Welcome to SUNY Geneseo’s Tenth Annual GREAT Day! Geneseo Recognizing Excellence, Achievement & Talent Day is a college-wide symposium celebrating the creative and scholarly endeavors of our students. In addition to recognizing the achievements of our students, the purpose of GREAT Day is to help foster academic excellence, encourage professional development, and build connections within the community.
The GREAT Day Faculty Advisory Council The GREAT Day Committee Joan Ballard, Psychology Anne Baldwin, Sponsored Research Sid Bosch, Biology Tammy Hill, Campus Scheduling and Special Events David Levy, Edgar Fellows and Philosophy Andrea Klein, Campus Scheduling and Special Events Graham Drake, English Gina Suriano, GREAT Day Intern Susan Salmon, School of Education Samuel Weinstein, Chamber Music Festival Aaron Steinhauer, Physics & Astronomy Coordinator; Allison Altschiller, Assistant Samantha Moore, Student Association GREAT Battle of the Artists Team Daniel Ross, Milne Library Tahlia Brody, GCAB Arts & Exhibits Patty Hamilton-Rodgers, GREAT Day Coordinator Hannah Fabiny, Nassau Hall
Neal Brooks, Residence Life
Thank You for contributions that make GREAT Day possible: Brian Bennett, Joe Dolce, Stephen Dresbach, Karie Frisiras, Nancy Johncox, Minhhang Huynh, Enrico Johnson, Justin Hugg, Chip Matthews, Sean McGrath, Daniel Ross, SA Tech Services, Frances Murray, Ashley Zaleppa, Zarmeen Zahid.
Thanks to GREAT Day Volunteers: Ama Acheampong, Genesis Alvarado, Amanda Armbruster, Autumn Arnold, Ali Baker, Luke Bamburoski, Zerrick Barlow, Maya Bergamasco, Zachary Berube , Liv Binda, Jacqueline Breese, Anthony carselli, Noah Chauvin, Andy Chen, Breann Coffaro, Josh DeJoy, Aideen Dempsey, Kendall FitzGerald, Demetrios Giannios, Claire Grant, Cayley Hallahan, Kaycie Haynes, Emily Herschbein, Katherine Kasha, Madeline Katz, Kathleen Konz, Sindhu Kotapati, Alyssa Kuehnling, Charles Lemen, Tiffany Lui, Kelci MacIntyre, Michael Maher, Morgan McFadden, Dana Meath, Samantha Moore, Maura Mullen, Tayler Naeye, Katie Newcomb, Kylee O'Hara, Sara Reppenhagen, Makayla Ross, Laura Russo, Hungantota Don Udeshi Seneviratne, Saarah Shakeel, Merin Varghese, Emily Victoria, Jia Wen Zhu
Special Thank You: President Denise Battles and Provost Carol Long for their support of GREAT Day. Jack and Carol Kramer for their support of Geneseo and the Keynote address. Brother Guy Consolmagno for delivering the Keynote address. Student Association for sponsoring the luncheon. Campus Auxiliary Services for sponsoring luncheon beverages. Daniel Ross and the Milne Library Staff for hosting the Coffee Hour and overseeing the proceedings. Anne Baldwin, Andrea Klein, Tammy Hill and Gina Suriano for their special expertise and many hours devoted to planning this event.
GREAT Day is funded by the Office of the Provost, the Student Association, Campus Auxiliary Services and the Jack '76 and Carol '76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship. http://www.geneseo.edu/great_day
2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Table of Contents/Schedule
TABLE OF CONTENTS SCHEDULE
Schedule ...... 1 7:30 – 8:20 AM Opening Coffee Hour Honoring Milne 1st Floor 10 Year Supporters & 2015 Proceedings GREAT Day Honors ...... 2 8:30 – 6:30 PM GREAT Battle of the Artists Keynote Address ...... 3 CU Kinetic Gallery Award presentations 6:00 PM
Concurrent Presentations AM Quick View ...... 4 8:30 – 9:45 AM Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 Bailey, Brodie, Doty, ISC, Milne, Newton, South, Sturges, Welles Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 ...... 5- 12 9:55 – 11:10 AM Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 Bailey, Doty, ISC, Newton, South, Sturges, Welles Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 ...... 12 - 20 10:20 AM – 11:15 AM Chamber Music Festival • Part 1 Concurrent Presentations PM Quick View ...... 21 College Union Hunt Room
Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 ...... 22 - 29 11:15 – 12:45 AM Poster Presentations Poster Central - College Union: Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Starbucks Stage Concurrent Presentations • Session 4 ...... 29 - 35 12:00 PM Buffet Luncheon/Geneseo String Band Poster Abstracts ...... 36 - 66 College Union Lobby Sponsor: Geneseo Student Association
Chamber Music Festival ...... 67 12:40 PM Sláinte Irish Dance Performance College Union Ballroom Stage Artwork Exhibits ...... 68 - 70 1:00 – 2:15 PM Keynote: Brother Guy Consolmagno Special Presentations ...... 71 The Jack ’76 and Carol ’76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship Opening Alma Mater sung by ALLISON ALTSCHILLER, LOUIS Insomnia Film Festival ...... 72 Wadsworth Auditorium
Index of Student Participants and 2:15 – 3:15 PM Chamber Music Festival • Part 2 Faculty/Staff Sponsors ...... 73 - 77 College Union Hunt Room
Poster Map ...... back cover 2:25 – 3:40 PM Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 Bailey, Brodie, ISC, Newton, South, Sturges, Welles Cover design by Joanna Walters ’13 3:45 – 4:20 PM Chamber Music Festival • Part 3 College Union Hunt Room
3:50 – 5:05 PM Concurrent Presentations • Session 4 Happy Earth Week Bailey, Brodie, Doty, Newton, South, Sturges, Welles
5:10 PM Geneseo Winter Guard Look for the Leaf College Union Plaza In recognition of Earth Week, Sustainability at Geneseo has selected GREAT Day presentations which 5:15 PM Bhangra Dance Performance include topics that promote sustainability and are Closing Remarks, Denise Battles President designated by. College Union Lobby
Recycle or Namebadge/Lanyard 5:15 – 6:30 PM, Poster Presentations If you would like to recycle your namebadge/lanyard & Reception Keynote Speaker Book Signing rd you can leave it at the GREAT Day Check-In Desk in the Poster Central - College Union: Ballroom, 3 Floor, Starbucks Stage College Union Lobby College Union, give it to a GREAT Day Volunteer or drop it off at Erwin 202. The badge holders are also 6:30 PM reception, 7:00 PM screenings biodegradable. Wadsworth Auditorium Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival
1 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual GREAT Day Honors
The GREAT Day Opening Coffee Hour 7:30 – 8:20 am, Milne Library Honoring
Ten Year Sponsors and Contributors
GREAT Day would not be possible without the dedicated faculty who work with students throughout the year on the projects that are presented annually. As we observe the 10th Annual GREAT Day, we would like to acknowledge the following faculty who have been a faculty sponsor for each of the 10 GREAT Days:
EDUCATION PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY BIOLOGY Doug Mackenzie Kurt Fletcher Sid Bosch
Charlie Freeman Gregg Hartvigsen GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES D. Jeff Over Stephen Padalino Jani Lewis
Aaron Steinhauer Kevin Militello ANTHROPOLOGY Robert O'Donnell Paul Pacheco CHEMISTRY Kazushige Yokoyama ENGLISH MATHEMATICS Graham Drake PSYCHOLOGY Caroline Haddad Ganie DeHart ENGLISH Christopher Leary Julia Walker Jennifer Katz Olympia Nicodemi Michael Lynch GREAT Day is also indebted to the staff who have worked tirelessly to organize, coordinate and support the program for the past ten years: SPONSORED RESEARCH CAMPUS EVENTS AND SCHEDULING COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS CIT Anne Baldwin Andrea Klein Brian Bennett Joe Dolce
THESE STUDENTS AND THEIR FACULTY MENTORS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE PROCEEDINGS OF GREAT DAY 2105:
WENDY-MARIE AYLWARD NICOLE LEYNA JOHNSON MARIA LIMA, ENGLISH JENNY KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY BENJAMIN BURDETT CORTNEY LINNECKE TODD GOEHLE, HISTORY JEREMY GRACE, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS NATHALIE GROGAN CATHERINE ADAMS KATHERINE MANNION ATSUSHI TAJIMA, COMMUNICATION MOHAMMED HOSSAIN DAVID LEVY, PHILOSOPHY ERIK MEBUST GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH KATE HESLER JOAN ZOOK, PSYCHOLOGY SONGYI PAIK MANSOKKU LEE, BUSINESS
2 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Keynote Speaker, 1:00 PM
The Jack '76 and Carol '76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship KEYNOTE ADDRESS Wadsworth Auditorium • 1:00 – 2:15 PM
Introduction by Denise Battles, President
Brother Guy Consolmagno – Why Do We Do Science? “Doing science” can mean efforts ranging from the billion-dollar efforts of Big Science like the recent discovery of gravitational waves, to the much smaller scale science like the measurements of meteorite properties that Br. Guy does in his small lab at the Vatican Observatory. People often question the monetary cost of these efforts: why does the federal government spend billions looking for something as esoteric as gravitational waves? Why does the Vatican support an astronomical observatory? But these questions mask a deeper question: why do individuals choose to spend their lives in pursuit of pure knowledge? How are these choices made? The motivation behind our choices, both as individuals and as a society, affects the sorts of science that gets done; the kinds of answers that are found to be satisfying; and ultimately, the way in which we think of ourselves. About Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ, Astronomer and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation A native of Detroit, Michigan, Brother Guy earned undergraduate and masters' degrees from MIT, and a Ph. D. in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona; he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard and MIT, served in the US Peace Corps (Kenya), and taught university physics at Lafayette College before entering the Jesuits in 1989.
At the Vatican Observatory since 1993, his research explores connections between meteorites, asteroids, and the evolution of small solar system bodies, observing Kuiper Belt comets with the Vatican's 1.8 meter telescope in Arizona, and applying his measure of meteorite physical properties to understanding asteroid origins and structure. Along with more than 200 scientific publications, he is the author of a number of popular books including Turn Left at Orion (with Dan Davis), and most recently Would You Baptize an Extraterrestial? (with Paul Mueller). He also has hosted science programs for BBC Radio 4, been interviewed in numerous documentary films, appeared on The Colbert Report, and for ten years he has written a monthly science column for the British Catholic magazine, The Tablet.
Dr. Consolmagno's work has taken him to every continent on Earth; for example, in 1996 he spent six weeks collecting meteorites with a NASA team on the blue ice regions of East Antarctica. He has served on the governing boards of the Meteoritical Society; the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences (of which he was chair in 2006-2007); and IAU Commission 16 (Planets and Satellites). In 2000, the small bodies nomenclature committee of the IAU named an asteroid, 4597 Consolmagno, in recognition of his work. In 2014 he received the Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences for excellence in public communication in planetary sciences.
There will be a book signing and reception in conjunction with the poster session in the College Union Ballroom at 5:15 pm. The bookstore will have copies of Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial and Turn Left at Orion.
All are welcome.
3 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Morning Sessions Quick View Guide
CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS MORNING QUICK VIEW GUIDE
SESSION 1 CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS SESSION 2 CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS 8:30 – 9:45 AM 9:55 – 11:10 AM ______1A • HISTORY STURGES 109 2A • MATHEMATICS NEWTON 201 A Question of Autonomy: China and its Problem Borderlands Mathematical Games, Magic, and Paradoxes ______1B • CENTER FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT 2B • CENTER FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT Ambassadors 1 DOTY 302E Ambassadors 2 DOTY 302E ______1C • ART HISTORY & MUSIC BAILEY 103 2C • ENGLISH WELLES 128 ______Ancient Leadership and Its Reverberations 1D • BIOLOGY 1 ISC 131 ______2D • BIOLOGY 2 ISC 131 1E • BUSINESS SOUTH 338 ______2E • BIOLOGY 3 ISC 136 1F • POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______Contemporary Global Issues I WELLES 24 2F • POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______Contemporary Global Issues II WELLES 24 1G • THEATRE/DANCE BRODIE 152 DANCE STUDIO ______Dance Composition: Senior Choreographic Projects 2G • ANTHROPOLOGY BAILEY 103 ______Debates, Dialogues and Dialects: Insights from Linguistics 1H • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 1 WELLES 119 ______Education, English, Mathematics 2H • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 4 WELLES 123 ______Sociology, Political Science & International Relations 1I • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 2 WELLES 121 ______Biology, Mathematics, 2I • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 5 WELLES 121 ______Biology, Chemistry 1J • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 3 WELLES 123 ______Anthropology, Mathematics, Philosophy 2J • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 6 WELLES 119 ______Residence Life, English 1K • HISTORY: Empowered Women: Jiang Qing STURGES 112 ______2K • ENGLISH BAILEY 102 1L • HISTORY 1 STURGES 114 ______International Linguistic and Cultural Exchange ______1M • HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS I SOUTH 328 ______2L • GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES: Geophysics ISC 115 ______1O • PSYCHOLOGY BAILEY 102 2M • GOLD 1 WELLES 26 How to Be A Happier Person ______2N • HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS II SOUTH 328 1P • LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES WELLES 115 ______2O • EDUCATION - LIVES PROGRAM PRESENTS... NEWTON 204 1Q • MATHEMATICS NEWTON 201 ______Algebra: Applications and Research 2P • HISTORY: Methods, Media, and Me II STURGES 108 ______1R • HISTORY: Methods, Media, and Me I STURGES 108 2Q • HISTORY: Morality, Religion and Politics STURGES 104 ______1S • POT POURRIE: Business, English BAILEY 104 2R • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 340 ______Real World Applications of Mathematics 1T • PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY 1 ISC 115 ______2S • HISTORY BAILEY 104 1U • ENGLISH MILNE 105 Sport in the PRC: Cultural, Political, and Economic Dynamics The Wife of Bath's Prologue (Chaucer) in Middle English ______2T • ENGLISH DOTY TOWER ROOM 1V • ENGLISH WELLES 128 The Geneseo Almanacs Themes in and Discussion on James Joyce's Ulysses ______2U • BUSINESS SOUTH 338 1W • ENGLISH WELLES 134 The Fed Challenge Team Video Games in HUM I: What would Aristotle do? ______2V • MUSIC – VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL DOTY RECITAL HALL 1X • PSYCHOLOGY (MOVED FROM 4T) BAILEY 105 ______College Adjustment & Retention of Racial/Ethnic/Sexual Minorities 2W • STUDY ABROAD: Haiti Service Learning Trip WELLES 115 ______
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CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS 1 • 8:30 - 9:45AM
1A • HISTORY STURGES 109 Court's history with this questions as it pertains to ______the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel clause, it is Toulouse-Lautrec and the Female A Question of Autonomy: China clear that over time we have identified new rights Form that were either present or ancillary to and its Problem Borderlands EMILY ERCOLANO developments in our legal system. The Court's FACULTY SPONSOR: TZE-KI HON, HISTORY FACULTY SPONSOR: ALLA MYZELEV, ART HISTORY decision in Gideon v. Wainwright provides one SESSION CHAIR: THOMAS GREENO The objectification of the female body has been a ______such unmitigated standard of justice: legal common feature throughout the history of representation for all regardless of wealth. Using a Taiwan: A Look at Two Chinas western art, a tradition that persisted into the 19th Student Ambassadorship, I provide an analysis of THOMAS GREENO, GINO BUSCEMI, JOHN century and was exasperated by the growth of the how New York State has not met the standard set KILLEGREW, JONATHON SABATINO advertisement industry. Though much has been forth in Gideon. I conclude that justice is a natural This presentation will be looking at the history of written about Henri de Toulouse Lautrec and his right that must be attached to a normative Taiwan as it diverged from the Communist path. use of the traditional male gaze within his posters How has the PRC dealt with this split and how does framework. ______and advertisements, particularly for the Moulin it continue into today? Rouge, there is much less critical discourse about ______Ambassadorship Project - StandUp his paintings which often center on depictions of Free Tibet: The Sovereignty of a Leadership marginalized women. My paper seeks to help fill People BRANDON GAYLORD this gap within criticism by examining his paintings JOHN KILLEGREW FACULTY SPONSORS: CYNTHIA OSWALD, CENTER as a reflection of Lautrec's private, more culturally An examination of the land dispute, religious FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT subversive view of women as equally realized and conflict, and human rights violations that has THOMAS MATTHEWS CENTER FOR COMMUNITY complex human beings. Lautrec's advertisements persisted since the early 1700's in this torn region. My ambassadorship was a leadership day I wanted featuring the famed Moulin Rouge dancer, Jane ______to host for under-served high-school students. Avril, are a continuation of the male gaze for mass, Xinjiang Uyghar: A Seperate People Calling the event StandUp Leadership, we hosted, public consumption by a patriarchal society. In GINO BUSCEMI at SUNY Geneseo, 130 high-school students on comparison to his more private paintings, In the A examination of the separatist movements of December 4th, 2015 for a day of leadership Salon in Rue des Moulins (1894) and The Two those in China that yearn for autonomy, based on workshops (modeled on the GOLD program) as Friends (1895), display a markedly different ethnic, religious, and political differences between well as networking opportunities with admissions conception of women and their relationships with those living in the autonomous region and the representatives and local businesses. This one another, particularly those amongst sex Chinese government. presentation will discuss, in detail, what was done, workers and homosexuals. In contrast to his ______how, why, and the future of this event. misogynistic posters of showgirls, Toulouse- Macau: Portuguese China Before Lautrec's paintings are proto-feminist in their more 1C • ART HISTORY & MUSIC human and sympathetic portrayals of women. and After 1999 BAILEY 103 JONATHAN SABATINO SESSION CHAIR: BETSY COLON, GRANTS 1D • Biology 1 ISC 131 After centuries of Portuguese rule, Macau has MANGEMENT SESSION CHAIR: HAROLD HOOPS, BIOLOGY transformed from a small colony into Asia's Las ______Vegas, and has changed significantly culturally and A Changing Community: How a economically while transitioning to life under the The Armenian Genocide and the Communist Party of China. Music It Inspired Virtual Community Reacts to MEL YANAR Different Stimuli 1B • AMBASSADORS 1 DOTY 302E FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES KIMBALL, MUSIC LARA BANNISTER SESSION CHAIR: CYNTHIA OSWALD, CENTER FOR This month marks the 101st anniversary of the FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, INQUIRY, DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT beginning of the Armenian Genocide in which an BIOLOGY ______estimated 1.5 million Armenians died. Others, A virtual fictional Serengeti community was built In Defense of Normative Justice in including the presenter's great-grandparents and using R. The community consists of vegetation, the Era of Positive Law: Improving grandfather, managed to flee. Since then, both herbivores, and predators. The assumptions Armenians and Armenian-Americans have written include one-way interactions (population-based Public Defense in New York State music inspired by the Genocide but in very consumption), population-dependent births, HARRISON HARTSOUGH different ways. Armenians created anti-war music random deaths, and no cannibalism. I will define a FACULTY SPONSORS: JAMES MOOR, POLITICAL to recount how they remained peaceful and to "normal" stable community. From there, I SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS reinforce that their belief in God was unwavering. determine how the community reacts to different CYNTHIA OSWALD CENTER FOR INQUIRY, The Armenian-American music focuses more on situations, such as simulated natural disasters, the DISCOVERY, AND DEVELOPMENT wanting revenge and demanding governmental removal of species, the removal of keystone The growth of the Black Lives Matter movement recognition. This presentation will serve to provide species, and the effects of sudden population indicates a growing consensus that police practices historical context for the Genocide, share the increases or decreases of different species and must be examined in light of tragedies such as that family story, and illustrate the sharp distinction record the resulting effects over a period of time. of Ferguson, Missouri. I propose that not only between the perspectives of the two cultures. ______police practices but the practices of how we defend Songs written, composed, and performed by The Colonial Green Alga the rights of the indigent accused, those who are Arthur Meschian, Arsen Safaryan, Charles too poor to afford an attorney, demand Aznavour, George Garvarentz, Daniel Decker, Ara Astrephomene gubernaculifera examination. Beginning by understanding our Gevorgyan, Hyper Soul, R-Mean, and System of a Performs Chemotaxis by an courts, where pursuing justice is forced to compete Down will be referred to. The presentation will Extracellular Calcium-dependent with the question of what is practical, I discuss this include related visual and audio examples. "judicial-practical" question at length to show that Temporal Sensing Mechanism GRANT KUSICK justice must be separated from practical concerns (monetary cost, e.g.). By examining the Supreme FACULTY SPONSOR: HAROLD HOOPS, BIOLOGY
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One challenge in the early evolution of 1E • BUSINESS SOUTH 338 creativity while simultaneously increasing multicellularity is the performance of collective SESSION CHAIR: LEONIE STONE, BUSINESS employee motivation, productivity, and efficiency. ______behaviors. This transition is drastic within the ______volvocine algae: multi-celled members of the Impact of Leader Courage on International Trade: A Buffer Volvocales exhibit many of the same behaviors as Against Economic Recessions? their unicellular relatives, but the mechanisms Organizational Effectiveness JIMMY HATEM involved must be distinct. Astrephomene RYAN MICHAELSEN, JASON STICH FACULTY SPONSOR: LEONIE STONE, BUSINESS gubernaculifera is the only multi-celled volvocine FACULTY SPONSOR: AVAN JASSAWALLA, This paper examines U.S. international trade data alga that has been shown to perform chemotaxis: BUSINESS from the 2008 recession, and asks if international navigation along a chemical gradient. Since the Our paper presentation will share findings from our trade activity can insulate a region from economic discovery of this behavior, the signaling pathway literature review of leader courage and its impact downturns. Specifically, we apply econometric involved and the physical means by which the alga on organizational effectiveness. We will explain analysis to U.S. States and Metropolitan Statistical changes its movement to navigate toward higher key competencies that courageous leaders have Areas. Our method includes categorizing similar concentrations of its food source, acetate, have and how they affect the organization as a whole. states and metro-areas by economic size, been obscure. I report that extracellular calcium is Specifically, we will discuss how being ethical, population and geographical location in order to required for chemotaxis independent of general visionary, and charismatic as well as implementing isolate international trade variation between motility and at a different concentration than is effective communication skills can change the productivity and effectiveness of the organization similar regions. required for phototaxis. This suggests that there is an influx of calcium during the chemoresponse as a whole. Finally, we will provide suggestions for separate from the photosensory pathway. I also leaders of organizations on how to improve in 1F • POLITICAL SCIENCE & find that increasing the viscosity of the medium these areas. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS abrogates effective phototaxis but not chemotaxis. ______WELLES 24 Human Resource Management— This implies that chemotactic sensing and response Contemporary Global Issues I occur over time rather than instantaneously, as is Impact of Employee Engagement the case in phototaxis. I propose a mechanism of FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT GOECKEL, POLITICAL chemotactic navigation in which Astrephomene Programs on Retention SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS reverses direction when it experiences a local SARAH FRADKIN, SHAYNA WINBERRY SESSION CHAIR: ANAND RAO, POLITICAL SCIENCE decrease in acetate concentration. FACULTY SPONSOR: AVAN JASSAWALLA, & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______BUSINESS Treatment with the Corticosteroid This presentation highlights the importance of Political Economic Causes and Employee Engagement Programs in the workplace Implications of the Greek Debt Clobetasol on Subclones of Vulvar given their positive effect on retention. More Carcinoma Cell Line UMSCV-6 specifically, we will look at what makes an Crisis KRISTIAN TIALIOS Causes Alterations in Gene Employee Engagement Program effective, how companies can successfully implement these The European debt crisis in 2009 sent many Expression Related to Epithelial to programs and the factors within the program that European economies in desperate recessions and Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) directly lead to higher retention levels. threatened the continuity of the European Union itself. The crisis in Greece was particularly more CHIAMAKA OKORIE ______troublesome, and continues to ravage the battered FACULTY SPONSOR: JANI LEWIS, BIOLOGY The Impact of Participative/Empowering Greek economy. The causes of the crisis do not Cadherins are calcium dependent proteins that Leadership on Employee Creativity simply originate in 2009; rather, the crisis was the play an important role in cell-cell adhesion. RYAN OCKENDEN, KRISTEN SEAMAN product of decades of public policy failure, faulty Cadherin expression changes during the course of FACULTY SPONSOR: AVAN JASSAWALLA, taxing and auditing practices, and made worse by development to promote migration of cells to their BUSINESS an insufficient response by both the European correct tissue layer. The predominant cadherin in The impact of participative/empowering Union, the International Monetary Fund, and epithelial tissue is E (Epithelial) -cadherin. E- leadership on employee creativity is worth Greek policymakers. This presentation also delves cadherin is characterized as a tumor suppressor studying due to the far-reaching benefits it has on into the political, social and economic effects of the gene since loss of its expression is often associated employees and organizations as a whole. This Crisis as well as possible solutions, i.e. a "Grexit" with metastasis. Vulvar cancer is a rare and leadership style, designed to foster creativity, not (Greek Exit of Eurozone) or continued austerity aggressive disease that can be masked by vulvar only provides managers and organizations with the packages. The implications of a "Grexit" would be rash known as Lichen sclerosis (LS). LS is often competitive edge of new and innovative ideas, but disastrous for the people of Greece and would treated with ultrapotent corticosteroids however, also benefits managers, employees and the undermine the core goal of the European Union, our lab has shown that prolonged use of the organization on a day-to-day basis in terms of unfortunately, austerity under the current ultrapotent corticosteroid, clobetasol promotes employee motivation, productivity, and efficiency. conditions are strangling the Greek populace. loss of E-cadherin expression in two vulvar Before coming to this conclusion we first wanted to ______carcinoma cell lines, UMSCV- 6 and A431. We have find how employee creativity impacts the overall Dostoevsky and Diplomacy: Russian isolated subclones of UMSCV-6 that display success of an organization. Next, we wanted to characteristics of epithelial to mesenchymal know how participative leadership impacts Soft Power Foreign Policy transition (EMT). Using immunofluorescence, employee creativity. And finally, we asked how MARIA GERSHUNI western blotting, MTT and senescence assays we managers could become empowering leaders to The Russian Federation's revisionist foreign policy have focused our studies on understanding the full foster creativity. Through studying the impact of agenda has required creativity. While Russia's hard impact of clobetasol treatment of the UMSCV-6 participative/empowering leadership on employee power policy is well publicized, the Kremlin has subclones. The work discussed here presents the creativity, we not only found an increase in invested in strong soft power institutions centered results of reverse transcription PCR that was done motivation, productivity and efficiency, but the on language, religion, and culture. The state to understand the genes that are linked to the actions required to foster this needed creativity. In funded organization "Russkiy Mir" was created to down regulation of E- cadherin. conclusion, the impact of participative/empowering spread Russian language to "compatriots" around leadership on employee creativity should be the world. The organization, though cultural, is studied because it provides managers, in an ever- inherently political, since it targets the Russian advancing business world, the know-how to spark diaspora, students, and Russian speakers in the near abroad nations and brands them as Russian "compatriots". The Russian Orthodox Church is
