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geneseo recognizing excellence, achievement, and talent 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 15th Annual

Welcome to SUNY Geneseo’s Fifteenth Annual GREAT Day(s)!

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

This program lists the abstracts for all submissions for GREAT Day(s) 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, GREAT Day(s) 2021 is happening virtually and will be held during the week of April 26th – April 30th. The keynote address by Dr. Adam Frank will be held synchronously on Wednesday, April 28th at 2:30 PM. Scholarly and creative projects in a variety of formats will be available for viewing beginning April 26th. To view presentations, check the Virtual Program on the GREAT Day webpage at: http://www.geneseo.edu/great_day

GREAT Day often falls on or near Earth Day, which is held on April 22nd each year. In recognition of this, presentations that have been self- identified by students as promoting sustainability are designated by a leaf symbol -  - in this program.

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2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 15th Annual Honors TABLE OF CONTENTS Program reflects updates as of April 25, 2021 GREAT Day Honors ...... 3 Students and Faculty Mentors Published in the Proceedings of GREAT Day 2020 ...... 4 Keynote Address ...... 6 Session Presentation Abstracts ...... 7 Poster Presentation Abstracts ...... 35 Artwork ...... 55 Index of Presenters and Sponsors ...... 58

GREAT Day 2021 graphics by Kristen Matteo, Crescendo Design Studio, LLC

ABOUT THE VIRTUAL GREAT DAY PROGRAM:

•Access at: http://www.geneseo.edu/great_day •Is searchable by student, faculty member, department, keywords, etc. •Numbers preceding submission titles are “submission ID numbers” – you can use this number to search the program as well. •Links for synchronous sessions will be available in the virtual program 15 minutes before the start time •Will be available online through September 30, 2021.

GREAT DAY HONORS Each year on GREAT Day we acknowledge the work of so many whose support and dedication make GREAT Day the special program that is has become. Thank you sponsors and GREAT Day Proceedings participants.

Ten-Year Sponsors GREAT Day would not be possible without the dedicated faculty and staff who work with students throughout the year on the projects that are presented annually. As we observe the 14th Annual GREAT Day, we would like to acknowledge the following faculty and staff who, as of this year, have served as a sponsor for 10 GREAT Days:

ANTHROPOLOGY EDUCATION James Aimers Brian Morgan HISTORY/OFFICE OF THE PROVOST Joe Cope CHEMISTRY ENGLISH Barnabas Gikonyo PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY Ken Cooper George Marcus 3 Honors and GREAT Day Proceedings 2020 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 15th Annual

First-time Sponsors This is the first year the following faculty and staff have served as a sponsor for GREAT Day – Welcome!

ACADEMIC PLANNING & ADVISING MATHEMATICS PSYCHOLOGY Katherine Menec Erin Harris Anjoo Sikka Tara Pepis MCNAIR SCHOLARS PROGRAM SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ANTHROPOLOGY Daniel Islam Peter Markulis Marie-Lorraine Pipes Weizhe Weng MULTICULTURAL PROGRAMS & BIOLOGY SERVICES THEATRE & DANCE Salvador Tarun Sasha Eloi-Evans Bonita Stubblefield

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS OFFICE OF ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES Peter Markulis Amy Fisk Weizhe Weng

Proceedings of GREAT Day 2020

Established in 2009, Proceedings of GREAT Day compiles and publishes promising student work presented at SUNY Geneseo’s GREAT Day symposium. The projects, presentations, and research included here represent the academic rigor, multidisciplinary study, and creativity of the students taking part in the SUNY Geneseo GREAT Day symposium.

The proceedings of GREAT Day 2020 is now available!

Featuring: • Interview with Paul Schacht, Assistant to the Provost for Digital Learning & Scholarship and founding Director of the Center for Digital Learning • Interview with Steve Derné, Professor of Sociology at SUNY Geneseo and ten-year sponsor of GREAT Day • Interview with Paige Closser, student intern for Virtual GREAT Day • Interview with Nicole Callahan, student editor for Proceedings of GREAT Day 2019

STAFF: JONATHAN GRUNERT, ALLISON BROWN STUDENT EDITORS: JAIME DEVITA, ETHAN OWENS

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Students and Faculty Mentors Published in the Proceedings of GREAT Day 2020

CURVE FITTING TECHNIQUES FOR PREDICITING THE ILLS OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM AND A NEW CASE CORONA VIRUS CASES FOR REPARATIONS FRANK ADDEO EMMA MANDELLA AHMAD ALMOMANI MARIA LIMA

SOUTH AFRICAN WATER HISTORY WONDER IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, RATHER THAN ELIZABETH BABLIN THE EVENT AMANDA LEWIS-NANG’EA MEAGAN ODETTE

STEVE DERNE FAR-RIGHT POPULISTS IN WESTERN STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY ASPIRATION AND IMPLEMENTATION: COUNTY-LEVEL WANT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAMS IN A HUMAN RIGHTS MICHAEL BADALAMENTI CONTEXT ROBERT GOECKEL MADELINE REILLY

JOANNA KIRK AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LOGIC OF PROPOGANDA LINGUISTIC PURISM AND ANGLICISM IN FRANCE MICHAEL BADALAMENTI BRIANNA RIGGIO DAVID LEVY JENNIFER GUZMÁN

TAKING FLIGHT COMMUNITY POLICING: FROM BROKEN WINDOWS TO COOPER BREED A BROKEN SYSTEM MARK BROOMFIELD EVAN SCHENKER

WILLIAM LOFQUIST A COMPARISON OF NATIVE AND INVASIVE PLANT SPECIES MICROHABITATS IN WESTERN NY DEVELOPMENT OF A TIME OF FLIGHT SPECTROMETER EMELYN BALL FOR LOW ENERGY RUTHERFORD BACKSCATTERING SUANN YANG STUDIES

ETHAN SMITH THE EFFECT OF CULTURE ON PARENTING STYLES: ARE KURT FLETCHER THERE SIMILARIITIES BETWEEN LATINX & WORKING- CLASS PARENTING STYLES? MULTILITERACIES, MULTIMODALITIES, AND SOCIAL ELENA CAMILO STUDIES EDUCATION STEVE DERNE LAURIE TRICAMO

BRIAN MORGAN KNOT MOSAICS: ALGORITHMS AND INTERFACE

JAMES CANNING WITHIN THE KNOWN: WONDER THAT COMES FROM AARON HEAP UNDERSTANDING THERE’S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SKIN A HOMINIM: AMANDA VICK AN ANALYSIS OF PLIO-PLEISTOCENE EAST AND SOUTH STEVE DERNE AFRICAN HOMINIMS AS PREY CARRIE A. DAIGNAULT BARBARA WELKER

THE EFFECTS OF PROCESS DIFFERENTIATION IN AN EIGHTH-GRADE MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM ABBY GRIFFIN GEORGE REUTER

TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING GEOMETRY CRISTINA GULLI MELISSA SUTHERLAND 5

Keynote 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual

The Jack '76 and Carol '76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship KEYNOTE ADDRESS Wednesday, April 28, 2021 • 2:30 – 3:30 PM Introduction by: Jack ‘76 and Carol ‘76 Kramer

Dr. Adam Frank – “Light of the Stars: Seeing Climate Change and the Human Future in Our Universe Awash in Worlds” We humans, with our “project of civilization” are a kind of cosmic teenager. We have power over ourselves, and the planet, but no model to follow. In this talk Prof. Frank shows how our fate can best be understood in light of the stars. Thanks to the revolutionary field of astrobiology, we have discovered that we are just one of ten billion trillion habitable planets in the Universe. Unless the laws of the universe are deeply biased against life and intelligence, it’s highly improbable that we are the first project of civilization in cosmic history. So, what then can we learn from the others that have almost certainly existed? Unpacking the exploration of our solar system and beyond, Prof. Frank shows how we have already learned universal “laws of planets.” With this new view we can tell how life (including the intelligent kind) and its host worlds can evolve together. From microbes generating Earth’s oxygen-rich atmosphere to the discovery of Venus’ runaway greenhouse effect, we can now lay out the contours of what happened here and what may happen elsewhere. With this “10,000 light-year” view we gain a new story of our future on a changing Earth. It's a narrative rich with both hope and caution. About Dr. Frank Astrophysicist Adam Frank is the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor at the University of Rochester’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. He is a leading expert on the final stages of evolution for stars like the sun and his computational research group at the University of Rochester has developed advanced supercomputer tools for studying how stars form and how planets evolve. His current work also focuses on life in the Universe, the search for “technosignatures” from other exo-civilizations along with climate change and the “Astrobiology of the Anthropocene.” A self-described “evangelist of science,” Dr. Frank is committed to showing others the beauty and power of science, and exploring the proper context of science in culture. His last book Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth received praise from the New York Times, NPR and Scientific American. It also won the National Honor’s Society’s best science book for 2019. He has written two other books, The Constant Fire: Beyond the Religion and Science Debate, and About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang. Dr. Frank is a regular on-air commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered. He was co-founder of National Public Radio 13.7: Cosmos and Culture blog which ran for 7 years and garnered tens of millions of distinct views. A new incarnation of the blog “13.8” is now featured on BigThink.com. Dr. Frank is also a contributor to the New York Times, NBC, the Washington Post and other media outlets. It was for this kind of outreach work that the American Physical Society awarded him their prestigious 2019 Joseph Burton Forum Award honoring a scientist for their impact on the broader culture. Dr. Frank served as the science consultant for Marvel’s Dr. Strange, which he thought was the coolest thing to happen ever. He has appeared on many popular media outlets such as the Joe Rogan show, Coast to Coast Radio and others. He has been featured on a variety of national and international science documentaries such Alien Worlds (Netflix), Mars (season 2, National Geographic) and The Universe on the History Channel.

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SESSION PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS

226 Labor and Care in Essential 276 Poverty and Pathogens in ACADEMIC PLANNING AND Work Settings 19th Century Rochester, New ADVISING INDIVIDUAL HANNAH FIELD AND MADELYN RICE York Poorhouses This presentation shares a collection of TYLER HAUG SESSION photographic images and provides FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, commentary about how essential workers are ANTHROPOLOGY

faring at work during the pandemic. Legislation in the early 19th century resulted 28 How to be More of an Activist in the construction of poorhouses by many BRANDON JOY, HANNAH ALLEN, VALERIA 227 Creativity in Caring states to provide housing for those in need GUARNEROS, SAMYA KHAN, AND RACHEL ABIGAIL ANDERSON AND KAREN CASWELL (Huddleson 2012). Reports on the conditions STISSER This presentation shares a collection of of these facilities within New York State show FACULTY SPONSOR: TARA PEPIS, DAPA photographic images and provides that many of them lacked adequate sources This presentation will be aimed towards commentary about how people are creatively of water for washing, proper ventilation, and Geneseo’s movement of becoming a more responding to their own needs and those of sanitary conditions for the inmates (Stuhler anti-racist college. Within the presentation we others during the pandemic. 2013). These conditions along with crowding will discuss how to become aware of racism in many of the facilities led to the increased and share the presentation we made to 3rd- 228 Caring for Physical Health spread of pathogen-borne diseases such as 6th graders at Geneseo Elementary School. MADISON WITTSCHACK AND UNA measles, typhoid fever, tuberculosis We will also incorporate the presenters’ STOPFORD (consumption), and pneumonia. By analyzing perspectives on today's campus climate and This presentation shares a collection of the death records from patients of poor ways in which the college can be more photographic images and provides houses in both urban and rural regions in New inclusive. commentary about how people are attentive York State and from Mt. Hope Cemetery, this Synchronous Session: Apr 27, 2021 1:00 – 2:00 to and caring for their physical health and study will compare mortality rates from these PM well-being during the pandemic. diseases from Rochester, NY area poor

houses and the general population of 229 Care for Mental and Rochester. It is predicted that mortality rates ANTHROPOLOGY ENTIRE from infectious diseases vary based on the Emotional Well-being location of the poorhouse and the density of SESSION AURORA MERWIN, MAITI GANEY AND the population, so that rural areas would have SARAH ROBERTS lower rates and that the general population This presentation shares a collection of would show lower overall rates. This study 28 LIFE THROUGH A PANDEMIC photographic images and provides will explore the effects of urbanization on the commentary about how people are attentive impoverished population in 19th century LENS: CARE IN GENESEO to and caring for their own and others' mental Rochester. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: health and well-being during the pandemic. JENNIFER GUZMÁN, ANTHROPOLOGY 278 LGBTQ+ Experiences with This visual ethnography project presents a collection of photographs depicting care and the COVID-19 Pandemic daily life in Geneseo during the COVID-19 ANTHROPOLOGY INDIVIDUAL ISABELLE STITT-FREDERICKS pandemic. Student researchers discuss SESSIONS FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, images they have captured in six collections: ANTHROPOLOGY meaning and change in mask culture, The LGBTQ+ community regularly faces creativity in celebrations and holidays, labor discrimination at both the interpersonal and  and precautions in essential work settings, 256 Maya Identity in Belize structural level, causing stress that manifests and care for our physical, mental, and DARIA ZHOGINA itself in adverse physical and mental health emotional health. FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES AIMERS, outcomes. LGBTQ+ youth and young adults ANTHROPOLOGY are in a precarious position where they are The modern Maya of Belize try to preserve still dependent on others and have less 224 Mask Culture their customs and traditions while facing EMILY VESPERMAN AND ELIZABETH freedom to limit their interactions with obstacles fitting into the multicultural context unaccepting individuals. The COVID-19 MACKAY of Belize. According to the archeological data, This presentation shares a collection of pandemic and subsequent lockdown forced the Maya settled in Belize in around 2000 B.C. most college students and young adults’ photographic images and provides Despite their rich history, Maya life was commentary about masking - including how home to family, facing financial insecurity and greatly disrupted by the colonization in the the loss of services. The lockdown further masking culture has emerged and changed 16th and 17th centuries. Later the Maya were over time and how it has become a medium limited the mobility of LGBTQ+ and affected by the large-scale logging and constrained their ability to access protective for self-expression. petroleum enterprises. Nowadays Belize is a factors against discrimination, such as social modern multicultural country. Today there are support and therapy. Guided by Meyer’s 225 Celebrations and Holidays three main Maya groups living in Belize: minority stress model, this research highlights MIA IVERSEN AND MOLLY SCHAARSCHUCH Yucatec, Mopan and Q'eqchi'. This research how certain unique stressors already faced by This presentation shares a collection of reports on a series of interviews with modern the LGBGTQ+ community have compounded photographic images and provides Mayas living in town and cities of Belize. I in the context of the pandemic. Using commentary about how people are creatively discuss their own experience of fitting into interviews and surveys conducted during the forging new traditions of celebration and the multicultural context of Belize as well as pandemic with LGBTQ+ within and outside togetherness under pandemic circumstances. the long journey that the Maya had to take the SUNY Geneseo community, issues such as and are still taking in order to gain more familial acceptance and uncertainty for the control of their land and culture. future juxtaposed with discussions on self-

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Session Presentations 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual reflection and forms of resilience were solution. The practice of entomophagy treat their patients differently based on highlighted. This research seeks to add to the involves using insects as a source of food and gender and the reasons for their treatment discourse surrounding the specific needs of nourishment. Certain cultures have for many plans. This research was conducted to minority groups during the current pandemic generations relied on this method of understand what experiences women have and future crises that may replicate similar sustainability for their proteins. To solve the had that cause them to develop a mistrust in conditions. current food crisis humanity must incorporate health care professionals. It involved learning entomophagy into everyday life. what women are most afraid of when it 293 Fashion in 19th Century Synchronous Session: Apr 26, 2021 10:00 -- comes to the medical field. It also sought to 10:20 AM understand if there have been specific Upstate New York instances of bias experienced by these MAGGIE PARFITT 420 Sustainable Reproductive women and if these poor experiences with FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES AIMERS, health care professionals limit women’s ANTHROPOLOGY Hygiene and Education access to health care. It also involved learning Americans imagine the pre-industrialized 19th Development in Rural Uganda  what woman believe are the most important century separated into two worlds: the ELIZABETH CONFORTI aspects of their health care needs. bustling, cosmopolitan city, and the FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, undeveloped, lethargic country. This is ANTHROPOLOGY perhaps modeled perfectly in New York State. Women’s health is an often overlooked issue BIOLOGY INDIVIDUAL Downstate: New York City, the nation’s that is the cause of neglect and stigma. I have largest and most important trading center. been working alongside two SESSIONS Upstate: a growing collection of small farming nongovernmental organizations, Busoga communities as Americans expand into Trust and Saint Francis Health, with territory previously promised to indigenous communities in rural Uganda to lessen the 36 Synchronous Q&A: Biology peoples by the British. How accurate is this challenges associated with menstruation for imagined divide? How did people on the women. Together with these organizations, I Posters & Talks American periphery engage with changing have been able to explore the most CO-CHAIRS AND Q&A MODERATORS: LYDIA cultural norms? Fashion provides a unique sustainable options for making reusable FREGOSI AND JESSICA PALMERI angle to study the interaction between sanitary pads. We have been able to hold FACULTY SPONSORS: MACKENZIE availability, individual choice, and cultural training sessions about the biology of the GERRINGER, VARUNI JAMBURUTHUGODA, trends. The Interlaken clothing collection menstrual cycle and group discussions with SARA BURCH, AND TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY housed at the Genesee Country Village and the community members to lessen the Join us on Zoom on Friday, April 30th at 2:30 Museum consists of 80 pieces of clothing and stigmas they face as being part of the pm for a synchronous discussion to celebrate accessories from the Bassett family’s attic in menstruating population. We have held undergraduate research in Biology at this Interlaken, New York. Stylistic analysis of the informative and hands-on training sessions year's GREAT Day. We invite you to view the clothing is combined with historical and detailing the proper usage of contraceptive Biology talks and posters ahead of time and archival research to create a picture of life in methods to help reduce the community bring your questions for all presenters to this the small farming town from 1790 to 1860. incidence of young, unplanned pregnancies. live session. See you there! The clothing’s stylistic influences and The goal of these training sessions was to Synchronous session: Apr 30, 2021 2:30 – 3:30 materials are traced from their likely origins to increase their familiarity with various PM Interlaken by matching elements in the contraceptive methods. Ultimately, we would collection to resources like fashion plates and like to increase their likelihood of utilizing 44 The Pace of Life in Deep-sea print samples. them and make the community members Fishes more comfortable discussing their JESSICA PALMERI., LYDIA FREGOSI, BRETT reproductive health. This presentation will 295 Bug Today, Food Tomorrow WOODWORTH AND PATRICK FLANNERY detail my work on sustainable development  FACULTY SPONSOR: MACKENZIE GERRINGER, and the memorable cultural interactions and ASHTON MCCORMACK BIOLOGY learning experiences I had during my virtual FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIE-LORRAINE PIPES, EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT time abroad. ANTHROPOLOGY PRESENTATION Synchronous session: Apr 29, 2021 12:00 – Twenty thousand years ago, humanity faced Metabolic rate, the rate at which chemical 12:35 PM its first food crisis as human populations reactions occur, drives nearly all life processes Selected for presentation at Foundation for increased. Until then hunting and gathering including growth, reproduction, and Sustainable Development (FSD Uganda) was how communities sustained themselves. development. Within the deep-sea, low

A new subsistence method emerged based on temperature and high pressures are thought food production. Ancient humans over time 422 Women’s Fears Toward the to impact metabolic rate by slowing the began domesticating both plants and animals, Health Care Industry: How kinetic movement of the particles. Further, thereby creating the foundations of when light levels are low, predators cannot agriculture. Livestock and crops generated Certain Experiences Can Affect a see their prey, therefore a fast escape is not enough nutrients to sustain the larger Women’s Access to Health Care necessary. Metabolic rates therefore are populations into the modern era. However,  expected to decrease as depth increases. even this type of production could not JILLIAN LEYDON However, metabolic rate is difficult to permanently solve the historic issue of FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, determine in the deep sea. Direct inadequate resources. Currently, humanity is ANTHROPOLOGY respirometry measurements are challenging facing a major food crisis again while also This study was conducted to understand how so metabolic enzymes are used as proxies for dealing with the long-term consequences of women’s experiences with health care metabolic rate. Enzymes function differently agriculture and climate change. There is providers effect their health care decisions. when organisms are taken out of their natural growing evidence that due to the ever- Several women of different age, ethnicity, environment, making these proxies an expanding population, current methods of and economic backgrounds were interviewed imperfect tool. Therefore, to investigate fish food production will not be able to sustain the as well as a medical provider to understand activity with increasing depth, we analyzed world’s population. There is, however, an their treatment protocols and perhaps swimming kinematics in fishes across a large untapped source of protein that until recently situations where they may have chosen to depth gradient (>5000 m) using open source has been overlooked and which may be one videos from NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer. 8  Promotes sustainability

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Through video analysis, we measured head chemotherapy (Clarke, et.al). Due to these populations vulnerable to climate change. and body lengths, tail beat duration and characteristics, if cancer stem cells are not piRNAs are a type of RNA segment that are amplitude, and distance traveled in four major properly targeted, the disease is likely to involved in the regulation of protein-coding fish families. Metabolism determines the reoccur. Interactions between aldehyde genes. In order to understand whether demands that organisms place on their dehydrogenase and cytokines IL-6 and CXCL7 piRNAs play a direct role in the stress environment and the demands that constrain provide a foundational example of the response in tuna, we plan to use zebrafish as their own physiology. Understanding the relationship between cancer stem cells and a model organism in the lab to identify metabolism of deep-sea fishes provides the surrounding tissue, promoting cancer candidate piRNAs responsive to changes in insight into energy flow in the deep sea. progression and possessing the potential to temperature, pH and food availability, Synchronous session: Apr 30, 2021 2:30 - 3:30 be a biomarker for cancer stem cell mimicking aquatic effects of global warming. PM identification. Using bioinformatic analyses, we have identified piRNA homologues between 45 Modeling COVID-19 Vaccination 79 The Impact of Seafloor zebrafish and tuna shown to respond to stress in other organisms. We will use Strategies and Efforts in a Small Variance on Biodiversity of quantitative polymerase chain reactions World Network Deep-sea Coral and Sponge (qPCR) to measure responses of candidate YANNIS DIMITROFF Habitats piRNAs in zebrafish and determine if it leads FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, to skewed population sex ratios. Validated YUMNA ISMAIL, FRANCHESCA GONZALES, BIOLOGY stress-responsive piRNA genes in zebrafish ARLINE CAMILO HERNANDEZ AND KAYLA The introduction of vaccines to the general will be used to further assess wild tuna CANNON public provides hope that the COVID-19 populations in the Western Philippine islands. FACULTY SPONSOR: MACKENZIE GERRINGER, pandemic may end. In order to achieve this These studies will hope to provide a better BIOLOGY goal, we must look into the effects of how understanding of how piRNAs contribute to Rugosity - the rough surfaces of the sea floor - each vaccine, and their different efficacies, adaptive epigenetic responses in marine generated by coral reefs and rock formations may affect the spread of a disease through a organisms as a result of global climate and creates a diverse and complex ecosystem that population. Using an individual-based also to better inform tuna population is integral for the survival of shallow-water network model, we tested two different management. communities. Little is known about how that vaccination strategies, random and based on translates to the deep sea, which possesses individuals' number of connections, coral ecosystems that are hotspots of 90 Using a Network Approach to implemented over a variety of rates to limit biodiversity. We analyzed taxa, sediment the spread of COVID-19. We found that Study the Co-occurrence of type, and rugosity in video segments from vaccinating just 0.02% of the population daily NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer’s remotely Multiple Non-Native Species in had a significant impact on lowering the operated vehicle, taken from the coast of Adirondack Communities infection total. In addition, we saw that Jarvis Island in the Pacific Remote Islands JACOB WALTER administering only one dose of each vaccine Marine National Monument. We observed at FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY to people with many connections, at around least 70 unique organism types. According to A plant species’ invasion success may be 0.08% to 0.12% of the population each day, predictions from our species accumulation facilitated by the presence of other plant reduced the spread of COVID-19. Using the curve, there were approximately 106 species species from the same geographic origins. results from this model can help us better observed in the deep-sea off Jarvis Island. We This facilitation may occur because when a understand the most effective vaccination found no significant difference in biodiversity plant species successfully naturalizes, it may strategy and effort to help reduce the spread between each rugosity level. Benthic and alter the environment surrounding it to make of COVID-19. sessile organisms had a similar number of it more similar to that of its geographic origin. observations, while pelagic and mobile Plant species from the same geographic 49 Manipulating Cancer Stem organisms had more variance. We narrowed origins may benefit from the altered Cells: Their Role in Cancer our focus to sponges to investigate rugosity environment and may have a better chance at effects on sessile fauna. There may be successfully invading. We investigated the Progression Turned to additional factors affecting deep-sea extent to which co-occurring, non-native Therapeutics  biodiversity, including temperature, presence species originated from the same European SAKURA HAMAZAKI of predators, food availability, and plant communities (European phytosocial FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, interspecies relationships. Understanding groups) for a variety of locations in the BIOLOGY how small changes in seafloor topography Adirondacks. To achieve this, we generated Breast cancer is the most prevalent disease in impact ecosystem diversity in deep-sea coral network visualizations in R to show the the world. This popularity has pushed ecosystems could inform management of patterns of co-occurrence by non-native scientists to make advances in early detection these vulnerable habitats. species with shared geographic history, using methods, treatments, and public awareness plant survey data provided by the New York to help alleviate the fatality of this disease; 83 Exploring the Role of piRNA National Heritage Program for six locations however, the number of new cases per year around Adirondack State Park. Preliminary continue to rise with 250,520 cases reported in Zebrafish Stress Response as a results indicate high rates of co-occurrence in to the Center of Disease Control in 2017 Model for Tuna Fish Populations species distributed across Northeastern compared to 196,628 new cases recorded in Under the Challenge of Climate Europe. The European phytosocial groups 1999. This high frequency is commonly identified are similar to the Adirondack attributed to the physiology of the breast, Change communities in ecosystem structure and consisting of tissue cells of heterogenetic YUMNA ISMAIL, ALEX JAKUBIAK, EMILY climate. We will also describe the European nature, as this provides an opportunistic RYBICKI AND ETHAN WARICK phytosocial groups that exhibit the highest microenvironment prone to cancer FACULTY SPONSOR: SALVADOR TARUN, rates of co-occurrence throughout the metastasis. Cancer stem cells have drawn the BIOLOGY Adirondacks region. These results are attention of researchers due to their unique Tuna are an essential food source worldwide; important to consider when managing new ability to retain characteristics found in stem however, their future is uncertain due to non-native species introductions. cells: the ability to self-renew, influence reproductive complications in their gonads. neighboring cells, and be unaffected by Tuna have sexual determination based on traditional targeted therapeutics like environmental stimuli, which makes these  Promotes sustainability 9

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91 Investigating the Risk of the 202 The Effect of Goats as which are highly conserved in the thumb domain of the R2 protein, and to isolate this Canine Parvovirus in ICU Patients Biological Controls on Soil mutated R2 protein for use in future assays. from a Dog Shelter Seedbanks and Long-Term By examining the RNA binding properties of LAURA ZOPF Habitat Restoration in a the R2 protein, we can further understand the FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, TPRT mechanism and its overall role in BIOLOGY Secondary Successional Forest retrotransposon success. Canine parvovirus (CPV) is a highly contagious Anna Meichenbaum disease for canines and often results in a high FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY 214 Modeling Disease Evolution mortality rate in untreated dogs. With Invasive plant species are a major threat mortality rates of over 90%, it’s important to towards the biodiversity of a habitat, but of COVID-19 understand the conditions that minimize the biological controls can successfully eradicate MARISA PRESUTTO spread of this disease. To investigate this or reverse the effects of invasive species. FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, issue, I acquired canine parvovirus data from Goats as biological controls are becoming BIOLOGY ICU patients from Austin Pets Alive, a no-kill increasingly common for eradicating invasive As the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to spread shelter in Texas. Using these data I tested plants. We investigated whether goats can there is growing concern about the potential which age groups and sex were most at risk. alter the dominance of invasive plant species of the virus to evolve and evade vaccines. My results suggest young dogs around 10 in a secondary successional forest Mutations that confer advantages to the virus weeks old have the highest risk of death from environment by comparing soil seedbank to have already been observed and are likely to this disease. Additionally, on average male seed rain, along a gradient of browsed to lead to reinfections. Using a method that dogs were found to be more at risk than unbrowsed plots along two transects (n = 20). simulates the evolution of the spike protein females. This disease can be fatal for our We quantified the soil seedbank by identifying through mutation, this study models the canine companions and in places like shelters the seedings that emerged from soil samples evolution of the virus as it spreads from and veterinarian hospitals CPV is easily from each plot and collected the seed rain person to person. Because of the growing spread. Therefore, it is important to focus on using Astroturf traps. Our preliminary results, diversity of strains in the population, who is most at risk of mortality and to treat such as a higher amount of Garlic Mustard in individuals can become infected multiple and vaccinate every dog. the seedbank than found in above-ground times. However, partial immunity from vegetation, indicate that the use of goats as previous strains can confer resistance. As the biological controls is effective, yet the mutation rate of the SARS-CoV-2 viral genome 184 Modeling Cancer Metastasis alteration is not immediate. Comparing and is increased, more strains arise in the and Vascular Recruitment in quantifying plant species results found above population. As with the flu, new COVID-19 and below ground in the presence or absence strains, altered through antigenic drift, likely Human Tissue of controls may aid in restoration will continue to spread and evade our RACHEL FAIR management. Future considerations include vaccines. FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, revisiting this area over a longer time frame BIOLOGY (in years) to examine if implementation of Cancer is the second leading cause of death 217 Differential Sensitivity to biological controls can completely eradicate among adults in the United States, resulting in invasive species. Antibacterial Compounds in E. over 600,000 deaths each year. Although Synchronous Session: Apr 28, 2021 12:30 – 1:30 cancer treatments and procedures continue coli Missing DNA Cytosine PM to improve, the ability of cancer to Methyltransferase metastasize remains one of the greatest JENNIFER LEIGH obstacles to modern healthcare providers. In 203 Identifying Potential RNA FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, this study, a model of human healthy tissue Binding Domains in the Thumb BIOLOGY was created using a two-dimensional lattice, This research project looked at the sensitivity with each vertex on the lattice having the Domain of R2 Protein of different strains of E. coli to antibacterial ability to be either a “healthy” or “cancerous” BROOKE DEMETRI AND JESSICA PALMERI compounds using Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion tissue cell. The varying aggression of FACULTY SPONSOR: VARUNI assays. The objective was to determine if E. metastasis shown by the cancer was JAMBURUTHUGODA, BIOLOGY coli strains missing DNA cytosine simulated by manipulating the cancer's rate of EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT methyltransferase (Dcm) or the RNA spread through vascular recruitment. When a PRESENTATION polymerase subunit RpoS were more or less cancer mass lacks sufficient oxygen and Transposable elements are selfish mobile sensitive to different antibacterial nutrients, it will recruit additional blood genetic elements able to replicate in the host compounds. Dcm is an enzyme that vessels to allow it to grow and metastasize genome and are classified as either DNA type methylates DNA at the second cytosine in the more efficiently. In this model, vascular elements or retrotransposons. In our study, sequence 5′ CCW GG 3’, an d p o ten tially recruitment was simulated by the addition of we focus on R2 retrotransposable elements. influences gene expression via changes in edges that connected cancerous cells to Retrotransposable elements can reverse RpoS expression. Despite there being few healthy cells. The transmission probability and transcribe an RNA intermediate into DNA phenotypes for the loss of Dcm, previous data vascular recruitment into the lattice model either before or during integration into the suggests that Dcm impacts stationary phase were found to be positively correlated with target genome. The R2 element exclusively which is a type of stress. Therefore antibiotic the rate at which cancer spreads through the inserts in the 28S rRNA genes via the treatment which is a type of stress could be human tissue. Our results suggest that cancer mechanism of target primed reverse impacted by the loss of Dcm. Antibacterial treatments would be most successful when transcription (TPRT). For the TPRT mechanism compounds used included rifampicin, focused on eliminating revascularization and to occur, the 5’ and 3’ ends of the RNA streptomycin, kanamycin, chloramphenicol, lessening cancer cell transmission probability intermediate must bind to R2 protein before ampicillin, penicillin, hydrogen peroxide, within the tissue. cleavage and insertion into a new genomic ciprofloxacin, and erythromycin. Our data site can occur. Despite its importance in TPRT, indicate that the strain missing Dcm RNA binding sequences of the R2 protein are methyltransferase is more sensitive to not well understood. The objective of this ciprofloxacin and ampicillin than the wild-type study was to create single alanine strain. Future research plans include replacements via site-directed mutagenesis in confirmation experiments using a Dcm both the RYGLV and KPQQR sequences,

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2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 15th Annual Session Presentations knockout strain complemented by the responses may display more common p-value < 0.0001). Our results indicate that addition of a plasmid with the Dcm gene. behavior than the global response. This higher-achieving (score >80%) students difference is helpful for accurately tracking underestimated their knowledge by 222 Identifying Non- cases through a population as well as advising underestimating their actual score, while policy makers to implement the best lower-achieving students overestimated their Regenerating Zebrafish Mutants strategies in order to minimize the number of actual score. This suggests that while an AUSTIN FEASLEY AND ARIANNA FALLETTA infectious individuals during an outbreak. active learning environment creates FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, opportunities for students to learn content BIOLOGY 265 Modeling Plaque Buildup in effectively, it may not improve their abilities Zebrafish are a useful model organism in to correctly estimate their performance in a studying developmental biology. One topic of Arteries of People with Diabetes course. interest is their ability to regenerate tissues, MEENU MUNDACKAL Selected for presentation at the National including retinal cells. Uncovering genetic FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, Association for Biology Teachers Conference pathways for this disease could be applicable BIOLOGY to humans, as humans and zebrafish have Diabetes increases an individual’s risk of numerous analogous genes. Scientists use developing atherosclerosis, which results in 269 Feeding Modes of Deep-Sea mutants with non-functioning genes to plaque growth along the arterial wall. Once Fishes Based on Jaw elucidate where genes lie in a pathway. We cholesterol becomes lodged in the arterial Morphologies studied mutants, which are suspected to lack wall, white blood cells are released to trap TAYLOR OLEYOURRYK AND RYAN BOHEN the regenerative abilities of wild type this cholesterol, which only accumulates FACULTY SPONSOR: MACKENZIE GERRINGER, zebrafish; the specific gene is unknown. Our further fat and inflammation, resulting in the BIOLOGY goal was to confirm our family of fish as formation of a cap over this soft plaque. This The deep sea is one of the last true frontiers, regenerative mutants. First, they were dark plaque formation becomes more problematic with its depths remaining relatively adapted and then placed in intense light for when it results in a clogged artery. We unexplored. Deep-sea inhabitants survive high three days. We examined the retinas for developed a network-based model of an pressures, limited food availability, lack of regeneration under a fluorescence idealized arterial system since plaque can sunlight, and cold temperatures. These microscope. If they are regenerating they grow upstream, downstream, or thicker. To demanding conditions have led to a wide should be brightly expressing GFP (protein track the spatial spreading process of plaque array of adaptations and niches which allows that glows under fluorescent light), but fail to buildup, a toroidal lattice model was for different ecological roles of fishes. express bright GFP if they are not. The eyes constructed to represent this idealized artery. Investigating these deep-sea interactions were surgically removed and cryosectioned. Each vertex of this lattice represented a allows us to better understand the ecosystem From here, the slides will be further examined potential site on which plaque could develop. as a whole. Our research is investigating under a confocal microscope in order to see if The critical value of artery closure was used to feeding biomechanics in deep-sea fishes the antibodies bind to lower numbers of manipulate the rate of plaque build-up by across three families of fishes, the rattails retinal cells in our mutant line compared with adjusting spread rates, simulating different (Macrouridae), snailfishes (Liparidae), and normal fish. We then plan on repeating this quality diets. With poorer diets, plaque build- cusk eels (Ophidiidae). We compare jaw experiment for the other zebrafish in the up rates increased the rate at which morphologies and mechanics between same line as these parent zebrafish. obstruction occurred. This model helps families to gain insights into feeding mode, Synchronous session: Apr 30, 2021 2:30 - 3:30 illuminate the causes and rates of including ram feeding (head-on predation), PM atherosclerosis in patients suffering with suction feeding, and manipulation. High diabetes. mechanical advantages in the jaws indicate 259 Inclusion of Adaptive greater force transmission, characteristic of Behavioral Responses in 267 Students Inaccurately fishes that manipulate prey, while low Estimate Test Performance mechanical advantage indicates greater Modeling COVID-19  velocity transfer, common to suction feeders. GRACE MALEY Despite Feedback from Active We compare tooth shape between the main FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, Learning set of jaws and the pharyngeal set of jaws BIOLOGY CAT STEELE that aid in prey processing. This research adds Response to COVID-19 percentages in a FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY new insight into how deep-sea fishes interact population, including social distancing and Students can overestimate or underestimate in their environment and enhances our mask wearing, help to reduce the their knowledge on summative assessments understanding of life in the deep oceans, transmission rate of the disease, which can for multiple reasons. Students’ perception of some of the least explored habitats on our have considerable effects on the resulting their knowledge can be associated with planet. number of cases in a population. Individuals studying abilities or confidence in course Synchronous Session: Apr 30, 2021 2:30 - 3:30 take these measures once they feel in danger material. Our goal is to see how an active PM of getting COVID-19, which is likely based learning lecture can affect a student’s upon a certain number of cases either in their confidence in their knowledge of the content 288 Computational Modeling of overall population or local neighborhood. and how it impacts how they estimate their

Using a network, we examined the effects of grades earned on summative assessments. Epilepsy this individual adaptive behavior on resulting We hypothesize that higher-achieving ANNA LARES number of cases in a population. We first students, but not lower-achieving students, FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, collected data on the number of overall are able to accurately estimate their success, BIOLOGY infectious individuals as people responded due to awareness of sufficient preparation Epilepsy is the fourth most common fearfully to a global percentage of cases in (through formative assessment) for a neurological disorder in the U.S., affecting their population. We then compared that to summative assessment. In the fall of 2019, for about 1.2% of the population. It is one of the the resulting number of infectious individuals a 200-level ecology course, I implemented an most challenging diseases that researchers as people instead reacted to a proportion of anonymous multiple-choice survey after each have studied due to its unpredictable nature, cases in their local neighborhood. We found summative assessment, with questions asking as well as the general complexity of the brain. that fewer people contracted COVID-19 when students to predict their scores. We found an We build a network model to simulate signal relying on global information in a network association between students’ predicted transduction and compare neural activity in a rather than simply local information, but local score and achieved score (X2 = 132.72, df = 16, healthy brain to activity during a seizure.  Promotes sustainability 11

