPONSOR: MEG REITZ, STUDENT LIFE victim, intent to confront the perpetrator, and which all of the major players have had to change Climate change is the result of altered chemistry in intent to delegate/get outside help. Overall, 52% of the way in which they engage with their patients. the atmosphere and oceans. It can be a natural participants randomly assigned to the physical This paper explores the changing reactions of the process or human-induced. Data accumulated over misconduct condition identified abuse, whereas  Promotes sustainability 49 Posters 1 • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual the years shows that current climate change has and the amount of heat they can trap; a higher changing ocean chemistries lead to acidification, been induced by the rapid increase of greenhouse number meaning a greater impact on global sea level rise, and dead zones. In this project, I gases since the industrial revolution. Industrial, warming. This affects the carbon cycle that investigate how modern climate change have agricultural, and fossil fuel processes are the main exchanges carbon dioxide among the earth’s specific effects on marine life. A collective effort in culprits that release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, oceans, and ecosystems. reducing our carbon footprints can help mitigate atmosphere and oceans. Carbon dioxide, methane, Tremendous stress is placed on marine life because these effects. nitrous oxide, and fluorine gases are greenhouse the oceans absorb more heat and greenhouse gases with global warming potentials (GWP). GWP gases from the atmosphere than any other rates how long these gases stay in the atmosphere reservoir on earth. Rising temperatures and

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ANTHROPOLOGY RUTH AJIBOYE, CHALYNE BARROW spectacular sites have drawn archaeologist’s attention FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, away from studying other aspects of these societies 406 • Healthcare in Bulgaria: an ANTHROPOLOGY for generations. In particular, the existence of Ethnographic Approach on How Im/migrant Latino farmworkers face acculturative permanent structures, representing sedentary stress that often times can manifest into mental habitations, are poorly documented and few in Cost Impacts Care illness such as anxiety and depression. Our findings number. The discovery of numerous post molds by LORENZO RODRIGUEZ suggest that barriers faced by this community in Geneseo archaeologists working at the Pickaway FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, accessing healthcare such as language barriers, and County Balthaser Home Site since 2014, has provided ANTHROPOLOGY familial separation could foster these mental key evidence for well documented permanent While there is research examining Bulgaria’s disorders. This research is an ethnographic study structures at a habitation with remains dating to both healthcare infrastructure and economic that consisted of participant observations, periods. In this poster, I will use GIS and Corel Draw to constraints, minimal anthropological research has fieldnotes and interviews with service providers investigate the Adena and Hopewell post mold discussed this topic. In this poster, I present my who worked at health centers that service this patterns discovered at Balthaser Home, displaying findings from an ethnographic research approach population. It makes a nascent attempt to fill this possible house designs and comparing them to other that demonstrates cost as a barrier to care for knowledge gap by analyzing data that summarizes known Adena and Hopewell houses. consumers. Geographic diversity, complex the structural barriers immigrant farmworkers face ______socioeconomic stratification, low funding for in Western New York. Our findings also support 411 • The Balthaser Home Site infrastructure, limited public resources, and the previous evidence that high stressors could lead to Assemblage: Analysis of Stone Tool country’s immigration makes Bulgaria the ideal development of mental disorders. We suggest that country for an ethnographic study of healthcare. I future research be conducted by looking at Technology in an Ohio Hopewell argue that while most consumers have access to prevention and treatment plans that can be Site some clinic or hospital, direct and indirect cost implemented and accessed by this population. operate as a barrier to care. This project funded by ALICE LEE, GRACE BARSTOW- CHRISTOPHER, ______ELIZABETH KITE the Provost’s Ambassador in Diversity. Selected for 409 • Balthaser Bladelets presentation at Society for Applied Anthropology, FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, LIZA AMIRAULT Portland, OR. ANTHROPOLOGY ______FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, This poster represents an analysis of the stone tool 407 • The Reaction of French Locals ANTHROPOLOGY (lithic) assemblage from the Balthaser Home Site Bladelets are a diagnostic multi-purpose tool found located in Pickaway County, Ohio. The assemblage toward American Students of the prolifically in excavations at Ohio Hopewell sites. was collected between 2014-2018 during the French Language They represent a standardized small stone blade collaborative research efforts of the SUNY Geneseo JENNA HARBUS which is systematically manufactured and most and Bloomsburg University archaeological field FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, often made out of high-quality Ohio chert types schools. While the site was chosen because of its ANTHROPOLOGY like Vanport (colloquially known as Flint Ridge). potential as a Ohio Hopewell habitation site. We Literary research shows that when there is an Excavations between 2014-2018 at the Balthaser have also identified an Early Woodland Adena unequal level of communicative competence Home Site, a small domestic Hopewell settlement component here as well. The analysis was between two speakers, the speakers will either located in Pickaway County, Ohio, have produced conducted in an effort to determine the nature of avoid interaction or pursue an assemblage of 293 whole and fragmented the organization of stone tool technology used other strategies (Springer, 22). My research has bladelets. The Balthaser Home Site has been during the various occupations of the site. The found that the lower the level of French speaking plowed for over a hundred years, resulting in most analysis of the distribution and amount of chert skills an American student has, the more likely a bladelets being recovered out of the context of (flint) by means of chert type and size class will French local of Montpellier, France is likely to their features and in the plow zone. This poster allow us to interpret trends in core reduction and switch over to English. This is mainly due to the describes the qualitative and quantitative tool maintenance. We hope to identify patterns in locals either being impatient or wanting to help. attributes of the bladelet assemblage recovered the size and morphology of complete flakes by raw The French locals typically had a positive reaction from the Balthaser Home Site, in order to better material type, spatial distribution, and any or no reaction when told the student is American. I understand the overall assemblage. temporal associations which can be determined. ______argue that the attitudes and communicative By doing so we endeavor to determine the manner competence levels of French locals will determine 410 • Housing Shortage No More! in which and what factors affected the way how they react and interact with American MADALYN BOWEN occupants organized their utilization of chert at students of the French language. FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, this site. ______ANTHROPOLOGY 408 • The Structural and Social The Adena and Ohio Hopewell people, dating to the BIOLOGY Early and Middle Woodland periods @ 500 B.C. - A.D. Factors Impacting Im/migrant 400, are known best for the impressive earthworks 351 • Ichnotaxon Determination of Farmworkers Psychosocial Health and artifact-laden mounds they left behind. These a Controversially-Named Reptile 50  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM

Trackway from the Late Triassic Painted Lady Butterfly, Vanessa 362 • Characterizing Soundscape Passaic Formation (Newark cardui, Larvae and its Implications Differences Across a Woodland Supergroup) of Rockland County, on Roadside Habitat Viability  Transect New York, USA Using 2D Geometric ALEXANDER KAPLAN STEPHEN LOCE, AUSTIN MANN FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTINA HANNAM, BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTINA HANNAM, BIOLOGY Morphometrics In human-dominated landscapes, roadsides often The world we live in is full of sound. These sounds can TIMOTHY CLARK provide unmanaged habitat for a variety of species be categorized into those made by humans, FACULTY SPONSOR: SARA BURCH, BIOLOGY including insect pollinators where they can find anthrophonies, and those made by organisms in the Geometric morphometrics are a useful tool for food and egg-laying sites. A downside of these natural environment, biophonies. Our research exploring the functional morphology of a structure as habitats is they can be heavily impacted by sought to understand how these categories of sounds well as the ecology, taxa, and evolutionary anthropogenic noise. The effects of anthropogenic contribute to the overall soundscape of a local relationships of an animal. A poorly-preserved three- noise on insects have not been researched woodland in autumn. The Indian Fort Nature Preserve toed reptile trackway specimen housed at the New extensively, but a recent study of monarch is a sixty acre parcel of forested land in Geneseo with York State Museum in Albany, New York has butterfly caterpillars showed an increase in heart flora and fauna native to the Northeast United States. controversially been referred to as rate and subsequent increase in stress levels after At this site, we recorded and compared levels of both Atreipus and Grallator. For years, the specimen acute exposure to traffic noise, and habituation anthropogenic and biologic sounds at different times has garnered attention as quite possibly the only and desensitization after chronic exposure. Is there of day across an approximately 800m transect. We dinosaur material ever found in New York State. In evidence of similar physiological stress effects of used Raven Lite, a sound analysis program, to identify order to positively identify the ichnotaxon present on anthropogenic noise in other species? I focused on which taxa were contributing to the biophony in the this trackway, a 2D morphometric analysis was carried the effects of traffic noise exposure on the heart soundscape. Finally, we calculated the Acoustic out with Atreipus, Grallator, and the New York State rates of painted lady butterflies. Traffic recordings Diversity Index across the transect. From these Museum tracks. Preliminary data including digit III were obtained at the road alongside the Roemer analyses, we determined the primary anthropogenic measurements, the results of a principal component Arboretum during rush hour. They were played to contributor to the soundscape to be automobiles analysis (PCA), and the absence of the Grallator- a group of caterpillars for 8 hours using the driving on Route 390. This anthropogenic noise is most producing dinosaurs, such as Coelophysis, in strata Audacity audio software. Heart rates of each frequent around midmorning, and has the highest from the time of deposition suggests that the caterpillar are taken at the start of the recording sound intensity at locations on the transect closest to ichnotaxon present in the New York State Museum and every 2 hours afterwards. I will report on the the highway. Overall, there is little overlap between slab is Atreipus, which is thought to have been differences in heart rates observed based on the anthropogenic and biophonic noise in the produced by a quadrupedal silesaur. A positive differing times of acute exposure and the soundscape, yet future studies should be performed identification of Atreipus would mean that the New relationship this data has with the implications of to identify any effects of this anthropogenic noise. York State Museum specimen was produced by an anthropogenic noise on butterfly populations. ______archosaur, and that no dinosaur material has ever ______363 • A Survey of Bat Species at been found New York State to date. 361 • Can You Hear Me Now? ______SUNY Geneseo 352 • Prey Size Preference Changes to Winter Bird AUSTIN MANN, STEPHEN LOCE Vocalizations and Behaviors in FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTINA HANNAM, BIOLOGY Determination of Modern and North America is home to a host of bat species, yet Fossil Cats Using Geometric Response to Anthropogenic Traffic these organisms are often overlooked in scientific Morphometrics Noise research because they are difficult to capture and monitor. Bats provide numerous ecosystem SOPHIA THOMPSON LEEANN BRUETSCH services such as insect control, pollination, and FACULTY SPONSOR: SARA BURCH, BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTINA HANNAM, BIOLOGY nutrient cycling. As a result, the presence or Cats use their forelimbs as their primary mechanism Bird calls function to communicate potential absence of bats can provide insight into the when it comes to killing prey. Previous studies have threats, and alert others to food sources. Local biodiversity and functioning of an ecosystem. This shown that the prey size preference of cats can be birds are found in natural habitats and those highly research asked: which bat species are present on distinguished based on the shape of the forelimb impacted by humans. Humans can impact habitats SUNY Geneseo’s campus and what locations do bones. We investigated this relationship using through anthropogenic noise, and traffic noise can they use for foraging? During the late summer and geometric morphometrics to landmark the same disrupt bird activity and vocalizations. Effects of early fall of 2018, we used an EchoMeter bat points on the forelimbs of 31 felid species. Results anthropogenic noise on winter behaviors and recorder to record the acoustic calls produced by showed large and small prey specialists largely vocalizations have not been studied intensively, bats during flight. Research sites included the separated along the first principle component axis, but we predict changes in call characteristics in College Green, Roemer Arboretum, and B-Lot. while mixed prey specialists were scattered response to anthropogenic noise. At five study Analysis of the recordings allowed for the positive throughout the graph. This suggests that mixed prey sites: Roemer Arboretum, GVC Research Reserve, identification of big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus), specialists do not have a specific forelimb structure, GVC Island Preserve, and one each in Rush and silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans), while small and large prey specialists are Livonia, bird feeders were set up before data eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis), and hoary bat distinguishable. Cats that hunt large prey had more collection. Autonomous recorders recorded 10 (Lasiurus cinereus) activity on campus. The bats’ robust forelimbs to aid in resisting struggling prey, minutes/hour (6 am - 6 pm) for 48 hours at each activity varied greatly depending on the time of whereas small prey specialists had long and slender site. These recordings were analyzed to assess night and location. All four species were recorded forelimbs to aid in quick capture of the animal. We relative traffic density, relative bird activity, and at all three locations, but the Arboretum had the then investigated the classification of extinct cats. 11 vocalizations. Next, we collected 1-hour audio highest level of activity. This research helps fossil species were added to the data and a principle recordings of Black-capped Chickadee and demonstrate that bats actively forage on campus, component analysis was performed. Pseudaelurus, American Goldfinch vocalizations in the morning (6 and point to several research questions for the the most basal of the 42 species, plotted in the middle am - 10 am) and afternoon (12 pm - 5 pm) while noting species identity and behavior during future. of the first principle component axis. This suggests ______that this primitive cat was not a specific prey specialist recordings. We used Raven Pro to measure and most likely hunted a variety of prey before other maximum and minimum frequency of each 364 • Competition for Seed cats were derived. Selected for presentation at vocalization, call length, and intervals between Dispersers Between Native and Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Conference, notes and between calls. We will report on differences between species and sites, and Invasive Plant Species Albuquerque, NM. EVAN BURR ______relationship of vocalization characteristics to anthropogenic noise. FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY 360 • Effects of Anthropogenic ______In fruiting plants, competition for seed dispersers is an Traffic Noise on Heart Rates of important factor in regeneration of the population.  Promotes sustainability 51 Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual

Partitioning niches across either disperser type or time students benefit similarly from a class where two- analyzed using the programming language R. Our facilitates the coexistence of plant species in a habitat stage pyramid testing is employed. Final exams results indicate that birds do not preferentially filled with competing plants. An example of a habitat from previous semesters of BIOL 203: Principles of spread invasive plant species but suggest that where invasive fruiting species are common are Ecology were evaluated on a question per question invasive Lonicera maackii seeds may possess secondary successional forests such as SUNY basis for the lowest and highest scoring students chemicals that would inhibit the growth of co- Geneseo's Roemer Arboretum, with its variety of within each group. The individuals’ exams were dispersed native seeds. Selected for presentation native and invasive fruiting species. We analyzed the compared to their respective group’s exam by at Northeast Natural History Conference, fruit production over two fruiting seasons for a subtracting the individuals’ score on each question Springfield, MA. selection of invasive species, such as Lonicera from their group’s score, giving positive, negative, ______maackii (Amur honeysuckle) and native species, such or zero differences. A positive difference between 369 • Comparing Resource as Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper), to the two exams confirms effective cooperative Allocation of Fruiting Native and identify any partitioning of temporal niches and how testing, whereas a negative difference does not. No this might influence the species interactions. For the difference between the scores implies that Invasive Species same plants each week, we counted the number of cooperative learning is neither beneficial nor RHEANNA MEIER fruit present in three stages (green, intermediate, and deleterious to the student. Preliminary results FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY ripe) for two fruiting seasons. Our results show that suggest that all students benefit from cooperative The ability of invasive plant species to rapidly overtake multiple invasive species overlap in fruit production testing, regardless of how they scored on their native flora has become a growing problem in the with native species, though between-year variation in individual exam. Northeast US and elsewhere. A variety of mechanisms phenology changes the degree of overlap. Thus we ______contribute to this ability, such as different strategies of found evidence for competition between native and 367 • Using Camera Traps to Test resource allocation to fruit and flowers in native invasive species for fruit dispersers. This can cause Optimal Foraging Theory in Gray compared to invasive species. Life history theory potential stress on the native species population suggests that fruit and flower size should be inversely regeneration should they be outcompeted by an Squirrels related, since the plant has a finite number of invasive counterpart. Selected for presentation at BRIANA SAMBUCHI resources. We hypothesize that there is a ratio of fruit Northeast Natural History Conference, Springfield, FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTINA HANNAM, BIOLOGY to flower size that allow invasive species to quickly MA. Foraging theory addresses decisions animals make outcompete native species—a larger flower would ______while foraging for food, assuming they are trying to allow for better pollination, but a larger fruit would 365 • Analysis of Soil Seed Bank for maximize food intake and minimize energy loss. allow for better dispersal. To test this hypothesis, we One decision an animal makes is how long to spend measured both fruit length and width, as well as Secondary Successional Forest at a food patch; they must forage there long flower area of multiple native and invasive species DUSTIN LIEB, EVAN BURR enough to obtain an optimal food intake, but not found in the Roemer Arboretum on campus. FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY past the point that intake rate declines. We can Preliminary results show that fruit size is similar across Soil seed banks serve as warehouses of genetic examine animals’ decisions about how long to stay, both native and invasive species. However, invasive diversity for plant species, providing disturbed and when to give up and find another food patch. species have much larger flowers. These findings environments with an abundance of photosynthetic We are using Eastern gray squirrels to develop a suggest that invasive species have an advantage when organisms ready to fill any available niche. A soil seed test of these foraging theory ideas. We set up a it comes to reproduction. Additionally, these results bank consists of the seeds that have dispersed from food tray and a camera trap to record the activity may also indicate that fruit and flower size are not previous seasons and buried in the soil. In much of the of the squirrels at the trays. We hypothesized that completely inversely related—perhaps the plant world today, human disturbance has introduced non- each organism would not stay at the tray until the allocates resources to other areas, such as root native species into many natural soil seed banks, in food was completely depleted, but rather would production. Selected for presentation at Northeast turn leading to higher stress and competition for only stay until they reached their optimal time Natural History Conference, Springfield, MA. native plants. In the northeastern United States, non- foraging in that patch. We are determining ______native shrubs, such as Lonicera morrowii and Elaegnus whether camera trap footage can be used to 370 • Invasive Plant Networks in umbellata, compete with native shrubs, such testing the hypothesis that squirrels decide when New York Communities as Cornus racemosa and Rubus occidentalis. Because to leave a patch by taking into account both their JACOB WALTER, NOELLE STASO seed dispersers (such as birds) seem to show a foraging time and energy intake. Using the FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY preference towards non-native berries over native technical advancements of camera traps, we are A plant species in any given community may occupy ones, the seed bank in the soil below native and non- highlighting the foraging activities of Eastern gray an ecological niche that has developed within a native plants should show a higher abundance of non- squirrels and how they demonstrate foraging network of species interactions over evolutionary native plants. Five soil samples taken under native theory. shrubs and five soil samples taken under non-native ______time. When a plant species is introduced to another shrubs were placed in trays and allowed to germinate. 368 • Assessing the Role of Avian ecosystem and successfully naturalizes, it can alter the Results from the germination process suggest that soil invaded ecosystem. The successful invasion of the first plots under native plants produce higher proportion of Seed Dispersal in the Spread of non-native species may facilitate the successful native plants as well as higher plant densities Invasive Plant Species invasion of other species from its native community. compared to soil samples taken from under non- PHOEBE HARTVIGSEN, KIERSTEN COATES Using vegetation survey data collected by the New native plants. FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY York National Heritage Program we constructed ______Invasive plant species use a variety of ecological network visualizations to understand the magnitude 366 • An Analysis on the Diversity tactics in order to spread, often drastically of non-native plant invasions. We constructed these of Success in a Cooperative changing the vegetative landscape. This alters networks for five communities throughout New York fruiting phenology and therefore affects animal state: Whiteface Mountain, Pleasant Lake State Learning Community species such as pollinators and frugivores. Some Forest, Grass River Wild Forest, Otter Creek, and Stone ALLENA JAMISON plants use frugivores such as birds to enable more Valley. These network visualizations will help to FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY efficient dispersal of their seeds, which allow these evaluate the extent at which plant species from the Research has shown that students will perform plants to colonize a wider range with more viable same community are invading communities in New significantly higher when they partake in seeds due to scarification provided by the birds’ York. Based on preliminary results, species found in cooperative learning. One way to implement digestive enzymes. Our study took place in the the grasslands of nemoral forests in Northeastern cooperative learning into the classroom is by the Spencer J. Roemer Arboretum on the SUNY Europe have been the most successful invaders. use of two-stage pyramid testing because it allows Geneseo campus. We collected data by walking Identifying the extent of non-native species students evaluate their own and peer’s knowledge along a set transect each week and collecting seeds reassociation within a community may be useful to during the experience. Two-stage pyramid testing dispersed by birds as both feces and regurgitations manage the introduction and further invasion of non- allows for students to take an exam individually during the summer and fall of 2018. The data were native species. and again within a group setting. I asked if all ______52  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM

371 • Land Use and Tree Diversity  Geneseo students have been studying different cells of the retina to die in the later stages KAILA MCKIERNAN, CATHERINE KILADA schistosomiasis in the community since 2014, and of their development. We hypothesis that this is FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY have conducted a knowledge, attitudes and the cause of faulty cell signaling in the Wnt and The decisions people make regarding tree choice has practice survey every year since 2016. A sonic hedgehog signaling pathways. To examine the ability to impact the environment on a large scale. questionnaire was administered to children in the our hypothesis, we performed in A person’s decision of planting a native or nonnative school to investigate familiarity with parasitic situ hybridizations assaying select genes of each species has the ability to change biodiversity and infections as well as their health-related behaviors pathway to determine if their expression was impact the ecosystem of a given environment. Our and habits. Over the three years that the survey impaired in gef-mutants as compared to normal research aims to analyze the reasons and choices has been given, there was no decrease in lake zebrafish embryos. ______people make regarding tree type in order to identify water usage for swimming, cooking/cleaning, the impact these choices have on the environment. fetching water, fishing, and a minimal decrease in 376 • Evolution of Forelimb Size We distributed a paper version of our survey to the schistosomiasis infection. Fewer students reported and Shape in Nonavian Theropod urination near the lake but also in knowledge of residents of the town of Geneseo and conducted an Dinosaurs online survey with the Geneseo student body in order schistosomiasis. Lack of change in health behaviors COREY STEIN to determine if there is a common trend across New may reflect economic constraints on choices that FACULTY SPONSOR: SARA BURCH, BIOLOGY York State regarding tree choice and diversity. Our villagers face as well as lack of infrastructure. ______Nonavian theropod dinosaurs represents a diverse preliminary results conclude that the top three group of bipedal tetrapods. In this group, the reasons one has for planting a tree are aesthetics, 374 • Analysis of the Retinal relationship of forelimb length to body size can amount of shade, and the native status of the tree. We Degeneration Pathway in chaf1b provide insight regarding the primary function of will also examine the link between the types of trees Zebrafish Mutants the forelimbs. This study used phylogenetic one chooses to plant and the person’s reasoning. It is LINDSEY DRESSLER regressions and stepwise Ornstein-Uhlenbeck important for both the scientific community and the FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY modeling to investigate large-scale trends in general public to be aware of how their tree choice Zebrafish embryos homozygous for chaf1b loss-of- forelimb size and shape evolution across the 120 can alter potentially harm the local ecosystem. function alleles display a reduction in eye size compared theropod taxa. Ornstein-Uhlenbeck modeling was Selected for presentation at Northeast Natural to wild-type siblings. Many cells of the chaf1b mutants used to detect convergence of relative forelimb History Conference, Springfield, MA. ______degenerate, leading to a failure of retinal and brain size in theropod groups and test the likelihood of development, resulting in lethality of affected different hypothesis on forelimb evolution. 372 • A Knowledge, Attitudes, and organisms. Embryos mutant for chaf1b where Tp53 was Phylogenetic Least Squares regressions were used Practices Survey of Schistosomiasis inhibited by morpholino knockdown showed decreased to identify correlations between the size and shape in a Peri-urban Informal markers of apoptosis including expression of Tp53- of forelimb, humerus, antebrachium and scapula target genes (Fischer et al.). Morpholino knockdown of across clades. Results of model-testing found Community in Ghana Tp53 failed to prevent cell death in gef mutants assayed strong support for three evolutionary regimes in SARAH BRACY by Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end the forelimb, humerus and antebrachium, whereas FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN MUENCH, BIOLOGY labeling (TUNEL). Apoptosis in the central retinal the scapula showed the greatest likelihood of only Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease of gef mutants, where Tp53 protein levels were one regime. Tyrannosaurs and abelisaurs showed prevalent especially in sub-Saharan Africa. While downregulated, was still present. The difference seen evidence of convergence towards a similar there are five different types of schistosome in gef versus t24412 embryos could be explained by a forelimb ratio. Results of the regression analysis species, this study focuses on Schistosoma failure to completely inhibit Tp53 protein expression. To found negative allometry in each bone analyzed. mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium due to test whether Tp53 is required for the cell death seen This indicates that as theropods got larger, their their high prevalence in Ghana, Africa. Because the in gef embryos, we performed phenotypic analysis on forelimbs were relatively smaller. These results schistosome parasite is transmitted through water embryos from an intercross of adults heterozygous for suggest that forelimb evolution in nonavian contact, understanding water contact practices the gef mutation and loss-of-function allele theropod dinosaurs was complex and it is likely such as swimming, fishing, bathing, and washing is of tp53, zdf1. Phenotypic analysis of these embryos that functional constraints played an important necessary to prevent infection. Poor sanitation failed to show rescue of apoptosis based on expected role. (urination and defecation along the lake), results in Mendelian ratios. To confirm the tp53 genotype of ______infection of the obligate snail intermediate host. embryos displaying the gef-mutant phenotype, small- 377 • Expression of Notch Pathway Every year, SUNY Geneseo students travel to eyed embryos from double heterozygous intercrosses Genes in gef Mutant Danio rerio Tomefa to gather information on schistosomiasis were subjected to restriction fragment length AMANDA YOUNG, SARA FEINLAND prevalence and reinfection rates, and to provide polymorphism analysis. Selected for presentation at FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY health education to the community. Using Northeastern Society of Developmental Biology, Good effort (gef) mutants were identified by a children’s books, songs, and games, SUNY Geneseo Woods Hole, MA. students have attempted to raise awareness and ______mutagenesis screening of Danio rerio (zebrafish) and increase knowledge about schistosomiasis, and 375 • Examination of Cell Signaling are characterized by an underdeveloped retina by 3 using questionnaires, have investigated behaviors days post fertilization (dpf) and lethality at 7 dpf. attitudes that increase the likelihood of infection. in gef-Mutant Zebrafish Subsequent research found a three base pair deletion Unfortunately, reinfection rates remain high, and WILLIAM MEYER in the chaf1b gene of gef mutants. Chaf1b is known to schistosomiasis remains prevalent. FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY be part of a protein complex which loads histones on ______In recent years, zebrafish have grown in newly replicated DNA, and if mutated, failure to load 373 • Health Behaviors and prominence as a model organism for complex, histones properly could affect transcription of genes eukaryotic biological systems. Their high fecundity and be responsible for the small-eye phenotype in gef Schistosome Infection in Children in and relatively low cost make them useful in genetic mutants. To investigate the effects an Informal Periurban Community studies and screens. This allows us to isolate many of chaf1b mutation on retinal development, deep- in Ghana mutant phenotypes in zebrafish which resemble RNA sequencing and DAVID bioinformatic analysis diseases in humans. In our experiment, we highlighted genes of shared pathways that are ASHLYN NARDI, JASON NIETZSCHMANN examine a particular mutation which results in downregulated in gef mutants compared to wild type FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN MUENCH, BIOLOGY abnormal development of the zebrafish retina embryos. Two genes, notch1a and her15.1, were Schistosomiasis is a disease caused by flatworm which may give insight into retinal developmental. selected for further study. These genes are normally parasites that affects more than 200 million people The good effort (gef) mutant zebrafish develop expressed in the spine, head, and retina and are part globally. Human hosts become infected through normally for two days but are unable to finish of the Notch signaling pathway, which is essential for contact with water contaminated with human development of a functional retina and retinal development. Loss-of-expression of these waste. Tomefa is an informal periurban community degenerate. The gef mutation causes retinal cells genes might contribute to the gef-mutant with a very high prevalence of schistosomiasis. which would normally differentiate into the phenotype.We expect less expression of these two  Promotes sustainability 53 Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual genes in the retina. We compared expression 358 • Fostering STEM Interest in orientation of a prolate was required in order to of notch1a and her15.1 by in situ hybridization in gef- reproduce the extracted peptide coverage ratio, Q. mutant and wild-type embryos. Selected for Elementary School Students The involvement of a secondary layer was suggested; presentation at Northeast Society of Developmental Through Neuroscience: A Look at this secondary layer was considered to be due to the Biology, Woods Hole, MA. Community Outreach in Geneseo’s networking of the peptides. Both Aβ1-40 and β2M are ______considered to have a partial charge (especially d+) 378 • Using PCR to find Endemic Rkids After-school Program distribution centering around the prolate axis. The α- Viruses in Zebrafish ANNA BELTRAMINI, ANNIKA MOUNTS, JACKSON syn, on the other hand, possesses a distorted charge PULIZZI distribution. For relatively lower Q (i.e., Q < 0.56), a DAVID SHING SHUN LEUNG, KATIE HAN FACULTY SPONSORS: KATE REGNER, CENTER FOR prolate was assumed to conduct a gyration motion, FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY COMMUNITY, TERENCE BAZZETT, NEUROSCIENCE maintaining the spiking-out orientation in order to fill Zebrafish has become a popular research model in As a way to encourage community service and in the unoccupied space with a tilting angle of the last years and several diseases affecting application-based learning NEUR 215: Applications approximately 25º. Selected for presentation at zebrafish research facilities have been reported. in Neuroscience connects undergraduate students American Chemistry Conference, Albuquerque, NM. While there are numerous bacterial, protozoan, at Geneseo with underserved children in the ______and metazoan diseases, there has only been one surrounding community. As in previous semesters, 313 • Observation of Peptide documented case of a naturally occuring viral children in 3rd-5th grade who participate in this infection in zebrafish. Viruses have the potential to enrichment program benefit from weekly tutoring "Coverage Shell " Over Nano-gold alter the results of experimentation in ways that sessions, but the goal of this course is to further Surface have been observed in other model organisms such engage them in interactive learning through ISHAN DESHMUKH, ERIC KOESSLER as the mouse where viral infections have resulted neuroscience related activities. Additionally, the FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, in interference with the development of embryos. experience of being on campus and interacting CHEMISTRY The lack of known natural viral infections of within a college setting is used to stimulate a The formation of peptide coverage shell was zebrafish is unlikely due to their absence, but is positive association with higher education. identified for the first time. The amyloid beta 1-40 likely a result of the few investigations aiming to Sessions are designed with the intention of (Aβ1-40) was gradually added to the gold colloidal characterize these infections. Through the use of creating an enjoyable learning environment while particles with the size of 20 nm. We discovered two PCR viral infections can be characterized with a providing exposure to STEM based lessons. Some concentration range exhibit the step-function like high degree of specificity. We used nested PCR activities include learning the anatomy and of response for gold aggregate formation. While with primers that were previously designed and function of the brain, exploring communication the first step function implies the semi-aggregation validated in other closely related fish species that between the brain and the heart, and touring of gold colloids, the second step function indicates target the unique thymidine kinase gene of cryptid various research facilities on campus. By providing the completion of gold colloid aggregates. Based herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3). Apart from CyHV-3, carp early exposure to these neuroscience-related on this observation, we are currently building up edema virus (CEV), and the spring viremia of carp concepts, the children are encouraged to see STEM the aggregation model which possess certain virus were also investigated. As the spring viremia as an interesting and viable career path. threshold coverage at over that value the surface of carp virus is an RNA virus, RT-PCR was run on potential is set for the peptide–peptide sickly fish in the Bailey laboratory vivarium. networking. ______CHEMISTRY ______379 • Examining the Transgene 301 • Establishment of Peptide 314 • Investigation of Amyloid Beta neurod4:GFP in Zebrafish Coverage Measurement Conformation at Nanoscale Development DAVID AKANONU, KAYLEE HAUSRATH, GUS FORMATO Interface HALEY SAUNDERS FACULTY SPONSORS: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, ERIC KOESSLER, GUS FORMATO FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, The proneural gene neurod4 is expressed in the The adsorption of amyloidogenic peptides, amyloid CHEMISTRY developing retina and olfactory neurons of the zebrafish beta 1-40 (Aβ1-40), alpha-synuclein (α-syn), and The amyloid beta (Aβ) conformation at interfacial embryo. Although a role in olfactory neuron beta 2 microglobulin (β2M), was attempted over condition provides very critical information of peptide differentiation is known with neurog1, little is known the surface of nano-gold colloidal particles, ranging networking, which can lead to fibrillogenesis (a about its role in retinal development and regeneration. from d =10 nm and 100 nm in diameter (d). The hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease). Our group has We generated a neurod4 reporter transgene using the spectroscopic inspection between pH 2 and pH 12 discovered that Aβ peptide can conduct a reversible 2.1 kb 5’ genomic DNA fused to the coding region of successfully extracted the critical pH point (pHo) at self-assembly process between folded (at pH 10) and GFP. We have analyzed the expression pattern of this which the color change of the amyloidogenic unfolded (at pH 4) conformation over nano-gold transgene and are comparing expression by peptide coated nano-gold colloids occurred due to particles. By using circular dichroism spectroscopy, we hybridization chain reaction (HCR). Disruption of aggregation of the nano-gold colloids. The change investigated the secondary structures of Aβ under Neurod4 protein expression was inhibited by in surface property caused by the degree of differing pH conditions. Depending on the nanosize morpholino knockdown in light-damaged retinas, which peptide coverage was hypothesized to reflect the gold particles, the α-helical structure was either allows us to understand that neurod4 was involved in difference of pHo between bare gold colloids and remained or destroyed. At relatively larger size of gold the cell cycle after tissue damage because there was peptide coated gold colloids. The coverage ratio colloid, we observed more folding in peptides implying more expression of neurod4 after the 72 hours of light (Q) for all amyloidogenic peptides over gold colloid that nanoscale surface potential affect the damage. During the spring of 2019, we have started the of different sizes was extracted by assuming Q = 0 conformation of peptide. next generation of in situ hybridization (ISH), which is a when there is no pHo shift. Remarkably, Q was ______hybridization chain reaction (HCR). The HCR is a new found to have a nano-gold colloidal size 315 • Probing the Charged Surface method that yields precise results without the length dependence, however, this nano-size dependence and error rate of the traditional ISH protocols. This Potential (Zeta-Potential) of was not simply correlated with d. method utilizes small RNA probes that are ______Amyloid Beta Peptide Covered Gold complementary to the mRNA in study, which allows a chain reaction in which charged and fluorescently 312 • Determination of Nano-scale Nanoparticles labeled hairpins assemble to polymerize the probe Adsorption Orientation of Peptide GUS FORMATO, ERIC KOESSLER amplifying even a weak signal. Selected for presentation AKANE ICHIKI, ISHAN DESHMUKH FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, at Central New York Zebrafish Meeting, Syracuse, NY. FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY While the amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides easily CENTER FOR COMMUNITY The geometric analysis and simulation was conducted aggregate to form amyloid (fibril) under acidic by assuming a prolate shape of all amyloidogenic condition, nano gold particles do not aggregate. peptides. The simulation concluded that a spiking-out Under Aβ coated over gold nano-colloidal surface, 54  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM gold colloids proceed aggregates easily. However, 318 • Disubstituted Naphthalene The oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes and ketones is not so much information on surface potential have among the important class of reactions in organic been investigated. We propose to directly measure Diimides Binding to DNA G- chemistry. Classical methods used to oxidize primary the surface charged potential (ζ-potential) by using Quadruplexes and secondary alcohols into aldehydes and ketones the direct light scattering method. While a bare JOSEPH KANLONG utilize chromium-based reagents such as pyridinum gold colloid posses a negative surface potential, FACULTY SPONSOR: RUEL MCKNIGHT, CHEMISTRY chlorochromate (PCC) and sodium dichromate Aβ covered gold colloid showed a positive We have carried out studies of a series of disubstituted (Na2Cr2O7). There has been an increasing interest potential implying the surface condition was totally naphthalene diimides (NDIs) binding to a human throughout the years to use supported reagents in changed due to the attachment of peptides. The ζ- telomeric G-quadruplex (G4) DNA sequence tandem with these reactions, particularly with silica gel. potential clearly exhibit the change in colloidal [5’G3(T2AG3)3]. The G-rich sequences of DNA are able Despite the abundance of reported reactions carried surface charge distribution reflecting coverage to form G-quadruplexes and are found in the out in silica gel in the literature, it is surprising that little ratio or conformation of adsorbed peptides. telomeric regions at the ends of chromosomes, as well is known about using sand as the medium for solid ______as near the promoter regions of oncogenes, implying support, despite both have the same chemical formula 316 • Attempt of Raman Imaging they could have a role in the inhibition of telomerase (SiO2), degree of crystallinity, and porosity but different Study for Amyloid Beta Coated and downregulation of oncogene expression, both of price. Herein, we report some of our results regarding which should result in an inhibition of cancer growth the oxidation of selected primary and secondary Nano-gold Colloidal Particle and proliferation. Four unique NDIs have been studied alcohols by co-grinding (NH4)2Cr2O7 with washed sand. KAYLEE HAUSRATH, AKANE ICHIKI, GUS using isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), Using toluene or acetonitrile, primary and secondary FORMATO fluorescence displacement, and circular dichroism alcohols are oxidized cleanly into aldehydes and ketones FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, (CD), showing that they bind to and stabilize G4 DNA. respectively based on TLC monitoring and 1H and 13C- CHEMISTRY Fluorescence displacement studies using thioflavin-T NMR of the crude material. Current progress focuses on The conformation of amyloid beta (Aβ) placed at (a fluorogenic dye known to bind with G4 DNA) preparing aldehydes and ketones using the developed nano-metal surface has been a great interest to showed that the NDIs evicted the thioflavin-T from its reaction and comparison to silica gel-supported identify the conformational change significant for binding site on the quadruplexes, demonstrating that oxidation reactions. Selected for presentation at SUNY both adsorption and networking. However, they bind by intercalating or end-stacking with the Undergrad Research Conference, Sanborn, NY. identification and detection of this conformation is quadruplexes. Thermodynamic binding parameters ______extremely difficult due to no appropriate obtained from the ITC confirmed strong binding of the 321 • Dynamical Investigation of spectroscopic method which is suited for detecting NDIs to G4 DNA. The binding of these disubstituted Adsorption Orientation of Amyloid the signal associated with interface environment only. NDIs suggests promising potential as lead compounds The recent development of Raman imaging technique for new therapeutic drugs. Beta Peptide 1-40 at Nano-scale is exactly the method which uniquely detects the ______Gold Surface Under Water signal of peptide only at the interface area. The direct 319 • Binding of Telomeric DNA G- spectroscopic data will identify the mode (vibrational Environment mode) associated with the structure of the peptide. Quadruplexes by Abietane SAKURA HAMAZAKI, STEPHANIE LEE We attempt to utilize available Raman Imaging system Diterpene Natural Products FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, to test our sample to search for the possibility of using JOSEPH KANLONG, SARAH OSTROWSKI CHEMISTRY this instrument for our future project. FACULTY SPONSOR: RUEL MCKNIGHT, CHEMISTRY The energy relaxation process of an electronically ______We have carried out studies on a homologous excited fluorescein dye embedded to the amyloid beta 317 • Nanoscale Interfacial series of abietane diterpenes binding to a human peptide 1-40 (Aβ1-40; fluorescein attached amyloid beta 1-40, FAβ) was examined as FAβ interacted with Interaction of Amyloid Beta Peptide telomeric G-quadruplex (G4) DNA sequence [5’G3(T2AG3)3]. These G4 DNA structures are various sizes of gold nano-colloidal particles ranging in 1-40 with ThT found in G-rich telomeric regions at the ends of size between 10 nm and 100 nm in diameter. The JUSTIN SLOVAK, GUS FORMATO chromosomes and near promoter regions of fluorescence profile accurately reflected which FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, oncogenes. Targeted stabilization of G-quadruplex segment of Aβ1-40 was used for the adsorption over the CHEMISTRY DNA by drugs has been implicated in telomerase nano-gold surface. It was concluded that the FAβ Amyloid beta peptide 1-40 (Aβ1-40) was prepared inhibition and downregulation of oncogenes, both adsorbed over the nano-colloidal surface through the over nanogold colloidal surfaces together with of which should result in an inhibition of cancer hydrophobic (C-terminal side) in water. Further, the thioflavin T (ThT) dye as a fluorophore. The growth. The abietane diterpenes are a class of entire dynamical profile of fluorescein was fluorescence assay of ThT displayed two different natural products isolated from certain plants successfully explained by a relative degree of types of fluorescence bands: 1) mainly originating (e.g., Hyptis verticillata) known in many cultures interaction between a fluorescein and the gold nano- from free-ThT and 2) ThT significantly interacted for their anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, and particle surface. Particular nano-size dependent with Aβ1-40. The ThT directly interacted with Aβ1-40 anti-cancer medicinal benefits. Binding dynamical features were observed at pH 10-12 adsorbed over the gold colloidal surface. A series characteristics were evaluated using circular (corresponding folded conformation of Aβ1-40) in of studies on fluorescence decay time were dichroism (CD) spectroscopy, UV-thermal water and gave a high correlation with nano-size collected at various pHs ranging from pH 1 to pH denaturation and fluorescence displacement dependent coverage features of Aβ over the nano- 12, and with several gold colloidal sizes ranging studies. Overall, our studies show that the abietane gold colloidal surface. Selected for presentation at from 10 nm to 100 nm. It was concluded that ThT diterpenes of this study bind to human telomeric American Chemical Society, Rochester, NY. ______attached to either 22-Glu or 23-Asp of the Aβ1-40 G4 DNA, with selected compounds binding through an electrostatic interaction between strongly. The binding of these abietane diterpenes 322 • Determination of Aggregate's adjacent Aβ1-40 monomers, as Aβ1-40 proceeds a to G4 DNA suggests promising therapeutic Distance for Amyloidogenic folding conformational change. The spacing potential as lead compounds and warrants further Peptides at Nano-Scale Interface between adjacent Aβ1-40 monomers was increased investigation. Selected for presentation at STEPHANIE LEE for gold colloidal sizes of 50 nm and above. An Experimental Biology, Orlando, FL. identification of the ThT attachment site in Aβ1-40 ______FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, simultaneously confirmed that the hydrophobic 320 • Investigating Oxidation of CHEMISTRY segment of Aβ1-40 was used in binding to the gold We successfully identified the layer of Beta-2- colloidal surface and the hydrophilic site of Aβ1-40 is Alcohols with (NH4)2Cr2O7 in microglobulin (β2M) to be approximately 0.9 nm in width over gold colloid surface ranging between 10 used in networking with the other Aβ1-40 adsorbed Washed Sand on the gold colloidal surface. EMILY TOY, JOHN LEPORE nm to 100 nm. This layer is responsible for β2M to ______FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT TORREGROSA, be coated over gold colloid particles. From CHEMISTRY geometric simulation, a monolayer is formed for adsorption of peptides, and a multi-layer is formed as peptides form networking. The layer’s thickness  Promotes sustainability 55 Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual showed signs of being not dependent on the size of ALLISON FERNANDEZ back to the academic setting. SUNY Geneseo’s Soaring the gold colloid. We are currently investigating the FACULTY SPONSORS: KIRK ANNE, COMPUTING & Stars Summer Program is an inclusive, Reggio Emilia- segments responsible for adsorption and INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; ELIZABETH inspired summer enrichment learning program which networking. HUTCHISON, BIOLOGY; ANNE PELLERIN PHYSICS serves economically disadvantaged students entering ______& ASTRONOMY Grades 1 through 6. The Program provides students 323 • Networking of of One of the most extreme examples of bacterial with inquiry-based learning experiences across a Amyloidogenic Peptides Over Nano- polyploidy known can be found in Epulopiscium sp. type variety of disciplines in a low-risk setting. Students in B. This giant bacterium maintains thousands of copies of the Program have increasingly endured adverse Gold Colloidal Particles’ Surfaces. its genome and successfully manages its resources in childhood experiences and are diagnosed with JULIAN BARBER, STEPHANIE LEE the face of it’s surface-area-to-volume ratio. We used anxiety, depression, PTSD, reactive attachment FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, interdisciplinary techniques to analyze the spatial disorder, and other conditions. This case study was CHEMISTRY distribution of chromosomes in the extremely polyploid conducted on three students affected by childhood The amyloidogenic peptide networking at nano- intestinal symbiont Epulopiscium sp. type B. We have trauma who attended the Program in the summer of scale interfacial region was examined. An extracted rendered computer-generated three-dimensional 2018, and it investigated how the Program impacted average distance of networking between adjacent images of two localized chromosomal regions, labeled their transitions back to school, how the Reggio Emilia- gold colloids supports the binding of peptides as if with either a green or red fluorescent probe. Upon inspired aspects of the Program affected the students’ they are “entangled” and enclosed in an interfacial analysis of the chromosome probes, we filtered them development, and how the program can improve its distance that was found to be approximately 2 nm. based on magnitude of fluorescence, and determined practices and setting to be supportive for students The complex nano-size dependence of Q was their X and Y positions using well-known astronomy affected by childhood trauma. Implications of this explained by the available spacing between analysis software. After applying the model to additional research may also be pertinent to schools, teachers, adjacent prolates. When the secondary layer was images of Epulopiscium sp. type B, we will use statistical and other professionals in education looking for ways formed, Aβ1-40 and b2m possessed a higher affinity analysis to predict whether the chromosomes appear to integrate Reggio Emilia principles with practices to a partially negative nano-gold colloidal surface. randomly or non-randomly distributed within cells. If which are responsive to students affected by adverse On the other hand, a-syn peptides tend to interact the chromosomes are not randomly distributed, this childhood experiences. with each other. This difference was explained by provides support that Epulopiscium sp. Type B is actively ______the difference in partial charge distribution over a organizing its chromosomes. 459 • Segregation in Public Schools monomer. Both Aβ1-40 and b2m are considered to in 1967-1968 Compared to Today have a partial charge (especially d+) distribution ECONOMICS centering around the prolate axis. ANDREW NICCITTA 462 • Prawn introduction in Ghana; FACULTY SPONSOR: JANE MORSE, EDUCATION Decreasing Schistosomiasis and This research compares racial segregation in public COMPUTING & INFORMATION elementary schools in 1967-1968, to segregation in TECHNOLOGY Aiding in Economic Growth schools today, fifty-five years after Brown v. Board. 463 • Development of Video LUCAS SUTTON I compared the results of a 1974 study on FACULTY SPONSORS: PALLAVI PANDA; segregation by Farley and Taeuber to the results of Monitoring Methods to Quantify ECONOMICS; SUSAN MUENCH, BIOLOGY my own research on segregation using recent data Activity and Map Movement of an Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease that retrieved from greatschools.org. Farley and affects 240 million people worldwide. The project Taeuber measured the prevalence of racial Ant-Mimicking Spider, will be looking at the impact of prawn introduction segregation using a mathematical index of Myrmarachne formicaria in a Ghana community on consumption, income, dissimilarity. According to Wikipedia, “the index of CHLOE COTTONE education, and health of individuals. Since this is a dissimilarity is a demographic measure of the FACULTY SPONSORS: KIRK ANNE, COMPUTING & fishing community, we expect to see prawn evenness with which two groups are distributed INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; JENNIFER APPLE, introduction working via the channels of increasing across component geographic areas that make up BIOLOGY incomes as well as decreasing schistosomiasis a larger area.” The dissimilarity index (12i=1N|aiA- The ant-mimicking spider Myrmarachne formicaria has Impact to improve the health of individuals. Since biB|) calculates a score that states the proportion recently been introduced to North America. In the the livelihoods of a large number of people are of non-white students that would need to leave in Roemer Arboretum, we have encountered webbed associated with prawn farming, the study will delve order to have an equal proportion of white and shelters on vinyl pin flags used to mark ant nests. M. into this bio-economic nexus to analyze if this could non-white students in a given area. A score of 0 formicaria demonstrates mimicry through its ant-like have a long-term impact on the community. We means the area is fully integrated, while a score of physical appearance, and in behaviors like waving its will be collecting two rounds of survey data before 100 means the area is fully segregated. I calculated front legs to look like antennae. Little is known of its and after the introduction of prawns on key the index of dissimilarity for 10 of the schools in natural history. This project aims at uncovering day-to- economic variables like daily income, consumption Farley and Taeuber’s (1974) paper. This research day activity patterns (i.e how much time is spent in patterns, and record of sick/healthy days. The supports the claim that racial segregation, ruled silken shelters vs. foraging in the vicinity). Using two survey will be run on household members of the unconstitutional in 1954, still exists in America Raspberry Pi cameras that captured images every half community affected by the prawn introduction as today. second for 12-hour periods over multiple days, we well as a survey of the nearby market to record ______developed image analysis methods that were able to price data for seafood. This will give us insights into 460 • "How do I know which recognize the spider housed in transparent enclosures. the mechanism and magnitude of success of the program best supports reading The activity of male, female, and immature spiders were program. compared. Motion of spiders was detected by instruction?" A Comparative comparing three images at a time with OpenCV, an EDUCATION Analysis of Three Elementary open source computer vision library. The resulting 458 • The Impact of a Reggio image indicates motion as light pixels against a dark Literacy Approaches background. The pixel values were used to create Emilia-Inspired Summer Program BRIDGET DONNELLAN graphical representations of activity patterns for each on the Transitions of Students FACULTY SPONSOR: THEA YURKEWECZ, individual. Statistical analysis of the pixel values as well EDUCATION as visual interpretation of the gradient maps were used Affected By Childhood Trauma Back There are a range of curriculum programs that to compare activity budgets among individuals. to the Academic Setting focus on literacy instruction implemented in ______MICHAEL MASETTA schools across the nation. The focus of this poster 464 • Chromosomal Spatial FACULTY SPONSOR: ANNMARIE URSO, EDUCATION session presents the methods and research on how to evaluate school-based reading programs. Distribution in the Extremely The purpose of this study was to research the impact of the Soaring Stars Summer Program on the Specifically, a comparative analysis on Polyploid Epulopiscium sp. type B transitions of students affected by childhood trauma commercialized reading systems is presented to 56  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM inform the education community on the strengths crisis of the 1930's serves not as a harbinger of the 412 • The Rise and Fall of Pachinko: and areas of concerns in order to make Anthropocene but already the beginning of it. The recommendations for future research and work of this class is a part of and based upon a project A Geographical Perspective implications for instruction. The process of undertaken for the James Houston 2018 CHIKA GAYTON analyzing current research and interviewing local Ambassadorship in Innovation. FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY practicing teachers determined the selection of ______After experiencing decades of booming popularity three popular elementary reading systems: Lucy 465 • Asian Skincare and Its in Japan, pachinko (coined the “national pastime”) began its trend of decline in the middle of the Calkins Units of Study for Reading, Daily CAFE Differences from American Skincare Literacy System, and the Wilson Reading System. 1980s. Initial research showed that elderly  population had a significant positive correlation This poster will include charts that analyze the HUNG JIN JIN, YUME IRIYAMA information regarding the contents of each reading with pachinko parlors per capita. This raised the FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, question: with Japan experiencing a terrifyingly system, feedback from practicing teachers, and ENGLISH conclusions drawn from the analysis to determine rapid increase in elderly population, why has Asian skincare has become a trend. To share the effectiveness of each approach. From the pachinko continued to decline? This study knowledge about Asian skincare, two presenters investigated potential variables that could explain conclusions drawn, an overall recommendation from Japan and Korea have collaborated to work will be provided on which system would most the discrepancy between elderly population and on this specific topic.They will talk about the pachinko. Four variables retrieved from Japan- benefit practicing and pre-service teachers literacy differences between American and Asian skincare. instruction. Selected for presentation at New York stats.com (agriculture working population, elderly Share some tips that Asian people have regarding population, population concentration, broadband State Reading Association Conference, Albany, NY skincare. Along with the tips, they will talk about ______contracts) were subjected to single and multiple trends in skincare. regression analysis to uncover potential significant 461 • Using Children's Literature to correlations with the dependent variable Promote Social Justice GEOGRAPHY (Pachinko parlors per capita). After computing CONOR LYNCH 400 • The Most Racist Town in correlations for each independent variable, FACULTY SPONSOR: CRYSTAL SIMMONS, EDUCATION another test was run to determine potential The world is ever changing and with that so are America positive and negative residuals. It is hypothesized young children in elementary school and beyond. FAITH CHOJAR that broadband connections, possibly in tandem In a country where there is great divide we try and FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY with other independent variables, will have a figure out ways to encourage children to begin the Two Christian Identity churches, the Christian significant correlation with pachinko parlors per thought process of how they could start learning Revival Center and Kingdom Identity Ministries, capita, and that the potential residuals could how to be a social justice advocate. Picture books and the mailing address for the National Director explain other economic and social factors serve as a mirror and window for students to of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are located in influencing this trend of decline. understand themselves and others. It is imperative Harrison, Arkansas. Christian Identity churches ______that we have challenging conversations with have been recognized as hate groups by the 413 • The Rise of Gourmet Eating in students about social justice as early as elementary Southern Poverty Law Center and are centered school to ensure that our country and our world is around racist and anti-semitic ideologies. The The New American South just.Books are the gateway for students to envision Christian Revival Center is headed by Thomas JACOB KNOWLES what can be and will encourage all to fight for what Robb, who is also the National Director of the KKK. FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY they believe in. Current movements such as Black Kingdom Identity Ministries is the largest producer This poster seeks to determine which areas of the Lives Matter, LGBTQ and Women’s rights are at the of Christian Identity propaganda in the country. South have embraced high-end Southern eating forefront of our history and students learning There is considerable support for the town of and what factors affect the culinary identity of about these movements through literature will Harrison to retain its reputation as a town steeped those regions. This is done by examining the ensure that all will be treated with respect and in hate from the community. On the contrary, distribution and relative number of high-end empathy in the future. Our presentation will there have been several anti-hate organizations Southern cuisine restaurants in the American include children’s literature books that speak to formed in this region which function to denounce South in contexts such as income, education, age, issues of diversity, inclusion and social justice. the current image of Harrison and promote and obesity. Websites such as Tripadvisor.com These books can be used for future educators as diversity and change. The small town is now known present comprehensive listings of a city’s well as parents to guide conversations. as the most racist town in America, yet it is restaurants. Data on the type, price point, and continuously at odds with itself. Selected for quality of restaurants were collected for 50 sample ENGLISH presentation at SUNY Undergrad Research cities stratified by population and regional Conference, Sanborn, NY. location. Graphing and statistical calculators were 450 • OpenValley: A Green New ______used to find a correlation between the occurrences Deal  401 • Early Accommodation in the of high-end southern restaurants and the census ABIGAIL RITZ, EMILY SPINA, BEN MICHALAK, Indian Lake Region 1860-1930 variable recorded. Results demonstrate a JUSTIN ANDERSON, JOHN SERBALIK, ELIZABETH heterogeneous geography of the culinary South KIRSTEN LOMNITZER and its growing prestige as a restaurant cuisine. RAMSAY, JAY BANG FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY FACULTY SPONSOR: KEN COOPER, ENGLISH The relative presence of high-end Southern cuisine Adirondack tourism, still viable after two centuries' The New Deal Gallery in Mount Morris, which is tied to several mediating contexts such as development, has run a gamut from wilderness income, the presence of young singles, and operates under the Genesee Valley Council on the guides to Airbnb via areas associated with grand Arts, houses over two hundred works of art created by education of the population. The shift to this ‘New lodges, boarding houses, cottages, campgrounds South’ cuisine has become most apparent in urban more than a hundred artists during the Great and motels. Indian Lake in Hamilton County, NY, in Depression. In this project, students in Geneseo’s counties that exemplify one or more of these the heart of the Adirondacks, affords an excellent OpenValley course have developed several online instigating factors. Selected for presentation at perspective on each tourism era. Close scrutiny of SUNY Undergrad Research Conference, Sanborn, exhibits using the Gallery's collection. “The Green New this built heritage reveals patterns of growth and Deal,” however, goes beyond simply researching and NY. stagnation, and indeed disappearance in many publicizing Federal Art Project paintings from the past. ______instances as fire and time erased even the grandest 414 • Tudor Revival Homes in an Students have re-framed these works using an of structures. My poster offers a user-friendly ecological context in order to explore connections introduction to the legacy of the Indian Lake tourist Early Automobile Suburb: Brighton, between climate anxieties experienced during Dust facilities and their perspective on the Adirondacks' Bowl Days and those of our current environmental NY 1916-1950 past. EVAN DASH crisis. Through exploring ecological themes in these ______paintings of indirect witness, students have, among FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY other things, revealed a myriad of ways the climate  Promotes sustainability 57 Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual

As automobile ownership increased rapidly in the lands were long occupied by indigenous people, system. A rough basal layer caused steep, closely 1920s, so did suburban development. New homes and the reservoir is recognized to have inundated spaced faults. A smooth basal layer caused mostly favored Dutch or New England colonial Native American cultural sites, these impacts have shallower faults with greater spacing. Extensional antecedents, but in some settings, for example not been rigorously assessed. Historical New York models will be studied using the same Brighton NY, English Tudor Revival architecture State maps and archaeological site data from experimental set up and we anticipate that normal was a popular alternative to colonial nostalgia. multiple sources were digitized and incorporated fault systems will yield similar results. The Commonly stuccoed and half-timbered, Tudor into a GIS. Focusing on Cattaraugus County, New improved sandbox model guide and videos created homes stand out in the early suburban streetscape. York, this study documents the significant extent of as part of this project will be used to improve More than 250 Tudor Revival houses were built in Native American cultural site disturbance caused students’ understanding of fault system evolution. Brighton, many concentrated on just a few streets, by the Kinzua Dam and Allegheny Reservoir. ______such as Avalon Drive. My work, based on field Selected for presentation at American Association 403 • Magnetic Fabric Analysis of survey and real estate records, seeks to identity of Geographers, Washington, DC. Volcanic Tuff from the Charlie variants in Tudor forms, their chronology, their ______socio-economic associations, and their enduring 417 • Changing Historical Urban Brown Highway, Shoshone, CA value. Selected for presentation at SUNY Landscapes and Political RICHARD KALER, EDUARD AGAYAN Undergrad Research Conference, Sanborn, NY. FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL ______Landscapes in Valparaíso, Chile  SCIENCES 415 • An Analysis of the Former MADELINE LOFASO Two tuff rocks were collected from an outcrop FACULTY SPONSOR: SETH CAVELLO, GEOGRAPHY along the Charlie Brown Highway near Shoshone, New York, West Shore and Buffalo The city of Valparaíso is centrally located on the California. Tuff is an igneous rock that forms from Railroad Track Bed for Rail Re-use Chilean coast line, and is geographically divided compacted volcanic debris after a pyroclastic flow COLIN BUCKOWSKI between a bay and a series of 42 hills rising up to ejection from one of the vents. The samples were FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID ROBERTSON, the coast line. Nominated as a World Heritage in sawed and cored for magnetic susceptibility GEOGRAPHY 2003, clear efforts have been made by both the analysis in an AGICO MFK1A Kappabridge. The Track beds of countless defunct regional railroads Chilean government and the municipal orientation of the major axes (K1, K2, K3) and the are scattered across the US landscape. At various government of Valparaíso to preserve the city’s shape (T-factor) were recorded. The data for K3 points in history, and for various reasons, these historical urban landscape and promote tourism. (short axis) received from the machine was plotted regional rail lines were abandoned as regional Although a popular tourist destination, on the stereonet. It can be seen that most economies and populations shifted and Valparaíso’s suffering economy never quite lineations plot on the center of the stereonet, transportation changed. The imprint of these relic recovered from the construction of the Panama indicating a flat plane, therefore a flat fabric. The track beds on the landscape, however, endures, Canal. Several large- scale development projects values for K1 and K2 were not plotted because of providing routing opportunities for the possible re- have been proposed and carried out by both public the large spread of data on the stereonet. establishment and revitalization of rail systems in and private interests. In turn, these projects have Furthermore, the T values from the data were the US. One example is the former New York, West sparked a wave of social movements that have positive, indicating a flat pancake shape of the tuff Shore and Buffalo Railroad (N.Y.W.S.&B). Service denounced city development plans in the name of fabric. If a T value was negative, it would have been discontinuations on the line began in the late 1950s preserving the historical landscape. As grass-roots a rod instead. In conclusion, the physical fabric in and continued into the early 2000s when the last people’s movements quickly gained momentum, the hand sample matches with the magnetic fabric industrial spurs on the route were abandoned. the municipal government of Valparaíso saw an measured. Unfortunately, the pancake shaped Using historic railroad maps and interpretation of unprecedented shift in voting patterns. This shift is fabric gives no indication of the direction the modern aerial imagery, this historical GIS analysis exemplified in the 2016 mayoral elections with the pyroclastic flow was moving during deposition. evaluates the feasibility of re-installing rail tracks election of an independent candidate running in ______on a 130-mile stretch of the historic N.Y.W.S.&B. the name of the people’s movements. This 404 • Anisotropy of Magnetic track bed between Pattersonville and Syracuse, research examines the complexity of the cross- Susceptibility Analysis Samples New York.This study shows that a high percentage discipline analysis of urban planning and political of the historic track bed is feasible for rail science in efforts to demonstrate a relationship from the Pine Valley Mountain redevelopment, but also identifies potential between changing urban and political landscapes. Laccolith, Southwestern Utah obstacles to reestablishing rail service, not only on Selected for presentation at American Association REBECCA RICHARDS portions of the N.Y.W.S.&B., but other relic track of Geographers, Washington, DC. FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL beds in the US. Selected for presentation at SCIENCES American Association of Geographers Annual GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Volcanic systems that fill quickly can be Conference, Washington, DC 402 • Scale Model of Foreland-Fold- accompanied by devastating landslides. This ______occurred in the gigantic Miocene aged Pine Valley 416 • Mapping Inundation of and-Thrust Belt Development Mountain laccolith of southwestern Utah. Previous Native American Cultural Sites by ARIELA MINKOVSKY research suggests that rapid emplacement of the FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL laccolith in the shallow crust (<<1 km) resulted in the Allegheny Reservoir, SCIENCES large-scale landslides of the overlying country rock. Cattaraugus County, New York  SUNY Geneseo has a set of sandbox fault models Our goal was to better understand the ELIJAH FREIMAN designed based on work by Castello and Cook construction of the Pine Valley Mountain laccolith FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID ROBERTSON, (2008). These models are used in a Structural using the magnetic susceptibility of samples from GEOGRAPHY Geology class to illustrate the development of a the Pine Valley laccolith collected at regular A significant impact of dam construction in the US foreland-fold-and-thrust belt, a zone of intense intervals along the mountain face. Anisotropy of has been the flooding and destruction of Native deformation that develops in response to the magnetic susceptibility (AMS) fabrics should show American cultural sites. The purpose of this project collision of continents. The first goal of this project the flow direction of magma. If this is correct, then is to map and quantitatively assess Native was to determine the best method for setting up the AMS fabrics from the entire laccolith should American cultural sites (e.g. archaeological sites) the sandbox model, including the proper sand originate and spread from the same location. inundated by the Allegheny Reservoir following grain size, angularity, color, substrate roughness, Additionally, if the Pine Valley Mountains laccolith construction of the highly controversial Kinzua sieve size, and packing of grains. The second goal was assembled from a series of stacked magmatic Dam, in 1965. The Kinzua Dam was built in Warren was to observe the difference in foreland trust belt sheets, we expect to see a pancake shaped County, Pennsylvania and its reservoir flooded the development over different basal frictional magnetic fabric. However, the six samples Alleghany River northward into New York State, components. Small rounded quartz grain sand and collected are externally inconsistent with magnetic into the Allegany Indian Reservation occupied by purple layers were determined to be the best fabrics ranging in shape. If the magnetic fabric the Seneca Nation of Indians (SNI). Although these material to show details within the thrust belt represents the flow fabric, then this suggests either

58  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM the samples are located near the source of the Devonian) in age using conodont biostratigraphy. 423 • An Analysis of the Success of magma or the emplacement theory must be Palmatolepis punctata, one of the Frasnian Zone 5 (FZ 5) modified. Future research is needed to come to a indicator conodonts in this bed, which is large in size and an Aragonite Skeleton in the definitive conclusion. Selected for presentation at well preserved, was selected to be the trial element to Cretaceous Calcite Seas The Geological Society of America, Indianapolis, be photographed and made into a digital three- VINCENT FARRUGGIA IN. dimensional model via photogrammetry techniques. FACULTY SPONSOR: JACALYN WITTMER ______With the development of this model conodont MALINOWSKI, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES 418 • Geology of Mill Creek identification compared to three-dimensional models The Western interior seaway was an inland sea that Preserve and the resultant biostratigraphic assignment will opened up during the Mesozoic period. This study become more consistent. focuses on the implications and effects the opening of PAIGE WALSH ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFF OVER, GEOLOGICAL the interior seaway had on invertebrate species, mainly SCIENCES 421 • Texture and Sedimentary mollusks. The concentration of CaCO3 chemistry in the The Genesee Valley Conservancy recently acquired Structures of Lava Creek Ash, seaway changes throughout the Mesozoic. During the a 50 acre wooded property that has two branches Cretaceous, the seaway is at its maximum size and Shoshone, Southern California fluctuates from aragonite to calcite chemistry. of the Mill Creek running through it near Wayland, YVONNE BENNETT, MADELINE ESS NY. The purpose of this study is to asses the area Aragonitic shell-producing organisms are at an FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFF OVER, GEOLOGICAL ecological disadvantage in this calcite sea causing them and produce a geologic map, watershed map, soils SCIENCES map, and a stratigraphic column of the strata to find alternative methods to compete and survive. The The hotspot of Yellowstone in Wyoming has been the results indicate a relative abundance of aragonite to underlying the property. ArcGIS was used to source of the largest three volcanic eruptions in recent analyze remote sensing data and create maps calcitic mollusks is 10:3, which is contrary to what was Earth history. The latest eruption, occurring 0.63 expected in a calcite-dominated sea. Ecological feeding, which were field verified. The stratigraphic column million years ago, was the second largest and was created by analyzing outcrops found along the tiering, and mobility of aragonitic mollusks shows their deposited a thin layer of ash, known as the Lava Creek ability to outcompete and have higher fitness than northerly branch of Mill Creek that runs through Formation.The ash traveled up to two thousand the conservancy property and the New York State calcitic mollusks. The aragonitic mollusks were often kilometers in atmospheric winds across the western more mobile but also lived in the substrate offering geologic map. and central United States. In some depositional ______protection from predation. They were mostly environments, like lakes and basins, the ash is from 419 • Magnetic Susceptibility of the suspension feeders or carnivorous, which gave them one to ten meters thick. A sample of the Lava Creek another edge in ecological fitness. Thus, the ecological Upper Devonian Frasnian- Formation was hand collected near Shoshone, characteristics of aragonitic organisms allowed them to Famennian Boundary Interval in the California from Pleistocene Lake Tecopa. The ash spread geographically, produce more offspring, and particles exhibit hyalotuff texture, which is concordant adapt to new settings despite living in a calcite- Kettle Point Formation in with the explosive, phreatomagmatic style eruption of dominated sea. Southwestern Ontario Canada. Yellowstone volcanism. A lack of fossils indicate Lake ______SARAH HACKETT Tecopa, was alkaline and had a high salinity, which 424 • Biological Preservation in made it lacking in life, but sedimentary structures FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFF OVER, GEOLOGICAL Miocene Tufa from the Barstow SCIENCES observed suggest that wave action was similar to that The Upper Devonian Frasnian-Famennian boundary is of a present day lake. Formation in Owl Canyon, Mojave one of the five major mass extinctions in the ______Desert, California, USA Phanerozoic. The boundary can be narrowly 422 • Using Bulk Magnetic TAYLOR SMITHERS, SCOTT BOOTH constrained by conodonts, the microscopic Susceptibility to Determine Small FACULTY SPONSOR: JACALYN WITTMER phosphatic teeth of a primitive eel-like vertebrate. The Scale Sea Level Cycles in the Middle MALINOWSKI, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES strata of the Kettle Point Formation in southwestern Tufas are calcium-rich precipitates that can occur Ontario, Canada, consisting of interbedded black and Devonian Marcellus Subgroup, in association with lacustrine and fluvial lighter gray shales, was deposited in a shallow Western and Central New York environments. Here we demonstrate that tufas epicontinental sea, the sediments shed from the JOSEPH RUGGIERO, VINCENT FARRUGGIA found in the Barstow Formation (mid-Miocene) in Acadian Orogeny to the east. This study will determine FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFF OVER, GEOLOGICAL Owl Canyon, Mojave Desert, California, USA reveal where the boundary is located using conodonts and SCIENCES stem structures of lacustrine plants. This tufa magnetic susceptibility. Strata were sampled from a The Middle Devonian Marcellus subgroup of the formed when a calcium-rich spring interacted with drill core at 5 cm increments for 4.6 meters that span Hamilton Group consists of black shale and the alkaline lacustrine environment. The chemical the Frasnian-Famennian boundary. Shifts in bulk carbonate strata in western New York State. The interaction allowed the system to easily precipitate magnetic susceptibility are a proxy for sea level Marcellus, which is comprised of the Union Springs calcite in various growth patterns around the changes which have a higher resolution than Formation and the Oatka Creek Formation, overlies prehistoric plant life. From petrographic analysis, conodont biozones. This will help constrain the the Seneca limestone of the Onondaga Formation the organic remains of these ancient plants appear boundary in between biostratigarphically useful and is overlain by the Skaneateles Group. Black absent, but the stem structures have been conodonts. Selected for presentation at The shales and carbonates are found in offshore preserved by calcite precipitation. The type of tufa Geological Society of America, Phoenix, AZ. marine depositional environments. Magnetic represented at the Barstow Formation is a type of ______susceptibility is the measure of the response of a freshwater phytoherm. Phytoherms are typical 420 • Microphotogrammetry material to induced magnetization. The magnetic plant communities that are preserved as tufas Application: Palmatolepis punctata response of sedimentary rocks is dependent on the where the calcium precipitation preserves plant from the Shurtleff Concretion presence of iron-bearing detritus. The outcome of morphology in the form of stems and leaves. From this procedure is a curve of sea level change, with this study, we show that the Barstow Formation Horizon, Upper Cashaqua Shale, higher amount of iron detritus representing lower was a lacustrine-rich environment with periods of Sonyea Group, Frasnian, Upper sea level. The curve will increase during sea level spring-fed calcium precipitation preserving regression and will decrease during sea level possible lake plant-life in southern California Devonian, Appalachian Basin in aggradation. This study proposes to use magnetic during the mid-Miocene. Western New York State susceptibility to test correlation of depositional ______EMILY HAUF packages of strata locally and regionally in central 425 • Biostratigraphy and Body Size FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFF OVER, GEOLOGICAL and western New York as well as determine Analysis of Zebra Mussels in Conesus SCIENCES patterns of sea level change in the Marcellus. Previous research by Over and Sullivan in 2016 ______Lake, Livingston County, NY determined the Shurtleff Concretion Horizon in the CARLY DELLIS, SYDNEY WELCH upper Cashaqua Shale is Middle Frasnian (Upper  Promotes sustainability 59 Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual

FACULTY SPONSOR: JACALYN WITTMER Michel-Levy method was applied to plagioclase health movement, white women and African MALINOWSKI, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES grains and revealed the grains to be 62% anorthite, American women needed to work together to Conesus Lake is one of the finger lakes in western 38% albite. The overall mineralogy of the sample achieve the goal of reproductive rights for all New York that is negatively impacted by human showed limited evidence of metamorphism of the women. African American women were able to recreation and residence. These negative effects igneous minerals. Plagioclase grains were euhedral truly find their voices while advocating for the include a general decrease in biodiversity and the to subhedral with no brittle deformation or fault reproductive health movement, and people introduction of invasive species, such as zebra planes present. The limited metamorphic listened to them in a way previously not seen mussels. The introduction of zebra mussels has mineralogy as well as the non-deformed fabric of before. They showed the American public that they been documented since the mid-’90s, however, the plagioclase grains points to a magmatic origin were far more than just slaves. this impact can also be seen by examining the of the layering present. ______assemblages of past organisms in the lake ______308 • It's More Than Just a Pill sediments and how they respond over time. This 428 • Metamorphism Along the GABRIELLE SOUSA, MADELEINE GALLINA, MICHAEL study focuses on the stratigraphic introduction of Wood Canyon-Salt Creek Pluton KLEINLERCHER, CRAIG CAMPBELL, ALEXANDRA zebra mussels and their modification of body size KENNEDY over time. This project examines two research Contact, Salt Springs Hills, California FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY areas of Conesus Lake zebra mussels; PAULINA NEBIKER, SEAN BAILEY This study seeks to show that in the past, the biostratigraphy and body size. Biostratigraphy of FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL control a woman had over her body was restricted. zebra mussels involves analysis of sediment cores SCIENCES Although many women today are able to access a to determine the timing of introduction and overall In Salt Spring Hills, California, the Wood Canyon variety of contraceptive methods, this was not abundance over time. Body size of zebra mussels formation is intruded by the Salt Creek Pluton always the case. Throughout much of the 19th and involved individual measurements and imaging creating the conditions necessary for contact 20th centuries, women lacked both the knowledge using stereomicroscopy. With first appearance, metamorphism. The Wood Canyon formation and the means to prevent pregnancy. This is in part abundance, and body size we will have a better consists of siltstone, sandstone, and dolostone. due to the Comstock Law, which made the estimate lake health and stability since the The goal of this project was to constrain the distribution of information about contraception introduction of zebra mussels in Conesus Lake. temperature of metamorphism based on the illegal from 1873 to 1936. Women participated in From this data, we will be able to ascertain the mineralogy within the samples. The samples were rallies and marches, distributed pamphlets, and health of the zebra mussels in the lake. collected from the surface at the baked contact sacrificed their freedom in order to spread ______between the sedimentary country rock and the awareness about “birth control.” For many 426 • Determination of Shear Strain intruding pluton. Samples were cut and made into women, the fight was about more than just a pill; it in Olenellus thompsoni Trilobites, three thin sections. Using a petrographic was about control, and the right to make their own microscope the thin sections were examined and decisions about female reproductive health. This Emigrant Pass, CA chlorite, quartz, tourmaline, and metamorphic project will use both primary and secondary HUNTER ALLEN biotite were identified. Based off of the first sources to examine a comprehensive history of the FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL appearances of biotite and chlorite on a petrogenic Birth Control Movement. Although the project will SCIENCES grid it was determined that the Wood Canyon focus primarily on the challenges associated with The goal of this project was to determine the amount formation experienced contact metamorphism at the campaign, significance will be placed on the of shear strain Olenellus thompsoni trilobites from or above 500 degrees Celsius. individual voices of the movement. Emigrant Pass, California have experienced. These ______fossils occur in the Carrara formation, which is HISTORY 309 • Why Birth Control Matters comprised of limestone and shale. In an unstrained 300 • Protection for Women Means CARLY NUNNEKER, ANNA MALLIA, JANIQUA specimen, the posterior border, or base of the MORRIS cephalon should be perpendicular to the Sober Men FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY major/primary axis. In the specimens that were found, EMILY ZANDY, NATE KABEL, ELENA CUASCUT, In this collaborative project, we use research- these features were not at 90° angles, and were MICHAELA FIATO, MORGAN WEST, TAIKI SATOH based analysis to show people why birth control instead slightly strained. To determine this angle, FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY matters. We dive into the history of the Birth photos of nine trilobite samples were taken, and their This project will examine the efforts of women Control Movement of the early 1900s using a angles were measured in Photoshop and Adobe resisting violence through the means of support and variety of primary source documents to give Illustrator. This was done by drawing lines over the participation in the Temperance/Prohibition people an idea of how the issue came to light and base of the cephalon and major axis’s and using the Movement. We will reference the Abolition how it evolved into what it is today. We use fact- ruler tool to measure the difference in angle. It was Movement as the foundation for our study and based opinion to explain why we as a group believe concluded that the trilobites were sheared from a examine the key influencers of the movement. The this issue matters. Then we dive into range of 8 - 26 degrees with an average shear angle of purpose of this study is to examine the ramifications modern connections, citing current day issues 14.3 degrees. Because it was not possible to of alcohol and its influence on campaigns to prevent surrounding birth control, including the fight to determine the orientation of the maximum stretching violence against women in the nineteenth century. defund Planned Parenthood and how the direction, we could not find an exact ratio of finite Our conclusions will be based on our research and Affordable Care Act has helped in the current day strain. The ratio of finite strain was instead found to analysis of a wide variety of contemporary documents birth control movement. range from 1.1 – 1.7. including scholarly articles, newspaper clippings, ______editorial cartoons, illustrations, and letters. 310 • The History of the Birth 427 • Fabric Analysis of a Pluton ______Control Movement from Goler Canyon, California 307 • We are More than Slaves... MARIE MOREN, AMANDA SULLIVAN, ORIANNE ALLEGRA LEARN, NATALIE SCHUSTER, NATALIE ANTHONY MIRAGLIA, LUCAS AYERS CHOJNACKI, ALEXANDER SKEZAS FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL SIMON , BRIAN SOUSIS, EMILY PERUN FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY SCIENCES Establishing reliable means of obtaining birth Rock samples gathered from a mafic pluton in African American women had a much greater impact on the reproductive health movement in control was an imperative step in the struggle for Goler Canyon, California are characterized by women’s rights. Through the conviction of key layering of an unidentified origin. Layering in a the United States than people realize. Throughout history, African American women have been seen figures, such as Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware pluton can be caused by magmatic and/or tectonic Dennett, the birth control movement spread a activity. A thin section was created from one of the as nothing more than an object or a slave to the white agenda. The problem is, no one listens to revolutionary message, despite the push-back and samples in order to identify composition of the opposition from individuals and organizations. The material as well as the likely origin of the fabric. their voices and their opinions have been shoved aside to make way for the ideas of white women. history of the movement is relevant in modern The thin section showed abundant plagioclase as times, as it applies to one of the central freedoms well as minor hornblende, biotite, and chlorite. The In order to make change for the reproductive 60  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM women fight for today  the right to decide what 333 • To Breathe or Not to equation representing a model of harmonic motion happens to their bodies. The motivation behind the as well as finding solutions to this equation. To this fight for birth control was not solely sexual Breathe? How and Why 19th end, we have used HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript to freedom, but to allow families of various Century Dress Reform Liberated construct an algorithm which solves a differential socioeconomic statuses to limit the financial stress Women equation based on parameters input by the user. of raising children they couldn’t afford. Our Our application not only solves a differential MERRANDA SWITZER, BETHANY FISHER, TIARA primary sources tell the story of the Birth Control equation and presents the user with the solution, MEADE, CASSIDY KAMEAN movement, in particular, the relentless hard work it also provides the user a visualization of the FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY of Sanger and Dennett. The letters exchanged by motion by graphing the solution and through an The topic of Dress Reform in the 19th century can be these two leaders show how invested they were in animated spring we have created which oscillates divided into three sub categories based upon the their cause. Even though they sometimes corresponding to the solution. Our application reasoning activists were advocating for change: disagreed on certain aspects of how the movement serves as an improved version of another personal comfort, physical safety, and equal rights for should be run, they agreed on the same basic application, created ten years ago by a now women. Using documents such as “Letters to the concepts — the need for education of the masses Geneseo alumnus, which was built using internet People on Health and Happiness” by Catherine about female reproductive health and increased technologies that have become out-of-date. In Beecher, “Correspondence” by Melissa Kaetny and availability of birth control nationwide. The birth addition to creating similar and improved Melissa Doak, “An Eye Sore” by Theodosia Gilbert, control movement of the early 20th century was functionality to the previous application, we have “Woman’s Dress” by Rachel Brooks Gleason, “A Parody” prominent in its era and it served as an inspiration added the ability to display the step-by-step by Mattie, and “Our Costume” by Elizabeth Cady for future reproductive rights movements. process for solving the second order differential Stanton. The question Elizabeth Cady Stanton asks ______equation as well as the symbolic solution. The when she asks, “is being born a woman so criminal an internet technologies of our application enables 311 • The Ladder to Liberation offense that we must be doomed to everlasting users to access it through all modern web KELLY KULAKOWSKI, HEATHER DREYER, ALLIE bondage?” The dress issue faced a lot of backlash at the JUDGE, ZACHARY GOODRICH browsers. time, mostly from men and women who were still ______FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY clinging to the culture that they had been raised in and This project examines the beginnings of the lesbian the ideals that they had been brainwashed to retain. 354 • Inverse Problems Related to women's movement via the organization The project is designed to highlight the dilemmas that the Heat Equation and Designing Daughters of Bilitis in the 1950s and 1960s, woman faced due to expectations of their gender’s Ballistic Missiles continuing on through the modern gay rights dress in the 19th century and how much impact certain movements seen today. The project focuses HARRISON HIPOLITO restrictions and customs had on women’s physical and FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDRZEJ KEDZIERAWSKI, on The Ladder, the organization’s magazine, that mental well-being. This topic is important because aimed to “raise all women to full human MATHEMATICS women were literally sacrificing their health in order to Many mathematical problems in science, technology status, with all of the rights and responsibilities maintain certain cultural expectations; therefore reform this entails; to include all women, whether Lesbian and medicine can be viewed as inverse problems and was absolutely necessary to protect women’s safety expressed by differential equations. In particular, we or heterosexual.” Considering women, sexual and basic, natural rights as human beings. Some of these identity, and social movements, our research is present the inverse problem related to the heat concepts can clearly be seen in modern times and the equation; the backward heat conduction problem of intersectional in nature and yields interesting reform itself was the foundation for women’s fashion, societal and historical conclusions regarding the calculating the initial temperature from the beginning the very long journey for society to deem it measurement of the final temperature. The backward origins of the push for LGBTQ+ rights. acceptable for women to freely express themselves and ______heat conduction problem is difficult to solve since it is dress in the way that they choose. severally ill-posed. We solve this by converting the 332 • How Resistance to Cherokee ______problem into the Fredholm integral equation of the Removal Fueled Women's Activism 355 • INTD 220: Geology’s Oldest first kind which we solve using Tikhonov’s in Later Movements Question: How Old is the Earth? regularization method. We illustrate our theoretical MEGAN WILLISON, LAURA BENJAMIN, EAMON AUSTIN FELDMAN, GAVIN HOEY, KEIRA method with numerical examples. Using this DANIEU MCCLELLAND technique is essential in many real world applications. FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY FACULTY SPONSORS: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY Historically, many military ICBM encountered many In this project we are going to discuss the impact of the GARY TOWSLEY, MATHEMATICS, JAMES MCLEAN issues with rocket design and heat integrity. Removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia on PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY ______women’s activism in the North between 1817 and James Hutton was the first geologist to use 384 • Describing Convex Polyhedral 1838. We found that this marked the first involvement uniformitarianism to determine that the Earth is Growth of women in politics that is recorded in the United much older than originally thought. Archbishop BETHANNA JONES States, setting a precedent for women to become Usher was the first clergymen to determine the age FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS BALDWIN, more involved in social movements in the future. As of the Earth using genealogy from the Bible, MATHEMATICS many of the missionaries directly involved in working estimating the age to be 6000 years old. Hutton We outline a method of describing convex polyhedra with the Cherokee were women, women were believed that this age was too young based on how in computer graphics, using both algorithmic and effectively at the forefront of the cultural interchange slow most processes on Earth occur. Our poster mathematical models. Each polyhedron is described in between the Cherokee and the United States. This will show the differences between two approaches our method with a unique set of planes that define the position rendered them to be particularly empathic to used to determine the age of the earth. Usher used polyhedron’s faces. These planes thereby define the the plight of the Cherokee as they were dispossessed deductive reasoning with the bible as the literal polyhedron’s shape, extent, and orientation. This of their ancestral homes. In response, the truth. Hutton utilized inductive reasoning using his definition allows for a computationally easy discrete missionaries ignited a popular resistance movement own field observations. growth process in which a polyhedron grows in against removal of the Cherokee, a movement largely directions perpendicular to some or all of its faces, carried onward by women in the northeast by way of MATHEMATICS preserving orientation and morphology. In future petitions and letters to elected officials. To convey the 353 • Animating a Model of work, this method can potentially be applied to the full scope of both the government policy enacted and realistic modeling of individual crystal growth and the women’s response to it, this project consults Harmonic Motion using HTML5, group aggregation on a substrate. various types of primary sources ranging from maps CSS, and JavaScript ______and letters, to petitions, Supreme Court decisions, and SALVADOR GALARZA, JACK TRUCKENMILLER 386 • INTD 220: Galileo: Science government decrees. To better understand issues FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS BALDWIN, and Power in Seventeenth Century today, a proper understanding of history is necessary. MATHEMATICS ______We have created a web application which aids Europe students in visualizing a second order differential  Promotes sustainability 61 Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual

WILLIAM REICHMAN, JOSEPH BIENKO, DOMINIQUE of work from the student editors, library faculty tests will then be correlated to determine CESARIO and professional supervisors, the student authors, differences in performance between males and FACULTY SPONSORS: GARY TOWSLEY, the faculty sponsors, and from other people females in these two tasks as the mice age. Future MATHEMATICS, JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & throughout the staff and student body at Geneseo. research will use these same tasks to evaluate ASTRONOMY, JOSEPH COPE HISTORY This poster examines the different elements of the changes in transgenic knock-in models of HD Galileo Galilei was a revolutionary astronomer and jobs of the student editors, as well as the process compared to the established baseline of motor mathematician, whose popularity stemmed from of publishing an academic journal. We evaluate degeneration. his various patrons. In Florence, he was supported submissions, suggest developmental and copy by the Medici family: a stable, political dynasty, edits, and communicate with student authors PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY who in return for funding Galileo’s research, were throughout the process to refine their work. guaranteed his loyalty and praise. In this Student editors also conduct interviews with the 356 • INTD220: On the Controversy relationship, the Galileo dedicated many of his authors and their sponsors. We created a journal of Newton and Hooke on Optical famous works to the Medici, in order to cement his that truly displays Geneseo’s vibrant culture of Physics place in the court. Arguably, without Medici undergraduate research and the close JOSEPH KULIKOWSKI, BRADLEY MCCLUNG, KURT support, Galileo and his scientific work would not relationships student and faculty can develop. The DAWSON have been as prominent. In contrast to Florence, poster examines the elements of editing, FACULTY SPONSORS: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & the Roman court was unstable. If the patron’s interviewing, and producing to create a work that ASTRONOMY; JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY, GARY beliefs weren’t reflected in the works of the reflects the quality of work present at GREAT Day. TOWSLEY MATHEMATICS courtier, the courtier might be expelled from the We will investigate the feud between Newton and court. As Galileo’s patrons from the Roman court NEUROSCIENCE Hooke on the priority of discovery of optical perished, the backing for his heliocentric model 357 • “Captain Brainiac”: Educating principles. Hooke claimed that he had already dwindled, culminating in him being tried for established the same principles and results as heresy. Our poster will highlight how the wealthy and Encouraging Neuroscience and Newton in his book Micrographia. We plan to give nobility of the time led Galileo to flourish, linking STEM-related Interests Through a physics-based perspective of whether Hooke’s scientific research with the politics of the era. More Local Afterschool Program claims were legitimate. We will also investigate the specifically, we will focus on how Galileo was able role that status played in the relations between the to raise his status in Florence (a more stable ERIC MACALUSO, MAGGIE ALDRICH FACULTY SPONSOR: TERENCE BAZZETT, mechanically trained Robert Hooke and the patronage system), while his failure to navigate the aristocratic philosopher Newton. In the times of complexities of the Roman court led to his NEUROSCIENCE As part of our class, Applications in Neuroscience their correspondence, the “hands on,” craftsman downfall. class of society was looked down upon by (NEUR 215), we worked with the RKids After- academia. Newton and Hooke’s relationship MILNE LIBRARY School Program, which is supported by the Center for Community through an AmeriCorps VISTA. This reflects larger societal values at the time. Our 451 • Library Tutorial Usability program supports local underserved youth by approach was to study their correspondence encouraging enrichment. We attended five through their mutual letters. Testing ______sessions of the program and worked with about BRIANNE BRIGGMANN, EMMA MEDINA 380 • Evaluating An Atmospheric FACULTY SPONSOR: BRANDON WEST, MILNE eight 4th-6th graders. One or two of the students LIBRARY had attended the program previously and thus, Muon Production Model for Ultra We are two library interns who developed online were familiar with the idea of neuroscience. Our Low Energy Primary Cosmic Rays efforts were centered around educating and tutorials about how to cite information and use IDS KULASEKHAR MAGANTI encouraging children to become aware and services in a software called LibWizard. After FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID MEISEL, PHYSICS & enthusiastic about Neuroscience and STEM-related developing the tutorials, we were tasked with ASTRONOMY education. We aimed to design and compose conducting usability tests in order to make the In a recent study Meisel et al. (2019), a number of interactive activities to deeply engage the students tutorials more user friendly. We developed two statistical properties of muons were established usability tests: a qualitative test was conducted to in the material. ______for different seasons but a lot of data remains to be determine the overall ease of going through the analyzed. Indications are that the muons detected tutorials--the structure, grammatical issues, design 359 • Sex differences and Motor with our particular device are at the lower energy format, and general troubleshooting; and a Degeneration in Aging Mice: A end of the ground level muon spectrum and as a quantitative test was conducted to determine the Preliminary Study consequence most cosmic ray models are not educational results, such as tutorial effectiveness directly applicable. But rather than develop a and the students’ understanding of the concepts. ANNA BELTRAMINI, MOLLY BRADY, JOSHUA BOYER, ANDREW GUIDO, ELLAYNA FREDERICKS, theoretical model ab initio, an existing model Both of these tests were conducted with a sample describing muon production (Apel et al., 2011) has of 8 undergraduates at various stages of their TAYLOR BROPHY FACULTY SPONSOR: TERENCE BAZZETT, been scaled down to very low cosmic ray primary academic careers. The results allowed us to energies and used without further modification in indicate the areas of the tutorials that need NEUROSCIENCE With an ever-increasing average human lifespan, a studies presented as posters by Miller (2019) and improvement, which we can use not only to Nichols (2019). I will discuss briefly what a muon is, enhance the tutorials that were used in this testing growing area of research is concerned with debilitating neurodegenerative diseases. and why is it important as an atmospheric probe. process, but to also aid in the development of As true with many such CR model representations, future tutorials. Huntington’s disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant inherited neurodegenerative disorder in the Apel et al. Model incorporates several ______numerical assumptions that imply relatively large 452 • The Making of The which degradation of basal ganglion cells is observed. Destruction of these cells is calculation uncertainties. A traditional error Proceedings of GREAT Day characterized by a complex symptomatology that sensitivity analysis will be presented indicating DIMITRI WING-PAUL, NICOLE CALLAHAN includes motor impairment, cognitive deficits, and where the main theoretical limitations occur. The FACULTY SPONSOR: JONATHAN GRUNERT, MILNE social dysfunction. The development of useful and preliminary theoretical work leading to this study LIBRARY sensitive measures of motor coordination in was supported with a NY NASA Space Grant during The Proceedings of GREAT Day is a journal that animal models is paramount in advancing basic 2018. ______compiles and publishes the work of faculty- research in HD. In this preliminary study, C57/BLJ nominated student presentations from SUNY mice were tested in novel paw reaching chambers 381 • Geomagnetic and Solar Geneseo’s GREAT Day symposium. The journal used to evaluate fine motor coordination. These Correlations with Cosmic Ray seeks to champion the rigorous, multidisciplinary same animals were also tested in a grip-strength Muons undergraduate research that takes place here at apparatus, a well-established device designed to JAKE MILLER Geneseo. The creation of this journal requires a lot measure muscle strength. Measures from both 62  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM

FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID MEISEL, PHYSICS & of optical parameters such as the peak absorption 75% of the young urban minorities imprisoned grew ASTRONOMY wavelengths, absorption widths, and scales. These up in difficult circumstances where they lack equal In this experiment, muon data was collected and training sets, and the parameters that created opportunities, such as decent schooling/education, analyzed for correlations regarding geomagnetic them were used as inputs to a neural network. The jobs, housing structures, and other societally- data, solar flares, auroras and turbulence. Using a network then generated weights and biases to improving activities. Not only does the environment of teach spin muon detector, muons were counted predict the optical parameters based on the the inner-city affect their life decisions, but there’s also over a one second interval as they passed through extinction spectrum. Finally, the network is made a certain racial bias that is evident in the data as well. the detector, while decay times for both charged to predict on optical parameters from extinction Some questions posed around this are “Why do U.S. muons were also recorded. Using data provided spectra not in the training, as a measure of its prisons hold 1 in 3 black men, compared to 1 in 17 from the ACE or Advanced Composition Explorer ability to generalize. white men?” and “How is it that 79% of black and Satellite, data from the detector was analyzed to ______Latino individuals compared to 10% of white find correlations with interstellar and solar events. 385 • INTD 220: The Conflict individuals are be convicted when charged with of the It was concluded that there is a cross correlation of Between Newton and Leibniz over same drug crime?” Politically speaking, the effect of muon flux with the ACE tangential magnetic field. the War on Drugs' over-policing in disadvantaged There are peaks in the cross correlation in the Calculus and its Impact on Scientific communities has caused generational damages we order of minutes due to the presence of magnetic Peer Review see today. Currently, there are social reform flux ropes of high magnetic flux density that are ALENNA STREETER, BRITTNEY HEROLD initiatives, such as the Drug Policy Alliance and Youth produced by intermittent solar wind turbulence. FACULTY SPONSORS: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & Government organizations, that are aiding in reducing High frequency Fourier spectra provide evidence ASTRONOMY, JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY, GARY the number of young blacks and Latinos from getting for solar and geomagnetic influence on muon flux TOWSLEY MATHEMATICS caught up in the “school-to-prison pipeline" trap. and decay in the atmosphere as both long-time The concurrent creation of calculus by physicist ______scales and short-time scales correlated with ACE Isaac Newton and mathematician Gottfried 454 • Aiding the Rural Disabled and spacecraft data. It is significant to study muons Wilhelm Leibniz led to direct personal conflict Chronically Ill: Reforms for New because they are constantly coming through the air between them which in turn influenced the and have extreme energies. This project was scientific community. Through analyzing each York’s Consumer-Directed Personal funded by the NASA Space Grant. scientist’s correspondence with the other as well Assistance Program and Public ______as their publications, one can relate Newton and 382 • Local Contribution of Transportation Systems Leibniz’s narrative with the overarching theme of OLIVIA MURRAY Windmill Turbulence to Observed the development of science. Peer review, scientific FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Muon Fluctuations journals, and ease of communication are integral SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS aspects to the organization of scientific research This research examines the access and quality of ISAAC BURMINGHAM today, all of which were influenced by the conflict FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID MEISEL, PHYSICS & care for the chronically ill and disabled living in present in the development of calculus. This is part rural New York. The market fails to adequately ASTRONOMY of the poster group from INTD 220: History of In a recent study Meisel et al. (2019), a strong provide the services that this population needs Physical Sciences according to the rationales of natural monopoly Gaussian signature was found at the highest ______and equity. The target population in this research detectable frequencies in the Fourier spectra of 387 • Detections Above Muon Zone muon flux received at Geneseo. Due to faces unique barriers to healthcare and living atmospheric attenuation, if these frequencies are - Muon Production Mechanisms assistance because of their combined remoteness purely acoustical they must be locally derived. One KATARINA NICHOLS and mobility challenges. possible explanation for this local implication are FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID MEISEL, PHYSICS & This research explores two existing programs, two nearby windmill farms, in Dunkirk and Perry- ASTRONOMY public transportation and the Consumer Directed Warsaw, New York. That these windmills radiate The apparent detection of muons above the Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP), and acoustical or turbulent energy is suggested by the canonical 10-40km atmospheric height range was suggests specific reforms to each in order to better “steady-state plumes” constantly seen on the a surprising discovery in the 2018 Geneseo Muon provide services to the population and decrease Buffalo weather radar. A simple model of Tomography project. This project was funded by rates of waste, fraud, and abuse in the current turbulence generation from the tips of the windmill the NASA Space Grant. A further observational systems. CDPAP is type of direct delivery system, rotors will be applied to the muon situation to study using the muon production models from wherein the service or benefit is made available to evaluate the size of a local contribution to the Apel et al. Astroparticle Physics, 34, 476–485, people who meet eligibility standards. Uniquely, observed muon fluctuation. This research was (2011) was conducted to determine the height CDPAP allots federal funds to the patient consumer supported with a NY NASA Space Grant during dependence of the primaries on muon production. but leaves the choice of how and by whom their 2018. This project aims to modulate the primary particle care is carried out. CDPAP should offer higher pay ______energies in the upper atmosphere and determine if to attract caretakers with higher qualifications, 383 • Machine Learning Analysis of there is a correspondence in the analytical model adopt an online time-sheet system, and increase energy distribution of the muons at the ground oversight of caretakers to ensure the safety of the Extinction Spectra level. Different energy modulations and different patient and feasance of paid work. Public SAMUEL OLIN energy levels off the cosmic rays were used to transportation reforms would offer intermediate FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE MARCUS, PHYSICS & determine the correlation and imprint of the transport for the target population to access ASTRONOMY primary particle energies in the muon energy. normal bussing routes. Scattering and absorption due to atmospheric ______aerosols play a role in global climate. To better 455 • The Able-Bodied Housing understand this role, it is necessary to have good POLITICAL SCIENCE & measurements of the optical characteristics of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Policy MICHAEL PERRINO these aerosols. Given knowledge of these optical 453 • Breaking the Chain: America's characteristics, it is straightforward to calculate FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL extinction using MIE scattering theory. The inverse Incarceration Prevention of Young SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS problem of finding optical parameters from Urban Minorities With over 78,000 citizens without homes, New York has a larger homeless population than any extinction is computationally expensive. To solve ANALIESE VASCIANNIE other city in the United States by a staggering this problem, several GPU accelerable multi-target FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL margin. In attempt to mitigate this crisis, I found it neural networks were built, and their resulting SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS appropriate to pinpoint a demographic of the accuracies and speeds were compared. The This research will address the detrimental system of homeless population that could provide a self- process is as follows; several ideal extinction America’s Criminal Justice System by viewing the sufficient program aided by the government and spectra training sets were created using a variety behavior of marginalized youth in metropolitan areas.  Promotes sustainability 63 Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual corporate America. The target audience within the mothers that are not eligible for Medicaid, CHIP FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL homeless population would be able-bodied would be placed at 250 percent of the federal SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS individuals who are apt and in the appropriate poverty line. The states will maintain in control of Climate change will be the largest threat that condition (sober) to work as a steady employee. the allocation of funds for CHIP. If the mother still humanity will face over the next century. Action is Too often the skills and desire for some individuals feels that the expansion of the insurance program needed to address the causes of a changing in need of a job are overlooked by their lack of will not help them monetarily enough, a reworked climate, and public policy must be put forward in accomplishment and or unmarketable resume. foster system would make it easier for adoptions order to have a sustainable future. A carbon tax is This remains true despite the great value that they to take place by easing restrictions that limit a type of Pigouvian tax designed to disincentivize could provide to the community and employers potential adopters. the release of uncontrolled greenhouse gas alike. In a partnership with the government and ______emissions into the environment. Carbon dioxide various corporate bodies, the goal of the able- 466 • Combating Police Violence emissions are currently contributing to a global bodied housing program would be to grant those Against the Deaf and Hard-of- energy, food, and safety crisis. These greenhouse who are willing to work hard and perform gas emissions are a threat to the well-being and appropriately with an opportunity to earn a nice Hearing in the United States economic prosperity for all Americans. A tax on form of housing as well as a fair allowance. SOPHIA GENIER carbon dioxide emissions must be implemented in ______FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL order to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide 456 • The End of Recidivism: SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS pollution in the environment. Federal Funding and Incarcerated There are numerous problems facing the deaf and ______hard-of-hearing in America, but by far the most 469 • Renewable Energy Initiatives Mentally Ill Americans concerning is the prevalence of violence by police SELENNAH GONZALEZ officers due to issues in communication. Numerous v. Income FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL acts of violence and excessive force against deaf KELLY KULAKOWSKI SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS people doing nothing wrong have been FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL This poster is intended to propose a solution to perpetrated by police officers across the country. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS recidivism and crime in relation to the target Additionally, conflicts between those with hearing Most of the developed world have relied on the population of mentally ill incarcerated Americans. impairments and police officers have escalated source for vehicles, industry, electricity, and more. Upon the observation of incarceration institutions because no interpreter was present to aid in The mass burning of fossil fuels for energy has throughout the United States, there lies a vast communication, despite the requirement by the resulted in immense consequences for the discrepancy in the rates found between those Americans with Disabilities Act that police provide environment. Global climate change has caused plagued by mental illnesses and those treated and one. When interacting with the deaf or hard-of- glacial ice to melt, plant and animal ranges to shift, housed in mental health institutions. This research hearing, police officers may interpret attempts at trees to flower sooner, sea levels to rise, stronger serves to explain that the target population of communication as violent or aggressive actions. heat waves to occur across the planet and more. mentally ill incarcerated Americans have failed to Further training of police officers to be There is consensus among scientists about the receive proper care and treatment. Moreover, in knowledgeable of the deaf and hard-of-hearing connection between fossil fuels and global climate identifying the crisis found in the lack of adequate community is needed. change. Renewable energy is an alternative to housing within mental health institutions for ______reliance on fossil fuels, the primary cause of inmates as a ‘public policy issue’, government 467 • Dinners to Diplomas: After- climate change. Initial costs of renewable energy initiatives, including wind and solar power are intervention is necessary because said inmates are School Aid for Homeless Youth in expected to return to American society. Without significant, but end up decreasing environmental proper health and psychiatric care that allows the Rochester City School District effects and energy costs in the long run. Because mentally ill inmates to recognize their disabilities, CAROLINE GILL many cannot afford the original cost, I hypothesize mentally ill inmates are left at a standstill in regards FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL that states with less financial capacity for energy to progression in terms of health and normalcy. It SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS programs will not adopt renewable energy. In this is only with the support of improved adequate In 2017, 8.8% of students in the Rochester City study, the link between state finances and lack of psychiatric care and funding that said inmates will School District (RCSD) were homeless. Homeless renewable energy is explored. In addition, grow and progress into productive, ethical, and students are four times more likely to drop out of neighboring states and associated political parties lawful members of American society. high school than non-homeless students, a result are proposed as other factors in a state's’ decision ______of numerous factors, including the lack of supplies to adopt renewable energy standards. Subsidizing 457 • Women's Reproduction is Not and environment needed to complete homework. renewable energy projects is proposed to make When homeless students fail to graduate, they renewable energy policy adoption more appealing a Right: Abortion Prevention perpetuate the cycle of poverty because they are to states. Through Education, Insurance less likely to hold a high paying job in the future. ______Expansion, and Foster Reform Providing homeless students with the necessary 470 • Disenfranchised Since Birth: A GREGOR MALKASIAN tools to graduate will help to end the cycle of Look at the LGBTQ+ Community  FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL poverty. This proposal focuses on the JENNIFER JOSEPH SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS implementation of an after-school program within FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL This research explains how increased aid to low the RCSD that would provide a safe environment SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS income mothers and preventative measures will for students to complete their homework and have This research examines how discrimination is a major help the policy to ban abortions. A ban on access to needed supplies. Dinner would be served factor in our daily lives that continues to affect abortions is necessary because approximately as an incentive for parents to attend this program. individuals such as the minority LGBTQ+ community. 880,000 babies are killed every year and one of This reliable source of food would benefit the The minority LGBTQ+ community suffers from being government's roles is to protect life. Educational entire family, and students would receive the underrepresented in the government since they are a programs in schools will be a comprehensive, safe guidance and mentorship of a parent while subset of society and lack political power. These sex focus as opposed to abstinence teaching, as it working on homework. Targeting food insecurity individuals have been historically disenfranchised is more effective in reducing teen pregnancy rates. and the barriers to completing homework that based on their sex and race. Up until the latter portion There will also be mandatory religious teaching in homeless students face would aid in academic of the twentieth century, the United States schools. The local government can choose which success and would increase the graduation rate government refused to acknowledge the LGBTQ+ belief system to promote in schools in their and in the RCSD. community’s rights. There had been no federal laws ______districts. In the event of a pregnancy, Medicaid for set in place so they can engage inequality or freedoms pregnant women will be nationalized and eligibility 468 • Carbon Tax: An Option for such as housing, education, adoption, employment, placed at 185 percent of the federal poverty level, American Environmental Policy  and so on. By the same token, state sodomy laws were and the child will be eligible for Medicaid. For the DEVIN MCMANUS placed on these individuals in order to restrict their 64  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM rights in the past. As an attempt to resolve some of of this policy focus on why implementation of 475 • Helping Homeless Veterans: these problematic issues, some states have internships should occur, the effects internships acknowledged civil unions or have conceded to same- have on dropout rates, as well as college Public Policy For the People  sex marriage. Discrimination is a major factor in our acceptance rates, and the career paths students JAMES TUBRIDY daily lives that continues to affect individuals such as take when they overcome market failures and FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL the minority LGBTQ+ community. If we continue to public and private institutions that are the base to SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS categorize them as outsiders or as defying “the status the entire policy. No homeless person sleeps on the streets for the quo” and do not hold ourselves accountable, then the ______same exact reasons, veterans included in that hatchet of being an “American citizen” will be drawn 473 • Fixing a Broken System: statement. Homeless veterans are in this condition further. for a variety of reasons. From drug abuse to ______Redefining Native American overwhelming psychological trauma due to 471 • Disabled Veterans and Education wartime deployment, no two cases are identical. MADELYN STORMS Veterans have the extra added stress of having Homelessness: The Search for FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL given their time and risking their safety and sanity Viable Solutions SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS to defend our country, time that could have been MARIANNA SHEEDY Within the United States, Native Americans have a spent elsewhere in their respective lives. FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL significantly lower graduation rate in comparison Fortunately, because some make this sacrifice not SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS to the general public, with only 70 percent of every citizen has to be burdened with enlistment. This poster details the struggles encountered by Indigenous People graduating from high school Military personnel aid the government in its disabled veterans in the United States who are and only 13 percent of Native Americans holding a domestic and foreign policy enforcement; if this facing homelessness as a result of their disabilities. college degree. By fixing the education system for results in long term negative repercussions to a When most people think of disabilities, they often Native Americans, indigenous people will be more veteran's life, leaving them absent of a home, the think of physical forms such as amputations or likely to get higher paying jobs and end the cycle of United States government must guarantee its long-term injuries. However, many veterans deal poverty that's prevalent in Native American soldiers the peace and respect they deserve. This, with invisible disabilities such as PTSD, mental communities. By improving Native American therefore, is the reason homeless veterans require illnesses, and substance abuse. More than half of education rates, it is more likely that the disparity far more public intervention and governmental the homeless veteran population live with in many sectors of achievement will be narrowed. policy aid than what is currently given. While disabilities, thus placing them at a significantly A current program that has been utilized has been programs are in place now, not enough is being increased risk of homelessness compared to the the Bureau of Indian Education. While this program done to help. No veteran should have to sleep on rest of the population. Because of veterans’ has good intentions in creating schools that are the streets and live a life in squalor. military service, they are at higher risks of separate entities and cater to the specific cultural ______experiencing traumatic injuries and developing needs of its students, it is underfunded and the 476 • Higher Education as a Right, lifelong disabilities, all of which may affect their schools have lower graduation rates than those in Not Just an Option, for the Middle ability to work and reintegrate into civilian life. traditional school. That’s why it is instead more Over half the population of homeless veterans in useful to focus the issue of the low graduation rate Class the United States suffer from disabilities or have by creating mentors within the community of the OLIVIA HILT serious mental illnesses, and over 70% suffer same tribe who have completed high school. In FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL substance abuse issues. Federal and state addition, it would be a better idea to integrate SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS governments play roles in providing benefits to tribal cultures into the already existing public The following research explores why middle-class veterans returning home; however, securing these schools than to create new schools. Americans continue to suffer under college debt benefits and services can oftentimes involve ______and how to help resolve the issue; the middle class complicated legal procedures that many cannot 474 • Healing Broken Families: How is not wealthy enough to fully pay for tuition but at the same time, earn too much income to qualify for navigate on their own. My project will discuss to Alleviate the Negative Effects of whether the current administration is providing a majority of need-based loans. This trend creates disabled veterans with resources that are catered Divorce and Parental Bereavement a “barbell” effect, with middle-income students to their diverse needs. on School-Aged Children taking the brunt of the economic burden (Selingo, 2017). Students who are unable to attend college ______RACHEL WALLISKY start their early adult life several steps behind their 472 • Experiential Learning in Low FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL peers. The effect that the young middle class has SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Income Education on an economy is invaluable, and the loss of According to various studies, children and teens BRIAN HERMAN purchasing power due to debt is dangerous to the with divorced or bereaved parents are more likely FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL economy. Several states have embraced policies to to experience physical injury and develop health SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS allow for more affordable higher education, problems than those with married two-parent The federal education policy will focus on mending including New York State. Many countries offer an families. These problems require government the socioeconomic divide in the United States inexpensive or free option for secondary intervention because the problem of broken amongst youth. Students who attend high school education. Universities are heavily subsidized by families is widespread, but resources are not easily in a low income urban or rural area during their their governments because they see the use of accessible in all places. The mental health, growth, senior year would participate during two school taxpayer money as an investment for the whole and stability of children depends on the stability of periods an internship of their choosing within a country. In Germany, public universities are the relationships that they have with their parents. blue or white collar industry. High school seniors, virtually free, as education is seen as the If the relationship is broken, then the child suffers. in this specific demographic, are not as well- responsibility of the state, not the individual. If the It is important to provide support and advocacy to resourced compared to suburban communities U.S. adopted this mindset, while also allowing for children who may not come from backgrounds that when preparing for their future endeavors in the private institutions, it would help mitigate the are able to provide services for them, whether due fields of skill setting, opportunity awareness, and negative effects for the middle class that arise with to animosity between parents, lack of a parent, or career interest. Students who are exposed to student debt. internships in high school are offered opportunities financial troubles. By implementing a government ______to enhance classroom participation, create a supported and mandated program, we can 477 • When Does Gender Trump difference between curriculum and academic rigor, promote the health and well-being of children and apply real-world problem-solving. In the past living in broken homes, thereby increasing their Your Child's Health and Happiness?: decade, similar programs like this have successfully coping methods and self-esteem issues, and A Framework to LGBTQ issues in allowing them to lead a healthier, more normal worked on the local level in this specific Public Schooling demographic. Localities notice the positive effect it lifestyle. ROBERT DEDONA has on their communities. The three components ______ Promotes sustainability 65 Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual

FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL States government needs to honor the sacrifice AUSTIN CUTLER SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS that their soldiers have given, and make sure that FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Transgender students in the United States face two they never have to live on the streets. There is SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS major issues in schools, the inability to use the estimated to be over 40,000 homeless veterans in Recent scholars have failed to address one potential facilities of which they identify and the lack of the United States, which is a number that can vary consequence of increasing minimum wage: the loss of education on LGBTQ topics. An important step in each day. Many of these veterans suffer from benefits for those using Food Stamps. The hypothesis accepting these students so they do not feel like physical and mental disabilities that require proper presented in this project is that having an above outsiders is to begin the conversation about LGBTQ care from health services. Something that I average minimum wage will have a stronger topics at an early age, with not just the students propose to help the homeless veterans of our relationship with reducing the amount of people but with parents as well. Currently, laws in 7 states military is to provide them with housing on military economically qualified for food stamps than it will on prohibit the “promotion of homosexuality,” bases, where they can also be given jobs to help those who are below the poverty line. A study on 30 meaning that teachers of health/sexuality are the bases such as custodial work, cooking, or any cities is done to examine what the consequences are forbidden from discussing lesbian, gay, or bisexual other jobs that could help them get back on their on food stamp recipients. Different aspects of the people or topics in a positive light, if any at all. feet and provide them with proper housing as well minimum wages of these cities are accounted for, Students are also not provided safe environments as some income. including whether their minimum wage is above the where they can discuss their sexuality or have ______state average, and whether or not it is above the access to resources. In regards to the facilities, 480 • Learning Disabilities and sample average itself in order to account for the students who do not identify with the binary norm Issues in Higher Education  higher city wages. After running a linear regression on of male or female do not have a comfortable place the relationship between the percent of people at or JULIA SHEA to use the restroom or change in a locker room. below the federal poverty line and the minimum FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Federal action taken by the U.S. Department of wage, and the relationship between the percent of SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Education in order to protect students from people qualified for food stamps and the minimum My research consists of reviewing and correcting discrimination in regard to sexual identity. Despite wage, this study shows that the relationship between the current policies involving higher education and this ruling, nineteen states are still forcing students having an above the city average minimum wage and individuals with learning disabilities.In the United to use the facility of their sex at birth, as opposed both the poverty line and the amount of people States, one in five children born will be diagnosed to their gender identity. qualified for food stamps is nearly identical. ______with some sort of learning disability in their ______lifetime. In public policy making, categories of 478 • Homeless Veterans Care disabilities have been misrepresented and 483 • Reducing Recidivism with Program: Providing Care and neglected by policy makers. Today, institutions of Welfare Policy Assistance to Our Nation's Heroes higher education are mandated to follow Section KATRINA TILLAPAUGH 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Most in Need Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). However, SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS JARED DINICOLANTONIO interpretation of these policies by colleges and This poster presentation will explore the benefits of FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL universities are often broad and they do not all giving rental and income assistance to individuals SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS carry out the same accommodations for students being released from incarceration. Within five years of An important social welfare issue currently facing the with disabilities. Due to this, only 17% of students being released from prison, 76.6% are rearrested and nation is homeless veterans. Brave men and women with disabilities receive proper services and 56.7% are arrested within just one year. One of the fight overseas in wars defending our homeland, and accommodations. One huge change that would biggest contributing factors to recidivism is poor often times fall on hard circumstances after returning benefit those with learning disabilities would be economic conditions that reduce one’s ability to home. Veteran homelessness can be caused by many federal mandate requiring technological help and reintegrate themselves in society without turning to different factors, including the inability to find work, as tutoring centers. Colleges that have taken the leap crime. While in the prison system incarcerated well as post-traumatic stress disorder and other to providing these resources have seen a larger individuals are unable to earn an income and rarely mental illnesses. In addition, often times there are graduation rate and academic success in their have access to opportunities that will better their homeless veterans who were wounded during their students. With changes to Section 504, guidelines economic status upon release from prison. This is why tours and cannot adequately care for themselves. to properly aid students in higher education would public policy that specifically targets these populations Veterans deserve adequate healthcare, a warm place provide students with all the tools they need to is necessary. By providing rental and income to stay, access to hygiene products, and three meals a succeed and earn their degree. assistance to those being released from prison the day. I propose to build YMCA like government ______government reduces the risk of incarceration by institutions where homeless veterans can stay, no 481 • Malnutrition in Low-income allowing individuals the ability to receive higher questions asked for as long as they need. The veterans Youth: Do Schools Have to Feed education or job training, which will increase their would be able to shower, have a hot meal, exercise, economic status and therefore lower recidivism rates. and obtain clean clothes. There would also be a Students Dinner Too? ______medical center to treat the veterans for physical, as ELIZABETH BELL 484 • Textbooks and Guns: Gun well as mental ailments. The veterans would be able FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL to stay as long as they need until they can get back on SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Violence Too Close for Comfort their feet, or get transferred to another government This research explains the effects that malnutrition MAURA MACNEILL institution that could more adequately provide the has on low-income youth in the United States. FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL care they need. Children facing hunger are more likely to repeat a SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______grade, experience developmental impairments, This research will explore what policies we can 479 • Honoring the Sacrifice: Giving and have more social and behavioral problems. To implement into the United States society in order solve this problem, many low-income students are to help prevent gun violence in and around our Homes to our Homeless Vets  schools. Children who attend grades K-12 need to ANDREW HANIFIN given a free or reduced price lunch and/or breakfast through federal and state social welfare become a priority of our government, for them to FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL thrive for generations. The US has private guns SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS programs. Despite these efforts to satisfy children's hunger, many children still remain with outdated laws and mental health issues going One of the groups in the United States society that undiagnosed. Both issues are contributing to the is in need of improved welfare policy is the malnourished. I propose that students should be fed dinner after school in addition to breakfast and increase in mass school-shootings we have seen in homeless veterans of the military. The men and recent years. Over the past 19 years, more people women who fight for our country should have the lunch to solve the problem of undernourishment. ______have died in mass school shootings than in the peace of mind knowing that they will be able to live 482 • Minimum Wage's Impact on entire 20th century. There is an imperative issue out their lives in the comfort of a home and will not between technology advances in defense and our be forgotten living on the streets. The United Food Stamp Recipients  gun control laws. The mental health issue is ever