6 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM also a powerful soft power foreign policy tool for terrorist organizations, there is a commonality ______the nations of Eastern Europe with large Orthodox between all three typologies. All three of these Tai Chi in a College Setting: populations. The Church, in partnership with the individuals go through what is known as a Educating and Benefitting Kremlin, hopes to invoke Orthodox history and gain radicalization process, the process through which allies through the creation of the "Holy Rus" in an individual adopts radical ideology that rejects Undergraduate Students Eastern Europe and turning Orthodox believers that status quo of society. Although there are SIERRA BOUCHARD, EMILY ELLMANN, ALEX against the liberal, "immoral" West. Finally, the differences within the process of each of these SHERRY state sponsored television network RT, which types of individuals, this paper will focus on the Tai Chi Chuan is a Chinese martial art that is targets young, educated, and disillusioned English similarities in order to develop an effective practiced throughout the world, including at SUNY speakers in the West, seeks to create a positive counterterrorist strategy for all three. The Geneseo, the only SUNY school that offers Tai Chi image of Russia by breeding skepticism and similarities include the feeling of alienation from a as a course to its undergraduate students. Through mistrust of Western governments. These soft specific group of people or from society as a whole, ethnographic fieldwork, we set out to find how the power tactics can be countered by an open, the targeting of civilians, and the act of planning Chinese culture is emulated in the movement investigative media and acceptance of cultural out an attack. Through analysis of these similarities quality and technique of Tai Chi, and how Tai Chi differences in both native Slavic populations and it seems that deterrence strategies are the most practice influences the lives of participants. As the diaspora communities. effective methods to countering all three of these dance minor students, we further examine the ______types of radicalized attacks. This paper will also differences and similarities between martial arts Comparative Study of the Impact of analyzes these methods. and dance forms, such as Horton modern Female Political Representation on technique. We hope that through our research, 1G • THEATRE/DANCE others may become informed about both Chinese Economic and Reproductive Rights BRODIE 152 DANCE STUDIO culture, and an accessible method for relieving the in Mexico, Rwanda, the United stresses of college. Dance Composition: Senior Kingdom and the United States Choreographic Projects 1H • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY JANE SKINNER FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MARK Many feminist theorists argue female political WELLES 119 BROOMFIELD, THEATRE/DANCE representation will improve the status of women SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE BLOOD, ENGLISH ______through legal protections and governmental initiatives. To assess the validity of these From the Beginning Dismembering Martin McDonagh: arguments, the following case study examines if KRISTEN CZERWINSKI Exploring the Troubled History "From the Beginning" is a modern dance work female political representation results in laws Behind The Lieutnenant of protecting equal economic and reproductive envisioning what it might have been like when rights, and if those rights impact the overall humans began to evolve beyond primordial drives. Inishmore wellbeing of women. The countries examined were The piece explores how individuals advance past DENNIS CAUGHLIN Mexico, Rwanda, the United Kingdom, and the their animalistic instincts to gain the capacity for FACULTY SPONSOR: TOM GREENFIELD, ENGLISH United States. The study found Mexico and compassion, knowledge, and understanding. RANDY KAPLAN THEATRE/DANCE Rwanda have higher rates of female political Rooted in Humphrey-Weidman technique, this This research looks at the sectarian conflict in representation, but all four states have dance has a strong focus on breath rhythm and Northern Ireland known as 'the troubles' as it comparable laws protecting economic and many movements into and out of the floor. pertains to the Martin McDonagh's 1994 play, The ______reproductive rights. Contrary to the Lieutenant of Inishmore. McDonagh questions the aforementioned theories, the status of women Lotus ethics of Irish republicanism and suggests that appears to be lower in the countries with the ANTONIA MARIC violence has become not a means but an end. The higher percentages of female representation. In A Lotus Grows in the Mud, Goldie Hawn claims, mounting death toll of innocent civilians pushed While this could be explained by the forced "The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose McDonagh to write an excessively bloody farce inclusion of females through quota laws, the petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the that draws attention to the senseless killing of the theories are again discredited by the little impact mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you day. This research explores the conflict that similar legal protections appear to have. This study must have the mud." My piece expresses this informed the play and assesses the shortcomings concludes that having females in government does concept of transforming life struggle into strength of the republican movement. In order to direct not necessarily result in legal protections and that and positivity. While as individuals we all such a play on an American college campus, one formal equality does not guarantee an improved experience different journeys, the movement of must find a way to relay the context of the period status. On the other hand, the varying degree of the piece also demonstrates the common ground through the dialogue alone. The goal has been to respect for the rule of law and differences in its humans find in both sorrow and personal growth. provide a theatrical experience that both educates application in the four separate countries help to ______and entertains its audience. The play itself uses a explain this outcome. Serendipity great deal of shock value to convey the extreme ______NICOLE BERGAMO nature of the republican movement, but that shock A Comparative Study of the Serendipity is defined as the chance occurrence of lacks impact if the audience knows nothing of the events in a beneficial way. Certain people come actual events that inspired the work. An informed Radicalization Process of Mass into your life and change it in ways you didn't know production of this play demands a close Shooters, Lone Wolves, and you needed. This piece portrays the joys of finding examination of that history as well as an Organized Terrorists unexpected friendships in new situations. I chose appreciation for the subtle details within ERIC BUCHANAN bright, fast-paced jazz music to embody the theme McDonagh's dialogue. ______Radical international terrorist organizations have of the dance. The syncopated rhythms within the become the focus of the United States' national intricate melodies inspired much of the Images and Words: Creating a security agenda. However, counterterrorist choreography. Serendipity is a celebration of Children's Picture Book friendships and a culmination of my personal agencies must not neglect the threat posed by lone KELSEY COLBERG wolf terrorists and mass shooters. These two types experience coming to college. FACULTY SPONSOR: BRIAN MORGAN, EDUCATION of attackers are perhaps an even greater threat to When most people think of children’s literature security due to their mostly solitary nature. they automatically think of picture books. Picture Although these radical individuals differ from each books are the most common form of children's other and from radicals that join organized literature because of their accessibility and the
Promotes sustainability 7 Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual pleasure that viewing images provides. Pictures without dcm at 37° C. However, at 20° C, the cells hypothesis and Aristotle's ethical concepts of attract attention and excite interest. By reviewing containing dcm outcompeted the cells lacking this virtue and human flourishing. By discussing the past book's illustration styles and story themes I gene. This indicates there is some advantage to work of Thomas E. Hill, William Kittredge, Peter have created and illustrated my own picture book. having the dcm gene under cold-stress conditions Wenz and Arne Naess as well as Lovelock and Rand, I have taken into account the relationship between during stationary phase. We aim to determine the I will argue for a strengthened and expanded, images and words as well as style, medium, and molecular mechanism for this advantage in future ecologically conscious version of eudaimonia. The format. Looking at past successful picture books studies. key takeaways from these thinkers are that virtue and current cultural trends has resulted in me ______can be synergistic, uniting anthropocentric (or self- creating a visually appealing, fun book that can be Elliptic Curve Cryptography centered) and nonanthropocentric motivations, enjoyed by children and parents alike. MARCUS ELIA but it must ultimately reflect generosity and ______FACULTY SPONSOR: GARY TOWSLEY, humility with respect to the Gaean, or earthly, Science on Stage MATHEMATICS whole. True flourishing necessitates consideration MEGHAN BARRETT Mathematical cryptography is the study of using of the biotic community far beyond Aristotle's FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE BLOOD, ENGLISH mathematics to encrypt and send information human-centered polis, though it remains an ideal Science plays are a unique medium in which to securely. It has been stated by many, including the of personal happiness attained through the explore some of science's most difficult issues; the National Security Agency, that Elliptic Curve cultivation of virtue. human element of the actors combined with the Cryptosystems are safer than traditional ______ability to narrowly focus on one particular issue in cryptosystems. Evidence will be presented in favor EXTREME Statistics: A Tour of a fictionalized context, provide an urgency and of this thesis, in addition to explanations of the Volatility in a Disaster Filled World complexity uniquely possible in drama. Two issues fundamental principles of cryptography. Further, NICK LAVIGNE in particular seems to captivate most playwrights an overview of the recent history of the National FACULTY SPONSOR: YUSUF BILGIC, MATHEMATICS engaging with scientific material. The first is the Security Agency's interactions with Elliptic Curve Probability and statistics are important to more interaction between faith and science; the second Cryptography will be discussed. than just scientific claims. When making decisions ______is the powerful danger that comes with knowledge. in domains where risk and uncertainty are Theater scholar Glynne Wickham wrote that Micro-Computed Tomography involved, special attention must be given to despite all the knowledge science has given to the Optimization extreme events, good and bad. Theoretically, this world, "...few scientists today have any knowledge RAYANNE LUKE corresponds to estimating the tails of probability of how to prevent the fruits of specifically scientific FACULTY SPONSOR: CAROLINE HADDAD, distributions instead of their centers, e.g. the discoveries being used to plunge mankind into an MATHEMATICS upper and lower quantiles instead of the mean. unparalleled chaos of suffering, destruction, and One branch of medical image analysis studies the Problems occur because most often the relevant new-barbarism." From the earliest effects of cancer drugs and treatments on rodents. quantiles to estimate fall outside the range of data. conceptualization of the science play, Christopher Micro-computed tomography (CT) scans use Consequently, the tools and methods used in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, to more modern plays ionizing radiation in the form of x-rays to detect conventional data analysis are no longer useful like Tony Harrison's Square Rounds and Shelagh cancerous tissue or bone. This radiation has the when considering extreme events. Some results in Stephenson's An Experiment with an Air Pump, potential to modify molecules of the body making extreme value theory will be discussed with playwrights continue to explore these fundamental them cancerous. Thus, reducing the exposure time application to a data set on environmental and issues. industrial disasters in the United States. The of CT scans is an important goal. The trade-off to reducing scan time is that the output image quality general philosophical approach and practical 1I • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 2 is lowered. A hypothesized set of scan settings that implications will be stressed. WELLES 121 optimize image quality while allowing for low- ______SESSION CHAIR: OLYMPIA NICODEMI, exposure scans is tested. To do so, various filtration Testing the Feasibility of 3D MATHEMATICS techniques and settings are used in MATLAB to Scanning Technology for ______process the raw images in terms of artifact DNA Cytosine Methyltransferase reduction and contrast improvement. Volumetric Conservation and Research Increases Stationary Phase Fitness analyses of the rodents' lungs across different scan Purposes in Archaeology on Pre- settings are conducted and compared Columbian Canid Remains under Temperature Stress in quantitatively to those of high-exposure scans, JENNIFER AMICO which are used as the "gold standard" since longer Escherichia coli FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, scan times mean improved image quality. REBECCA HUSS ANTHROPOLOGY Preliminary results support the hypothesis that the FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY There has been a rapid improvement in 3D set of scan parameters identified successfully Our laboratory studies extra DNA bases beyond the scanning technology in recent years. This reduces exposure time while maintaining image four standard bases, specifically 5-methylcytosine. technology has applications in academic settings Little is understood about the biological role of 5- quality. like archaeology because of its potential to aid with methylcytosine in bacteria. In Escherichia coli, a the conservation of archaeological materials, methyl group is attached to a cytosine by a protein 1J • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY opening up these discoveries to wider audiences termed DNA methyltransferase (dcm). Past 3 WELLES 123 and promoting the study of samples that were research has shown that many genes' expression SESSION CHAIR: DAVID LEVY, PHILOSOPHY previously inaccessible to many researchers. The levels are affected in dcm-knockout cells during ______purpose of this project was twofold. First, it aims to early stationary phase, indicating that the gene has Embracing Gaea: Human test the feasibility of the technology by digitizing an impact on stationary phase biology in E. coli. Flourishing in the Biotic and recreating two complete 1700 year old Pre- Two strains of E. coli, one with a dcm containing Columbian canids with Geneseo's NextEngine 3D plasmid, named T7E/pDcm and one with a plasmid Community Laser Scanner. These canid remains are curated in lacking dcm, termed T7E/pET-28a+ were JUSTINE TALBOT the North American Archaeology Lab, located in constructed. The two strains were forced to FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID LEVY, PHILOSOPHY the SUNY Geneseo Department of Anthropology. compete at two temperatures, 20° C and 37° C This project began as a quest for a philosophical Second, it also aims to develop a base of during stationary phase. The surviving cells in the link between Randian self-interest and knowledge about proper scanning protocol, while cultures were identified via colony PCRs. Over the environmental activism. Instead, I discovered more documenting the limitations of the 3D scanning course of long-term stationary phase, the cells with links between disparate holistic ideals, including technology for similar projects in the future. The the dcm gene were outcompeted by the cells atmospheric scientist James Lovelock's Gaia
8 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM samples for this project, which were recovered ______advantageous to using other systems and how its from two Ohio Hopewell culture domestic G-Men and Teamster Gangsters: effectiveness impacted history. habitations sites, Brown's Bottom #1 and Site 40, The 1941 Smith Act Trial of SWP ______located in central Ohio, were chosen because of Radians Through Time their degree of completeness and because human Members and Militant Unionists SHELLY LIAN co-habitation with dogs directly affects the human JOSHUA DEJOY In this presentation I will discuss the earliest uses experience. Therefore, studying their remains can FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHLEEN MAPES, HISTORY of radians and why they were necessary at the time illuminate elements of culture, which complement This paper focuses on the 1941 Smith Act of their discovery. I will analyze Roger Cotes' our current knowledge of the Ohio Hopewell prosecution of members of the Socialist Workers exploration of the concept of a radian, origin of the people. Party and Teamsters Local 544. The defendants, name "radian," and the development of notations who were all Trotskyists, militant unionists, or for radians. 1K • HISTORY STURGES 112 both, were charged under the Smith Act, which ______criminalized mere advocacy of revolution. The Exploring the History of Cramer's Empowered Women: Jiang Qing paper analyzes the multiple factors leading up to FACULTY SPONSOR: TZE-KI HON, HISTORY the prosecution, including intra-union conflicts Rule SESSION CHAIR: COLLEEN CUMMINGS between Teamsters bureaucrats and thugs on the GRACE O'BRIEN ______one hand and militant unionists on the other, the Cramer's rule is a method of solving a system of The Male Gaze SWP's revolutionary socialist opposition to World linear equations that has a unique solution. It uses STELLA ODURO War II, and the Stalinist American Communist determinants to solve for each variable in the An exploration of how the male gaze affected Party's opposition to Trotskyism. It also examines system individually. While the name of the method women in Chinese society, especially from the May the outcome of the trial, including the crippling of suggests that Gabriel Cramer was the first to 4th Movement and during the Cultural Revolution. the SWP during World War II and the precedent discover it, Colin Maclaurin was the first to publish ______established for the prosecution of the Communist the idea. This paper will explore how and why each Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four Party. My main sources are historian Brian Palmer's of these mathematicians discovered the method. COLLEEN CUMMINGS book Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis ______Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four gained political Truckers' Strike of 1934, newspaper articles from Fermat's Little Theorem prominence during the Cultural Revolution but the time of the trial and its aftermath, and SWP YAOVI ADJEGAN after Mao Zedong's death they were blamed for a National Secretary James P. Cannon's speeches Pierre de Fermat is a French mathematician of the lot of the destruction that occurred during the and trial testimony. My conclusions are that the 17th century who many consider to be the best Revolution. We will examine the good and bad of 1941 trial and its aftermath demonstrate the mathematician of his era. He made many Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four to determine common wartime interests of the Stalinists, contributions to calculus, the law of refraction, and whether this blame was truly deserved. Democrats, and union bureaucracy in opposing a number theory. I will focus on one of his theorems ______socialist anti-war program, and that this provides in number theory known as Fermat's Little Jiang Qing and Theater Politics important lessons for students of history and Theorem. The theorem states that if p is a prime PHUONG NGUYEN workers alike. number, then for any integer a, the number
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Algeria, Morocco & Tunisia: The and sustainable culturally-sensitive solutions for connects with [4]. Historically, zero-divisor graphs coping with the high demand for sages-femmes were introduced by I. Beck in 1988. We will discuss Ambivalent Status of the French will be presented. the graphs associated with matrices, which have Language in Muslim North Africa ______only been studied since the 2000s. We will define NATHALIE KALUMBWE More Than Just Dolls: A Cross- the basics of canonical forms and conjugacy classes FACULTY SPONSOR: NADJET SARRAB-BEKRI, Cultural Study of Vodou to simplify our discussion. Our goal is to study the zero-divisor graphs of conjugacy classes in matrix LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES MEGHAN SAELI rings. I will provide a classification of zero-divisor The history and implications of the implantation of FACULTY SPONSOR: KODJO ADABRA, LANGUAGES graphs of 2-by-2 matrices. This research is joint French in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia has been a AND LITERATURES work with Dr. Janathan Brown at SUNY Oneonta. subject of varying discourse since their In many people's minds, the word Vodou evokes Co-requisite: MATH 233. independence from France in the 1950-60s. images of black magic, Vodou dolls, and zombies. Collectively known as Maghreb, the countries had The common belief that many people in the west STURGES 108 French as their administrative language during hold is that Vodou is used to harm or bring bad luck 1R • HISTORY France's imperial occupation. After independence, to others and has created a misunderstood Methods, Media, and Me: as part of the decolonization process, they sought religion. The actual beliefs and practices of Vodou Explorations into Media and Self to Arabize in all domains. Thus, (classical) Arabic is in Haiti for instance originated from practices the constitutional official language of Maghreb created and maintained by the Haitians during for the Study of History while French remains the de facto preferred times of hardship and suffering brought on by FACULTY SPONSOR: TODD GOEHLE, HISTORY second language, though without official enslavement and its consequences. Based SESSION CHAIR: CYNTHIA KLIMA, LANGUAGES recognition. Despite this, the influence of French is however in Western Africa: mainly Benin, Togo, AND LITERATURES anything but receding thanks to influences of the and Nigeria, and crossing the ocean to Haiti during ______media and the Diaspora who serve as important the slave trade, Vodou is thus a religion with rich Life Without Social Media (Really!): vectors for its propagation. Ironically, while traditions and a long history. As Dr. Patrick How Local News and History Foster classical Arabic is the official language, it isn't the Bellegarde-Smith has stated, "Vodou is far more inhabitants' first language; a rather diverse variety than [a religion]. It's a spiritual system. It includes Individuality of dialectal Arabic and Tamazight (Berber) are. philosophy, technology, science, and everything SAMANTHA MISA Hence, across the Maghreb, the appropriation of else". In my paper, I intend to share well- Online media platforms such as Facebook and French has been coupled with its use as a lingua researched critical information in an attempt to Twitter has become inexorably linked with franca. Seen as the language of unification, challenge the single story widely spread about the communication as well as socialization, to the modernity and exchange, French is increasingly actual Vodou religion by: 1) investigating the point where many cannot imagine life without being borrowed from to fill the lexical gaps of origins of Vodou, 2) unveiling the beliefs and them. However, drawing on my own personal dialectal Arabic to describe new realities. The practices in Vodou from the Haitian and African experiences and background, I argue that despite result is an evolution of a unique linguistic perspectives, and 3) contrasting the implications of the vast amount of news and socialization landscape whose footprints will be explored these differences in our modern world. opportunities available, individuals can still retain through a chronological lens. autonomy in choosing what sources to listen to and ______1Q • MATHEMATICS NEWTON 201 utilize. Local and small town newspapers offer a Sages-Femmes of Dakar, Senegal, filter that provides only the closest and most Algebra: Applications and Research West Africa through Firsthand relevant topics to readers, much like the FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: PATRICK communication systems of the 17th century. In this Experience: An Unparalleled Health RAULT, MATHEMATICS era, local events were preferred in favor of global, Profession in the United States ______as the former was more likely to have a direct MARIA SUAREZ Breaking the Code effect on the individual. While online FACULTY SPONSOR: KODJO ADABRA, LANGUAGES MICHELLE EAMES, SERENA AMOS communication has evolved greatly from the first AND LITERATURES Created in 1978, RSA cryptography was born into humble offering of MySpace, the downfalls of The societal role of a midwife in the United States the world of mathematics. Using the lock and key online networking are still apparent, and the has steadily dropped since the rise of modern model, we will show how information is encrypted identity formed by their usage is does not have as medicine. The vast majority of American midwives and decrypted. Secret information we hold is kept broad of an appeal as might be imagined. are certified nurse-midwives who attend less than secure using these locks and keys. We will provide ______12% of U.S. births. In the West African country of information behind the mathematics of RSA Oscar the Grouch Isn't the Only One Senegal, however, the profession of a midwife, or cryptography as well as information on how to Who Lives In Garbage: Online sage-femme, has an unparalleled role in birthing further secure files. Due to the complex and women's health. But according to the National mathematics behind this cryptosystem, the code is Personas are Reality Association of Sage-Femmes of Senegal, the very difficult to break. RSA cryptography is the PAIGE CIEZKI current coverage ratio in the capital city of Dakar is most widely used public key cryptographic Many influences affect how we present ourselves one sage-femme for 2,000 women of reproductive algorithm. For example, this cryptosystem is used on social media, such as who views your media. status while the World Health Organization to secure connections with social media websites. People will often alter their behaviors to conform recommends one per every 500. Interviews with Co-requisite: Math 230 to societal norms. Because of my interest in current sage-femme school administrators, ______supernatural teenage television programs and my instructors, and students in Dakar, conducted Zero-Divisor Graphs of Matrices status as "internet trash," I have created multiple during the summer of 2015, and substantial literary Over Finite Fields blogs to express different interests, and, using research sustain findings about this struggling yet Michel Foucault's idea of modern Panopticon, to AYANA IKEDO save myself from potential judgment. Although I vital profession in Senegal. This presentation aims In an abstract algebra class we learn that there is to first establish the prominence of sages-femmes have created these blogs to explore my different an interesting number system where we can find interests, the question remained as to why I felt I within the Senegalese framework, then attempt two nonzero elements x, y such that xy= 0. The not only to summarize their pivotal role, but also needed separate spaces to express myself. I zero-divisor graph of a commutative ring R is a applied two communication theories to better critically examine practical issues they face. The graph with one vertex per element of R; if xy= 0, comparative analysis of the current state of the understand my media usage. Similar to Jean then we connect the vertex x to the vertex y. For Braudrillard's notions of simulation, the Matrixist sage-femme's relevance in contemporary Senegal example, consider R to be the ring of integers and the United States will be discussed. Possible theory claims the separation between media and modulo 6. Then [2] connects with [3] and [3] those who use it, as media represents a