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Neuron action potential is simulated for each capacity to integrate learning biostatistics and than males being produced. This may cell, including stimulus from a neighboring programming simultaneously. Courses with introduce issues like extinction and selective neuron, depolarization, repolarization, and this design intrinsically have a high learning mating patterns between drive and non-drive refractory periods. The complete cycle of an curve, known as cognitive load, which risks flies. Could meiotic drive affect the fitness of a action potential takes approximately 3 ms on overworking students as the subject material population if the population does not go average. As the number of edges is increased can be convoluted and scaffolds. I extinct? In order to address this question, we (increasing connectivity), neuron action hypothesize that balancing cognitive load can will use SLiM, a flexible population genetics potentials synchronize more rapidly, causing be achieved through the use of a teaching simulator. We have been able to achieve a the seizure due to a decreasing periodicity of method known as cognitive dissonance which model that allows for drive to persist in a brain activity waves. The goal of this study is tests and corrects contrary beliefs about population with neutral mutations. Multiple to help better understand the dynamics of the subject matter in a low-stakes setting. To graphs have also been generated using fitness brain during epilepsy, and to demonstrate evaluate the use of cognitive dissonance, I values of each drive phenotype to see how how different the nature of a seizure may be analyzed student responses to reflection often the drive was maintained. This allowed based on different functional qualities of the questions on the level of difficulty perceived us to observe how the fitness of each brain per individual. and desired by students in an undergraduate phenotype played a role in maintaining drive biostatistics course. In my presentation, I will in the population. For a more realistic model, 297 The Geneseo Element: suggest alterations in class structure to we will be adding beneficial and deleterious address the patterns I found in student mutations to see how drive affects fitness at Connecting the Community responses, such as offering additional the individual level. Our long-term goals are to KARA BURKE cognitive dissonance or reallocating class add inversions and sexual selection to our FACULTY SPONSOR: MACKENZIE GERRINGER, time. model. BIOLOGY Our campus community is well known for its excellence in both science and humanities, 300 Intensities of Schistosomes 306 Constructing a Model but there isn’t a lot of intersection between between Different Age Groups Circulatory System in the those two groups, and bridging the gap of Children in an Undeveloped Context of Breast Cancer between these two areas with science JASON IPOLITO communication leads to a more connected Ghanaian Community KATHRYN SHEFFIELD AND MOLLY FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, world. To foster this connection at Geneseo, BIOLOGY we created The Geneseo Element—a science PATTERSON FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN MUENCH, Breast cancer is the second most common communication magazine—to bring students form of cancer in women and known to of all different disciplines together to truly BIOLOGY Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease metastasize to the liver and brain by following embrace our liberal arts education. In this blood flow back to the heart before being magazine, we’re looking to highlight that continues to impact the health of children in Ghana. Schistosome parasites pumped out into systemic circulation. We students’ and professors’ research at built a simplified network of the major human Geneseo, as well as write about topics where develop inside freshwater snails, and once they are released into the water the veins and arteries involved in the breast science and other disciplines intersect. The cancer metastatic system to simulate the Geneseo Element is completely online, which schistosomes can penetrate the skin of people wading or swimming in the water. Our movement of tumor cells. We used 2D lattices allows us to integrate a plethora of media, to create tissues in which the tumor could such as works of art, photography, poetry, research focuses specifically on different intensities of S. haematobium and S. mansoni metastasize. A simulated tumor cell was then journalistic pieces and audio and visual pieces tracked while passing through the circulatory revolving around science. Our goal is to infection in children in a disadvantaged informal community in the Greater Accra system. The results demonstrate that it is communicate about science in as many ways possible to construct a customizable model as possible, to create a magazine that speaks Region of Ghana. After students collected urine and stool samples from kids in Ghana, circulatory system that can be used to track to everyone. To create this magazine, we the flow of metastatic particles in a need writers as well as submissions of artistic we were able to use egg counts to determine which age groups were overrepresented in circulatory system. This model can be used for pieces and photographs, so if you’re further research into metastasis of breast interested in making Geneseo a more high and low intensity cases. We found that children between the ages of 10-12 were cancer or for modeling the movement of connected community, contact us at bloodborne pathogens in general. [email protected] and check out overrepresented in high intensity cases in our content at thegeneseoelement.com. some years, which correlates with Synchronous Session: Apr 30, 2021 2:30 -- 3:00 expectations and activities related to this age 329 Discovery and Validation of group. Our study is part of a larger study of PM miRNAs as Stress Response coinfection and reinfection in children in the community. Biomarkers in Zebrafish and 298 Understanding and Tuna Balancing Cognitive Dissonance 304 Simulating Sex-Ratio Meiotic NIMA SHERPA, TAYLOR RICCARDI, ELI and Load in College Biostatistics Drive in Teleopsis dalmanni using BARBOUR, YAW MENSAH AND JAMINE YEOH ETHAN WARICK FACULTY SPONSOR: SALVADOR TARUN, FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY SLiM BIOLOGY The brain is a sponge for learning. It can JI MIN SON, USMAN CHAUDHRY AND JULIA Tuna are among the most popular and absorb a lot of information; however it will MAY commercially valuable fish worldwide. In 2016, reach its saturation point where it can no FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, tuna fisheries were valued at USD 40 billion. longer absorb the information being received. BIOLOGY Tuna are one of the top predators and food Difficult college classes may become The law of segregation states that alleles are sources in the marine food chain, thus playing “difficult” when the fundamentals are not inherited fifty percent of the time. Meiotic a crucial role in stabilizing the food web in fully understood, leading to students’ minds drive breaks this law by changing the marine environments. Unfortunately, climate becoming saturated, and sequentially their inheritance rate to one hundred percent. Sex- change is putting tuna populations at risk. attitude towards learning may suffer. For ratio meiotic drive is where the sex ratio Studies indicate that miRNAs play a strong example, a college biostatistics course often decreases because the X chromosome is role in environmental and nutrient stress requires using a high level of students’ brain always passed along, leading to more females response in a broad range of organisms

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2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 15th Annual Session Presentations including fish. Therefore, using zebrafish as with shorter eyestalks have a lower fitness. To 406 Gene Editing in Xenopus laboratory model we hypothesize and expect identify these candidate genes, we dissected to find that miRNAs could be used as eye antennal discs from larvae and retained laevis biological markers for stress response in the carcasses. We extracted DNA from the COLLEEN MCEWEN marine fish like tuna. Our objective was first carcasses and performed PCR for markers FACULTY SPONSOR: HRISTINA to bioinformatically identify candidate diagnosing the sex and meiotic drive status, NEDELKOVSKA, BIOLOGY homologous miRNAs in zebrafish and tuna then did fragment analysis. We identified 31 EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT known to be stress-responsive from other males and 1/3rd of the population had meiotic PRESENTATION animal studies. In order to examine their drive. We are using the larvae’ eye-antennal There are many proteins in the immune response in zebrafish, the expression of the imaginal discs from our dissections to system that continue to perplex scientists, miRNAs will be examined by quantitative measure differential gene expression using spurring research that has made significant polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) from fish RNA from meiotic and non-meiotic drive discoveries regarding these complex subjected to simultaneous temperature, pH, individuals of each sex. After pooling tissues molecules. One such protein is the major and nutrient stress mimicking the stress together by drive, we were able to do RNA histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I conditions encountered by fish in aquatic extractions using RNeasy extraction kit and protein; as it is understood currently, this environments due to global climate change. sent these samples for RNA sequencing. protein’s primary role is T cell education in the Validated stress-responsive miRNAs will then Kallisto will quantify the RNA-seq data, thymus, which is vital to immunocompetency be examined in natural tuna populations in allowing us to compare the extracted RNA (Abbas, et. al, 2018). The tadpoles of the western Philippine islands. samples to the entire genome to see what African clawed frog, or Xenopus laevis, do not genes are being expressed. express detectable amounts of MHC class I, but they still have functioning immune 353 Coffee Hour with the Bio- systems. MHC class I is subsequently Diversity Committee 385 Bacterial Expression and expressed in the adult frogs, so the purpose KYLE WALTENBERG-O'BRIEN, JASMINE Purification of a Putative RNA of MHC class I is unknown in these organisms YEOH, MOUHAMAD BERTE, XANDER Methyltransferase from (Robert, 2016). The purpose of this research MICHAELS AND CAROLYN MERCED was to determine the protein’s function in FACULTY SPONSORS: MACKENZIE Trypanosoma brucei Xenopus laevis by knocking out the MHC class GERRINGER AND SUSAN MUENCH, BIOLOGY LAURA WILLIAMS I gene using the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing SESSION CHAIR: MACKENZIE GERRINGER, FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, system (Banach, et. al, 2017). Due to a global BIOLOGY BIOLOGY pandemic interrupting the research, our The Bio-Diversity committee would like to EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT findings are limited as of the time of writing. invite students, faculty, staff, and other PRESENTATION However, we were able to create transgenic Geneseo community members to join us for African sleeping sickness is a fatal disease that tadpoles, extract their DNA, and create more our first virtual Coffee Hour! In collaboration is caused by the protozoan parasite guide RNA for additional transgenesis with the college's commitment to Diversity, Trypanosoma brucei. RNA methylation may be experiments. Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), the Biology an important mechanism for regulation of Diversity Committee is actively working gene expression in T. brucei, as this organism toward cultivating a community where lacks regulatory DNA sequences. The BUSINESS INDIVIDUAL education and DEI go hand-in-hand. laboratory detected the presence of 5- Differences in perspective, opinions, and methylcytosine in T. brucei RNA and seven SESSIONS experiences make us all potentially influential putative RNA methyltransferases in the members of the community. For change to be genome of the parasite via bioinformatics. They were named TbCRMTs (T. brucei impactful, we need to hear from you! Please 26 Adopt-a-Business in the consider joining us on Wednesday, April, 28th cytosine RNA methyltransferases). TbCRMT4 from 3:30 – 4:30 PM for a coffee break and is required for maximum parasite growth as Pandemic: Small Businesses, Big conversation. Our goal for this session will be determined by RNAi knockdowns. To Obstacles, Bigger Opportunities determine whether TbCRMT4 functions as an to challenge social barriers and start a JULIA MCGAUGH, EMMA JANUSZ, RYAN RNA methyltransferase, the gene was conversation between Geneseo community HOUSER, NICK GARTNER, SARENA TOBACK, expressed in E. coli with a 6xHis tag. members. Be sure to bring stories, insights, VALENTINA CHAVEZ, MADELYNN MAIOLO, Solubilizing the full protein proved difficult, and your listening ears! We look forward to CHRISTOPHER BAGLIERI, CECILIA KULA AND thus fragments of the gene containing seeing you there! ERIC BROWN putative SAM-binding and catalytic sites were Synchronous session: Apr 28, 2021 3:30 - 4:30 FACULTY SPONSOR: PETER MARKULIS, amplified by PCR, inserted into the pET101/D PM BUSINESS vector, and transformed into competent E. Join the Adopt-a-Business internship team as coli. The construct which contains amino acids we observe the unique challenges facing 354 Effects of Meiotic Drive on 87-852, when expressed at 37°C, was most Western New York small businesses during reliably produced and was isolated using Developing Eye-Stalks in Stalk- the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the renaturing protocols and His-affinity Eyed Flies academic year, our interns have collaborated chromatography. Currently the MTase Glo OLIVIA SMITH, KARISSA GARBARINI AND with local business owners to work toward assay is being used as a mechanism to HEATHER WOOD digital transformation by developing social determine if CRMT4 has methyltransferase FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, media marketing strategies, boosting online activity. By determining if TbCRMT4 functions BIOLOGY visibility, and increasing overall productivity. as an RNA methyltransferase, the Teleopsis dalmanni, known as Stalk-Eyed flies, Utilizing local resources, Adopt-a-Business has epitranscriptome of T. brucei can be better are known for their sexually dimorphic eye- worked closely with the surrounding understood. stalks. In the wild, some contain meiotic drive community to develop long-term which minimizes eye-stalk length and disrupt relationships with their local businesses. We the sex ratios. Our goal is to identify genes in invite you to watch our journey, as we help developing eye tissue that are affected by tell the stories of our businesses, many of meiotic drive. Since eye stalks are a sexual whom you may recognize or may become ornamentation, females prefer to mate with your new favorite spot! males with larger eye stalks. Therefore, males

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404 Women in the Accounting 359 Adolescent Authentic demographic questionnaires. All interview transcripts were reviewed and coded by at Profession: A History and Leadership Development: least three researchers. Exploratory coding Overview Emotion and Basic Psychological methods prior to first-cycle coding acted as EMMA BRUNE Needs the most appropriate coding method (Saldaña, 2013, pp. 63-64). Initial and in vivo FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH FELSKI, KAMESHA MILLER coding layers were applied to the primary BUSINESS NICHOLAS PALUMBO, CENTER FOR data set. Using guidelines for Thematic EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT COMMUNITY, AND DANIEL ISLAM, MCNAIR Analysis by Braun and Clark (2006, pp. 86-93), PRESENTATION SCHOLARS PROGRAM all codes were collated into three themes. The Since their emergence into the accounting The study aimed to explore theoretically first theme highlights Caribbean parenting industry in the late 1800s, women have made derived hypotheses about the relationships styles and the impact on their sibling slow progress in the profession. Like in many between basic psychological needs, emotion, relationships. The second theme showed professions, women accountants were and authentic leadership. Basic psychological intersections in familial values between necessary during World War II to help the war needs, authentic leadership, and vitality were Caribbean identity and sibling relationships. effort but soon after were cast aside in favor measured before 106 adolescents ages 14 to The final theme examines differential sibling of men. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the 18 attended a youth leadership conference. expectations within their family. These number of women in accounting increased, Data was collected from three counties in emergent themes revealed that Caribbean but still women accounted for only 3.7% of Big western New York. Empirical research on culture influences sibling relationships and Eight firm partners by the end of the 1980s. In youth leadership emphasizes the relationship identity through parenting styles, familial this time, there were lawsuits in favor of between leadership development and values, and differential sibling expectations. women being discriminated against on the positive developmental outcomes (Komives & Future research using focus group data would basis of sex, and the term “glass ceiling” was Dugan, 2014). Contemporary research on the further strengthen these findings and offer coined and paid more attention to. Now, relationship between need satisfaction and research to the scant literature on Caribbean women are still experiencing discrimination in authentic leadership has demonstrated sibling relationships during emerging the workplace. They also may receive theoretical congruence between authentic adulthood. backlash if they choose to leave the public leadership theory and self-determination accounting profession and for their reasons to theory (SDT; Leroy, Anseel, Gardner, & Sels, leave. I explored the evolution and current 2015). Following the conference, students’ state of women in the accounting profession. affect and authentic leadership development CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE I also conducted six interviews with different were measured. Two models revealed the women accountants in various places in their authentic leadership development of LEARNING INDIVIDUAL careers and found that though women’s adolescents pre-conference (Adjusted SESSIONS equity in the accounting profession has come R2=52.6%) and students’ affect post- a long way, there are still gender disparities conference (Adjusted R2=28.1%). These ingrained in company culture. findings offer a statistically significant hierarchal regression model revealing the 88 Advancing the Arts: Creating unique role of basic psychological needs in an Archival Site for Perry, NY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY adolescents’ authentic leadership BEN MICHALAK INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS development. Authentic Leadership FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, CENTER Development was also found to serve as a FOR INTEGRATIVE LEARNING

critical component in predicting adolescents’ Through the ambassadorship program and positive affect following a leadership the funds provided by the Community 334 Community Organization conference. These findings offer theoretical Advocates Ambassadorship in Community and Activism insight into the optimal psychological Engagement, I was able to create an online conditions for leadership education and KELSEY DUX archival, art-focused resource site for the promoting the development of authenticity FACULTY SPONSOR: GARTH FREEMAN, town of Perry, NY. My research process was and well-being in the next generation of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY twofold; the first phase of the project was an leaders. This presentation focuses on student activism examination of Perry's art history. The second Selected for Presentation at the Association through community engagement and involved meeting with town artists and for Psychological Science Convention organization. Kelsey Dux will share her community leaders to learn about present experiences working for a non-profit in initiatives that have contributed to Buffalo NY during the summer of 2020 360 Caribbean College Students’ community revitalization efforts. My presentation, much like the website itself, through the support of the Caryn Camiolo Perceptions of Sibling Social Justice Summer Internship. From attempts to paint a picture of Perry's artistic organizing protests to a virtual summer camp Relationships: The Role of identity. In this, I hope to highlight the for low-income families, she will share the Culture and Identity important role the arts plays in building community. This project was funded by the lessons she learned working on a diverse set KAMESHA MILLER, HANNAH BAPTISTE, of projects with community leaders and Community Advocates Ambassadorship in RACHEL GREEN AND CAITLIN MORAZZINI Community Engagement. activists during a pandemic. Furthermore, this FACULTY SPONSORS: NICHOLAS PALUMBO, presentation works to empower its CENTER FOR COMMUNITY, AND GANIE participants to seek similar opportunities and DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY 89 Menstrual Hygiene to find innovative ways to connect with their This qualitative research examines the sibling Management (MHM): A Pathway communities. relationships and cultural identity processes to Education and Equity in Nepal of five Caribbean college students with one or more siblings. Participants were recruited TSHERING SHERPA through college-affiliated email listservs and FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, CENTER word of mouth. Participants ages 18-24 with FOR INTEGRATIVE LEARNING Tshering Sherpa was awarded The Eddie Lee various gender identities, self-identified as Caribbean. The data were collected during '76 Ambassadorship for First-Generation individual interviews after completing Students award to carry on the project, which focuses on dismantling the deep-rooted 14  Promotes sustainability

2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 15th Annual Session Presentations tradition of “Chhaupadi Pratha,” a system oral hygiene by enforcing a school-based 60 Interviews on Racism in STEM where women barricade themselves in small dental prevention program. It is crucial to cow sheds during their menstrual cycle. Her demonstrate preventive oral care Field at SUNY Geneseo project has three elements: distributing low- effectiveness to rural communities that DAVID AKANONU cost menstrual hygiene kits; providing typically lack resources and adequate FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: support for local enterprises that make information due to their geographic isolation KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, CHEMISTRY reusable hygiene kits; holding virtual so adults and children understand and This is a collection of interviews with the workshops that foster career development, become are aware of the importance of daily alumni who experienced the undergraduate entrepreneurship, and menstrual hygiene brushing and flossing. And importantly, they research at the Chemistry Department. They awareness and so challenge stigma in order to will learn, understand and be responsible for were asked about their opinion on the racism break the taboo surrounding menstruation their oral health. in the STEM field at SUNY Geneseo. Six alumni and to celebrate womanhood. These activities who were at Geneseo and in the STEM field talk about the recollections on the issues will help women rise and thrive above gender 345 Preserving Cultures: disparities by intervening in the areas of about racism at SUNY Geneseo. The health and education, improving social Preservation and Conservation interviews were conducted to David Akanonu standing, and encouraging not only women in SUNY Geneseo and Beyond ('20 Biology), Julian Atanga ('18, Biology), Jonathan Bekoe ('17, Chemistry), Jessica but the overall population to challenge the OLIVIA SCHOENFELD Imayeguahi ('18, Biology), Sandi Imayeguahi notion of menstruating women as impure. FACULTY SPONSORS: ALLA MYZELEV, ART ('17, Chemistry), and Eghosa Okungbowa ('18, HISTORY, AND LYTTON SMITH, CENTER FOR Biochemistry). 218 Teen Ally Education INTEGRATIVE LEARNING The James Houston '80 Student Resources: 2021 Ambassadorship Ambassadorship Award in Innovation for 408 Progression through COVID: in Diversity “Preserving Cultures: Preservation and A Student Perspective from the MARGAUX CARMEL Conservation in SUNY Geneseo and Beyond” FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, CENTER aimed to implement and promote art Operational Side FOR INTEGRATIVE LEARNING conservation measures in art storage and KAYLEE HAUSRATH From personal experience, Margaux Carmel gallery spaces on the SUNY Geneseo campus FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, '21 is aware of the lack of social justice and ally and in the wider Geneseo community, CHEMISTRY education for teens, particularly in rural high including the Livingston County Historical This project uses the first-hand experience of schools. Through their 2021 Ambassadorship Society Museum. The temperature and a student leader on the campus in the in Diversity, they have been able to explore humidity data in these spaces were analyzed evolution from leading the SUNY Geneseo the need for social justice and ally education and solutions were created for areas with Basic Life Support First Response agency to in high schools and to brainstorm ways to poor environmental, pest, and lighting having a hand in the testing of and ultimate meet this demand. In this presentation, controls. The findings of the project and art vaccination of the campus. This includes Margaux will walk through their exploration conservation are viewable through a video perspective and documentation through each of social justice education and discuss their in- presentation that includes how to use step from initial temperature check-ins progress Teen Ally Education Resource conservation equipment such as light meters, through the current protocols of weekly tests Bibliography. The goal of this annotated integrated pest management kits, and and vaccinations of First Responders. bibliography is to serve as a resource for high microscopes. The presentation will showcase school educators to find books that might be ways to implement preventive measures into 418 The Catalytic Properties of appropriate to implement in their classrooms museum collections and examples of or recommend to their students. conservation treatments. The objective of the CdSe-Au Hybrid Nanomaterials PAUL PADGETT presentation is to educate students and FACULTY SPONSOR: RABEKA ALAM, 313 The John A. '87 and Mary community members on the field of art conservation. CHEMISTRY Grace '84 Gleason EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT PRESENTATION

Ambassadorship in Student Hybrid metal semiconductor nanostructures Affairs CheerfulSmile: Literacy CHEMISTRY INDIVIDUAL combine a semiconducting nanomaterial with on Oral Health Care in Nepal SESSIONS a conducting nanomaterial into a single architecture, allowing increased functionality NIMA SHERPA and conductivity when compared to materials FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE LEARNING of a single semiconductor. The addition of a Oral health care is essential for improving and 59 Investigation of Nanoscale conductive metal to the surface of maintaining all individuals’ health, but oral Reversible Protein Folding semiconductor nanomaterials enhances the health is given low priority in developing AKANE ICHIKI properties of the nanomaterials such as their use for optics and electronics and introduces countries’ rural areas. And dental health is FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, often neglected due to a lack of knowledge CHEMISTRY new potential for light-induced charge and awareness. So, oral diseases, especially The adsorption of amyloidogenic peptides separation. In particular, CdSe nanostructures periodontal disease, have become a over the surface of nano-gold colloidal can experience laser-induced electron significant burden for people in developing particles was investigated by dynamic, excitation, which may be passed to an countries. To reduce gum disease incidence spectroscopic, and microscopic2 approaches. attached gold nanoparticle, which will more and its related chronic health conditions, With mathematical simulations involving easily transfer the electron to a nearby everybody should have access to preventative chemical information, the most appropriate molecule. By utilizing the enhanced care. Intervention programs that focus on orientation for the adsorption was concluded conductivity of CdSe architectures in the preventive dental and primary care should be to be “spiking-out” orientation. This approach presence of gold nanoparticles, we hope to introduced in these regions. The project was applied to investigate the affinity of the catalyze the reduction of methyl viologen via “CheerfulSmile” focuses on promoting the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 to the gold electron transfer. Herein, we report our importance of oral hygiene in Solukhumbu, surface. results regarding the synthesis of CdSe Nepal. The project’s primary goal is to Selected for presentation at The American nanoplatelets, quantum rods, and quantum contribute to the sustainable improvement of Chemical Society National Meeting dots, the growth of gold nanoparticles to these CdSe structures, and the efficiency of  Promotes sustainability 15

Session Presentations 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual each hybrid and semiconductor structure in The Philippines has one of the highest FACULTY SPONSOR: LEONIE STONE, reducing methyl viologen. The CdSe adolescent birth rates among the Southeast ECONOMICS structures with and without gold were Asian countries. In 2019, the Philippines EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT observed using UV-vis spectroscopy and TEM National Economic and Development PRESENTATION imaging, and the efficiency of methyl viologen Authority (NEDA) declared the number of An anticipated obstacle for overcoming the reduction was evaluated using UV-vis teenage pregnancies a 'national social COVID-19 pandemic is getting people to use spectroscopy. emergency.' Rodrigo Duterte, the President the vaccines once they are widely available of the Philippines, realized the urgency as the and properly distributed to the public. Since Commission on Population and Development the manufacturing and distribution of a in 2019 recorded that almost seven girls, aged vaccine are contingent on the demand for the COMMUNICATION ten to fourteen, gave birth every day--2,411 vaccine, if demand increases, accessibility to INDIVIDUAL SESSION girls that year. Teenage pregnancy prevents vaccines will improve. To increase demand we the opportunity for women to escape from must understand why people aren’t getting poverty and improve their human vaccinated. This study aims to understand development levels. Increased risk of these what prevents people from getting 34 Mobile Dating Apps and outcomes are predominantly caused by vaccinated and use those behavioral Choice Overload: Evolving to inadequate sex education, lack of access to economic insights to recommend effective Date Less Successfully birth control, increasing cohabitation, nudge policies that will lead to increased misconceptions led by religion or stereotypes, vaccination rates. Based on a review of the JULIA MCGAUGH and lack of access to better labor market literature and an analysis of data about FACULTY SPONSOR: ATSUSHI TAJIMA, opportunities. In the past few years, influenza vaccination rates and distribution, I COMMUNICATION globalization has brought new employment conducted a survey across campus. I found EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT opportunities for women, especially in that most people opt out of vaccinations PRESENTATION developing countries. Trade is crucial in because of either complacency, convenience, This study discusses the evolution of dating increasing women's employment and wages. a lack of confidence, and/or utility calculation. and its contemporary moment of mobile Leveraging trade to increase women's The results suggest that nudge policies are dating apps, specifically regarding the education and empowerment is essential for a not effective on people who neither trust the relevance of choice overload theory in mobile sustainable path to significant development. vaccine nor believe in vaccines in general dating environments. Mobile dating apps The research examines the impact of trade (anti-vaxxers). However, this is a small increase the casual and gamified nature of policies and globalization of the Philippines on minority of the population. Nudge policies are romantic encounters, grant seeming girls' education and empowerment, especially most effective when they eliminate excessive autonomy to app users, increase the number as it relates to future labor market choice, reduce transaction costs, and convey of romantic options available, and alter opportunities and impact on women's fertility proper messaging. romantic pace. Although mobile dating apps behavior. are the most recent stage in the evolution of dating culture, they have ultimately caused greater dissatisfaction, increased regret, and 212 Has the Central Bank Played EDUCATION INDIVIDUAL lower rates of relationship success than a Role in Income and Wealth previous dating models. While such topics SESSIONS have been explored at length in the fields of Inequality? Evidence from U.S. psychology and sociology, parallel studies States leveraging communication theory are sparse. ROISIN O'NEILL 20 L.I.V.E.S. Presents: Different This study establishes and assumes a FACULTY SPONSOR: LEONIE STONE, Resources on the Geneseo foundation in communication theories ECONOMICS supporting overall dating interactions (e.g., During the Great Recession, the Fed lowered Campus to Create a More social penetration, uncertainty reduction), nominal interest rates to near-zero, reducing Accessible Experience for analyzes media representations of dating app the return on conventional savings accounts Students, Staff, and Faculty systems, and draws from concepts in and certificates of deposit to near-zero and BAILEY BASTINE, AURON BENNETT, KAYLA computer-mediated and internet-based likewise encouraging households to take on BRADY, JACKSON BREEN, STEPHANIE communication. The study argues the validity new debt. High-income households who can BURNS, HANNAH FINCH, KRISTEN GUYETT, of applying choice overload theory—typically more easily move funds into equities or other- TYLER HEIMAN, MELISSA MITCHELL, LAURA leveraged in strategic communication higher-return options are less affected than NEWTON, DOUG SCHLENKER AND CHELSI environments—to romantic interactions via lower income houses, and thus expansionary WATERS dating apps. In concert, these concepts result monetary policy may unintentionally worsen FACULTY SPONSOR: LEIGH O’BRIEN, in an increasingly objective and dehumanized income and wealth inequality in the United EDUCATION nature of romantic interaction—one that States. This study will use state-level data Our presentation is about the different underscores transaction rather than mutual from the U.S. to consider the effects of resources that Geneseo offers to make the human connection. Federal Reserve policy during the 2000s on campus more accessible for individuals with income and wealth inequality. I will use a disabilities. The L.I.V.E.S. Program (Learning recursive, two-stage model to estimate first Independence, Vocational, and Educational the impact of monetary policy on per capita ECONOMICS INDIVIDUAL Skills) is a four-year transition program that household debt levels, and then estimate welcomes all individuals with intellectual and SESSIONS effects of household debt on measures of developmental disabilities, and we are going income and wealth inequality. to talk about resources for all individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities on 210 Impact of Trade on Teenage 223 How Behavioral Economics our campus. Some other aspects we will Pregnancy and Education in the and Nudge Policies Can Increase discuss are the physical accessibility Philippines  accommodations from The Office of Vaccination Rates and Improve Accessibility and the mental health services TASHI SHERPA  that are offered on campus through FACULTY SPONSOR: PALLAVI PANDA, Public Health Policies Lauderdale Health and Counseling. ECONOMICS HANNAH UESHIRO 16  Promotes sustainability

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Additionally, we will offer suggestions of how and work together to provide students with GATLIN, MICHAELENA FERRARO AND the campus can further support students, stability in a world that is anything but. MEGHAN COBO staff, and faculty. Lastly, we will share our FACULTY SPONSOR: KEN COOPER, ENGLISH own experiences with inclusion, or lack 441 Our Lives After LIVES: In fall 2020, a group of OpenValley students thereof, on campus. partnered with the Village of Perry, NY to Planning Our Futures comprehensively re-imagine life in Perry 207 The Use of Online EMILY BRUSHAFER, KAILIN FOOTER, SHAWN during the 1950s, centralized around the JOHANNES, BRIANNE KUBALA, KALEIGH town’s primary industry at that time: the (Asynchronous) Literature MILLER, BRANDON SCHNEIDER, RACHEL Perry Knitting Company. The company was Circles in Teacher Preparation SKIDMORE AND KYONG-AE YUN formed in 1881, began operations in 1883, and FACULTY SPONSORS: LEIGH O’BRIEN AND closed its doors in 1969. During much of that Coursework to Foster Culturally JOHN SCHNITTER, EDUCATION period it was the town's largest firm, directly Responsive Practices Our presentation is about the myriad employing perhaps a third of the community CAROLINE CRIMMINS, ABAGAIL MATTISON, possibilities available to individuals with and indirectly accounting for many more MICAELA MORETTO, GENEVIEVE TRIPOLI intellectual and/or developmental disabilities livelihoods. Students referred to three FACULTY SPONSOR: THEA YURKEWECZ, to live meaningful lives as engaged members collections from the Perry Public Library for EDUCATION of their communities. Students from the their research: selected documents preserved The shift to online asynchronous courses L.I.V.E.S. Program -- a transition program on by a local historian; digitized copies of the pushed many teacher educators to reflect on the Geneseo campus -- will discuss their plans Perry Herald newspaper; and images from the their selection of strategies and assignments. for the future and how they hope to achieve Clark Rice Photography Collection. Given gaps Specifically, we examine approaches that will their goals. The presentation will highlight the in the archival record, some students relied on continue to cultivate critical literacy practices services and supports available in the local speculative nonfiction to re-imagine the past. and foster culturally responsive teacher region to help individuals with intellectual The PK, as it was called informally in Perry, candidates. This presentation will examine and/or developmental disabilities live their had an outsized economic, political, and social the use of online literature circles in an lives as they see fit, with a focus on making influence. This exhibit, grounded in a still undergraduate literacy course and technology the transition from high school to the adult image of the PK with active “windows” tools to facilitate their critical reflections. world. offering glimpses of the past and its Teacher candidates will share their connection to our present and future, begins experiences reading social justice books for to assess those legacies, the better to children focusing on topics such as race, bias, ENGLISH INDIVIDUAL understand how deindustrialization affected and microaggressions over one semester. small rural communities and to explore They will unpack the use of roles and reading SESSIONS bioregional responses going forward. frames (Meixner & Peel, 2020) to interact with their peers in a digital notebook. The 350 Oroonoco and the interviews and reflection data in this 52 Trump, the President presentation suggest multimodal tools and Development of the English assignments that could support teacher Philosophy Forgot Novel candidates’ development of culturally GEORGE MACKO CLAIRE ROGERS responsive teaching practices using self-paced FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, FACULTY SPONSOR: SAMUEL FALLON, remote instruction. ENGLISH ENGLISH Selected for presentation at the SUNY This paper compares the ideologies of the 6th EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT Cortland Literacy Department Conference century writer Boethius as expressed in his PRESENTATION book The Consolation of Philosophy with This project is an examination of Aphra Behn’s former President Donald Trump during his last 1688 book Oroonoko. Oroonoko is a 403 Teaching in a Pandemic days in office. On November 11th 2020, ALAYNA BORDONE complicated work of short prose fiction with Washington Post writer Tony Schwartz anti-slavery themes and, arguably, the first FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHRYN ROMMEL- described his impression of the President’s ESHAM, EDUCATION professional female writer as its author. The mentality following the election and the work is an amalgamation of disparate genres EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT motivations behind his desperate efforts to PRESENTATION including romance, travel narrative, and cling on to authority and preserve his image. biography that augurs to the creation of the The COVID-19 pandemic that has swept Boethius begins The Consolation in a through our nation over the past year has English novel a few decades later. This remarkably similar position, having lost a examination involves analysis of prose’s changed most facets of our lives as we knew prestigious office in his king’s court. them. I have chosen to analyze the effects development from a medium of facts to one Fortunately, he is provided consolation from that is capable of including fiction, as well as COVID-19 has had on the education system in the allegorical figure of Philosophy, who New York State by researching how different the development of news as something that demonstrates the follies of pursuing power, is regular, ideological, and legally and school districts have responded to the fame and reputation and points instead to the pandemic, as well as the many ways in which ontologically distinct from fiction. This essay cultivation of real worth in virtue. Trump is aims at exposing Oroonoko’s transitionary teachers have shifted their approaches to not so lucky, but the accuracy of Philosophy’s teaching in light of the teaching modalities role in literary history while acknowledging wisdom in regard to his position proves that the work’s complexity and skillful layering of offered by their school districts. To obtain this her argument is both valid and still applies to information I have utilized primary sources genres that makes it a unique and important us in the modern world. offered not only by different school districts work in English literary history. but also individual teachers within New York Synchronous session: Apr 29, 2021 2:00 - 2:20 State. My research and analysis identify one 57 The Cloth with a Million PM major trend: change has been abundant and Windows: Looking Into the Perry constant within New York state classrooms. 396 Do You See Her: A Novella The necessity to implement new technology Knitting Co. along with ever-changing district guidelines EMMA RAUPP, BEN MICHALAK, MARIAH Capstone Project has created an overwhelming environment ROCKWELL, ETHAN PELLETIER, MACAIRE MADELYN DEWEY for many teachers in which they had to adapt LISICKI, ANDREW GLEASON, MELISHA FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTEN GENTRY, ENGLISH

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EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT undergraduate student editors from 440 “Valid” Uses: Analyzing the PRESENTATION institutions of higher education who come In the interest of personal development, I together and share best practices, make Pathetic Fallacy in Three Psalms have long hoped to complete a large literary connections, and share their publications. CARVER KOZLOWSKI project under the guidance of a mentor. Following the pandemic, I worked alongside FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, Emotionally, I struggle with trauma, and faculty and students who made up the FUSE ENGLISH writing has always functioned as a means for National Eboard to shift our plans for our Pathetic fallacy, a term coined by Victorian era catharsis for me. My Edgar Fellows Capstone yearly conference online. My involvement in art critic John Ruskin in 1856, refers to any project developed with both of these the project consisted of developing the ascription of human-like capabilities, motivations in mind. Since September 2020, I organization’s website, which enabled the sensations, and emotions to inanimate natural have worked under the guidance of my digital side of the colloquium. This resulted in objects. To Ruskin, who believed that art mentor Professor Kristen Gentry to complete an event geared towards undergraduate should accurately represent the true, natural a novella. In my presentation I will elaborate editor interests and concerns during this world, pathetic fallacy was primarily a on my two-semester process, the challenges I complicated time and the most accessible derogatory term, but laid out a set of criteria faced during writing and editing, and the conference the organization has ever put for so-called “valid” uses: the pathetic fallacy extent to which I feel I have accomplished the together. In addition, I used the knowledge could only be used by the “greatest poets” goals that inspired this project. I will then read gained from my involvement in FUSE national and only when the emotions of a scene are so from my novella and analyze the passages I to reestablish the local chapter at Geneseo. intense that it would be impossible or have read as well as the function of literary While there are many opportunities to get “inhuman” not to. This paper analyzes three devices in the novella as a whole. involved in editing while on campus, I wanted Psalms’ use of the pathetic fallacy—Psalms to connect these groups and have all been 18, 77, and 148—and weighs them against Ruskin’s criteria. The former two recall 398 The Geneseo Literary represented in our chapter. FUSE at Geneseo, a smaller representation of what happens at miracles of God and ascribe the emotion of Magazine Project FUSE conferences each year and one that can fear to nature. The latter is a call for nature to LARA MANGINO grow and improve all our publications, is praise God, reflecting on nature’s own FACULTY SPONSOR: RACHEL HALL, ENGLISH designed to enrich all the wonderful and magnificence and grandeur and the miracle of EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT diverse publications at Geneseo. creation. This paper argues that all three PRESENTATION examples meet Ruskin’s criteria. In its 150 years, Geneseo has seen the rise and fall of a number of literary magazines. 434 Judas Iscariot: Traitor, or Publications such as The Experimentalist, Savior? ENGLISH FOR SPEAKERS OF Opus, and MiNT Magazine demonstrate the KEVIN REED hard work of countless students while FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, OTHER LANGUAGES simultaneously offering a glimpse into ENGLISH INDIVIDUAL SESSION Geneseo’s history. Although these magazines Kevin Reed explores the figure of Judas have been stored in the Special Collections in Iscariot in early Christian writings as a pawn Milne Library, there is no digital repository of for religious divide, and in Niko’s Kazantzakis’ these magazines nor is their history widely controversial The Last Temptation of Christ as 397 English Language Learner known. This project seeks to correct that. a heroic figure that reflected the changing Writing Perspectives: Formal vs. Over this past year, I have been scanning and understanding of Christ’s death. uploading old magazines to this project’s Informal Peer Review at SUNY WordPress site: 439 Psalms’ Structural Impact on Geneseo https://wp.geneseo.edu/litmagproject/. The SYDNEY SCHMIDT intention is to make these magazines widely Leaves of Grass FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHERINE MENEC, available so they can be viewed by students, AMY CANNON ENGLISH FOR SPEAKERS OF OTHER alumni, faculty, and prospective students. In FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, LANGUAGES addition, I am researching the history of ENGLISH EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT literary journals at Geneseo by studying these Walt Whitman was not a devoutly religious PRESENTATION documents and interviewing alumni about man; in fact, he made several denunciations The author explores the affective their experiences as student editors. When of organized religion. Yet Whitman, known as perspectives of English Language Learners’ this project is complete, the website should one of the great American poets, emulates (ELLs’) approach to the writing process while include a detailed history of each journal in the poetic structures present in the Bible in studying at SUNY Geneseo. As writing centers addition to all the issues I have uploaded over his most famous poetry collection Leaves of have emerged in higher education settings the course of the year. With this digital Grass. His life’s work, Leaves of Grass, over the past 20 years to better support repository, these old publications will have commemorates his personal philosophies and students, studies have examined the benefits new life breathed into them, inspiring future experiences which challenge the sort of and drawbacks of traditional peer tutoring, Geneseo students to continue to create rigidity often found in the Bible. Whitman cultural differences and disparities in student extraordinary literary journals. recreates the poetic parallelism of the Book priorities, and expectations for peer support; of Psalms which is widely regarded as one of and, recently, studies have begun to focus on 402 The Forum for the most influential and frequently translated the psychological and emotional factors that poetry collections of all time. In an attempt to impact peer review sessions. While much Undergraduate Student Editors garner the same success and appreciation as research has been done on ELL student at Geneseo Biblical poetry, Whitman imitates the many experiences in both classroom and writing NICOLE CALLAHAN modes of parallel structure that define center peer review, which has identified FACULTY SPONSOR: RACHEL HALL, ENGLISH Psalms, including but not limited to anaphora, obstacles faced by both tutors and tutees, EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT epistrophe, and synonymous parallelism. there is little scholarship that differentiates PRESENTATION Despite their drastic thematic differences, the formal and informal peer review. This project This project examines the Forum for Book of Psalms and Leaves of Grass have examines the affective components of peer Undergraduate Student Editors (FUSE) and undeniably similarity in their faithfully review interactions and how they vary in my work for both the national organization effective poetry. formal as opposed to informal settings. The and its Geneseo Chapter. FUSE has research includes interviews with a sample of