66  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM rising in the US, along with the stigma, which is CEARA GILMARTIN-DONOHUE beneficial to the public health. Limiting stress creating a pressing situation between our society FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL during stressful times could result in more rational and its safety against ourselves and one another. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS decisions. I will also look at mental health in the We need to find a way to effectively limit the use Abortion access in the United States varies widely work place, because working excessive hour can of guns in ways that will positively affect our by state. The existence of Roe v. Wade ensures that deteriorate one's health. society. Students should be using their textbooks this procedure remains legal. However, Roe v. to learn, not trying to stop a bullet. Wade does not ensure that it is accessible. In PSYCHOLOGY ______assessing accessibility and why it is high or low it is 302 • Effects of Perinatal 485 • The Burden of Childcare Costs important to look at states. A state government’s on Single Parents specific partisanship can help to show us how Tetrahydrocannabinol Exposure on abortion accessibility is directly connected and CHASE MCCAULEY Somatosensory Thresholds and affected by a state government.There were six FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL states that are used as samples and geographically Motor Functions in Rats SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS diverse. In looking at how a state government JULIAN DAVID-DRORI, KENNEDY PRIEST, CHARLENE In this research, I will show the negative effects of affects abortion accessibility in their state there are CANALE, KATHERINE COLI, LAURA COLI, NIKI LAM, the rising cost of childcare for single parents. Due three specific variables to observe. These variables KIRSTEN MOZIAK to rising costs, parents are opting to stay home and include governor ideology, state legislature FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, care for their children rather than enter the composition, and the number of legal restrictions PSYCHOLOGY workforce. This has created an employment barrier that the state has on abortion. The data collected Epidemiological studies have shown that prenatal for single parents, and a lack of single parents essentially shows that the more conservative a cannabinoid exposure leads to motor tremors and entering the workforce. This lack of single parents state is, the lower the accessibility of abortion exaggerated startle responses in infants. Research in the workforce results in their families needing score is. with animal models has shown that cannabinoid additional support from the government. In ______receptors in the brain regulate the development of addition, the childcare that single parents can 488 • Treating Mental Health as a motor activity. Thus, while early cannabinoid afford is not always the best quality. In order to exposure appears to produce motor deficits, their ensure that every child receives a proper education Common Investment effects on somatosensory function have not been before entering elementary school, I will propose JAMES MACALUSO studied. Consequently, the current study used a rat that a social welfare policy of free childcare FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL model to examine motor reflex development, through the age of five be granted to all single SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS strength, and somatosensory detection of a parents in order to lessen their financial burdens. This poster seeks to explore a proposed nociceptive stimulus following perinatal exposure This program would ensure that all children are government project that would allow for easier to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Female rats given a fair chance to attend a preschool that has screening, treatment, and other resources to be received a daily oral dose of 0, 2, 5 or 10mg/kg THC the same standards as their two parent available for mental health issues on a national in sesame oil throughout their gestation and counterparts. Additionally, this would give single level. The target population for this proposal would lactation periods. Righting reflexes were examined parents the opportunity to enter the workforce, be those with mental health issues and those with in juvenile animals. Fore- and hindlimb strength have a salary, and this would make them less likely the potential for mental health issues in were examined with a digital grip strength meter. to need other welfare assistance programs in the communities that have not been traditionally been Somatosensory thresholds were examined with a future. able to afford often vital mental health care tail flick apparatus. The initial results from this ______(therapy, medicine). As opposed to putting people work in progress suggest that THC produces sex- 486 • The United States and Health through the criminal justice system after they specific changes in strength and somatosensory Care: An Unnecessary Crisis commit crimes, become addicted to drugs or functions. alcohol, or display other maladaptive behaviors, JENNA MARCUS ______preemptive mental health care may help stop FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL 303 • Neonatal Exposure to the these crimes from happening in the first place. Not SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS only that, a robust public mental health care Flame Retardant, Depletion of life savings, consideration of divorce system will allow for families and individuals to or unemployment to meet eligibility for oftentimes Decabromodiphenyl Ether, Reduces better help handle social/economic stress and poor care, inability to pay mortgage and Astrocyte Density in Hippocampal challenges, leading to better outcomes in dealing foreclosure: in America, the land of choice, citizens with these sources of distress. Specifically, this Subregions get to make the choice of either death or life- proposal would allow for schools to refer at-risk JULIAN DAVID-DRORI, CHARLENE CANALE altering sacrifice. We pride ourselves on being the students to mental health workers and allow for FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, land of opportunity and freedom, yet these ideals these same resources to be available for free to any PSYCHOLOGY often times can only be claimed by those born with person who is concerned with their own mental Decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) is a privilege. In order to live up to the ideals of the health. brominated flame retardant chemical that was American Dream--equal chances for all--every ______applied to many consumer products. American must have fair access to health care. Unfortunately, it has become a prevalent Those without the ability to treat illness and live 489 • Why Paid Leave is Essential CHRISTOPHER ROTTLER environmental contaminant that can reduce well will always remain unfairly disadvantaged, thyroid hormone levels. Thyroid hormone is leading to lost opportunities and furthering the FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS important for healthy brain development. Among cycle of poverty, fear, and stress. The for-profit its many effects, thyroid hormone promotes nature of the United States healthcare system has Currently less than 15% of the American workforce has access to paid family/medical leave. Federally, astrocyte differentiation; cells that help form the resulted in less than one-third of its funds vested in blood-brain barrier and transport nutrients and patient care. Instead, most is diverted toward there is no law that requires employees get paid leave. Who is the targeted population for this type other important chemicals, including thyroid profits for the healthcare industry such as high hormone, from the blood to neurons in the brain. costs of hospital care and devices, excessive of policy? For this type of policy, it would be for the 120 million people that are full time workers. This study hypothesizes that decaBDE exposure administrative bureaucracy and regulations, and reduces astrocyte density in specific regions of the high salaries and bonuses to health care associates. Employees should not be forced to either get paid at their job or take time off to help an ill family hippocampus including the hilus and subgranular Until we accept that healthcare and the equal zone. To investigate, immature mice were exposed opportunity it engenders is a right to all, millions of member. With nearly 80% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, it is crucial that people don’t to 20 mg/kg/day decaBDE from postnatal day 1-21. Americans will continue to suffer. Brain samples were removed on day 22, sectioned, ______miss a paycheck. A missing a single paycheck could stained, and imaged at 20x magnification. NIH 487 • The Variation of Abortion result in some families' houses and or cars being taken away from them. This is a public policy issue ImageJ software was used to measure Accessibility by State because issuing paid family/medical leave is hippocampal areas and obtain cell counts. Initial  Promotes sustainability 67 Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual results from this work in progress indicate that 306 • The Relationship Between This study investigated resting-state changes in decaBDE exposure significantly reduced the blood oxygenation across the dorsolateral number of astrocytes but did not change the Environmental Threat and prefrontal cortex (dLPFC) relative to the galvanic volume of key subregions in the hippocampus. Environmentally Friendly Behavior: skin response (GSR) as participants completed the ______A Mediational Pathway  Iowa gambling task (IGT). The IGT assesses decision-making based on anticipation of risk and 304 • The Role of Post-Encoding SOMMER MCMANUS, OTTO JUNIOR reward. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy Retrieval on Cognitive FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY (fNIRS) was used to measure resting-state changes Research has linked perceptions of environmental Representations of Spatial in blood oxygenation across 16 locations on the threat to environmentally friendly behavior dLPFC. GSR reflected physiological arousal, and Environments (Schmitt et al, 2017). We expanded on this was used to generate underactive, overactive, or BROOKE DEMETRI research by examining the origins of variable “profiles” during the IGT task using cluster FACULTY SPONSOR: JASON OZUBKO, PSYCHOLOGY environmental threat in competing mediational analysis. Cluster analysis was also used with the Spatial memory is an important ability for navigating models. We were specifically interested in the role fNIRS data and revealed two distinct patterns of around one’s surrounding environment. However, of altruism, as measured by dispositional empathy, resting-state activity (activated and non-activated). due to the challenges of developing experimental in the origins of environmental threat. One It is hypothesized that activated fNIRS profiles paradigms that utilize large scale, real-world possible mediational model hypothesizes that the during resting-state will be correlated with environments, little research has analyzed, in detail, relationship between environmental threat and the development of cognitive maps over time. Past “overactive” GSR profiles during the IGT task. environmentally friendly behavior would be ______research in rodents has shown that hippocampal mediated by empathic concern. The second place-cells replay during periods of quiet wakefulness, mediational pathway hypothesizes that 326 • Correlations Between Risky suggesting that mental replay of recent spatial environmental threat is the mediator between Decision Making and Substance Use experiences is tied to the development of cognitive empathic concern and environmentally friendly CHRISTIANA SILVA, ZARMEEN ZAHID, MAYA maps. In humans, we hypothesize that the behavior. Results supported the environmental COTTONE, BRIANNA SCHIBLEY LAIRD, LIAM development of cognitive maps could therefore be threat/empathic concern/environmentally friendly MCMAHON, KATHERINE KELLER, ALICIA ROTH, manipulated by having participants selectively recall behavior model. There was no support for the MAGGIE ALDRICH, SAMUEL CAPONI recent navigational experiences. We analyzed the alternative model using environmental threat as FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, development of cognitive maps for novel, real-world the mediator. PSYCHOLOGY spatial environments over a period of 2 weeks using ______The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) assesses decision Google Street View software. Though all participants 324 • Perinatal Exposure to making based on anticipation of risk and reward. experienced the environments in the same way, after Tetrahydrocannabinol Alters Social Participants are instructed to pick one card from navigating through the environment participants’ four decks over the course of 100 trials. Two decks spatial memories were tested with either rote Behavior in Adult Rats are considered advantageous because they contain retrieval or spatial sequencing recognition tests. Both HARPER COLEMAN, CHRISTINA ANGELIU, LAUREN smaller short-term rewards but result in greater groups showed effective navigation on learned routes, PLEVY, KATHERINE COLI, KENNEDY PRIEST, DREW gains over time, and two decks are considered however, the sequencing group was more successful SCOTT disadvantageous because they contain larger in finding alternate routes around blockages and FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, short-term rewards but result in greater losses shortcuts between routes, suggesting more flexible PSYCHOLOGY over time. Task performance is based on the cognitive maps. These findings are the first to The public is increasingly accepting of the potential relative proportion of disadvantageous card demonstrate that the way in which navigational medical benefits of some cannabinoids and choices and advantageous card choices across the experiences are recalled can directly influence the attitudes toward recreational marijuana are full set of 100 trials as well as across blocks of 25 development of mental maps. Selected for softening. Many young adults of reproductive age trials. Risky decision making is characterized by presentation at SUNY Undergrad Research regard marijuana as a benign substance, an more disadvantageous deck choices since they Conference, Sanborn, NY. attitude that suggests increased risk for future result in temporary large rewards but also greater ______prenatal exposures. Several animal studies have accumulation of penalties over time. Participants 305 • Evidence that Personal Threat found that perinatal cannabinoid exposure can were instructed to complete the IGT as well as Mediates the Relation Between disrupt social functioning, either as a direct effect complete a survey measuring various forms of of exposure or as a secondary consequence of symptomatology, including engagement with Environmental Threat and cognitive impairments. However, many of these alcohol and other substances. It is hypothesized Environmentally Friendly Behavior animal studies are limited in that they have that consistent alcohol and substance use  examined only young adult male animals. The correlates with risky behavior, which can be NICOLE SPENCER, ALEXANDRIA BARLOWE, EMILY current study used a rat model to examine social assessed through IGT performance. It is expected TOWNSEND behaviors following perinatal exposure to that IGT performance will correlate with substance FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Female rats received use. Previous research connects environmental threat and a daily oral dose of 0, 2, 5 or 10mg/kg THC in ______environmentally friendly behavior (Schmitt et al., sesame oil throughout their gestation and lactation 327 • Correlations Among Decision 2017). However, potential mediational pathways periods. A three-chambered sociability apparatus Making, Physiological Response, linking these two variables has not yet been and EthoVisionXT video-tracking software were investigated. The current study examined how both used to examine social novelty preference, social and Psychopathology personal threat and environmental threat contribute memory, and social conditioned place preference MAGGIE ALDRICH, KATHERINE KELLER, SAMUEL to environmentally friendly behavior through two in male and female offspring. The initial results CAPONI mediational models. The first pathway linked personal from this work in progress suggest that THC FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, PSYCHOLOGY threat and environmentally friendly behavior through produces sex-specific changes in social behavior. The current study examined relationships among environmental threat. Meanwhile, the second ______self-reported symptoms of anxiety-related pathway linked environmental threat and 325 • Association Between Resting- disorders and depression, galvanic skin response environmentally friendly behavior through personal State Neural Activity and (GSR), and performance on the Iowa Gambling threat at a mediator. Results indicated personal threat Task (IGT). The IGT is a cognitive task which as a mediator. These results suggest that personal Physiological Reactivity During assesses decision-making under conditions of threat may have an important effect on Decision Making uncertainty. GSR was used to assess physiological environmentally friendly behaviors. BRIANNA SCHIBLEY LAIRD, LIAM MCMAHON, reactivity, and was examined for patterns of ______ALICIA ROTH underactivity, overactivity, and variability. FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, Participants (N = 130) from a small liberal arts PSYCHOLOGY college in the Northeastern United States 68  Promotes sustainability 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Posters 2 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM completed the IGT while being monitored by GSR 330 • Warm Glow as a Mediator to epidemiological studies. The current study used a sensors, and subsequently completed a survey rat model to examine long-term cognitive deficits which assessed indicators of anxiety disorders and Promote Environmentally Friendly following perinatal exposure to depression. It is expected that the different GSR Behavior  tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Female rats received profiles will correspond to reports of anxious and OTTO JUNIOR, SOMMER MCMANUS, SAMANTHA a daily oral dose of 0, 2, 5 or 10mg/kg THC in depressive symptomatology, as well as BAUTISTA, KRYSTA KELLNER, NICOLE SPENCER, sesame oil throughout their gestation and lactation performance on the IGT. ALEXANDRIA BARLOWE, EMILY TOWNSEND periods. When their offspring reached adulthood, ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY they were trained to press a lever in an operant 328 • Personality and "Warm Glow," positive feelings resulting from chamber for food reinforcement. Trained offspring Environmental Attitudes  socially responsible behaviors, is one antecedent were then tested with a series of increasingly complex operant schedules that included random SOMMER MCMANUS, NICOLE SPENCER, ALEXANDRIA to environmentally friendly behavior (Hartmann et ratio and delayed spatial alternation. The initial BARLOWE, EMILY TOWNSEND, KRYSTA KELLNER, al. 2017). Although this finding suggests an results from this work in progress suggest that OTTO JUNIOR, SAMANTHA BAUTISTA altruistic path to environmentalism, research has perinatal THC produces subtle dose- and sex- FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY not fully investigated this possibility. We tested a mediational model positing that Warm Glow specific impairments of operant behavior. This research examined the relation between ______altruistic personality characteristics and mediated the relation between social altruistic environmental values. We hypothesized and found values and biospheric concerns for the 350 • The Science Café Model is that these altruistic personality characteristics environment. Results suggest that altruism and Effective at Increasing Trust in Warm Glow play important roles in promoting predicted environmental values after controlling Science and Scientists  for materialism, perceptions of environmental environmentally responsible behaviors. ______PATRICK BUCKLEY threat, and other egoistic motives. Future and 331 • Perinatal Exposure to FACULTY SPONSORS: NICHOLAS PALUMBO, CENTER ongoing research will examine potential FOR COMMUNITY; DAVID PARFITT, CENTER FOR mediational pathways linking altruism and Tetrahydrocannabinol Produces INTEGRATIVE LEARNING environmental values. The Science Café model is an increasingly common ______Long-Term Learning Impairments CAELEY SHEEHAN, KIRSTEN MOZIAK, LAUREN PLEVY, model used by scientists to connect with members 329 • Prayer Experience KENNEDY PRIEST, JAYME ELSTON, DOMINICK of the public. Science Café event formats can vary Questionnaire LEONARDI, PETER NAJDZIONEK, KATHERINE COLI, significantly, but the model is defined by the EMILY TOWNSEND, SAMANTHA BAUTISTA, KRYSTA LAURA COLI, QUINN COUGHLIN, CHARLENE CANALE, informal nature of the events and the KELLNER, ALEXANDRIA BARLOWE, NICOLE SPENCER, DREW SCOTT interpersonal connections promoted between SOMMER MCMANUS, OTTO JUNIOR FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, members of the public and scientists. Additionally, FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY trust in science and scientists has been implicated This study examined the relation between body Exposure to suspected toxicants such as the as a major component of an individual’s willingness posture and prayer experiences. Participants cannabinoids contained in marijuana, even for to believe in scientific theories and support reported how they normally prayed, the type of discrete periods, can perturb brain development science-based policies. A ten question survey was prayer they normally gave, and the topic of their and produce permanent behavioral impairments. utilized to analyze the Geneseo-based Discovery prayers. We hypothesized and found that body Emerging clinical evidence suggests that prenatal Cafe event series, created using the Science Café posture during prayer was related to prayer topics. cannabinoid exposure produces attention deficits model, to determine if Science Café events are Personality characteristics were also associated and other executive function disruptions in effective at increasing individuals’ trust in science with body posture during prayer and with prayer children. Well-designed animal models offer the and scientists. Results of this investigation provide topics. opportunity to control many of the variables (age evidence that the Science Café model is an ______at exposure, dose, duration, medical history, etc.) effective event format to increase public trust in that blur the cause-effect relationships in science and scientists.

 Promotes sustainability 69 GREAT Day Music Festival 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual GREAT DAY MUSIC FESTIVAL

DOTY RECITAL HALL

9:40 AM – 9:55 AM Mendelssohn Hips and Harmony CAMERYN SCALI, EMMA MCMAHON, ERIN HOGAN, HALEIGH KIRK, HANA String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20 - I. Allegro SMITH, HANNAH GRIFFIN, HANNAH VAN WERT, ISABELLA HIGGINS, moderato ma con fuoco by Felix Mendelssohn JILLIAN VANLEER, LAUREN LABARGE, MADELINE REILLY, MARIANNE EVELYN WELCH, ERIC WANG, KRISTEN NALECZ, GRANT MCELHENY, MAYSUCH, MARISSA MARASH, MEGAN ANDERS, MEGAN O'MALLEY, BRIDGETTE SROKA, JENNA MELDRUM, SHOTARO TOYODA, CALLY MELODY CHOI, MIKA SWANSON, RACHAEL THORP, SARAH PLOOF, ISSIDORIDIS, RYAN LEE SHANNON KNAPP, SYDNEY SHERIDAN FACULTY SPONSORS: ANDREW BERGEVIN, MUSIC; AN-CHI LIN, MUSIC; DANA HUYGE, MUSIC Southside Boys ANDREW WEBER, ANDREW KEMLER, BENJAMIN SHEAR, BRETT HAMMES, CALEB WILDER, ELADIO MARTINEZ, EVAN PANZER, GEORGE 10:05 AM – 10:50 AM ACAPELLA HOUR PERDOMO, JACK GRANT, JACK SWANSON, JACOB GOLDBERG, OWEN MONTEFERRANTE, ROCKY NARDONE, TYLER GERBSCH Exit 8 COLIN SUGRUE, CHRISTOPHER MILLER, EMILIOS PAPAS, EMILY CATALDO, Emmelodics ISAIAH KELLY, KATHERINE KELLER, MADALYN BOWEN, MALLORY ALEXANDER WEBBER, BETHANY LIANO, CAITLEN EPPERSON, CLAIRE MROZINSKI, MARIA RUIZ LUNA, MARY SCHUCHMAN, MICHAEL PRUNIER, DENIS HARTNETT, GAGE MATYASOVSZKY, JEREMY DAVIES, MASETTA, NICOLE ACQUAVELLA, SAIGE HORVATH, SAMANTHA HARRIS, JONAH GOLDSTEIN, JACK MCALEVEY, KENNETH COLE, KELLY SARA RAPUZZI, SEAN RYAN, THOMAS VANGELLOW KULAKOWSKI, KAILA MCKIERNAN, LYNDSAY TUDMAN, MACKENZIE

HINTZE, TOMMY CASTRONOVA, TALIA ITZCOWITZ, WILLIAM BLANDING Between The Lines DESTINY PARSONS, EVAN BURR, ERIC LEARY, GABRIELLE OWEN, GRACE 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM PONIATOWSKI, JOSEF DIGIORGIO, KYLE CASTER, MEGAN KENNEY, MELISSA FRANK, NICHOLAS SANTORA, RAPHAEL ELMASRI, RYAN ZIPPER, Geneseo Flute Choir SARA DEVOE, SARAH CHANNELS, TAYLER NGUYEN, TREVOR GRECO, SARAH MANDANAS, DYLAN FICHERA, MADELINE YOUSEY, BRITTANY VINCENT MECCARIELLO SULLIVAN, KATHERINE COTTEN, LAUREN LAMBIE, ANALIESE VASCIANNIE, JENNA MARCUS, CHRISTINA WAITE FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHRYN SCARBROUGH, MUSIC

SOUTH HALL QUAD (rain location Wads 21)

11:20 AM – 12:00 PM SUNY GENESEO JAZZ ENSEMBLE SAMUEL DOLE, ROBERT MARINO, BRIAN VARGAS, JOSEF DIGIORGIO, CESAR FLORES, CODY ESPOSITO, DOMINIC FLORIO, JAMES AMBALAVANAR, JONATHAN PASTORE, MADISON RODGERS, PAUL OLEYOURRYK JR., THOMAS AMBALAVANAR, BEN MICHALAK, TYLER TIEDE, OWEN STEVENS, WILLIAM DORFNER, DYLAN WALGATE, CALEB WILDER, DEVIN HOGAN, EMILY REDA, JOSEPH BIENKO, JACOB HOUSEKNECHT, LUCAS SMITH, SOPHIE YEOMANS, BENJAMIN HOUSEMAN FACULTY SPONSOR: WILLIAM TIBERIO, MUSIC

COLLEGE UNION BALCONY

12:00 PM The Geneseo String Band LEEANN BRUETSCH, GRACE BUECHNER, LINA CLIFFORD, TAYLOR FRITZ, HANNAH GARTY, ABRAHAM HAUSER, ADAM KOVLER, BRIDGET PITRE, BENJAMIN ROBINSON, KAYLA SCHUM, ERIKA SKINNER, SAMUEL SMITH, MOLLY SQUIRES, BRIDGETTE SROKA, JAMES TUBRIDY FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES KIMBALL, MUSIC

70 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Artwork

THE GREAT BATTLE OF THE ARTISTS

MACVITTIE COLLEGE UNION KINETIC GALLERY 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM The GREAT Battle of the Artists is a multi-media art contest that is a partnership between GREAT Day, GCAB Arts & Exhibits and Nassau Hall. Winners were selected by a panel of faculty staff and student judges and will be announced at 5:30 pm.

______: Medium weight paper with art- disappoint them. I used teal and gold to capture KATHERINE ANDERSEN Holo Wealth deco style gems printed on it with holographic the feeling of the desert and Nile. I wanted to 1745-1760 Women's Travel Jacket and lining, cut and shaped into a rose. Colors are capture the seriousness and sternness of being a ruler while adding the softness of the tears as his Matching Skirt, with Underpinnings: Full purple, green, and blue. This rose sparked joy as emotions finally broke free from that well-locked outfit (including corset, shift, bum roll, petticoats, soon as I created it and held it in my hands. As soon as I had access to the paper, I knew it would cage. and fichu) constructed of period-appropriate ______fabrics and construction techniques, including become a beautiful rose. It reminded me of the joy CALEB BOLHA hand sewing, tailored to fit student, after pattern when I first began making paper flowers: that this : Twilight Sparkle is in Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion 1. Created is something I have a talent for and relaxes me. Sleeping in the Library under supervision of Bonita Stubblefield for THEA ______passionate about historical research. Although, 199-02, Advanced Costume Construction. AL TEJERA sometimes she can get carried away. Books aren’t ______Disassociated Muses (1/3): (2019) as comfortable as they appear to sleep on; I can HEATHER AIKEN Painted in Procreate (v. 4.2.5) on iPad Pro, Printed attest to this. This piece was completed in May of 2018 after my first two semesters at Geneseo. Black Panther: Acrylic paint on canvas. 2018 on art board, 14 in x 11 in. His hand is pressed to the side of the board as if he could feel another Medium – #2 pencil on printer paper. Mackenzie Blackwood: Pencil on paper. soul longing, reaching for any skin-to-skin contact. Castle of the Two Sisters: The Castle of the 2015 His own desires burn his eyes and tear at him, Two Sisters was once the home of Princess Luna and Charlie Coyle: Pencil on paper. 2016 eating at his last drop of hope. He aches for release Princess Celestia. After Luna’s banishment to the ______from his own self. Moments ago, he discovered his moon, Celestia abandoned the castle and took the ALISON BRIGGS true love for men and not as a brother. I wanted to throne in Canterlot. Since Luna’s return, Celestia and Koi in a pond on a fall afternoon: This share the pain that love causes, especially those Luna have mended their relationship, yet the castle picture of a Koi was taken at a pond in Geneseo in who had to suffer throughout history. I had to bring still remains in ruins. This piece was completed during the fall. in the feeling of shame and remorse—which I feel August of 2018 and serves as the album artwork for ______is best conveyed through art. And, thus the series my melodic ambient track “Melodies of Sun and JACQUELINE ZHOU begins. Contrast was one of the most important Moon” (https://youtu.be/KxhslD31BwE). Medium – Hunger: Photograph. Taken in the Spring of things when I began this work. I wanted to capture #2 pencil on sketchbook paper. 2017, in the Geneseo Arboretum, of a bee flow of his deep black hair against the stark A Walk in Nature: Fluttershy’s fascination gathering nectar from a cherry tree. vermilion of his hiyoku. I added a small spark of with nature and introverted personality often leads her to ______that stark orange in his eyes to capture the feeling exploring the countryside. This piece was completed in GENEVIEVE TRIPOLI of being scorched inside. January of 2019 and will serve as the album artwork for my The Light: This piece is a self-portrait. It Disassociated Muses (2/3): (2019) remix to Cola Euphoria’s track “Fluttershy’s Rhapsody” highlights the henna that I had done on my arm Painted in Procreate (v. 4.2.5) on iPad Pro, Printed (https://youtu.be/aoO9meFHQic). Unfortunately, the earlier that week. It is a piece that explores many on art board, 14 in x 11 in/ He feels foolish, playing remix is still incomplete after 6 years, but I am close! emotions; for the viewer to explore. This is an oil with the hearts of aristocratic men who he could Medium – #2 pencil on printer paper. on canvas piece. never truly be with. Feeling the high off of his own ______MARGUERITE BOSCO High Fives and Good Vibes: This piece is pride, he declares his love to a friend. It had been a body portrait. It is a fun and colorful piece with a nothing but fun, a silly game they would play. Now, Blue Rose: This is a detailed colored pencil lot of personality. It promotes positive emotions he wants comfort for his rejection. He breaks drawing of a blue rose. I made this piece in memory and memories, including body positivity and self- himself down for dreaming of the impossible. In of my grandmother. Her favorite color was blue love. This is a colored pencil piece. the second piece, I wanted to capture the Rococo and she had a strong admiration for flowers. I aesthetic while bringing in elements of darkness to wanted this piece to be simple and delicate while Happy: I have worked at a daycare for over two tie it in with the others. The black tears are an also being unique and extraordinary, just like my years now, and I have noticed that the silliest obvious example of it. His poshness is something I grandmother was. things can make children happy. In this piece, one am truly proud of since I accentuated his lips so Melting lips: This piece was painted with of my students was wearing a dress up skirt and they matched his pupils. I wanted to give an aura acrylic paint on a 5 by 7 canvas. It is a realistic tossing plastic toy balls around the classroom. I of being absolutely love-stricken while being filled painting of lips, but also incorporates surrealism wanted to capture the pure emotion of happiness. with resentment. I thought it would be very important to capture this because of the drips added to the bottom. I used image with bright alluring colors and fun twisting Disassociated Muses (3/3): (2019) abstract calligraphy strokes to give it spontaneity lines. This is a water color and pen piece. Painted in Procreate (v. 4.2.5) on iPad Pro, Printed while looking realistic as a whole. on art board, 14 in x 11 in. He reaches out to feel ______The Foggy Road Ahead: This piece is a HOPE ARTIS something soothing. Expectation grinds at the back watercolor landscape painting done on stretched of his skull and pounds incessantly as he tries to Impressionist: Thick, laminated paper crafted water color paper. It incorporates wet on wet wash escape his own body. How can he be pharaoh when rose made with six layers of said paper. The colors technique with detailed and spontaneous he does not desire the warmth of a woman? are red, green, yellow, white, and purple. About calligraphy strokes. It depicts a road that fades into Fingertips pinned to the wall, he drowns in his own the size of the palm of your hand, it looks like a the distance on a foggy and rainy day. I was thoughts of baring successors and giving the painting done by an impressionist painter. While I inspired to paint this gloomy piece to represent the empire what it needs. He cannot bring himself to have always considered the paper roses I made to foggy and unclear path that lies ahead of me as accept his passions. I present the final piece in this be art, this one has hit me as an actual work of art. graduation comes closer and closer. collection. In this last period piece, I took great The paper was thick enough that I was afraid it would not bend into the flower I wanted it to be, inspiration from the feeling of being trapped in a but it is. It is a painting made three-dimensional position of a role-model in which everyone counts on you, looks up to you, but you don't want to and accessible. 71 Artwork 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual ______AIDEN BUDINSKI GEORGIA SCHNORE Eclipse: Ink and acrylic painting of a total solar Cosmic Witch: A portrait of the most eclipse. powerful being in the universe. 11" × 14" Wolf Creek: Photo was taken at Letchworth Revolution Lovers: Mira in her summer State Park in Fall 2018. dress preparing to go out with her husband. 8.5" × Emmeline: Photo of the iconic Geneseo bear 11" fountain on Main Street.