10 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM representation, which asserts that I exist as a In Plato's The Republic, Plato defines the guardian therefore the cluster sizes themselves.Using separate entity from my blogs. The McLuhan class as the rulers of his kallipolis. He argues a existing catalogs on GCs in galaxies in the Virgo theory, which emphasizes the medium over guardian can only be someone whose soul is Galaxy Cluster where galaxy interactions are more content, combines with the themes of the film completely just. In order to have a just soul, it must frequent, I will present an analysis of the GC sizes Videodrome to support a stronger interpretation, be ruled by the love of truth and desire to seek as a function of various physical parameters as it supports the interconnection between understanding. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the related to recent past galactic interactions. I will humans, and technology, which means that my Prince of Denmark embodies several qualities that compare the results to those for GCs in the Milky blogs are not a representation of me, but an would make up the soul of a Guardian as opposed Way, M31, and M33, three galaxies known to extension of myself. As I will assert in my to the souls from the auxiliary or producing classes. have a more quiescent past. presentation, social media serves an expansion of He often time tries reasoning and understanding ourselves. concept of life as seen in his "To be, or not to be" 1U • ENGLISH MILNE 105 ______soliloquy. Hamlet exemplifies several qualities that The Wife of Bath's Prologue Pesus: By Pesus. The would make up the soul of a Guardian as opposed (Chaucer) in Middle English Transformation of the Message to one from the auxiliary or producing class. He demonstrates this when he sees the ghost of his FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JESS through the Medium father, in deciding to put on a play for Claudius and FENN, ENGLISH PETER BENSON Gertrude, with conversations with Ophelia, and ______From birth, we are bombarded with seemingly when he observes situations around him. Hamlet KATIE BOCKINO, AMANDA WENTWORTH infinite amounts of media. Therefore it is may not be a perfect fit for Plato's ideal guardian, The Wife of Bath's Prologue is one of the most impossible to objectively obtain a complete but his love of truth and desire to achieve higher famous texts of the Middle Ages. The Wife of Bath, understanding of the countless ways others use understanding show his capacity for a just soul of a one of the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, media to control and manipulate our world. My guardian. delivers a rip-roaring account of her life story, solution to this issue is by using media that I including her marriages to five--count them, five-- personally created to analyze its impact on both 1T • PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY 1 husbands. This session is a rare opportunity to hear excerpts from the prologue read aloud in Middle my surroundings and myself. I created the image of ISC 115 Pesus, a combination of Peter and Jesus, on English, which is close enough to modern English to SESSION CHAIR: ANNE PELLERIN be understood but different enough to sound quite September 6th, 2013 at Noyes Memorial Hospital. ______While Pesus originated as a simple Snapchat interesting. Followed by questions about the message, he grew into a pseudo-celebrity and Improved Charging Efficiency of a performance and the text. amateur rap artists through popular social media Solar Powered Club Car (eCart) outlets. In this paper, I will use Pesus as a discursive BRANDON MARK, ZACHARY HALLENBECK 1V • ENGLISH WELLES 128 agent to argue that a singular message can evolve FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS Themes in and Discussion on James and achieve a variety of effects based on the & ASTRONOMY mediums, namely Snapchat, Facebook, and A 45W photovoltaic panel was mounted on an Joyce's Ulysses SoundCloud, used to convey it. This singular idea electric club car (eCart) such that its solar charging FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT DOGGETT, ENGLISH evolved from a photo, into a live journal, into a efficiency could be maximized. This was SESSION CHAIR: ARIANA DIPRETA ______voice; all of which were capable of achieving accomplished by designing and constructing a different levels and types of effects on our reality. support system that allows for the adjustment of Halcyon Days: Sexual Significance, the panel's azimuthal inclination and compass Nostalgia and Remembrance in 1S • POT POURRIE BAILEY 104 heading relative to the sun's location in the sky. A Ulysses data acquisition system was assembled using an THOMAS MCCARTHY Business, English Arduino microcontroller to measure the voltage This paper establishes a framework to interpret SESSION CHAIR: and current at various points within the electrical sexuality and sexual behavior in Ulysses and ______system during charging. The rate at which the solar explain why this is necessary. I will then argue that A Study of Property Crime Rates panel charged the cart's batteries was measured to significant moments or revelations in the novel are determine the collection efficiency of the eCart Using Economic Analysis bound up with simultaneous memory and sexuality solar panel as a function of compass heading and DANIEL MAGGIO in radical ways. Looking specifically at Gerty and azimuthal angle. A second set of experiments was FACULTY SPONSOR: MANSOKKU LEE, BUSINESS Leopold Bloom, I challenge the standard negative performed to collect data on the eCart's energy For my project, I plan to run a multivariable linear responses to their somewhat anonymous sexual consumption per unit distance of travel. A variety regression that attempts to explain a majority of encounter at Sandymount Strand. The novel is of parameters were changed during these variation in non- violent crime rates throughout notorious for candid representations of taboo measurements, such as ground slope and driving U.S. states. For my regression, I will use a sample of topics like this. Keeping this in mind, I use an speeds. This data was analyzed to determine the the 50 U.S. states. My independent variables for example of an in-class rift as a microcosm of larger most energy efficient path and speed at which to this regression will be: unemployment rate, cultural and academic debates about sexual population density, per capita income, average drive the eCart. ______behavior -- even within feminist discourse -- and temperature, percentage of population under the our often polarized and heated response to it. After poverty level, per capita income. These are only The Impact of Galactic Interaction outlining various difficulties of interpreting preliminary variables and may change in order to on Globular Cluster Sizes in the sexuality --namely the inability for our culture or increase the expiatory power of the model. I will classrooms to embrace Gayle Rubin's concept of report and analyze metrics such as: correlation Virgo Cluster LUCA BEALE "benign sexual variation" -- I argue significant coefficient, variance, f-statistics, t-statistics, and moments and revelations in the novel are bound standard errors. My data for this model will come FACULTY SPONSOR: ANNE PELLERIN, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY up with simultaneous memory and sexuality in from the department of justice, FBI, and the United radical ways. Although the 20th century text is State Census Database. I will present a study of the impact of galactic dynamical environment on the size distribution of quite displaced in time from contemporary culture, ______this novel is still an active site of controversy as well The Just Soul globular clusters (GCs). Gravitational interactions between galaxies are thought to potentially affect as insight that revels much about James Joyce's ALYSSA INDELICATO the potential well of star clusters within the take on his culture as well as our own. FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH ______interacting galaxies. The tidal effects can stir and increase the orbits of stars within the clusters, and
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Temporality in Ulysses: Diachronic Subversion of Bourgeois The Role of Institutional Factors Narration and Postcolonial Ireland Masculinity in James Joyce's and Perceived Support in the ZACHARY MUHLBAUER Ulysses College Adjustment and Retention My argument concerns how, through the James ARIANA DIPRETA of Racial/Ethnic and Sexual Joyce manipulates the constructs of time in his Attitudes towards sexuality, specifically British novel Ulysses in order to illustrate how attitudes during the late nineteenth and early Minorities postcolonial narratives, such as nationalism and twentieth centuries, reflected the colonial and FACULTY SPONSORS AND SESSION CHAIR: Catholicism, restrict Irish consciousness. Bearing in patriarchal constructions that created repressive MONICA SCHNEIDER, PSYCHOLOGY mind the structural parallel between the final sexual codes. The gender and sexuality norms are FACULTY SPONSOR:AIDEN CROPSEY, CENTER FOR episode of part one and part three, I juxtapose how constructed and reinforced by the bourgeois COMMUNITY the internal monologue of Stephen and Molly, both society as the result of a patriarchal society that ______key characters in the text, respectively exemplify supports monogamous marriages and creates a The Role of Institutional Factors and devolve conventions of diachronic narration. binary dichotomy between masculinity and and Perceived Support in the As a central formal feature of Ulysses, the inclusion feminimity. James Joyce utilizes this notion and of diachronic narration indicates in the reader creates a sexually ambivalent character, Leopold College Adjustment and Retention notions of temporal progression. The implications Bloom. Bloom is presented as neither masculine of LGBTQ Students of temporal construction indexes similar historical nor feminine, but rather a person who shuttles YVETTE WILLIAMS, MELISSA MINAYA and narrative constructions like Catholicism and between the two, deconstructing strict We conducted a study designed to examine the nationalism, both of which pervade Stephen's postcolonial bourgeois modes of sexual normalcy. role of perceived social support in the emotional understanding of Ireland and self. Unable to Joyce dismantles the influences of imperial codes well-being, college adjustment, and intentions to escape his extendedness from time, Stephen's of dualistic sexuality through Bloom and his graduate of Geneseo students. This study also interior monologue correspondingly functions relationship with Molly. In doing so, Joyce mocks assessed the institutional factors that contribute to according to strict temporal limitations, manifest in the system of gendered symbols within which students' perceptions of faculty, staff, institutional, the diachronic manner in which he thinks. people and his characters operate. and peer support, both across and within groups. Conversely, Molly operates without external In this part of our presentation, we will discuss the temporal interruptions, so her interior monologue 1W • ENGLISH WELLES 134 results of our study for LGBTQ students. This data runs free and unhampered as a result. Video Games in HUM I: What have implications for providing coordinated Furthermore, I primarily illustrate these structural resources, support, and programming for LGBTQ conclusions regarding diachronic narration by Would Aristotle do? students in a manner that addresses the needs of concentrating on the major grammatical, FACULTY SPONSOR: JULIA WALKER, ENGLISH students who come from different backgrounds contextual, and symbolic disparities in how either SESSION CHAIR: MAURA CUPICHA and circumstances. Recommendations for how this character thinks and behaves. Selected for ______data could be used for advancing diversity, equity, presentation at SUNY Undergraduate Research Play Video Games in HUM I? and inclusion initiatives related to sexual and Conference, SUNY Cobelskill. gender identity on campus will be addressed. ______CIVILIZATION v the Canon ______Mighty Cheese: Consumption and DILLON FEDERICI, SAM HTUN A short dramatic presentation illustrating the The Role of Institutional Factors Resistance in Joyce's Dublin seeming clash between opponents of game- and Perceived Support in the EVAN GOLDSTEIN playing in HUM and students who have College Adjustment and Retention Joyce's Ulysses, in many aspects, is a book about participated in class. navigating and subverting some of the dominant ______of Students from Underrepresented forces of modernity: nationalism, religion, and Reviewing the Scholarship on In- Racial/Ethnic Groups empire. In the episode Lestrygonians, Joyce places GAVIN RAFFLOER, JONELLE WILLIAMS Leopold Bloom, the protagonist, in the heart of class Game-playing This part of our presentation will discuss the results Dublin's commercial center, and has him CATHERINE BLASZAK of our study as they pertain to students from swallowed, chewed, and digested, by the forces of -a scholarly review of the current literature on underrepresented racial/ethnic groups. modernity. This paper traces Leopold Bloom's game-playing in the college classroom. Specifically, we will address the role of perceived passage through the allegorical digestive tract of ______social support in students' emotional well-being, modern Dublin. It asks not only how does Joyce go How Many Rules Does a Civilization college adjustment, and intentions to graduate. In to sho modernity as a process of consumption of Need? addition, we discuss the institutional factors that the individual, and the individual's relation to RANDI FINEBERG, MADISON BUSSMANN contribute to students' perceptions of faculty, society, but why Joyce might be showing this Two students argue for a CIV assignment with staff, institutional, and peer support, both across consumption. The paper uses examples from the autonomy for the players versus a more rigidly and within groups. This data have implications for episode, as well as texts on memory and political structured assignment. providing coordinated resources, support, and readings of hunger and advertising in the episode, ______programming for racial/ethnic minority students in in order to conclude that that this famous chapter Really Playing/Playing Real a manner that addresses the needs of students of Ulysses provides powerful examples of DANIEL WOUGHTER, SAM HTUN, RANDI who come from different backgrounds and resistance to nationalism, imperialism, and FINEBERG, JACOB TROST circumstances. Recommendations for how this capitalism, allowing memory and sexuality to Students give demonstrations of playing CIV 5 as an data could be used for advancing diversity, equity, transcend the oppressive, consuming power of the element of HUM I. and inclusion initiatives related to racial/ethnic modern nation and empire. ______identity on campus will be addressed. 1X • PSYCHOLOGY BAILEY 102 (moved from 4T)
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and health conscious chocolate treat for the new- 2A • MATHEMATICS NEWTON 201 age consumer. Five North will do just that. Mathematical Games, Magic, and ______Paradoxes A Quantum Leap into Game Theory Memory and Memory Cards: The FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: PATRICK ROBERT LEONARD III, ADAM TAYLOR Making of the Path Between Us RAULT, MATHEMATICS The use of quantum algorithms has been ABBY GOLFO ______increasing in popularity and has found new FACULTY SPONSOR: CYNTHIA OSWALD, CENTER Revealing Math in Magic applications over the last few years. These FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT VANESSA RIGGI, GRACE POLOSKY algorithms are based on the theories of quantum My 2015-2016 James Houston '80 Ambassador of Since magicians never reveals their secrets, we will mechanics and include utilizing the ideas of Innovation project is a documentary entitled, "The do it for them. At first thought, we assume magic entanglement, superposition, and other quantum Path Between Us." This presentation will display tricks are some sort of illusion where our eyes phenomena. Using these algorithms has helped how I made the documentary and my findings, with cannot move as fast as the illusionist's hands and computers become faster and more efficient, in special emphasis on the footage I have. However, our minds cannot process quickly enough what is turn creating new ways to tackle problems. In the documentary will not be complete by this time, happening right before our eyes. However, the game theory, probabilities are computed based on so the videos will include a trailer and other clips underlying fundamentals of many magic tricks are the outcomes that can physically occur. When from my experience filming in the Philippines, my based upon mathematics. Using basic objects, we utilizing quantum algorithms, the probability of the house, Livingston County, and Rochester. "The will demonstrate how mathematics influences outcomes change when quantum entanglement is Path Between Us" explores the treatment and these tricks and explore the probability and algebra involved. XOR Games are two-player games in perception of dementia from a cross-cultural behind them. which one of two questions are asked. We will perspective. The documentary focuses on my ______examine one example of an XOR game, the CHSH grandma, who has had Alzheimer's disease for the Never Tell Me the Odds game (created by Clauser, Horne, Shimony, and past eight to ten years, and the differences in BRANDON KEIM Holt), where quantum information theory can be treatment in the United States and the Philippines Have you ever had an experience that went used to improve the probability of winning (where my family is from). The making of the completely different than you anticipated? At this compared to non-quantum strategies. We hope to documentary was highly emotional and faced talk, we'll discuss the mathematics behind shine some light onto quantum game theory, a many obstacles. This presentation will also go over Parrondo's Paradox. Flipping a weighted coin is an relatively new field of mathematics. Co-requisites: film and design in the storytelling process. example of a game with losing odds. For two such Math 233 (Linear Algebra 1) and basic knowledge ______losing games A and B, the intuitive conclusion is of probability. Ambassadorship in Student Affairs: that that playing A, then B, A, B, etc. would also Developing Geneseo's LGBTQ produce a losing outcome. However, things aren't 2B • AMBASSADORS 2 DOTY 302E always what they seem. With a mathematical SESSION CHAIR: CYNTHIA OSWALD, CENTER FOR Support Systems sleight of hand, we'll demonstrate how it's possible INQUIRY, DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT THOMAS MCCARTHY that you can play both losing games and still win ______FACULTY SPONSOR: ALICE RUTKOWSKI, ENGLISH overall, and we will also use Markov Chains to Five North: Chocolate You Feel What is the state of Geneseo's climate for LGBTQ+ explain why this phenomenon occurs. Students? Since my sophomore year, I have Recommended prerequisite: a working knowledge Good About Eating formally and informally examined this. I have of basic probability and modular arithmetic. BENJAMIN CONARD examined methods and specific changes to ______FACULTY SPONSOR: CYNTHIA OSWALD, CENTER advocate from larger structural and administrative Conquering Catan: A Guide to Do FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT issues to direct student issues. I will briefly examine More than Just Settle Benjamin Conard, named one of the Top 10 Biggest a timeline of support services since I arrived on Fairtrade Fans in the World and #1 in the United campus in 2013, and then see what has been AARON WOODS, COREY SANSOLA States, is taking his advocacy in the fair trade developed. I will talk about the various The board game Settlers of Catan was invented in movement to a new level - starting his own organizations and groups that advocate for 1995 and won the prestigious Spiel Des Jahres, a company. Combining the proven business model of LGBTQ+ students as well to map a coherent German game of the year award, upon its release. fair trade, antioxidant rich dark chocolate, and strategy of how to affect change. I will discuss It is an interesting game involving strategy, healthy superfoods, Five North will create the most specifically what was accomplished with my cunning, and luck--or as mathematicians like to call delicious way to empower and be empowered. Our Ambassadorship, but also briefly examine relevant it: probability. We will analyze whether a strategy company is committed to the well-being of our or continued advocacy outside the scope of the can be developed that will offer a player a higher customers and the livelihood of our producers. grant. Lastly, I will examine what Geneseo can still chance of winning from the start of the game. Dice West Africa is the two million square miles improve upon and how this may be accomplished. rolls determine a large part of the game, therefore positioned above five degrees north latitude and is ______probability involving two dice will be an integral responsible for producing two-thirds of the world's point. Specifically, we will discuss whether there Blackberries cocoa. Unfortunately, big chocolate businesses BRITINA CHENG are locations on the board which are more have marginalized their cocoa farmers who now favorable regardless of the random spread of game FACULTY SPONSOR: CYNTHIA OSWALD, CENTER make less than 50 cents a day. In addition, FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT resources. In this way, we will develop a system to consumers are trying to be healthier than ever improve the chances of victory based on initial A screening of a short film depicting two women before. Market trends show dark chocolate whose friendship falls apart after one allegedly placements of settlements and roads using demand is on the rise, but many dark chocolate probability as a measure. Throughout our sleeps with the other's boyfriend. A story about snacks contain more than half sugar! Indulging in female friendship and love, colorism, and reasoning we will use the tools of probability, our favorite chocolate treats has become as expected value, and strategic gameplay. Co- misogynoir. unhealthy as it is unethical. The market has been requisites: basic statistics and/or probability. challenged to provide an all-encompassing socially 2C • ENGLISH WELLES 128
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Ancient Leadership and Its shows that Plato's system of governments is column and phosphorus upwelling prior to the inapplicable in such a scenario. bloom, although further analysis is required to Reverberations confirm this connection. FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH 2D • BIOLOGY 2 ISC 131 SESSION CHAIR: MAXWELL GARNAAT ______SESSION CHAIR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY The Effects of Extensive Travel: The ______Effects of an Emerald Ash Borer Leadership and Religious Reliance 2E • BIOLOGY 3 ISC 136 Invasion at Nations Road SESSION CHAIR: SUSAN BANDONI-MUENCH, of Paul and Aeneas Preserve BIOLOGY EMILY BUCKLEY-CRIST ______MEGHAN BARRETT Because of their extensive travel, both Aeneas and Limiting the Spread of Waterborne Paul are compelled to take on greater leadership FACULTY SPONSOR: REGINA CLINTON, BIOLOGY roles in their communities, in addition to becoming The Emerald Ash Borer is an invasive species that is Neglected Tropical Disease in Peri- more reliant on their respective religions. Aeneas causing environmental destruction in the United urban and Rural Ghana States. The EAB has already killed millions of ash becomes the leader of the Trojans after the fall of NICHOLAS WHITTEL, AOIFE FORDE trees since its invasion in 2002; this rapid spread is Troy, during which most of the Trojan nobility die. FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI-MUENCH, especially concerning as 47 of the 48 lower states A prophecy from Apollo, telling him to rebuild Troy BIOLOGY all contain the preferred host plant of the EAB, in another land, confirms his leadership. Paul's rise A presentation on the hypothetical strategies that Fraxinus spp. The white ash tree is common to the to leadership is less expected, as he is born a can be used in targeting the spread of water- North American Hardwood Forest region, and can Pharisee, but he proves his ability throughout his related Neglected Tropical Diseases, such as be found in the Nations Road Preserve in Geneseo, travels as he captivates crowds and attracts many schistosomiasis and Buruli ulcer. Observations and NY. The loss of ash trees will undoubtedly have to the word of Jesus. Their faith in their deities research were obtained during the summer 2015 impacts on the ecosystem. With many of these guides Aeneas and Paul through their journeys. The trip to Ghana with Dr. Bandoni Muench, focused on trees dying, forest cover will be reduced. Dead ash prophecy of rebuilding Troy serves as Aeneas' global health issues in developing countries. This trees will cause further damage to nearby trees motivation through much of his travels and trials. presentation will examine the biological, and increase canopy loss. This detrimental Paul, who comes to his religion later than Aeneas, sociological, and economic risk factors of exposure to wind and light will result in increased is chosen by Jesus to spread his gospel and, as with waterborne infection in both periurban and rural soil temperatures and light penetration. All of Aeneas, his devotion to his god supports him communities, and will be supplemented with these effects could significantly change the forest through the obstacles he faces on his journey. The student photography. Issues of economic community, allowing other native or non-native similarities in the changes to the characters of sustainability, ecological impact, and social plant species to gain importance in the forest. The Aeneas and Paul due to extensive travel, though feasibility of proposed solutions. Forest Vegetation Simulator will be used to model under vastly different circumstances, suggests a ______universality to far-reaching journeys. the effects of a potential EAB invasion. Controlling Multidisciplinary Approach to ______the spread of infestation is critical for mitigating Prince or Philosopher-King? damage to ecosystems. This study could help us Understanding Trematode monitor the preserve more effectively for signs of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Plato's Transmission EAB invasion. STEPHANIE SCHECHTER ______Republic FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI-MUENCH, MEGHAN PRUSINOWSKI Analysis of Cyanobacterial Blooms BIOLOGY Plato, in his Republic, designed his perfectly just and Potential Onset Factors in Loon Trematode infection disproportionately affects kallipolis to be ruled by guardians, also known as Lake in Wayland, NY certain populations worldwide. Trematodes, or philosopher-kings. These individuals were to be the parasitic flatworms, infect areas of the body JANELLE GOEKE best minds that the city could produce - virtuous, specific to the type of fluke and cause a range of FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY just and dedicated. The guardians would have symptoms such as dermatitis, dysentery, Loon Lake is a private lake located in Wayland, New trained their entire lives to rule - yet they were not pulmonary complications, and abdominal pain. York, 30 miles from Geneseo. In recent years the meant to relish that power. Could Prince Hamlet Humans become definitive hosts in the trematode health of Loon Lake has declined, as evidenced by have met the requirements to be one of these lifecycle by ingesting infected organisms or coming increased water turbidity and cyanobacterial guardians? This paper analyzes the similarities and into contact with fluke-infested bodies of water. bloom frequency. Cyanobacteria, or blue-green distinctions between Hamlet and Plato's guardians, Poor health often results from biological algae, are photosynthetic bacteria that occur in including their education and values. By examining susceptibility and lack of agency rather than many bodies of water, and can produce toxins that Hamlet's flaws and preoccupation with revenge, individual neglect. This study uses a combined if ingested can be harmful to humans. This study this paper shows Hamlet to be an ineffective ruler, biological and anthropological approach to examined Loon Lake during late summer and fall and suggests that he would not have met the examine the intersection between biology, cultural 2015 to determine what factors might be triggering standards set by Plato for the guardians of the behaviors, social norms, and economic conditions the onset of cyanobacterial blooms. Species kallipolis. to identify how one's context influences identification and quantitative analysis of ______vulnerability to infection. A full examination of cyanobacteria abundance were done from skim Is Plato's Government Hierarchy a related literature may serve to improve the success samples. Samples were also tested for toxin of public health campaigns and broaden the Realistic Model for the Modern production using an enzyme-linked immunoassay present understanding of susceptibility, technique (ELISA). Measurements of lake water World? particularly to trematode infection. DYLAN PASCOE quality parameters were taken using a Hydrolab The paper examines Plato's systems of profiling unit. Chlorophyll levels, phycocyanin 2F • POLITICAL SCIENCE & governments from The Republic and compares it to levels, and turbidity were measured at depths of modern governments in an attempt to show that 1m, 3m, and 6m. The study found that two INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Plato's ideas are too simple to work in a modern cyanobacterial blooms dominated by Anabaena sp. WELLES 24 setting, as they ignore complex realities. The focus occurred late in the fall, however neither of these blooms produced toxins on a level high enough to Contemporary Global Issues II remains on the recent historical Burmese FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JEREMY elections, having been written pre-election, and harm humans. Evidence shows that high wind events may have caused partial mixing of the water GRACE, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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______Recommendations in the Face of are the most frequently discussed topics? Who is Climate Change and Conflict in East the most positive and who is the most negative Rising Chinese Expansionism Africa: Pathways to Violence and candidate? Which candidate uses the biggest WILLIAM WILLOWS words? To answer these questions, I constructed a State Weakness In an ever-globalizing international system, recent corpus of digitized debate transcripts from 2015 JULIA MIZUTANI events in the Asia-Pacific region have turned the and 2016 (sourced from the Washington Post and Conflict literature typically focuses on economic, South China Sea into a hotspot for potential the New York Times) and subjected them to social and political factors that cause state failure. conflict. Current and ongoing territorial quantitative and qualitative analysis using a variety I posit that environmental degradation is also an aggressions by the People's Republic of China have of software packages in the R programming important causal mechanism behind state raised tensions amongst the involved states and language.In this talk, I will present findings from weakness. The physical characteristics of a put U.S. regional interests in jeopardy. This report these computational analyses of the Democratic society's surrounding environment contribute to seeks to explain the roots of the conflict in the presidential primary debates. I argue that these social behaviors and adaptive capacities and South China Sea and examine the current situation methods could be extended to work with any responses. To ignore the environment overlooks in terms of actual political and military power. dialogue-based digital corpus, making these results how social behaviors have adapted to physical Ultimately, the report endeavors to provide potentially useful for research that involves large change and therefore misunderstand how failure recommendations to relevant U.S. policy makers bodies of text, particularly research in the to adapt may lead to conflict. There is no consensus that will allow the United States to counter China's humanities and the social sciences. on a direct link between conflict and rising influence while promoting its goals for the ______environmental change; however, using rainfall region as a whole. Let's Talk: Interpreting Jane fluctuation as a proxy for climate change, East ______Africa provides of different pathways between the Globalization in Latin America: Austen's Emma across Novel, environment, society and conflict. Pathways Authoritative Corporatism and Television, and Film between climate change, social stability and KIMBERLY OWEN violent conflict can be studied temporally and Multinational Corporations How do the conversations in Jane Austen's Emma spatially using GIS. Case-studies where ARIANA LIPPI characterize the title character through her environmental change led to conflict will be This research examines the relationship between interactions with other characters? How do film compared to case studies where climate variability political structure and culture of authoritative adaptations change conversations to suit the did not lead to conflict in order to discover how corporatism in Latin America, and Multinational medium and the time period? How do these certain societies were better adapted to respond corporations (MNCs). Latin America's current adapted conversations reflect the culture they are and adjust to change. Given the increasing governmental regimes can be explained through its told in? In this presentation I will present dialogues frequency and magnitude of rainfall variation due past economic and political models. Although from Jane Austen's novel Emma, the 2009 to climate change, all of these possible causal states have adopted a democratic model they are miniseries of the same name, and the 1995 film pathways working together can contribute to still corporate by culture and by practice. This adaptation Clueless. I use comparative discourse overall state fragility and trigger a cascade of paper examines how MNCs have perpetuated and analysis to study how conversations change from events that can lead to conflict. sustained current functioning corporate the original to the two adaptations and how the ______governmental systems since the 1960s. It examines conversations characterize the title character, Post-Conflict Societies and the how corporatism and failure to meet democratic Emma. Preliminary findings indicate that potential in Latin America is reinforced by the Promise of Consociational adaptations modernize Emma's language and interests of MNCs perpetuating undemocratic and interactional style but maintain the personality of Democracy at times, authoritarian regimes. By demonstrating Austen's original character. AMANDA WAGNER this, this research draws a causal relationship ______Post-conflict societies face a number of difficulties between corporatism Latin American countries It's All Spanish to Me: Is One when it comes to the implementation of fueled by international economic interests and democracy. Internal conflict can cause societies to economic inequality and vulnerability of their Dialect Better or Do they All Sound splinter, diminishing national ideologies and populations. This research draws upon analytical the Same? reinforcing alternative, separate identities. literature of foreign investment and democracy in TAYLOR POWERS Subsequently, these intensified social cleavages Latin America, and economic analysis from a The Spanish language is spoken in many countries place additional strain on any democratic system variety of Latin American countries. These analyses on several continents, and for this reason a wide leading to increased volatility. The theory of are applied to case studies from Mexico, Peru, variety of dialects exist. As such, students do not consociational democracy attempts to address Ecuador, Argentina, and Brazil. have a single model to base their pronunciation on. these social divides to allow for the creation of a So, with so many choices, what do students of stable national government that does not require 2G • ANTHROPOLOGY BAILEY 103 Spanish want to sound like in their second citizens to entirely reject these alternative Debates, Dialogues and Dialects: language? Which dialect do they want to model identities. This paper will explore the necessary their own pronunciation after? Do variables such conditions for the implementation of the Insights from Linguistics as age of acquisition, length of study, exposure to consociational model as well as look at broader FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER GUZMAN, native-speakers of particular dialects, and criticisms of the theory. In order to assess the ANTHROPOLOGY motivational factors affect dialectal preferences? potential promise of consociationalism in providing SESSION CHAIR: CHRISTINA AGOSTINELLI-FUCILE, This study had participants rate recordings of stability, the paper will evaluate the success of LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES native and non-native Spanish speakers for their consociationalism within an Africa context, ______authenticity. We hypothesize that the dialects with focusing on South Africa, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Hidden Patterns in the 2016 the highest ratings will be the ones that differ the Burundi, in order to identify whether Democratic Debates: Findings from most from "standard" Spanish, and will be the ones consociationalism poses a significant solution to that students ultimately choose as models for their the difficulties experienced by post-conflict plural Computational Analysis pronunciation. Following an examination of how societies and if certain conditions may increase this ALEX MCGRATH these factors affect students' dialectal preferences, level of success. There are hundreds of thousands of words spoken we will discuss implications for language teaching. ______in debates during an election year. Through this Challenges in the South China Sea: mess of argument and rhetoric it can sometimes be 2H • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY difficult to see the big-picture patterns - who is U.S. Foreign Policy doing the most talking, and on which issues? What 4 WELLES 123