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ELL students at SUNY Geneseo who relate the field of geology. A digital collection of 356 Conodonts, Microtektites, their experiences giving and receiving samples is important to have in the event of feedback and their approaches to seeking physical loss, as a means to communicate and Thermal Alteration of the writing support. among scientists in reference to a particular Jefferson Formation, Upper sample, to aid in the preservation of original Devonian, Wyoming samples, and is particularly relevant in today’s JOSHUA YANUCK AND RYAN LEE pandemic. Digital models allow for the option FACULTY SPONSORS: D. JEFFREY OVER AND GEOGRAPHY INDIVIDUAL of remote learning for students and stops the DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES need for the sharing of physical samples. It SESSION The Jefferson Formation, composed of two also increases accessibility of samples. The members, a limestone and dolomite problem of generating a 3D model of an dominated layer called the lower member, object has already been solved; this research 32 Effects of Racial Inequity on and the dolomite-dominated Birdbear focuses on maximizing the efficiency of this Member, is distributed throughout southern COVID-19 Outcomes for Black process. This process involved taking varying Montana and northern Wyoming. Samples numbers of photos of a sample on three axes Residents of Rochester, NY: were taken from multiple levels within the of rotation, at three angles of the camera Birdbear Member, dissolved in buffered 10% Challenges and Solutions lens. The photos were processed in Adobe formic acid, and the insoluble residue NYKOLE NEVOL Photoshop and imported into Agisoft separated using heavy liquid. The heavy FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, Metashape Pro to produce the 3D models. For fraction was searched for conodonts and GEOGRAPHY this experiment, four models were built using microtektites. Conodonts indicate the Middle Rochester, NY is nestled in the Finger Lakes 432 photos, 216 photos, 108 photos, and 54 Frasnian stage of the Upper Devonian and Region of New York State. Once a boom photos, with 216 photos yielding the best thermal heating of less than 80 degrees town, a center for industry and results. The computers available for this Celsius. Microtektites, speculated to occur in manufacturing, a destination for the Great research supported only this medium the interval corresponding to the Alamo Migration, and the location of one of the first resolution, however the best quality model Impact in Nevada, were not found. race riots of the 1960’s, Rochester is a center would require a faster computer to process in Synchronous session: Apr 30, 2021 1:30 - 3:00 of history. However, there are also deeply a reasonable time. rooted patterns of segregation, redlining, and PM racism. The city has been known to be complacent regarding racial issues and 347 Soil Map and Geologic Map continues to undermine the Black experience. of the Chanler Estate, Town of HISTORY ENTIRE SESSION Its racist policies have manifested as Geneseo, Livingston County, disparities in many aspects of Black people’s lives, especially regarding health. Chronic Western NY, 14454 health issues can be contributed to issues of BENEDETTO MURO 45 THE DYNAMICS OF THE CIVIL structural racism, wealth gaps, and FACULTY SPONSOR: D. JEFFREY OVER, RIGHTS MOVEMENT: HIGH concentrated poverty. The unequal access to GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES proper health care, especially during the Utilizing Livingston County estate maps, USGS SCHOOL FORGOT A LOT COVID-19 pandemic, have stemmed from topographic maps, and publicly available soil FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: years of systematic oppression by federal and survey information, a soil map and geologic EMILYE CROSBY, HISTORY local governments as well as individuals in the map were created for the Chanler estate in Synchronous session: Apr 28, 2021 12:45 – city of Rochester. Health care inequities have Geneseo NY. The estate encompasses Fall 2:00 PM been occurring for many years but have been Brook Glen, a hanging valley that cuts through exacerbated in light of the COVID-19 Upper Devonian strata in the following order: 432 Armed Self Defense, pandemic, so Black individuals in Rochester West River shale, Genundewa limestone, Preventative Nonviolence, and are much more susceptible to the effects of Penn Yan shale, Geneseo Shale, Leicester COVID-19. Issues of systemic racism need to Pyrite, and Moscow formation. Topographic the Necessity for Both in the be met with solutions, including widespread maps were analyzed for slopes, and zones Heart of the Rural South education, government involvement, and were delineated based on severity of ALEX HILLYARD addressing legacies of racism and racial hillslope. Using web soil survey data from the The roles that self-defense and preventative inequity. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service nonviolence played have been undervalued in Selected for presentation at the SUNY (NRCS), varying zones of soils were analyzed the conversation on racism since the actions Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) for their current uses, and potential uses in of Civil rights movements have been taught in the future. It was concluded that much of the the classroom. Since the passage of time has soils on the Chanler estate were prime thrust the consequences of structural GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES farmland as a result of the fertile silty loams inequality back into the focus of public with gently sloping topography. A survey of interest, the roles that figures like Malcolm X, INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS the geology under these soils was completed, representing violence, and Martin Luther King and a geologic map of Upper Devonian strata Jr., representing nonviolence, are portrayed in in Fall Brook was compiled. Following the soil very stereotypical and superficial ways. And 24 Optimizing 3D Model map and geologic map, it was recommended the Movement is seen as entirely nonviolent. that the most fertile, gently sloping regions The point of this paper is to explore a more Construction of Rock and Fossil on the estate should be used for farmland, accurate understanding of the movement, Specimens to Increase while the more sloped regions would best be especially the use of preventative tactics and suited as orchards due to their instability for Accessibility in an Online self-defense that played an integral role in field crops. fighting the fear-based system of Jim Crow Learning Environment Synchronous session: Apr 27, 2021 1:00 - 2:00 that encompassed the South. This helps us FRAZER BOURGEOIS AND JACLYN BARRECA PM also understand how the education system FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, has been used as a weapon against an actual GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES understanding of the horrors of racism. 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433 A Woman's Vital Role During 14th, 1940, to August 25th, 1944. I am arguing Selected for presentation at the Phi Alpha that a majority of the music in occupied Paris Theta Conference The Civil Rights Movement did not have resistance or collaborative PEYTON MACKEY themes. Instead, most music that appeared in Hidden behind the typically taught version of occupied Paris actually focused on preserving 401 A Year in Derry: 1972 the Civil Rights Movement is another whole French culture in any way possible. However, EILEEN REINHARDT side of the story. Martin Luther King is composers and performers did not directly FACULTY SPONSORS: JOVANA BABOVIĆ, highlighted in the high school classroom with indicate these themes but presented them in HISTORY, AND JOE COPE, HISTORY/OFFICE his well-known speeches and ideas of subversive ways. These subversive strategies, OF THE PROVOST nonviolence; however, these mass-movement being French slang to hide insults, have songs EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT approaches were not always the most appear to be about everyday experiences but PRESENTATION prevalent. There was also a grassroots actually relate to occupation hardships, This paper focuses on the City of approach to the troubling times in the South, perform genres the Nazis did not consider a Derry/Londonderry in Northern Ireland in and North, known as the organizing tradition, threat, and use techniques or melodies with 1972. This particular year was the bloodiest in which aimed for steady and strategic work for French origins the Nazis did not know. The the ethno-nationalist conflict known as The a future of lasting change. Many women paper has two sections, with the second Troubles, which serves as the background for played key roles in this side of the story, many section being split into two mini-sections. The this paper. It analyzes the urban space of unknown women at that. Dedicated civil first section is a review of how historians have Derry, the commemoration of certain events rights activists such as Ella Baker, Bernice researched culture in occupied Paris. The like Bloody Sunday, and memory, with a Johnson Reagon, and Diane Nash have gone second section analyzes the music performed particular focus on women within those unnoticed by many as the grassroots in occupied Paris, with the first mini-section topics. I use sources such as first-hand movement has not been told, but their dealing with popular-art venues and the accounts, newspapers, photographs, and actions paved the way for mass-movements second mini-section focusing on high-class maps to showcase the utilization of space and to occur. venues. The popular-art venues that this the place and role of women within Derry paper will analyze is music from the Moulin during the violent year that was 1972. Rouge, while the high-class venue the paper HISTORY INDIVIDUAL will focus on is the Théâtre de l'Opéra- 419 'Good Girls Avoid Trouble': Comique. Teen Delinquents and Gender in SESSIONS 341 Weighing Women’s Work: the United States in the Early

Reexamining the Neglected Role Twentieth Century 19 A Popular History of Blizzards MOLLY DIGNAM in Buffalo  of White, Enslaved, and Free FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHLEEN MAPES, KATHERINE PETER Women in the Southampton HISTORY EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT FACULTY SPONSOR: JOVANA BABOVIĆ, Rebellion of 1831 PRESENTATION HISTORY MICHAEL SHEEDY EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT At the turn of the twentieth century, FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, Americans were experiencing an increasing PRESENTATION HISTORY The city of Buffalo, New York is well known level of concern about teenage delinquency. This paper attempts to reshape the historical The world around them was changing at a for its history with blizzards. In fact, in 1977 portrayal of women and their role in the Buffalo became the first city to ever be rapid pace, and one of the few things they Southampton Rebellion of 1831, commonly thought they could control was their children. named a Major Disaster Area because of referred to as Nat Turner's Rebellion. While snow. Currently, this identification with snow Social scientists and parents wanted to know some historians have recognized certain why teenagers were acting out and how to is deeply ingrained in the culture of the city. female roles in the rebellion as significant, Over the past year, I have conducted over 30 reform them, performing studies that still most historians generally conclude that impact our beliefs about crime and gender to interviews with current and former Buffalo women had a minor role. Thus, historians residents, and have determined that there are this day. Using newspaper articles, magazine have neglected a narrative that examines the articles, and surveys from the time period, I 4 major snowstorms that remain in the public role of women, inclusive of race, as a driving consciousness. This presentation will analyze read about the general public’s opinions on influence of the insurrection. By utilizing delinquency and the different ways they newspapers, news broadcasts, and other primary sources such as court trials, first and publications from the time of each storm to spoke about male and female delinquents. second-hand accounts, legal documents, and Perceptions of delinquency were also unable better understand Buffalonians’ relationship even research into the female influences in with blizzards. I will then discuss the historical to be separated from race, immigrant status, Nat Turner's life, this paper argues that both and wealth. I argue that where male memory of such events and how this informs White women and Black women (enslaved the current understandings of blizzards as delinquents were usually seen as reformable and freed) assumed more transformative, and more prone to violent crime, female natural disasters. dynamic, and diverse roles throughout the Selected for presentation at the Phi Alpha delinquents were portrayed as irrevocably insurrection than historians have given them stained and more prone to “sexual deviance.” Theta History Honor Society Regional credit for. Further, this paper aims to compare Conference Boys were allowed nuance and understanding and contrast the roles between White women in a way girls were not.

and Black women: white women were purely reactionary to the insurrection in the 51 Survivalist Music at the Moulin Rouge and Théâtre de l'Opéra- moment, and they assumed active and heavy political and legal roles in its aftermath; on the INTERDISCIPLINARY Comique in Occupied Paris from other hand, Black women contributed INDIVIDUAL SESSION  conflicting roles to the rebellion by both 1940 to 1944 JOSH DEBELL hindering and assisting the objective of the

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407 Shifting Perceptions & example, incorrect disposal of antibiotic various databases, including the Global Forest prescriptions or not finishing a course of Watch, Center for Disease Control, and the Roles: Student Leadership in prescribed antibiotics are both behaviors that World Health Organization. My preliminary Higher Education Pandemic contribute to antibiotic resistance. I results show that states, such as Mato Grosso Response hypothesize that people enrolled in college and Para, display some of the highest levels of have access to information and resources that logging and mining in Brazil along with some KAITLYN BERTLEFF encourage proper antibiotic handling. of the highest Yellow Fever cases. This finding FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, However, students who are science majors may be due to populations of mosquitoes GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES may have greater access to this information, that are either displaced or moved closer or EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT and be more likely to practice proper further away from the human population. My PRESENTATION antibiotic handling behaviors in comparison to future study could focus on various other In navigating the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, those who are not science majors. To types of virus transmission around the world university presidents, chancellors, and investigate this possibility, I conducted a and how public health in different administrators have been tasked to lead survey of the student body at SUNY Geneseo. communities is affected. institutional restructuring and novel initiatives This survey was composed of a series of to establish conditions that permit a safe questions that asked for people’s majors and college experience. Numerous reports feature 311 STEM and Society: The minors and what their experiences were with experiences and opinions of these individuals, antibiotics. Preliminary results suggest that Chemistry of Environmental but what role have student leaders adopted in people who belong to STEM majors or the evolving higher education COVID-19 Racism in Predominantly African programs have more awareness of issues response? What is the perception of the role American Communities  surrounding antibiotic resistance and are of student leadership through the pandemic? VALENTINA CHAVEZ more likely to properly handle antibiotics, in This report investigates student leader FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, comparison to students who are not STEM involvement in college pandemic response CHEMISTRY majors. These findings suggest that science decisions through surveys distributed to It was reported that there were serious education and communication may overcome student government association leaders. It impacts of pollutants and oil refineries that barriers to addressing public health issues. provides a comparison of undergraduate affect African American communities daily. student perception of the SUNY Geneseo The effects of high ozone levels and an Undergraduate Student Association between 309 Stem and Society: increase in ozone smog are ones that more Fall 2019 and Spring 2021, as well as the Algorithmic Bias and Academia than 1 million of the African American initiatives that may have resulted in observed population have to face, and the ozone levels RILEY GROSSMAN changes. Additionally, this report evaluates can be seen to be excessively worse during FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS BALDWIN, student perceptions of governing bodies hot summer days. It is concluded that MATHEMATICS across the SUNY system, including SUNY systemic racism can be found in basically any Although algorithmic bias has always been an system administration, institutional bodies, and every place in our system. It is our duty issue, the increasing popularity of machine and student associations. and responsibility to start seeing investments learning and artificial intelligence has made it Synchronous session: Apr 28, 2021 3:30 - 4:00 in sustainable forms of energy, and we need even more widespread. The use of biased PM to continue to fight systemic racism in these datasets to train machine learning systems communities that are being hit the hardest. has led to algorithms that output

discriminatory or exclusionary results that INTERDISCIPLINARY ENTIRE lack transparency about why results were produced. Such algorithms are now finding LANGUAGES AND SESSION their way into academia as they are commonly used in both the hiring process and LITERATURES INDIVIDUAL the college application process at many SESSIONS 36 STEM AND SOCIETY: schools. I looked for bias in both the CONNECTING SCIENCE’S AND algorithms used by SUNY Geneseo and the algorithms that are available to other colleges 43 Rules of Classical Theater: SOCIETY’S QUESTIONS that choose to use them. SESSION CHAIR: DOUGLAS BALDWIN, Representations from Antiquity MATHEMATICS 310 STEM and Society: The to Seventeenth Century France Synchronous session: Apr 26, 2021 4:00-4:30 EMILY KERL PM Effects of Deforestation on FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHRYN FREDERICKS, Mathematics and the sciences are sometimes Zoonotic Virus Transmission in LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES seen as too dispassionate to engage with or  In L’Art poétique (1674), Nicolas Boileau (1636- be influenced by seemingly subjective and South America 1711), 17th century French poet and critic, ever-changing social problems, but that is in MEGHAN SHERIDAN gives the “rules” of classical French theater. fact far from true. In this session, students FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY Organized into different “Chants”, “the three from the sciences and mathematics explore Deforestation is increasingly associated with unities”: (1) l’unité de temps; (2) l’unité some of the ways their fields and their the transmission of zoonotic viruses, such as d’action; and (3) l’unité de lieu; and the research interact with important the Yellow Fever virus in South America. notions of “la bienséance” and “la contemporary social issues. Increasing rates of deforestation in South vraisemblance.” “The three unities” describe America may cause viral transmission to accelerate, but may depend on the factors the consistency of one time period (24 hours), 308 STEM and Society: Antibiotic responsible for deforestation. The purpose of one main action or plot, and one central Usage at SUNY Geneseo  this study is to determine how the type of location, while “bienséance” refers to the MAYA CRAIG deforestation affects virus transmission. In polite, acceptable behavior represented on FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY particular, the deforestation caused by mining stage and “vraisemblance” indicates that Antibiotic resistance is a rising public health may have different effects on animal hosts what is performed must be believable or true. concern. A significant cause of antibiotic and vectors (e.g. mosquito) of the Yellow These requirements for classical theater - resistance is inappropriate antibiotic usage Fever virus compared to deforestation caused tragedy as well as comedy - were created and inadequate awareness of the issue. For by logging. To test this, I obtained data from during Antiquity and represented in both  Promotes sustainability 21

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Greek and Roman plays. Boileau’s purpose in bracketing method of the Bisection method, L’Art poétique under the reign of Louis XIV and the open method of the Secant method. was to revisit these directives of ancient MATHEMATICS ENTIRE In other words, Brent’s Method utilizes hybrid theater and revive them for French audiences SESSIONS root-finding algorithms in order to converge of seventeenth-century Paris. The to a root. Richard Brent created the algorithm presentation will show how Boileau’s text in the early 1970s with inspiration from outlines these rules of classical theater by Dekker’s Method, allowing for confidence in citing passages from Chant III, and will relate 33 HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS I finding a root in an interval where the each rule to two different French plays – one FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: function values are opposite. Brent’s Method tragedy: Phèdre (1677) by Jean Racine (1639- JEFF JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS can be seen as an improvement to Dekker’s 1699) – and one comedy: Les Femmes Method, as Dekker’s method converges Savantes (1672) by Molière (1622-1673). 261 The Mathematical History of slower and incorporates only the Bisection l’Hospital’s Rule and Secant methods.

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Language & Culture Apart But I will be introducing the historical and mathematical origins of l’Hospital's rule. I will 34 HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS II Together provide details on l’Hospital’s and Bernoulli’s FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MIMI WERNER, COLE LEVY life including their mathematical contributions JEFF JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS FACULTY SPONSOR: JASMINE TANG, and indicate how Bernoulli is related to LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES l’Hospital’s rule. I will also be showing the way 270 The Convergence of Students will be sharing their presentation on in which the rule was discovered and proven. how they are learning the Chinese language Mathematics and Physical and culture apart but together. 262 Fact Not Lore, One Needs No Science Synchronous Session: Apr 29, 2021 10:00 – More Than Four: How the Four BENJAMIN ARONOW 11:30 AM Mathematicians and physical scientists today Color Map Was Solved are utilizing a wide variety of vector 73 What Language Do Young GEORDY APONTE formalisms with no agreement that there is Equatoguineans Use in Public The Four Color Theorem is a theorem which one system for general science. The traditions scholars of mathematics are aware of but of mathematicians and physical scientists and Private Domains? A tend to be unable to provide a solution. In converge and are searching for mathematical Sociolinguistic Survey  1854, when Francis Guthrie noticed a map entities and operations that represent the KATHERINE FLYNN could be colored with no more than four aspects of our physical reality. The search for colors, he was also challenged with proving FACULTY SPONSORS: CESAR AGUILAR, a universal suitable vector system by MATHEMATICS, AND SUSANA CASTILLO- this concept. This research is meant to trace mathematicians and physical scientists began RODRÍGUEZ, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES the history of the Four Color Theorem to in the nineteenth century. However, this has Equatorial Guinea has three official languages: represent why such a simple idea took more broken apart the vector system into many Spanish, French and Portuguese, as well as a than 100 years before it could finally be different formalisms that takes a lot of time variety of vernacular languages spoken proven with unconventional methods. This is and effort to learn each one. These throughout the country. To analyze what done by interpreting the results of formalisms include Gibb’s three-vectors, young Equatoguineans speak, with whom, in mathematicians who were both directly and Minkowski’s four vectors, quaternions used which context and with which purpose, a indirectly involved in furthering the to describe rigid body rotations, and vectors sociolinguistic study was conducted in the understanding of the Four Color Theorem. defined in Clifford geometric algebra. The whole country. The domain of language use-- search for an agreement on a vector specifically private versus public domain--is 263 The Bridge to Euler formalism to be suitable for science as a the main focus of this presentation. Since the LAURA LEE whole has yet to be defined. As of now the Spanish colonization in the 19th century, There are many math puzzles out there that system that provides the most natural general Spanish has been used as the official language keep your mind active by searching for the vector system is the system defined in Clifford for education, administration, military, and right path or combination, but one puzzle geometric algebra. Thus, the reasoning to religion, while vernacular languages were that stumped a lot of people originated in research as to why Clifford geometric algebra used at home, on the street, and with friends. Prussia. The townspeople would walk around is the most natural and general vector This created a stable diglossia. After coding all day trying to find a path across 7 different formalism used today, and why it may be the data collected and doing statistical bridges exactly once. The mathematician that impossible to have a general vector system analysis of 500 questionnaires, results show was able to prove that this cannot be done for all of science. that: Spanish is taking over the domains of was Leonhard Euler. He was able to prove this use traditionally reserved to vernacular through assuming that it can be done and 271 History of Polar Coordinates languages. A potential consequence I will then finding a contradiction. Along the way, in Relation to Complex Numbers discuss in this presentation is that if the he is able to define two concepts that we still SARAH MCMAHAN younger generation does not acquire and use use today under his name, the Euler Path and Complex numbers and analysis have been a these vernacular languages, the sustainability the Euler Circuit. part of history for many centuries. There are of vernacular languages cannot be Cartesian and polar coordinate systems which maintained, generating a process of language 264 Brent’s Method: A Robust are crucial parts of this subject. They are loss. (This research is possible thanks to the essential in the formation of complex analysis support of the Dean Johnston Assistantship Choice and how to represent imaginary numbers. and the work that I do alongside Professors KATARINA SCHMIDT There are many brilliant mathematicians who Cesar Aguilar and Susana Castillo-Rodríguez.) With the technological advances arising since contributed to these theorems who are Synchronous Session: Apr 26, 2021 11:00 AM -- the beginning of mathematical interpolation, critical in the discoveries of these systems. In 12:00 PM new algorithms have been developed to guarantee convergence for a continuous, my paper, I will be discussing the history of differentiable function. 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272 History of Green’s Theorem sequence, golden ratio and golden spiral. I will 18 Modeling COVID-19 Spread go into detail on its origins, different and its Applications applications and even its appearance in through the SEIRD Epidemic STEINAR SOLVANG nature. This serves as an introduction to Model and Optimal Control Green's Theorem gives a relationship Idongesit Umoh’s talk on stock trading with LUZ MELO between the line integral of a two- Fibonacci numbers immediately following. FACULTY SPONSOR: SEDAR NGOMA, dimensional vector field over a closed path in MATHEMATICS the plane and the double integral over the Mathematical models serve as a powerful tool region it encloses. This theorem was created 429 Golden Ratio Application IDONGESIT UMOH for visualizing and describing the dynamics of by the English scientist George Green. One of infectious diseases. In particular, his accomplishments was his essay, Trading in the volatile currency, stock, cryptocurrency markets, etc. all carry a level mathematical models are indispensable for "Application of Mathematical Analysis to the studying the mechanisms by which the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism." This of uncertainty that can be viewed by the average person as entirely too risky. However, coronavirus spreads. In this talk, we consider was a great breakthrough but due to his work the $SEIRD$ (Susceptible-Exposed-Infected- being so advanced, those around him were when applying the Golden ratio along with other mathematical tools correctly, the risk Recovered-Deceased) epidemic model unable to understand it. This led to Green's consisting of a system of five non-linear work not being well-known in the involved may be diminished significantly to provide multiple opportunities to make differential equations in which quarantine and mathematical community during his lifetime. isolation are introduced as non- This theorem can be broken down into two money from these unstable markets. We will discuss how to apply these mathematical pharmaceutical intervention strategies. We fit forms, circulating or flux. They can be easy to the model to real-world data and apply an comprehend by analyzing examples. There techniques in this presentation, and this will build off of the previous discussion by Zachary optimal control approach with the estimated are many components that go into proving parameters to study the effect of quarantine the theorem, but it can also be simplified. Lewis. and isolation on the spread of the disease. The numerical solution shows that quarantine and isolation are effective strategies at 273 The History of the Chi-Square controlling COVID-19. Test MATHEMATICS INDIVIDUAL Synchronous Session: Apr 28, 2021 6:00 – 7:00 NEO NXUMALO SESSIONS PM When testing a theory in statistics, it is important to verify if the conjecture being made has sufficient enough evidence to 47 Can People Pick Out the support it. As a result, one must select a 13 An Evaluation of the Accuracy Healthier Breakfast Cereals? hypothesis test to run. The type of test is of EMD Coding in Livingston Regression Analysis on the chosen based on the hypothesis, the test statistic, and the decision rule. In the case of County Nutritional Components of the chi square test, the question being SPENCER SUGDEN Cereal proposed is if there is a significant FACULTY SPONSOR: KATELYNN KOCHALSKI, JESSICA HARVEY MATHEMATICS relationship between two factors. This FACULTY SPONSOR: CHI-MING TANG, presentation of the history of the chi square EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT MATHEMATICS test will not only detail its origin and evolution PRESENTATION How do people choose which breakfast cereal over time, but also give some background to This research examined the accuracy of the to eat? Do people subconsciously consider the individuals who made its discovery. Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) code how healthy cereal is when you choose one to implementation in Livingston County. The buy? Can people accurately predict if a cereal Livingston County Dispatch Office is an IAED is healthy? To help solve these questions 44 THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE, certified agency that codes jobs for EMS with regression analysis is applied to the nutritional EMD codes. Using data obtained from components of breakfast cereal. The THE GOLDEN RATIO, AND LCEMS’s emsCHARTS from 2015 to 2020, we independent variables are the nutritional TRADING STOCKS - HOW YOU evaluated the accuracy of EMD code components of the breakfast cereal. implementation by both comparing the EMD Nutritional components include calories, CAN MAKE MONEY WITH MATH! code used to the impressions put on the FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: protein (g), fat (g), sodium (mg), fiber (g), patient’s chart and by comparing the complex carbohydrates (g), sugars (g), CAROLINE HADDAD, MATHEMATICS resources sent to the patient with the Synchronous session: Apr 30, 2021 11:30 AM – potassium (mg), vitamins (% of daily resources that were needed to recommended), cups per serving, weight per 12:30 PM treat/transport the patient (disposition). In serving size (oz), and type of breakfast cereal addition, we evaluated which EMD codes (cold vs hot). The dependent variable is based 428 An Introduction to the were under triaged the most and which were on a consumer report of the question “How Fibonacci Sequence and The over triaged the most. The EMD code healthy would you rate this breakfast cereal matched the impressions on the patient’s Golden Ratio, and Its on a scale of 1 to 10?” The consumer report is chart 47.30% ± 0.81%. Priority 4 jobs have a BLS from 1993. Why so long ago? Because 1993 Ubiquitousness disposition 73.99% ± 1.03% and priority 1-3 jobs was a year before breakfast cereals were ZACHARY LEWIS have an ALS disposition 75.23% ± 0.68% of the required by the Food and Drug Administration Though we see it every day, in nature, time. Undertriage and overtriage were found (FDA) to have the U.S. Nutrition Facts Label, advertisements and even in the very foods we to be not independent of the EMD code. the one we know today, on their box. Since eat, not many know about Fibonacci Several problematic codes were identified. the people did not know about the true numbers, the golden ratio, or their existence The findings suggest that the EMD codes nutrition facts, the rating must have been in our everyday lives. Still, artists, generally are not accurate to patient findings. based on a person’s past experiences and the programmers and even stock traders While the EMD codes may not often reflect appearance of the cereal and the box. regularly use it. How is an in>nite patient problems, the majority of Synchronous Session: Apr 26, 2021 3:00 -- 3:20 mathematical sequence that was discovered implementation were generally good at PM in the 13th century still relevant today? This dispatching the appropriate resources to the presentation explains the amazing Fibonacci patient.

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395 Disease Dynamics and Policy instruction. I will start by discussing two By reducing water usages across campus, we different research-supported models, SAMR can drastically lower the school’s budget and Implications for Incarceration, and PIC-RAT, on how to implement initiate vital conservation efforts. This can be Surrounding Communities, and technology into a classroom. I will then best accomplished by installing a rooftop COVID-19 discuss different resources educators can use rainwater harvesting system for each building in their classrooms to further student learning to substantially decrease the amount of water RACHEL MCLAUCHLIN and engagement. The limitations and the school takes from the county. FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTOPHER LEARY, obstacles educators face when implementing MATHEMATICS technology will also be addressed. Finally, I EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT will share three different lessons I have PRESENTATION taught that use different technologies and MUSIC ENTIRE SESSIONS Prisons and jails have been epicenters of the discuss how they could be improved COVID-19 pandemic in the US. While according to the SAMR and PIC-RAT models. conditions like poor sanitation and difficulty Synchronous session: Apr 27, 2021 10:00 - 11:10 social distancing promote disease spread 2 LACK OF CULTURAL AM within prisons and jails, arrests and releases REPRESENTATION IN MUSIC link correctional facilities to their surrounding EDUCATION: WHY IT MATTERS communities and create complex disease 380 Hybrid Optimization FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: dynamics. We expand on existing research by Methods for the Maximum MONICA HERSHBERGER, MUSIC recognizing the differences in how prisons and jails interact with their surrounding Likelihood Estimation of communities. We have constructed an agent- Statistical Models of Neural 97 Whitewashing in Music based disease model based on incarceration Spiking Education in rural towns in upstate New York, JONATHAN MCCART ERIKA DICK connecting inmates, facility staff, and FACULTY SPONSOR: AHMAD ALMOMANI, In the majority of circumstances, music community members, and incorporating the MATHEMATICS education throughout elementary school, motion of arrests and releases. We examine Common issues encountered when middle school, high school, and even college three main questions: what is the difference determining the optimal parameter estimates is centered around Western classical music between disease dynamics in a prison town for biologically realistic statistical models of and white composers. However, solely versus in a jail town; which group--inmate, neural spiking are issues of high teaching about Western classical music and staff, or community--should be prioritized for dimensionality and multimodality, making composers is a means of whitewashing music vaccination; and what is the effect of inmate conventional derivative-based methods education. When students are educated on releases and lowered arrest rates on the virtually unusable and even some derivative- the history of a well-known white, classical spread of COVID-19. We find that staff free methods far too slow. Here we discuss music composer they are taught the members are the most vulnerable population, the development of different hybrid conditions that occurred during his lifetime- which makes them especially important in optimization methods, each consisting of two including political, social, and economical vaccination scenarios. Additionally, we have different heuristics chosen for their ability to events. Ostracizing students from learning found that COVID-19 spreads more completely function synergistically in high-dimensional about black composers hinders them from through prison populations than jail and multimodal settings. The hybrid methods exploring life events that such composers populations, which points to the importance will be tested and compared with current endured. Likewise, when students study and of lowered arrest rates and inmate release in standard implementations of global perform the music by a white, classical music reducing case load. optimization techniques in application to composer it eliminates the desire and ability Selected for presentation at the Council on certain pathological benchmark functions as of students to engage with the music from Undergraduate Research Posters on the Hill well as tested and compared on a modeling underrepresented cultures. This method of 2021 problem in computational neuroscience. whitewashing in music education prohibits students from learning about and playing

340 Educational Technology in a music written by composers of color, and it 431 Particle Swarm and Filter shelters students from engaging with music Mathematics Classroom Method Optimization for Electric that illuminates racist events in history. LAUREN KUEPER FACULTY SPONSOR: ERIN HARRIS, Vehicles MATHEMATICS DREW SOUTHCOTT 98 Systemic Racism in Schools This presentation centers around research- FACULTY SPONSOR: AHMAD ALMOMANI, and Music: How They’re supported ways of implementing educational MATHEMATICS Connected and What We Can Do technology into classrooms, focusing on Scientists have used optimization algorithms mathematics classrooms. Educational to minimize the energy lost of electric vehicles to Fix It technology is the use of computer hardware, inside of a city. This project will talk about LAUREN BREWER software, and educational theory to facilitate how electrical vehicles can communicate I’m planning on discussing systemic racism in learning. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a inside of a smart city along with showing the classical music and how it connects to major impact on how students learn and how optimal battery power of such vehicles to systemic racism in schools. When thinking of a teachers teach. Schools range from being fully save energy within the city limits. Particle topic that dealt with music and racism, I in-person to being completely remote with Swarm optimization along side of Filter thought about how I am an education major, some schools using hybrid/blended learning. optimization were used to conclude this and that we talk about racism in schools a lot. No matter the case, technology is a crucial optimal result. We talk a lot about systemic racism and ways instructional tool for both teachers and we can work toward getting rid of it in students. Technology allows students and 435 Rainwater Harvesting on schools. I ended up reading a New York Times teachers to collaborate at a time when they article on systemic racism in classical music cannot participate in close-seated group Geneseo’s Campus  and noticed a lot of similarities between the work. Technology has given teachers the KAYLA KENNY two. In my presentation, I am going to opportunity to collect direct feedback FACULTY SPONSOR: AHMAD ALMOMANI, identify the ways that systemic racism is regarding students’ strengths and MATHEMATICS present in classical music and schools. After weaknesses, which then drive their finding the examples, I’m going to compare

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2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 15th Annual Session Presentations each and talk about the similarities I stereotypes. These moments from Marian what we now call anti-racism. I outline what discovered and discuss how systemic racism is Anderson’s life convey how she overcame the we can learn from the efforts she made in her very much present today. My thesis for this challenges she faced, broke down racial personal life. I also delve into some of her presentation is, systemic racism is still present barriers, and helped pave the way for other music and lyrics, illuminating how and why it in both classical music and schools, and that Black artists. is considered protest music. educators in both areas need to actively work toward ending it. 116 Kathleen Battle and the

Metropolitan Opera, 11 THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF 99 Eurocentric Music Education Unprofessional Conduct or BLACK COMPOSERS: Discourages the Involvement of Racism? FORGOTTEN WORK BEING People of Color in Music ERICA HOENIG REDISCOVERED SARAH GARDOS FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA HERSHBERGER, FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: There is a large disparity between the number MUSIC MONICA HERSHBERGER, MUSIC of white people pursuing careers in music and My presentation is about Kathleen Battle, a This session will discuss the revival of lost the number of people of color doing the notorious black opera singer known for her music of black composers. same. This is in large part because of the way light beautiful soprano voice; however, she is that music is taught in schools and what also known as the industry's biggest diva, 127 From a Dark Basement to the music education focuses on. Most music that causing her to be dismissed from the is focused on in kindergarten through 12th- Metropolitan opera. Many speculate over the Bright Stage: The Rediscovery of grade classrooms is from Europe. Outside of cause for her dismissal, as the Metropolitan Florence Price higher education settings, music from non- has been known to be racist in the past. In European settings and historically black music BRANDON JOY this presentation, I will discuss Kathleen Born in Arkansas in 1887, Florence B. Price styles like jazz are not really taught. People of Battle's career and divatude, specifically what color would not see themselves represented moved to Boston at age 14 where she led to her dismissal from the Met, as well as attended the New England Conservatory of in this curriculum. This makes them less likely the racist incidents of the Met and how it is to look into music as a career. To lessen this Music (NEC), studying piano at NEC with understandable as to why people believe Frederick Converse and also out of college disparity the current Eurocentric curriculum in Battle's dismissal was because of racism. music education needs to change. with George Chadwick. After graduating in After discussing these two issues I will discuss from NEC 1906, she returned to Arkansas and

why I think Kathleen Battle's dismissal was taught in numerous positions until 1927 when due to both her unprofessional conduct and her family decided to move to Chicago. Price 8 KATHLEEN BATTLE, NINA racism. continued her studies in Chicago. Little did

SIMONE, AND MARIAN she know she was going to write somewhere 117 Marian Anderson: Her Voice around 300 works and become the first black ANDERSON: BLACK SINGERS against Racism woman in the U.S. to be recognized as a symphonic composer. Price was one of the WHO PAVED THE WAY AND EMILY VANDERBILT first African American composers to have her FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA HERSHBERGER, OVERCAME RACIAL PREJUDICE symphony played by a major American MUSIC SESSION CHAIR AND PRESENTER: GENNA orchestra and then after that she suddenly Marian Anderson (1897-1993) was an BURKE disappeared. In 1932 Price won the American contralto who broke through racial Wannamaker Music Composing Competition. barriers with her singing. She was born in 115 Marian Anderson Singing Her Conductor Serge Koussevitzky wrote a public Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at a very letter in which he discredited Price because of Way to Racial Equality young age she displayed a remarkable talent her race and gender. Shortly after this letter GENNA BURKE for singing. She was the first African American was released she reappeared under a male FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA HERSHBERGER, singer to perform at the white house and also pen name called Forest Wood, a tribute to MUSIC the first African American to sing with New where her house was located. Marian Anderson (1897-1993) was an York’s Metropolitan Opera. One of the influential African American singer who had to revolutionary points in her life was the Lincoln overcome many challenges including racial Memorial Concert. Initially she was barred 128 Scott Joplin: The “King of prejudice to become a successful performer. from performing in Washington D.C.’s Ragtime” or an Overlooked As a young performer, opportunities were Constitution Hall due to her race by the closed to Anderson because of her race such Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Classical Genius? as attending all-white music school, and she but she did not let that stop her. She went on ROCKY NARDONE couldn’t sing in most prominent concert to perform in front of the Lincoln Memorial. My presentation will deal with Scott Joplin's venues in America. This prompted her to This concert, The Lincoln Memorial Concert misrepresentation in his classical works. He is travel to Europe to tour, but she couldn’t on April 9, 1939, where she performed in front very well known for his work in ragtime escape racism there due to the Nazism of over 75,000 people and nationwide for music, however, he had far greater works that present. In Austria, when she wasn’t millions over the live radio, would go on to were neglected. Joplin wrote two operas in permitted to perform at the Salzburg Festival make Marian Anderson an international his lifetime, neither of which even made it to due to her race, she fought against the celebrity. the stage until after his lifetime. It seems injustice by showing up anyway. Back in the almost as though Joplin had to sacrifice some of his true passions due to the way he was United States, when she was turned away 118 Nina Simone and Anti-racism from performing at the Constitution Hall in perceived by the society around him. My CARL TREIBER Washington D.C., she instead performed in presentation will include pieces from Joplin's FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA HERSHBERGER, front of the Lincoln Memorial in front of a opera Treemonisha, but unfortunately, the MUSIC crowd of 75,000 people. Anderson also made other opera's score is considered to be lost. Born in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone history at age 57 when she became the first That bit of information will contribute to my (1933-2003) was a multi-genre musician and African American soloist to perform at the presentation as well, as it goes to show that social activist. In my presentation, I examine Metropolitan Opera House, although she was people in Joplin's lifetime wouldn't even give Simon's legacy as a protest musician and civil typecast into a role that played into racial him a chance in some regards. Conclusively, rights campaigner, connecting her work to my claim is that Scott Joplin could have been  Promotes sustainability 25

Session Presentations 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual regarded as one of the greatest classical with the sounds of old slave songs from his symphony in a number of ways. Some critics composers of the late 19th and early 20th ancestors, and other folk songs of the were taken aback by the “progressive” choice centuries, but was labeled as something else American South. When he graduated high to integrate minority cultures into Western due to the cruelty of systematic racism. school in 1911, he declared that he would European music, while others admired it. The dedicate his life to music. Journalists and racial influence also raises the question of 129 Samantha Ege: Revealing the writers at the time praised his work, one even whether Dvořák was appreciating or referring to him as “the American appropriating other cultures. Some critics felt Legacy of Black Classical Tchaikovsky.” From there, his achievements that he was seeking to pay homage to Composers through the Work of broke not just musical lines but racial ones different cultures, while others believed he Florence Price too, such as his 1933 Afro-American was being disrespectful. I believe that Symphony, which became the first piece of although appropriation is involved, Dvořák ALLISON NORTH music composed by an African-American to be used African American and Native American Dr. Samantha Ege is a musicologist-pianist and performed by a major orchestra, and not soon influence out of appreciation. a leading interpreter of the African-American after, he was the first ever African-American composer Florence B. Price. She is currently conductor. the Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in