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS GEO Dumpster Dive Sapphire Winter Guard at Geneseo Presents Enchanted 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Between MCU and Mary Jemison 4:40 pm College Union Plaza (Outside) SHEILA BARABINO, JANE AULD, CARA O'SHEA, MEREDITH SAUCCI, KYLE KAYLAN RUIZ, SHELBY SCHMIGEL, SOPHIE HOLCOMB, REBECCA BARTLETT, HIGGS, MIRANDA BLAAUBOER, JILLIAN TODD, TESS LAVIGNE, NOAH MARGAUX CARMEL, KAREN CASWELL, CAYLEY DICKENS, JAYNEE OSBORNE MATTICE, KATIE SINGLETON FACULTY SPONSOR: LISA SMITH, MATHEMATICS FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVE ROBERTSON, GEOGRAPHY Sapphire Winter Guard at Geneseo is completely student-run and is under the Each year, GEO investigates waste management on campus. This live direction of captains Kaylan Ruiz, Shelby Schmigel, and Sophie Holcomb. It installation involves sorting through one bag of trash from each residence hall incorporates elements of dance and equipment spinning in a show that is and academic building on campus to determine how much of that waste could performed in competitions within the North East Color Guard Circuit. This is have been recycled. The sorting process will be open to audience participation, Sapphire Winter Guard's fifth year participating in competitions as well as and proper protective gear such as gloves, goggles and protective suits will be GREAT Day. Sapphire invites you to a performance of whimsy and true love provided to anyone who wishes to participate. The bags will first be weighed with our 2019 production, “Enchanted.” Based on the Taylor Swift song of the as-is, and then reweighed once all the items in the bag have been properly same name, the show follows strangers who fall in love at first sight. But when sorted as landfill, paper, or glass/plastic/metal. This performance will be the time comes, will that love be reciprocated? transformed into a video which exemplifies how much “trash” could have been recycled in our sample selection. This data analysis is not intended to be a highly accurate or scientific process, but rather the objective of this interactive art performance is to create a visual impact of consumption and waste at Geneseo. By doing so we seek to promote positive environmental action on an individual level by encouraging students and faculty to reevaluate their personal consumption and recycling habits. This video is will be shared with the campus community in order to encourage proper waste disposal actions.

72 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Insomnia Film Festival

Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival

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

The Eighth Annual Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival took place on March 29/30. Participants had 24 hours to write, shoot, edit, and post a video no longer than 3-minutes in duration using a set of elements provided. Teams competed for prizes against other SUNY Geneseo students in an attempt to create the wittiest, most interesting, and creative video. This was a chance for students of all talents to flex their creative muscles and demonstrate their skills, as writers, actors, videographers, or editors. Submissions were judged by a panel of Geneseo faculty and staff. Now we're inviting you to come see the videos during this special GREAT Day screening and awards ceremony! The event is open to all Geneseo community members and we encourage you to bring family, colleagues, and friends as we recognize the excellence, achievements and talent of our 2019 Insomniacs!

GIFF Teams and Participants

Newton's Knights The Supreme Meme Team The MANDEM NICK LAURELLI BRIDGET KELLEY LUC TURNIER CODY ESPOSITO SAMUEL CAPONI RAYAN RAMIREZ IAN COSTLEY GRACE SELLERS DENIS MAZARIEGOS EMMA SHORT BRENDEN NAVARRO Newton’s Queens PHOEBE MAXWELL Quiet Hours Pecan Sandies KAITLYN LATORRE NICKOLAS SCHUESSLER STEPHEN CARON ZACHARY GOODRICH TSHERING SHERPA Big Mammal Hand Transplanters MITCHELL PACE STEPHEN ROCHESTER NATALIE HAYES OUSMANE SAM MARTIN BENZINGER Glastonbury CT DONG WON OH ANNIE RENAUD [email protected] + LINDSEY KRIARIS TREVOR GRECO Catherine [sic]

RACHEL MOLINO ANNALEE BAINNSON GOONSQUAD JAMES MACALUSO JOSEPHINE KWAN

EDWAR RAMIREZ CATHERINE WHITE BRANDON SCHERHAUFER The Revelation HUNGANTOTA DON UDESHI SENEVIRATNE GERALD PADLO HUNTER COWLES JAMES CURRAN Golf Digest The Outsiders ERIC KOESSLER JONATHAN CHAO

EMILY REDA ANTHONY MIRAGLIA KATHERYNE HIBBERT-NELSON Flowmotion OTTO JUNIOR ANUSHKA BHATT COREY WIRTH ALYSSA VADALA Team BeFried

악마 друг ("Demon Friend") TROY SEEFRIED Stink Tank ANGEL GONZALEZ DAVID BEYEA ROBERT PIASCIK AARON RODDY HARRISON HARMON BILLY RICHMAN GREGORY GUSTAFSON

B34R Clan GUS FORMATO

ROBERT ZICKL Sleepy Crows VINCENT LEMA EMILIO GARCIA ADAM TAYLOR WALTER HOAG AIDEN BUDINSKI

 Promotes sustainability 73 Index of Participants 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual

Index of Student Presenters and Faculty/Staff Sponsors

A Barrett, Emma · 39 Bruno, Samantha · 13 Clapper, George · 28 Abid, Emel · 15 Barrow, Chalyne · 25, 50 Brush, Daniel · 4, 36 Clapsadl, Alexander · 33 Abrams, Kelly · 24 Barstow- Christopher, Grace · 50 Brushafer, Emily · 22 Clark, Timothy · 51 Acheta, Jenica · 32 Bartlett, Rebecca · 72 Bryk, Jennifer · 20 Cleeton, Elaine · 2, 49 Acierno, Nicole · 13 Basile, Alexandra · 29 Buckley, Katie · 15 Clifford, Lina · 38, 70 Acquavella, Nicole · 70 Bautista, Samantha · 69 Buckley, Patrick · 6, 16, 69 Clough, Erin · 32 Adabra, Kodjo · 10 Bayhan, Emily · 36 Buckowski, Colin · 58 Coates, Kiersten · 52 Adams, Catherine · 2, 9, 19, 25, 60, 61 Bazzett, Terence · 16, 54, 62 Budinski, Aiden · 72, 73 Coates, Noah · 7 Aether, Jaffre · 18 Bearss, Brittany · 13, 47 Buechner, Grace · 70 Coburn, Thomas · 22 Agayan, Eduard · 58 Becerra Pachon, Sharon · 14 Buisch, Mickayla · 38 Cole, Kenneth · 70 Agbokou, Semefa · 18 Bechard, Allison · 16, 47, 48 Bukuru, Assia · 47 Coleman, Harper · 68 Aguilar, Cesar · 27 Behrend, Justin · 26 Burch, Sara · 51, 53 Coli, Katherine · 67, 68, 69 Aiken, Heather · 71 Bell, Elizabeth · 66 Burger, Lexi · 15 Coli, Laura · 67, 69 Aimers, James · 4 Beltramini, Anna · 54, 62 Burgess, Lauren · 40 Collins, Tess · 10 Ainsworth, Austin · 23 Belyakov-Goodman, Irene · 8, 17, 23, Burmingham, Isaac · 63 Colon, Betsy · 12 Ajiboye, Ruth · 50 25, 57 Burr, Evan · 33, 51, 52, 70 Colon, Xiara · 13, 47 Akanonu, David · 54 Benamram, Tom · 11 Colvin, Kiersten · 24 Alam, Rabeka · 5, 6, 36, 37 Benjamin, Laura · 61 C Conflitti, Jennifer · 13 Albers, Judith · 24 Bennett, Brittney · 27 Cabahug, Gail · 12 Connelly, Megan · 23 Aldrich, Maggie · 62, 68 Bennett, Yvonne · 59 Calarco, Miranda · 34 Connolly, Jimmy · 41 Alexander, Sydney · 11, 14 Benoit, Gloria · 33 Calderon, Jeff · 24 Conrade, Savana · 30 Alfieri, Christian · 26 Benz, Iris · 37 Callahan, Nicole · 62 Converse, Jacob · 15 Allen, Hunter · 60 Benzinger, Martin · 73 Campbell, Craig · 60 Cook, Emily · 27 Allen, James · 68, 69 Bergevin, Andrew · 2, 70 Canale, Charlene · 67, 69 Coolican, Annibell · 30 Almomani, Ahmad · 28, 42 Berry, Bradley · 38 Canning, James · 15 Cooper, Anthony · 43 Alt, Dani · 47 Berte, Mouhamad · 26 Caponi, Samuel · 68, 73 Cooper, Ken · 57 Alvarez Merlos, Stephanie · 42 Beyea, David · 25, 73 Card, Olivia · 5, 34 Cooper, Samuel · 21 Ambalavanar, James · 70 Bhatt, Anushka · 73 Carey, Alexis · 48 Cope, Joseph · 9, 17, 27, 61, 62, 63 Ambalavanar, Thomas · 70 Bhattarai, Govinda · 21 Carlin, Erin · 30 Cordone, Kayla · 48 Ambrosia, Alicen · 27, 41 Bhimani, Alishah · 45 Carlson, Andrew · 5 Coronel, Johanna · 24 Amirault, Liza · 50 Bhuchar, Rohan · 23 Carmel, Margaux · 42, 72 Costley, Ian · 73 Anders, Megan · 70 Bienko, Joseph · 41, 62, 70 Caron, Stephen · 9, 73 Cotten, Katherine · 13, 32, 70 Andersen, Katherine · 71 Binda, Olivia · 8 Carrera, Kevin · 34 Cottone, Chloe · 56 Anderson, Justin · 57 Blaauboer, Miranda · 72 Carrozzi, Emily · 23, 80 Cottone, Maya · 68 Anderson, Scott · 18 Blanding, William · 32, 70 Casilla, Nikauly · 42 Coughlin, Quinn · 31, 69 Andolina, Samantha · 21 Blood, Melanie · 2, 7, 14, 22, 30 Caster, Kyle · 70 Cowles, Hunter · 73 Andrews, Chad · 56 Bluver, Amanda · 30 Castillo-Rodriguez, Susana · 41, 42 Cox, Eliza · 22 Angelini, Harrison · 44 Bolha, Caleb · 71 Castronova, Tommy · 27, 70 Cross, Clinton · 7 Angeliu, Christina · 33, 68 Booth, Scott · 59 Caswell, Karen · 27, 72 Crossman, Oliver · 44 Anne, Kirk · 56 Borgna, Elena · 11 Cataldo, Emily · 70 Crowley, Danielle · 30 Apple, Jennifer · 6, 34, 56 Borst, Krista · 26 Cavello, Seth · 58 Cuascut, Elena · 60 Arbeitman, Jake · 24 Borth, Jacob · 46 Cebulski, Dana · 33 Cummings, Cameron · 40 Arnum, Drew · 46 Bosch, Isidro · 14, 33, 80 Cecala, Emily · 9, 10, 27 Curley, Connor · 23 Arpino, Emily · 22 Bosco, Marguerite · 71 Cecere, Michael · 21 Curley, Shannon · 19 Artis, Hope · 71 Bourgoine, Nichole · 22 Cepeda, Vanessa · 13, 25, 47 Curran, James · 73 Auld, Jane · 72 Bove, Francesca · 41, 44 Cesario, Dominique · 43, 62 Curto, Angelica · 40 Austin, Quinton · 44 Bowen, Madalyn · 50, 70 Chabla, Anahi · 48 Cutler, Austin · 66 Avallone, David · 5 Boyer, Joshua · 5, 62 Chaborek, Michael · 40 Cylke, Kurt · 49 Avellino, Eli · 24 Bracy, Sarah · 53 Chacko, Christina · 32 Avenia, Megan · 24 Brady, Kayla · 22 Chan, Sabrina · 13, 48 D Ayers, Lucas · 60 Brady, Molly · 16, 62 Chang, Carol · 15 DalPorto, Danielle · 20 Braico, Adrienne · 30 Channels, Sarah · 70 Daly, Alex · 22 B Bramwell, Sabrina · 13, 18, 48 Chao, Jonathan · 73 Daniels, Amanda · 37 Babovic, Jovana · 9 Breed, Cooper · 13 Chapin, Bailey · 23 Danieu, Eamon · 27, 61 Bailey, Sean · 60 Brey, Cecilia · 13, 42, 44 Charny, Anna · 21 Dash, Evan · 57 Bailey, Travis · 6, 53, 54 Brierton, Elizabeth · 23 Chase, Hannah · 16 David-Drori, Julian · 67 Bainnson, Annalee · 73 Briggmann, Brianne · 62 Chen, William Boyuan · 10 Davies, Jeremy · 70 Baldwin, Anne · 80 Briggs, Alison · 71 Chen, XIao Jun · 13, 48 Dawson, Kurt · 62 Baldwin, Douglas · 28, 61 Briggs-McEwen, Lilia · 49 Chiarello, Josephine · 9 De Vasconcelos, Camila · 13, 47 Ballew, Frances · 40 Brilling, Madeleine · 56 Choi, Marc · 15 DeCarlo, Jonathan · 27 Bamburoski, Luke · 6 Brito, Odalis · 27 Choi, Melody · 70 DeDona, Robert · 65 Banach, Courtney · 46 Brookes, Sarah · 7 Chojar, Faith · 57 DeHart, Ganie · 13, 47, 48, 80 Bang, Jay · 57 Broomfield, Mark · 30 Chojnacki, Natalie · 60 DeJesus, Samantha · 23 Barabino, Sheila · 12, 72 Brophy, Taylor · 62 Choset, Rachel · 24 DeLella, Adriana · 33 Baran, Kira · 26 Brown, Dominique · 49 Chowdhury, Thasfia · 25 Dellis, Carly · 59 Barber, Julian · 56 Brown, Gunnar · 43 Christman, Leah · 4, 17, 25 Demetri, Brooke · 68 Barlowe, Alexandria · 68, 69 Brown, Matthew · 30 Chrostowski, Eric · 37 Demott, Alyssa · 9 Barlowe, Francesca · 48 Bruen, Bridget · 28 Cirulli, Isabelle · 27, 41 Dempsey, Malachy · 17 Barreca, Laura · 37 Bruetsch, Leeann · 14, 51, 70 Clagnaz, Jessica · 22 Derella, Brie · 18, 48 74 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence 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Derick, Brady · 39 Fredericks, Kathryn · 9 Hammes, Brett · 70 Itzcowitz, Talia · 70 Derne, Steve · 30 Freeman, Charles · 43 Han, Katie · 54 Iyer, Savitri · 43 Deshmukh, Ishan · 54 Freeman, Garth · 16, 25 Hanifin, Andrew · 66 DesRosiers, Jordan · 19 Freeman, Mikaela · 48 Hannam, Kristina · 51, 52 Desrosiers, Valerie · 23 Freiman, Elijah · 58 Hansen, Adam · 32 J Devoe, Sara · 70 French, Nick · 41 Harbus, Jenna · 50 Dewey, Madelyn · 19 Fritz, Taylor · 70 Harding, Madison · 22, 30 Jacobson, Blaise · 24 Di Fede, Anna · 21 Frohm, Hannah · 29 Hargrove, Connor · 26 Jacoby, Wady · 36 Dickens, Cayley · 72 Frost, Ryland · 9 Harmon, Harrison · 24, 73 Jamison, Allena · 52 DiGiorgio, Josef · 24, 70 Fuerst, Elyse · 48 Harriett, Melaya · 23 Jaramillo, Nolberto · 34 DiNicolantonio, Jared · 66 Harrigan, Meredith · 2, 37 Jassawalla, Avan · 5, 15 G Dirnhofer, Andrew · 5 Harris, Samantha · 70 Jewell, Hannah · 16 Gabriel, Justin · 36 Doggett, Robert · 25, 26 Hartlipp, Melissa · 29 Jimenez, Juan · 25 Galarza, Salvador · 61 Dole, Samuel · 70 Hartnett, Denis · 70 Jin, Hung Jin · 45, 57 Gallina, Madeleine · 60 Donnellan, Bridget · 56 Hartvigsen, Gregg · 5, 15, 24 Johannes, Jeff · 11, 19 Gallivan, Samuel · 7 Doran, Molly · 11 Hartvigsen, Phoebe · 15, 52 Johnson, David · 37 Galvao, Jennifer · 17 Dorfner, William · 70 Hauck, Christopher · 37 Johnston, Julie · 22 Garcia, Emilio · 73 Dorn, Samantha · 32 Hauf, Emily · 59 Jones, Ally · 41 Gardner, Kennedy · 48 Drake, Graham · 8, 18, 25, 80 Hauser, Abraham · 70 Jones, BethAnna · 61 Garty, Hannah · 21, 70 Dressler, Lindsey · 53 Hausrath, Kaylee · 54, 55 Jones, Ekaterina · 10 Gayton, Chika · 57 Dreyer, Heather · 61 Hawley, Thomas · 39 Jones, Ryan · 19, 27 Gencarelli, Sabrina · 24 Driscoll Brantley, Gena · 11 Hayes, Natalie · 73 Joseph, Jennifer · 64 Genier, Sophia · 64 Dunne, Casey · 45 Heap, Aaron · 27, 28 Juda, Robert · 28 George, Dane · 42 Dyal, Sarah · 41 Hecht, William · 23 Judge, Allie · 61 George, Rebecca · 30 Heddon, Stephan · 32 Jung, Soren · 21 E Geraghty, Jenna · 16 Heiman, Tyler · 22 Junior, Otto · 68, 69, 73 Easton, Celia · 23 Gerbsch, Tyler · 70 Helms, Eric · 36 Economou, Robbie · 16 Gibbons, Allyson · 11 Henderson-Kirnon, Kiana · 23 K Eddy, Kallah · 43 Gikonyo, Barnabas · 36 Herman, Alexis · 22 Kabatsky, Nicholas · 23 Edelman, Luke · 8 Gill, Caroline · 16, 64 Herman, Andrew · 16 Kahl, Nicholas · 22 Edgington, Claire · 14 Gilmartin-Donohue, Ceara · 67 Herman, Brian · 65 Kaler, Richard · 58 Eley, Virginia · 22 Giorgis, Scott · 17, 58, 60 Herman, Melissa · 16, 47 Kamean, Cassidy · 61 Ellis, Dominique · 13, 48 Giua, Giovanna · 26 Hernandez, Jesus · 15 Kane, Erin · 33 Elmasri, Raphael · 70 Gleasman, Gavin · 39 Herold, Brittney · 63 Kang, Eunju · 63, 64, 65, 66, 67 Elston, Jayme · 69 Goeckel, Robert · 12 Herold, Carly · 6, 29 Kanlong, Joseph · 55 Eng, Amanda · 10 Goldberg, Jacob · 70 Heym, Rachel · 27 Kantymyr, Victoria · 48 Epp, Matthew · 45 Goldstein, Jonah · 70 Hibbert-Nelson, Katheryne · 73 Kaplan, Alexander · 51 Epperson, Caitlen · 70 Gomez, Hilda · 14, 24, 44 Higgins, Isabella · 70 Kaplan, Randy · 14 Esposito, Cody · 35, 70, 73 Gonzalez, Angel · 73 Higgins, Marissa · 29 Katz, Jennifer · 2, 48, 49 Ess, Madeline · 34, 59 Gonzalez, Selennah · 64 Higgins, Mary · 24 Kaulfuss, Peter · 43 Estep, Katherine · 13, 48 Goodrich, Zachary · 61, 73 Higgs, Kyle · 72 Keane, Isabel · 22 Goucher, Cassidy · 13 Hillis, Megan · 16 Kearney, Seamus · 39 F Gowdie, Dinetra · 23 Hilt, Olivia · 65 Kedzierawski, Andrzej · 61 Farago, Matt · 18 Grace, Jeremy · 21, 29 Hintze, Mackenzie · 23, 70 Keegan, Kelly · 16 Farnham, Amy · 4 Grant, Jack · 70 Hipolito, Harrison · 61 Keenan, Sarah · 40 Farrell, Lauren · 7 Grant, Katherine · 31 Hoag, Walter · 73 Kelk, Rachel · 40 Farrington, Ciara · 11 Greco, Trevor · 70, 73 Hoey, Gavin · 61 Keller, Katherine · 68, 70 Farruggia, Vincent · 59 Green, Jaelyn · 9 Hogan, Devin · 70 Kelley, Bridget · 73 Farthing, Dori · 40 Greenberg, Allison · 23 Hogan, Erin · 70 Kellner, Krysta · 69 Faulkner, Gillan · 11 Grieble, Grant · 5 Holcomb, Sophie · 72 Kelly, Bryce · 30 Fedor, Catherine · 5 Griffin, Abby · 8, 42 Hollick, Audrey · 30 Kelly, Isaiah · 70 Feinland, Sara · 6, 53 Griffin, Hannah · 70 Holsberg, Sarah · 25 Kemler, Andrew · 70 Feldman, Austin · 61 Griffin, Mackenzie · 8 Holtzman, Emma · 13, 22, 24 Kennedy, Alexandra · 60 Fellows, Meghan · 19 Griffith, Kylie · 21, 45 Holtzman, Luke · 6, 37 Kenney, Megan · 70 Felski, Elizabeth · 7 Grisewood, Ashley · 46 Hoops, Harold · 32 Kennison, Weston · 26 Fenn, Jessica · 17 Grunert, Jonathan · 62, 80 Hoppy, Rebecca · 13, 24 Kertz, Lydia · 8, 18 Fernandez, Allison · 56 Guido, Andrew · 62 Horvath, Saige · 70 Kesel, Erin · 24 Fichera, Dylan · 70 Guinther, Rachel · 17 Hossain, Adam · 12 Kilada, Catherine · 53 Fillhart, Lydia · 43 Guisbond, Abigail · 23 Houk, Leah · 16 Kim, David · 20 Finch, Hannah · 22 Gustafson, Gregory · 73 Houseknecht, Jacob · 70 Kimball, James · 70 Fish, Bethany · 61 Guyett, Kristen · 22 Houseman, Benjamin · 70 Kinkade, Ryan · 5 Flaherty, Emily · 23 Guzman, Jennifer · 31 Houston, Kennedy · 14 Kirby, Conor · 24 Fleischman, Daniel · 19 Huang, Kathleen · 48 Kirk, Haleigh · 70 Fletcher, Kurtis · 43 H Huda, Pavlo · 24 Kirk, Joanna · 12, 21, 30 Flocco, Julia · 5 Haberland, Jessica · 15 Hurlburt, Caroline · 39 Kirk, Melanie · 24 Flores, Cesar · 70 Hackett, Sarah · 59 Hutchison, Elizabeth · 14, 32, 56 Kirkpatrick, Ian · 23 Florio, Dominic · 70 Haddad, Caroline · 80 Huyge, Dana · 70 Kirkpatrick, Laura · 30 Footer, Kailin · 22 Haines, Jennifer · 27 Kite, Elizabeth · 50 Forman, Jake · 4 Hales, Margaux · 32 I Klatz, Lila · 20 Formato, Gus · 54, 55, 73 Hall, Jeremy · 80 Ibrahim, Raslan · 12 Klein, Matt · 43 Fox - St. Jacques, Tori · 49 Hall, Kristen · 24 Ichiki, Akane · 54, 55 Klein, Sydney · 13 Frank, Melissa · 70 Hamazaki, Sakura · 55 Iriyama, Yume · 57 Kleinhenz, Elena · 14 Fredericks, Ellayna · 62 Hamilton-Rodgers, Patty · 80 Issidoridis, Cally · 70 Kleinlercher, Michael · 60 75 Index of Participants 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Klipp, Harrison · 28 LoFaso, Madeline · 27, 58 McLellan, William · 26 Norvila, Auste · 24 Knapp, Shannon · 70 Lofquist, William · 30 McMahon, Emma · 5, 70 Nrekaj, Nikolette · 5 Knowles, Jacob · 57 Lomnitzer, Kirsten · 57 McMahon, Liam · 68 Nugent, Emma · 30 Knox, Natalie · 13 Loprieno, Sarah · 5 McManus, Devin · 64 Nunneker, Carly · 60 Koch, Jeffrey · 44, 46, 47 Loson, Dalton · 27 McManus, Sommer · 68, 69 Koessler, Eric · 5, 28, 54, 73 Lovett, Janice · 34 McPherson, Bradley · 5 O Kompanijec, Katherine · 47 Lowry, Hannah · 47 McPherson, Duane · 14, 32 O'Brien, Leigh · 22 Kono, Ayumi · 25 Lubey, Melissa · 20 McQuade, Erin · 23 O'Brien, Molly · 48 Kopacz, Brianna · 49 Luongo, Christina · 22 Meade, Tiara · 61 O'Brien, Reilly · 47 Kostrinsky, Sofia · 36 Lynch, Conor · 57 Meccariello, Vincent · 70 O'Connor, Jillian · 30 Kovler, Adam · 70 Lynch, Michael · 68 Medd, Dillon · 24 O'Donnell, Robert · 32, 35, 37 Kresse, Jenna · 15 Lynch, Shannon · 45 Medeiros, Melanie · 14, 23, 50 Oh, Dong Won · 73 Kriaris, Lindsey · 48, 73 Medina, Emma · 26, 62 O'Hara, Kylee · 19 Krumrine, Kristi · 23, 31 M Meier, Rheanna · 52 Okazawa, Katsunobu · 25 Krupa, Lauryn · 15 Macaluso, Eric · 35, 62 Meisel, David · 7, 62, 63 Okun, Jake · 9 Kubala, Brianne · 22 Macaluso, James · 67, 73 Meldrum, Jenna · 70 Oleyourryk Jr., Paul · 70 Kulakowski, Kelly · 61, 64, 70 MacDonnell-Miller, Tyee · 24 Melendez, Hope · 20 Olin, Samuel · 63 Kulikowski, Joseph · 62 MacNeill, Maura · 30, 66 Melfi, Jen · 38 O'Malley, Megan · 70 Kumar, Sakshi · 8 Macula, Anthony · 10, 11, 20, 21, 27, Meyer, Lisa · 6, 16, 80 O'Neil, Drew · 31 Kurtz, Callam · 24 28 Meyer, William · 53 O'Neill, Roisin · 24 Kuryla, Juliana · 30 Madry, Brooke · 25 Michalak, Ben · 57, 70 Osborne, Jaynee · 72 Kwan, Josephine · 73 Maeda, Kigi · 24 Militello, Kevin · 35 Osgood, Arianna · 37 Kwandrans, Kelsey · 17 Maganti, Kulasekhar · 62 Miller, Christopher · 70 O'Shea, Cara · 72 Maini, Trisha · 35 Miller, Kamesha · 13, 48 Ostrowski, Sarah · 55 L Malachowski, Christopher · 24 Miller,, Jake · 24 Ouyang, Linsi · 27 LaBarge, Lauren · 70 Malkasian, Gregor · 64 Mills, Michael · 7, 16 Owen, Gabrielle · 70 Ladd, Jack · 44 Mallia, Anna · 60 Minavio, Alec · 39 Owen, Isabel · 27 Ladias, Chloe · 24 Mancabelli, Olivia · 31 Minkovsky, Ariela · 58 Ozadovsky, Victoria · 12, 31 Laing, Trent · 42 Mandanas, Sarah · 19, 43, 70 Mintz, Julia · 38 Ozubko, Jason · 6, 68 Lam, Niki · 67 Mann, Austin · 51 Miraglia, Anthony · 60, 73 P Lambie, Lauren · 70 Mapes, Kathleen · 17 Molino, Rachel · 73 Pace, Mitchell · 73 Lancos, Jonette · 2, 13, 21 Marash, Marissa · 70 Montalbano, Camille · 12 Pacheco, Paul · 50 Lane, Alexandra · 31 Marcus, George · 63 Monteferrante, Owen · 70 Padalino, Stephen · 5, 43 Langan, Sarah · 24 Marcus, Jenna · 67, 70 Moor, James · 12, 21, 30 Padlo, Gerald · 73 Lantier, Julia · 41 Marino, Robert · 10, 70 Moren, Marie · 60 Paku, Gillian · 17, 22 Lanzetta, Christian · 23 Markowski, Vincent · 67, 68, 69 Morgan, Brian · 23 Palmisano, Kevin · 43 Lara Sosa, Amanda · 27 Marlatt, Shannon · 16 Morita, Yuki · 25 Palumbo, Nicholas · 13, 16, 47, 48, 69 Larocca, Emily · 37 Marolia, Neha · 27 Moritz, Max · 38 Panda, Pallavi · 56 Larsson, Kelleigh · 15 Marshall, Molly · 19 Morris, Janiqua · 60 Panzer, Evan · 70 Lathrop, John · 26 Martinez, Carmen · 13, 47 Morrow, Christina · 39 Papas, Emilios · 70 Latorre, Kaitlyn · 73 Martinez, Eladio · 70 Morse, Jane · 56 Pardes, Chelsea · 41 Laurelli, Nick · 73 Masci, Michael · 2, 17 Mounts, Annika · 32, 54 Parfitt, David · 16, 69 Lavigne, Tess · 72 Masetta, Michael · 56, 70 Mounts, Jeffrey · 16 Parikh, Esha · 34 Law, Ashley · 17 Massey, Alexandra · 31 Moziak, Kirsten · 67, 69 Parks, Ian · 20 Le, Yen Linh · 11 Mattice, Noah · 72 Mrozinski, Mallory · 70 Parks, Meaghan · 15 Learn, Allegra · 60 Matura, Emily · 23 Muench, Susan · 4, 24, 53, 56 Parsnick, Johanna · 37 Leary, Christopher · 5, 15, 24 Matyasovszky, Gage · 70 Muller, Julia · 21 Parsons, Destiny · 70 Leary, Eric · 70 Maxwell, Phoebe · 73 Murphy, Edward · 23 Pascale, Emily · 21 Leclerc, Olivia · 25 Maysuch, Marianne · 70 Murray, Olivia · 63 Pascale, Felicia · 36 Lee, Alice · 50 Mazariegos, Denis · 13, 47, 73 Muscat, Samantha · 34 Lee, Ariana · 22 Mazer, Noah · 14 Pastore, Jonathan · 70 Lee, Julian · 5, 27 Mazzuca, Lorenzo · 19 N Patel, Tulsi · 5 Lee, Ryan · 2, 70 McAlevey, Jack · 28, 70 Nagasing, Ethan · 43 Patil, Jayesh · 37 Lee, Stephanie · 6, 55 McAneny, Sean · 18 Najdzionek, Peter · 69 Patil, Neha · 13, 47 Leimanis, Vizma · 42 McCabe, Elizabeth · 49 Nalecz, Kristen · 70 Paulino, Brianna · 6 Lema, Vincent · 73 McCart, Jonathan · 28, 42 Napoli, Danielle · 20 Pedersen, Lily · 41 Leonard, Maria · 40 McCarthy, Kiernan · 41 Nardi, Ashlyn · 53 Pellerin, Anne · 56 Leonardi, Dominick · 69 McCartney, Jacob · 33, 34 Nardone, Rocky · 70 Perdomo, George · 70 Lepore, John · 55 McCasland, Patricia · 16 Navarro, Brenden · 73 Perrino, Michael · 63 Leung, David Shing Shun · 33, 54 McCauley, Chase · 67 Nazaire, Mya · 23 Persich, Alyssa · 28 Levin, Henry · 18, 25 McClelland, Keira · 61 Nebiker, Paulina · 60 Perun, Emily · 41, 60 Levy, Danielle · 16 McClow, Hannah · 43 Newton, Laura · 22 Peter, Katherine · 4 Levy, David · 20, 80 McClung, Bradley · 43, 62 Ng, Sydney · 24 Peters, Chaukim · 23 Lewis, Jani · 34 McClurg, Dylan · 22 Ngo, Mai · 24 Peterson, Jeffrey · 35, 36 Li, Leibin · 49 McElheny, Grant · 70 Ngoma Koumba, Bertran Sedar · 10, Pham, Trang · 11 Liano, Bethany · 70 McFaul, Andrew · 20 42 Philbert, Shaylen · 23 Liatard, Kecyna · 8 McGinn, Cassidy · 36 Nguyen, Tayler · 70 Piascik, Robert · 73 Lieb, Dustin · 52 McKiernan, Kaila · 53, 70 Nichols, Katarina · 63 Piato, Eric · 19, 27 Lima, Maria · 2, 18, 30 McKiernan, Sara · 33 Nicodemi, Olympia · 19, 27 Piester, Emma · 24 Lin, An-Chi · 70 McKinsey, Jordon · 22 Nicosia, Julia · 4 Pitcher, Mica · 37 Lindsay, Cameron · 32 McKnight, Ruel · 32, 55 Nielsen, Christopher · 28 Pitre, Bridget · 70 Liu, Yitong · 5 McLauchlin, Rachel · 4 Nietzschmann, Jason · 53 Pitzrick, Kazmira · 70 Loce, Stephen · 51 McLean, James · 61, 62, 63 Norris, Darrell · 7, 26, 57 Plevy, Lauren · 41, 68, 69 76 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual Index of Participants