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SESSION CHAIR: LISA MEYER, SOCIOLOGY internalized misogyny, and a multi-pronged changes in food location, food concentration, and ______approach targeting political, cultural, and pheromone diffusion rate. Ethnic Prejudice in Dutch economic change are necessary for patriarchy to ______be overcome. Modeling Protein Structural Counterterrorism: Exploring the Histories of and Interactions Stability JACK JENKINS Between Immigration Policy, 2I • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 5 FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, Security Strategy, and Xenophobia WELLES 121 CHEMISTRY YAELA COLLINS SESSION CHAIR: SHUO CHEN, BUSINESS Amyloidogenic proteins, acting in assembly, are FACULTY SPONSOR: LISA MEYER, SOCIOLOGY ______responsible for age-onset neurodegenerative In the new millennium, the Islamist terrorism Iterative Game Theory: A Spatial diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. The threat in the Netherlands has grown substantially formation of oligomers—relatively few protein from a limited classification, to a permanent Model of the Success of Different molecules bound together—is a critical step exogenous and endogenous risk. Post 9/11, the Behaviors towards the formation of yet larger fibrous first key moment in Dutch thought and action, with PHILLIP KOSSOVER structures associated with the critical onset of respect to the terrorist threat, occurred in 2002 FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, disease. The surface potential from gold when two Dutch Muslims travelled to Kashmir to BIOLOGY nanoparticles in solution can be used as a participate in jihad, and died during a violent Game theory seeks to model the interactions of diagnostic tool to encourage the formation of confrontation with the army. Combined with the rational, self-interested, decision-makers by oligomers, allowing experimenters, including 2004 murder of cinematographer Theo Van Gogh creating games where the players, or actors, have students at SUNY Geneseo, to study protein folding by an Islamic fundamentalist, these events served a set number of moves. Each player knows of all mechanisms. The purpose of this study is to gain to heighten awareness of radicalization processes the possible moves, and seeks to make the most physical intuition about the aggregation of protein within Dutch borders. The result has been the beneficial move while accounting for other player's molecules through mathematical modeling. incitement of a new era of Dutch counterterrorism actions. The two-actor game Prisoner's Dilemma is policy focused in substantive and criminal law, studied here because the expected solution is at a 2J • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY intent on defending liberal democracy against globally inferior situation—both players could 6 WELLES 119 terrorist attacks. Enhanced security measures and benefit from switching their strategy, if only they SESSION CHAIR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY preventative policy employing methods like racial had a guarantee the other would also switch. ______profiling, have led an increased consciousness of When the game is played iteratively with a The Pedagogy of Proximity: the “Other.” An analysis of security threats in the knowledge of past decisions, it becomes possible Netherlands, jihadist terrorism, and failed for actors to punish and reward their neighbors. Residential Learning at SUNY immigration policies serve to explain this Using the programming language R, I created a Geneseo resurgence of xenophobia, previously popular in toroidal lattice of players. In my model, they play SAMUEL WEINSTEIN the World War II era. The consincreasing the Prisoner's Dilemma game with a specific rule, FACULTY SPONSOR: CELIA EASTON, RESIDENCE securitization of Dutch society has had a negative or behavior, governing their actions. Each round, LIFE impact on minority communities, leading to their actors play with their immediate neighbors and Learning on a college campus extends beyond the marginalization and the reduction of their civil receive points based on the payout matrix. I found classroom and the current faculty-student model. liberties that when the distribution of behaviors is random, Residential college houses remind students, ______the highest scoring behaviors are ones which faculty, and staff to challenge thatmodel through Progress & Backlash: Feminism and defect. These behaviors take advantage of applied learning by providing opportunities for Patriarchy in the United States neighbors that are predisposed to cooperate and interdisciplinaryexperiences. This study evaluates do not punish for defections. Importantly however, ANNA WINTERS residential learning at SUNY Geneseo through two when two defectors are neighbors, neither FACULTY SPONSOR: JOANNA KIRK, POLITICAL focusgroup sessions of students living in Dante accumulate many points. House, a first year residential college housein SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______This paper explores the nature of patriarchy in Wayne Hall, as well as a survey of student order to determine how it has enforced women's Modeling Self-Organization in experiences in three Geneseo residencehalls— oppression and suppressed women's movements Harvester Ants Dante House/Wayne Hall; Onondaga Hall, a First in the past, with the aim of discovering how NICOLE RIGGIO Year Experience residence hall; and Monroe Hall, feminist movements can be more successful in the FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, which is home to Tesla House, a Physics, Biology, future. Each of the four waves of American BIOLOGY and Writing Living Learning Community. These feminism have been met with patriarchal backlash, At first glance, insect colonies may appear to be residence halls represent a range of residential through claims that feminism directly attacks social comprised of a series of disconnected individuals communities available tostudents at Geneseo, values, women are biologically or intellectually when in reality this is often not the case. Social allowing for the assessment of the existing culture inferior, equality has already been achieved and insects form incredibly complex biological systems of residentiallearning at Geneseo. Using these society is now "post-feminist," and feminism is and have the ability to organize themselves and evaluations as well as analysis of residential ruining both women's and men's lives. Other develop behavioral patterns that help to ensure learningprograms available at various other tactics have included the commodification of the survival of the colony. Harvester ants, undergraduate institutions described in the feminists' personalities in the media and even specifically Pogonomyrmex barbatus, function as literatureand discussed in informational interviews direct violence and threats. Such backlash is central place foragers who always return to a single with coordinators of these programs, this study problematic as it reinforces women's exploitation, location after they are able to locate a food source. proposes methods for improved utilization of the marginalization, internalization of inferiority, and Each ant forages using a specific strategy that learning community in Dante House. fragmentation. By exploring the tactics and operates much like a computer algorithm, enabling ______outcomes of past feminist movements, it is them to interact with their environment. On Assumed Illness: Proust and possible to ascertain how feminism must proceed Collectively, the behavior of the ants in a colony Woolf in the future to succeed. Particularly, inclusion of was modelled in order to analyze how the ability of MICHAEL LAMONTAGNE men in the movement, the promotion of bonds harvester ants to successfully forage and return to FACULTY SPONSOR: KEN ASHER, ENGLISH between women, increased inclusiveness and their colony with food varies with respect to Virginia Woolf wrote that, "When we surface in the intersectionality, revealing and addressing dentist's armchair and confuse his 'Rinse the
16 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM mouth--rinse the mouth' with the greeting of the companies are chosen for this study, because both in China. In East Asian Cultures, calligraphy is not a Deity stooping from the floor of Heaven to of the companies have are known for its large mere exercise of handwriting, but an act of welcome us... it becomes strange indeed that number of audiences, and thus they can be disciplining and training one's mind. "Use of illness has not taken its place with love and battle assumed to have enormous influence on its Calligraphy in Japan, Korea and China" will discuss among the prime themes of literature." By audiences. In general, moves are an assemble of its the history of calligraphy in each country, as well as investigating the texts, letters, and biographical culture, and that is why movies can be a primitive similarities and differences. accounts of contemporaries, this presentation source when understanding a culture. Although ______demonstrates that illness has not been neglected the movies of these two companies seem to share Sushi Shows Japan by literature, and that it is a central theme in the a lot of commonalities, there definitely are many MANAMI ENDO works of Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. differences. These differences are one of the most Sushi, a world renowned food, originated in Japan. ______important key to understand Japanese culture, Usually, sushi comes with raw fish and some Removal of Fruits by Birds from because these animated movies are the collections vegetables placed on top of the cooked vinegar Native vs. Invasive Shrubs in of its culture; customs, beliefs, and family containing rice. Sushi rolled with avocado and structures. Such animated movies not only reflect topped with spicy sauce, however, is only a Western New York its culture, but it also influences its audiences on contemporary American style sushi. That sushi can GINA SCANDAGLIA forming their perspective to interpret the misrepresent Japanese culture because even FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY surrounding world. though the Japanese style sushi itself looks simple, The goal of this study is to determine the use of ______much effort, knowledge, and techniques are used fruits from native vs. invasive shrubs by birds in the Teaching English Abroad by sushi chefs in one sushi dish. In my presentation, Arboretum. Previous research has found that fruits ALEXANDRE BONETTO, JUAN PABLO I will discuss the main implications of the difference of invasive shrubs are typically less nutritious than Juan and I are going to present different language between American and Japanese sushi, focusing on fruits of native shrubs. The consumption of four teaching methods. We will do some research on how authentic sushi expresses Japanese culture as fruits from four different shrubs was compared: a how English in particular is being taught in both our well as its unique geographical island features. I native shrub (Gray Dogwood) and three invasive countries -- France and Argentina -- and we will plan to talk about the history of sushi, where its shrubs (Amur Honeysuckle, Common Buckthorn compare them by proficiency. We will also talk ingredients come from, and the numerous cooking and Autumn Olive). To quantify use of fruits, we about how English proficiency is assessed by school styles pertaining to Japan. monitored fruit loss from pairs of branches of each standards in our countries, in order to understand species, one enclosed with a thin mesh and the how ESOL professors in the United States can 2L • GEOPHYSICS ISC 115 other unenclosed and accessible to birds. Also, modify their teaching styles according to other SESSION CHAIR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL branches of different species were artificially countries' methods. Finally, we will try to identify SCIENCES presented together to assess bird choice. common keys in English teaching that are found in ______Furthermore, fruit scars on marked Amur all three countries, to highlight the importance of Magnetic Evolution of Copper Honeysuckle branches were surveyed to assess what it is that an English teacher can not avoid in feeding rate. Lastly, ten transects were evaluated his or her lesson planning. Ridge, Mount Ellen, Utah for presence of shrub species. Comparison of mean ______MICHAEL BRAUNAGEL consumption indices showed species consumed English as a Lingua Franca in FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL most to least were: Autumn Olive, Gray Dogwood SCIENCES and Amur Honeysuckle. Based on fruit scar counts, International Context: An Approach Igneous intrusions throughout the world display the removal rate of Amur Honeysuckle was about to the Linguistic Identity in ESL clear evidence of emplacement through multiple 10%. Transect data indicate that relative Speakers pulses of magma, though the timing between abundances of Gray Dogwood and Amur these pulses often is difficult to constrain. In the JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ AGÜERA Honeysuckle were higher than the other two Henry Mountains of southeastern Utah, the "Would you rather speak ‘perfect English’ or keep species. These results contribute to our evidence for magmatic pulses is more cryptic than your foreign accent?" That was the initial question understanding of the potential impacts of invasive the textural or petrologic variations we can that entails this paper. As it is universally species. Selected for presentation at Northeast observe in other intrusions. Copper Ridge, for acknowledged, the aim of every foreign-language Natural History Conference, Springfield, MA. example, displays variable magnetic susceptibility learner is to become proficient in a certain through the two major 100-200m thick sills that language, both speaking and writing. The more one form it, but no visible indication of internal 2K • ENGLISH BAILEY 102 becomes like a native speaker in language contacts between pulses. In an effort to constrain comprehension and pronunciation, the easier it is the rate of emplacement both Copper Ridge sills International Linguistic and Cultural for him or her to get integrated in a certain were sampled in evenly spaced intervals through a Exchange linguistic community. Nevertheless, what do vertical cross section to measure the remanent FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: IRENE people understand by native-English proficiency? magnetism recorded by the intrusions. The upper BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, ENGLISH Is there any "perfect accent" in any language? sill was found to record 66° of magnetic polar ______What about the identity of that non-English native wander and the lower sill recorded 139°. Results Introducing Japanese Culture by speaker? Is that person rejecting his/her original from a one-dimensional thermal model suggest accent, and therefore, his/her cultural Comparing Disney and Ghibli that the duration of cooling between the outer and background? Is it a conscious choice? Is there any the center of intrusions takes a very short time Movies sociolinguistic reason for preferring one accent to period (<10 years). Comparison of the thermal MAI HASHIMOTO, MIZUNA INOUE, SHU another? With the help of a self-made survey of model results to Holocene rates of polar wander KAWABE, RYO KATAYAMA both international and American students, the indicate Copper Ridge must therefore have been Utilizing PowerPoint, this presentation will be presentation will provide the answers to these and emplaced via multiple pulses of magma over a conducted in order to provide information to other questions with regards to the issue of English minimum of time period >100 years. understand more psychological aspects of as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and the linguistic identity. ______Japanese culture, not only the nation's facts. This ______Magnetic Susceptibility of the New Use of Calligraphy in Japan, Korea presentation aims to introduce an abstract aspect Albany Shale, Upper Devonian, in of Japanese culture by looking at the differences and China between two of the most successful animated MINJUNG JUN, AYANO MIKI, YUKA KURITA the Illinois Basin movie companies in America and Japan; Disney Japan, Korea and China share the East Asian JENELLE WALLACE and Studio Ghibli. These two production tradition of Calligraphy: an art form that originated
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FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL notable impact. According to the survey results it The History of Conditional SCIENCES has encouraged intellectual engagement and Magnetic susceptibility (MS) measures personal growth through this week’s events and Probability paramagnetic substances, which in sedimentary is programs. ANNA SCHULTZ dominated by ferromagnetic minerals that vary in ______This paper examines the history of conditional concentration in response to global climate and Awareness of the Elderly and probability. Conditional probability is the probability of an event occurring, given that sea level change. Samples were collected from the DIsabled New Albany Shale in western Kentucky, a unit of another event has already occurred. Many DAVID POLLOCK black to dark grey shale with pyrite nodules and probability puzzles, and mathematical paradoxes FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD rare carbonate beds that were deposited in an have their origins in conditional probability. This This presentation is part of the GOLD Diamond epicontinental sea which filled the rifted Paleozoic paper analyzes the history of this tricky concept, Certificate requirement. The presentation will go Illinois Basin. The Upper Devonian is preserved where conditional probabillity originated, and its through my personal experience of taking care of within the New Albany Shale, including the early developments. members of my family. Each experience has Frasnian-Famennian (F-F) boundary, which records ______instilled my passion to engage in this Diamond a major mass extinction event and could be the The Poisson Distribution: The Certificate Project. It will discuss the challenges result of a climate shift. Five major trends in facing our society today when handling the elderly History Behind the Function magnetic susceptibility in the 55.78 meter section and the disabled. Focusing on the stress families CODY SHANK are most likely due to gradual shifts in sea level. and caretakers have when taking care of family The Poisson distribution plays an important role in Shorter duration shifts in MS within the major members and patients who are elderly and probability. This discrete probability function was trends support records of processional cyclicity. disabled. There will be certain ideas recommended discovered by Siméon Denis Poisson. The Microfossils and conodont zonation defined in order to display how we address all issues on the distribution is used to find the probability of a given marker beds throughout the New Albany Shale relevant subject and project. Each idea will be number of independent events happening over a provided controls in cross-basinal comparisons to dedicated to instill action and promotion of the span of time or space. The history behind this Oklahoma and global correlations in France. Similar subject. function shows how it was developed and how trends support a global climate shift due to a ______Siméon Denis Poisson's findings not only gave us fluctuation in sea level rather than a regionalized Diamond Project Report: Engaging this distribution, but also influenced the world of climate change. mathematics. a Global Village ______2M • GOLD 1 WELLES 26 AMY LIANG The Method of Undetermined SESSION CHAIR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, CENTER FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD FOR COMMUNITY Civic engagement is an integral part of global Coefficients: A Historical ______development. After going on a service learning trip Perspective WITHDRAWN Home Away From Home Respite to Haiti, I became International Projects KELSEY GRAMLICH Program Coordinator of The Community Health Alliance. I Have you ever wondered why the method of worked with the organization, and various undetermined coefficients is such a commonly NICOLE RALBOVSKY students and faculty members on campus to plan a accepted method to solve a nonhomogeneous FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD week of events that would engage and educate the differential equation? In this presentation, you will In my short presentation, I will be discussing the campus about global health issues and global learn of where the method of undetermined service event that I conducted with the development. coefficients came from and how it is useful in the Americorps/VISTA Alyssa Penn from the Center for advancement of mathematical history. This talk Community. I will be talking about the work that I 2N • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 328 will reveal important mathematicians who applied conducted to help establish the "Home Away From the method of undetermined coefficients in their Home" respite program that now occurs on History of Mathematics II studies and show how they further developed the campus at the Interfaith Center on Mondays and FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JEFF method. This talk will provide a better Thursdays. I will detail the work I did to help set the JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS understanding of the method of undetermined program up and also the work I am putting in to ______coefficients and its advancement throughout establish a Cognitive Disorders Awareness Week Origin of Probability Theory: The history. on campus in April. Problem of Points ______KUN HEE KIM Community Health Alliance— 2O • EDUCATION NEWTON 204 The Problem of Points is a question related to LIVES Program Presents... Leadership in Community games of chance and gambling that arose during FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: Engagement and Social Justice the 15th century. This classical problem had many variants, and the modern version was solved ELIZABETH HALL, EDUCATION GINA VILLAZHINAY ______during the 17th century by Blaise Pascal. The FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD Problem of Points involves a game of chance with Our Strengths and Struggles-- Geneseo has worked extensively to improve its two players with equal chances of winning each efforts to increase cultural and diversity awareness Similarities and Differences round. The first player to win a certain number of around campus. Cultural Harmony Week is a Between College Students With and rounds wins the entire prize pool. However, the tradition in our college that has helped students game is interrupted and cannot be continued. The Without Disabilities and the administration practice the sentiments problem is to decide who gets the prize and how JULIE JOHNSON, ELIZA COX, GINNY ELEY, JORDON expressed in its mission and value statements. the prize is to be divided fairly. After many failed MCKINSEY, MARK MENSINGER, JAMES SNYDER, Throughout the week there were workshops, attempts, it was not until Blaise Pascal and Pierre IAN KANE, THOMAS COBURN, KALEB KENNEY speakers, and films shown that explored issues of de Fermat that this problem was solved. Using The first year students in the LIVES Program race, ethnicity and culture. The multicultural early examples of expected values and the surveyed Geneseo college students regarding their program Director, Ms. Fatima Rodriguez and other arithmetic triangle for calculations, Pascal strengths and struggles. The LIVES students then professors have helped provide programming that managed to find the solution, which is a staple in compared and contrasted the survey answers with addressed a wide variety of community and Probability Theory today. their own strengths and struggles. The survey diversity issues that we see in our college or relates ______results revealed that both groups of college to us. Participation by students in a few of the students shared similar strengths and struggles, week's programs has most definitely made a
18 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM demonstrating that all college students have ______similar experiences, regardless of ability. JULIA LEWIS 2R • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 340 The rise of online social media has sparked debate ______Real World Applications of A Road Map: Where We Are and over the reality and authenticity of self- presentation. The self we portray on these Mathematics Where We Are Going platforms is called fake, which implies that FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: RICHARD JOHANES, JENNIFER PEARL somewhere else exists a self that is true. In my CAROLINE HADDAD, MATHEMATICS The sophomores will be presenting their personal presentation, I examine the ways in which the self ______road map. Their road map will include where they is constantly curated, both online and off and the Quantitative Finance and Modeling began, where they are currently, and where they blurred space between the two, alongside issues of ANTONINO BALSANO hope to go because of the LIVES Program. surveillance and self-regulation. ______Financial mathematics allows us to apply ______mathematical theory and develop models to create MALCOLM SIMPSON Skills We Have Learned to be seemingly riskless trading. Using a mixture of The notion that exclusivity defines quality is Successful popular financial models we will discuss ways to rampant in what is now a media saturated society. AMANDA CROSS, JESSE CLAUD predict where the market may go using probability, However, the idea also describes widely available This presentation will focus on an exploration of stochastic differential equations, and the concept media to be lacking quality. This notion is as false skills they have learned to be successful in college of Brownian motion. Computer programs will allow as it is dangerous. As society develops more and on the job. They will be showcasing their us to implement these models on a larger scale, advanced methods to create and consume media, internships and audit class experiences. and (hopefully) allow us to make better the perspective that content is only good when it is ______predictions. elusive promotes the condemnation of popular ______The LIVES Program: How it media out right. Content can be judged on a variety Prepared Me for Life After College of merits, but the exclusivity of content as a Factors Influencing the Ratio of TYLER BUSH, ROBERT MAPLESDEN, MATTHEW measure for quality leads to the inflated sense of SNAP Participants to Poor People in KLEIN, JOHATHAN KEE value in exclusive media and the ignorance of US Counties This presentation will summarize the students four popular media, regardless of quality. STEPHANIE ALLEN years in the SUNY Geneseo LIVESProgram. Each The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program student will present the skills he has learned in the 2Q • HISTORY STURGES 104 (SNAP) helps millions of people across the United LIVES Program, audit classes, internships, and Morality, Religion and Politics: An States fight food insecurity and hunger. However, social activities and demonstrate how they have Analysis of Western Literary Works the “ratio of SNAP participants to people in grown from freshmen year to senior year. poverty” varies from county to county and, for