Music at Lincoln College. There, she also 24 NO NEED TO PUT A teaches courses in music and specializes in the NICKNAME ON IT: WHY GIVING influence of African American and female 23 CULTURAL APPRECIATION OR composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her COMPOSERS OF COLOR research focuses on uncovering the history of CULTURAL APPROPRIATION: EUROCENTRIC NICKNAMES IS African American women in classical music, DVOŘÁK AND GERSHWIN HARMFUL whose works have been historically FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: SESSION CHAIR AND PRESENTER: ANDREW repressed. She has written multiple MONICA HERSHBERGER, MUSIC GRANGER publications on Florence Price as well as This presentation emphasizes why released two albums featuring her composers should be recognized for their compositions. Dr. Ege’s work to amplify work instead of being neglected by crude Florence Price through her publications and 18 Gershwin, Race, and Porgy nicknames. performances is significant because it and Bess provides representation of a black female SAMANTHA ROMPALA AND BRIAN PARRETT composer in classical music, which restores George Gershwin's work Porgy and Bess is one 18 Everyone Deserves Their Own Price’s place in history as well as provides of the first operatic/musical works to Identity: Why Every Composer of inspiration to other musicians of color. prominently feature actual African-Americans Color Does Not Have to be in America. By focusing on a story inspired by 130 George Bridgetower: How a African American life while being portrayed by Compared to Mozart actual African Americans instead of blackface, DESIREE HARGRAVE, EMILY REDA AND Comment Ruined a Career George Gershwin created one of the most ANDREW GRANGER KYLE CASTER progressive works of his time. Yet this work FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA HERSHBERGER, George Bridgetower (1779-1860) was one of contains so many stereotypes, that when MUSIC the most talented violinists in Europe in the viewed through a modern lens, this work My individual presentation will discuss the 19th century, having been taught his skills by seems to be as racist as possible. How did career associated with the composer Joseph composer Joseph Haydn. He was employed people at the time of this work's release Boulogne. I will discuss an example of how by British royalty and caught the attention of receive it? How has perception and discourse nicknames are harmful, both in a racist and Ludwig van Beethoven through his virtuoso about this piece changed over the decades? artistic way, specifically about Joseph performances. Beethoven was so impressed Could this work be used as an example of Boulogne's nickname. Boulogne is often by his skills that he composed a sonata for what and what not to do when trying to use referred to as the “Black Mozart,” which is a Bridgetower, but after they had a fallout, race in a musical work, or is it a product of its racist and disrespectful name, as it Bridgetower was essentially forgotten by the time? This presentation will cover all of these undermines his individuality as a composer Classical era. The downfall of Bridgetower's questions and more in an entertaining, and and it gives an unnecessary racial comparison career having been a consequence of one comprehensive manner. to Mozart. I will discuss Boulogne's musical aloof comment about one of Beethoven’s and athletic careers, and the significant racial peers can be attributed to how black 186 Critiquing the Critics: struggles he faced in his life as a composer. I composers were treated during the 19th will additionally connect his career at the time century - given blatant disregard for their Analyzing Reactions to Dvořák’s he was alive to how his music is marketed and talents due to the prevalent racism of the New World Symphony promoted today. It is important to note that time. SAMANTHA ROMPALA many of these nicknames were not intended

Born and raised in Prague, Bohemia (now the to be harmful, but in fact were meant to 131 William Grant Still: A Pioneer Czech Republic), composer Antonín Dvořák praise the composer. However, they do not of the Orchestra (1841-1904) wrote polkas, symphonies, an have this effect, as many of the nicknames are racist and undermine the composer by ANTHONY PIRRONE opera, chamber music, and other songs over comparing them to a famous white The following presentation is about a 20th the course of his lifetime. Though Dvořák composer. century composer who broke the molds of moved to different parts of the world, he traditional Western music, and re-defined continued to pay tribute to his homeland exactly who was able to write, perform, and through his compositions. Dvořák’s most 188 Stripping Away Cultural conduct it. This man served as an inspiration famous work is Symphony No.9 in E Minor, Identity: How Ludovic Lamothe for African Americans all across the nation, for Op. 95: From the New World, better known as what he accomplished in his life went beyond New World Symphony. Dvořák wrote the was Wrongfully Compared to just music. He symbolized hope for a brighter, symphony when he came to the United the “Black Chopin” more equal future. I am talking, of course, States, and in addition to its Czech themes, EMILY REDA about William Grant Still. He was born in the symphony features the sounds of African FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA HERSHBERGER, Mississippi, in 1895. His childhood was filled American spirituals and Native American MUSIC music. Critics responded to Dvořák's 26  Promotes sustainability

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Ludovic Lamothe is a Haitian composer who 193 “Great” German Music in My presentation will focus on the Nazi's use was wrongfully nicknamed the “Black of Beethoven (both his music and his image) Chopin” because both he and Chopin both Concentrations Camps During as propaganda during World War II to wrote piano solos and Lamothe favored World War II promote and even enforce their racist, Chopin's pieces. To compare, Frédéric Chopin JILLIAN DOYLE oppressive, and genocidal goal of the creation was Polish and wrote music in a romantic Music in Nazi Germany during World War II of an Aryan nation. I will briefly discuss style. Lamothe’s work was simmered down to was seen as an art of power for Adolf Hitler to Beethoven's reputation both during his own one nickname due to the fact that he propagate German nationalism. Throughout lifetime and following his death and the performed compositions by Chopin. The history up to the Second World War, there has resulting reasons why the Nazis chose nickname “Black Chopin” stripped away been a long tradition of German composers Beethoven as one of their great German Lamothe's cultural identity. Preserving that have represented the arts. Under the “poster-boys.” I will continue to discuss the cultural identity is so important especially regime of Hitler, all music had to fit within the ways and methods in which the Nazis used when history ties into it. Haitian composers specific standards defined as “great” German Beethoven as propaganda during World War having brought African, French, and Spanish music, and the quest to purify the German II. Finally, I will address several factors influences together to create pieces, music from “degeneracy” motivated Nazi (including the music itself, Jewish resistance especially for piano, reflected on the island Germany towards an enormous amount of to this propaganda, and the subsequent role nation’s cultural identity. Many of these policy-making. Suppression of artists that of Beethoven and his music in Europe after composers and their works have remained were Jewish and non-German artists and their World War II) that demonstrate this neglected in both performance and music works was a common practice for the push attempted portrayal of Beethoven as a “Nazi scholarship. Lamothe’s played a key role in towards “great” German music and icon” as not only inaccurate, but completely the development of Haiti's musical culture. nationalism. Through the dismantling of music contradictory to the nature and spirit of his Although only two of his pieces were that did not regard the ideals of the Nazi works. published internationally, he was working at regime, Hitler attempted to blend art and his own expense in Haiti, and he worked hard politics to have three composers that in his to earn the title “Chief of Music of the perspective represented “great” German 35 THE RACIAL BIAS OF Republic of Haiti.” Lamothe may not be as music. Those German composers were well known, but he did have an impact from Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, and REPRESENTATION IN THE where he came from and influenced other Anton Bruckner. One of the ways that Nazi WORLD OF CLASSICAL MUSIC composers. Germany conveyed musical nationalism was THROUGH A STATISTICAL LENS how the Nazis would blast within the FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: Concentration Camps the “great” German 189 Everyone Deserves Their MONICA HERSHBERGER, MUSIC music from not only Ludwig van Beethoven, own Identity; Why Japanese Richard Wagner, and Anton Bruckner but Beethoven "Deserves his Own many other Nazi-approved composers and 301 The Orchestral World and Its Glory" music. Lack of Representation DESIREE HARGRAVE GEORGE PERDOMO FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA HERSHBERGER, 194 The Fate of Jewish It has always been fairly apparent that the MUSIC Composers: Nazi Germany Classical Music Community has been composed of predominantly white males. Mamoru Samuragochi is a composer many of JESSICA AMO With roots that stem from Europe in the 18th us may not have heard of. He was born The Third Reich was a time of political century, it is not surprising to see that most September 21, 1963. He first began playing disbelief, racism and turmoil. Nazi Germany works being created and performed in this piano at the age of 4. This is where his music and those for, as well as opposed to, Nazi time were by white males. With the customs journey began. His music career really took off ideologies and Anti-Semitic beliefs, used and ideals of the time, women and people of after a documentary came out about him music as a political outlet. This is evident color being seen as inferior, there weren't being deaf, and he was nicknamed the through use of German propaganda and, on many pieces of music being composed by this "Japanese Beethoven." Later, it was the other hand, Jewish composers' use of demographic. But has anything really changed discovered that Samuragochi was actually music to spread awareness of political over the years? Through my research looking pretending to be deaf to get more fame, and disbeliefs and racial disparities. This into the 2019-2020 orchestral season, I am he also wasn’t the actual composer of his presentation focuses specifically on Jewish going to show that even though there has pieces. The real composer was Takashi composers and why there was such a been push towards inclusion, there is still a Niigaki. He claimed that Samuragochi was differentiation—beyond racial persecution— severe lack of representation in the works faking his deafness, which eventually led to between them and other composers. We will being performed by the major organizations the revoking of his "The Citizens Award," and examine the Jewish composers who lost their in the United States. his disability certificate had to be returned. I lives due to the Third Reich, as well as those believe that even though Samuragochi made who were forced to flee or placed into some poor decisions, he should never have concentration camps. As time has moved 302 Racial Bias in Hiring Opera been nicknamed the “Japanese Beethoven,” forward, the study of music in the Third Reich and furthermore, I think that Niigaki should Singers revealed the loss of social lines and Jewish PARIS INTERDONATO-CARRERAS have been able to have his own identity. He music history, as Nazi Germany dismantled shouldn’t have been a ghost writer for the Like many other jobs, there is a racial bias the art platform for Jewish composers. The present when it comes to casting opera Mamoru and should have taken his own path key idea of this presentation is to attempt to to fame. singers of color in operas. A presentation will piece together the lives and successes of be verbally given via Zoom. A couple of

different composers that Nazi Germany tried already existing articles written on this topic

so hard to suppress. will be used as sources. Additionally, at least 26 MUSIC AND THE NAZIS: one statistical analysis will be created that WHAT WERE THE 195 How the Nazis Tried to Use represents the ratio of white opera singers in Beethoven to Aryanize Music operas to opera singers of color. All of these CONNECTIONS? pieces of evidence will be used to shed light FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: and Why It Didn't Work on this issue. Going a step forward, ways to MONICA HERSHBERGER, MUSIC MADELINE NASCHKE solve this issue will be presented as well, with

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43 THE MET’S TWISTED AERYN MASSENZA Opera has a racist and sexist past from which 383 Virtual Piano Lessons: A PORTRAYAL OF PEOPLE OF we should not hide. Giacomo Puccini, often Comprehensive Self-Taught COLOR IN OPERA referred to as “the greatest composer of FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: Italian opera after Verdi,” composed a Course for Beginners MONICA HERSHBERGER, MUSIC number of famous operas, including La RACHAEL FERRALORO Boheme, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot. FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA HERSHBERGER, MUSIC 386 The Persistence of Blackface Puccini worked on Turandot from 1920-1924. The opera finally premiered in Italy in 1926. EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT in Verdi's Otello The storyline features a Chinese Princess PRESENTATION JENNIE DWORKIN named Turandot who decides that she will Many adults express the desire to learn to The use of Blackface in opera is a only marry if a suitor of noble blood can play the piano but are reluctant to commit to controversial topic that has been at the answer three riddles. If he cannot, the price is the time and cost of taking piano lessons. I forefront of debate for many years. Most his head. Thus, Turandot appears as a cold have built a free virtual asynchronous course people, including myself, believe that the use and cruel torturess and murderer who is to allow self-learners with no prior musical of blackface is wrong and offensive, but at blinded by her emotions. Puccini never visited background to learn the basics of playing the same time there are a number of people China; he composed his opera with little piano before committing to a one-on-one who do believe its use is justifiable and should knowledge of Chinese culture. With an instructor. My course features ten different not be considered truly racist. For example, educated viewpoint, the audience will be able modules of video lessons, practice exercises, some have argued that blackface is necessary to see racist and sexist connotations theory worksheets, history lessons, and because certain characters are expected to throughout. The problematic foundations of quizzes that students may approach at their have specific voice types and it’s sometimes operas need not stop us from watching or own pace. Students also learn the difficult to match up that voice type with the participating in the art form. Instead, we must fundamentals of reading music, and each race they portray. Performances of Giuseppe approach opera with open eyes. module is equipped with additional resources Verdi's opera Otello, based on Shakespeare's to bolster learning. I have built a website to play Othello, have received a lot of criticism 389 The Mistreatment of host the course: due to opera companies choosing to have the https://rachaelferraloro.wixsite.com/virtualpia singer who sings the lead role appear in Women of Color in Opera nolessons. Finally, I collected survey data blackface. The main character, Othello, a LI JENSEN from students who completed various Moorish prince and appointed general living In this presentation, I examine the treatment modules of the course, analyzing this data to in Venice, was typically played by white of Women of Color (WOC) in opera determine the effectiveness of the course and singers wearing dark makeup in order to throughout history. I begin with the strict make improvements on the course in the accurately portray his character. In 2015, rules that were enforced on WOC in the early future. however, the Metropolitan Opera House days of opera, moving to some of the decided to ban the use of blackface because injustices of the present day. I also examine 392 Searching for a Soundtrack: although sometimes not intended, it is still the ways that WOC have been sexualized, wrong and racist to use blackface no matter marginalized, and excluded in opera. In Coordinating the Emotional how one tries to justify it. particular, I analyze Georges Bizet's opera Landscapes of Mary Shelley’s Carmen (1875), exploring its overt Frankenstein and Dvořák’s New 387 Bringing Light to Black sexualization of a Romani woman, as well as its use of words now regarded as derogatory World Symphony Opera terms and slurs. Finally, I consider the ALEXANDRA BLOSS KAITLYN JAMES continued performance of such problematic FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA HERSHBERGER, Voodoo by H. Lawrence Freeman was written operas, such as Carmen, in well-known opera MUSIC in 1914. It was set in Louisiana during the houses such as the Metropolitan Opera EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT reconstruction era. A house servant named House. PRESENTATION Cleota is in love with Mando, who is a Can one artistic work that is meant to portray plantation overseer for the plantation where one experience be paired with another artistic they live. Lolo, the voodoo queen, was jealous MUSIC PERFORMANCE work to strengthen its meaning and and saw Cleota as a rival, trying to put her out experience? I demonstrate how I see and hear of the way. A voodoo ceremony took place Antonin Dvorák’s New World Symphony (1893) where Lolo and her associate Fojo distribute as a soundtrack when I read Mary Shelley’s amulets and charms to participants, then 50 Geneseo Flute Choir novel Frankenstein (1818). Adopting the term retreat to a glen, which is a valley, to invoke ALLISON NORTH, SHANNON MCGAUGH, “emotional landscape,” I mapped out the the snake-god. Cleota was about to be put to BRIANNA DONLON, CAITLIN CLACK, TIM emotions I experienced while reading death but Mando and Chloe, who is Lolo’s MCKNIGHT AND NATANYA STARK Frankenstein and while listening to the New mother, rescued her. Lolo attempted to FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHRYN World Symphony. I discovered that each work subdue Cleota resulting in the queen being SCARBROUGH, MUSIC is built upon the same base emotion: killed. This song is from an opera and was The Geneseo Flute Choir, under the direction determination. From this base, I ranked every considered incorrect because it was produced of Professor Kathryn Scarbrough, is other emotion as either positive or negative and sung by African Americans. In this essay I comprised of flute music majors, minors, and depending on context within each piece. I want to shine a light on songs that are enthusiasts. Here is their GREAT Day then drew connections between the composed and sung by African Americans and performance of the Irish traditional work, emotional landscapes, finding seven major how they are not accepted in opera. “Londonderry Air,” more familiarly known as areas of relationship between the two. My “Danny Boy.” Enjoy! comparative analysis resulted in my deeper understanding of Frankenstein and its characters, as I used the emotions of the New

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World Symphony to fill in the unspoken in many cases as the sole arbitrators online, sharing, out-of-area operations, and rise of emotional gaps of Mary Shelley’s text. and amplifying misinformation and hate authoritarian leaders (e.g. Turkey) will be Synchronous Session: Apr 28, 2021 2:00 - 2:20 speech. Big tech companies have been discussed. The changes in membership, PM operating in ways not exactly compatible with mission, and cohesion of NATO will be democracy, using algorithms comprehended explained using realist, liberal, bureaucratic 292 Blackface in Modern Day by few and answerable to even fewer. The politics theoretical approaches. NATO since European Union has for years been seeking the Cold War has come to embody collective Opera governance of the global digital technology security more than collective defense. KAYLIE BARBOSA sector, an endeavor that has economic, socio- FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA HERSHBERGER, political and ethical dimensions. This 384 Comparing Integration of MUSIC presentation explores the values driving the Blackface has been deeply rooted in the EU’s quest to oversee and democratize big Muslims in Europe: The Cases of history of opera. The opera Aida was written tech such as promoting competition and Sweden and the Netherlands with the intention of European opera singers treating privacy as a human right; it will also NICHOLAS LORENZO performing roles in which they portrayed outline groundbreaking regulation the EU has The Middle East has seen increased violence people of color by using blackface. During the drafted in its ongoing mission to better and revolutions in recent years, producing a time in which this opera was created, this synchronize the online sphere with the real surge of millions of refugees, many of whom portrayal was seen as socially acceptable. world in law and practice, and some issues made their way to Europe. In addition to However, with the opera singers of today that have come up along the way with fueling far-right populist parties, this traveling the world and meeting people of implementation. Considering different phenomenon has challenged existing norms many different ethnicities and backgrounds to attitudes toward business regulation and of religious freedom, toleration, and church- study how they should be depicted on stage, different surveillance cultures between state relations in Europe. I was eager to see it is becoming increasingly difficult to try to Europe and the US, the presentation will also how different countries handled this new justify the “traditional” portrayals of people examine transatlantic synergy and tension Muslim minority. I chose to compare the of color when the people being depicted in regarding the EU’s mission to curb the power response of both Sweden and the the audience are often offended. As we can of American big tech corporations. Netherlands. Unlike Eastern Europe, the see with the success of Hamilton and other Netherlands and Sweden share a long history shows with colorblind casting, it is clear that 8 Eurocrisis Cases: Ireland, Italy, of democracy and religious tolerance. audiences are ready for something different However, Sweden differed from the and more progressive than sticking to more and Cyprus Netherlands in that until 2000 the Lutheran “traditional” and blatantly racist depictions. HARRY HARKINS church was the established church, whereas The MET can no longer ignore the blatant Following centuries of Irish economic the Netherlands is characterized by racism in their productions in which they use shortcomings, the nation paved its way to “principled pluralism” of Protestant, Catholic, blackface. They must remove the use of sustainable economic prosperity by the turn and a large non-religious sector of society. My blackface in their operas and hire actual of the twenty-first century. Italy too saw findings indicate that, despite having less people of color to play the roles of people of economic success in the latter half of the experience with Muslim immigrants, Sweden color, thereby serving as an example for twentieth century due to its increasing has done a much better job. The country opera productions across the globe. involvement in the world market. Cyprus, at refrained from passing laws that restricted the beginning of the twenty-first century religious practice by Muslims and mobilized grew its economy due to a demand for real the substantial infrastructure of the Swedish POLITICAL SCIENCE AND estate on the island. Although these nations’ church to integrate new Muslim immigrants, economies grew significantly, each would find whereas the Netherlands has restricted INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS itself in a completely different situation after certain Muslim practices and the churches ENTIRE SESSION the Great Recession of 2008. Ireland have lacked the resources in civil society to increased tax incentives, which enticed support integration.

investors to build homes. Lenders then built more homes with this money, leading to a

1 EUROPE IN INTERNATIONAL collapse of their housing bubble. Italy faced inflation and major budget deficits. Cyprus POLITICAL SCIENCE AND POLITICS accrued significant government debt due to INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: its entanglements with its neighbors. The ROBERT GOECKEL, POLITICAL SCIENCE & effect of the Great Recession on these nations INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS was dire. Ireland, due to its dependence on European Union and NATO represent major foreign markets, needed help from the EU via components of the regional architecture in a financial assistance plan. Italy too only 10 Explaining the 2015 Iran international politics. This panel looks at survived with help from the EU, who helped several key cases involving economic-financial the nation stop falling into recessions. Lastly, Nuclear Deal and US Withdrawal crisis, technology regulation and security. Cyprus received help from the European Synchronous session: Apr 30, 2021 1:30 – 3:00 under President Trump Central Bank, who opted to “bail-in” the FUMI OGURA PM country, thus saving its economy. FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT GOECKEL, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL 7 European Union Business 9 The Evolution of NATO after RELATIONS Regulation: Data, Privacy and Big the Cold War The issue of the Iranian nuclear program has been dealt with differently, depending on the Tech LIAM TANCHICK actors. Since the Iranian Revolution, the US- JOHANNA MOHRS The presentation analyzes the evolution of Iran relationship has been hostile and Iran The largest tech companies worldwide are the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, started increasing nuclear activities. Because US-based and include Facebook, Apple, originally conceived as an alliance against the of such a threat from Iran, the US has Google, Twitter and Amazon. These Soviet bloc, after the collapse of the Soviet imposed various economic sanctions against ubiquitous megabusinesses enjoy Union in 1991. NATO challenges such as Iran. However, JCPOA, the 2015 nuclear deal astronomical profits and influence, and have German reunification war and genocide in the with Iran, changed the course of the had some negative effects on society, acting Balkans, democracy promotion, burden-  Promotes sustainability 29

Session Presentations 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual relationship. Iran promised to decrease the economic inequalities the U.S. is challenged given the current indigenous population, and amount of nuclear activities in exchange for with. generations to come, problems that pose a lifting of some of the sanctions. Obama tried large threat to their well-being, and perhaps to pursue negotiations and promoted the 393 You’re Fired? The Supreme even their survival. The global COVID-19 nuclear deal. On the other hand, Trump pandemic, which has plagued indigenous withdrew from the deal and tightened the Court of the United States and groups more than their non-indigenous sanctions against Iran. Furthermore, the Presidential Removal Power counterparts, has further shown the discord decision-making of Iranian Supreme Leader, ALEA TIBERI between them and their governments. In Khamenei, has affected the deal. Those FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON HEROLD, order to protect indigenous groups in Peru, political decisions can be analyzed from POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL political reform, focused on ensuring various perspectives, such as realism, RELATIONS indigenous land rights and health rights, is liberalism, and domestic politics. Each theory EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT needed. Previous studies on environmental has a particular strength in explanation. This PRESENTATION destruction, such as oil spills, health records paper explains the two outcomes: the In an era where the most recent former for the indigenous in these areas, and political creation of the deal and the withdrawal of the president’s catch phrase was “You’re Fired!,” conflicts form the base of this study. US from the deal, applying those theories and presidential removal power seems to be at draws conclusions regarding which theories the crux of American politics. But in addition 284 School Criminal are especially useful to analyze the to its recent significance, presidential removal relationship between the US and Iran power has been an understated but Discrimination Policy regarding the nuclear deal. important aspect of the American presidency ARTHUR ZIOTTO since the nation’s founding. However, since FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL 23 The Uighur Genocide and this power is not explicitly stated in the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS United States Constitution, the removal The school system penalizes students with Application of International Law power has been a continued area of debate in the criminalization of their records, hurting MADISON BURNS American politics. Though previous scholars their future, and making it harder for them to FACULTY SPONSOR: JEREMY GRACE, have explored removal power in the context join the working force. My new policy would POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL of the relationship between the executive and educate them without criminalizing them. The RELATIONS legislative branches of government, few have policy would incorporate internship programs EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT studied the removal power specifically in the criminal court systems. My approach PRESENTATION through what Alexander Hamilton called “the would inform schools on how to handle The Uighurs are a group of ethnically Turkish weakest of the three departments of power,” violations of the criminal code in schools. people, most of whom practice Islam. 11 the Supreme Court of the United States. In million Uighurs, a majority of the ethnic this paper, I attempt to fill this academic void 368 Deportation of Immigrants is group, reside in the Xinjiang region of China. by examining six Supreme Court cases that Bad for the U.S. Currently, after a gradual loss of rights address removal power as a major CADE REED throughout the last decade, the Uighurs constitutional question. In the end, I argue FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL residing in China are facing extreme that the Supreme Court’s shifting opinions in SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS discrimination. Many human rights experts removal power cases reflect the current The topic that I would like to research more have labeled the situation a genocide, as this president’s level of executive power. Thus, properly is how the deportation of illegal group is experiencing forced relocation to through its opinions on removal power, the immigrants in the United States affects the “re-education” internment camps, family Supreme Court has served as an important social welfare of the U.S. Whether the separations, forced sterilizations, rape, and check on the power of the executive branch immigrants are male, female, black, white, murder. Along with other international laws, over time. China is in clear violation of the Convention on young, or old, I want to target them all in the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime order to get a better outcome in my data. I of Genocide, which calls for condemnation 410 Environmental Exploitation want to be able to see the analytical data that and action within the international system. and its Effects on the Indigenous goes behind deporting and housing illegal Such action has not yet taken place. In this  immigrants in deportation centers and what presentation, I discuss the application, and Peoples of Peru role that plays on America’s social welfare lack thereof, of international human rights JENNA MELDRUM policies in general. Not only do I believe that law in regard to the Uighurs suffering in FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, illegal immigrants are the most probable China. By doing so, I draw attention to the POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL group that are truly getting the brunt of the problems plaguing international human rights RELATIONS effects of the act of deportation, but I also law as a category of legislation. I also discuss EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT believe that Americans are also seeing effects steps that can be taken to improve this type PRESENTATION in the disappearance of illegal immigrants as of law and subsequently, the situation being Indigenous communities have fought health well. The psychological anguish that affects faced by the Uighurs. devastation brought on by outside influences young minds when it comes to deportation in their communities for hundreds of years and the separation of a family is atrocious. now. Beginning with the conquistadors, Some public policies that have been enacted 46 Combating American indigenous groups in South America faced in the past four years are heavily dependent Economic Inequality  mass casualties due to the illnesses that were on what political party is in office. JOSEPH HARCLERODE introduced to them. Later, missionaries came in droves to convert them and inadvertently FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, 400 A Discussion of College POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL spread more disease throughout remote RELATIONS communities. Today, missionaries continue to Activism In this presentation I will share a brief history spread disease as more and more remote ROBBIE ECONOMOU of the economic inequality in America leading communities establish contact with the FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: up until the current day. More importantly, I outside world. In addition to these struggles, JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL SCIENCE & offer some out of the ordinary solutions I the indigenous face poor health outcomes INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS believe can help combat the growing due to environmental destruction. Pollution EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT from oil spills and other harmful waste and PRESENTATION the demolition of the Peruvian Amazon have 30  Promotes sustainability

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This presentation will be a summary of the 315 Student Experiences with Rather, they were influenced by one or more research done on college activism here at mentors. Furthermore, the period into which SUNY Geneseo. This research consisted of a Microaggressions: How they they were born—just after the industrial survey on activism, organizational Affect Students and Strategies revolution—was critical to their success. This involvement, and political opinions with 160 thesis examines the lives of prominent for Change responses from students, as well as a series of scientists from the early twentieth century to ISABELLA HIGGINS, KATRINA SAYLOR, interviews with students and student test the effect of mentorship and historical JOELMY ACEVEDO, QUAANA LAKE AND organizers about their experiences with timing versus innate intellect. The last section XIARA COLON activism. This presentation will discuss types extends the examined scientists to broader MONICA SCHNEIDER, PSYCHOLOGY, AND of activism, the demographics of activists and groups, including women and scientists from SASHA ELOI-EVANS, STUDENT LIFE non-activists, the psychology of activists and different eras, to see if the original Microaggressions are a statement, or action non-activists, and student organizational conclusions still hold true. In essence, this by groups in power that many times involvement. Additionally, particular care will thesis seeks to demonstrate that these unintentionally and indirectly is discriminatory be done towards the discussions with student people were not born to be scientists, but to marginalized groups. Microaggressions organizers and the survey results to showcase rather they were born into conditions that tend to be subtle and can often seem like best practices for students looking to do made science a clear, viable career choice. backhanded compliments, occurring either at activism on college campuses. personal or environmental levels. They can be Synchronous session: Apr 30, 2020 1:00 - 1:30 based in any number of characteristics or 391 The Effects of Empowerment PM stereotypes of disenfranchised groups on the Relationship between including, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability etc. One example Feminism and Environmentally PSYCHOLOGY INDIVIDUAL of a race based microaggression is, “You Friendly Attitudes  SESSIONS speak so well.” Microaggressions have the SHREYA MISHRA potential to psychologically harm people FACULTY SPONSOR: JIM ALLEN,

through invalidation, stereotyping and more. PSYCHOLOGY Research has shown that receiving EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT 55 Ketogenic Diet and Dendritic microaggressions can affect academic PRESENTATION Morphology in a Mouse Model performance, emotional well-being, and Feministic beliefs and environmentally general feelings of self worth. Minority friendly behaviors have previously been of Repetitive Behavior populations in predominantly white linked. The purpose of this research is to SAMANTHA SEEGER AND YUME IRIYAMA institutions, such as Geneseo, require investigate whether empowerment mediates FACULTY SPONSOR: ALLISON BECHARD, additional support to mitigate the adverse the relationship between feminism and PSYCHOLOGY effects of microaggressions. This is a environmental attitudes. I investigate several Repetitive motor behaviors are invariant comprehensive study on Geneseo students’ measures of empowerment, including movements with no apparent function. They experiences with microaggressions. This academic, social, gender, political, and sexual. are associated with several disorders, semester, interviews with underrepresented I hypothesize that (1) stronger feministic including autism spectrum disorders (ASD). students were conducted asking students’ beliefs are correlated with more However, little is known about the causes of experiences with microaggressions, the environmentally friendly attitudes (EFA); (2) these restricted behavior patterns, and psychological and emotional effects of feministic beliefs predict feelings of effective treatments are lacking. ASD has experiencing microaggressions, and the empowerment; (3) empowerment predicts recently been treated with a ketogenic diet strategies that help offer support to our EFA; (4) empowerment strengthens the (KD). Now a popular fad, KD is a high-fat, low- students. In sharing this research, we hope to relationship between feminism and EFA. The carb diet that has treated intractable epilepsy shed light on the issues experienced by results of this study will be obtained shortly for decades. However, the mechanisms underrepresented students at Geneseo and and will inform us about why feminism is mediating KD’s beneficial effects are still effect action-oriented change to be more in related to environmentalism and how to unclear. We first show that KD can attenuate line with Geneseo’s stated mission. Our develop future environmental interventions. repetitive circling behavior. We then assessed research is conducted in conjunction with the dendritic spine density in the left and right Campus Climate initiative. dorsolateral striatum as a potential Synchronous session: Apr 26, 2021 6:00 - 8:00 399 Disability Equity through explanation of the reduction of repetitive PM Educational Initiatives  behavior with KD. Dendritic spine density is a ANNIKA MOUNTS good indicator of the number of synapses in a 390 An Analysis of the Lives of FACULTY SPONSORS: MONICA SCHNEIDER, region, having implications for synaptic PSYCHOLOGY, AND AMY FISK, ACADEMIC transmission. We imaged the striatum as Prominent Scientists PLANNING & ADVISING previous research suggests basal ganglia HARRIS SCHWAB EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT circuitry is impaired in the development of FACULTY SPONSOR: JASON OZUBKO, PRESENTATION repetitive behavior. Golgi-Cox histochemistry PSYCHOLOGY During my time at Geneseo, I witnessed an was performed in order to view dendritic EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT ideological shift in the campus culture spines and dendritic branching patterns. PRESENTATION surrounding disability. Mirroring the changes Dendrite length and the number of spines We all have heard about Albert Einstein’s taking place in society, there has been were measured and used to calculate childhood; he barely studied, and even failed movement away from focusing on an dendritic spine density for each hemisphere. math. Yet, somehow, he later proposed his individual student’s deficit to universal design Hemispheric lateralization of dendritic spine theory of relativity. How could this happen? principles that benefit both individuals with density was also explored for an association Well, Einstein must have been a genius- been and without disabilities. My sophomore year, I with the preferred direction of circling. born a genius. But there is one problem with proposed a peer mentorship program this story. It’s a lie. Einstein was a studious specifically for students with disabilities with child, studying mathematics incessantly. The the goal of fostering and sustaining this sciences were pushed onto him by his parents ongoing ideological shift. Through this since he learned to read. Einstein and the position, I served as an advocate for my peers revolutionary scientists from his era did not by bridging the divide between students and become scientists because of an innate ability. the administration. Despite the general  Promotes sustainability 31

Session Presentations 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual progress being made, individuals with amounts of stress from masculine (2006) propositions regarding the potential disabilities still face prejudice and encounter a expectations to reach nearby models of for spiritual expansiveness as it is inspired by number of disparate outcomes. As a pre-med financial success without the community experiences with wonder. student, I was particularly interested in the resources to realize those goals. All disparities in healthcare access and outcomes. participants highlighted Black churches as a 373 As We Experience Wonder: A Using the limited literature available, I have node for mental wellness; however, despite identified some of the biases that healthcare their best efforts, churches are limited in their Personal Introspection of Private providers have regarding disabilities, how ability to address mental health due to gender Moments of Wonder patient care is affected by these biases, and imbalances in participation. Future MADISON FOLLEY what is being done to address these interdisciplinary lenses are needed to Arnaud Halloy and Veronique Servais describe inequalities. These interventions largely focus empiricize Black mental health, deconstruct an important social component in people's on increasing the number of disabled stigma, and assess the efficacy of applied experience of wonder. They say a full healthcare providers. The current structure interventions. experience and interpretation of wonder is and culture of medical education, however, is based on being part of a community that largely inaccessible to individuals with highlights wonder-ful experiences as disabilities. Changes are, therefore, needed to SOCIOLOGY ENTIRE SESSION important. Halloy and Servais miss, however, support medical students with disabilities. the intensely personal nature of some wonder

Synchronous session: Apr 28, 2021 4:00 - 5:00 experiences. Through the use of personal PM introspection of moments of wonder, analysis 42 SOCIOLOGY OF WONDER demonstrates the intensity of personal 405 A Biopsychosocial Model of FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: experiences of wonder and how they are still STEVE DERNE, SOCIOLOGY important to our understanding of wonder. Celiac Disease While Halloy and Servais are correct that MOET AITA 371 The Reenchantment: Being wonder can exist in social situations, FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS RAYNOR, introspection has suggested that private PSYCHOLOGY Rescued by Kittens experiences can be equally as meaningful to EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT BRITTANY RHEAUME the individual, even if not shared to the public PRESENTATION Halloy and Servais’s cross-cultural eye. Celiac disease is a multisystem, autoimmune examination of wonder shows overwhelming disorder characterized by an innate and emotions and bodily indicators of adaptive immune response to the ingestion of enchantment as universal to the experience 374 Experiencing Wonder in gluten. Currently, the only treatment is of wonder. Using diaries I recorded during the Religious Paradox: A Study in lifelong, strict adherence to a gluten-free diet. fall 2020 semester, I unexpectedly found Sociological Introspection By utilizing the biopsychosocial model, I myself experiencing wonder when rescuing DANIELLE WARN investigated the biological, psychological, and and adopting a pair of stray kittens. My Voss-Roberts argues religions' paradoxes are socio-environmental factors affecting dietary introspection suggested that we may be able a source of wonder for followers of the faith. adherence and health-related quality of life in to identify an experience as wonder when we Generating a belief in that which is individuals with celiac disease. Further, I have uncontrollable bodily reactions; crying, unknowable keeps the faithful in a state of investigated and propose intervention shaking, shivering, goosebumps, wonder, according to Voss-Roberts. Using the programs that aim to enhance adherence and uncontrollable laughing or smiling, or many method of introspection in my own case, I quality of life simultaneously. other bodily behaviors. Overwhelming found that paradoxes within Catholicism have emotions include feelings that are out-of-the- led to my experiencing a sense of wonder. It 409 Contextualizing Black Men's ordinary, or infinite love. In a time when is a wonder to me that I find comfort in the wonder felt so far away, these kittens helped Mental Health Experiences: An divine, yet cannot fully fathom these higher to re-enchant my life. powers due to my humanity. I feel wonder Exploratory Phenomenological that I recognize an omnipotence that I can't Study  372 Wonder in Every Breath: Re- comprehend; I experience wonder that AWAB SHAWKAT enchanting Life Beyond the despite this incomprehension my faith never wavers. I experience wonder at spirituality's FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, Rationalized Lens PSYCHOLOGY importance regardless of its intangibility. CLARA MOONEY EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT Loving and being faithful to that which is Max Weber has critiqued how the social PRESENTATION ultimately unknowable fills me with wonder. I forces which constitute our modern society Black men's mental health remains taboo and feel wonder at the paradox that God is both have effectively de-mystified the lived unaddressed nationally, as well as locally in fury and love. I experience wonder that faith experience of its members; thus, the claim West Charlotte, North Carolina. This study is a source of resolve yet simultaneously leads that society has become disenchanted. As a seeks to better comprehend Black men's to more questions than answers. student participating in a 2020 sociological understandings of mental health as well as seminar interested in exploring the concept where they find their mental wellbeing being of wonder, my findings directly challenge both augmented and obstructed. Weber’s notion of disenchantment while still THEATRE AND DANCE – Interviewing a total of ten community experts acknowledging the detrimental impact that on Black mental health and local Black men in DANCE PERFORMANCES modern social forces have had on the this study, I employed thematic analysis to potential to experience and process wonder illuminate emergent themes. Firstly, mental on an individual level. In this paper, I apply health stigma for Black males is gender- sociological introspection to my practice with 27 Becoming specific and questions the validity of yoga to discuss how it has led me to SAMANTHA BRUNO, JILLIAN JOHNSON, intangible mental health concerns. Local Black encounter wonder in ways that have KELSEY VILLONE, ELIZABETH ALLEGRO, masculine constructs emphasize meeting facilitated a process of contemplation and the NATALIE KNOX AND LAUREN HUMMEL ones' responsibilities and autonomy to the development of elevated life-perspectives FACULTY SPONSOR: JONETTE LANCOS, extent that voicing mental health concerns is that are grounded in spirituality. This realized THEATRE/DANCE perceived as shirking off their responsibilities. effect of wonder aligns with Robert Fuller’s Chosen by SUNY Geneseo's 2020 dance Black men in West Charlotte face greater adjudicator, Norwood 'PJ' Pennewell, and 32  Promotes sustainability

2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 15th Annual Session Presentations choreographed by dance studies senior drinking the wine, Genesis died, and a an incredible opportunity “to play” with Samantha Bruno, Becoming conveys the toxicology report revealed the presence of narrative, structure, and even materiality. I development of the individual following pesticides in Genesis’ system. Now, we are would argue that the zine is the queer distinct experiences with others. The tasked with understanding what happened to medium, existing on the fringes, outside of introduction of the dance has four dancers Genesis! capitalism, zines are political and defiant as who present the story to come. The piece well as fundamentally fun. continues with a single dancer who is essentially a blank slate, and throughout 319 Assessing Gender: the meets four emotions individually (portrayed WOMEN AND GENDER in order as sadness, happiness, anger, and STUDIES ENTIRE SESSIONS Theory-Practice Gap in Gender bittersweetness) who leave a mark on her Studies and the Medicalization and build her character. This dance is a of Transgender Therapy personal showcase of Samantha's maturation JENELLE PIATT throughout college. “A mind that is stretched 37 WGST CAPSTONE PROJECTS I Women and Gender Studies (WGST) by a new experience can never go back to its FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: classrooms often create a utopian old dimensions.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. AMANDA ROTH, WOMEN AND GENDER environment in which students are able to STUDIES speak freely and explore their identities Senior WGST majors, minors, and 257 Action Words through studying WGST theorists in a concentrators will present their capstone KATHRYN BERTON, VALERIE GROCCIA, judgement free bubble. For some, myself projects. SAMANTHA BRUNO, VIZMA LEIMANIS, included, this bubble can lead to an easier Synchronous session: Apr 27, 2021 11:30 AM – NATALIE KNOX, MARISSA TORCELLO, time changing pronouns, which WGST 1:00 PM MADISON HARDING, KELSEY VILLONE, environments embrace with no questions