Ploof, Sarah · 70 Ruiz Luna, Maria · 70 Sicard, Taylor · 23 Tang, Chi-Ming · 11, 20 Poniatowski, Grace · 70 Ruiz, Kaylan · 72 Sickles, Abigail · 21 Tang, Jasmine · 41 Ponikau, Felicia · 24 Rule, Beatrice · 44 Sidou, Nicholas · 35 Tate, Brandon · 37 Popnikolova, Betina · 30 Russell, Liam · 5 Signor, Matthew · 43 Tatusch, Alexandra · 33 Popp, Sarah · 43 Russo, Leah · 33 Silva, Christiana · 68 Tauscher, Alicia · 22 Poulsen, Katie · 41 Rutigliano, Mary · 18 Silva, Imasha · 20 Taylor, Adam · 73 Priest, Kennedy · 47, 67, 68, 69 Ryan, Jeanmarie · 14, 17, 27 Simmons, Crystal · 57 Teboul, Jonathan · 40 Proe, Lilliana · 48 Ryan, Sean · 70, 80 Simon, Orianne · 60 Tejera, Al · 71 Provenzano, Sara · 7 Singh, Satnam · 37 Terwilliger, Jack · 21 Prunier, Claire · 5, 70 S Singh, Simran · 36 Tetteh, Leslie · 25 Pulizzi, Jackson · 54 Saffran, Michael · 15 Singleton, Katie · 72 Thamm, Emily · 30 Saggese, Lauren · 16 Sinski, Linda · 12 Thompson, Kevin · 39 Q Salazar, Ana · 41 Sisti, Julia · 23 Thompson, Ryan · 7 Quinlan, Ashley · 16 Salmon, Susan · 80 Skezas, Alexander · 60 Thompson, Sophia · 51 Quinn, Ian · 42 Salvatore, Joseph · 30 Skinner, Erika · 70 Thorp, Rachael · 48, 70 Salvatore, Raina · 30 Slovak, Justin · 55 Tiberi, Alea · 30 R Sam, Ousmane · 73 Smith, Ethan · 43 Tiberio, William · 70 Ramirez, Edwar · 73 Sambuchi, Briana · 52 Smith, Hana · 70 Tiede, Tyler · 70 Ramirez, Rayan · 14, 73 Sanderson, Abdul · 24 Smith, Lisa · 72 Tillapaugh, Katrina · 21, 66 Ramos Oliva, Juliana · 49 Sanquini, Marisa · 14, 23 Smith, Lucas · 26, 70 Todd, Jillian · 19, 72 Ramsay, Elizabeth · 57 Santiago, Maria · 41 Smith, Lytton · 19, 25, 35 Torregrosa, Robert · 55 Rapoza, Matt · 70 Santora, Nicholas · 70 Smith, Samuel · 70 Toth, Katy · 15, 24 Rapuzzi, Sara · 70 Sardi, Merrin · 8, 22 Smith, Xiane · 35 Toufexis, Alec · 35 Rauchbauer, Nicholas · 20, 29 Satoh, Taiki · 60 Smithers, Taylor · 59 Townsend, Emily · 68, 69 Reda, Emily · 70, 73 Saucci, Meredith · 72 Snyder, Timothy · 17, 47 Towsley, Gary · 11, 19, 28, 61, 62, 63 Reddy, Nikhil · 35 Saunders, Alexis · 6 Snyder, William · 21 Toy, Emily · 49, 55 Regner, Kate · 54 Saunders, Haley · 54 Soriano, Arianna · 36 Toyoda, Shotaro · 70 Reichler, Madeline · 49 Scali, Cameryn · 70 Soto, Mark · 14, 36 Tramondo, Alexis · 34 Reichman, William · 62 Scarbrough, Kathryn · 70 Sousa, Gabrielle · 60 Trelinski, Nicholas · 48 Reilly, Madeline · 42, 70 Scherhaufer, Brandon · 73 Sousis, Brian · 60 Tremper, Juniper · 19 Reinhardt, Josephine · 4, 17, 23, 34, 35 Schibley Laird, Brianna · 68 Sparacio, Alexa · 33 Tripoli, Genevieve · 71 Reitz, Meg · 42, 49 Schlenker, Doug · 22 Spence, Anna · 49 Truckenmiller, Jack · 61 Renaud, Annie · 7, 73 Schmeer, Samantha · 2, 13, 22 Spencer, Nicole · 48, 68, 69 Truong, Kayla · 11 Renders, Rachel · 37 Schmidt, Sydney · 8, 25 Spina, Emily · 57 Tubridy, James · 65, 70 Restivo, Michael · 49 Schmigel, Shelby · 72 Spinella, Jake · 39 Tudman, Lyndsay · 70 Rhoads, Leah · 22 Schneeberger, Kayleigh · 48 Spizuoco, Elizabeth · 40 Tulowiecki, Stephen · 38, 39 Rice, Amanda · 47 Schneider, Monica · 25 Squires, Molly · 70 Turnier, Luc · 2, 73 Richards, Rebecca · 58 Schnore, Georgia · 72 Sroka, Bridgette · 70 Richman, Alanna · 34 Schnyder, Rory · 24 St. Thomas, Molly · 23 U Richman, Billy · 73 Schuchman, Mary · 70 Staso, Noelle · 52 Ueshiro, Hannah · 24 Rieger, Ian · 23 Schuessler, Nickolas · 73 Stawitzky, Sara · 42 Urena, Alis · 25 Riggio, Brianna · 8, 23 Schultz, Christine · 6 Steele, George · 15 Urso, Annmarie · 56 Ripa, John · 21 Schultz, Will · 35 Stein, Corey · 53 Ritz, Abigail · 18, 57 V Schum, Kayla · 33, 70 Steinhauer, Aaron · 43, 80 Rivera, Lea Carina · 32 Vadala, Alyssa · 73 Schuster, Natalie · 60 Sternberg, Lauren · 20, 35 Rivera, Victoria · 37 Vallejo-Alegre, Rocio · 27 Schuyler, Andrew · 40 Stevens, Owen · 70 Roberts, Olivia · 41 Van Wert, Hannah · 70 Schwartz, Megan · 44 Steward, Colleen · 36 Robertson, David · 58 Vanderbilt, Emily · 43 Sciales, William · 41 Stiner, Jonah · 40 Robinson, Benjamin · 70 VanDerEems, Emily · 25 Scodese-French, Deborah · 13 Stockler, Barak · 23 Roca Sanches, Abigail · 14 Vangellow, Thomas · 70 Scott, Drew · 68, 69 Stone, Leonie · 24 Rocha, Johana · 31 VanLeer, Jillian · 70 Searles, Hailie · 33 Storms, Madelyn · 65 Rochester, Stephen · 73 Vargas, Brian · 70 Seefried, Troy · 73 Streeter, Alenna · 63 Rock, Kathleen · 37 Vasciannie, Analiese · 63, 70 Sellers, Grace · 73 Stuto, Jocelyn · 46 Roddy, Aaron · 73 Vaughan, Gavin · 47 Seneviratne, Hungantota Don Udeshi · Sugrue, Colin · 70 Rodgers, Claire · 48 Verde, Vanessa · 46 73 Sullivan, Amanda · 60 Rodgers, Madison · 70 Verhaeg, Emily · 36 Serbalik, John · 57 Sullivan, Brittany · 70 Rodriguez, Lorenzo · 50 Villone, Kelsey · 13 Seserman, Hannah · 47 Sullivan, Hannah · 8 Rodriguez, Tyler · 24 Vinal, Gregory · 19, 28 Shah, Dawud · 24 Sullivan, Katelyn · 27 Rogalsky, Jennifer · 38 Vinolas, Alexis · 13 Shawkat, Awab · 13 Suprunchik, Jullanar · 26 Romero, Jose · 23, 27 Vose, Snowdon · 44 Shea, Julia · 66 Suri, Omar · 15 Roney, Stephanie · 37 Shear, Benjamin · 70 Sutton, Lucas · 15, 56 W Rosenstein, Shoshana · 24 Sheedy, Marianna · 7, 65 Swanson, Jack · 70 Wague, Oumou · 13, 47 Ross, Kaleigh · 37 Sheehan, Caeley · 69 Swanson, Mika · 70 Waite, Christina · 34, 70 Rossi, Madelyn · 19 Sheldon, Amy · 2, 39 Swisher, Ben · 24 Wakwella, Praveen · 43 Roth, Alicia · 68 Shemet, Nancy · 39 Switzer, Merranda · 61 Walgate, Dylan · 70 Roth, Amanda · 17 Sheridan, Sydney · 70 Sydow, Joanna · 41 Walker, Madeline · 12 Rottler, Christopher · 67 Sherman, Leah · 23 Szmala, Dillon · 25 Wallisky, Rachel · 65 Rowley, Erika · 41 Sherpa, Dawa · 45 Walsh, Paige · 59 Rubinstein, Kymberly · 5 Sherpa, Pema · 36 T Walter, Jacob · 52 Rudbart, Joshua · 23 Sherpa, Tshering · 73 Taber, Cassandra · 19, 35 Walton, Maiah · 30 Rudin, Christopher · 24 Short, Emma · 73 Taber-Thomas, Bradley · 48 Wang, Eric · 70 Ruggiero, Joseph · 59 Shrestha, Pranish · 11 Tajima, Atsushi · 7 Warfle, Helen · 10 Rugolo, Joseph · 15 Shum, Macie · 27, 41 Tanchick, Liam · 21 77 Index of Participants 2019 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 13th Annual

Warner, Katelynn · 5, 14 White, Grace · 45 Wisun, Julian · 33 Young, Madalyn · 24 Warner, Nicholas · 8, 9, 40, 41 Whyte, Seveyn · 16 Wittmer Malinowski, Jacalyn · 9, 59, Yousey, Madeline · 70 Waters, Chelsea · 22 Widger, Emily · 41 60 Yurkewecz, Thea · 56 Webber, Alexander · 19, 70 Wilcox, Colin · 15 Wolfe, Matthew · 20 Weber, Andrew · 70 Wilder, Caleb · 70 Wood, Heather · 16 Z Webster, Matthew · 24 Wilhelm, Heather · 23 Zahid, Zarmeen · 68, 80 Weed, Jasmine · 41 Wilkens, Anissa · 16 Y Zandy, Emily · 60 Welch, Evelyn · 70 Wilkinson, Corey · 23, 43 Yang, Suann · 51, 52, 53 Zenzerovich, Eric · 29 Welch, Sean · 16 Williams, Caitlin · 12 Ye, Vivian · 13, 48 Zhou, Jacqueline · 34, 71 Welch, Sydney · 59 Williams, Laura · 5 Yeomans, Sophie · 70 Zickl, Robert · 73 West, Brandon · 62 Williams, Scott · 5, 39 Yi, Christina · 24 Zimmer, Hannah · 23 West, Cameron · 20 Willison, Megan · 61 Yildiz, Erde · 5 Zimring, Haylea · 20 West, Karleen · 12, 44, 45, 46, 80 Wilson, John · 43 Yokoyama, Kazushige · 6, 54, 55, 56 Zipper, Ryan · 70 West, Morgan · 60 Wing-Paul, Dimitri · 13, 48, 62 Yoshikawa, Nao · 25 Zuniga, Johan · 46 Whelpley, Jamie · 33 Wirth, Corey · 73 Young, Amanda · 53 White, Catherine · 73 Wisset, Jordan · 13 Young, Emily · 10, 21

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The GREAT Day Faculty Advisory Council The GREAT Day Staff Isidro Bosch, Biology Anne Baldwin, Sponsored Research Ganie DeHart, Psychology Tammy Hill, Campus Scheduling and Special Events Graham Drake, English Andrea Klein, Campus Scheduling and Special Events Caroline Haddad, Mathematics Daniel Ross & Jonathan Grunert, Milne Library David Levy, Philosophy Patty Hamilton-Rodgers, GREAT Day Coordinator Lisa Meyer, Edgar Fellows Zarmeen Zahid, Student Submissions Coordinator Susan Salmon, School of Education Paige Closser, Student Poster Coordinator Aaron Steinhauer, Physics & Astronomy Tarryn Franciosa, Student Promotions Coordinator Karleen West, Political Science & International Relations Graham Callaghan, Student Logistics Coordinator

GREAT Student Team Sarah Michel, GCAB Arts & Exhibits Sean Ryan, Music Festival Coordinator Emily Carrozzi, Student Association

Thank You for contributions that make GREAT Day possible: Brian Bennett, Laura Canfield, CAS Catering, Joe Dolce, Stephen Dresbach, Facilities Services, Laurie Fox, John Haley, Jeremy Hall, Troy Hallahan, Adam Klinges, Minhhang Huynh, Enrico Johnson, SA Tech Services, Sue Rubright

Thanks to over 50 GREAT Day Student Volunteers for helping to promote, set-up, staff buildings, take-down and make GREAT Day all it can be!

Special Thank You: President Denise Battles and Provost Stacey Robertson for their support of GREAT Day. Jack and Carol Kramer for their support of Geneseo and the Keynote address. Stephanie Singer for delivering the Keynote address. Student Association for sponsoring the luncheon. Campus Auxiliary Services for sponsoring luncheon beverages. Daniel Ross, Jonathan Grunert and the Milne Library Staff for hosting the Coffee Hour and overseeing the proceedings. Patty Hamilton-Rodgers, Anne Baldwin, Andrea Klein, Tammy Hill for their special expertise and many hours devoted to planning this event.

GREAT Day is funded by the Office of the Provost, the Student Association, Campus Auxiliary Services and the Jack '76 and Carol '76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship. http://www.geneseo.edu/great_day

GREAT Day would like to acknowledge our partners:

Session 1 12 – 1:30 pm

Session 2 4:45 – 6:15 pm