from Humanities I some counties, this statistic is less than 1.0, which 2P • HISTORY STURGES 108 FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: TZE-KI means not all poor people utilize SNAP benefits. Methods, Media, and Me II: HON, HISTORY There has been research done on the factors ______Explorations into Media and Self behind individual and/or household SNAP Morality, Religion and Politics: An participation, which has found state SNAP policies, for the Study of History Analysis of the Holy Bible demographic characteristics, economic conditions, FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: TODD ELLIE MERTENS, SEE LONG WONG and other variables to be significant in predicting GOEHLE, HISTORY participation. Furthermore, other research has ______This presentation will explore the portrayal of morality in The Holy Bible. Although the Old looked at SNAP usage at a spatial level to The Paintbrush and the Computer Testament and the New Testament are often read determine if usage in surrounding areas and if a Mouse: The Use of Digital Media together as one cohesive text, particularly in the place’s location influence its SNAP usage. Informed by this research, my research utilizes for Artistic Expression Christian tradition, we will treat them as separate texts. We will compare and contrast Yahweh, the independent variables studied in both the JANNA NUNZIATO individual and spatial analyses to identify the In 2012, my work "Tension and the Release of deity of the Old Testament, and Jesus of Nazareth, the primary deistic figure of the New Testament. significant factors influencing counties’ ratio of Tension" hung on a stark white wall at an art SNAP participants to poor people. This dependent showing. Albeit it being specifically a digital We will also examine the primary moral lessons taught and encouraged in each respective variable is worth studying because it is a spatial photography show, "Tension and the Release of variable that focuses directly on the people who Tension" was the only piece in the show that made testament. Finally, we will consider how these portrayals had unique political and cultural impacts should be able to use SNAP. The research employs use of "traditional artistic media" -- all methods of a multiple linear regression model to analyze the artistic expression not utilizing digital media or that can still be observed today. ______influences of independent variables concerning technology, namely the computer, in any fashion Morality, Religion and Politics: An demographics, unemployment, State SNAP during the creation process. One image of the policies, and others on the ratio. In particular, the diptych used exclusively digital media to create an Analysis of Realpolitik study would like to discover why the state of immaculate digital print (the confined tension), RACHEL DAVIS, KATHERINE ZASLAVSKY California and the upper and middle Mid-West in and one used traditional artistic media to escape This presentation will explore concepts of morality 2010 reported noticeably lower ratios when the imprisonment of the digital print (the release in politics, particularly as it is portrayed in compared to the rest of the country. of tension). Just as the paintbrush is seen to be an Machiavelli's The Prince and Shakespeare's extension of man and his imagination, the same Hamlet. We will discuss the relevance of idealistic can be said about the computer mouse and digital Christian values as well as the realist values of ______media. Therefore, is using digital media to Realpolitik. We will consider how the specific Wavelet Based De-noising and Peak manipulate my artwork and express my creative cultural, societal and political contexts in which skill an extension of myself? Is this new digital each of these texts were written influenced the Detection of Infrared Spectra media "flesh" authentically mine, and the pieces unique depictions of morality constructed by MICHAEL RAMSEY that I am creating truly art? Thus, as a result of my Machiavelli and Shakespeare respectively. We will Infrared Spectroscopy is a technique used by exposure to digital media, I argue that the flawless also consider the immediate impacts of each of chemists to study and identify compounds. While digital photograph stands in my mind as the new these texts, as well as their long-term effects on this technique gives ample information to identify standard for art -- even when using traditional conceptions of morality in politics throughout the present molecules, it is often not easy to do so artistic media. Western history. simply by spectrum visualization. In my work, I
Promotes sustainability 19 Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual implement wavelet based de-noising and peak pride in hosting, competing in, and winning SYDNEY LEVINE, THOMAS KOHN, BRENDAN detection algorithms to automate the procedure of international sports competitions. This historical MAHONEY, ALEX STAHNK, PAUL CUMONE, EMMA molecule identification. study attempts to identify and further investigate HOLTZMAN, AMMAN WEAVER, TIFFANY LOO, the connection between Chinese nationalism and JIMMY HATEM, THOMAS BROCK, JAMES ANANIA, 2S • HISTORY BAILEY 104 International sports competitions through analyses NELSON SCOTT, EMILY HURLBUTT, JAMIE Sport in the PRC: Cultural, Political, of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and P.R.C. President MCCORMICK, SARAH COMERFORD, MATHEUS Xi Jingping's current, ambitious plan to host and FALEIRO, JULIA CHONG, NIYANTA and Economic Dynamics win a FIFA World Cup. The Fed Challenge team does its annual FACULTY SPONSOR: TZE-KI HON, HISTORY ______macroeconomy presentation, a synopsis of the SESSION CHAIR: GALEN GIBIAN Fist of Fury vs Drunken Master: economic challenges faces the U.S. economy at the ______Masculinity, National Identity, and moment, with forecasts for the future, followed by Sport as Spectacle: The Rise of the panel discussion and Q&A. Chinese Super League Modern China PETER BENSON GALEN GIBIAN 2V • MUSIC DOTY RECITAL HALL Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan are two of the most From its inception in 1994, the growth of the legendary and influential figures in the history of Vocal Duets Chinese Super League has mirrored the trajectory ______Chinese cinema. Despite being products of the of the nation itself. Emerging from the ashes of BRIANNA KELLY, JORDAN BACHMANN, NOAH same historical moment in Chinese culture, Lee state-run teams, professional soccer in China CHICHESTER, SAMANTHA CLOWES, FRANCESCA and Chan developed two contrasting Kung Fu initially struggled with the demons of corruption DIGIORGIO, SARA GLOVER, HANNAH LOO, identities—that of tragedy, and that of comedy— and cronyism. In recent years, however, the league SARAH SHARRIN respectively. Lee deployed racial politics in his films has become a regional powerhouse, with four of its FACULTY SPONSOR: PAMELA KURAU, MUSIC through the avocation of a Chinese national teams competing annually in the AFC Champions There will be at least five duets performed by identity, and utilized his own body as a focal point League. This past January, the League's 16 teams students from the music department. These will to alter existing Chinese and Chinese American outspent the English Premier League and brought each be introduced to the audience, giving a stereotypes by reinventing Chinese masculinity as in international players in their prime at enormous background of the story line and characters in the powerful and competitive. While Chairmen Mao cost. As the Chinese economy begins to pivot from duets. attempted to help China confront the pains of the manufactured production to the export of culture ______Century of Humiliation through politics and and expertise, will the Super League become an String Quartet economics, Lee's films served as a catharsis for the national flag-bearer or fall prey to its own JOSEPH TADROS, EVELYN WELCH, KATIE culture of the disgraced Chinese people. Just as monetary excess? CORCORAN, HARRISON HARTSOUGH Mao's death led to the birth of a new China, Lee's ______FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDREW BERGEVIN, MUSIC death created a void in the genre within which Antonin Dvorak: String Quartet in F major, Hoop Dreams: How China is Lee's infamous successor Jackie Chan refused to be "American" I. Allegro ma non troppo Joseph Changing the Culture and Business molded. By transforming Kung Fu tragedy into Tadros, violin I Evelyn Welch, violin II Katie Kung Fu comedy, Chan generated a new wave of of Basketball Corcoran, viola Harrison Hartsough, cello. Kung Fu cinema that challenged Lee's portrayal of EVAN FOSTER Whether you knew it or not, China has in recent toughness. Thus, I contend that Lee's films 2W • STUDY ABROAD WELLES 115 decades become a global force in both the business perpetuate China's victim narrative, while Chan's and culture of basketball. Now the second biggest represent 21st century China's rise to power on the Haiti Service Learning Trip NBA market in the world by a narrow margin, international stage. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: WESTON
China's interest in the sport should be considered KENNISON, STUDY ABROAD nothing less than a cultural obsession among the 2T • ENGLISH DOTY TOWER ROOM FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN MUENCH, BIOLOGY ______nation's youth. In this presentation I will The Geneseo Almanacs: A Reading DJONI ELKADY, HARPREET AUJLA, JENNIFER investigate the causes behind this obsession and of Place-Based Creative Nonfiction BOODY, MATTHEW MCCLURE, SHANNON WALSH, reveal the ways in which China's growing interest FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JESS SOPHIA GARBER, MACKENZIE ROSS in basketball (and the NBA's growing interest in FENN, ENGLISH The commune of Borgne lies in the mountainous, China) has affected the sport, culture, and business ______rural northern part of Haiti. Approximately 80,000 of basketball. JESSICA GOLDSTEIN, DAVID SABOL, CASEY people live in the commune in two major ______VINCELETTE, LILY CODERA, NOAH COATES population centers; the town of Borgne situated on "The No Longer Sick Man of Asia": These creative nonfiction pieces started in walks the coast and the village of Tibouk, which is more A Historical Study of Chinese around the Geneseo area. They evolved into centrally located. The region's economy relies on Nationalistic Pride in International explorations of the memories evoked by these agriculture and fishing; goods and produce are walks—about working in a pizza place, about traded through a network of local and regional Sports Competitions growing up poor, about coming to Geneseo for the markets. The commune's economy is fragile and THOMAS GARRITY first time. We invite you to come hear stories that the community lacks basic infrastructure such as In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth originated with the chance sighting of objects you electricity, good roads and running water. The centuries, China was widely portrayed by the may walk past every day: the arboretum, a fence at community's isolation and lack of roads industrialized Western world as the "sick man of the edge of campus, the gazebo--and to see what contributes to its extreme poverty by limiting Asia" due to the nation's widespread internal these places have become through writing. participation in the larger economy and access to divisions, political instability, and lack of a strong, 2U • BUSINESS SOUTH 338 health care and education. High infant mortality, central government authority. This portrayal waterborne illnesses, malaria and HIV/AIDS are further influenced and exacerbated the Chinese The U.S. Economy 2016 (How some of the many preventable and treatable, but "victim narrative," a perspective through which Dismal Is It?), with the Fed prevalent, health problems faced in Borgne. Each many in the P.R.C. negatively view this period as a Challenge Team student chose an area of interest to research "Century of Humiliation" in which they were FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: LEONIE before the trip and on the ground in Borgne. A degraded by more powerful countries. In the effort STONE, BUSINESS variety of research projects were studied such as to prove that the modern nation is no longer "sick" ______Soil Transmitted Helminths (STH), sanitation, but rather a robust and powerful state, The U.S. Economy 2016 HIV/AIDS, dental hygiene, agriculture, time, and contemporary Chinese take great nationalistic dance. Along with student-led faculty, community
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leaders, and Haiti Outreach Pwoje Espwa education, economic development, and the (H.O.P.E.), each student was exposed to the grassroots of community development work. different issues in the health care system,
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______SESSION 3 CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS 3U • POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 2:25 – 3:40 PM Research in American Politics and Political Theory WELLES 115 ______3A • HISTORY: American History Honors Theses STURGES 104 3V • THEATRE/DANCE BRODIE ALICE AUSTIN ______Staged Reading Performance 3B • HISTORY STURGES 109 ______Analysis of Chinese Communist Party Propaganda (1949-1976) 3W • ENGLISH WELLES 123 ______Women's and Gender Studies Capstone Presentations 3C • ANTHROPOLOGY BAILEY 104 ______Anthropological Perspectives on Women Across Cultures 3X • ACCESS OPORTUNITY PROGRAM WELLES 134 ______How Expensive is it to be a Woman in the United States? 3D • SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 102 ______Behind the Scenes of The Media Unit Performance ______SESSION 4 CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS 3E • BIOLOGY AND MATHEMATICS 1 NEWTON 203 ______3:50 – 5:05 PM 3F • COMMUNICATION SOUTH 328 ______4A • ANTHROPOLOGY BAILEY 104 3G • ENGLISH WELLES 128 Anthropology of Contemporary Social Issues Culture and Criticism in the Digital Age ______4B • BIOLOGY AND MATHEMATICS 2 NEWTON 203 3I • HISTORY: European History Honors Theses STURGES 108 ______4C • HISTORY STURGES 112 3J • ENGLISH WELLES 133 Defining the Panopticon: Three Perspectives From the Archives: Marginalized Texts Recovered! ______4D • ENGLISH WELLES 123 3K • GEOGRAPHY 1 BAILEY 103 ______4E • POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 3L • GOLD 2 WELLES 26 Enjoy Courtroom Drama at the Mock Trial of the Year MILNE 105 ______3M • EDUCATION - KKIS WELLES 24 4F • HISTORY STURGES 109 ______Environmental Problems and Policy in China 3N • ANTHROPOLOGY BAILEY 105 ______Linguistic Insights into Health and Healing 4G • THEATRE/DANCE BRODIE 152 DANCE STUDIO ______From the Page to the Stage 3O • ENGLISH WELLES 119 ______Marxist Milton - is poetry credible work? 4H • GEOGRAPHY BAILEY 103 ______Geographical Perspectives on Social Issues 3P • MATHEMATICS: Modelling in Mathematics NEWTON 201 ______4I • GOLD 3 WELLES 26 3Q • HISTORY: Modern Chinese Foreign Policy STURGES 114 ______4J • BUSINESS: Idea2Venture DOTY TOWER ROOM 3R • ENGLISH WELLES 121 ______NeuWrite/edu: Science Writing at Geneseo 4K • LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES WELLES 24 ______A presentation in Spanish 3S • PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY 2 ISC 131 ______4L • THEATRE/DANCE STURGES 108 3T • HISTORY STURGES 112 Literature and Film: Hugo and Hepburn Race, Memory, and Consumerism ______
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4M • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 328 4R • ANTHROPOLOGY STURGES 104 ______Seeking Professional Development: College Based 4N • SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 101 ______Mystic Experience, Peak Experience and Trancing 4S • ENGLISH & ANTHROPOLOGY BAILEY 105 ______Session on Haiti 4O • HISTORY STURGES 14 ______Mexican Immigration, Revolution, and the Cold War 4T • PSYCHOLOGY MOVE TO 1X ______4P • POT POURRIE: Sociology, Anthropology WELLES 115 4U • ENGLISH WELLES 121 ______Underground Ecologies of the Genesee Bioregion 4Q • ENGLISH WELLES 128 ______Geneseo's Strategic Position in the Development of Writing Education 4V • HISTORY: Women's Role in Modern China STURGES 114 ______CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS 3 • 2:25 - 3:40 PM
3A • HISTORY STURGES 104 before his death and after. Despite the popular the messages in the propaganda produced. opinion after his anti-Vietnam War speech, the Through looking at different forms of propaganda American History Honors Theses proposal of a federal holiday after his death had (posters, songs, speeches), we will be able to FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHLEEN MAPES, HISTORY support in the black community, while few whites identify the different stages in Chinese propaganda SESSION CHAIR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY acknowledged the movement. In the early 1980s, as it was constantly evolving from 1949-1976. ______momentum gathered for the passage of the ______Returning to the Faith of Our holiday, which drew MLK's legacy into the MARK VASCO, MICHAEL VECCHIO Fathers: Religion, National Identity, mainstream once again. While the much of the The group's objective is to analyze the many paper focuses on the black community different aspects of Chinese Communist and the Creation of the Russian involvement in passing the holiday, the opposition propaganda during Mao's rule. As Mao's views on Orthodox Church in America to the bill also provides another lens to analyze his modernity and the future of China changed, so did ADAM PRIESTLEY memory. Although the United States has a day set the messages in the propaganda produced. Of the many European ethnic groups arriving in the aside each year to celebrate MLK, the fight to for Through looking at different forms of propaganda United States during the latter portion of the 19th the holiday led to a sanitation of his memory in (posters, songs, speeches), we will be able to century, the Carpatho-Rusyns are among the most order to make his achievements more acceptable identify the different stages in Chinese propaganda overlooked migrant groups, despite the fact that to the white community. as it was constantly evolving from 1949-1976. they were proportionally one of the largest ethnic ______groups to participate in North American Romaniote Jews: Historical 3C • ANTHROPOLOGY BAILEY 104 immigration. Hailing from the easternmost regions Memory of a Trans-Atlantic Anthropological Perspectives on of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the experiences of this stateless people in North America had Community Women Across Cultures profound effects on Carpatho-Rusyns living on MIKAELA VAN SLYKE SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, both sides of the Atlantic. Here, we will examine FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY ANTHROPOLOGY ______how the mass conversions of Carpatho-Rusyns in My paper will focus on a unique group of European America from Greek Catholicism to Russian Jews present in Greece from Byzantine times. Not Just for that Kind of Mom: An Orthodoxy reshaped their national identity, and Distinct from Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, Ethnographic Analysis of the how these new identities found in America Romaniotes had their own customs and religious Perceived Benefits of Childbirth changed the course of history for Carpatho-Rusyns practices centered around their familiarity with worldwide. Focusing on the ministry work of Fr. Greek culture and use of the Greek language. They Doulas in Rochester, New York Alexis Toth and using sources such as ethnic represent a little known group of people who KAITLYN MORGAN newspapers, nationalist pamphlets, church experienced some of the largest losses to their FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, publications, and the memoirs of clergy in both communities during the Holocaust.This paper will ANTHROPOLOGY America and Europe, I explore how access to the explore the ways in which Romaniotes have tried Since the origin of childbirth, a female attendant American free press created trans-Atlantic to perpetuate their unique culture in the has accompanied a woman in labor. Eventually, connections that brought various factions of the immigrant community of the Lower East Side of these attendants began to receive special training, Carpatho-Rusyn people to rethink their national Manhattan, including continuing religious and became professionally known as doulas. The identity and cultural history, awakening a new practices and maintaining their own synagogue. I twentieth century has brought an increasing nationalist fervor that the Austro-Hungarian will also explore the ways in which the Holocaust demand for medicalized birth practices, with authorities had long sought to suppress, while shaped the historical memory of this community in hospital births and caesarian sections at an all-time greatly changing the Eastern European religious the way that it affected their relationships with high. The ability of a woman's body to naturally community in the United States. other members of the global Jewish community. have a baby has been overshadowed by these ______practices, denying women their rights to an Martin Had More than Just a 3B • HISTORY STURGES 109 intervention-free birth. This ultimately creates a Analysis of Chinese Communist realm of fear surrounding childbirth in America. Dream: Sanitizing the Legacy of Alternative birth practices, such as those where Martin Luther King, Jr. Party (CCP) Propaganda (1949- doulas are present, may be able to become more PAIGE CIEZKI 1976) common if increased knowledge of doulas is Although Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the few FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: TZE-KI available. The purpose of this study is to: (1) gain a Americans honored with a federal holiday, a HON, HISTORY better understanding of the roles of doulas and majority of the public is unaware the radical ______their contributions to childbirth; (2) collect aspects of his activism. Focusing on the grass roots ELIZABETH RUS, ALVIN TSE, STEF LAGE VENTERINK personal testimonies from women who have movement and passage of the MLK federal holiday, The group's objective is to analyze the many chosen to have doula-attended births regarding my paper focuses on the avenues of erasure of the different aspects of Chinese Communist why they felt that was the best option; (3) acquire character of MLK. This paper uses media from both propaganda during Mao's rule. As Mao's views on the doula's perspective on factors influencing a mainstream white and black publications, from modernity and the future of China changed, so did woman's decision to use a doula; and (4) 22 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Session 3 • 2:25 – 3:40 PM investigate through qualitative and ethnographic 3E • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS 1 combination of these treatments needed to limit methods the perceived benefits of doula-attended the spread of the onchocerciasis effectively. births for both women and hospitals, including the NEWTON 203 ______ways in which hospitals accommodate for the FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: Modeling Strategies to Limit presence of a doula. CHRISTOPHER LEARY, MATHEMATICS ______FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, Incidence of Lyme Disease in a Ethnographic Perspectives on BIOLOGY System ______ALBERTO ALONSO, ALEXANDER HEWKO, FATIMA Women Working in Italy Modeling the Spread and UDDIN, ERIN HENRY, LARA BANNISTER ARIANNA BUTTARAZZI Borrelia burgdorferi is the primary cause of Lyme FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, Theoretical Control of Zika Virus WILLIAM SCHUTT, KATHLEEN MANEY, KUN HEE disease in the United States, infecting an estimated ANTHROPOLOGY 300,000 people per year. This bacterium is This presentation is of the results of a community- KIM, ERMINA BEGOVIC, ANGELICA HADLEY The Zika virus is an emerging vector-borne disease transmitted to humans primarily through the deer based ethnographic study on the topic of Women tick (Ixodes scapularis), a vector species. Ixodes Working in Italy. Based on results from semi- transmitted primarily by Aedes aegypti and can be transmitted sexually between humans. Starting in scapularis' main hosts include the white-footed structured interviews conducted with 9 women mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) and the white- tailed and 9 men divided into 3 age categories, I reveal Brazil, it has reached epidemic levels with widespread outbreaks and is believed to be linked deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Peromyscus the different perspectives on housewives and leucopus is a crucial biological reservoir for B. working women from both women and men of to problems such as microcephaly in newborns. Currently, there is no vaccine to protect against burgdorferi and host for larval and nymphal I. different generations. Eighteen participants scapularis, while O. virginianus is a key host in the expressed their opinions on women in Italy today infection. We created a difference equation model with three populations: human males, human reproductive stage of I. scapularis. A combination based on her having the same job opportunities as of a vector-based SIR model and a Lotka-Volterra men and their availability of choice between females and mosquitoes. The humans have the following states; susceptible, exposed, infectious, model was used to demonstrate the prevalence of becoming a career woman or a housewife. The B. burgdorferi throughout the system. Our model responses from the semi- structured interviews and recovered, while the mosquitoes have susceptible, incubated, infectious, and death. suggests that decreasing the populations of O. highlight how financial success and independence virginianus and/or P. leucopus limits the incidence are seen as positive accomplishments for a woman Humans remain infectious for up to approximately 12 days before recovering while mosquitoes die of the disease in humans. By identifying the points in Italian society. Ultimately, it shows how at which the prevalence of B. burgdorferi may be women's rights in Italy, more specifically working with a constant probability. During the infectious period, humans can transmit the virus to others via effectively limited, we have determined strategies rights, created new perspectives on Italian women for limiting the disease risk to humans. working. With this, my study supports that today heterosexual contact as well as to susceptible mosquitoes when bitten. Using our model, we test ______both housewives and women working outside the Modeling Influenza Spread with home in Italy are now respected and admired various control strategies, such as mosquito compared to the past when a woman was valued population control and vaccination to limit the Deterministic and Stochastic based on how efficient a housewife she was. spread of the disease. We determined that a combination of those control strategies most Cellular Automata AIDAN MURPHY, WALTER GERYCH, SAM EVANS, efficiently inhibits propagation of the disease. 3D • SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 102 ______NICHOLAS BARTHOLOMEW Modeling Onchocerciasis Spread in The influenza virus has affected the human Behind the Scenes of The Media population since it first arose about 6000 years Unit Performance Human and Black Fly Populations ago. Since the human strain of the virus was FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: ELAINE and the Effects of Available isolated by Wilson Smith and his team in 1933, the CLEETON, SOCIOLOGY World Health Organizations (WHO) and the Center Treatments for Disease Control (CDC) have worked together in FACULTY SPONSOR: FATIMA RODRIGUEZ AMBER LIN, KEVIN MADDOCK, ERIC NAIOTI JOHNSON, CENTER FOR COMMUNITY order to study the dynamics of the influenza virus The disease onchocerciasis, commonly known as and determine the best preventive measures. We ______“river blindness,” is a neglected tropical disease JONELLE WILLIAMS, TILAINA YU, ANNA FONG developed two cellular automata models, one that impacts as many as 100 million people in Sub- The Media Unit, a theatre trope from Syracuse, deterministic and one stochastic, that simulate the Saharan Africa and South America. Onchocerciasis New York, will be performing at Geneseo in the spread of a single strain of flu. We parametrize our is caused by the parasitic worm Onchocerca Knight Spot on April 16th, the Saturday before cellular automata models using data from the volvulus, which is transmitted to humans through GREAT Day. Their signature play is titled: "From the WHO and the CDC. We find the stochastic cellular the bite of a black fly of the genus Simulium. Back of the Bus" and is an original music theater automata approach to be better at reproducing Infected individuals develop severe skin conditions production. It focuses on teens, racism, and racial historical data. and the symptoms can lead to blindness. A healing. Walt Sheppard, an acclaimed journalist, mathematical model was developed to model the began The Media Unit in 1973. Initially it was based 3F • COMMUNICATION SOUTH 328 spread of onchocerciasis in the nation of in the south side of Syracuse, New York. This SESSION CHAIR: ANDREW HERMAN, Cameroon. This model takes into account the production focuses on the racial tensions between COMMUNICATION human and black fly populations as well as the African American and Caucasian teens in American ______contact and transmission rates between them. The society. A variety of perspectives will be depicted birth, death, and infection rates of both Kill or Be Killed: Seeing the Middle in this production. After the 45-minute populations are found from previous data. Two East as a Threat to the Western performance, a 45-minute diagloue circle will methods of onchocerciasis treatment were follow where student representatives from cultural World simulated to assess their effectiveness. One organizations on campus participate in a discussion KATHERINE ZASLAVSKY method is the administration of a microfilaricidal and reflect on the production they just saw. This FACULTY SPONSOR: ATSUSHI TAJIMA, drug (Ivermectin) that is successful in treating presentation will focus on the three interns who COMMUNICATION symptoms and lowering transmission rates. The worked with Dean Johnson and Professor Cleeton: In the context of Middle Eastern conflict, fear is a other method, vector control, lowers the general Anna Fong, Jonelle Williams, and Tilaina Yu. They powerful tool that can sway Western opinion for or black fly population by the use of pesticides over will present their experiences and the three varied against certain causes. Even outside its overt their inhabited locations. Successful modeling of and intersecting internships they have had this mention in the media, fear plays a significant role this disease allow us to determine the necessary semester. in the frames that cover Middle Eastern conflict, translating hegemonic views to individuals among