GRACE VANPUTTE AND ABIGAIL ALESSI asked. However, outside of the classroom FACULTY SPONSOR: JONETTE LANCOS, 317 Here, the Liminal: Feminist utopia, the process of becoming mentally and THEATRE/DANCE Poems & Visual Art medically transgender often involves therapy Sharing an experience of structuring, JILLIAN TODD and meeting with medical doctors, though creating, and performing in an improvisation Google defines liminal as “relating to a there are also informed consent centers style from dance class 340. transitional or initial stage of a process.” where transgender people can get access to Similarly, in anthropology, “liminality is the hormones as well. Personal experience quality of ambiguity or disorientation that combined with research done by theorists THEATRE AND DANCE – occurs in the middle stage of a rite of show how access to treatment for passage, when participants no longer hold transgender people and the treatment itself THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun have become medicalized by doctors and the transition to the status they will hold therapists, though for many transgender when the rite is complete” (Turner). This people this medicalization can conflict with 33 Mock Trial at Geneseo position resonates with me as I transition out and harm their identities. More emphasis on a of my undergraduate pursuit of Women’s & humanity oriented approach and reducing the Presents: Estate of Genesis Gender Studies and into life post-graduation. medical involvement of doctors (pre-surgery, Petrillo v. Harper Martini and Derived from this liminal state of being is my which not all transgender people want) will collection of poems and visual art. At the help more transgender people become Peony Estates comfortable with their identities, yet creating ALEA TIBERI, DANIELLE CROWLEY, NICOLE structural level, this collection hopes to reach for a space where the critical and creative are a utopian bubble may leave many under KEMMETT, SAMANTHA KEARNS, ABIGAIL prepared for navigating outside of WGST VERHAYDEN, TREVOR FUNCHEON, DANIEL one. The poetic content spans a range that reflects my academic indecisiveness, which is spaces. Therefore, bridging the theory- REGAN, CARLEY SALERNO AND KYA PRIMM to say, the interdisciplinary lives here. The practice gap in academia as well as decreasing FACULTY SPONSOR: BONITA STUBBLEFIELD, medicalization are both essential parts of THEATRE/DANCE through line is, of course, feminism. My hope is that these poems will settle into a larger supporting transgender people. Mock Trial at Geneseo is a club where students perform as attorneys and witnesses context of liminality in feminism after 2020. Where there is space for imagination and in a simulated trial based on the facts of a 320 Feminist Pedagogy in reason to coexist, there is progress. I hope fictional court case. We attend competitions Practice: Social Identity where we are tasked with presenting our side some version of this coexistence is fostered in “Here, the Liminal: Feminist Poems & Visual Education in Rural High Schools of the case against other schools to a panel of Art.” MARGAUX CARMEL judges. Though technically a Pre-Law club, An ever-present debate in feminist and queer Mock Trial at Geneseo is open to all students. 318 Zines as a Queer Medium academia is that between theory and practice. Students involved in Mock Trial are able to This presentation will be an introduction to ROSALINDA MESBAHI refine their public speaking, argumentative Margaux’s capstone project that attempts to This project will seek to uncover Women’s skills, and courtroom etiquette, as well as bridge this gap in order to meet a real need and Gender Studies principles in zine culture. I make lasting friendships with students who that they had observed within their own rural want to focus both on the history of zine share similar interests. In today’s Western New York high school: the desire for making, and the ways in which the culture presentation, members of the club will students to learn more about social identity, was dominated by those who are present a shortened version of Estate of and their lack of access to places and events marginalized; there is a special place Genesis Petrillo v. Harper Martini and Peony that would allow them an opportunity to especially for young girls who were making Estates. This case follows Casey Soto and explore their social identities. In this zines during the 90s Riot Girl movement. I Genesis Petrillo, a couple who had planned presentation, Margaux will be giving a brief want to look at the ways in which their wedding for June 8, 2019 at Peony overview of their investigation into queer and communities can thrive whether embodied or Estates, a winery owned and operated by feminist pedagogy and their experience not and the ways in which sharing narratives Casey’s parent, Harper Martini. During the developing a curriculum that has the potential using such a tactile medium can elicit further rehearsal dinner the night before the to be implemented by rural Western New truths. And lastly I want to expose queer wedding, Harper presented Genesis with a York high schools. principles in zine making itself. 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must be used as an authoritative source of They will explain what their position entails, 39 WGST CAPSTONE knowledge in education. how it connects to their coursework and the basic concepts and themes of women’s and PRESENTATIONS II 326 The School to Prison Pipeline gender studies, and how (if applicable) their FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: experience connects to their future AMANDA ROTH, WOMEN AND GENDER PAIGE CHALFANT My GREAT Day Presentation will center educational, career, and activist plans. STUDIES Synchronous session: Apr 20, 2021 5:00 – 6:30 Senior WGST majors, minors, and around the relationship between the school- to-prison pipeline and the criminalization of PM concentrators will present their capstone projects. Black girls in school. A brief history of the Synchronous session: Apr 29, 2021 11:30 AM – school-to-prison pipeline will be discussed 363 The Gendered Effects of 1:00 PM before centering the rest of the presentation Alcohol about the marginalization and criminalization ELENA CUASCUT of Black girls in school. A source that this 324 The Invisible Majority project is based on is the book titled Pushout: EMILY MASTROTA The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by 364 My Internship with Safe Over the past quarter-century, there has been Monique W. Morris. Contributing factors that Zone: Making Our Online a change in the involvement of women within will be explored and mentioned range from Community Safer the criminal justice system, which is a the effects of zero-tolerance policies, KAYLA GLENNON reflection of more expansive law damaging stereotypes and implicit biases that enforcement efforts, stiffer drug sentencing exacerbate the school-to-prison pipeline, laws, and post-conviction barriers to reentry specifically focusing on school-aged Black 365 Behind the Scenes of that uniquely affect women. Specifically, girls, disproportionate suspension and Bethany House black women have become one of the most, if expulsion rates, over-policing school hallways, ABAGAIL MATTISON not the most targeted group by law court involvement and juvenile detention. I enforcement officials throughout the United will connect each contributing factor back to States. They as well have to face extremely the school-to-prison pipeline and explain how 366 Capitalism, Patriarchy, and disproportionate treatment in regards to each factor has long term effects tied to mass the Construction of the being or becoming a mother while still incarceration of BIPOC youth, school-aged upholding their civic duties in their Nonprofit Sector Black girls specifically. LINDSAY GREEN convictions. Black women not only face a lack of empathy but they receive little to no help when struggling. With no resources or aid 327 Trans Equality and the 367 Title IX and WGST there is only so much any woman, or mother Decriminalization of Sex Work DANIELLE WARN could do therefore, when black women are ABIGAIL O'BRIEN deemed to be struggling, it furthers and Transgender individuals face discrimination, encourages the perception of them as a violence and harassment in their everyday parent to be “unfit” especially when there has lives. These experiences are brought to new 38 INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S been past law enforcement encounters. Black extremes when they are imprisoned. This AND GENDER STUDIES: ACTIVIST women are the backbone of our country and begins the moment a transgender person PROJECTS society but are the most ignored, yet enters the prison system. Most are assigned FACUTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: targeted; black women are the invisible to a prison based on their gender assigned at AMANDA ROTH, WOMEN AND GENDER majority. birth instead of their current gender identity. STUDIES Facing discrimination from both prison guards Students will present their virtual activists and prisoners, this increases their chances of 325 History is Storytelling: Yaa projects taken up during Fall 2020. being attacked. Leading to 35% of imprisoned

Gyasi’s Homegoing as a transgender individuals being sexually Corrective Narrative assaulted. While the prison system is 321 Individual Activist Project – EMILY POMAINVILLE incredibly flawed in every capacity, it is Interviews with Teammates In Homegoing, Gyasi uses a generational incredibly deadly for transgender people. This HARRY HARKINS layout to explore both the overarching is why keeping these individuals out of For my activism project, I intended to educate historical narrative of slavery and the prisons should be at the front of transgender my teammates on SUNY Geneseo’s Men’s individual experiences of black Americans and advocacy. In my capstone I am proposing that Swimming and Diving Team on topics and Ghanaians. In this way, she effectively uses decriminalization of sex work is a solution to themes within Women’s and Gender Studies. I historical fiction to decenter Eurocentric this. There are many reasons why transgender chose the men’s team because I personally curriculum and generate an understanding of individuals are unproportionally pushed feel as though men, as a whole, are not well- black American experiences. In this paper, I towards sex work, but even those who are informed on this subject, and so I thought further expose the intersectional and not partaking in this can be profiled as sex that my teammates could serve as a sample, generational problems facing black women in workers by police. The decriminalization of to hopefully capture the opinions of young America. I do this by exploring the formation sex work would help to keep our transgender males in America as a whole. I asked three of of black women’s identities within the legacy population safe. my teammates five sets of two questions. The of slavery, focusing specifically on the first question in each set provided an problems facing Willie, a black woman who opportunity for the interviewee to answer an moves to Harlem during the Great Migration. 41 WGST CAPSTONE open-ended question. In the second question Many of these problems result from the in each set, I referenced a topic or theory in intersection of racism and sexism, which PRESENTATIONS III Women’s and Gender Studies, and then stems from false national myths that have FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: essentially rephrased the first question. My been reified through the construction of AMANDA ROTH, WOMEN AND GENDER hope was that this would encourage my American history. From this, I argue that in STUDIES teammates to open their minds to this order to transform public consciousness, Women’s and Gender Studies senior majors, subject, and to broaden their perspectives. All corrective historical fiction like Homegoing minors, and concentrators will present their the while, I made sure to remain polite and capstone experiences completing internships. respectful, and I allowed them to remain

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2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 15th Annual Session Presentations anonymous to create a safe, learning than anywhere else. To make matters worse, 337 Incarcerated Care: A environment. the conditions in which people are held are inhumane. The goal of this research is to Pandemic within the Prison 322 Voter Activism examine multiple facilities across the country System CLAIRE BRESSETTE and the conditions of each one through a JACOB ZAENGLE, FRANCHESKA COLON, During the months of September through moral lens. We will investigate what social MARIANA CARLO-CLAUSS, ARTRESSIA November of 2020, I conducted a social media and political factors most impact the CHAPMAN AND SEAN NANOS campaign pertaining to voting, specifically conditions found in institutions across the This podcast panel will be looking at the within the presidential election. I provided United States. Likewise, we will discuss the healthcare system within United States information on how to vote, how to vote moral implications of these conditions as they prisons and how COVID-19 has affected it. absentee, and gave voting deadlines, whilst relate to the state’s credibility in carrying out What issues are there within healthcare in the urging people to vote for values that affect punishment. prison system, and how has COVID-19 marginalized and oppressed groups. exacerbated some of these issues? 336 How the War on Drugs has Altered Our Justice System WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES 40 RACE, PUNISHMENT, AND MAX DARGAVEL, LINDA JAIMES, JOSEPH SALVATORE AND ERIN PATTON INDIVIDUAL SESSISON THE CARCERAL STATE: The War on Drugs was a U.S.A. initiative to crack down on drug usage and illegal trading PODCAST/PANEL PROJECTS in the states. After Richard Nixon signed the FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: 338 Intersection of Gender and AMANDA ROTH, WOMEN AND GENDER Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, three changes STUDIES were initiated: mass incarceration, mandatory Disability Students in PHIL 288 in spring 2021 will share minimum sentencings, and the school-to- LINDSAY BAZAN their group podcast/panel projects on some prison pipeline. A large amount of criminal FACULTY SPONSOR: AMANDA ROTH, aspect of mass incarceration--taken up and activity can be tied to low-level drug offenses, WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES examined from a philosophical lens--from the which sparked a 500-600% increase in the During the Fall 2020 semester, I completed an course. incarceration rates since the act was initiated. internship at the Arc of Livingston-Wyoming. I The mandatory minimum sentences can also worked at the Seniors Day Program, where I 335 Consequences of be tied to this incarceration rate increase, had the opportunity to interact and engage since even first-time offenders are subjected with adults with intellectual and/or Incarceration: Prison Conditions to 5 year sentences. Lastly, the creation of the developmental disabilities. Throughout the and Morality school-to-prison pipeline; in which BIPOC day we learned and practiced life skills, ELIZABETH BAIN, EMMA MELENDREZ, students are disproportionately affected by created crafts, played games, and ANTHONY LYON AND EMILY LUPERCIO police presence and pushed out of schools participated in other activities together. I also The U.S. Criminal Justice System has the and on to the streets. assisted the folks with anything they required highest rate of mass incarceration in the more support with. As part of my Women and entire world. At this moment, more people Gender Studies requirement, I analyzed the are locked up in the United States per capita intersection of gender and disability.

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mental and emotional impact of systemic 74 Epidemiological Analysis of racism on college-aged Black women, ANTHROPOLOGY POSTERS 19th Century Cholera Outbreaks examining the coping mechanisms that college-aged Black women employ to in Rochester, New York 15 The Mental and Emotional minimize race-based distress, understanding EMILY LUMBIS how media attention to systemic racism FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, Impact of Being a College-Aged impacts college-aged Black women’s mental ANTHROPOLOGY Black Woman Amid the Current and emotional health, and learning how During the 19th century, multiple cholera college-aged Black women value public outbreaks quickly proliferated across Europe Sociopolitical Climate support for Black lives. Following a semester and North America. During that time, several DREW O'NEIL of quantitative and qualitative research, I of them made their way to Rochester, New FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, assert that by virtue of the policies and York and had serious impacts. With only ANTHROPOLOGY practices sustaining the politico-economic theories about how the disease was spread, Although many Americans assume that exploitation and social marginalization of such as through “bad air,” these outbreaks systemic racism has been washed away Black women, college-aged Black women are left residents struggling to overcome the through history, research shows that this is structurally vulnerable to adverse mental and deadly symptoms and to determine their true far from reality. Across a range of emotional health. The consequences of the cause. Years later, many of those outbreaks interdisciplinary scholarly research exists a structural inequities burdening Black were able to be traced to specific public wells consensus that systemic racism induces Black women’s lives deserve comprehensive or streets. The goal of this research is to women’s suffering. The main question guiding understanding and solutions. My research determine whether cholera spread from a my research asks how systemic racism advances an emerging scholarly call to action specific area in Rochester by using facilitates college-aged Black women’s mental to uproot the systemic racism and structural information from Mt. Hope Cemetery records. and emotional health outcomes. The goals of inequities devastating the welfare of Black Additionally, this study will explore, through this study included documenting where lives. historical sources, how sanitation or the lack systemic racism is prevalent, analyzing the thereof contributed to the spread of cholera  Promotes sustainability 35

Poster Presentations 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual in Rochester. This research will attempt to as current research will also be utilized. Many cavity-nesting native bees are important determine if the incidence and spread of Together these sources will demonstrate pollinators. These bees rear their brood in cholera has correlations to specific areas in whether areas in Rochester with negative hollowed out stems or other similar holes. Rochester where the cholera victims lived. It environmental conditions and/or low Relationships between bee abundance and is predicted that there will be correlations in socioeconomic status were linked to higher artificial nest occupation were evaluated cases among people who lived on the same maternal mortality and stillbirth rates. across several locations on campus. Nest street or shared the same public well. boxes consisting of approximately 40 hollow 199 Socioeconomic Status and tubes in wooden frames were monitored at 4 locations on campus that likely differ in bee 213 Deadly Summers: Infant and Child Death in 19th Century fauna. A wooden frame (the “bee barn”) that Child Deaths in 19th Century Rochester, New York supported eleven nest boxes was established Rochester, New York AKANKSHA AGGARWAL in spring 2019 among the native plant gardens FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, of the Spencer J. Roemer Arboretum, with a NYKOLE NEVOL twelfth box added for this study. Six boxes FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, ANTHROPOLOGY Socioeconomic status, or SES, is the measure isolated into sets of two were placed in the ANTHROPOLOGY Arboretum wildflower area, the back meadow During the 19th century, Rochester, NY of one’s individual/familial social and economic position in society in relation to area of the Arboretum, a no-mow zone, and became a bustling city full of potential. the eGarden. Nest-building activity was Although there were many benefits to living others. The higher one’s SES, the better one's financial and social standing and, observed by recording the tube-filling in Rochester, the prevalence of infectious material for each cavity and the types of disease was not one of them. At this point in consequently, the better chance for a healthy and long life. This was especially the case for insects observed utilizing nest tubes. Insects history short lives were very common, and were sampled with bee bowls, blue-vane many people did not live past childhood. infants and children in the 19th century, when the United States lacked social safety net traps, and net surveys of each site. This study Therefore, children and infants were the most provided an understanding of which bee affected by these diseases. During the programs. During the latter part of the 19th century, deaths in urban areas like Rochester, species are supported in artificial cavity nests, summer months, fever and diarrhea, likely how artificial nest occupants compare to the due to contaminated food or water, took the New York increased, due to growing populations and reduced sanitation. This surrounding bee fauna, how nesting cavities lives of many infants and children. This study are filled throughout the season, and whether explores these diseases, which were study focuses on the correlation between socioeconomic status and the death of bees prefer high density over isolated nesting commonly referred to as cholera infantum sites. and summer complaint, and were made children from birth into childhood in 19th century Rochester through an analysis of Selected for presentation at the Northeast worse by other conditions such as general Natural History Conference malnutrition and marasmus. A spatial analysis death records from Mt. Hope Cemetery and of disease occurrence will be completed using census records. By looking at the correlation internment records from Mt Hope Cemetery between death rates and social status, it is 85 Success of Batesian Mimicry in Rochester. Additionally, an analysis of dairy predicted that SES played a role in the death in the Ant-mimicking Spider and milk production, as well as water quality, rates of children in 19th century Rochester. in Rochester, will also be analyzed due to the Myrmarachne formicaria likely correlation between the prevalence of 424 The Relationship between NIAOMI VANALSTINE AND JULIA OPHALS FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, these diseases and the sanitation of milk and Social Inequality and COVID-19 water. Childhood deaths due to cholera BIOLOGY infantum and summer complaint were, sadly, Morbidity and Mortality Myrmarachne formicaria (Salticidae) is an ant- preventable, but the general public was ALLISON PANARO mimicking spider from Eurasia which was first unaware of the impact that sanitation of milk FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, noted in North America in 2001. It is important and public water would have on their ANTHROPOLOGY to understand how M. formicaria will impact children. This poster will analyze World Bank and World other species as it spreads throughout North America. M. formicaria mimic ants by moving Health Organization data to examine the relationship between inequality and COVID-19 their forelegs to resemble ant antennae, as 343 Analysis of the Impact of morbidity and mortality globally. The analyzed well as bobbing their abdomen. The goal of Environmental Factors on data includes, the total number of COVID-19 this study was to assess the success of Maternal Mortality and Stillbirth cases, COVID-19 deaths, the percentage of Batesian mimicry used by the ant-mimicking total cases per population size, and the Gini spider in avoiding predation when in a staged Rates in 19th Century Rochester, coefficient (the measure of income inequality) encounter with another salticid spider. The NY for each country. This poster will present predator spiders were placed in a petri dish SARAH SUPLICZ graphs comparing the percentage of COVID- with either M. formicaria or a different non- FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, 19 cases per population within each country in mimic salticid spider species. M. formicaria ANTHROPOLOGY relationship to their Gini coefficient in order was attacked less frequently by the predator As is common today, socioeconomic status to explore the relationship between compared to the non-mimic (p = 0.045). We and environmental conditions played a key inequality and the severity of the COVID-19 scored the frequency of behaviors in the ant- role in health and medicine in the 19th pandemic in nation-states. mimics including abdominal bobbing and century. This study is an analysis of cemetery movement of their enlarged chelicerae. Preliminary video analysis showed that ant- records from Mount Hope Cemetery in mimics benefit from some of these Rochester, NY, to determine if there is a link BIOLOGY POSTERS between maternal mortality, stillbirth rates, movements as individuals that were not socioeconomic status and environmental attacked exhibited a longer duration of conditions, such as air pollution. While this chelicerae movement. We found no study will not uncover all of the causes of 40 Evaluating the Use of significant difference in abdomen movement maternal mortality and stillbirths, it will help between ant-mimics that were attacked or Artificial Nests by Native Bees not. Determining whether their lower to determine whether individuals from certain ALLISON MENENDEZ areas of Rochester faced increased rates of incidence of attack is a result of the ant FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, mimic’s appearance, behavior, or both will conditions linked to death. 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Selected for presentation at the Northeastern Sequencing Center. The results were analyzed homozygous mutants as detected by TUNEL Natural History Conference using bioinformatics techniques. The labeling. Because morpholinos may fail to fully dominant autotrophs were single celled inhibit target gene function we crossed 208 Describing Genetic Diversity cyanobacteria Synechococcus sp. and carrier fish heterozygous for both the nt2 and autotrophic Sediminibacterium sp. (Phylum a cell-death induction deficient allele of tp53 in a Non-Native Ant-Mimicking Bacteroidetes). These results were consistent (zdf1) and compared double homozygous Spider with metagenomics analysis of bloom mutants to siblings which had chaf1b mutant CASSIDY MILLS communities from 2020 and analyses of homozygosity and functional tp53. Restriction FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, summer 2019 laboratory isolates. Samples will fragment length polymorphism analysis was BIOLOGY be analyzed for toxin concentration to used to verify zygosity of the nt2 and zdf1 The ant-mimicking spider Myrmarachne determine whether these species pose a alleles. We found that loss of tp53 function nt2 formicaria (Salticidae) is a species native to threat to public use of Conesus Lake waters. failed to rescue the chaf1b small-eye Eurasia and was first identified in North phenotype. America in 2001. It has since been found in 215 Schistosomiasis Infections in Synchronous session: Apr 30, 2021 11:00 - 11:20 many locations in the Northeast including AM western New York, western Pennsylvania, School-Aged Children in Ghana northeastern Ohio, and southern Ontario. KATERINA PISCIOTTA AND MAIA 242 Effects of Epigenetic Little is known about its introduction to North MAZZAFERRO America and how it has dispersed since. By FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN MUENCH, Modifiers on HLA-ABC in a characterizing the mitochondrial genetic BIOLOGY Human Breast Cancer Cell Line diversity of this species, we can learn about its Schistosomiasis is a Neglected Tropical ANDREW KAREEPARAMPIL introduction history and dispersal patterns in Disease caused by a parasitic blood fluke. FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, North America. Sequencing of a 600-bp There are currently over 240 million people BIOLOGY mitochondrial DNA gene region spanning the affected globally. Humans become infected Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is a group of 16s rRNA, leucine tRNA, and part of the ND1 after coming into contact with water proteins coded by the major gene from 26 specimens collected from 14 containing the infectious stage of the histocompatibility complex (MHC) and is a localities in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio parasite. Our data consists of egg counts for vital part of the human immune response. yielded no genetic polymorphisms. Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma HLA allows abnormal cells to be destroyed by Comparisons with sequence data available mansoni collected from school-aged children cytotoxic T-cells by presenting antigens to the with GenBank for other salticid species in Tomefa, Ghana, a marginalized informal cell surface. In tumors, however, there is (Myrmarachne erythrocephala and community, between 2014 and 2019. Our diminished HLA expression, allowing cells to Habronattus ustulatus) have shown that research explores whether or not reinfections bypass the immune system. Experiments within-species divergence in this and continuous infections were occurring were conducted to determine the effects of mitochondrial DNA region is found in other over the six-year period. Although the various drug epigenetic modifiers on HLA spiders, so M. formicaria’s lack of variation is government conducts periodic mass drug expression in MDA-MB-231 cells, a human likely unusual. Our current data are consistent administration, reinfections are likely given breast cancer cell line. HLA expression was with a single invasion of Myrmarachne the social and environmental conditions in the compared between control and drug formicaria from one source locality, but data community. Families move in and out of the treatments using flow cytometry. Initial from additional loci and samples would help community, and children may stop attending results found that HLA-ABC expression is to confirm this conclusion. school if they are unable to pay the fees. increased in cells treated individually with the Selected for presentation at the Northeast Prolonged infections in children can lead to drugs 5-Azacytidine and Vorinostat. We are Natural History Conference malnutrition, anemia, and delayed continuing to test combinations of these development. We are looking at reinfection drugs, along with the addition of gamma- rates for both species, including both 211 Do Single Cell Cyanobacterial Interferon, an immune cytokine known to replacements and substitutions of the species upregulate HLA-ABC expression. Blooms in Conesus Lake Pose a as well as concurrent infection. Furthermore, we would like to study how two Synchronous session: Apr 28, 2021 3:00 - 3:45 other HLA proteins, HLA-E and HLA-G, can be Risk to Public Health? PM ELIZA MERGES affected by these epigenetic modifiers.

FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, Effective increases in HLA expression can be BIOLOGY, AND DR. LOGAN PEOPLES 216 Loss of Function Mutation beneficial to cancer immunotherapy. Toxin-producing cyanobacteria blooms in for tp53 does not Rescue the lakes can be detrimental to the ecosystem nt2 281 Insect Soundscapes in and to public use of lake waters. Filamentous, chaf1b Small-eye Phenotype in colony forming cyanobacteria are prominent Danio rerio Western New York toxin-producing species in harmful blooms. ALEXANDER PARKS MACKENZIE BANCROFT, SARAH METZ AND Recent studies have shown that a previously FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, DANA MOUKALED unrecognized type of bloom dominated by BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI HANNAM, single cell cyanobacteria has been occurring in In Zebrafish, the chromosome assembly BIOLOGY Conesus Lake since 2015. The dominant factor 1b (chaf1b) gene is in part responsible Recent assessments of insect populations organisms in these blooms seem to be for the development of the eye. In suggest significant declines in abundance and cyanobacteria that range in size from about homozygous chaf1bt24412 mutants retinal cell diversity across the globe. These assessments 1.0-2.0 μm, referred to as picocyanobacteria. death is promoted through cell-death have not included western New York, so it is In 2020, a picocyanobacteria bloom persisted promoting activity of the gene, tumor important to gain an understanding of the from mid-July to mid-August, reaching peak suppressor protein p53 (tp53), resulting in a insect diversity and abundance in our local cell densities of 3.5 x 105 cells/mL. Field small-eye phenotype. Another allele chaf1bnt2, habitats, particularly grasslands. One non- samples filtered through 1.0 micron filters and was found to also result in the small-eye invasive way to sample insect populations is grown in Alga-Gro culture media under phenotype when in a homozygous state. We to record the acoustic signals used by these artificial light produced cultures of single- found that knockdown of Tp53 protein via animals. Male insects of several taxa advertise celled cyanobacteria. DNA was obtained from morpholino antisense oligonucleotide for mates in the late summer by producing concentrated cultures and sent out for injection of 1-2 cell stage embryos failed to species-specific vocalizations at potential sequencing by the Microbial Genome rescue retinal cell death of chaf1bnt2 breeding sites. We are using acoustic  Promotes sustainability 37

Poster Presentations 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual recordings to examine three local sites for reproductive structures and are sterile. the expression of piRNA in SR and wild-type their use by singing insects. Acoustic Through previous experiments, we have been males using small RNA sequencing analysis recordings collected during September 2019 able to determine that there are three software (proTRAC, PILFER) designed for this will be analyzed to determine species present, different transcripts of the fsd-1 gene, which type of data. If meiotic drive and TEs their abundance, temporal patterns of differ by the length and intron/exon structure cooperate, we would expect to see increased activity, and how soundscapes, a wholistic of their 5’ untranslated region. This project expression of piRNAs targeting TEs in SR metric of the habitats, differ between sites. focuses on phenotypically characterizing the males. We will utilize Raven Lite to visualize insect reproductive ability of strains overexpressing Synchronous session: Apr 28, 2021 5:00-5:30 calls from ten-minute recordings for every fsd-1, for each of the three transcripts. We are PM hour between 2 pm and 6 pm. Because there also using Q-RT-PCR to confirm an increase in is no standard measure of the size of singing fsd-1 expression in strains with an 314 STEM and Society: The insect populations, we will apply a measure to overexpression construct for the medium determine an index of chorus size based on length transcript of fsd-1, which is expressed Effects of Deforestation on criteria in the Wisconsin Frog and Toad highly during sexual development. Zoonotic Virus Transmission in Survey. This research will expand our South America knowledge about how New York State 305 Anuran Soundscapes of New species use local grassland habitats. MEGHAN SHERIDAN FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY, York Wetlands in Frog Breeding AND DOUGLAS BALDWIN, MATHEMATICS 285 Analysis of Her4.1 and Ascl1a Sites Deforestation is increasingly associated with in gef Mutants LYDIA GLEASON, JACK BARBOSA AND the transmission of zoonotic viruses, such as ROBERT COLBATH the Yellow Fever virus in South America. TESSA BEITER, BRYNN JOHNSON AND LIN FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI HANNAM, KAI YE Increasing rates of deforestation in South BIOLOGY America may cause viral transmission to FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, With both amphibians and their wetland BIOLOGY accelerate, but may depend on the factors habitats in decline, it is critical to understand responsible for deforestation. The purpose of Zebrafish make an ideal model organism for what ponds in the local landscape are used as studying the development of the retina. The this study is to determine how the type of breeding sites. Male frogs advertise for mates deforestation affects virus transmission. In mutant good effort (gef) zebrafish have in the spring and summer by producing smaller eyes compared to the wild-type particular, the deforestation caused by mining species-specific vocalizations at potential may have different effects on animal hosts zebrafish embryos at 2 days post-fertilization. breeding sites. We are using acoustic This is due to retinal degradation because of and vectors (e.g. mosquito) of the Yellow recordings to examine three local sites for Fever virus compared to deforestation caused the lack of a functioning Chaf1b protein. The their use for breeding by frogs. Acoustic Chaf1b protein-coding region is disrupted due by logging. To test this, I obtained data from recordings collected during May 2020 will be various databases, including the Global Forest to the deletion of its coding intronic DNA, analyzed to determine species abundance which causes an exon to be lost. Chaf1b is Watch, Center for Disease Control, and the based on the temporal patterns of activity. By World Health Organization. My preliminary important to the cell because it makes up one analyzing how the soundscapes, a holistic of the three parts of the chromosome results show that states, such as Mato Grosso metric of the habitats, differ between sites and Para, display some of the highest levels of assembly factor 1 (CAF-1). CAF-1 functions to can we understand the frogs’ habits. Using regulate chromatin and load histones onto logging and mining in Brazil along with some Raven Lite we can analyze call frequency to of the highest Yellow Fever cases. This finding DNA, but cannot function without Chaf1b. monitor breeding habits of spring peepers While it has been hypothesized that Tp53- may be due to populations of mosquitoes (Pseudacris crucifer) and green frog (Hylarana that are either displaced or moved closer or mediated apoptosis is responsible for the gef erythraea) species. This research will expand mutants’ small eyes, tp53-morphants and further away from the human population. My our knowledge about how New York State future study could focus on various other homozygous gef double mutants have been species use local habitats. studied and the cell death seen in gef mutants types of virus transmission around the world Synchronous session: Apr 26, 2021 1:00 - 1:20 and how public health in different is not correlated with Tp53 activity. Retinal PM regeneration signaling pathway members, communities is affected.

Her4.1 and Ascl1a, promote retinal cell fate specification. Histone deacetylases selectively 307 Cooperation of Selfish 22 Examining p27 Expression and regulate her4.1 and ascl1a during retinal Genetic Elements in Stalk-Eyed development, making these genes possible Quiescence in Clobetasol- affected genes of the gef phenotype. These Flies Exposed UMSCV-4 Vulvar Cancer two genes were visualized in gef and wild- SUHANI PATEL AND BENJAMIN MCPHERSON FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, Cells type zebrafish embryos via the in situ NINA MUSTICO AND VINCENT SCALCIONE hybridization process. BIOLOGY SGEs are selfish genetic elements that FACULTY SPONSOR: JANI LEWIS, BIOLOGY

increase the likelihood of their own Vulvar cancer is rare, mostly afflicting women 289 Phenotypic Characterization transmission regardless of the host’s best aged 60 and older. The cancer is often of Neurospora crassa fsd-1 interest. Transposable elements (TEs) and preceded by a common vulvar rash, lichen meiotic drivers are both types of SGEs. SGEs sclerosis, that is usually treated with the ultra- Overexpression Strains subsequently result in genetic conflict as they potent corticosteroid, clobetasol propionate. HANNAH SMITH disrupt functional elements in the genome. This treatment may, in turn, be associated FACULTY SPONSOR: BETSY HUTCHISON, We are working to better understand the with vulvar carcinogenesis. Our previous BIOLOGY cooperation of selfish genetic elements in findings suggest that clobetasol is causing Neurospora crassa is a model filamentous Stalk-Eyed flies. Transposable elements are UMSCV-4 vulvar carcinoma cells to enter a fungal organism that can reproduce both counteracted by small non-coding RNA state of quiescence. Quiescence is temporary asexually and sexually. Little is known about molecules called piRNA. These RNA molecules removal from the cell cycle and can be the molecular mechanisms that regulate the work by reducing the expression of TEs by thought of as a dormant state in which cells N. crassa female sexual development cycle. degrading TE RNA transcripts. Prior work in are not actively dividing. There is growing The transcription factor fsd-1 is necessary for stalk-eyed flies has shown that TEs are evidence suggesting that quiescence may play sexual development, and fsd-1 deletion strains expressed at a higher rate in male carriers of a role in allowing cancer cells to contribute to show delayed development of female meiotic drive (SR males). We are comparing the recurrence of the cancer months or years 38  Promotes sustainability

2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual Poster Presentations after treatment. There are many cell cycle expression of the 435 Melanoma cell line. experiment was to observe the effects of two inhibitors that may indicate quiescence, one Numerous flow cytometry experiments were drugs as well as the combination of them on of which is p27. Currently, our lab seeks to conducted to determine if these drugs had the expression of HLA antigens in these determine the expression levels of the cell any effect on the HLA expression on the 435- cancerous cell lines. The drugs being used in cycle inhibitor, p27, in clobetasol-exposed cell line. The data suggests that both this experiment are Gamma interferon, which UMSCV-4 vulvar cancer cells compared to Vorinostat and 5-Azacytidine increased HLA is known to increase antigen presentation and untreated cells. expression on the 435-cell line. Future 5-azacitidine which is known to have anti- experiments will be conducted to test cancer actions. The data collected suggests 352 Investigating the Function of whether the addition of gamma interferon to that in A-431 cells, interferon and 5-aza both these drugs will result in an additional, upregulate HLA expression, however the MHC Class I in Xenopus laevis synergistic, or antagonistic effect on the HLA combination appears to diminish these Tadpoles expression. effects. It also suggests that in HL-60 cells STEPHANIE ALVAREZ MERLOS AND ANNIKA Interferon and 5-aza separately also MOUNTS 394 Environmental Education: upregulate HLA-expression and also FACULTY SPONSOR: HRISTINA upregulate HLA together however no more NEDELKOVSKA, BIOLOGY An Active Pedagogy to Integrate than individually. Xenopus laevis is an excellent model organism Environmentalism, Engagement, for transgenesis and immunological research and Equity due to their large eggs and the similarities OLIVIA WHITMARSH CHEMISTRY POSTERS between mammalian and amphibian immune FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT FEISSNER, systems. MHC Class I is found on nearly all BIOLOGY cells and educates T cells to recognize EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT 42 Pretreatment and Fiber between self and non-self, which is an PRESENTATION essential immune system function. However, The environmental and climate changes Content Analysis of Cannabis tadpoles don’t have detectable MHC Class I occurring on our planet are largely the result sativa L. Part II expression while adult frogs do. Despite this of human actions. In concert, rampant bias tadpoles are still immunocompetent; thus the JESSICA ROGGIE, SARAH SCHMIDLIN, AND and inequity exist in many human spheres, DINA BU role of MHC Class I in tadpoles is unknown. To including – but not limited to – social, investigate MHC Class I function we FACULTY SPONSORS: JACALYN WITTMER academic, and civic. Environmental education MALINOWSKI, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES, AND inactivated the corresponding gene in (EE) is a methodology and mindset that Xenopus laevis using CRISPR/Cas9. The BARNABAS GIKONYO, CHEMISTRY integrates systems thinking, hands-on Cannabis sativa L., more commonly known as CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system has two learning, and social justice work across a components; a guide RNA that targets a hemp, has become one of the fastest-growing cohesive curriculum. EE empowers educators, plants whose refined products have immense specific DNA sequence and the Cas9 protein learners, and community members in many that cuts the DNA. After the DNA is cut, the commercial value. Various products such as: ways. Whether it is taking an active role in biofuels, biodegradable plastics, textiles, cell repairs the DNA break, which introduces learning, protecting and restoring the mutations that theoretically inactivate this dietary supplements, paper, clothing and environment, or dismantling biases, EE more include refined hemp in their gene. Previously, we generated transgenic provides tools for success. I provide five tadpoles with potentially inactivated MHC composition. Hemp fibers are also used in lesson plans that serve as a basis for the construction and manufacturing applications Class I genes, and we are in the process of development of a science curriculum based in determining the success of our transgenesis. as a way to strengthen composite products. EE principles at the 7-12 level. These lessons The various qualities of hemp make it a high To detect MHC Class I inactivation we will use may be personalized in a number of ways to PCR to amplify the MHC class I gene from yielding, sustainable, and environmentally suit a variety of learners and learning needs. friendly crop which has the potential to yield genomic DNA of the transgenic tadpoles Ideas to help educators meet students’ needs which will then be sent for sequencing. valuable raw materials for a great number of and gradually reduce dependence on teacher- applications. Our research evaluates the

centric learning, is provided throughout. This pretreatment of hemp as well as the 362 The Effects of Epigenetic allows scaffolding of the curriculum for a comparative analysis of the fiber content Modifiers on the Expression of variety of levels. I provide pedagogical and EE thereof. Our goal is to determine the principles to accompany each lesson and suitability and the potential use of ionic liquid- HLA-ABC on Melanoma Cancer detail the process of development of this based pretreatment (1-Butyl-3- Cell Lines curriculum. methylimidazolium chloride) for the HANNA BUSSEY Synchronous session: Apr 27, 2021 1:00 - 2:00 breakdown of hemp lignocellulosic biomass. FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, PM The data presented and discussed in the BIOLOGY following sections is compiled from Melanoma is widely known as a malignant and 430 IFNγ and 5-Aza Drug Effects procedures done on hemp during the fall of detrimental cancer that develops from the 2020 and compared to the results from spring pigment-producing cells known as on HLA Expression in Human of 2021. melanocytes. The human leukocyte antigen Leukemia and Epidermoid (HLA) is an important signaling molecule Carcinoma 41 Fiber Decomposition and encoded by the major histocompatibility NICK TURNQUIST Pretreatment Analysis of complex (MHC) that allows the immune FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, system to detect and destroy cancer cells. I BIOLOGY Cannabis sativa L.: Hemp conducted various experiments using the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) is a gene DINA BU, SARAH SCHMIDLIN, AND JESSICA epigenetic modifier drugs 5-Azacytidine and that codes for cell-surface proteins that are ROGGIE Vorinostat as well as the cytokine known as the basis of our bodies’ immune response, FACULTY SPONSORS: BARNABAS GIKONYO, gamma interferon. 5-Azacytidine is a and are crucial for the combatting of CHEMISTRY, AND JACALYN WITTMER methylation inhibitor, and Vorinostat is a pathogens or infections. For our experiment MALINOWSKI, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES histone deacetylase inhibitor. Interferon we observed two cell lines, a human Hemp is a subspecies of Cannabis sativa L. gamma influences downstream gene Leukemia cell line (HL-60), and an epidermoid along with marijuana, yet the two differ in expression. The purpose of using these drugs carcinoma cell line A-431. Our purpose for this chemical constituent levels of delta-9- was to see if there was an effect on HLA  Promotes sustainability 39

