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0 1 2014 STUDENT WORKS SYMPOSIUM FROM EVERY VOICE Southwestern University Georgetown, Texas EVENT PLANNER Christine C. Vasquez Office of the Provost Southwestern University STUDENT PROGRAM CHAIR Joseph Kyle, Environmental Studies Class of 2014 Southwestern University Special Thanks To: Office of the Provost Paideia Program 2 April 8, 2014 To: Campus Visitors and Members of the Southwestern University and Georgetown Communities Welcome to the Research and Creative Works Symposium, a celebration of Southwestern University. The symposium showcases the work of students, staff and faculty through panel discussions, poster and oral presentations, art exhibits and performances. Two hundred and sixty presenters from throughout the University’s departments, programs and offices are participating in this year’s Symposium. I extend an especially warm welcome to prospective students and their families and to members of the Georgetown community. In the Symposium, you see Southwestern at its best. I hope you enjoy the event as much as we enjoy having you on campus. You may find the following particularly interesting: • panel presentations from Representing Gender, Global Health and Mediterranean Mingling, our new Paideia interdisciplinary programs • a faculty/student panel on undergraduate research at the University • poster presentations on student projects • exhibitions and performances in the Fine Arts building • an evening performance by the Southwestern University Chorale Thank you to all who have worked so hard to make our Research and Creative Works Symposium an outstanding celebration of Southwestern University. Sincerely, Edward Burger President and Professor 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE ............................................................................................................................... 5 MAP OF ACTIVITIES ....................................................................................................................................... 6 PROGRAM AGENDA ...................................................................................................................................... 7 SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY CHORALE PERFORMANCE ........................................................................... 18 PAIDEIA CLUSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS ........................................................................................... 19 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PANEL ABSTRACT ........................................................................................ 20 CREATIVE WORKS AND EXHIBITION ABSTRACTS ........................................................................................ 21 STUDENT PANEL ABSTRACTS ...................................................................................................................... 32 PECHAKUCHA 20X20 TALK ABSTRACTS....................................................................................................... 36 POSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS........................................................................................................... 41 ORAL PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS .............................................................................................................. 63 INDEX OF AUTHORS .................................................................................................................................... 98 4 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014 3:00-8:00 Registration Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014 8:30-5:00 Information and Volunteer Check-in Table Bishops Lounge 9:00-9:45 Representing Gender Paideia Cluster Lynda McCombs Room 9:45-10:45 Undergraduate Research Panel Lynda McCombs Room 10:00-10:30 Sticks and Stones, a play Caldwell-Carvey Foyer SU Theatre and Social Change Class in collaboration with Sarah Beauchamp School drama students Refreshments 10:45-11:00 Introduction and Welcoming Remarks Main Lawn Edward Burger, President of Southwestern University 11:00-12:00 Creative Works and Exhibits Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center 11:00-12:00 Student Panels Mood Bridwell Atrium 11:15-12:00 Global Health Paideia Cluster Lynda McCombs Room 12:00-1:00 Lunch Break Commons Dining Hall 1:00-2:00 Student Panels Mood Bridwell Atrium 1:15-4:15 Oral Presentations FW Olin Building 1:15-3:50 PechaKucha 20x20 Talks The Cove 2:15-2:45 Refreshments Various Locations 2:45-3:30 Mediterranean Mingling Paideia Cluster Lynda McCombs Room 3:00-4:00 Student Panels Mood Bridwell Atrium 4:00-5:00 Poster Presentations Bishops Lounge 5:30-6:15 Celebration Hosted by Joseph Kyle Bishops Lounge Awards Presented by President Burger Light meal 6:30 Chorale – Fine Arts Performance Alma Thomas Theatre 5 MAP OF ACTIVITIES 1. Mood Bridwell Atrium 3. Main Lawn Refreshments (p.m.) Creative Works (Sphere) Student Panels Introduction and Welcoming Remarks 2. Red & Charline McCombs Campus Center 4. FW Olin Building Celebration and Awards Oral Presentations Information/Volunteer Table Refreshments Paideia Clusters PechaKucha 20x20 Talks 5. Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center Poster Presentations Creative Works and Exhibits Refreshments (a.m. & p.m.) Monday Registration Undergraduate Research Faculty/Student Performance (Tippit & Chorale) Panel Refreshments (a.m.) 6 PROGRAM AGENDA PAIDEIA CLUSTER PRESENTATIONS Lynda McCombs Room 9:00 1. Representing Gender Propaganda Posters during the Chinese Cultural Revolution 11:15 2. Global Health The Many Faces of Global Health 2:45 3. Mediterranean Mingling Jewish Migration in the Mediterranean World UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PANEL Lynda McCombs Room 9:45 4. Undergraduate Research Panel CREATIVE WORKS AND EXHIBITIONS Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center 10:00 5. Sticks and Stones, a play SU Theatre and Social Change Class in collaboration with Sarah Beauchamp School drama students 11:00 6. Erika Clugston B.F.A. Art Exhibition, "Pressure Points" 7. Carmen Gadt B.F.A. Art Exhibition, "Nostalgia" 8. Sarah Loraine Kinney B.F.A. Art Exhibition, "Selfies" 9. Lydia Au Thunderbird Mask 10. JoLiza Barrera Apostate Monk 11. Taylor Braselton Noh Mask 12. Rachel Ehler The Columbina Mask 13. Zachary Finger Mayo Indian Festival (Pascola) Mask 14. Caroline Gaspard Transylvanian Folk Mask 15. Nicol Hurst Sri Lankan Kolam Mask 16. Andrea Lee Anubis Mask - Keeper of the Dead 17. Dakota Skinner Xacalcojé Mask 18. Matthew Zagurski Nahuatl Death Mask 7 19. Taylor Hutchison, Victoria J Hutchison The Perfect Glaze: Using Evolutionary Computing to Format the Most Aesthetically Pleasing Glaze 20. Oliver Sale, Hector Posadas, Evan Jones Reverse Osmosis Water Filtration System 21. Caitlin Schneider Mapping the Zenas Matthews Diary 22. Kyle Zarosky, Brandon Behrens, Clayton Sparks Development of a Lighted Flat Field Device for the Fountainwood Observatory 23. Amir Ardjomand Hessabi, Seve DeGrand, Keeley Coburn Solar Lounge 24. Anne Bannister Warm of Heart: A Visual Story of Rural Thailand 25. Dyana Shearer Fantasy Art in a Leadership Perspectives (Business) Class? 26. Xan Koonce Unspoken Words 27. Catherine Cerna Our Spineless Heroes: An Unlikely Tale 28. Stephan Meyer, Zach Whitlock, Jonathan Kissner, Austin Barber Up-Hill Assist Self-Powered Bicycle 29. Eric Rodriguez, Kelsey Kingston The Mobile Inductive Charger (MIC) 30. Isabella Ferranti, Ally Mijol, Andrew Josefchak, Elise Hernandez Experiencing Geometry PANELS Mood Bridwell Atrium 11:00 31. Ashley Johnson Institutional Corruption: A Perpetuator of Human Rights Abuses in China 32. Laura Meitz China's Hydropower Policy According to Mill's Utilitarianism: An Ecological Disaster or Solution to the Pollution Crisis? 33. Cheyenne Wooldridge Ethics of the Chinese One Child Policy and Relevancy in Modern China 34. Ashton Sharp-Lucas The European Court of Human Rights and Kantian Ethics 1:00 35. Julie Jesperson Why Johnson and Not Kennedy: The Efficacy and Ethics of Tactics used in the Push for Civil Rights Legislation Under Lyndon Baines Johnson 36. Lauryn Deering Personal Relationships and Political Ethics 37. Meg Greenfield Work-Family Balance: A Comparative Case Study of Spain and Germany 38. Lily Welborn Gender Equity in Argentinean and Chilean Politics 3:00 39. Stephen Holloway Ethics and the Media: Anything for the Scoop? 8 40. Eleanor O'Neil Negativity, Virility, and Democracy: How the Tone of Political Campaigns on Social Networking Sites Impacts Youth Political Participation in the United States 41. Scott Kelly The Nuclear Taboo that Has Developed Through Non-Use of the Atomic Bomb During the Cold War 42. Bailey Olderog Significance of the Civilian-Military Relationship in the United States PECHAKUCHA 20X20 TALKS The Cove 1:15 43. Nicoletta Memos Turning a Blind Eye to Trachoma: Addressing Infectious Blindness 1:22 44. Emilie Evans The Effects of Population Movement on Neglected Tropical Disease Transmission 1:29 45. Katie Ferrick One Bug, One Bite, One Life 1:36 46. Amber Cochran Under the Sea: The Effects of Pathogens and Zoonosis on Declining Reef Systems 1:43 47. Kron Heilman Plant Immunity Mediated Through siRNAs and Symbiotic Relationships 1:50 48. Shelby Love The Final Frontier: Bacterial Growth in Space 1:57 49. Megan Pope From Smog to Microorganisms in Beijing and Why It Matters 2:04 50. Melva Maldonado Interaction Between Gut Microbiota and Brain 2:11 51. Terra Stefaniakl Celiac Disease and Potential Microbial Influence 2:18 52. Claudine Reyes Gut Microbiota Shifts as a Factor in Diabetes Progression 2:25 53. Mirabella Alfaro Antibacterial Properties of Common Plant Extracts and Oils 2:32 54. Benjamin Friou The Food We Eat Because of Bacteria 2:39