Promotes sustainability 23 Session 3 • 2:25 – 3:40 PM 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual the populace. The presence of these frames, and and Criticism in the Age of Twitter their masters' relations for sex. These women, the extent thereof, is indicative of increasingly however, had more power over their lives (both divisive relations between the West and the from Donald Trump to Kanye West professional and personal) than the modern Middle East, driven by fear of alien peoples. This SEAN FISCHER person may believe. They walked a fine line research identified, defined, and analyzed the Given that most of us have become quite between controlling their own situation and having frames used in American broadcast television comfortable with expressing ourselves in 140 it taken away from them at a moment's notice. This coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Islamic characters or less, it should come as no surprise paper evaluates the agency that female domestic acts of terrorism. It established the textual makeup that the state of aesthetic culture has changed servants maintained over their lives and their of independent frames and expanded this analysis drastically since the year 2000. The rise of digital sexuality. to a quantitative level, allowing for more involved social networks has coincided with a rise in political ______macroanalysis of framing relationships in this and and social tribalism, a move that has begun to Napoleon's Lasting Legacy in affect the very way we think about art. The shift future research. This is key to understanding the Germany: The Confederation of the media through which individuals learn to towards a tribal view of culture has placed the very understand foreign conflicts and cultures. concept of the critic in jeopardy and allowed for Rhine and its Significance for ______the act of criticizing to become a manipulative tool. German Nationalism and As such, it is absolutely crucial that now, more than Facework Official Unification ALYCIA LANGWORTHY, WILL GLADSTONE ever before, we attempt to reconsider our notions ROBERT MATINA FACULTY SPONSOR: MEREDITH HARRIGAN, on the relationship between art and society, as well The Confederation of the Rhine is not the most COMMUNICATION as criticism and society. One way we can do so is well-known or historically researched topic during This paper uses the communicative lens of through the implementation of digital tools and the Napoleonic period let alone European history. Facework theory to interpret long-distance quantitative methods to establish new conceptual The goal of this paper will not only to be to assert romantic relationships. In our analysis, we sought frameworks of the very state of aesthetic culture. that the Confederation of the Rhine is significant, to answer the following research question: What, These new methods, as we will see, can reorient us but that it is the key first step toward German if any, corrective facework strategies do individuals towards both art and criticism and maintain a nationalism and unification. Furthermore, demonstrate during long-distance romantic healthy dose of heterogeneity in society. Napoleon Bonaparte, through his actions in the relationships? From our analysis, we determined Confederation's creation, governance, and corrective facework techniques that are common 3I • HISTORY STURGES 108 collapse, played a major role in bringing about this in romantic long distance relationships. These European History Honors Theses nationalism and unification. By looking at the techniques include: (a) self-disclosure to preserve FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES WILLIAMS, HISTORY writings and actions of Napoleon and various their positive face, (b) positive comments from SESSION CHAIR: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY Germans (statesmen, soldiers, and civilians), one both relationship partners as well as outside ______will see that the change and upheaval of the time parties, and (c) physical remediation to convey Rise and Fall: The Parallel set the foundation for Germany, which would affection. Destruction of the Roman Empire finally be realized in 1871. and the Building of a Christian ______3J • ENGLISH WELLES 133 Media's Representation of Hair Europe MAXWELL GARNAAT From the Archives: Marginalized Color Attributing to Personality In his seminal 1776 work entitled The History of the Texts Recovered! Traits Affects Female's Views of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Vol. 1) FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: Themselves and Each Other historian Edward Gibbon created one of the best- CAROLINE WOIDAT, ENGLISH ______KALA WILKINS renowned accounts of a civilization's collapse ever FACULTY SPONSOR: ATSUSHI TAJIMA, written. At the same time, however, he also made A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The COMMUNICATION bold claims about the cause of this calamity: Discovery of an Early Feminist Text notably that the expansion of the Christian religian, Hair color is perhaps one of the most accessible in an 1840s Propaganda Magazine and malleable parts of the female body. Hair in fact, rotted Rome down to annihilation. But is KATIE SNIDER representation by the media in particular this the case? On contrary, this presentation seeks "Maria Grafton" is the story of a young woman who represent specific traits and ideals that lead to to demonstrate that this had little if any such rebels against her father's orders, leaves her home, preconceived bias and stereotyping toward hair effect, and that while the two might have and independently gets a job working in a factory. colors. This study argues to explain that females coincided, the collapse of the Roman Empire must The short story, recovered from a factory magazine are influenced by the medias' representation of be understood as the result of other factors. published in the 1840s, is empowering and a strong hair color, which in turn affects their opinions of Closely examining the parallel rise of one example of early feminist writing. But there is an themselves and others. This study examines civilization with the collapse of the other, this issue surrounding "Maria Grafton"- the recovered common hair color stereotypes and the medias' presentation traces Christianity back to its earliest text is from a propaganda magazine. This specific representation of them. Further, it days and Rome down to its last, showing how one presentation will be a discussion of the short story, questions the reason behind these stereotypes and managed to triumph, and the other fail. ______the life of the recovered author, and an attempt to representations and how they are conformed to answer the question, "Does the fact that the text is and defied. Independent or Exploited? Agency from a propaganda magazine detract from the idea and Sexuality of Female Domestic of early feminism?" 3G • ENGLISH WELLES 128 Servants in Early Modern England ______Culture and Criticism in the Digital LAYNA GRAY Helen of a Thousand Dreams: Age Domestic service was a common source of Selected Poems of Sarah Helen employment for both men and women in early FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GILLIAN Whitman PAKU, ENGLISH modern England. Rather than a lowly position, it ______was seen as a stepping-stone towards building an NATALIE KELSEY Making Criticism Great Again: independent household. Popular literature has Sarah Helen Power Whitman (born September 21, often portrayed servants as abused by their 1803) is best known for her short engagement to Thoughts on Culture, Society, Art, employers, but many consider female servants Edgar Allan Poe. Their relationship, though it lasted especially vulnerable, exploited by their masters or less than a year, did inspire Whitman to defend Poe
24 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Session 3 • 2:25 – 3:40 PM from his many critics while he was alive and for The Global Diffusion of Slum Gentrification has recently taken center stage in years after his death. While Whitman's defense of discussions regarding the revitalization of cities. A Poe is admirable, it may have stunted the Tourism and the Issues it Raises major issue regarding the scholarship of, and popularity of her own work. Many critics, even NICHOLAS MINETT debate over, gentrification, is simply its definition. those with feminist leanings, believe her work to FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, Past literature contains varying definitions of the be derivative of Poe's. Upon closer examination, GEOGRAPHY process; these definitions are often in conflict. This however, I found that Poe and Whitman were Slum tourism is a growing reality. It began at least research intends to critically define gentrification, writing at the same time, and both were part of a in the nineteenth century, when London's rich while examining both the positive and negative close-knit literary community that influenced and would literally "slum it." The roots of modern slum effects that the process has on neighborhoods and shaped the writing of all involved in it. For this tourism in the Developing World were Favela communities. In particular, past research on the reason, I chose to examine Whitman's poetry as it tourism in Rio de Janeiro, although Kenya's Kibera subject has failed to examine the effects appears in Rufus Griswold's anthology, The Female stands as another early precedent. The gentrification has on neighborhoods with a strong Poets of America, and her poetry collection, Hours phenomenon has since spread to as least twenty sense of community, and how existing of Life: And Other Poems. major cities which combine numerous foreign communities can be preserved in the face of ______visitors and extensive squatting by the poor. The gentrification. Using the case studies of Brooklyn Between Two Worlds: The Life and former are generally tourists and the tours are and Rochester, New York, this research searches promoted online as well as locally, especially in Work of Rosa Sonneschein for ways to combat the negative impacts of upscale hotels. My survey of slum tour settings gentrification on strong communities through soft KATHERINE ZITO suggests that some milieux transcend the appeal of "caring" policies (Aalbers 2011), and bottom-up In 1897, Rosa Sonneschein, founder and editor of observing "how the other side lives" with strategies as opposed to the top-down strategies The American Jewish, a magazine for Jewish additional magnets such as music, history, culture that have been used in the past. women, published her two-part short story, and even aesthetic appeal. Understandably, "Between Two Worlds." Writing was not the only objections can be leveled at slum tourism because WELLES 26 thing Sonneschein accomplished—s+he was also 3L • GOLD 2 it treats a poor district as what is in effect is a SESSION CHAIR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, CENTER an outspoken feminist and advocate for Jewish human zoo. However, the firms that offer this issues; stances that were not uncomplicated and FOR COMMUNITY service claim that revenue is shared with the slum- ______that deeply affected each other. In this dwellers and/or that the tours bring expenditure A Week at the Give Kids The World presentation, I will situate this short story in the into the slum districts. They also justify the tours as context of Sonneschein's other writing and work raising awareness of and concern for the plight of Village and her ideas about gender and Jewish identity, as the urban poor. These remain open questions. RACHEL MOORE well as exploring it in the larger context of Jewish Meanwhile, the phenomenon of slum tourism FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD identity and feminism in the late 1800s. continues to grow. As a member of the GOLD program, I am working Additionally, I will connect the story to other works towards completing the Diamond certificate. In of fiction with similar themes and explore the order to complete this certificate, I wrote a paper enduring storytelling techniques that have been ______on my experience planning and participating in a used to express these themes. A Chile Reception: Couchsurfing's service trip to the Give Kids The World Village. Give ______Kids The World is a nonprofit resort in Kissimmee, The Woman's View of It: Angela Diffusion and Context Amidst FL that provides weeklong vacations to families Heywood's Call for Body Autonomy Geographical Diversity with a child suffering from a life-threatening illness. ALLISON FOX SOFIA VILLALON After learning about GKTW from fellow Geneseo In the mid-late nineteenth century, women were FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, students, I decided that I wanted to plan a trip denied countless personal liberties that were GEOGRAPHY there for my Diamond certificate project. Last May, granted to their male counterparts. Public outcry Couchsurfing.com was launched in 2004 and now myself along with five other members of the against these inequalities was limited due to the has over twelve million members in over 200 sorority I am a member of spent a week at the silence and compliance of female sentiment. One thousand cities worldwide. Its purpose is to match Village serving food, operating rides and assisting of the earliest American feminist writers, Angela hosts and their visitors, offering the latter in weekly events and facilitated guest activities. Heywood, voiced her opposition to the constraints hospitality and simple accommodation at no cost. Having the opportunity to volunteer at GKTW and placed on women. Heywood specialized in There are 60 thousand Couchsurfing.com hosts in work with so many wonderful people and families reproductive rights. She promoted the prerogative Chile, spanning the country from the Atacama was extremely rewarding and I am excited to share of a woman to obtain an abortion, use Desert to the Strait of Magellan. This paper is based my experience with other students of the GOLD contraception, and ultimately make decisions on the site's participation rate in 15 Chilean program. ______regarding her own body. Between 1872 and 1893 provinces. Detailed biographical data for all hosts Ezra and Angela Heywood published a monthly is available including age, gender, and occupation. Diamond Paper Presentation journal, The Word, in which Heywood challenged Unsurprisingly, participation is highest in Santiago MELISSA CATALDO oppressive government and patriarchal society, and Valparaíso, Chile's metro poles, but elsewhere FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD which antagonized and operated against women. it is relatively even with no evidence of contagious A teacher's view on poverty. Come listen to first Heywood demanded access to contraception and diffusion outward form the two biggest cities to hand experiences of a student teacher dealing with abortifacients and censured the sexual Chile's most remote settings. My paper explores students of poverty and the opportunities you can enslavement of women through marriage, sexism the contextual base of participation reflected in take part in that can make a world of difference. and strict law. Fellow scholarship from Wendy Couchsurfers' profiles, and examines the profiles of ______McElroy aided in my own textual recovery of "The visitors in Chile's sharply contrasting destination. Give Kids the World Alternative Woman's View of It," which embodies the strive for ______Spring Break Trip 2016 women's rights and a fight for body autonomy that The Impact of Gentrification: BRITTNEY RICHARDSON, ASHLEY BUTTICE, ANNA persists today. Community Resilience in Brooklyn BIUSO, APAULA ISLAM, SALMATA KABA, RYAN
and Rochester, NY KIRRANE, MARY PANZETTA, STEPHANIE RESILA, 3K • GEOGRAPHY 1 BAILEY 103 ALYSSA SIGNOR, ALICIA SKOWRONSKI, VICTORIA SHANNON CONNOLLY SESSION CHAIR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, STARR, TRAVIS WHEELER, JIA WEN ZHU FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, GEOGRAPHY FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID PARFITT, MILNE GEOGRAPHY ______LIBRARY
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Give Kids the World is a nonprofit village located in Times of Trouble in Rural Chile: analysis, I am analyzing the identified discussions in Kissimmee, Florida where children with life- relation to three specific questions: What are the threatening illnesses and their families can stay for Children's Illnesses as Turning salient patterns in health care provider talk about a weeklong, cost-free vacation. For the several Points for Indigenous Families supplement utility and efficacy? Do these patterns years Dr. David Parfitt has taken a group of 12-13 MARY RUTIGLIANO vary across types of practitioners? How much do Geneseo students down to the village to volunteer This project analyzes the way indigenous Mapuche patterns of talk about supplement benefits align for a week. Students work one or two shifts a day parents in southern Chile talk about their children's with supplement marketing and labeling language? and help with various activities including serving illnesses. For the project I reviewed videorecordings My presentation will elaborate on the answers to meals, entertainment, participating in the evening of in-depth family-health interviews that were these questions and will contextualize the findings activities, and doing service projects around the conducted in Spanish with Mapuche parents of in light of the differing philosophies of CAM and village. They help with weekly Village events such school-age children in rural Chile. I identified the conventional medical paradigms. as the Winter Wonderland and Halloween party, narratives that interviewees recounted about their scoop ice cream, and run the carousel. In this children's past and present illnesses. Discourse 3O • ENGLISH WELLES 119 presentation, students will discuss the history of analysis of these narratives revealed insights not Marxist Milton - Is Poetry Credible the Village, what it means to volunteer there, and only about parents' medical decisions but also their personal experiences. An emphasis will be about their values, spirituality, and relationships Work? placed on how the Village has affected each with family members. My presentation will show FACULTY SPONSOR: JULIA WALKER, ENGLISH student and what they have gained from the trip, how these conversational narratives give an SESSION CHAIR: TYLER HERMAN as well as on how others can be involved and help intimate portrait of family life at the crossroads of ______the cause. indigenous and western cultures and medicines. [In]credible Talent or Incredible ______Greed? 3M • EDUCATION WELLES 24 When Doctors Talk About Research LAUREN FIBICH, EMMA MEDINA SESSION CHAIR: BRIAN MORGAN, EDUCATION YOSHUA KOHRS This will be a brief debate: Is Milton's obsession ______Millions of Americans take dietary supplements on with fame -- however ambiguously constructed -- a KKIS Year 10: Urban Adolescents' a daily basis. There is strong evidence from clinical spur to greatness or his downfall? Navigation of School trials showing that some supplements, including ______KATE LOMAZZO, ALEX LIONETTI, CAMILLE ARTER calcium, iron, and vitamin D, have positive health Vegan-Environmentalist-Marxist FACULTY SPONSOR: BRIAN MORGAN, EDUCATION benefits. But there is much less research supporting the use of many other supplements. Milton Adolescence is typically characterized as a MATTHEW VIGLUCCI tumultuous period of physical, social, and When doctors talk to patients about research on dietary supplements, what do they have to say? The subject of food and the subject of work collide emotional change. For many students who live in in clash in Milton's poetry -- with an underpinning and attend large urban school districts, the This project addresses this question by analyzing discussions between doctors and patients about of Bernie Sanders. demands of adolescence and daily living are ______research on dietary supplements. Using a further complicated by neighborhood effects Milton's Superlative Subtle Form which include concerns about poverty, health, and combination of qualitative and computational coding, I searched for these kinds of discussions in SARA MUNJACK violence (Berliner, 2009). Consequently, these While generations of critics declared "Lycidas" to adolescents are at a higher risk of dropping out of a corpus of transcripts from recordings of 600 office visits. The health care providers included in be without formal rhyme scheme, the poem does school. In New York, the legal dropout age of 16 in fact have an intricate rhyme. Does the fact that falls directly at the end of the period of early the corpus are physicians, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and naturopathic doctors. To no one noticed this until 1969 mean that the poet's adolescence. For this reason, it is imperative that subtle work generates a failed reading? teachers and administrators understand the explore how these providers talk about dietary supplement research with their patients, I am using ______special considerations for this developmental Tomorrow to Fresh Woods, and stage. We present some of the research findings discourse analysis methods. In this presentation, I that have informed early adolescent educators will report on the findings from this analysis, Pastures New: Milton and the about various aspects of their development. focusing on similarities and differences across types of providers and different categories of Problem of Human Fallibility Specifically, we review cognitive, social, and MAURA CUPICHA emotional factors which address the need to supplements. ______Pulling from Marx and Milton, the author raises the distinguish between the highly different question of failure in the context of credible work. populations of early and later adolescence. This Do Legal Regulations Shape What will be followed by the presentation of data from Your Doctor Will Tell You? 3P • MATHEMATICS NEWTON 201 our nine-year longitudinal study which highlights MADELYN SAYED the unique characteristics of early adolescents who The FDA regulates dietary supplements in the same Modeling in Mathematics successfully navigate an urban school way they do foods, rather than regulating them like FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: PATRICK environment. medications. Because supplements are not RAULT, MATHEMATICS ______screened for effectiveness prior to being put on the 3N • LANGUAGES AND market, advertisements and labels cannot claim The S-Shaped Curve of Tumor LITERATURES BAILEY 105 that supplements prevent or treat disease. This Growth study investigates how much these restrictions on SARA GRAHAM, SEE LONG WONG Linguistic Insights into Health and advertising and labeling language are reflected in Did you know that mathematical models can be Healing face-to-face talk between healthcare providers and applied to determine the prognosis for cancerous FACULTY SPONSORS: KYLE MATTHEWS, patients when they discuss supplement benefits. tumors? There are various forms of S-shaped LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES AND JENNIFER To explore this issue, I searched for provider- curves, known as sigmoidal curves, that simulate GUZMÁN, ANTHROPOLOGY patient discussions about supplement benefits in the proliferation of tumor cells. In this talk, we will SESSION CHAIR: JENNIFER GUZMÁN, the Communication About Dietary Supplements cover the mathematics behind Anna Laird's model ANTHROPOLOGY (CADS) corpus, a database of transcripts from 600 for tumor growth that was created in 1964. Her ______medical office visits. The corpus includes CAM model was the first successful model created to providers (i.e. acupuncturists, chiropractors, and explore the dynamics of tumor size, and her naturopaths) and primary care and integrative findings are still applicable today. Suggested co- medicine physicians. Using qualitative discourse requisite: some calculus.
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______The People's Republic of China has had a close Re-Growing a Rainforest: Using an relationship with the Democratic People's Republic 3S • PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY 2 SIR Model to Restore Lost Forests of Korea, more commonly known as North Korea, ISC 131 since its formation. However over time the JASON PHILLIPS SESSION CHAIR: CHARLIE FREEMAN, PHYSICS & relationship between the two has slowly changed. Deforestation has become a serious threat to ASTRONOMY China has gone from helping North Korea during biodiversity and the survival of wildlife in ______the Korean War, to openly supporting harsh Madagascar's tropical rainforests. The Radiochromic Film Sensitivity sanctions against North Korea from the United deforestation rate has only continued to rise over Nations. I intend to examine the changes in the Calibrations Using Ion Beams from the last several decades. The big question is "how relationship between these two countries. a Pelletron Accelerator long will it take to reforest?" In epidemiology, the ______spread of disease through a population can be JESSICA STEIDLE, RYAN WARD modeled by classifying proportions of the The PRC and Vietnam During the FACULTY SPONSOR: CHARLES FREEMAN, PHYSICS population as Susceptible, Infected, or Recovered; Vietnam War & ASTRONOMY this is known as the SIR model. In this talk, we will JOSHUA SLATER Radiochromic film (RCF) is a transparent detector take a new look at the SIR model and apply it to the Our group is going to be covering the foreign policy film that permanently changes color following deforestation and reforestation of Madagascar of the People's Republic of China in relation to exposure to ionizing radiation. This reaction forests. We will study how deforestation and variety of countries. I am going to be focusing depends on the composition of the film and the reforestation spread throughout our population specifically on how the PRC interacted with source of the radiation. RCF is used frequently in and determine what reforestation rate will be Vietnam in the years surrounding and during medical applications, but is also used in a variety of great enough to combat the current deforestation Vietnam's war with the United States. I will also diagnostics in high energy density physics. It is rate. cover how the relationship between the PRC and convenient to use because it requires no chemical ______Vietnam affected that of the PRC and the U.S. processing and can be scanned using commercially Snow Dynamics in Disney's Frozen ______available document scanners. In this study, the KHLOE SIGLER, CHRISTOPHER JONES Contemporary Chinese and South sensitivity of several types of RCF to ions of Animators need to explore and apply multiple different energies was measured. Ion beams Korean Relations produced by the SUNY Geneseo particle principles of physics in great WITHDRAWNdetail in order to make MICHAEL KENNY their world believable and realistic. This task can accelerator were directed into a target chamber For this panel I shall be focusing on South Korea's where they scattered off of a gold foil. A sample of prove difficult when observing snow, which exists relationship with the People's Republic of China in a physical state between ice and water while RCF was exposed to the scattered ions and the following Park Chung Hee's ascension to the energy of the incident particles was measured. sharing properties with fluids and solids. We will presidency. explore these unique dynamics of snow through From this and the composition of the film, the total ______energy absorbed per unit mass (absorbed dose) computer simulation, looking at various processes China's Impact on East Africa applied to the animations used in Disney's film, was calculated, as was the optical density from the PRINCE OPOKU Frozen. We will use the Eulerian/Lagrangian red color value of the film. Results of these I would be focusing on the relationship China has Material Point Method and an Elasto-Plastic calibrations, and comparisons with calibration built over the years on the continent of Africa simulation to illustrate these properties of snow. curves obtained using x-rays, will be presented. especially in East Africa and the impact its Suggested Corequisites: Math 239 (Intro. to Proofs) This work was funded in part by a grant from the presences is having on the continent. and 326 (Differential Equations). DOE through the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. ______Determining Success with Google 3R • ENGLISH WELLES 121 Ion Beam Analysis of Proton Analytics NeuWrite/edu: Science Writing at Induced Gamma-ray Emission in Air DAYNA MERCER, LORELEI MORROW Geneseo TIMOTHY FILKINS In this talk, the overarching idea of Google FACULTY SPONSORS: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH FACULTY SPONSOR: CHARLIE FREEMAN, PHYSICS Analytics will be discussed. In order for a company AND OLYMPIA NICODEMI, MATHEMATICS & ASTRONOMY to drive up "traffic," website metrics must be SESSION CHAIR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) are a broad understood and utilized. It is possible for a ______range of chemical compounds that were company to optimize its website by using different Communicating Science Research commonly used in consumer products in the US for their fire retardant and non-stick properties. resources, maximizing viewership, and increasing to a Wider Audience its ranking on Google. One way to minimize costs Recent studies have shown PFCs to have a long MEGHAN BARRETT, CHLOE FORSELL, KENDALL lasting environmental impact due to their high and maximize profit is through the understanding FITZGERALD, DOUGLAS KNOWLES, EVAN of the mathematics behind a website's bioconcentration factor (BFC) and toxicity to GOLDSTEIN, LAUREN SARRANTONIO, MICHELLE humans. In recent years, US manufacturers have performance. Google Analytics uses an algorithm GULFO, ALEXANDRA DANANBERG, STEPHANIE called PageRank to measure the value of a made an effort to stop utilizing PFCs in their ALLEN, ELIZABETH PELLEGRINO, ADAM products, but sometimes their raw materials are webpage. Linking Google Analytics to a business is SCHNEIDER necessary to be successful in today's digital world. treated before manufacturing. Materials can be NeuWrite/edu is an interdisciplinary, year-long tested for these PFCs chemically, but these We will provide a basic introduction to the deep collaboration between writers and scientists that mathematics of Google's PageRank. Co-requisites: techniques are costly and time-consuming to run. seeks out ways to communicate cutting edge An alternate technique is being developed using Math 233 (Linear Algebra I) undergraduate scientific inquiry and discovery ion beam analysis. In this technique, a proton beam through engaging, informed essays and other 3Q • HISTORY STURGES 114 from a particle accelerator is incident on the written projects. SUNY Geneseo this year launched sample to be studied. The protons initiate nuclear Modern Chinese Foreign Policy the first undergraduate chapter of the nationally- reactions in the sample and high energy gamma FACULTY SPONSOR: TZE-KI HON, HISTORY recognized NeuWrite organization which has rays are emitted. This is called Proton Induced SESSION CHAIR: MOLLY DOWD placed science writing in venues such as Wired, The Gamma ray Emission (PIGE). The resulting gamma ______Atlantic, and the New York Times Magazine. In this ray spectrum is then analyzed. If fluorine is The Changing Relationship Between presentation, students will present science present, characteristic peaks will be present at 110 research and creative writing that responds to that keV, 197 keV, and 6.1 MeV. Footnote: This China and North Korea research, and discuss the opportunities and MOLLY DOWD technique was pioneered by Dr. Graham Peaslee at challenges of collaborating on science writing. Hope College.