Poster Presentations 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol The formation of the aggregates of the The empirically extracted peptide coverage (CBD). Hemp contains 0.3% THC compared to amyloid beta 1-40 (Aβ1-40) coated nano-gold ratio, Θ, over nano-gold colloid surface was marijuana 17.1%, allowing it to be a safe and colloids were investigated for various nano- examined to three amyloidogenic peptides compelling biomass for investigation. The gold colloid sizes ranging between 10 nm and (amyloid beta 1-40, alpha synuclein, and beta- refined products of hemp are vast due to its 100 nm. The aggregation process was 2-microglobulin). The pure mathematical fast-growing properties; therefore various considered to be initiated by the self- analysis to reproduce Θ was required to commercial industries have included refined assembly of Aβ1-40 by transforming the folded involve an assumption of charge distribution hemp in biofuels, biodegradable plastics, to the unfolded structure under highly acidic of the peptides in order to optimize the fit. In textiles, dietary supplements, paper, clothing, condition. The formation of the aggregates most cases, the involvement of a secondary and much more. Construction and were monitored by a peak shift of surface layer was needed and contained the manufacturing applications have also been Plasmon resonance (SPR) band as a function interfacial conformation as a networking of seen to include hemp to strengthen their of number of free Aβ1-40 available. While the the peptides resulting in gold aggregates. The composite products. The high-yielding, detailed nano-size dependence in aggregation nano-size dependence of Θ was fully sustainable, and environmentally friendly process needs to be investigated further, two explained by utilizing available spacing qualities of hemp have the potential to yield different processes were proposed. (1) Step- between adjacent prolates, Sd, which was valuable raw materials for a great number of wise aggregation: The aggregates of a found to be an important parameter to applications. Hence, our research seeks to particular size was formed at a certain govern the interfacial displacement of the evaluate the suitability and the potential use threshold of the concentration of available peptide at the adsorption process. Two of ionic liquid-based pretreatment (1-Butyl-3- free Aβ1-40. (2) Gradual aggregation: The size different schemes of constructing Sd, were methylimidazolium chloride) for the of the aggregates monotonically increases as observed. For Aβ1–40 and α-syn invited in the breakdown of hemp lignocellulosic biomass. the Aβ1-40 is added. The coverage ratio of the second layer by increasing the Sd with more Using past collected data from our research, peptide was considered to determine which partially negative plasmon surface region we hope to cross-examine through model could be applied to interpret the available for partially positive side of Aβ1–40 stereomicroscopic analysis to affirm if a aggregation process. and α-syn to be enclosed. On the other hand, consistent trend is observed across as Sd increases β2m tend to gyrates over the pretreatment stages for our samples. All 62 Nano-size Dependence in gold surface creating more partially negative collected data is presented and discussed in region uninviting the second layer. Thus, the the following sections. Aggregation Process of Beta 2 less Sd prohibiting the gyration of β2m Microglobulin Coated Gold peptides tend to interact with each other. 6 Pretreatment and Fiber Colloids Content Analysis of Cannabis KAYLEE HAUSRATH 64 Spectroscopic Investigation FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, on the Affinity of SARS-CoV-2 sativa CHEMISTRY DINA BU, JESSICA ROGGIE, AND SARAH Spike Protein to Gold Nano- EDGAR FELLOWS CAPSTONE PROJECT SCHMIDLIN PRESENTATION particles FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, The formation of the aggregates of the beta 2 MATTHEW DESIDERIO CHEMISTRY microglobulin (b2m) coated nano-gold FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, Cannabis sativa commonly known as hemp is colloids were investigated for various nano- CHEMISTRY one of the fastest-growing plants whose gold colloid sizes ranging between 10 nm and The affinity of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (S refined products have immense commercial 100 nm. The aggregation process was protein) to gold nano-particles was examined value. Various products include refined hemp considered to be initiated by the self- through spectral shifts of SPR (Surface such as: biofuels, biodegradable plastics, assembly of b2m by transforming the folded Plasmon Resonance) band. Gold nano- textiles, dietary supplements, paper, clothing, to the unfolded structure under highly acidic colloidal particles are sensitive to the and much more. Hemp fibers are also used in condition (pH < 4). The formation of the conformational change of the protein construction and manufacturing applications aggregates were monitored by a peak shift of adsorbed over the particles’ surface. As the by strengthening their composite products. surface plasmon resonance (SPR) band as a pH value was gradually lowered from Hemp is a high yielding, sustainable, and function of number of free b2m available. As approximately neutral pH to an acidic pH (ca. environmentally friendly crop due to its for relatively smaller size of gold colloid pH 2), all mixtures of S protein with the gold various qualities, and has the potential to diameter a gradual aggregation process was colloids ≥30 nm in diameter exhibited a yield valuable raw materials for a great observed. The size of the aggregates was drastic red-shift of the average SPR band peak number of applications. Our research considered to increase monotonically as the at one pH value more than that observed for evaluates the pretreatment of hemp as well b2m was added. On the other hand, as for bare gold colloids. The surface coverage as the comparative analysis of the fiber relatively larger diameter of gold colloid, step- fraction (Θ) of S protein over the nano- content thereof. Our goal is to determine the wise aggregation process was observed. So particle’s surface was extracted and all suitability and the potential use of ionic liquid- that the aggregates of a particular size was showed relatively small coverage values (i.e., based pretreatment (1-Butyl-3- formed at a certain threshold of the Θ ~ 0.30). The SPR band peak shift was also methylimidazolium chloride) for the concentration of available free b2m. The examined as the pH values were hopped breakdown of hemp lignocellulosic biomass. majority of the gold surface of the smaller between pH ~ 3 and pH ~ 10 (pH hopping). As The collected data is presented and discussed. gold size was easily covered and support the the pH values hopped, an alternation of the Selected for presentation at the Pittsburgh aggregation even at the lower concentration average SPR band peaks were observed. A Conference on Analytical Chemistry and of b2m. significant amplitude of an alternation was Applied Spectroscopy and the SUNY especially observed for the mixture of S Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) 63 Nano-Scale Interfacial protein with gold ≥30 nm of gold size implying the reproduction of pH induced reversible 61 Aggregation Mechanism of Displacement of Amyloidogenic protein folding. Amyloidogenic Peptides Coated Peptides MIR ALI Nano-gold Colloids FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, THERESA LAM CHEMISTRY FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, CHEMISTRY 40  Promotes sustainability

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65 Nano-size Dependence in the people to choose healthy behaviors such as the virus on high-contact surfaces. Biocides masking, social distancing, and getting come in a variety of forms such as alcohols Adsorption by the SARS-CoV-2 vaccinated, in order to achieve a state in and aldehydes they function differently but all Spike Protein Over Gold Colloid which we may be safe to continue our lives as achieve the same result of inactivating cells ZI CHAO LIN normal. either by disruption of the virus-cell FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, membrane or infiltration into the cell which CHEMISTRY 72 Geneseo COVID-19 Study causes protein degradation, resulting in cell Gold nano-particles were coated with the death. spike protein (S protein) of SARS-CoV-2 and Group Report IV: Zoonotic exposed to increasingly acidic conditions. Transmission and Variants of 78 Bone Fracture Repair: Testing Their responses were investigated by SARS-CoV-2 Porous Properties of Calcium monitoring the surface plasmon resonance BROOKE LICATA, JOSEPH BRINZA AND GABE (SPR) band shift. As the external pH was Phosphate Bioactive Cement and MUSTAFA gradually changed from neutral pH to pH ~2 FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, how it Compares to Pig Bone the peak of the SPR band showed a significant CHEMISTRY NOSHEIB JADOON, JACK DONALDSON AND red-shift, with a sigmoidal feature implying A zoonotic disease is a virus, bacteria, or other DEAN IVANOVSKI the formation of the gold-protein aggregates. organism that is transmitted from animals to FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, The coating of S protein changed the surface humans. There are many zoonotic diseases CHEMISTRY property of the gold enough to extract the that have arisen from a family of viruses called Autografting is the most effective method coverage fraction of protein over nano Coronaviridae, one of these being SARS-CoV-2 used for supplementing and replacing bone. particles, Θ, which did not exhibit clear nano- which is more commonly known as Covid-19. Autografting is a risky procedure because of size dependence. The geometrical simulation We know that viruses can mutate to create its invasive nature. When performing the to explain Θ showed the average axial length variants of themselves with changes to their procedure of autografting, one needs to to be a = 7. 25 nm and b =8.00 nm when the S- genetic code. As of March 13, 2021, there are remove small sections of bone to use as a protein was hypothesized as a prolate shape three identified variants of the SARS-CoV-2 stimulant at the fracture site. This study is with spiking-out orientation. As the pH value virus - B.1.1.7 (UK), B.1.351 (South Africa), and made to design an alternative method to externally hopped between pH~3 and pH~10, P.1 (Brazil). These virulent zoonotic strains replace autografting. In our study, we used a behavior of reversible protein folding was have been found globally since 2019 and have pig fibula as a model to compare the observed for particles with diameters >30 nm. managed to become more dangerous with properties of our novel cement which is It was concluded that S protein adsorption each mutation. The specific strains can vary in Calcium Phosphate based. Calcium Phosphate conformation was impacted by the size their transmission and morbidity. We will be Cement (CPC) is ideal because it is a (diameter, d) of a core nano-gold, where evaluating the virulence of SARS-CoV-2 to the biocompatible bone substitute composed of head-to-head dimerized S protein was various mammalian bodies by the binding Hydroxyapatite (HA), which constitutes a estimated for d ≤ 80 nm and a parallel in affinity of the virus to the ACE2 receptors. Our major component of human bone. The opposite directions formation for d = 100 nm. goal is to educate the public on the Hydroxyapatite will serve as the base Selected for presentation at the American transmission of SARS-CoV-2 between humans ingredient for the cement. The cement allows Chemical Society National Meeting and animals, specifically their own pets in for the successful osseointegration and the order to help people better protect initiation of bone growth. We focus our 71 Geneseo COVID-19 Study themselves. efforts into understanding and finding a consistent porosity size between the pig Group Report V: Long Term fibula and the Calcium Phosphate Cement. Pharmaceutical Strategies and 76 Geneseo COVID-19 Study This will be done by using different Prevention of COVID-19 Group Report II: Infection concentrations of chitosan and sodium MARY BARTKUS, JENNIE DWORKIN, Mechanism and Methods of bicarbonate. Results of the experiment show ANTHONY RIZZO AND KAYLEE HAUSRATH that the sample most similar to the bone Prevention FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, sample was the chitosan. JOSHUA THOMAS, MIR ALI AND RACHEL CHEMISTRY HIRSCHKIND A vaccine is a form of weakened or killed virus 84 Optimizing Conditions to FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, that is inserted in the body in the method of CHEMISTRY Maximize Algae Growth for an injection. Some vaccines, such as the The SARS-CoV-2 virus is spread by infected COVID-19 vaccine, contain only a part of the Biodiesel Production individuals exhaling aerosols that contain virus. This stimulates the immune system to WADY JACOBY, SAMANTHA ROSS, LAUREN active virus cells that are inhaled by another produce immunity to a specific disease SAGGESE, PAVEL ANANEV, AND DARIA person or land on high-contact surfaces. instead of first experiencing the disease to ZHOGINA Once the virus is inhaled, the angiotensin- build that protection. The COVID-19 vaccine is FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) protein on the a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine that CHEMISTRY lung cells functions as a receptor for the directs our cells how to make a specific Select subspecies of microalgae are SARS-CoV-2 virus. ACE2 normally converts protein (“spike protein”) to trigger an considered promising candidates for third angiotensin II (ANG II), a protein that is immune response inside our body, thus generation renewable resources of biodiesel. harmful to the lungs, into another molecule producing antibodies which protect us against Algae ingests carbon emissions from the that counteracts the effects of ACE2. When COVID-19 particles. Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, atmosphere, converting it into energy-dense ACE2 is occupied with SARS-CoV-2, ANG II will and Johnson & Johnson are the authorized lipids which can be harvested and not be converted and results in harm to the vaccines currently in distribution. Looking transformed into biodiesel. However, before lungs. Distancing six feet apart has become a ahead, public health structures worldwide will the fuel industry can adopt algae farming as standard guideline in preventing transmission continue to implement safety measures and an alternative to fossil fuels, the process of of infectious diseases, SARS-CoV-2 droplets track disease trends in order to protect the harvesting must be optimized further. Our can reach up to six feet or more from their health of the human population. There are research aims to make algal lipid extraction source. Masks are used to further control the many steps being taken in the right direction more realistic by determining the ideal spread of infection and protect the wearer. with regards to vaccine distribution, testing, growing conditions of the algae species Additionally, disinfectants, or biocides, have pharmaceuticals, treatment and policy. Chlorella vulgaris. Our research focused on shown to be the most effective at destroying However, it will take the cooperation of all two objectives: The first was to generate a  Promotes sustainability 41

Poster Presentations 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual standard plot which relates absorbances of virus and provide up-to-date information on analysis has been used to rate sentiment algae cultures to their cell densities. A the validation of testing as knowledge of the score of each tweet, which shows that standard plot would replace cell-counting and virus is better comprehended. Democrats tend to obtain higher positive hemocytometer usage. The second objective sentiment compared to Republicans. To was to determine the highest algae growth support this claim, a word analysis was also rates between three groups: a) incubation COMMUNICATION POSTER conducted to identify that Republicans with semi-daily agitation, b) fume hood with express more negative sentiment over words semi-daily agitation, and c) fume hood with pertaining to social distancing rules than constant agitation. Our resulting plot shows a 21 Difficult Family Dialogues Democrats. These findings may provide a direct linear relationship between absorbance better understanding of the development of EMILY HAYES and cell density with a R squared value of public discourse on social media and the FACULTY SPONSOR: MEREDITH HARRIGAN, 0.8629. Group c had the slowest growth rate, difference in pattern of behaviors in COMMUNICATION while groups a and b had similar growth rates compliance to physical distancing rules The purpose of this study is to understand nearly double that of c. Our data suggests according to an individual’s partisan identity. what topics are difficult for emerging adults that constant agitation is not an ideal Selected for presentation at the SUNY to discuss with family members and how they condition for algal growth. Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) communicatively manage them. Specific

research questions were: (a) What topics are

93 Geneseo COVID 19 Study difficult for emerging adults to discuss with Group Report I: Basic family members? (b) How do emerging adults GEOGRAPHY POSTERS attempt to manage these conversations? and Understanding of a Virus (c) What strategies are effective and THERESA LAM, ZI CHAO LIN AND MATTHEW ineffective when it comes to managing these 25 Blackness is Here and DESIDERIO conversations? Qualitative data were FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, collected from 60 emerging adults using an Everywhere: The Whiteness of CHEMISTRY online survey. Findings revealed that the most Geography in the U.S. Academy This poster will provide insight into the basic difficult topics for emerging adults to discuss KAZON ROBINSON knowledge required to understand what with their families include relationships, FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, viruses are and how they work. Viruses are identities, education, the future, health and GEOGRAPHY microorganisms that can infect animals, wellbeing, finances, and politics. Participants Past geographical research and whiteness plants, and bacterias that can make them sick. reported using intrapersonal communication, impact the current course content and As for, SARS-COV-2, it is a variation of the interpersonal communication, openness, demographics of the discipline in the United SARS Virus that caused the outbreak of the third-party support, and avoidance to manage States. In fact, there is still a disconnect COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 may cause a these topics. The effectiveness of each between how “black matters are spatial fever, cough, loss of smell/taste, muscle strategy differed by the individual and the matters” (McKittrick, 2006). The correlation aches/chills, sore throat, and shortened strategy used. The study provides new insight extends to the foundation of the American breath. Before diving deeper into the about what makes these topics difficult and Association of Geographers (Kobayashi, mechanisms that COVID-19 employs to infect what does or does not work when trying to 2014). Fortunately, I see an improvement in humans, it is critical to have a basic have a conversation. how Blackness, class, and queerness weave understanding of a virus. Therefore, this will Synchronous session: Apr 29, 2021 1:00 - 2:00 together in contemporary research (Dache better inform the general public about the PM and McGuire, 2021). I begin with a literature ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. review on the intersection and removal of Blackness in geography. I use the AAG’s Guide 296 Geneseo COVID-19 Study to Geography Programs to examine ECONOMICS POSTER geography programs in New York that have Group Report III: Detection of course content on Blackness. I also analyze SARS-COV2 and an Insight into the 107 HBCUs using the same process and mRNA Replication 11 Assessing 2019 Novel synthesize a map using QGIS. While HBCUs overwhelmingly have limited geography WINDSOR ARDNER AND ALEXANDER SERAM Coronavirus (COVID-19) Related programs, I also expect to find that NY FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, Sentiment: Insights from Twitter geography programs lack the desired course CHEMISTRY content. The significance of this research is Researchers and healthcare professionals are Posts beyond “adding Black subjects to geography working tirelessly to counteract the newly WON KIM syllabi” for diversity (Hawthorne, 2019). It is a emerged SARS-COV2 pandemic. FACULTY SPONSOR: WEIZHE WENG, reminder that Black Geographies have been Advancements in research today are slowly ECONOMICS “buried alive” academically for centuries putting us in a better position to fully The outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Goldberg, 2009). My research will continue understand and deal with this virus. There is (COVID-19) has spread and affected many to open up alternative ways that academics relatively a small amount known about this countries, causing global attention and and organizers can create knowledge that virus because it is a new variation in its family concern. Understanding the underlying realizes that Black experiences are spatial of viruses (Coronaviridae), and thus there is sentiment of a disease outbreak can help to experiences. much more to learn. Our poster explores the keep track of spreading epidemics and Selected for presentation at the SUNY inner workings behind the scenes that our provide a potential explanation for associated Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) researchers and healthcare professionals human behaviors. Social media, i.e., Twitter, Synchronous session: Apr 29, 2021 3:30 - 4:30 interact with in order to understand the virus can serve as an important source to provide PM and devise treatments going forward. Some real-time information. Utilizing sentiment of the topics include the detection of SARS- analysis, analysis of opinions can be gathered COV2 by using PCR (polymerase chain through Twitter. Therefore, performing reaction) testing as well as insight into the sentiment analysis on the tweets related to science behind viral mRNA replication. The the disease gives a better insight on the purpose of this poster is to strengthen the impact of the COVID-19 in our society. This public’s understanding of this newly emerged paper sheds light on how partisan preference affect individuals’ sentiments. AFINN lexicon 42  Promotes sustainability

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268 Nature Centers in New York 331 Temporal Trends in the communities involved in the trials, I also learned from this research just how many State Receding Glaciers in Glacier details and information surrounding the ALLISON MENENDEZ National Park, Montana, 1904 to Salem Witch Trials remains unknown to this FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, 2020 day. GEOGRAPHY Nature centers provide an informal education EMILY KEENAN to the public about wildlife, ecology, and the FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, 361 Letchworth State Park and environment. They can be owned privately or GEOGRAPHY the Glen Iris Estate: Mapping 113 Glacier National Park, located in Montana be run by parks. The purpose of this project Years of Change from 1907 to was to create a GIS layer that maps the along the Canadian border, was comprised of location of New York nature centers and approximately 80 glaciers following the Little 2020 holds information about them. The main Ice Age. During this time, the glaciers hit their KATIE SINGLETON vector layer of this project is a point layer peak; however, over the years, many of these FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, representing the locations of nature centers glaciers have decreased drastically in size. As GEOGRAPHY in the state with fields, including the name of of 2015, only 26 of these glaciers still remain The Portage Gorge located in Upstate New the nature center, the park in which it is and meet the requirement to be considered York is known as the “Grand Canyon of the located, the county in which it is located, its an active glacier (being larger than 0.1 km2). East” with gorge heights over 183 meters website, its owner, the year it was founded, As a result of climate change, both natural (600 feet) and three major waterfalls. One and its latitude and longitude. The data was and anthropogenic, the glaciers are shrinking man who took particular interest in the gorge inspired by a “State Nature Centers” dataset and the number is decreasing more and more was William Pryor Letchworth. Letchworth from New York State Office of Parks, each year. The purpose of this research was was an industrialist and philanthropist who Recreation and Historic Preservation. Data to develop a database that maps the area of began purchasing land near Middle Falls in was collected from nature center or park the glaciers that has been lost over the years 1859. The environment was greatly altered by websites and from google maps. I identified with a focus on how much the area has intensive lumbering, milling, and farming, so any clusters and patterns of nature center changed in 116 years. Using QGIS software Letchworth sought to restore the area’s locations. I downloaded a county population along with topographic maps, the glacial natural beauty. Letchworth spent the next 50 layer from NYS GIS Clearinghouse, then areas were mapped and analyzed from 1904 years restoring the environment, purchasing compared population with the number of to 2020. Results suggest that the relationship land, and building his 1,000-acre Glen Iris nature centers in each county. Nature centers between the year and the glacial area is Estate. Letchworth donated his estate to New were clustered unevenly, had several owner important in determining the future trend in York State in 1906 to protect the area. The types, were more often created in recent the receding glaciers as there was an overall land became Letchworth State Park in 1907, years, and were related to county size and decrease in not only the glacial area in Glacier and it began transitioning into a state park population. National Park from 1904 to 2020 but also in after Letchworth’s death in 1910. The purpose the number of active glaciers. of this study is to map Letchworth’s Glen Iris 330 Spatial Trends of Green Estate in 1907 and the same area of the park 333 Analyzing the Spatial in 2020 to compare the park’s features after Burial Grounds, U.S. 113 years of preservation. A quantitative EMMA RANNEY Geography of the Salem Witch analysis of features such as the length of FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, Trials: Locating the Distribution roads, length of railroad tracks, acres of land GEOGRAPHY of People and Places Involved in cover types (forested and unforested), and Green' burial was the standard form of number of buildings determined how the area interment in the United States prior to the this 17th Century Witch Hysteria has changed since 1907. late 1800s. During the Civil War, the rate of HANNAH DORN chemical embalming grew out of necessity as FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, 427 Understanding the Spatial the deceased often had to be transported GEOGRAPHY considerable distances to arrive in their home My research focused on uncovering the Distribution of Avalanche state. Chemical embalming quickly became spatial trends associated with the Salem Fatalities in Utah, 2010-2020 one of the most common and accepted Witch Trials, which began in the JACKSON FERGUSON funeral practices in the nation. In 1993, Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692. Accusation FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, however, the green burial movement began hysteria spread through the colonial GEOGRAPHY in the U.K., and by 1998, the U.S. had its first Massachusetts Bay Colony, spreading to This project continues the work of building green-burial-friendly cemetery. The purpose neighboring counties. The purpose of this knowledge about avalanches by creating a of this research was to analyze spatial, project was to analyze the geography database that maps avalanche fatalities in temporal, and additional significant trends associated with the Salem Witch Trials, and to Utah. The primary vector layer is a point layer regarding green burial in the U.S. Secondary better understand where this hysteria spread that marks the precise location of avalanche data was collected from green burial to and was most concentrated, and how fatalities, which has the potential to capture websites, while primary data was collected many people were affected. Based on the spatial trends in such occurrences. The from the web pages of individual funeral results from the data that I collected about mapping in this project confirms that there is homes or cemeteries. Some collected the spatial spread of the trials across towns in a strong spatial pattern to avalanche fatalities attributes include location of cemeteries, New England, there is a clear clustering effect in Utah, with a high density of accidents in the types of green burials permitted, year around Salem Village and Town, with outliers Salt Lake county. A likely explanation for why founded, Green Burial Council certification such as Andover and Gloucester experiencing there are higher numbers of fatalities in this status, and religious affiliation. Results reveal the phenomenon of witchcraft accusations region is simply population density. A a relatively steady annual growth of green later in 1692. Despite this clustering around statistical analysis exposes the complexity of burial grounds across the U.S. Salem, Andover was the town that had the avalanche fatalities in Utah, suggesting that most witchcraft accusations, experiencing the there are factors at play other than most from August to early October, and population density in avalanche accidents. reaching its peak in September. Although I was able to draw conclusions about the geographical spread of the trials and better understand or visualize the extent of  Promotes sustainability 43

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morphology and smooth channel beds likely chemical differences. In addition, four slag limit upstream sediment storage relative to samples were involved with a simple leaching GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES natural, and more sinuous upland channels. test using 2M nitric acid. The four samples POSTERS Roadside contamination and sediment load is represented a range of slag types. Samples likely to have a negative impact on natural involved in the leaching test were chemically lake health. analyzed before and after exposure to the 58 Thermal Demagnetization acid. The acid impacted slag chemistry- 75 A Test of the Efficacy of the particularly regarding Ba, Sr, and Zr contents. Constraints on the Rate of A highly vesicular slag showed the largest Emplacement of the Pine Valley Augmented Reality Sandbox to chemical changes induced by the leaching Improve Students' Reading experiment. Mountain Laccolith, Utah Synchronous session: Apr 29, 2021 11:00 AM – EMILY POLIZZI Topographic Map Skills 12:30 PM MEGAN JANKOWIAK AND ALEXANDRA FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES RANAUDO Pine Valley Mountain in the southwestern FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, 201 Diversity Within the corner of Utah is the site of a laccolith, the GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Geosciences cooled remnants of an inflating magma The augmented reality (AR) sandbox is a MARIA LEONARD chamber in between two layers of pre- teaching tool used to connect two- FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, existing rock. Magma chamber inflation can dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES cause a dome like uplift in the overlying rock map representations through modeling. Our The field of Geosciences historically has units leading to oversteepening of the slope, hypothesis is: the AR sandbox is effective at lacked diversity. This lack of diversity is triggering landslides and volcanic eruptions, teaching topographic map reading skills by observed at all levels of higher education— similar to the Mt. St. Helens eruption in 1980. comparing pre vs. post test scores. Student for example, 90% of doctoral degrees are Through paleomagnetic analysis we are able data was processed to analyze the efficiency awarded to white people (Wilson, 2016) and to determine the timescale over which the of using the AR sandbox to increase student only 3.8% of tenured or tenure track positions emplacement occurred by observing how ability to read topographic maps. Data at the top 100 geoscience departments are much wander the Earth’s magnetic pole consists of student answers on a topographic held by faculty of color (Bernard & experienced as the sheets of magma were map reading skills test at the beginning and Cooperdock, 2018). There are multiple emplaced and cooled. If results show a small the end of a Historical Geology college course. reasons at the heart of this issue including the amount of wander in the Earth’s magnetic Between tests, students used the AR sandbox lack of representation, which can fuel pole, that would indicate a very rapid (in the to complete short exercises during multiple stereotype threats and imposter syndromes. context of geologic time) emplacement which labs. Data was collected for two years on This project aimed to take actions that would could result in a catastrophic landslide- paper-based topographic maps. The pre-tests help grow the diversity, equity, and triggered volcanic eruption. If the magnetic of student ability prior to the use of the AR accessibility within Geneseo’s GSCI pole experiences a large amount of wander, sandbox is the control of this research. The department. This project involved many that would suggest a slower rate of experimental group is the post-test data that components including: gathering biosketches emplacement and contradict a landslide- showed students’ understanding of and creating a “faces of geology” display and triggered eruption event. topographic maps after engagement in AR working with our department’s new DEI Synchronous session: Apr 30, 2021 2:15 – 3:15 sandbox activities throughout the semester. taskforce and URGE pod. The biosketch part PM Data did not show evidence that the AR of this project entailed researching past and sandbox is an effective teaching tool beyond present geoscientists that represent diversity 69 Anthropogenic Effects on paper-based practices. Results suggest that within the field and to create biosketches for the data collection was not efficient. Future each person. These biosketches have been Watershed Morphology of research should focus on new methods of turned into a display within the ISC and have Canadice and Hemlock Lake, NY data collection and change in the audience also fueled assignments that have drawn in CARLA CRAMPTON that participates. students across the department. URGE is a FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, national initiative aimed to bring geoscientists GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES 200 Chemical Analysis of Slag together so that as a whole we can strive The watershed catchment area of Canadice from Standish, NY towards Unlearning Racism in Geoscience. and Hemlock lakes affect their overall health Synchronous session: Apr 30, 2021 1:30 - 3:00 MARIA LEONARD and water quality. Methods in ArcGISPro were PM FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, used for high-resolution imagery and GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES topography data to analyze the From 1883 to 1907, magnetite was smelted in 204 Identifying Candidate geomorphology of watersheds at Canadice Standish, NY. During this time, a large amount and Hemlock Lake. Watersheds were mapped Landing and Sample Tube Depot of slag, a byproduct of smelting, was created. using ArcGIS Hydrology tools by constructing The slag is now in a pile that covers ~13 acres Sites and Characterizing Rover flow direction and flow accumulation grids. In in the northeastern region of the Traverses for Mars Sample each watershed, the river size, land use, Adirondacks. The slag at the site has been geology and soil properties, watershed slope, Return classified into 6 broad types based on their erosive capacity of river/stream, and whether MARGARET DEAHN physical properties. Exemplars of select types streams are ephermal or perennial were FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, were crushed and analyzed by X-ray determined to evaluate which watersheds are GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF). Both major likely to contribute the highest flow discharge NASA and ESA are planning a Mars Sample elements and trace element data was and sediment flux to the lakes. Initial results Return (MSR) campaign that would retrieve collected for these samples. The XRF results indicate that upland streams in the Martian rocks and regolith to be collected by indicate that all Standish slag is dominated by watersheds that intersect roads are diverted the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover for SiO2, CaO, and Fe2O3(t) regardless of the slag by drainage ditches and are vulnerable to possible return to Earth. Candidate sample “type.” The trace element compositions of all human impact. Sediment and roadside depots, landing sites, and traverse paths for the slag types are also uniform. This suggests contaminants have unique access to the lakes MSR Sample Retrieval Lander (SRL) and Fetch that external parameters are responsible for through these ditches. Their planform linear Rover (SFR) must be identified in advance the variety of slag morphologies rather than 44  Promotes sustainability

2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual Poster Presentations using High-Resolution Imaging Science 219 Using Dendrochronology for changes in the depositional environment Experiment (HiRISE) data. Sites for landing caused by variations in eustatic sea level and and sample tube deposition are constrained Place-Based K-12 Paleoclimate climatic conditions. The frequency of the MS by average slope, abundance of visible rocks, Lessons changes within the recognized precession craters, aeolian bedforms, patch size, and GRACE RAFFA cycles will reveal the duration of the sub- proximity to notional traverse, and classified FACULTY SPONSOR: JACALYN WITTMER precession cyclicity. by terrain type. Areas within 50m of notional MALINOWSKI, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Synchronous session: Apr 28, 2021 1:30 – 2:30 M2020/MSR traverse paths are classified by Dendrochronology focuses on using trees as PM terrain type and approximate Cumulative archives of past climatic changes for a given Fractional Area (CFA) rock distribution. region. This project focuses on creating a 299 Determining Accuracy of Traverse paths are less constrained than paleoclimate-centered accessible learning landing/depot sites and characterized by eight experience for K-12 teachers that integrates XRD from Known Samples classes. Rock CFA is categorized into ~5%, 10%, local climate proxies in the classroom creating COLLIN HORROCKS and 15% bins. Approximately 250 candidate place-based experiences connecting students FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, landing/depot sites were identified and to the effects of climate change. Four tree GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES provide benign patches with typical spacing species: Beech, Sugar Maple, Black Locust, Powdered x-ray diffraction (XRD) is a of several hundred meters. Most notional and Hop Hornbeam, were collected from a technique that has the power to identify paths are extremely heterogeneous and have local glacially-formed hill (from the Last minerals and the proportion of the minerals in ~5% rock density. Final site selection is Glacial Maximum) in Geneseo, NY. These trees a mixture. A mineral is defined by a contingent upon future system engineering of died and were removed in August 2020, dried repeatable set of planes between atoms that MSR, performance of Mars 2020, and for 6+ months, and sanded (40-800 grit) until form the crystal lattice. It is this repetition correlation between images from HiRISE and rings were visible. Annual growth rings were that allows the process of XRD to work. The the rover, but these maps provide a baseline counted from the center of the tree ring to process is done by taking a powdered sample understanding of the area. the inner bark for all samples to determine and placing it into the machine and then Selected for presentation at the Geological age. Tree ring skeleton plots were developed shooting x-rays into the sample causing Society of America Conference 2020 and 52nd for tree ring correlation, periods of thin ring diffraction. From this using Bragg’s Law Lunar and Planetary Conference growth indicated stress and reduced growth nλ=2d sin (θ) we can determine the d-spacing commonly caused by unseasonably warm which is how an identity is determined for a 205 Analysis of NASA’s periods or drought. The four local tree rings sample and the intensity of each angle showed over 50 years of climate data marking measured is used for determining proportions Pathfinder Landing Site an increase of thin tree rings from 1980 to of the sample. The samples chosen to test the ANDREW AGENT 2020, indicating a rise in regional accuracy were composed of Quartz, K- FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, temperature. This dendrochronology- Feldspar and Hornblende. These were first GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES paleoclimate activity will be simplified for run as pure samples and then in a variety of When NASA’s Pathfinder rover landed in secondary classrooms focusing on local mixtures to compare known ratios to XRD- December of 1997 at the mouth of Ares Vallis, climate, demonstrating seasonal patterns, determined ratios. scientists hypothesized they would find and illustrating global changes of past, Synchronous session: Apr 29, 2021 11:45 AM - sediments from catastrophic outflows. This current, and future climates. 12:30 PM was hypothesized because Ares Vallis is a catastrophic outflow channel that is 312 Mineralogical Analysis of approximately 1,800 km long. However, the 294 Investigation of Sub- first images indicated large, boulder-size, precession Cyclostratigraphy Slag from Adirondack Iron angular rocks that showed little evidence of within the Hanover Formation, Production water transport. It was argued that these Late Devonian, Western New MARY REID AND GRIFFIN ROSE rocks are instead fragments of basaltic FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, bedrock ejected from nearby impact craters. York GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES However, this hypothesis remains CHEYENNE OTTO Slag is a byproduct of iron production formed controversial. The objective of this research is FACULTY SPONSOR: D. JEFFREY OVER, from the melting of iron-bearing rocks. Iron to analyze two areas near Pathfinder’s landing GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES production in the Adirondacks reached a high site, one in a plains area of Ares Vallis and one The Late Devonian, from 383-359 Ma, was a in the early to mid 1800s, with several blast in the channel of Ares Vallis to constrain the period of continual ecological restructuring furnaces in operation throughout Northern surface geology, near-surface stratigraphy, and biodiversity loss, often grouping it New York. Two sets of samples from different and surface degradational history of the amongst the five mass extinction events regions in the Adirondacks were collected in materials at the landing site. These areas were within the Phanerozoic Eon. The Upper the summers of 2019-2020. An unknown analyzed using Context Camera (CTX) images, Devonian Hanover Formation, within the Java sample was taken from the Ausable River at which are 6m per pixel in resolution from the Group, consists of bioturbated green-gray Flume Falls near Wilmington, New York, while Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), and silty shale interbedded with black shale that other samples were collected from the Mt. using High-Resolution Imaging Experiment pre-date and preserve the extinction. Hope iron furnace near Fort Ann, New York. (HiRISE) images from the MRO, which are 30 Depositional cycles within the Hanover that Samples were analyzed through the creation cm per pixel resolution. In addition to these coincide with eccentricity, obliquity, and of thin sections and x-ray diffraction. Results images, crater statistics were also used to precession intervals have been recognized. were compared against existing slag samples determine age differences of geological units The eccentricity, obliquity, and precession to determine origin in the context of the within the study areas and to understand the intervals occur in periods of 100 to 416 Ka, 41 Wilmington slag, while the Mt. Hope slag was timing and magnitude of crater resurfacing to 51 Ka, and 19 to 21 Ka respectively. To compared against nearby samples to compare events. accurately identify sub-precession cycles, high mineralogy. The mineral Fayalite was found in resolution sampling at 1 cm intervals through the Wilmington slag through analysis of x-ray 2 m of core are being analyzed for magnetic diffraction patterns. susceptibility (MS) using a Kappa-bridge. The detection of detrital iron through MS measures the induced magnetization of deposited sediments, which vary due to

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328 Watershed Analysis of the 346 Water Chemistry of Allen Synchronous session: Apr 29, 2021 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eberswalde Delta (Early Creek and Honeoye Creek, Hesperian), Mars Rochester, NY 357 Dacryoconarids of the JASON MUELLER SHANNON HART FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, Genundewa and West River GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Formations The Eberswalde Delta is a highly impressive Water samples were collected for chemical EMILY DE JONG Martian fluvial-deltaic system. It is fed by an analysis at two sites in the Allen Creek and FACULTY SPONSOR: D. JEFFREY OVER, Earth-like dendritic river system that indicates Honeoye Creek watersheds over the month of GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES past precipitation. This study is designed to March 2021. Allen Creek is a part of the Lake The Dacryoconarids, small, thin-walled, and quantify controls on network morphometry Ontario Central Sub-Basin and Honeoye Creek cone-shaped with distinctive ribbing and past extent using Esri ArcMap. Upstream is a part of the Genesee River Sub-Basin. calcareous fossils, are an extinct taxon in contributing area (km2), elevation (m), depth Samples were collected in parks near Class Tentaculitoid, which is of uncertain (m), width (m), W/D ratio, and slope (-m/m), residential housing as well as near commercial affinities. Dacryoconarids were widespread were calculated and graphed by stream order buildings. Water samples were analyzed and throughout the middle Silurian to the Late and long profiles. Width/depth increased with pH, total alkalinity, chloride content, and Devonian when they went extinct. This study distance downstream but fluctuated in the dissolved oxygen levels were recorded. The focuses on the lower Upper Devonian fifth-order channel that was convex with median pH of samples collected at the park dacryoconarids of the Genundewa and West knickpoints. This implied the system was sites on the outskirts of residential housing River formations from western New York youthful. The fourth-order stream was was 8.44 compared to the median value of State. Samples collected from these concave and in a sedimentary sub-basin. This 8.39 at the commercial sites. Alkalinity at the formations revealed many smooth sided sub-basin may have been an Early Hesperian sampling sites was generally higher at the Tentaculitiods, however, very few to no lake with water elevation fluctuations; this park sites (median value 340 ppm) than at the dacryoconarids. Due to their global could have generated knicks and a youthful commercial sites (median value 246 ppm) occurrence they are potentially important as convex profile of the first to third-order whereas chloride content was generally biostratigraphic markers and streams. Width and depth correlated weakly higher at the commercial sites (median value paleoenvironment indicators. to slope which suggested additional lithologic 400 ppm) than at the park sites (median value Synchronous session: Apr 29, 2021 4:00 - 5:00 control from the heterogenous ejecta of 340 ppm). Dissolved oxygen concentrations PM Holden Crater. A degradation of ~35 m was were also higher at commercial locations. calculated from the age of Eberswalde and 438 Comparison of Wilkins Creek basaltic plain degradation rates (Mangold et 348 Geometric Analysis of al., 2012; Sweeney et al., 2018). Many first- and Spring Creek Stream order streams were near drainage divides Plasma Injection Events in Chemistries with minimal upstream contributing area. This Saturn’s Magnetic Field VICTORIA TAYLOR AND BROOKE STICKLES suggested degradation less than 35 m and FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, that the system was not much more complex Environment GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES than present. JENNA SYPOSS A stream's chemistry and health can be Synchronous session: Apr 29, 2021 11:30 - 11:45 FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, affected by seasonal fluctuations, AM GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES In the Cassini-Huygens mission, the Cassini environment and land usage. Wilkins Creek

spacecraft left Earth in 1997 and reached and Spring Creek are tributaries of Conesus 344 Wetland Soil Analysis Saturn in 2004, where it orbited and collected Lake located in Livonia, New York. The two ABIGALE O'CONNOR data from the planet for 13 years. Cassini streams flow through varying terrain. Wilkins FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, collected magnetic field data from a plasma Creek flows predominantly through wetlands, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES spectrometer instrument known as CHarge residential and agricultural land. Where Spring This project classified soil properties in the Energy Mass Spectrometer (CHEMS). Gases Creek runs through the village of Livonia. The vicinity of a wetland in Livonia, NY. Soil cores are released from Saturn’s icy moon known as different environments may result in altered were collected from the margin of the Enceladus. These gases become plasma when stream chemistries. An analysis of water wetland to observe the changes in the soil approaching Saturn’s magnetic field. chemistry was taken at different points in profiles across the transition between the Collaborators built a Python model to analyze Wilkins Creek and Spring Creek before they wetland and the surrounding forested land. 816 plasma events to evaluate their geometry. converged. Alkalinity, chloride, oxygen, pH, Soil horizons were delineated based on This study analyzed these events to conductivity, and water temperature were texture and color. Individual horizons were determine if our model accurately aligns with taken at each location. Samples were then correlated between the cores to capture the plasma injections discovered by CHEMS. collected and analyzed from the end of spatial changes in thickness and texture. The We filtered the events to find a subset that February and throughout the months of core descriptions and the correlations were occurred within a fixed distance to the March and April. This allowed data to be digitized to create an archive of correlations satellite (0.25 Saturn radii). By comparing the collected before and after seasonal snowmelt around the wetland for future reference. The model’s predictions with CHEMS spectrogram and rainfall events. Our 2021 data is compared distribution of wetland soil textures data, we found that a majority (181 injections) to past research done on Wilkins Creek and contributes to better understanding how were determined to be “channel-like,” or Spring Creek throughout March and April of water is moving through the landscape. radially extended, because they aligned with 2019. The results may show natural seasonal Documenting the distribution of soil horizons an observed dispersed ion signature, while 62 and environmental variations that impact surrounding the wetland is vital to did not match a channel-like morphology. stream chemistry. understanding wetland processes. Most of the events required slight PDF of poster adjustments to the model’s drift speeds Synchronous session: Apr 29, 2021 12:00 - which improved our fit to the modeled 12:30 PM particles on the spectrogram. A best-fit co- rotation rate was on average 8.9% faster than our nominal setting.