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fighting racism and colonialism into a full-scale how big of a role these factors play and determine 3T • HISTORY STURGES 112 revolution from inside America's ghettos. the applicability of the various theories to Race, Memory, and Consumerism: ______American public opinion on immigration. Gendered Fantoms: Bodies, Fascist ______Global Explorations of the "Long" Memory, and West Germany's Left DNA Exoneration and the Death 1960s - Wing, Urban Guerilla Penalty in America FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: TODD KRISTEN DRUSE GOEHLE, HISTORY Phenomenon This research explores how the introduction of ______SARAH ESPOSITO DNA exoneration has shaped media attention and La Consommation Et La On May 9, 1976, Ulrike Meinhof, the co-founder of public opinion surrounding the death penalty Colonisation: The Image of the the urban guerrilla outfit the Red Army Faction, debate. I first explore the history of DNA was found dead in her Stammheim prison cell, exoneration as well as the death penalty in the Market Researcher in/as sparking renewed debates about her left-wing American criminal justice system. Next, I look at 1950s/1960s France militancy. What were her motivations? Had she the particular influence of media framing, or JANNA NUNZIATO been insane? Had surgery in her mid-twenties to focusing attention oncertain events and then There is a very unique, yet thin, thread concerning remove a benign tumor caused brain damage and placing them within a field of meaning, as a the rise of market research running throughout caused her to become violent? Throughout the method of shaping public opinion. I further explore cultural sources and the work of prominent figures West German media and the broader public of the the nuances of framing, and which types of media in 1950s/1960s France. In an attempt to time, commentators speculated as to what had led frames are most effective at influencing public strengthen this thread, this paper examines this a prominent media figure to regress into an opinion surrounding these particular debates. notable rise in discussion about market research infamous terrorist. In an unsurprising turn, the Finally, I explore the influence of such frames that permeated literature, film, and advertising focus on Meihnof's mental state overlooked the within a larger cultural context, and explore the within the period, and construct the image of the ways in which Germany's haunting fascist past relationship of the death penalty with other issues market researcher both in, and as, 1950s/1960s influenced the actions of Meinhof and her fellow such as crime rates and race. France. In capturing the cultural imagination, the RAF members. Indeed, this presentation takes ______market researcher—as I contend in my paper— serious the influence of memory on the motives The Noble Lie of All Republics: Leo and strikes of the RAF. As children of the emerged as a discursive site or body that touched Strauss' Political Realism upon critical issues of space, vision, power, race, "Auschwitz Generation," Meinhof and others HARRISON HARTSOUGH and domesticity, especially as France transitioned viewed the expansion of the state and the both Leo Strauss, as he examines Niccolo Machiavelli, from Empire and into a consumer-based, late physical and discursive violence perpetrated finds a new kind of political realism steeped in the capitalist society. In this respect, the market against the social activists of the late 1960s as shift from ancient to modern that Machiavelli researcher was an extension of both the post- evidence of Germany's failure to overcome its embodies: a shift from "what ought to be" to "what Imperial French state and of corporate capitalism, fascist past. is." By exploring the founding of states, specifically, and served to effectually facilitate the process of Plato's ostensibly ideal republic imagined in light of internal colonization; an idea discussed by Kris-tin 3U • POLITICAL SCIENCE & Machiavelli's new brand of political thought, we Ross. Thus, my work explores the manifestation of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS can see that even early philosophers considered the market researcher in space: the physical body WELLES 115 the distinction between normative and descriptive. and the body "in the field" speaking with "targets," For Plato this means that there are certain ignoble while placing an importance on research Research in American Politics and components in his conception of the republic, methodology and its developments as well. Political Theory ______regardless of whether we determine if the Republic FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JEFFREY was a Platonic joke, an impossible dream. The The Gun is a Tool of Liberation: KOCH, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL Noble Lie comes to mind. I argue that Strauss Decolonization, Fanon, and the RELATIONS understood that certain moral supports are ______necessary to society, even if they exist intension Black Panther Party Public Opinion Toward Immigrants BENAJMIN BURDETT with our modern notion of secularism. Thus even While the writings of Frantz Fanon have been and Immigration Policy on the practical level, the level of "what is," we recently revived in certain areas of the academy, JILLIAN FRIEDMAN must acknowledge such moral supports by giving the importance of his work for American black This presentation will discuss what affects them credence, regardless of whether they are radicals in the 1960s remains remarkably American public opinion on immigration, objectively true. The alternative, as Strauss put it, understudied. According to historian Nikhil Pal specifically with a large focus on American's' views is that value-free social science will move not Singh, "Works about the 1960s that actually towards immigrants from Latin America. Hispanic toward well-being but towards nihilistic tyranny, or mention Fanon often do so in passing, implying immigrants have been playing an increasingly large rule of the strong over the weak. that his influence did not extend beyond supplying role in today's society and because of this the topic aphorisms for would-be revolutionaries." has become salient in American politics and has led 3V • THEATRE/DANCE However, in truth, many black radicals—including to heated debates throughout the public. In efforts BRODIE ALICE AUSTIN Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther to explain what causes such strong opposition for Staged Reading Performance some Americans, I explore past research on various Party—not only heralded Fanon as a hero of the FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: RANDY social science theories concerning public opinion. Third World and black communities in the United KAPLAN, THEATRE/DANCE States but also sought to actively translate his More specifically, many of the theories I look at ______theories into a concrete blueprint for revolution in discuss prejudice and ethnocentrism, relationships The Women of Lockerbie the 1960s and 1970s. This paper attempts to between dominant and minority groups, and BENJAMIN RANALLI illustrate how the Black Panther Party came to perceived threats to the American culture and As part of the Second Season Staged Reading adopt a revolutionary praxis based on the identity. Additionally, the research also looks at Directing Series through the department of processes of decolonization outlined and theorized factors such as proximity to large populations of Theatre and Dance, junior Benjamin Ranalli will be by Fanon. Focusing on issues of urban space, the immigrant groups, the nationality of the immigrant presenting a staged reading of Deborah Brevoort's body, and violence, this paper helps explain why groups themselves and influences from national The Women of Lockerbie. Set in Lockerbie, Scotland Fanon was appealing for the Black Panthers, and rhetoric and the mass media. By combining past seven years after the bombing of Pan AM flight how they sought to turn his theoretical ideas of research with some of my own, I will determine 103, this one act play is modeled after a greek
28 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Session 3 • 2:25 – 3:40 PM tragedy which discusses with how we deal with called, Susu. Caribbean women from poor cities where poverty is concentrated and the love, loss, faith, and immeasurable grief. The play communities have been found to self-sustain majority of the population is African American such stars students Brianna Allison, Allison Altschiller, themselves and engage in informal politics and as in Flint, Baltimore and Ferguson. The core issue Lisa Cento, Maria Cento, Casey Churches, Danielle banking. These banking traditions have been is the disregard of black lives, unless this is realized Comerford, William Gfeller, and Amber Ho. brought from the Caribbean to the United States and seriously addressed this country will remain to Following the reading there will be a talk back with and this practice has helped the growth of be segregated. the actors and director to discuss the themes of the Caribbean communities here. Through the lens of play as well as the process of putting together the intersectionality the strength of these women can 3X • ACCESS OPORTUNITY reading. be shown with self-empowerment. ______PROGRAM WELLES 134 3W • SOCIOLOGY WELLES 123 Housing Segregation and Why Black FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: DEIDRE DEBOSE, ACCESS OPORTUNITY PROGRAM Women's and Gender Studies Lives Matter ______Capstone Presentations MICHELLE MATHEW How Expensive Is It to be a Woman The United States has had a long history of racist FACULTY SPONSORS: JOANNA KIRK, SOCIOLOGY in the United States? Cost AND JENNY KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY housing policies that has yet to be dealt with. These SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE BLOOD, WOMEN housing policies allow for spatial segregation and Differences for Gender-Related ______the creation of minority neighborhoods where Products and Services poverty is heavily concentrated. Creation of these SUNY Geneseo and Sexual Assault: SAMIKSHYA THAPALIA, HANNAH GRIFFIN, segregated communities is also accompanied by ASHLEY ELLIOT, COLLEEN CUMMINGS Where Do We Stand? the suburbanization of jobs and a lack of adequate Women are expected to mold into socially MARY CICERO education leaving the members of the community constructed ideals of beauty and behavior. To A comprehensive look at state and campus policies with limited opportunities. These issues have been meet these standards, women in the US spend regarding sexual assault through the eyes of a largely ignored due to our colorblind society where more money and exert more energy than men due survivor. Where are SUNY Geneseo policies the general consensus believes that an individual's to the differences in costs of products and services. succeeding? And what areas are most in need of merit determines their destiny and that race is no Using quantitative and qualitative data, we explore improvement? longer an obstacle when attaining success. cost differences between products and services for ______However, the reality is that where you live heavily men and women. Our presentation will highlight A Finance System Uniting Women influences your quality of life as it determines the influence that socially constructed ideas of important factors such as exposure to of the Caribbean: Susu what it means to be a woman force women to buy environmental pollution, access to public NICOLA MOHAN and spend more than men. transportation, job opportunity, schooling and Women from various social classes are located throughout the Caribbean. Linking these Caribbean interactions with law enforcement. These issues women can be done through a financial system are relevant today as we see what is happening in
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4A • ANTHROPOLOGY OF a rural Afro-Brazilian community and a gateway Modeling Secondary Succession in town to a national park and tourist destination— CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL ISSUES where 47% of this town's population live below the Lowland Michigan BAILEY 104 poverty line (IBGE 2003). My primary research SARAH BOOKER, RYAN COLLING, HEATHER FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE questions focus on the obstacles to equitable BARCOMB, KATHARINE MARTINSON MEDEIROS, ANTHROPOLOGY distribution of the socioeconomic benefits of When a plot of disturbed land is allowed to ______ecotourism and the social responsibility of key recover, species composition will change. The Coexistence or Exploitation?: The stakeholders in the ecotourism industry. I will series of changes that occur after disturbance is known as secondary succession. We modeled the Socioeconomic Impact of provide an emic perspective on the reasons that ecotourism prospers while poverty among locally- long term average basal area for four major tree Ecotourism in Brazil's Chapada born community members remains a constant. I species (Thuja occidentalis, Picea mariana, Abies Diamantina will discuss potential ways to alleviate balsamea, and Fraxinus nigra) in a former logging and burning site in northern Michigan. Data TIFFANY HENRIKSEN socioeconomic inequity in this region through regarding these trees were collected over the span In addition to the primary conservation goals of educational opportunities. of 43 years (1938-1981). We modeled forest ecotourism, scholars argue that the local ______succession using a Markov transition matrix. Our community should benefit financially and that Who am I? A Reflection of Geneseo model suggests that the long term relative basal there should be minimal social, behavioral, and Students areas are found to be 46.49% Thuja occidentalis, psychological impacts on local peoples (TIES 2015). REBECCA AMUSO 41.60% Picea mariana, 11.91% Abies balsamea, However, research from Bahia, Brazil suggests that This presentation is a study of how students at and 0.0% Fraxinus nigra. In addition, a stochastic ecotourism in this region is a cause of Suny Geneseo perceive their identity and the model was developed to examine the effect of socioeconomic inequity between locally-born factors that contribute to it. environmental factors on the long term relative community members and cosmopolitan business basal areas. owners from Brazil's major cities (Medeiros 2014). 4B • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS 2 The objective of this study is to explore the perspectives of business owners and local NEWTON 203 ______community members in Brogodó, Bahia, Brazil. In FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GREGG Simulating the Immune System HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY this paper, I will present ethnographic data on Response to Various Pathogens ecotourism in the remote Chapada Diamantina FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTOPHER LEARY, region of Northeast Brazil in the town of Brogodó— MATHEMATICS with the Presence of HIV ______
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KIMBERLY GIACALONE, NOAH HORAN, ADAM facilitating an online version of Foucault's The Genesee Valley Peace Poetry SCHNEIDER, JULIA WHITTLE Panopticon, where users constantly watch and The immune system is simulated using a system of police each other. But anonymous discourse Contest: Youth Empowerment ordinary difference equations, looking at T cell essentially blindfolds the users, allowing for a free Through Public Poetry regulation during an HIV infection. In the model, exchange of information without the worry of KIAYA ROSE DILSNER-LOPEZ the immune system initially responds by activating repercussion. Furthermore, traditional social FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH T cells, and the virus quickly infects and kills the media platforms focus on who the user is, as The Genesee Valley Peace Poetry Contest creates a activated T cells, and the virus's numbers increase. evidence by the selfie phenomenon, and not on space for the voices of youth within our However, once the virus's means of reproduction what they are contributing. Anonymous discussion community. Every year, students from (infecting the T cells) is destroyed, the virus puts all emphasis on the value of the words and kindergarten to eighth grade are invited to reflect population decreases. This marks the onset of ideas being discussed and not on who is discussing on peace through writing poems. As the world AIDS. By this stage in the infection, however, the them. By examining my own social media around them changes, the subject matter of their immune system has been compromised, and the participation, I am far more honest and direct poetry evolves. Submissions range from the beauty body is susceptible to other forms of infection. The when posting anonymously, where I do not have to of the valley and its melting winters, to the preliminary results suggest that there is a non- self-censor my comments and post. struggles of war, foster-care, police violence, trivial equilibrium when HIV is the sole invading ______mental health, and many other topics that affect pathogen in the differential equation model. A Remix: The Folk Art of the 21st the youth of Genesee Valley schools. Peace Poetry secondary infection is introduced at different time Century recognizes the social stakes of incorporating public steps of this model with different amounts of T THOMAS O'HARA poetry into rural communities, using poetry to cells present to see how the immune system David Cronenberg's Videodrome has often been empower youth while creating links among responds to a pathogen while being directly described as a technological prophecy - predicting Geneseo faculty, students, area teachers, attacked by HIV. The later the pathogen is many key aspects of the internet age, not least of volunteers, and families. The presentation will introduced into the immune system, the less which is the growing integration of our mechanical explore the logistics of building this multi- efficiently the immune system can use active T cells devices and our bodies and minds. But being a generational engagement, as well as the to respond to the pathogen. importance of supporting youth empowerment by ______product of the pre-internet age, the film fails to predict the way in which individuals and mass creating opportunities for personal expression. ______Modeling the Effect of the Drug media are engaged in a dialogue. It fails to Bexarotene on Alzheimer's Disease anticipate the remix culture—wherein popular The Meta-Archipelago: History and Patients media is dissected, analyzed, critiqued, and the Caribbean WILLIAM JEFFERSON ALVAREZ, SEUNG MIN recombined, resulting in a two way dialogue AMELIA ABDELLATIF CHUNG, PAIGE PENDLETON, JULIA WITKOWSKI between a community of enthusiasts and the FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIMA, ENGLISH In 2015 it was reported that approximately 5.3 media it grows up around. Examples of this remix The Caribbean occupies a unique space in literary million Americans suffered from Alzheimer's culture include fanfiction, fan art, videogame Let's tradition. It is often characterized as deeply rooted disease. As of now there is no cure, and as life Play, written analysis, and other forms of fan- history with the sea, or some other esoteric force expectancy increases, the number of affected produced media. This presentation will highlight that is incomprehensible to all who are not natives people is expected to increase. Alzheimer's disease some examples of remixed media and the ways in of the archipelago. In attempting to contextualize is caused by the aggregation of amyloid-beta fibrils, which they are rejections of a unidirectional flow of the complexities of Caribbean literature, readers which eventually form plaques in the brain, that cultural production. often fall into a syncretism of misunderstanding. ______are produced by the cleavage of amyloid precursor For all its geophysical similarities, the Caribbean is protein. A main goal in the prevention of Tatianna Flores Has Accepted Your a dynamic cluster of islands that encompasses an Alzheimer's disease is to inhibit the assembly of Friend Request: A Personal Analysis array of cultures, languages, and traditions. In the wake of the fight for independence and autonomy these amyloid-beta plaques. Work by Habchi et. al. of Identity Construction through (2016) suggests that the anti-cancer drug from colonizing forces, the Caribbean saw the bexarotene inhibits the primary nucleation step of Social Media short story emerge as a platform for resonance and plaque assembly. We created a differential TATIANNA FLORES reflection, with each country's history deeply equation model and a lattice model that simulate Inspired by the notions set forth by David embedded between the lines. By analyzing short the effect of amyloid-beta protein monomers on Cronenberg's prescient film Videodrome, this stories from different linguistic and national fibril growth rate. Introduction of bexarotene at paper seeks to examine a modern day consuming traditions, we uncover the language of resistance increasing concentrations into the model relationship with social media. As I use social media that permeates Caribbean literature as it attempts demonstrates decreased fibril growth rate in my daily life, I develop an online projection of my to reclaim the hegemonic discourse of its history. compared to no treatment with the drug. This self. However, the authenticity of this online self is We can espouse our goal to better understand a result is consistent with the work by Habchi et. al. compromised by the panoptic nature of the social different side of Caribbean history by shedding media environment. While I construct the online light on previously silenced voices; with close 4C • HISTORY STURGES 112 extension of my self, I validate my identity in a attention being paid to the historical context of the constant reflection between my online interactions stories. With authors hailing from all reaches of Defining the Panopticon: Three and my "offline" self. Yet, the more reliant I Caribbean, we can use their works to destabilize Perspectives become on my online profiles for validation of who the Western obsession of denoting a Caribbean FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: TODD I am, the less I can distinguish between the online "center." GOEHLE, HISTORY projection and the offline reality. With each ______passing day, wrapped in the social fabric of social 4E • POLITICAL SCIENCE & Anonymity, Yik Yak, and Breaking networks like Facebook, and Instagram, the more I INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS the Panopticon become the online version of my self. Much like Max Renn, the anti-hero of Videodrome, I am MILNE 105 MARIA GERSHUNI physically becoming the media I consume. Enjoy Courtroom Drama at the Though applications like Yik Yak, which facilitate Mock Trial of the Year anonymous communication and discussion, have WELLES 123 drawn criticism for their lack of accountability, they 4D • ENGLISH 2 FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JOANNA are vital to the disseminationof honest SESSION CHAIR: SUZANNA RUBRIGHT, KIRK, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL information. Social media has been criticized for SPONSORED RESEARCH RELATIONS ______
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Geneseo Mock Trial Presents State 4G • THEATRE/DANCE century. An element of Australia's rich and complicated history, a revealed narrative of bias v. Bancroft BRODIE 152 DANCE STUDIO against the Chinese surfaces that sheds light on the MAXWELL GARNAAT, SARAH ESPOSITO, DARRELL From the Page to the Stage struggles and circumstances of a mostly GETMAN, MICHAELA OMECINSKY, ANTHONY FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MARK impoverished and uneducated minority population SERIANNI, ERIN LIEBERMAN, HARRISON NEIDISH, BROOMFIELD, THEATRE/DANCE looking to establish itself in a land of opportunity. MEREDITH CONDREN, PATRICK KANZLER, RACHEL ______WILCOVE, RACHEL DAVIS, NELLIE BLACK From the Page to the Stage Obstruction to Obstetrics In a stunning turn of events, the state's most JENNY SOUDACHANH , SKYLER SUSNICK, ELIZABETH MACKENZIE HINTZE successful casino owner, Avery Bancroft, was BOATENG, SEUNG KIMQ, NANA BOAKYE FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, caught attempting to bribe a local gambling First Flame, the new work created by the Spoken GEOGRAPHY commissioner, in order to secure a second Word Guest Artist Mariposa Fernández celebrates The purpose of this presentation is to examine and profitable avenue for his business. Just earlier this new horizons, new directions and new attempt to understand why obstetric access in year, Bancroft stuffed a briefcase with $250,000 explorations with the interdisciplinary Africa is lacking. The effect of the lack of dollars worth of cash and secretly passed it over to collaboration between the Department of Theatre obstetricians can be felt all over Africa, but varies his favored official at one of his own blackjack and Dance and Real World Geneseo—a first in impact from region to region. Maternal mortality tables—a shocking crime. However, Bancroft venture of its kind for both. This collaboration in Africa as a whole is significantly higher than in contends that it was not truly his fault. Rather, the reveals what is possible at the intersection of the rest of the world. The study will examine the defense claims that Bancroft was, in fact, forced spoken word poetry, performance art and social decrease or increase in maternal mortality rate and into committing this crime by none other than an justice. In this presentation, "From the Page to the will try to understand what exactly is causing so undercover police officer named Mickey Keenan. Stage," the cast of First Flame will share their many pregnant women to die throughout Africa. For an officer of the law to coerce a citizen into experiences of the creative process and perform ______crime is an offense of the highest order, and now it selected vignettes. The presentation will examine Population Density and is YOU who must decide who walks free! You will the making of the script, written by the cast Discrimination of Romani People hear the testimony of bellhops, FBI agents, beat members, and will explore their performances for cops, dealers, and experts galore, as well as the the Geneseo Dance Ensemble's 48 Live: New Vistas throughout Europe skilled legal counsel of both sides, and then come spring concert. Real World Geneseo--in its 7th MILES GOLDBERG to a final conclusion: is Avery Bancroft guilty after year—is the College's first "extreme learning" FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, all? A presentation given by the Geneseo Mock course, representing a high-impact learning GEOGRAPHY Trial Team, a nationally-recognized group experience. The first of its four components is a Europe has been a center of disagreement and dedicated to the pursuit of legal excellence. three-and-a-half day immersive retreat in controversy for centuries. With so many different
Rochester. The students study how socially- countries and cultures living in such close 4F • HISTORY STURGES 109 influenced categories of difference (such as race, proximity, populations fluctuate continuously. The Environmental Problems and Policy ethnicity, class, religious belief, gender identity, Romani culture is an example of how a population in China sexual orientation, age and physical/mental ability) can fluctuate, but still be maintained. Often targets are related to power and privilege. for other groups, they are still able to maintain FACULTY SPONSOR: TZE-KI HON, HISTORY their cultural identity, despite being so close to SESSION CHAIR: TIMOTHY BURGER prejudice from the peoples and governments ______4H • GEOGRAPHY BAILEY 103 around them. Environmental Policy in China Geographical Perspectives on Social ARNE BUSSLER Issues 4I • GOLD 3 WELLES 26 This portion will be on the domestic and SESSION CHAIR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY SESSION CHAIR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, CENTER international policy and laws regarding the ______FOR COMMUNITY environment in China. China is moving quickly but Anti-Chinese Prejudice in Australia ______not fast enough in this area and there are many Voter Registration and Engagement topics that fall within this area. International Circa 1900: Content Analysis of KATELYN TZAVELIS TZAVELIS, SARAH JANE politics play a major role in how climate issues are Newspaper Articles PHILLIPS addressed and how China works with other powers JIMMY FENG FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, to address common issues. FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, ______CENTER FOR COMMUNITY GEOGRAPHY As part of my Diamond Certificate I decided to get Air Pollution and Issues This paper examines the history of anti-Chinese more involved with voter registration and SARAH ALFONSO prejudice in Australia between the mid-nineteenth engagement. Voting is by no means the only Describing one of the many issues of century and the early-twentieth century through indicator of civic engagement, but it is essential. industrialization and factorization in China. analysis of news items. Trove, an online database There are concerns about a lack of political Describes how air pollution is created and affects aggregator created by the National Library of engagement among young people and in a study by the country. Also introduces policies and issues Australia, allows for a comprehensive survey of Tufts University, we learned that Geneseo students involving the high pollution situation. slurs and negative stereotypes characteristic of were registered in high numbers but less than 50% ______white Australia's image of the Chinese, their world, of those registered actually voted in the last Deforestation in China and their perceived shortcomings. In particular, presidential election. Creating a task force here at TIMOTHY BURGER jargon, slang and their context reveal the shifting SUNY Geneseo aids us in advancing student This section of the environmental presentation will scale, chronology and place-specific dimensions of involvement in registering and voting in the focus on the deforestation effects in China. prejudice between 1850 and 1919. References to elections. In collaboration with students, faculty ______fines imposed, gambling, and opium addiction and community members the Task Force for Voter Renewable Energy in China were especially common, as was the label Registration and Engagement focuses on CHRISANN CAMPBELL "savagery." Australia's five principal cities were community outreach and events that will give This presentation will focus on the ways that China quite similar in their overall incidence of negative students the education they need to register to has implemented a variety of renewable energy references, whereas small towns were even more vote and vote in the elections. policies like producing the largest amount of wind prejudiced. Anti-Chinese sentiment in print peaked ______power . between 1860 and 1889 and had substantially diminished by the second decade of the twentieth
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Pi Kappa Phi and the Arc of FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JUDY the Christian Bible, including creation myths, God's ALBERS, BUSINESS damnation of Earth due to sin, and the depiction of Livingston ______women. JORDAN GRIFFEN Students in Geneseo’s VentureWorks ______FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD entrepreneurship program will be competing this La Malinche en la clase de español As members of Pi Kappa Phi, we are called to create year in the seventh annual New York Business Plan a community, one relationship at a time, where the Competition (NYBPC). The competition begins with a nivel de secundaria abilities of all people are recognized and valued. regional semi-final rounds in each of New York’s 10 MORGAN (PAGANO) DICORY We use shared experiences to support people with Regional Economic Development Council zones – Based on literary and historical approximations to disabilities and promote servant leadership. It is Capital Region, Central New York, North Country, the study of Malinche, the Maya-NáhuatlIndian important to us to see the person before seeing Mohawk Valley, Finger Lakes, Western New York, who served as interpreter for Mexico's their disability -- to seek to understand a person's Southern Tier, Mid-Hudson, NYC, and Long Island. Conquistador Hernán Cortés, this presentation strengths and challenges, but not to feel sorry for These regional competitions are generally held in illustrates how to design effective lesson plans that them. We encourage service to others for the early April. The top teams from each of the 10 address the American Council on the Teaching of betterment of our communities. As a new regions will then advance to the final round of the Foreign Languages Standards for Foreign Language fraternity on campus, we are forming and statewide competition, where they will go head- Learning in the 21st Century. developing new relationships to help improve the to-head for monetary prizes in Albany on April 29, ______community. One relationship that we have formed 2016. Geneseo is in the Finger Lakes region and our La posición del adjetivo en la is with the Arc of Livingston, an organization that student teams will be competing in the semi-final lengua española empowers people of all ages to experience the joys rounds on April 13th. The teams competing are: MALLORY GANLEY and challenges of life with a growing sense of Umbellata: ALEXANDER DRAINVILLE, STEPHANIE This presentation discusses the identification, personal dignity and independence. SOJDA, JOSEPH SORRENTINO, MEGHAN categorization and utilization of adjectives in the ______TSITSUASHVILI Spanish language as well as their accurate position Diamond Reflection on the Literacy Phoenix Pioneer Products: JOE CHAPMAN, within the sentence. Volunteers of Rochester JOSEPH POTISCHMAN, TYLER SHORT, BENJAMIN STANLEY MEGHAN BARRETT 4L • THEATRE/DANCE STURGES 108 BallHawk: JESSICA BOURDAGE, JOSHUA FIEGL, FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD JONATHAN FREEDBERG, RYAN LANTRY Literature and Film: Hugo and DAVID PARFITT GOLD Bouna Tavola: TAL ALONI, TAHLIA BRODY, The Literacy Volunteers of Rochester (LVR) are a Hepburn KRISTINE HALE, JAMES MANS ______critical part of the Rochester community; their Floss Family Foods: JAMIE FLOSS, JORDAN work increases adult literacy rates (digital, reading, The Living Building and Its Friend: FULCOLY, A GORDON HOLDEN, SARAH MADOR and math) which stresses the importance of Empower Fair Trade Chocolate: SYDNEY Notre Dame and Its Hunchback education in a literacy-starved center city ASPENLEITER, REBECCA CARACCIOLO, SEAN GEORGE GOGA community. LVR strives to dismantle the system of DELLES, KRISTI MELFI FACULTY SPONSOR: RICHARD WESP, privilege that is so striking in Rochester, where HyperDry: ERICA KOSMERL, MARCOS PEREZ, THEATRE/DANCE geographic racial segregation is rampant and kids GABRIEL PONCE, BRIAN RYBAK We often think of buildings as no more than static in the inner city are subject to a lack of resources, blocks of stone, embedded in the foundation of a poor management, and more leading to 4K • LANGUAGES AND city. They receive our glances and selfies and do astoundingly low graduation rates. LVR looks to the not protest. Eventually, they fade into our adults in the community to be leaders in LITERATURES WELLES 24 geography. We start devoting little thought to revolutionizing the way the community sees La voz de "las otras": Culturas y them. But, when they crumble, we are sad. Why do education—as a pathway to better jobs and we feel a human emotion over an unhuman lifelong success. For several years, Meghan Barrett letras en interacción. A edifice? Notre Dame Cathedral, as represented in has worked with LVR to raise much-needed funds Presentation in Spanish Victor Hugo’s novel, The Hunchback of Notre to continue their good work and increase FACULTY SPONSOR: ROSE MCEWEN, LANGUAGES Dame, is one such building. Though it is inanimate Rochester-area literacy; this presentation is a AND LITERATURES stone, it carries immense, animate importance as discussion of the work done as part of the GOLD SESSION CHAIR: AMANDA LANGAN an icon of nationalism and religiosity. In this talk, Diamond Certificate. ______we will see how Hugo reanimates the cathedral ______Grado de aculturación de las and gives it life: Notre Dame not only becomes a Livingston County CARES inmigrantes hispanoamericanas human, but it also becomes a friend who saves, DANIEL MARTIN defends, and cries. We will consider Hugo’s literary GURNAINA CHAWLA FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, masterpiece, resulting artwork and film that According to the U.S. Census (2010), 17% of the CENTER FOR COMMUNITY represent it, and Hugo’s deep passion for U.S. population is Hispanic—many of them women This Presentation will dive into the rich history of architecture in framing an argument about the who came to this country as immigrants. This Livingston County CARES. It will touch upon the 35 living cathedral. presentation summarizes this researcher's trips to Biloxi along with the many other trips and ______exploration of this segment of American society projects that the non-profit has created or become and their degree of acculturation, described by Out the Window and Grab the a part of. It will take a look at first hand experiences Fernando Ortiz and John Berry as the processes by Statue: The Cinematography of from a student who has been on many of the trips which a person or group adopts characteristics of a himself, as well as dive into more statistical analysis Audrey Hepburn host culture and combines them with elements of of the trips to Biloxi, including how many students, GEORGE GOGA their own to create a new, syncretic culture. FACULTY SPONSOR: RICHARD WESP, faculty, staff, and community members have gone ______on the trips as well as how many people these trips THEATRE/DANCE have helped, financially and personally. Intertextualidad entre el Popol Vuh For decades, Audrey Hepburn's films have y la Biblia delighted audiences with wit, comedy, and 4J • BUSINESS DOTY TOWER ROOM JESSICA COREY romance. While creating art through film, these Idea2Venture: Entrepreneurship The influence of Christianity in the Popol Vuh, the films also survey other forms of art through the Mayan creation story, is described through an numerous paintings, statues, and photos that Students' Investor Presentations exploration of several points of intertextuality with appear in various scenes of the films. Hepburn's