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basic reproduction number, denoted as The Applications in Neuroscience course , is the average number of secondary allows SUNY Geneseo neuroscience students HISTORY POSTER cases produced by one infectious individual in to share their knowledge and interests with an entirely acceptable population. Using the local elementary-aged students through a value determined from data collected partnership with the local RKids program. 221 Propaganda Time: The from the state of New York, we construct RKids is an afterschool program that provides Winter of Discontent and the SIR/SEIR models to quantify the effects of students from low-income families with social behavior, like social distancing and homework help and interactive enrichment London Metal Scene wearing masks, and the relation to how the activities. Due to COVID, our activities are run SARAH FADLAOUI pandemic has evolved. completely online this semester. FACULTY SPONSOR: JOVANA BABOVIĆ, Synchronous session: Apr 28, 2021 3:00 – 4:00 Neuroscience majors in the course design HISTORY PM educational activities to be done by the The 70s was a tumultuous decade for London students at home. The goal of this program is and the U.K. as a whole, culminating in the to provide students with educational and Winter of Discontent in the winter of 1978- interactive opportunities that introduce them 1979. Widespread unemployment, inflation, MILNE LIBRARY POSTER to and increase their interest in STEM-related and a recession ultimately led to government fields, particularly neuroscience. pay caps and widespread strikes among public sector workers that brought London to 375 Proceedings of GREAT Day 381 Virtual Community Outreach a screeching halt. Meanwhile, a new metal movement, the New Wave of British Heavy Student Editor Internship: for Elementary School Children Metal (NWOBHM), gained momentum. Virtual vs. In-Person in R-Kids After-school Program: Largely made up of young, working-class men JAIME DEVITA AND ETHAN OWENS who were hit especially hard by the U.K.'s FACULTY SPONSOR: JONATHAN GRUNERT, A Novel Way to Teach Students financial troubles, the NWOBHM scene gave MILNE LIBRARY about Neuroscience these men a community and eventually voice With the prevalence of COVID-19 and the NATASHA COTRUPI, LUCIA VERRELLI AND in the mainstream. Media attention limitations it has posed on education, we seek JULIA HOYT surrounding the strikes and the NWOBHM to compare and contrast how the FACULTY SPONSOR: TERENCE BAZZETT, share marked similarities and reflect middle- Proceedings of GREAT Day internship has NEUROSCIENCE class attitudes towards the working class. In both changed and stayed the same. Can the The Geneseo course NEUR215 is an this paper, I examine the connection between goals be met with a virtual way of doing opportunity for community outreach within NWOBHM artists and the political climate in things, or has educational rules set forth due the Neuroscience major. Students enrolled in London during the Winter of Discontent. to COVID-19 greatly affected the internship? NEUR215 in the Fall 2020 semester created With a notable change in how our goals are neuroscience lessons with intentions to foster achieved, we seek to call upon any major an excitement for science and to promote MATHEMATICS POSTERS obstacles set forth and which ways we can higher education in elementary students. The improve for the future. elementary students were recruited through

the R-Kids after school enrichment program. Four one-hour live sessions were held via 66 Shock Wave Theory NEUROSCIENCE POSTERS Zoom with 2-5 students at a time from the R- LUIS YANEZ ZAMORA Kids after school program. Due to the COVID-

FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDRZEJ 19 pandemic, all lessons were transitioned KEDZIERAWSKI, MATHEMATICS virtually during the fall 2020 semester, and Shock waves occur in many instances in the 14 Teaching Elementary Students effective teaching strategies in a virtual world, such as in traffic flow, explosions, and Basic Neuroscience Concepts environment were explored. The results of this investigation demonstrated that online aircraft breaking the sound barrier. These TUCKER LANDWEHR, MELISSA KAPLAN, learning can still be fun and effective. Inviting types of waves have to be modeled by JULIE PERRONE AND WILLIAM WIDARSONO student participation, providing a hands-on discontinuous functions, which leads us to use FACULTY SPONSOR: TERENCE BAZZETT, activity to follow along with a lesson, and “weak” solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic NEUROSCIENCE having pre-recorded lecture material were partial differential equations. We illustrate the We are going to explain our first two strategies we felt most effective at fostering a theory of shock waves by considering a experiences we had with RKids: what virtual learning environment. particular version of the nonlinear transport information we talked about (the 4 lobes, equation called the inviscid Burgers' equation senses, building neurotransmitters, and and illustrate the theoretical solutions via substances), how well they understood the 355 Topographical Individualized numerical implementation. Additional physical concepts, how much they enjoyed learning, Neuromarkers in the Analysis of phenomenon, such as the Doppler effect, are what we thought was the most effective also explored. method for teaching them Neuroscience at a the Brain Functioning of Social- young age, what tools and supplies we used, Emotional Development 275 The Effects of Social if their Kahoot answers improved over time, EMMA PIWKO, MAYA PELLITTERI, DANIELLA Behavior and its Relation to etc. We want to see if our methods got them LEONE, AND SARINA SINGH further intrigued into the science field. FACULTY SPONSOR: BRADLEY TABER- COVID-19 THOMAS, NEUROSCIENCE EMILY MCNEIL 54 Introducing Young Minds to Topographical Individualized Neuromarkers FACULTY SPONSOR: SEDAR NGOMA, (TIN) are spatially arranged patterns of brain MATHEMATICS Topics in Neuroscience function used to develop novel brain markers When COVID-19 first reached the United KARISSA GARBARINI, SEAN MCBRIDE, EDWIN of social-emotional functioning and States the virus impacted the various states HUGH, ISABEL ROSS, AIMEE OWENS AND development. Previous research indicates the differently. By determining the initial rate of COLE ZSEMLYE brains of shy children differ from the brains of increase of the disease for each state, the FACULTY SPONSOR: TERENCE BAZZETT, non-shy children, where shy children present basic reproduction number, can be used to NEUROSCIENCE with a topographical pattern of brain function determine how contagious the disease is. The that may be considered an internally  Promotes sustainability 47

Poster Presentations 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual hypervigilant neuromarker (Taber-Thomas et Tantalum coil heated the aluminum, significant trends were found to distinguish al., 2016). The current study focuses on evaporating it. The thickness of the thin films the unusual bursts from the rest. developing markers of risk for psychological was monitored by a rate deposition monitor. Selected for presentation at the Northwestern problems in children. Using the online After deposition, the film adhesion was tested University Center for Interdisciplinary software, Neurosynth, we will extend our for each thin film on a substrate using a Exploration and Research in Astrophysics research into neuromarkers for other technique called the “scotch tape adhesion Research Experience for Undergraduates disorders using publicly available data. This test.” A piece of scotch tape was smoothed program allows for the examination of onto the substrate and then removed. The 291 Explosion/Evaporation of internally hypervigilant neuromarkers in percentage of the material left on the several regions of the brain. The regions we substrate is the adhesion percentage. These Radioactive Wire will be specifically examining are the insula, tests indicated that aluminum films on PRANISH SHRESTHA cingulate gyrus, hippocampus, and amygdala. aluminum substrates yielded the best FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCLEAN, This model will be explored further by adhesion. PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY calculating topographical maps from fMRI We are developing an apparatus to rapidly data and examining how differences in the 68 Muons Over Letchworth evaporate extremely small quantities of maps are related to social-emotional radioactive materials, to be used as a source MATTHEW VANALLEN AND LYDIA FILLHART functioning and development. to test a new type of radiation detector. FACULTY SPONSOR: KURT FLETCHER AND Evaporation takes place when the GEORGE MARCUS, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY temperature is sufficiently high, which we “Muons over Letchworth” was a public achieve by delivering a sudden high current PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY education outreach program designed to through a relatively thin wire. For our POSTERS introduce Letchworth State Park goers to the purposes, this must be done in a vacuum world of subatomic physics. Cosmic rays from chamber both to prevent oxidation and to outer space collide with atoms in our upper achieve a long mean free path of the atmosphere and create muons, subatomic evaporated material. This allows the 29 Calculating Gravitational particles that rain down upon the earth. On collection of evaporated material without Waves in a Black Hole Binary average, one muon passes through every hindrance from the air molecules. Copper square centimeter each minute at the earth's System wires of different shapes and sizes are used, surface. For this project, open-source cosmic- and high current is supplied through them NAMI NISHIMURA ray muon detectors were built, placed in using a car battery. As the temperature of the FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS OSBURN, waterproof enclosures, and then installed at wire increases, the resistance of the wire PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY various high traffic locations throughout the changes. Monitoring current is therefore Our ultimate goal is to compute the park during the summer of 2020. Each crucial to determine energy deposited in the gravitational waves in an extreme mass-ratio detector enclosure also contained an wire. A calibrated Hall Sensor is used to binary system. Since gravitational information sheet with facts about muons, as measure the current. We are also perturbations are difficult to calculate, we well as a link to our educational website. The implementing an optical pyrometer to model the compact object as a point particle detectors were visited weekly to collect data measure the temperature directly. The carrying a scalar charge q and moving around and exchange batteries, and this created temperature must increase rapidly in order to a spinning black hole. In this project, we take opportunities to communicate with the public evaporate sufficient material before the wire advantage of symmetry under rotation directly. These face-to-face discussions melts and droplets get scattered violently. around the spin axis in order to separate ϕ provided a deeper learning experience for the Using a high-speed camera to image the variables and leverage the periodicity of the participants. In addition to trips to the park, explosion helps to evaluate mass of source to separate time variables with a an educational video was produced where we evaporation, and also whether it is isotropic. Fourier series. This Fourier method is variable measured detection rates while in the local because it does not show instabilities unlike salt mine, on the earth’s surface, and in a hot time domain for gravitational fields. The air balloon. See www.geneseo.edu/muons 382 WIYN Open Cluster Study: remaining differential equations will be solved Kevin Seitz also worked on this project prior to UBVRI Photometry of NGC2204 numerically with an appropriate discretization graduation (Spring '20) and we would like to KYLIE SNYDER AND DANTE SCARAZZINI considering a grid of points in r - θ plane. note his work. FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY 38 Adhesion of Thin Films on 287 The X-Ray Afterglows of The purpose of this project was to study the Various Substrates open star cluster NGC2204 using images taken Short Gamma-Ray Bursts at Kitt Peak National Observatory using the KALLAH EDDY SARAH POPP WIYN 0.9m telescope. These images were FACULTY SPONSOR: KURT FLETCHER, FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, analyzed photometrically with the intention PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY of determining the reddening, metallicity, A refurbished thin film deposition system was Light curves of the X-ray afterglow from 81 age, and distance modulus of the star cluster. used to create aluminum thin films via short gamma-ray bursts, from 2005 to 2018, Each image was analyzed using software that thermal evaporation. Applications of thin were obtained from the Swift/XRT catalog. determined the point spread function and films are widespread, with uses such as: The light curves were fit with single power- applied that function to determine the protective coatings, decorative coatings, law and double power-law models using the magnitude of each star in that image. These optical coatings, and electrical coatings. To emcee library in Python and sorted into three magnitudes were taken for each filter, UBVRI, deposit the films, aluminum pellets were groups: bursts well fit by a single power-law, and then combined and averaged to create a placed in a Tantalum coil below an octagonal bursts well fit by a double power-law, and single catalog. Standard stars, taken on the mount designed to hold eight substrates at a bursts not well fit by either. Filters were same night, were used to derive time inside an evacuated bell jar. The films applied to each category to identify bursts transformation coefficients that were applied were evaporated onto smooth aluminum with an unusually steep decay or a plateau. to our data to bring them onto the standard substrates, clean smooth glass substrates, Once these unusual bursts were identified, system. Our data set was then fit to a Stellar and scratched glass substrates to investigate their properties—T90 (duration), flux, Evolution model and plotted on in an HR adhesion for the different substrates. Once fluence, and hardness—were compared to diagram to determine the age of the cluster. the base pressure of 3 x 10-6 Torr was those of the more typical bursts. No Color-Color diagrams were also created to achieved, a 40-A current passing through the

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The ultimate The goal is to develop a new technique for Christianity and its different sects, and how issue is the lack of mental health parity, which measuring energy spectra of laser-accelerated this identity plays a role in determining party is defined by the equal treatment and benefits ions called depth profiling. Thermal diffusion identification and party affiliation. I will of other health conditions in insurance plans. and ion implantation were investigated to test explore the differences in how people lean Benefits such as inpatient in-network & out- sample creation methods and development of politically based on what they believe that is of-network, co-pays, deductibles, max limit our depth profiling. By scattering an ion beam relevant to policy, how much true religiosity for out of pocket costs, reimbursement rates, off the targets, an energy spectrum was they have, and what race or ethnicity they geographic care, and coverage for any type of obtained of pure samples and diffused are. An important aspect of my analysis is the hospitalization. The lack of these advantages samples. The data was compared, and show differences in Christian sect, i.e. the force people into difficult situations in order the diffused samples have an energy spectra differences between Roman Catholics, to receive these services, including paying different from the pure samples as expected. Protestants, and Non-Denominationals. After abundant amounts of money out of pocket, my exploration of literature and data for traveling far distances, or just simply not these differences and reasons, I will organize getting help. Changes to current legislation each group fitting in these factors and analyze would immensely ease the tension placed on POLITICAL SCIENCE AND their natures as voters and political activists. people who are seeking these services, by INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS requiring insurance companies to implement 67 Chiafalo v. Washington and mental health parity. POSTERS Colorado Department of State v. 77 Social Media and Baca and the Obsolescence of 30 Introducing a Proportional Hypervigilance: A Survey the Electoral College JAFFRE AETHER Representation Voting System in COLIN BEASOR FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, the United States FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL MADISON BURNS RELATIONS RELATIONS FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, Media, and specifically, social media, is playing Every four years, the United States uses an POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL an increasingly central role within American electoral college to select the next president RELATIONS political discourse. This poster will attempt to and vice-president. Each state is allocated a The current voting system in the United explain the reasoning behind why social number of electors based on the number of States exhibits numerous flaws that weaken media is taking up so much space in our representatives they have in Congress. In the American democracy. Presently, the U.S. discourse and what that means for American U.S. Supreme Court's 2019 term, the Court operates a winner-take-all voting system democracy. In attempting to answer these decided on two cases regarding a state's through single-member districts. questions, this paper will be taking up ability to punish “faithless electors,” or Consequently, those who did not cast their empirical analysis done by a variety of political presidential electors who vote contrary to vote for the winner are effectively not scientists and the loose theoretical their state's popular vote. In Chiafalo v. represented in the American government. framework developed by Jonathan Crary in Washington and Colorado Department of This problem is felt mostly by minorities and 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep as a State v. Baca, the Court ruled that states have introduces a lack of trust into the voting means to figure my research into a more the constitutional authority to punish faithless system, increases political hostility, and encompassing survey on the way social media electors, explaining that presidential electors expands the influence of gerrymandering. influences American democracy. Moreover, lack the discretion practiced by the electors in Through a poster presentation, I propose that my poster will pay attention to the central Washington and Colorado. Both the ability to these issues could be vastly improved by point of James Bridle’s book, New Dark Age: punish electors, and curb their voting instituting a proportional representation Technology and the End of the Future; behavior, along with the Supreme Court’s ranked-choice voting system in the United technology is not a neutral force and is interpretation of the role of presidential States. This method of voting allows citizens susceptible to conscious or unconscious electors provide arguably the strongest to rank their vote choices on their ballots and political biases within its design. In sum, this evidence of the Electoral College’s distributes legislative seats proportionally to poster will interrogate social media as a force obsolescence. An in-depth analysis of not only the percentage of votes a political party for American democracy, and present a the Court’s decision, but also the arguments receives. The introduction of this system into collection of research founded within a left- of the electors and the states, will be the United States would allow for a more wing tradition. examined to provide a better understanding accurate representation of the American of the contentious nature that the role electorate. Subsequently, higher trust in the presidential electors play and argue for a voting system would emerge, voter turnout reformation of the electoral college, would increase, the effect of gerrymandering particularly to a national popular vote. would decrease, and minorities and women would be more often elected. In addition, more political parties would be created and polarization would decline.

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82 The Importance of an 87 Run Like a Girl (this result was unexpected) and had higher gun ownership rates (as expected) compared Unbiased Media for American ANGELA VAN PELT FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, to the base outcome. The results for two Democracy POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL variables—average state partisan KEITH HURLEY RELATIONS composition and President Trump’s 2016 vote FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, This is a research project on the barriers which share—were not quite statistically significant, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL prevent more women from running for but followed the hypothesized relationships. RELATIONS political office in the United States. This Overall, this study’s findings point out that A free and unbiased media is a cornerstone of poster will look at existing stereotypes and other variables—namely those relating to any properly functioning democracy. It is the current treatment of female elected officials states’ unique gun cultures—are likely behind primary means of information transfer as well as institutional and cultural barriers states’ choices for concealed carry policies. between the federal government and its that may discourage women from running for Synchronous session: Apr 26, 2021 11:30 AM - constituents on policy matters. While there political office in the United States. 12:15 PM are a number of democratic countries around the world that have taken steps to limit press 209 The Academic Achievement freedom, thereby moving away from a full 92 Universal Healthcare democratic system, the United States has, for HENRY STONE Abyss the most part, not been one of them. FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL MADELINE RIVERA However, mass media in the United States is SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL far from perfect and in some instances can be I would appreciate the opportunity to SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS damaging to American society and democracy undergo a deeper research into the universal The policy problem that centers this research itself. I will conduct a literature review healthcare system and how it would benefit is the achievement gap in United States discussing the place of media in democracy, our country. This has been a very heated schools. The achievement gap refers to any and how that relates to public opinion on debate and a big issue in our society significant and persistent disparity in issue areas. Then, I will examine the considering many Americans don’t have the academic performance or educational potentially damaging role the media played in opportunity to receive proper health care, if attainment between different groups of the months following the November 2020 any assistance at all. I will present the pros students, such as white students and presidential election, using the mainstream and cons of America’s public/private system, minorities, for example, or students from partisan media sources CNN and Fox News. and then compare it to different countries higher-income and lower-income families. The Finally, I will make recommendations for that have universal healthcare. Buffalo Public School system serves as my potentially improving the media in the United United States school district of focus for this States in order to circumvent the problems 95 Income Inequality in America: research. The Buffalo Public School system witnessed in the months following the 2020 has physical school buildings in different election. Causes, Effects, Solutions socioeconomic areas of the city of Buffalo and ZACHARY QUINLAN services a diverse section of students from a FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, variety of backgrounds. By measuring grade 86 Combating Health Care POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL point average, graduation rates, household Disparities in America RELATIONS income, ethnicity, and gender we can begin to PAIGE CHAPUT Income inequality is an issue at the forefront form conclusions about education and FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL of American politics. Rising inequality over the achievement gaps. This is a social problem SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS last half-century has resulted in corresponding that demands policy amendments now, as the To introduce my problem, I will be looking at increases in a variety of social problems. My novel coronavirus has arguably widened the homeless and low-income populations in research will analyze the causes of income already existing gaps in academic America. I chose this topic because it is a inequality, the social effects, and propose achievement. This research allows us to profound issue that has been on-going for policies which would reduce inequality. Due propose policy change to combat the abyss decades and the government must intervene. to the pecuniary nature of the underlying forming between the measurable academic I also chose this topic because I believe that issue, the proposed policies will primarily be achievement of our children. this issue is increasing now more than ever related to increasing the progressiveness of due to COVID-19 and is creating extreme the tax system, while also offering more 220 Affirmative Action as Part of health concerns not only for the homeless but generous government services and benefits. also the citizens who are surrounded by them. Educational Reform in the U.S. There are not many public policies put in place 96 Concealed Carry Laws YADARISELT ROMANO to help combat the disparities in the United FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL States health care system besides the Throughout the United States SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Affordable Cares Act. My policy reforms will CARVER KOZLOWSKI Affirmative action is one of the most focus on low-income populations in an FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL controversial topics in American politics as attempt to decrease the state of SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS many groups fight for more expansive homelessness in America and help these Explaining the variance in states’ concealed affirmative action while other groups are populations get the healthcare that they carry laws (referring to the practice of calling for their complete removal. Affirmative need. My policies will include creating a carrying a handgun in public in a concealed action in higher education is a series of universal healthcare system, similar to fashion) is a topic that remains under- policies that were enacted by the US Canada’s, in order to ensure that lower- explored in academic literature. This study government to ensure that historically income populations are able to attain looks at nine variables—political, gun and underrepresented people were able to obtain appropriate healthcare when needed, and on crime-related, economic, and education- academic opportunities from which they have a federal level, make the extension of medical related—and uses a multinomial logistic been historically excluded from. However, services fair and expand the Affordable Cares regression analysis to detect differences almost 61 years later after the implementation Act to all 50 states. between states with more or less restrictive of the first policies approved by JFK, has concealed carry laws. Out of these variables, anything changed? This research will aim to only two statistically significant relationships evaluate whether various affirmative action were found: states with the least restrictive policies across several states have actually concealed carry laws had fewer Republicans been successful in their intent. Some of the in the upper house of their state legislatures questions I will aim to answer will be: Why 50  Promotes sustainability

2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual Poster Presentations was affirmative action created and what was possible policy proposals to reduce this failed to address many as well. Persistent its original intent? Has the original intent of polarization and unite the nation. problems with slow-moving bureaucratic these policies changed over time? Who were structures and expensive oversight costs have these policies made for and have the policies 277 Demands of the 99%: The forced people out of their homes, subjected aided their intended audience? What were them to long-term and short-term health some unintended consequences that these Impact of Protests in problems, and have created an unlivable policies created? As the demand for a higher Contemporary American environment, particularly for those who rely education is rising in many historically on it the most. While CERCLA has established underrepresented communities, it is worth Democracy that “tribes are afforded substantially the exploring the results of these policies that DYLAN WALGATE same treatment as states,” the process of affirmative action legislation has produced FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, getting around to clean-up has been so slow thus far? POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL that often, the damage is already done. RELATIONS Furthermore, CERCLA only protects Frederick Douglass once said, “Power 260 Necessary Reform in the communities after damages have already concedes nothing without a demand.” In occurred. Previous lack of transparency from Child Welfare System American politics, one method of making the US government with Indigenous AMY LYNCH those demands has been organizing and communities has led to a general weariness of FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL engaging in social protest. In contemporary U.S. intrusion in Indigenous affairs. An SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS politics, this has manifested with protests like exploration into possible policy prescriptions This paper will examine and explore solutions the 2011 Occupy Movement, the 2018 March for CERCLA and the transparency and to fix the Department of Children and Family for Our Lives, or the 2020 Black Lives Matter prevention of hazardous waste contamination Services (DCFS). In Los Angeles County, protests. These movements have all are necessary to protect Indigenous California, there have been numerous dominated headlines, and contributed to communities. shaping public discourse on the issues (or at situations where children are not being checked on regularly and that results in them times even polarizing the electorate), and living in unsafe environments. These children thus affecting elections, and subsequent 283 Universal Basic Income: The are not removed from an unsafe home legislation. This research will use case studies Answer to Poverty? immediately. Some of the DCFS social workers to examine how mass social protests can, and CARVER KOZLOWSKI do not complete neglect checks in a timely have already, influenced American politics, by FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL manner or even visit the home once. bringing “the 99%,” as participants in the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS According to the Los Angeles Daily News, an Occupy Movement referred to the American In the wake of a global pandemic, with audit of practices in 2017 and 2018 revealed masses, into the democratic process. increased workplace automation and that 72% of social workers completed the competitiveness, and unprecedented levels of necessary safety checks on time. Some never 279 President Biden's Stimulus income inequality, welfare reform is among visited the home of the child. This lack of the most salient political issues of the day. As checking resulted in children staying in an Package Proposal of November 2020, 11.7 percent of Americans unsafe living environment for much longer TYLER SCHNEIDER are living under the poverty line and an than they should have, after the household FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL astounding 63 percent report living paycheck- was reported to DCFS. This is a real issue that SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS to-paycheck since the onslaught of the COVID- needs to be addressed. Children should not How will President Biden’s stimulus package 19 pandemic. One possible solution is the suffer because of problems in the department affect children living in poverty? This $1.9 implementation of a nation-wide universal that has the only goal of protecting children. trillion package was just recently signed into basic income (UBI) system. UBI is a relatively To fix this problem, new policies would have law by President Biden this month. President new term in American political vocabulary, to be implemented that would allow social Biden argues that this plan will cut child garnering increased attention during the 2020 workers to more thoroughly check each home poverty in half, which would be the largest Democratic presidential primaries. This paper as well as ensure that safety checks are reduction in recent history. The stimulus plan argues that UBI should be taken seriously as a completed on time. includes direct checks, tax breaks, and policy solution for those living in or near extended benefits for unemployment. These poverty. Such a system would help simplify benefits are temporary and therefore should 266 Decisively Polarized: An the United States’ infamously complex and be analyzed to see whether or not this will difficult to navigate welfare system, lift Examination of Polarization in allow for children to live out of poverty for individuals and families out of poverty, and the long term and whether these benefits provide those living paycheck-to-paycheck a Contemporary American Politics should be made permanent. SOPHIA MODUGNO cushion. Moreover, UBI is a more politically

FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, feasible program than one might imagine— POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL 280 Bureaucracy and voter support for a UBI program has markedly RELATIONS Inefficiency: Failures of CERCLA increased in recent months, it would fulfill the Today’s political climate in the United States is political left’s desire for a stronger welfare decisively polarized. This polarization is in Protecting Indigenous state, and paired with simplifying the United dividing the United States in numerous ways, Communities States’ existing welfare system, would fulfill including—though not limited to—along MIKAELA BURKE right-wing desires for smaller government. partisan lines, socioeconomically, and racially. FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Synchronous session: Apr 28, 2021 12:00 - 1:00 These aforementioned divides are resulting in SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PM issues from legislative stalemates to mass In 1983, The Environmental Protection Agency social unrest. One must beg the questions of created the Comprehensive Environmental how the United States became so decisively Response, Compensation, and Liability Act polarized, and if it is possible to reduce this (CERCLA). The main goal of which is to polarization and unite the nation. This poster protect human health and the environment explores the historical context surrounding by holding liable parties accountable for the current levels of polarization, the impacts hazardous waste contamination. While of it on society as well as in government, and CERCLA has been able to clean up many of the sites on their National Priorities List, it has

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316 Healthcare Access in the are bigger issues happening in the city schools Systematic segregation, especially when it of Rochester. comes to education in America, is extremely United States for Transgender prominent. The graduation rates in the Individuals 358 Public School Funding: Rochester City School districts are alarmingly AIDEN BUDINSKI low. Many people of color are caught in a FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Resolving the Inequities from cycle that they find is tremendously difficult SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Property Taxes to get out of, all because of the restrictions My research question is how does American ROBBIE ECONOMOU brought upon them by society as a whole. social welfare policy address transgender FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL There has been minimal effort to integrate individuals in healthcare? This is an important SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS schools in the Western New York area, and issue because social welfare policies that This poster will discuss the various types of the effort that has been made has not done focus on healthcare in America tend not to funding used to finance public schools nearly enough for the students in these include transgender individuals at all or (federal, state, and local) and how the high schools. The public policies that I create in specific transgender medical procedures, like use of property taxes leads to vast efforts to change the way America looks at hormone-replacement therapy or sex inequalities in school funding and educational education is to provide direct government reassignment surgery (SRS). I will look at outcomes. Of particular note will be on funding to schools that have lower graduation access to healthcare for transgender patients, intersectional issues and how this inequality rates so that they can get experienced specifically regarding access to hormone of funding disproportionately hurts majority educators and supplies for staff and students. therapy, mental health services, and SRS. For black communities and communities of color This will also slowly bring graduation rates up example, Medicare eliminated restrictions for due to systemic racism. In this poster I will to the levels that suburban schools in that SRS for transgender individuals; however, discuss alternative ways to fund our public area have. Lastly, families with children that approval of this treatment is determined on a schools in order to ensure that all children live in low-income areas would receive extra case-by-case basis. For my research, I will look have access to equal and quality educations, child tax credits compared to middle and at primarily national policies, like Medicare regardless of their socioeconomic statuses. upper class families so that they can provide proper meals and support for their children, and Medicaid, but I will also focus on specific policies in New York. I will also look at how and be able to allow their children to current policies can be changed to address 370 Alcohol Addiction among participate in extracurricular activities from a the issue of transgender access to healthcare. Native American Populations young age. For example, I will address the Affordable JACOB REID Synchronous session: Apr 27, 2021 10:00 - 11:15 Care Act and President Biden’s campaign FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL AM promise to provide healthcare to all SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Americans regardless of sexual orientation This research will explore the high rates of 379 Rising Income Inequality and and gender expression. I will look at how the alcoholism among Native American Affordable Care Act can be more accessible to populations, the influences exacerbating the the Rise of Big Businesses transgender individuals and their specific issue, previous public policies that aimed to RYAN SHIRK medical needs. address it as well as their strengths and FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, weaknesses, and lastly, possible policies that POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 342 Urban vs. Rural School could be implemented now to address the issue. In the past few decades income inequality has gotten progressively worse. Partially due to Districts: How Can We Help Our Students Succeed? the political actions of the Republican party, 376 The Reality for Black big businesses have gotten more and more THERESA CIULLO ahead of small businesses and regular FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Mothers: The U.S. Health Care Americans. As big businesses gained more SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS System and Infant Mortality and more financial power they were even able To establish my research, I will be comparing Rates to spread their power to the government. Dansville Central School District to Rochester JAHNIA CHERENFANT Through the actions of lobbying and financing City School District. I am intrigued to find out FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL political parties’ big businesses power the policies between an urban school district SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS skyrocketed. Lower and middle class citizens versus a rural school district in the state of My poster will explore statistics and research political power has waned as the rich have New York. I want to find out what involving the treatment of Black mothers in gained more sway. The rise in income government intervention has been done for the U.S. My research will detail the treatment inequality is making the United States both school districts. My target population is of black women during, and after their government look more and more like a grades K-12 from Dansville Central School pregnancies and the care they receive while in plutocracy. Democracies are supposed to be District and RCSD. I will be examining the labor. I will detail the inequities and governments in which everyone has equal say social welfare policies that are in both school intersectionality black women face and how and if the rich have more influence, then it is districts. For instance, I will be reviewing the inherently racist medical practices have not a true democracy. Free and Reduced Lunch program which is affected generations of black women and present in both districts. I want to learn more children stemming through childbirth. My about graduation rates, percentage of poster will detail traditional childbirth in pre- 421 Examining Statewide students going to college, poverty rate in transatlantic slave trade African societies, Participation in Early Voting both areas. My main objective is to find out childbirth during slavery, childbirth during the the role of government for rural and urban Regulations 1900s and childbirth during the 2000s. schools. My question is why is the JULIANA KURYLA government absent in rural areas? Why does FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL the city school district receive more 378 Systematic Segregation and SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS government funding and intervention? Low Graduation Rates in the In this research, I sought to measure the Overall, this topic is extremely important for variables that were possibly attributed to a everyone to know and be informed about. I Rochester City School District states choice to implement early voting believe people tend to forget about the rural RILEY DUNN policy. I subsequently tracked the impact that school population in New York because there FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL COVID-19 had on relaxed voting regulations. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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35 Working Memory and participants with higher levels of anxiety had a greater threat bias. PSYCHOLOGY POSTERS Locomotor Activity in Old and Selected for presentation at the SUNY Young Mice Fed a Ketogenic Diet Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) JENNIFER BODZON, MAREN HOGAN AND 12 Disentangling Nature Versus LAURA BAUER 48 Sibling Relationship Quality in Nurture in a Mouse Model of FACULTY SPONSOR: ALLISON BECHARD, PSYCHOLOGY Emerging Adulthood: A Alcohol Use The ketogenic diet (KD), a high-fat, low-carb Phenomenological Study of LAURA BAUER diet, has recently been used to treat disorders Latinx College Students FACULTY SPONSOR: ALLISON BECHARD, associated with an inflexibility of cognitive CARMEN MARTINEZ, DANIELLA QUIROZ, PSYCHOLOGY and behavioral routines, such as dementia OLIVIA SANCHEZ, AND CASSIDY GOUCHER Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a major societal and autism spectrum disorder. However, FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS PALUMBO, concern having a lifetime prevalence of 29.1% there has been little investigation into how GOLD PROGRAM, AND GANIE DEHART, and so understanding how it develops is KD’s beneficial effects on cognitive behavior PSYCHOLOGY important. Mother-infant interactions can may change with age. Here, we show the This phenomenological research examined turn pup genes on or off and influence later effects of KD on performance in a working Latinx college students’ sibling relationships pup behavior. This research used a cross- memory task and locomotor activity in young in emerging adulthood. Researchers fostering technique to disentangle the roles and old C57BL6/J mice. In Experiment 1, we developed and employed a coding schema of nature and nurture on the development of used a Barnes Maze to assess working based on the work of Buhrmester and Furman AUD. It was hypothesized that mice memory. In the Barnes Maze, mice locate an (1987) to code for relationship quality. A genetically predisposed to drink alcohol (B6 escape box under a target hole by using thematic analysis revealed differences in strain) will drink less when reared by mothers spatial cues. Each day the target hole is relationship quality based on participants’ not predisposed to drink (FVB strain), moved to a new location. We found that mice culture identity. potentially via maternal care differences. It on KD performed better, indicated by shorter Selected for presentation at the Association was also hypothesized that mice that are not latencies to find the target hole. However, for Psychological Science predisposed to drink alcohol (FVB strain) will only the young mice on KD made fewer drink more when reared by mothers errors. To check for differences in activity predisposed to drink (B6 strain). Researchers between mice on KD and mice fed a normal 206 Conceptual Metaphor recorded maternal care, offspring anxiety and diet, Experiment 2 employed a 1h locomotor Theory and Perpetuation of alcohol consumption. Results showed that test. KD increased horizontal activity in young mothers rearing FVB pups spent less time and old mice. Thus, regardless of age, mice Gender Stereotypes resting with them. FVB mice were less anxious fed KD performed better in a working JACOB SNYDER, EMILY KERL, SAMANTHA and drank less than B6 mice. Interestingly, memory task and were more active. Findings MADALON, RACHEL DENZLER, KATIE cross-fostered mice were less anxious and may be useful for using KD as a therapy. WALLACE, ISABELLA ROBLES, BENJAMIN drank less than non-fostered mice. Female Selected for presentation at the SUNY TUCKER, SOFIA FLATEN, JORDAN RICE AND mice drank more than male mice. These Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) DINA EBEL findings imply that the early experience of FACULTY SPONSOR: CLAIRE GRAVELIN, fostering can reduce anxiety and alcohol use PSYCHOLOGY later in life. Future studies will explore early 39 Daily Attention Bias According to Conceptual Metaphor Theory postnatal stress as a protective factor. DANIELLA LEONE, GABRIELLE DERELLA, (CMT; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980), people often Selected for presentation at the SUNY HEATHER AIKEN, NICHOLAS GAVRAS, use metaphors to think about abstract Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) SHREYA MISHRA AND CHAZMIN LYNCH concepts in terms of superficially irrelevant FACULTY SPONSOR: BRADLEY TABER- ideas that are more concrete. Importantly, THOMAS, PSYCHOLOGY 16 Quality of College Students’ CMT posits, and demonstrates, that Previous research has shown a correlation metaphoric language is more than a Close Peer Relationships between anxiety and attentional bias to superficial rhetorical device. Rather, the MADELINE BIRD, KAITLYN WEST, MARY threat. For anxious individuals, attentional metaphor used can influence and shape one's SIMPSON AND ERIN DONAHOE bias to threat has been shown to activate thoughts and attitudes toward the target FACULTY SPONSOR: KAREN MOONEY, areas in the brain such as the amygdala. The concept. As such, we first present results of a PSYCHOLOGY amygdala is (i) associated with fear and study testing the biasing effect of This study compares the quality of different anxiety, (ii) involved in the link between metaphorically describing the economy in types of college students’ relationships: same- anxiety and hyper-vigilance for threat, and (iii) terms of gender-stereotyped domains on sex (SS) friendships, other-sex (OS) exerts excitatory influence on the release of evaluations of a female political candidate. friendships, and romantic relationships. cortisol, the stress hormone, which follows a Next, we will present preliminary results from Previous research by Hand and Furman (2009) daily (diurnal) pattern. Previous research has ongoing data collection that seeks to extend indicated that adolescents perceived their OS yet to study the diurnal patterns of attention CMT work by examining whether the biasing friendships as less supportive than both their bias to threat and its association with levels of effect of metaphor can be altered through SS friendships and romantic relationships. anxiety. To address this gap, we examined the presentation of counter-stereotypical Adolescents also perceived their OS whether attention biases to threat follows a exemplars in a gendered domain. similar pattern of daily fluctuations, and if the friendships as having less conflict than their romantic relationships. The current study variation in that pattern relates to levels of attempts to replicate these findings with anxiety. To assess this relationship, SUNY 249 The Role of the Indirect college students, who tend to have more time Geneseo students completed the Dot-Probe Basal Ganglia Pathway in a and opportunity to develop close OS paradigm, which is a commonly used method Mouse Model of Repetitive friendships. In addition, we examine the to measure attention to threat, at five time power dynamic in these relationships, as well periods in one day. The hypothesis is that Circling Behavior as several factors of each type of relationship, attentional biases will follow a similar diurnal GAVIN VAUGHAN including length of the current relationship pattern as seen with cortisol levels, and this FACULTY SPONSOR: ALLISON BECHARD, and previous experience with each type of pattern will be related to daily fluctuations in PSYCHOLOGY relationship. anxiety. The study’s findings showed that Repetitive behaviors are associated with a variety of disorders in humans and are  Promotes sustainability 53

Poster Presentations 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual diagnostic for autism spectrum disorders. cocaine-paired chamber during cue-primed real-world context since most of the Repetitive behaviors can be modeled in testing. After receiving a cocaine-prime (10 experiments that have been done occurred in rodents. In our previous experiments, we mg/kg), mice did not continue this behavior. a lab setting. To address this phenomenon, have been able to reduce repetitive circling Selected for presentation at the SUNY two Empatica E4 Wristbands were utilized in behaviors in mice using a ketogenic diet. The Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) order to measure a participant’s anxiety mechanisms behind the ketogenic diet are through skin conductance, electrodermal still under investigation. Previous 286 A Qualitative Study of the activity, and heart rate. The current study is investigations have indicated that the pilot work done to test the equipment’s ketogenic diet plays a role in neurotransmitter Experience of Asian-American accuracy and reliability as well as create a functioning. This study sought to investigate Students During Spring 2020 protocol for data collection. To assess the the potential role of neurotransmitters in SHARMILA BISWA AND TSHERING SHERPA equipment, SED lab members have been repetitive behaviors by investigating how FACULTY SPONSOR: ANJOO SIKKA, following safe COVID practices in order to three drugs (L-741,626, a dopamine receptor PSYCHOLOGY minimize the risk of contracting or spreading antagonist; CGS21680, an adenosine agonist; The COVID-19 pandemic created an the virus. Based on data collected by the & CDPPB, a glutamate positive allosteric unprecedented demand on society and Empatica E4 wristbands, we hypothesize that modulator) affected circling behavior. Circling individuals. In spring 2020, SUNY Geneseo when put in a real-world situation, a more behavior was measured using photobeam students were sent home with a potential anxious person will focus their attention on a activated locomotor chambers. Individual delay in their return, as the COVID-19 situation threatening stimulus rather than a non- doses of each drug as well as a “triple was still developing. All instruction was threatening stimulus. cocktail” consisting of all three drugs were provided remotely for the remainder of the Synchronous session: Apr 30, 2021 9:30 – utilized during the experiments. Results semester. It was clear at the outset that the 10:30 AM indicate that systemic injection of the single impact of online instruction on students drug and triple drug cocktail were not able to would be differential. We adjusted our reduce circling behavior. originally planned research to study the Selected for presentation at the SUNY TESLA HOUSE POSTER impact of the pandemic on Asian-American Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) students’ experience. Thirty Asian-American

and Asian students enrolled at SUNY Geneseo 258 Differential Response to were recruited for an interview study. Nine 332 Saving Energy in Monroe Cocaine in Mice Exposed to students consented to participate. We Hall subjected the transcripts of these interviews EMILIA RIO, THOMAS ABATE, GABRIEL Stress to an a priori content analysis (categories PURCELL AND LILLIAN FOX MELISSA HERMAN, JENNIFER BODZON, emerged from literature review). Results FACULTY SPONSOR: MEG REITZ, TESLA APRIL ROWELL, KATHERINE BUGBEE, ISABEL were categorized into - problems faced during HOUSE ROSS AND GAVIN VAUGHAN the pandemic, resources used by participants, As the world continues to struggle with global FACULTY SPONSOR: ALLISON BECHARD, relationship with family members (including warming, we all need to start thinking about PSYCHOLOGY filial piety), perceived advantages and ways we can reduce energy usage. We all use Exposure to trauma is a risk factor for disadvantages of being away from home or at energy, often obtained by burning finite substance use disorders. Using a mouse home, role stress or conflicts faced, a resources such as natural gas or coal. This model of PTSD, we tested the effects of reluctance to impose on others, and type of energy usage means more CO2 exposure to a stressor (synthetic fox perceived discrimination/harassment during emissions, which lead to environmental pheromone: TMT) on response to cocaine. the political climate of blaming East Asians for issues. From research and experimentation, Cocaine induced locomotion and cocaine the pandemic. We conducted the content we have determined how to reduce energy seeking behavior in a conditioned place analysis independently and resolved any and water usage in our buildings. We preference (CPP) were assessed. TMT was an disagreements through consensus. We gathered Monroe Hall’s water, natural gas, effective stressor, indicated by freezing present implications for supporting Asian- and electric usage for the winter months and behavior, which is a known fear response in American students attending college and for used this information to analyze which mice. In both males and females, TMT- future research. changes were most effective in reducing exposed mice showed a greater locomotor consumption. Monroe Hall is one of the most response to cocaine compared to control 351 Social Attentional Bias in the eco-friendly buildings on campus, yet still we mice, resulting in the interaction between caused approximately 18.4 metric tons of CO2 time and TMT treatment. TMT-exposed males, Real World - Pilot Study emissions in February. This is the same as but not females, were overall more active ROSA LANAUSSE, EMMA PIWKO, MEENU 2,074 gallons of gasoline burned. We started a than control mice. During CPP, female mice MUNDACKAL, SARINA SINGH, VIVIAN campaign to educate on actions we can each were first conditioned to associate one side of STAPLETON, AND HANNAH RENZI take to reduce our energy consumption. Small a 3-chambered arena with cocaine (10 mg/kg) FACULTY SPONSOR: BRADLEY TABER- actions like taking shorter showers and and then tested in a 30-minute session of free THOMAS, PSYCHOLOGY consciously turning off lights was effective in exploration (15 minutes of cue-prime, 15 Attention bias is defined as the elevated lowering overall consumption in Monroe. minutes of drug-prime). Time spent inside the processing of certain stimuli over others. Past Taking actions to reduce our carbon footprint drug-associated context was considered an research has discovered that attention bias is and continuing to educate ourselves on the indication of the rewarding properties of related to anxiety through behavioral climate crisis are critical for the coming years. cocaine. Results indicated no group experiments. Studies found that in a lab Synchronous session: Apr 30, 2021, 2:30 – 3:00 differences between female mice exposed to setting those who are more anxious are more PM TMT and those that weren’t. Additionally, vigilant towards a threat. Previous research is mice only displayed a preference for the however limited in the study of examining how these behavioral experiments relate to a

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290 2020 in Tweets a ZINE by User faced with reflections of her past. I convey window. In addition, the different colors haunting here through the contrast of color represent the variety in hauntings—there are @rososus and medium between the woman and her many different things that can haunt someone, ROSALINDA MESBAHI memories. The woman is in a cold, dull place “coloring” their lives in different ways. Media: Alison Piepmeier makes the argument that characterized by a lack of color and joy while 14-count Aida cloth, embroidery floss “zines are an inherently hopeful medium. They the figures in these memories are created with counter the cultural imperative ‘to keep distant bright colors, similar to how we romanticize 412 Will Wolves Invade Our Land? and distrustful, alienated, lonely and safe’ and our memories of the past. I also chose to make visible the desire for community and FRANK BUBBICO represent this disparity through the use of My stitchery relates to Pink Floyd’s “Time” and human connection.” In a time where one’s acrylic paint in the memories to show that they community is increasingly characterized by the “Us and Them.” My two favorite songs of their are figments of the woman’s past. Blurs and a album Dark Side of the Moon, they are true digital, what might it mean to create zines to lack of focus in these memories further carry truths? And furthermore what does a zine testaments to the haunting of growing old, and represent that the woman is losing them, a fact the burdens that come with it. For my stitchery which restructures the digital, making it once that haunts her as much as the thoughts did in again analog, offer to our understanding of specifically, I envisioned a black and white the first place. In contrast, the woman is dark scene, mainly a desk from a top-down view, communities and the ways in which they may and cross stitched onto the cloth, showing that be (dis)embodied? “2020 in Tweets” is a depicting photographs and books among it. she is stuck in the physical realm and is simply These books would most likely have a depiction humor-based project that attempts to not able to reach the people she wants to. synthesize the year 2020 while offering of topics related to the scene, such as war. In Media: 14-count Aida cloth, embroidery floss, the center, a bloodied hand, colored in red, commentary on the distinction between the acrylic paint digital and the analog. “2020 in Tweets” is a showing the pain that comes with life and the struggles that people face. It is a vivid image hand-drawn and illustrated curation of actual rd tweets from January 1, 2020 - December 31, 411 October 3 that I have had in my head for a while, and I 2020, which focuses on themes such as COVID- JESSICA ADAMS think it’ll definitely capture what I’m looking 19, politics, and mental health (decline) as a My stitchery project is based off the show for. I chose to title the piece “Will Wolves means to connect with others, primarily Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. It is the story Invade our land,” after a lyric from one of the students, living through this time. “2020 in of two brothers who are haunted by a mistake first songs I ever wrote. Tweets” allows for a synthesis between the they made when they were children. They live digital and the analog which can further in a world where alchemy (magic) exists. They 412 Stage 5: Acceptance peoples’ thinking about community and the tried to bring their mother back from the dead, HANNAH COLE ways in which we connect. causing the older brother, Edward, to lose one My project focuses on the interpretation of my of his legs, and the younger brother, Alphonse, favorite reading so far in the course, “The Dead to lose his entire body. Edward had to sacrifice Girl’s Father.” In the story, the narrator laments one of his arms to bind Alphonse’s soul to a suit 303 Reminiscence his sorrow over the loss of his daughter, using of armor. They spend the story trying to odd literary structural devices, such as lists, to NIMA SHERPA restore their bodies. Edward even breaks down work through his grieving process. For my As I embark on my last semester in SUNY at several points. I will cross stitch their two cross-stitching project, I focus on what I think is Geneseo, I find myself reminiscing the journey symbols: the seal binding Al’s soul and the the most impactful line in the excerpt, “Things of my growth that have led me to be a symbol on Edward’s coat. Fullmetal Alchemist this book won’t do. Bring my daughter back.” I compassionate individual. This artwork was a formative piece of media for me. I find wanted to depict an actual list (Like a grocery “Reminiscence,” (medium, oil painting, 2021) myself coming back to it at least once a year. I list) with that quote inscribed on it. In the depicts my growth here at SUNY Geneseo. want to become a published author, and background I utilize the traditional cross-stitch

everything I write is influenced at least in some theme for “Home Sweet Home” stitchery way by it. The show is about two brothers signs. The juxtaposition of this type of stitchery 37 HONORS 202: HAUNTING haunted by their mistakes, and I can never keep theme and the darkness of the quote expresses the show out of my head for long. Media: 14- WORLDS NEEDLEWORK the grief that the father feels while also adding count Aida cloth, embroidery floss a bittersweet imagery of the family that he FACULTY SPONSOR: CYNTHIA KLIMA, feels he lost in the background. This story had a LANGUAGES & LITERNATURES 411 Coloring the Present profound impact on me and I wanted my The Students of Honors 202: Haunting Worlds JESSICA DAWSON project to portray the same emotional present their needlework renditions inspired by This project is a cross-stitch of a stained-glass heaviness and profoundness I felt while reading readings in our course. From the works we window with differently colored sections and a it. Media: 14-count Aida cloth, embroidery floss have read in class to general hauntings from black frame. Although I originally planned to (red, white, black, blue, yellow, and orange) the world in which we all live, we have created make a “classic” arch-shaped window, I found powerful works of art using needle, thread, and an image online of a circular window with the canvas. Since the beginning of the semester, 412 Haunting Hands silhouette of a tree that stood out to me. I all of us have been learning to use graph paper RACHEL STEVENS converted this image into a cross stitch and computer programs to produce our work. My work involves the depiction of multiple pattern, adjusted it slightly, and used the Some works are free-style. The results are hands. Different cultures believe that the lines pattern for my project. I chose a stained-glass unique and thought-provoking. in our hands represent one’s fate. Fate is window because I wanted to represent how haunting, it relates us to our ancestors and the hauntings are things from the past that color 411 When You're Stuck in What-Is struggles they faced. The past continually the future. Specifically, they are the many haunts our present. Culture haunts the present MARION AVILA different experiences and pieces of history by shaping identity based on the cultural ideals To me, hauntings are inherently things of the behind a person, country, or culture that that we choose to value. Identity can be past that are carried with people. I associate determine how the present is framed. haunting because it is something that we them with feelings of unattainability and Everything a person or society experiences always have to deal with. It is hard to wrestle regret. My cross stitch is of a woman alone, runs through them, just like light through a  Promotes sustainability 55

Artwork 2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual with who we are on the inside versus what we I anxiously awaited its arrival and, at long last, haunting. Media: 14-count Aida cloth, share with the world. Appearances can be an email appeared in my inbox: “Dear Palombi, embroidery floss deceiving and used to disguise our true identity Lara G, Please stop by the College Union Mail and it is a haunting thought to know that not Room to pick a package that has been sent to 414 The Haunting of the Brain everything one can see can be evaluated based you.” I dropped everything I was doing and ran GIANNA MINNUTO on perception. Despite attempts to falsify to the union to begin my life-sized human At least for me, failure is something that I identity, one must always live “knowing figure as soon as possible. After completion of associate with the brain. If I fail to do thyself.” Hands are also the mechanism that the form, I will embroider various insects like something it is because I wasn’t good enough, allows us to make changes. They allow us to beetles, ants, flies, spiders, and bees into finer or wasn’t smart enough, or not determined make choices and carry them out. We can wire mesh and attach them to the chicken wire enough. The whole of my being is guided by my never escape our culture but we can choose figure. I have incorporated grass, ivy and other brain and therefore the whole of my failures how we view it and how we allow it to define nature into her as well to blur the lines can be attributed to the failure of my brain as ourselves. Media: 14-count Aida cloth, between human and Earth. This piece ties well. For my final cross stitch project I have embroidery cloth heavily into the themes explored in our short cross stitched the brain. I think this stories “Mangoes in Paradise” and “Arandas.” representation of the brain can represent the 413 The Haunting Futility of Because the fine wire mesh is large relative to haunting of failure, and of living a monotonous the thread I used, the viewer will sees gaps in life (which can be depicted by the left side of Tradition and Modernity the embroidered images, which tie into the MIA DONALDSON the cross stitch pattern) in opposition to living concept of transparency and outside of the bounds of normal life and being My project began with the traditional image of nakedness/exposure. Media: Chicken wire, a “haunting” — a sheet ghost. Sheet ghosts creative with your choices, as shown by the embroidery floss right side of the pattern. The haunting of failure are such recognizable and iconic figures, which makes them a suitable canvas to add more has such a stark contrast to creativity and this is interesting elements to. From this initial 414 The Submission of the Honey why I decided to depict a brain as my project. observation came thoughts about more Bee Media: 14-count Aida cloth, embroidery floss modern interpretations of hauntings, and RYAN MERKEL through this exploration I found myself My family keeps bees, and we use a lot of 415 Growing Past Our History returning to the idea of futility, people haunted honey for cooking and my brother even has a DANIELA GRIMARD by their situations, and the lack of hope in the bee tattoo, but as I have read about the many Understanding history is essential to having a stories we have read. I visualized hands kinds of hauntings, I am beginning to realize well-rounded world view. Even though there reaching from the bottom end of the ghost, that the life of our honeybees is tragic. They are some parts of history we would like to upward to something they can’t obtain. And, spend their whole lives working for my family forget, we must stay vigilant and learn from lastly, for this “thing” they cannot reach, I and we harvest most of the fruits of their labor; our past. Which is why for my cross stitch imagined a home — representative of comfort, they do not even realize they are being project I have stitched a picture of a bouquet of safety, and connection. The houses and hands exploited. They also die after stinging a flowers. Most of the flowers are wilted which are outlines that meld into each other as the mammal (not other insects or reptiles, believe represents the state of our past– lines connect. Lastly, the background will either it or not, bee stingers only get stuck in fur or unchangeable. And in the center of the be plain white cloth, or a very delicate pattern mammal skin) which seems like a valiant bouquet there are a few flowers that are in full such as a light gray assortment of flowers, sacrifice to protect the Queen but, bee stings bloom with buds sticking out of their stems. which contrasts the harshness of the figures at are usually minor, especially to people like me The buds represent how we as individuals must the forefront. where we have built up an immunity to the grow, flourish and change the cycle set in toxin, so even their sacrifice is meaningless. motion by our ancestors. The flowers in bloom 413 Shades of Blue That is why I view their lives as a form of represent how powerful we each are and have CARLEY SALERNO haunting and I will be cross stitching a the ability to change our future. Media: 14- My cross stitch portrays a compass encircling a honeybee. Media: 14-count Aida cloth, count Aida cloth, embroidery floss starry night sky. Within this small scene of embroidery floss nature, threads in various shades of blue 415 Behind the Mask interact to make the night sky appear real and 414 In the Timing BRIDGET MOYER fluid. This cross stitch demonstrates a haunting JESSICA LOPRESTI In a variety of media that contains hauntings, in its representation of the many different For my stitchery, I wanted to make sure I characters wear literal and physical masks. directions that one can choose to pursue in life. incorporated the theme of hauntings fully into Sometimes they serve to hide a person’s true Although we have the option to change our my work. A theme I’ve really taken from the nature, such as in The Talented Mr. Ripley and paths, we can never realize even a fraction of class is that timing is everything in changing White Ivy or they are simply meant to frighten, the potential experiences that life offers. This one’s path. If certain characters in our readings as they do in so many slasher movies. A good haunting was derived from the novel White Ivy, had not been at certain places at certain times, deal of our material has to do with revealing wherein the main character feels herself torn in they might have avoided their haunting one’s true self, such as the Colonel pretending multiple directions. The piece is oriented destinies. Therefore, I incorporated a clock into to live a life of luxury in House of Sand and Fog. around nature, specifically focused on the sky. my work. I mimicked the melted Salvador Dali However, no one can escape the truth and no This focus reinforces the central haunting of clock over a tree branch to demonstrate that one can escape fate, as seen in “The Masque of the piece by demonstrating just how large the time is, in fact, fallible. The clock is “stuck” on the Red Death.” I will depict this by stitching a sky is, paralleling the largeness of life. It is also a tree branch, indicative of how a stop in time black masquerade type mask. Media: 14-count focused on variations of blue in the night sky, can make or break one’s path, letting a person Aida cloth, embroidery thread which is reminiscent of the varying directions fall into the hauntings below. There is a blue one could possibly pursue in life. Media: 14- sky, a half-shown tree branch and the melted 415 Sesame Street Heat count Aida cloth, embroidery floss Dali clock, representing timing, fate, and ZACKARY IRISH remains. Timing, because of the idea of being in I have been putting the colors provided to 413 Naked Bug Lady the right place at the right time. Fate, because good use while paying homage to our LARA PALOMBI maybe that is the underlying force that plays childhoods as well as meme culture. A picture About a week ago, I decided I wanted to make into why certain people have certain timing in that circulated online of Sesame Street and a sculpture. After ruminating over what their lives. And lastly, remains, because what Elmo’s World star Elmo throwing his hands into materials I would use, I settled on chicken wire. remains of fate and timing can sometimes be the air with his mouth open, while encircled in 56

2021 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day(s)  15th Annual Artwork flames, inspired me. His expression seems to be seen in this world and depicting it through a to represent how fluid and controlling the past suggest that he has come to terms with the fire cross stitch makes it truly horrifying. I wanted can be. and chaos around him, and he is OK going to depict emotions, pain, and suffering with my down in his own way. This picture made me piece, and an eyeball seemed to me to be the 416 Trapped in a Nightmare laugh online due to the unsettlement of the most obvious receptacle for a person's LILY QIAN pandemic and its scheme agreed with the hauntings. Sometimes, the nightmares that arise during colors I had, so I decided to give it a shot sleep often causes one to jump up and wake up despite having little experience. I struggled at 416 The Haunting of the Mind panicking. Nightmares are often fragmented first but got it eventually and am doing my best Clock and forgotten, but they are unavoidable forms to freestyle it onto fabric. I made irregular of confrontation of what haunts a person. My stitches in order to portray depth on the face SAMEELA HAIDARI What haunts people? Their past. People cannot cross stitch plan consists of a girl who is and thinness in the fingers, as well as negative trapped inside a jar. She wants to get out, but space for the whites of his eyes. I used yellow be haunted by the present or the future, yet their past remains a part of them for the rest of outside the jar are spiders. I believe this to be a and orange thread to stitch in the nose and strong example of a nightmare that interlinks flames. Media: 14-count Aida cloth, embroidery their lives. A quote by Samuel Pisar was the inspiration for my work: “We may not live in two hauntings: enclosed spaces and insects. floss The Antman in “Mangoes in Paradise” by the past, but the past lives in us.” Pisar lived through various haunting experiences since he Milena Solot is chained to a stick on an anthill. 416 The Tears of Those Who See was a Holocaust survivor. His parents and sister To be in his situation alone is haunting, which is GAGE SMITH were murdered during the Holocaust and he why I have incorporated insects into my plan. I decided to create an eyeball with this project. was the only holocaust survivor of the 900 kids Being confined in enclosed spaces is another I feel that it is truly haunting to imagine or in in his Polish school. For my work I decided to haunting, especially when there is no this case stitch an eyeball of a person that has embed Pisar’s quote in two halves of a brain. I guaranteed way out. In the “Fall of the House been through their own personal hell. The chose to embed the first half of the quote in a of Usher,” Madeline is thrown into a cellar and eyeball is a window to the soul and with that it plain black and white version of the brain to is trapped there, with no one mentioning her or is a window or a glimpse into the personal represent a part of the brain that is not attempting to get her out. These two literary strife and struggles of an individual. The “Tears consumed by the past. The other half of the works have influenced my stitchery plan and of Those Who See” represents all the awful brain is colorful and consists of a clock to have some resemblance to my own hauntings. memories that occur in one’s life. These represent the past. The numbers of the clock Media: 14-count Aida cloth, embroidery floss memories are stored within the eyeball as and parts of the brain drift outside of the brain memories and are often played back or “seen” in one’s mind. So much pain and suffering can

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Biswa, Sharmila · 55 Crampton, Carla · 45 Bloss, Alexandra · 29 Crimmins, Caroline · 17 A Bodzon, Jennifer · 54, 55 Crosby, Emilye · 19 Bohen, Ryan · 11 Crowley, Danielle · 33 Abate, Thomas · 55 Bordone, Alayna · 17 Cuascut, Elena · 35 Acevedo, Joelmy · 31 Bosch, Isidro · 37 Adams, Jessica · 56 Bourgeois, Frazer · 19 Aether, Jaffre · 50 Brady, Kayla · 16 D Agent, Andrew · 46 Breen, Jackson · 16 Aggarwal, Akanksha · 36 Bressette, Claire · 35 Dargavel, Max · 35 Aguilar, Cesar · 22 Brewer, Lauren · 25 Dawson, Jessica · 56 Aiken, Heather · 54 Brinza, Joseph · 41 De Jong, Emily · 47 Aimers, James · 3, 7, 8 Brown, Eric · 13 Deahn, Margaret · 45 Aita, Moet · 32 Brune, Emma · 14 DeHart, Ganie · 14, 32, 54, 63 Akanonu, David · 15 Bruno, Samantha · 33 Demetri, Brooke · 10 Alam, Rabeka · 15 Brushafer, Emily · 17 Denzler, Rachel · 54 Alessi, Abigail · 33 Bu, Dina · 40 Derella, Gabrielle · 54 Ali, Mir · 40, 41 Bubbico, Frank · 56 Derne, Steve · 32 Allegro, Elizabeth · 33 Budinski, Aiden · 53 Desiderio, Matthew · 41, 42 Allen, Hannah · 7 Buffamonti, Jessica · 50 DeVita, Jaime · 48 Allen, Jim · 32 Bugbee, Katherine · 55 Dewey, Madelyn · 18 Almomani, Ahmad · 24 Burch, Sara · 8 Dick, Erika · 25 Alvarez Merlos, Stephanie · 39 Burke, Genna · 25 Dignam, Molly · 21 Amo, Jessica · 27 Burke, Kara · 12 Dimitroff, Yannis · 9 Ananev, Pavel · 42 Burke, Mikaela · 52 Donahoe, Erin · 54 Anderson, Abigail · 7 Burns, Madison · 30, 50 Donaldson, Jack · 42 Aponte, Geordy · 22 Burns, Stephanie · 16 Donaldson, Mia · 57 Apple, Jennifer · 36, 37 Bussey, Hanna · 39 Donlon, Brianna · 28 Ardner, Windsor · 42 Dorn, Hannah · 43 Aronow, Benjamin · 23 Doyle, Jillian · 27 Avila, Marion · 56 C Drake, Graham · 17, 18, 63 Dunn, Riley · 53 Callahan, Nicole · 4, 18 Dux, Kelsey · 14 B Camilo Hernandez, Arline · 9 Dworkin, Jennie · 28, 41 Cannon, Amy · 18 BaboviĆ, Jovana · 20, 21, 48 Cannon, Kayla · 9 Baglieri, Christopher · 13 Carlo-Clauss, Mariana · 35 E Bailey, Travis · 8, 9, 11, 37, 38 Carmel, Margaux · 15, 34 Bain, Elizabeth · 35 Casilla, Nikauly · 22 Ebel, Dina · 54 Baldwin, Douglas · 21, 39 Caster, Kyle · 26 Economou, Robbie · 31, 53 Bancroft, Mackenzie · 38 Castillo-Rodríguez, Susana · 22 Eddy, Kallah · 49 Baptiste, Hannah · 14 Caswell, Karen · 7 Eloi-Evans, Sasha · 4, 31 Barbosa, Jack · 38 Chalfant, Paige · 34 Barbosa, Kaylie · 29 Chapman, Artressia · 35 Barbour, Eli · 12 Chaput, Paige · 51 F Barreca, Jaclyn · 19 Chaudhry, Usman · 12 Chavez, Valentina · 13, 22 Bartkus, Mary · 41 Fadlaoui, Sarah · 48 Bastine, Bailey · 16 Cherenfant, Jahnia · 53 Ciullo, Theresa · 53 Fair, Rachel · 10 Bauer, Laura · 54 Falletta, Arianna · 11 Bazan, Lindsay · 35 Clack, Caitlin · 28 Cobo, Meghan · 17 Fallon, Samuel · 17 Bazzett, Terence · 48 Farthing, Dori · 19, 45, 46 Beasor, Colin · 50 Colbath, Robert · 38 Cole, Hannah · 56 Feasley, Austin · 11 Bechard, Allison · 31, 54, 55 Feissner, Robert · 39 Behrend, Justin · 20 Colon, Francheska · 35 Colon, Xiara · 31 Felski, Elizabeth · 14 Beiter, Tessa · 38 Ferguson, Jackson · 44 Bennett, Auron · 16 Conforti, Elizabeth · 8 Cooper, Ken · 3, 17 Ferraloro, Rachael · 29 Berte, Mouhamad · 13 Ferraro, Michaelena · 17 Bertleff, Kaitlyn · 21 Cope, Joe · 3, 21 Cotrupi, Natasha · 48 Field, Hannah · 7 Berton, Kathryn · 33 Fillhart, Lydia · 49 Bird, Madeline · 54 Craig, Maya · 21 58

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Finch, Hannah · 16 Haug, Tyler · 7 Kerl, Emily · 22, 54 Fisk, Amy · 4, 32 Hausrath, Kaylee · 15, 40, 41 Khan, Samya · 7 Flannery, Patrick · 8 Hayes, Emily · 42 Kim, Won · 42 Flaten, Sofia · 54 Heiman, Tyler · 16 Klein, Lauren · 50 Fletcher, Kurt · 49 Herman, Melissa · 55 Klima, Cynthia · 56 Flynn, Katherine · 22 Herold, Aaron · 30 Knox, Natalie · 33 Folley, Madison · 33 Hershberger, Monica · 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 Koch, Jeffrey · 30, 31, 50, 51, 52, 53 Footer, Kailin · 17 Higgins, Isabella · 31 Kochalski, Katelynn · 23 Fox, Lillian · 55 Hillyard, Alex · 19 Kozlowski, Carver · 18, 51, 52 Fredericks, Kathryn · 22 Hirschkind, Rachel · 41 Krumrine, Kristi · 7, 36 Freeman, Charles · 50 Hoenig, Erica · 25 Kubala, Brianne · 17 Freeman, Garth · 14 Hogan, Maren · 54 Kueper, Lauren · 24 Fregosi, Lydia · 8 Horrocks, Collin · 46 Kula, Cecilia · 13 Funcheon, Trevor · 33 Houser, Ryan · 13 Kuryla, Juliana · 53 Hoyt, Julia · 48 Hugh, Edwin · 48 G Hummel, Lauren · 33 L Hurley, Keith · 51 Ganey, Maiti · 7 Hutchison, Betsy · 38 Lake, Quaana · 31 Garbarini, Karissa · 13, 48 Lam, Theresa · 40, 42 Gardos, Sarah · 25 Lanausse, Rosa · 55 Gartner, Nick · 13 I Lancos, Jonette · 33 Gatlin, Melisha · 17 Landwehr, Tucker · 48 Gavras, Nicholas · 54 Ichiki, Akane · 15 Lares, Anna · 11 Gentry, Kristen · 18 Interdonato-Carreras, Paris · 28 Leary, Christopher · 24 Gerringer, Mackenzie · 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 Ipolito, Jason · 12 Lee, Laura · 22 Gikonyo, Barnabas · 3, 40, 42 Irish, Zackary · 57 Lee, Ryan · 19 Giorgis, Scott · 19, 45, 47 Iriyama, Yume · 31 Leigh, Jennifer · 10 Gleason, Andrew · 17 Islam, Daniel · 4, 14 Leimanis, Vizma · 33 Gleason, Lydia · 38 Ismail, Yumna · 9 Leonard, Maria · 45 Glennon, Kayla · 35 Ivanovski, Dean · 42 Leone, Daniella · 48, 54 Goeckel, Robert · 29, 30 Iversen, Mia · 7 Levy, Cole · 22 Gonzales, Franchesca · 9 Lewis, Jani · 39 Goucher, Cassidy · 54 Lewis, Zachary · 23 Grace, Jeremy · 30 J Leydon, Jillian · 8 Granger, Andrew · 27 Licata, Brooke · 41 Gravelin, Claire · 54 Jacoby, Wady · 42 Lin, Zi Chao · 41, 42 Green, Lindsay · 35 Jadoon, Nosheib · 42 Lisicki, Macaire · 17 Green, Rachel · 14 Jaimes, Linda · 35 Lopresti, Jessica · 57 Grimard, Daniela · 57 Jakubiak, Alex · 9 Lorenzo, Nicholas · 30 Groccia, Valerie · 33 Jamburuthugoda, Varuni · 8, 10 Lumbis, Emily · 36 Grossman, Riley · 21 James, Kaitlyn · 28 Lupercio, Emily · 35 Grunert, Jonathan · 4, 48, 63 Jankowiak, Megan · 45 Lynch, Amy · 52 Guarneros, Valeria · 7 Janusz, Emma · 13 Lynch, Chazmin · 54 Guyett, Kristen · 16 Jensen, Li · 28 Lyon, Anthony · 35 Guzmán, Jennifer · 7 Johannes, Jeff · 22, 23 Johannes, Shawn · 17 Johnson, Brynn · 38 M H Johnson, Jillian · 33 Joy, Brandon · 7, 26 Mackay, Elizabeth · 7 Haidari, Sameela · 58 Mackey, Peyton · 20 Hall, Rachel · 18 Macko, George · 17 Hamazaki, Sakura · 9 K Madalon, Samantha · 54 Hannam, Kristi · 38 Maiolo, Madelynn · 13 Harclerode, Joseph · 30 Kang, Eunju · 31, 50, 51, 52, 53 Maley, Grace · 11 Harding, Madison · 33 Kaplan, Melissa · 48 Mangino, Lara · 18 Hargrave, Desiree · 27 Kareeparampil, Andrew · 38 Mapes, Kathleen · 21 Harkins, Harry · 29, 35 Kearns, Samantha · 33 Marcus, George · 3, 49 Harrigan, Meredith · 42 Kedzierawski, Andrzej · 48 Markulis, Peter · 4, 13 Harris, Erin · 4, 24 Keenan, Emily · 43 Martinez, Carmen · 54 Hart, Shannon · 47 Kemmett, Nicole · 33 Massenza, Aeryn · 28 Hartvigsen, Gregg · 9, 10, 11, 12 Kenny, Kayla · 24 Mastrota, Emily · 34 Harvey, Jessica · 24 Mattison, Abagail · 17, 35 59

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May, Julia · 12 North, Allison · 26, 28 R Mazzaferro, Maia · 37 Nxumalo, Neo · 23 McBride, Sean · 48 McCart, Jonathan · 24 Raffa, Grace · 46 McCormack, Ashton · 8 O Ranaudo, Alexandra · 45 McEwen, Colleen · 13 Ranney, Emma · 43 Raupp, Emma · 17 McLauchlin, Rachel · 24 O'Brien, Abigail · 34 McLean, James · 49 Raynor, Douglas · 32 O'Connor, Abigale · 47 Reda, Emily · 27 McMahan, Sarah · 23 O'Donnell, Robert · 38, 39 McNeil, Emily · 48 Reed, Cade · 31 Ogura, Fumi · 30 Reed, Kevin · 18 McPherson, Benjamin · 38 Oleyourryk, Taylor · 11 Medeiros, Melanie · 7, 8, 36 Regan, Daniel · 33 O'Neil, Drew · 36 Reid, Jacob · 53 Meichenbaum, Anna · 10 O'Neill, Roisin · 16 Meldrum, Jenna · 30 Reid, Mary · 46 Ophals, Julia · 37 Reinhardt, Eileen · 21 Melendrez, Emma · 35 Osburn, Thomas · 49 Melo, Luz · 24 Reinhardt, Josephine · 12, 13, 38 Otto, Cheyenne · 46 Reitz, Meg · 55 Menec, Katherine · 4, 18 Over, D Jeffrey · 19 Menendez, Allison · 36, 43 Renzi, Hannah · 55 Over, D. Jeffrey · 19, 46, 47 Rheaume, Brittany · 32 Mensah, Yaw · 12 Owens, Aimee · 48 Merced, Carolyn · 13 Riccardi, Taylor · 12 Owens, Ethan · 48 Rice, Jordan · 54 Merges, Eliza · 37 Ozubko, Jason · 31 Merkel, Ryan · 57 Rice, Madelyn · 7 Merwin, Aurora · 7 Rio, Emilia · 55 Rivera, Madeline · 51 Mesbahi, Rosalinda · 33, 56 P Metz, Sarah · 38 Rizzo, Anthony · 41 Meyer, Lisa · 63 Roberts, Sarah · 7 Michaels, Xander · 13 Padalino, Stephen · 50 Robinson, Kazon · 43 Michalak, Ben · 14, 17 Padgett, Paul · 15 Robles, Isabella · 54 Militello, Kevin · 10, 13 Palmeri, Jessica · 8, 10 Rockwell, Mariah · 17 Miller, Kaleigh · 17 Palombi, Lara · 57 Rogalsky, Jennifer · 19, 43 Miller, Kamesha · 14 Palumbo, Nicholas · 14, 54 Rogers, Claire · 17 Mills, Cassidy · 37 Panaro, Allison · 36 Roggie, Jessica · 40 Minnuto, Gianna · 57 Panda, Pallavi · 16 Romano, Yadariselt · 51 Mishra, Shreya · 32, 54 Parfitt, Maggie · 8 Rommel-Esham, Kathryn · 17 Mitchell, Melissa · 16 Parks, Alexander · 37 Rompala, Samantha · 26 Modugno, Sophia · 52 Parrett, Brian · 26 Rose, Griffin · 46 Mohrs, Johanna · 29 Patel, Suhani · 38 Ross, Isabel · 48, 55 Mooney, Clara · 32 Patterson, Molly · 12 Ross, Samantha · 42 Mooney, Karen · 54 Patton, Erin · 35 Roth, Amanda · 33, 34, 35 Morazzini, Caitlin · 14 Pelletier, Ethan · 17 Roumell, Jovahn · 50 Moretto, Micaela · 17 Pellitteri, Maya · 48 Rowell, April · 55 Moukaled, Dana · 38 Pepis, Tara · 4, 7 Rybicki, Emily · 9 Mounts, Annika · 32, 39 Perdomo, George · 28 Moyer, Bridget · 57 Perrone, Julie · 48 Mueller, Jason · 47 Peter, Katherine · 20 S Muench, Susan · 12, 13, 37 Piatt, Jenelle · 34 Mundackal, Meenu · 11, 55 Picciotto, Vincent · 50 Saggese, Lauren · 42 Muro, Benedetto · 19 Pipes, Marie-Lorraine · 4, 8 Salerno, Carley · 33, 57 Mustafa, Gabe · 41 Pirrone, Anthony · 26 Salvatore, Joseph · 35 Mustico, Nina · 39 Pisciotta, Katerina · 37 Sanchez, Olivia · 54 MYZELEV, ALLA · 15 Piwko, Emma · 48, 55 Saylor, Katrina · 31 Polizzi, Emily · 45 Scalcione, Vincent · 39 Pomainville, Emily · 34 Scarazzini, Dante · 49 N Popp, Sarah · 49 Scarbrough, Kathryn · 28 Presutto, Marisa · 10 Schaarschuch, Molly · 7 Primm, Kya · 33 Schlenker, Doug · 16 Nanos, Sean · 35 Purcell, Gabriel · 55 Nardone, Rocky · 26 Schmidlin, Sarah · 40 Naschke, Madeline · 27 Schmidt, Katarina · 22 Schmidt, Sydney · 18 Nedelkovska, Hristina · 13, 39 Q Nevol, Nykole · 19, 36 Schneider, Brandon · 17 Newton, Laura · 16 Schneider, Monica · 31, 32 Ngoma, Sedar · 24, 48 Qian, Lily · 58 Schneider, Tyler · 52 Nishimura, Nami · 49 Quinlan, Zachary · 51 Schnitter, John · 17 Quiroz, Daniella · 54 60

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Schoenfeld, Olivia · 15 T W Schwab, Harris · 31 Seeger, Samantha · 31 Seram, Alexander · 42 Taber-Thomas, Bradley · 48, 54, 55 Walgate, Dylan · 52 Shawkat, Awab · 32 Tajima, Atsushi · 16 Wallace, Katie · 54 Sheedy, Michael · 20 Tanchick, Liam · 29 Waltenberg-O'Brien, Kyle · 13 Sheffield, Kathryn · 12 Tang, Chi-Ming · 24 Walter, Jacob · 9 Sheldon, Amy · 21, 47 Tang, Jasmine · 22 Warick, Ethan · 9, 12 Sheridan, Meghan · 21, 39 Tarun, Salvador · 4, 9, 12 Warn, Danielle · 33, 35 Sherpa, Nima · 12, 15, 56 Taylor, Victoria · 47 Warner, Nicholas · 45, 46, 47 Sherpa, Tashi · 16 Thomas, Joshua · 41 Waters, Chelsi · 16 Sherpa, Tshering · 14, 55 Tiberi, Alea · 30, 33 Weng, Weizhe · 4, 42 Shirk, Ryan · 53 Toback, Sarena · 13 Werner, Mimi · 22 Shrestha, Pranish · 49 Todd, Jillian · 33 West, Kaitlyn · 54 Sikka, Anjoo · 4, 55 Torcello, Marissa · 33 West, Karleen · 30 Simpson, Mary · 54 Treiber, Carl · 25 Whitmarsh, Olivia · 39 Singh, Sarina · 48, 55 Tripoli, Genevieve · 17 Widarsono, William · 48 Singleton, Katie · 44 Tucker, Benjamin · 54 Williams, Laura · 13 Skidmore, Rachel · 17 Tulowiecki, Stephen · 43, 44 Wittmer Malinowski, Jacalyn · 40, 46 Smith, Gage · 58 Turnquist, Nick · 39 Wittschack, Madison · 7 Smith, Hannah · 38 Wood, Heather · 13 Smith, Lytton · 14, 15, 63 Woodworth, Brett · 8 Smith, Olivia · 13 U Snyder, Jacob · 54 Snyder, Kylie · 49 Ueshiro, Hannah · 16 Y Solvang, Steinar · 23 Umoh, Idongesit · 23 Son, Ji Min · 12 Yanez Zamora, Luis · 48 Southcott, Drew · 24 Yang, Suann · 9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 39 Stapleton, Vivian · 55 V Yanuck, Joshua · 19 Stark, Natanya · 28 Ye, Lin Kai · 38 Steele, Cat · 11 Van Pelt, Angela · 51 Yeoh, Jasmine · 13 Steinhauer, Aaron · 49, 63 VanAllen, Matthew · 49 Yokoyama, Kazushige · 15, 22, 40, 41, 42 Stevens, Rachel · 56 VanAlstine, Niaomi · 37 Yun, Kyong-ae · 17 Stickles, Brooke · 47 Vanderbilt, Emily · 25 Yurkewecz, Thea · 17 Stisser, Rachel · 7 Vanputte, Grace · 33 Stitt-Fredericks, Isabelle · 7 Vaughan, Gavin · 54, 55 Stone, Henry · 51 Verhayden, Abigail · 33 Z Stone, Leonie · 16 Verrelli, Lucia · 48 Stopford, Una · 7 Vesperman, Emily · 7 Zaengle, Jacob · 35 Stubblefield, Bonita · 4, 33 Villone, Kelsey · 33 Zhogina, Daria · 7, 42 Sugden, Spencer · 23 Ziotto, Arthur · 31 Suplicz, Sarah · 36 Zopf, Laura · 10 Syposs, Jenna · 47 Zsemlye, Cole · 48

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The GREAT Day Advisory Council The GREAT Day Technical Team Lytton Smith, Center for Integrative Learning Joe Dolce, Computing & Information Technology Anne Baldwin, Sponsored Research Jonathan Grunert, Milne Library Ganie DeHart, Psychology Adam Klinges, Computing & Information Graham Drake, English Technology Corey Ha, Milne Library Caroline Haddad, Mathematics The GREAT Day Student Team John Haley, Administrative Systems Paige Closser Matthew Johnson, Communications and Lia Wortsman Marketing Tarryn Franciosa Lisa Meyer, Edgar Fellows Alexis DeRaiche Amanda McCarthy, Advancement Susan Salmon, School of Education Paul Schacht, English Aaron Steinhauer, Physics & Astronomy

Thank You for contributions that made GREAT Day possible: Sue Rubright

Special Thank You: President Denise Battles and Provost Stacey Robertson for their support of GREAT Day. Jack and Carol Kramer for their support through the endowed lectureship. Adam Klinges for the online submissions system and virtual program. Jonathan Grunert for overseeing the poster uploads and proceedings. Joe Dolce for setting up the video submission system. Patty Hamilton-Rodgers for her coordination of GREAT Day for 10 years and dedication to improving and expanding it each year. To all the students, faculty, and staff who went the extra mile to participate in Virtual GREAT Day(s)

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

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