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Roman Holiday and How to Steal a Million include As today's world becomes increasingly more The Use of Alcohol as a Trigger for numerous scenes of art inside other art: paintings, globalized, there is a greater need to develop photos, and sculptures, all appear inside film. This intercultural competence (ICC) in children through Mystical Experiences talk explores these meta- artistic moments to see education. In this study we focused on addressing SOUKEE VAN ORDEN what they achieve aesthetically for the films, and this need through mathematics by drawing on a Greeley (1975) and Mukerjee (1960) explored the more, how they come to argue that eventually, life model of ICC for education developed by Michael characteristics of mystical experiences as well as imitates art. Byram. We created lesson plans to be used in what might possibly work as a trigger. According to mathematics classrooms that incorporate core Mukerjee, Narcotic drugs have been classified as a 4M • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 328 ideas of different disciplines to help students get a way for individuals to elicit their mystical SESSION CHAIR: GARY TOWSLEY, MATHEMATICS better understanding of the mathematics while experiences, by heightening their state of ______also attending to the development of their consciousness (p. 12). However, Greeley and The Best Approaches to Teach intercultural competence. In addition, we created Mukerjee each failed to take into consideration two assessment tools - a survey to assess attitudes that alcohol is a drug that depresses the central Linear Functions in the Eighth towards and knowledge of cultures and learning nervous system, which could explain a connection to peak experiences. Thus, this study works to Grade MOVED TO POSTERS across content areas, and a rubric to assess SHANIQUE GRAY interactions and reflections. In this presentation specifically focus on the effects of alcohol as a FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL PAWLIKOWSKI, we will share the lesson plans and the assessment trigger that may elicit peak experiences, MATHEMATICS tools, as well as describe the theories that guided comparable to narcotic drugs. This study used eight This presentation is about the best approaches to our work. We will also discuss how these ideas can online, personal accounts of unidentified teaching linear functions in the eighth grade. That be expanded or modified to incorporate other individuals openly discussing using alcohol as a way means I will be covering what I believe to be the interdisciplinary topics in mathematics. to alter their state of mind in order to trigger a best approaches as a middle school math teacher ______mystical experience. As a result, this study found in introducing linear functions to your students Algebraic Structure of Elliptic that alcohol couldn't be considered as a direct trigger to eliciting peak experiences; however, based on different kinds of research such as Curves over Finite Fields of Prime research from peer journals, textbooks, and alcohol may act as a contributor to one's peak educational research. So more specifically I will be Order experience by further altering one's state of mind. going over the best approach to teaching how to ALEC FRIEDMAN ______interpret the equation y = mx + b as a defining a FACULTY SPONSOR: GARY TOWSLEY, The Influence of the Genre of Music linear function. MATHEMATICS on Deep Listening and Trancing ______Elliptic curves are inherently algebraic in their AZARIA DAVIS Statistical Analysis of Academic structure, which means rational points on these Becker discusses the impact that deep listening— Achievement in R curves form a group. This project attempts to being profoundly moved by music—has on the examine groups of points on non-singular elliptic individual. She states that deep listening allows the CHASE YAEGER, CONNOR KEENAN, LAURA curves of the form y^2=x^3+a over finite fields of MATTISON individual to become one with the music therefore prime order. First we will use number theory to inducing a trancing experience. Although Becker FACULTY SPONSOR: YUSUF BILGIC, MATHEMATICS prove results about perfect cubes over certain Multivariate methods in statistical data analysis focuses on the importance of music during finite fields. This will be taken further to prove trancing, she does not discuss the influence that allow data analysts to analyze dependence and claims about the number of points on these interdependence while retaining the whole data the genre of music can have on the trancing specific curves. Then further investigation will take experience. This study examines how the genre of structure. A dependence technique, such as place into the algebraic structure of the above- discriminant analysis and conjoint analysis, is a music can impact the trancing experience. In this mentioned groups of points. study, three genres of music were used: 1) Nature technique in which a set of variables is predicted or Sounds, 2) Gospel and 3) Light Acoustic. Although explained by other sets of variables. The goal of 4N • SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 101 interdependence methods is data reduction, the sample size was too small to verify a pattern, grouping things together or investigating hidden Mystic Experience, Peak Experience the study found that a trancing experience is more variables or components. PISA is conducted by the and Trancing likely to occur when nature sounds are played during deep listening. In order to better verify a Organization for Economic Cooperation and FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: STEVE pattern, further studies should be done with a Development (OECD), and its format is a survey DERNE, SOCIOLOGY given to 15 year olds cross-nationally, including ______larger sample size to test the reliability of the surveys given to parents as well as at the school Near-Death Experience and the research. and system level. The design and goal of the ______surveys is to ensure educational system Mystic Path Students Practicing Siddah Without comparisons internationally are valid and fair. We FELICIA RYAN Their Teacher: Are Feelings of Love aim to apply various multivariate techniques Mukerjee believes that mystical experiences are through the PISA data set. This dataset allows for characterized by feelings of unbounded joy, self- and Unity Still Possible? the opportunity to explore perennial issues in affirmation, self-transcendence, and the mind MEGAN RASQUIN education cross-nationally. In particular, we aim to being free. While these characteristics are not In the art of Siddah Yoga, students practice under reveal how test scores and academic achievement familiar in our society, certain events may trigger the guidance of their beloved teacher or guru. The are affected by different factors, such as gender, these unfamiliar feelings. Mukerjee's review of students serve as disciples to their guru and learn socio-economic status, and a variety of school paths to mystical experiences did not identify an and practice Siddah in accordance with the lessons dynamics, with a demographic structure experience such as near-death. Therefore this their guru teaches. Previous work on Siddah Yoga comparing across countries, using multivariate study examines four specific characteristics of states that it is possible to have a successful techniques. We analyze how educational mystical experiences defined by Mukerjee and experience with Siddah when the guru is not outcomes are affected by these factors. looks for these characteristics in documentary present. The notion of home seva yoga practices ______evidence of people's accounts of near-death goes against the traditional belief that the guru- Mathematics and Intercultural experiences. The study found that near-death disciple relationship is a critical part of the practice. experiences, like other mystic experiences, are While evidence on home seva does identify the Competence in the Middle School characterized by unbounded joy, self-affirmation, practice as a legitimate form of Siddah, it fails to MEGAN BRUNNER self-transcendence, and the mind being free. reveal whether the emotions associated with FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL PAWLIKOWSKI, ______home seva and guru-led Siddah differ. The current MATHEMATICS
Promotes sustainability 33 Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual study focuses on the feelings of love and unity that capitalize on natural synergies between tutors identified recurring problems with student are associated with the guru-disciple relationship. development priorities and climate protection, writing on campus. In response, we studied the Accounts of those who practice home seva and which simultaneously advance both these efforts. root causes, and formulated potential solutions. guru-led meditation were analyzed and then ______The study concluded that writing education could compared based on whether these Siddah Data Analysis on Cultural Harmony be fundamentally improved if we applied the same students wrote of feelings of love and unity. The Week 2015 educational design used by the Khan Academy. study found that while both groups did describe Consequently, we will demonstrate and discuss the GINA VILLAZHINAY feelings of love and unity, the guru-led group was workable system we have developed, which FACULTY SPONSOR: FATIMA RODRIGUEZ, more likely to indicate feeling love and unity as a Geneseo could deploy to give students and SOCIOLOGY result of their Siddah experience. teachers more control over the pace of learning. By Geneseo has worked extensively to improve its incorporating a digital model for understanding efforts to increase cultural and diversity awareness STURGES 14 and practicing writing, we hope to offer the 4O • HISTORY around campus. Cultural Harmony Week is a opportunity for more differentiated learning that New Research on Mexican tradition in our college that has helped students helps students who need accommodations to find and the administration practice the sentiments Immigration, Revolution, and the alternatives and supplements to their classroom expressed in its mission and value statements. experience. At its core, our system emphasizes the Cold War Throughout the week there were workshops, skill-based nature of writing and hopes to support FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: RYAN speakers, and films shown that explored issues of the College's emphasis on critical writing skills as a JONES, HISTORY race, ethnicity and culture. The multicultural graduation criterion for every major, and as the ______program Director, Ms. Fatima Rodriguez and other most centralized general education requirement. Cultural Revolutions in Mexico professors have helped provide programming that We hope, therefore, to generate ideas about ERIK LEGENHAUSEN addressed a wide variety of community and maintaining and expanding the project going This paper will engage the broader meaning of the diversity issues that we see in our college or relates forward, with the conviction that Geneseo can cultural Revolution in Mexico during the 20th to us. Participation by students in a few of the make a meaningful difference by creating the century by engaging a series of cultural practices week's programs has most definitely made a opportunities for every learner to learn at his or through original research. notable impact. According to the survey results it her own speed. ______has encouraged intellectual engagement and The Cold War and Mexico personal growth through this week's events and STURGES 104 ANDREW MANOU programs. 4R • ANTHROPOLOGY Paper will offer new understandings of Mexico and ______Seeking Professional Development: the Cold War era. Food Choice Among Maya Children College Based ______ALEXANDRA PERAINO FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, Issues in Immigration from Latin FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, ANTHROPOLOGY America ANTHROPOLOGY SESSION CHAIR: ADAM PEASE CHASE NACKENSON Using the extensive research I have completed on ______This presentation will engage new research on children's food preferences as well as my time as a ADAM PEASE, CALEB WEISSMAN, JONATHAN Mexican and Central American immigration to the research assistant in Cobà, Mexico, I discuss what WEINER, BLAIN SHINKLE, NOAH HABER, TANNER United States. The paper and presentation are influences a child to pick certain foods. 29 children KENDALL based in part on oral historical research. aged 3-7-years old participated in a pile sorting The students listed will be talking about their activity that was then compiled to distinguish involvement in activities such as internships, TA 4P • POT POURRIE WELLES 115 which foods they liked, disliked, ate everyday, or positions, and certification courses; describing how ate on special occasions. My literature review then these opportunities helped develop professional SESSION CHAIR: SAMANTHA MOORE ______addresses how genetic predisposition, parent skills needed for after graduation along with feeding behaviors, mothers' beliefs and building a stronger resume through experience. Environmental Destruction knowledge, and other environmental factors We will be discussing how students may seek out Debate impact children's food choice, including young these positions along with how they will help the HARNEEL AUJLA Maya children. The Maya are a group greatly students when entering the job market. Some FACULTY SPONSOR: LISA MEYER, SOCIOLOGY affected by globalization, including processed and students may also discuss the benefits of pursuing Faced with the challenges of climate change, packaged foods, which have changed Cobà greatly. certifications during the summer along with in- economic development and sustainability, the This cohort of children is at the age of a time of high session and out of session internships. future of energy and environmental policies in of neophobia, or fear of novel foods, and peer and the world, especially developing countries has parental influence are high in food decision- 4S • SESSION ON HAITI BAILEY 105 been an emerging issue. The division of world making. Thus, I display the foods Maya children SESSION CHAIR: WESTON KENNISON, STUDY opinion on the certainty of climate change adds to prefer and what factors may be influencing these ABROAD the woes of developing countries. Scientists all decisions specifically for them. ______over the world have been acknowledging a Swing Dance as Cultural Mediation temperature increase of the earth and attribute 4Q • ENGLISH WELLES 128 MATTHEW MCCLURE this aspect of global warming to fossil fuel burning Reflections on Geneseo's Strategic FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER GUZMAN, by humans. One school of thought urges “rapid ANTHROPOLOGY action,” whereas the other advocates the “wait Position in the Development of Swing Dance is now a global subculture with and watch” policy. COP 21 can be considered a Writing Education communities around the world. Swing decent example of a move for sustainable FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GILLIAN communities and events bring together dancers development. Finally, 196 countries have come to PAKU, ENGLISH from a variety of nationalities and cultures. This an agreement regarding environment protection ______presentation will explore the viability of swing and climate change. The developing countries such Developing Digital Tools to Mediate dance as a vehicle for cultural mediation. The as, India and China expressed their desire to presenter will draw from a literature review and contribute as much a possible; the amount that will the Experience of Writing observational findings, covering topics including help protect the environment and also not hinder SEAN FISCHER history, current dance community culture, dance their development progress. Thus, the most When Geneseo's Writing Learning Center (WLC) floor culture, travel culture, and adaptability to promising policy approaches would be those that performed an internal review two years ago, the larger audiences.
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______College Adjustment and Retention their consistency. Traditional China was based on Haitian Creole Language Crash- strong Confucian philosophies, where males were of Students from Underrepresented Course in Geneseo's Global Service the sole authority for the family and the rest of the Racial/Ethnic Groups family members fell subordinate to the eldest Learning Program GAVIN RAFFLOER, JONELLE WILLIAMS male. There was also a hierarchy between a MATTHEW MCCLURE This part of our presentation will discuss the results husband and his wife—every aspect of Chinese FACULTY SPONSOR: WESTON KENNISON, ENGLISH of our study as they pertain to students from tradition was unequal especially in circumstances Over the past three years, Geneseo has developed underrepresented racial/ethnic groups. pertaining to marriage. Brides’ families had to pay a Haitian Creole crash-course for the Geneseo Specifically, we will address the role of perceived dowries, and whereas women were arranged to Global Service Learning Program so students have social support in students' emotional well-being, marry men without prior knowledge or consent. tools and confidence to engage directly with college adjustment, and intentions to graduate. In Men were cherished from birth for their Haitian partners in the local language. This addition, we discuss the institutional factors that contributions to their family and the family name, presentation will outline the development of the contribute to students' perceptions of faculty, while women’s status was always undermined by course and plans for future development. staff, institutional, and peer support, both across only providing happiness through a good marriage and within groups. This data have implications for and maintaining the household. Although there 4T • PSYCHOLOGY BAILEY 102 providing coordinated resources, support, and was a slight shift during revolutionary China as The Role of Institutional Factors programming for racial/ethnic minority students in families experienced changes within filial piety, the a manner that addresses the needs of students Communist Revolution sought to destroy the and Perceived Support in the who come from different backgrounds and traditional position of women and trying to College Adjustment and Retention circumstances. Recommendations for how this construct a more equal position for them by of Racial/Ethnic and Sexual data could be used for advancing diversity, equity, creating a place for them in the revolution. During and inclusion initiatives related to racial/ethnic this time the Four Olds of Confucianism (culture, Minorities identity on campus will be addressed. habits, ideas, and customs) were purged through FACULTY SPONSORS AND SESSION CHAIR: propaganda, which included outlawing harsh MONICA SCHNEIDER, PSYCHOLOGY 4U • ENGLISH WELLES 121 practices against women, because the Communist FACULTY SPONSOR:AIDEN CROPSEY, CENTER FOR Party wanted to see a “new” China and by sticking COMMUNITY Underground Ecologies of the to restrictive traditions there was no place for ______Genesee Bioregion China to move forward. However, there were many The Role of Institutional Factors FACULTY SPONSOR: KEN COOPER, ENGLISH AND contradictions blocking women from advancing— and Perceived Support in the ELIZABETH ARGENTIERI, MILNE LIBRARY even though they were included in the workforce SESSION CHAIR: MATTHEW VIGLUCCI they were also expected have more children. Also, College Adjustment and Retention ______the Cultural Revolution didn’t promote feminism of LGBTQ Students MATTHEW VIGLUCCI, MARY AULD, JEREMY as much as it toned down genders and created a YVETTE WILLIAMS, MELISSA MINAYA JACKSON, NOAH CHAUVIN more unisex environment, for example through We conducted a study designed to examine the It's easy enough to locate this campus on a map, clothing and uniforms. Even though Mao Zedong role of perceived social support in the emotional but inhabiting the Genesee Valley as a place is tried to mobilize China by assembling a platform well-being, college adjustment, and intentions to more complicated because so many people and that would call attention to women, women were graduate of Geneseo students. This study also places have been forgotten--they're invisible to us. still burdened by the male gaze or conforming to assessed the institutional factors that contribute to Unwilling to settle for what we could see, our societal developments. Women in modern day students' perceptions of faculty, staff, institutional, session describes an experimental project that China are still expected to uphold their positions as and peer support, both across and within groups. used GIS mapping applications to visualize mothers, wives and daughters, and even though it In this part of our presentation, we will discuss the underground ecologies. These entail our may seem like China has become more results of our study for LGBTQ students. This data connection to the physical environment, like an progressive, women are still lagging behind. have implications for providing coordinated abandoned salt mine or the soil under our feet, and ______resources, support, and programming for LGBTQ to lives cognitively not on any map. Focus on Footbinding students in a manner that addresses the needs of JESSICA BAE students who come from different backgrounds 4V • HISTORY STURGES 114 ______and circumstances. Recommendations for how this Women's Role in Modern China May Fourth Movement data could be used for advancing diversity, equity, FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: TZE-KI KELLY PRESTON and inclusion initiatives related to sexual and HON, HISTORY ______gender identity on campus will be addressed. Family is the basic unit of Chinese society and Cultural Revolution ______women are pressured to uphold society’s values as SHEENA KUMRA The Role of Institutional Factors mothers, wives, and daughters. As China has ______and Perceived Support in the transitioned from Ancient China, to the Communist Modern Day China revolution to now, women’s roles have maintained KATHLEEN O'BRIEN
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POSTER ABSTRACTS POSTER CENTRAL IN THE COLLEGE UNION – BALLROOM, 3RD FLOOR, STARBUCKS STAGE POSTER DIAGRAM ON BACK COVER – 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM, 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM
MILNE LIBRARY in the upper branches of the Little Walnut Creek The number of migrants crossing the border to drainage. While there are a series of Ohio Hopewell work in American industries has been dramatically 1 • Imaginarium locales on the farm, we focused on a portion called increasing over the past decade. Migrants come to JESSICA MOKAN the Balthaser Home Site, which was identified by America to work the hardest jobs for the smallest FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHELLE COSTELLO, MILNE the landowner Donald Balthaser through years of amount of pay; however, their lives in America are LIBRARY surface collecting. This poster presents the better than their lives at home regardless of the The Imaginarium is a work space in the lower level excavation results of two field seasons, which were harsh working conditions and continuous of Milne Library that is open to all students, but guided by geophysical survey including discrimination that they constantly face. People designed for Education students to support their magnetometry and magnetic susceptibility. In have noticed the harsh lives that migrants and their creative needs when completing projects or lesson particular, we present the distributions and results families live and advocacy groups have formed as a plans. Materials are offered during my office hours of the feature excavations and analyses of the lithic result. There are many groups located throughout to support students, such as construction paper, and ceramic artifacts in the assemblage. Ceramic the country to assist migrants who have to glue, magnets, etc. An Ellison machine is also analyses included typology and identification of continuously relocate according to the season. For available when Milne Library is open. This poster the minimum number of vessels included in the the purpose of this poster I will focus on three will explain what the Imaginarium offers to collection. Distribution maps were plotted for lithic advocacy groups in three different areas of students and what the student intern (myself) does artifacts and an analysis of the Ohio Hopewell concern; border deaths, migrant legal services, and in the space. There will be an example seasonal bladelets in the assemblage was conducted. In immigration rights. It is important to understand display that the intern would create in the space in addition, the poster will show unique artifacts of the legal issues associated with each area of the middle of the poster. Around the example will bone and mica which were recovered from feature concern as well as understanding the migrant's be flaps with more information about the space contexts. Selected for presentation at Ohio perspective. Through these advocacy groups, underneath. This will include information about Archaeological Council's 3rd Hopewell migrant lives can be saved, families can remain materials offered, my office hours and Conference, Chillicothe, OH. together, and better lives can be lived. responsibilities, projects I am working on in the ______space, and information about TERC (teacher 4 • Cooking with Rocks the 6 • Skeletons in the Closet: resource area). On the table will be flyers promoting the space that students, faculty, and Hopewell Way: Experimenting with Establishing the Biological Profile of staff can take with them, as well as the intern's and Earth Oven Efficiency the Human Remains Housed in the supervisor's contact information. TESSA HORN SUNY Geneseo Department of FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, Anthropology ENGLISH – STARBUCKS STAGE ANTHROPOLOGY After helping to excavate an earth oven at an Ohio HUNTER KANE 2 • National Book Review Month @ Hopewell habitation site last summer, I wondered FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, SUNY Geneseo what attributes make an earth oven successful and ANTHROPOLOGY Forensic Anthropology employs several techniques NICOLE SHELDON, MARY AULD, MEGHAN efficient? In this project, I used experimental to establish the biological profile of a skeletonized BARRETT, GABRIELLA BASILE, MALACHY archaeology to build earth ovens of different sizes, individual in order to determine their identity. The DEMPSEY, MARLEY DEROSIA, OLIVER DIAZ, shapes and depths, using different combinations of biological profile is comprised of the individual's GABRIELLA GARCIA, EVAN GOLDSTEIN, LEANDRA sandstone, limestone and igneous rocks to cook sex, age, ancestry, and height. The standards for GRIFFITH, WILLIAM HESS, NOAH MAZER, food such as root crops and meat. My expectations establishing biological profile utilize osteometrics DONGWON OH, NICOLE PERO, LAUREN were that by recreating earth ovens of varying (including craniometrics), and cranial & post- SARRANTONIO, JULIET WENZEL shapes, sizes, and depths with different cranial morphology. Once the biological profile is FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH combinations of rocks, I would be able to explain established, it can be used to make a positive This poster showcases book reviews written by how different attributes contribute to earth oven identification in a missing persons case, mass grave SUNY Geneseo students as part of the inaugural efficiency, helping to explain how these differences situation, or after a natural disaster occurs. I will National Book Review Month, launched February are reflected in the archaeological record. present the biological profile data I've collected 2016 at SUNY Geneseo. A celebration of must-read Temperatures were monitored with a concerning the skeletal collection that is housed in writing, these reviews aim to start conversations thermocouple every hour, allowing me to compare the SUNY Geneseo Department of Anthropology. about books, and make sure wonderful writing gets the effectiveness of the different ovens. The sizes Using the standards I've learned I have established shared with readers. of the earth ovens in my experiments and the the biological profile of several individuals in the amount of rocks that I used were based on data from Hopewell habitation sites like Balthaser collection and will compare them with the actual ANTHROPOLOGY Home, Brown's Bottom #1, and Lady's Run. This profiles of the individuals from the company the 3 • Ohio Hopewell in the poster presents data on temperature over time, Department purchased the material from. Additionally, I will compare the findings with that Hinterlands: Archaeological amount of fuel used, how long the fire burned, which types of rocks were used, and their weight. of the ForDisc 3.0 program for establishing the sex Investigations at the Balthaser In one experiment, I also encased food in broken and ancestry of skeletal material from the Forensic Home Site pottery to see how that affected cooking. Selected Data Bank. This presentation will discuss the various discrepancies that arise with using CLAIRE JOHNSON for presentation at Ohio Archaeological Council's different standards for establishing biological FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, 3rd Hopewell Conference , Chillicothe, OH. profiles and will provide evidence for how ANTHROPOLOGY ______polymorphic human beings actually are. In 2014 - 2015, SUNY Geneseo, OVAI, and 5 • Immigration and the Law
Bloomsburg University took their archaeological MARIA SAITTA research collaborative north to eastern Pickaway FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, County, Ohio. Multi-stage investigations were ANTHROPOLOGY conducted on the Balthaser farm, which is located
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BIOLOGY sent for sequencing. As a secondary goal, the Germination is the natural process by which plants expression of the gene variants at different points develop from seeds. A combination of both 7 • Heart Development in the Quail in the N. crassa life cycle was measured, to internal and external factors influence whether a Embryo determine if all three transcripts were expressed. seed germinates. When environmental factors are BLAIR WIGSTEN This was done via reverse-transcription PCR (RT- suitable and a plant's metabolic machinery is FACULTY SPONSOR: DUANE MCPHERSON, PCR), using primers specific to each transcript ready, germination takes place. This study focused BIOLOGY variant. All three transcripts are expressed, and on the effects of tannic acid on seed germination. The purpose of this project is to obtain images of preliminary data indicates that expression level Brassica rapa seeds were studied under controlled different stages of heart development in the quail may vary between the three transcripts. Our data environmental conditions, and experimental embryo. Working with Dr. Arkady Perstov of SUNY suggests that fsd-1 is in fact transcribed as three groups were subject to different concentrations of Upstate Medical, we stain and clear embryonic different transcript forms, and that these variants tannic acid. The plant's radicle length were hearts, then image them using confocal may be expressed differently in N. crassa. measured and compared against a control. microscopy and create a timeline of heart ______Although still at the early phases of the formation between 6 and 8 days of development. 10 • Differences in Xylem Pressure experiment, tannic acid has shown great potential ______Potential in Invasive vs. Native as a germination inhibitor of B. rapa. Numerous 8 • Regulation of Chromosome studies have concluded that tannins play an Species integral role in plant defenses; these polyphenolic Organization by DivIVA in the Large KELLY HUSTAK compounds help protect plant's from stressors Bacterium Epulopiscium sp. Type B FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY such as predation or bacterial infections as well as ALEXANDRA GLATHAER , WILLIAM SCHUTT, Water moves up a plant from the roots through the fungal infections, however, not a lot of research is ANDREA AMITRANO shoot in xylem tissue. This movement is the result focused on the ecological effects of tannins. I am FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HUTCHISON, of tensions created in the above-ground part of the interested in researching the commercial potential BIOLOGY plant by both water loss and growth. The tension of tannic acid as a germination inhibitor for uses in Epulopiscium sp. type B is a symbiont of tropical in the xylem tissue increases during times of high agriculture and gardening. surgeonfish and is the second largest bacterium transpiration rates, during drought or if the ______known. One of its adaptations to large cell size is amount of water conducting tissue is reduced. I 13 • Water Use Efficiency in extreme polyploidy, making Epulopiscium sp. type compared xylem pressure potentials in dogwood Wisconsin Fast Plants (Brassica B an interesting system in which to study how (Cornus alternifolia), a native species, to those in polyploidy affects chromosome organization. honeysuckle (Lonicera tartarica), an invasive rapa) DivIVA is a key regulator of chromosome species, using a pressure bomb. I measured both OLIVIA HERMITT, ALEXANDRIA BARLOWE positioning and cell division in other bacterial species in September and October to see if there FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY systems, and we hypothesize that while were significant differences between the two Water Use Efficiency (WUE), the ratio of carbon Epulopiscium sp. type B divIVA (divIVAep) has some species and to see how values for xylem pressure gained by photosynthesis to water loss from overlap in function with that of closely related potential changed as the season progressed. Using transpiration, is an important measure of plant bacteria, it likely carries out novel roles due to the a rank-sum test, results indicate that during hot, function, reflecting the balance that plants must unique cellular environment in which it functions. dry periods there is a significant difference in make between opening stomata to allow carbon Deletion of divIVA in B. subtilis (a close relative of pressure potentials, with the honeysuckle dioxide entry (for photosynthesis) with closing Epulopiscium sp. type B) results in abnormal cell developing more negative pressures than stomata to reduce water loss. We are studying division, producing a mixture of long cells and dogwood. No significant difference was found WUE in Brassica rapa, the Wisconsin Fast Plant, a minicells. As we cannot culture Epulopiscium sp. during periods after rain or during periods with plant developed for its ability to grow rapidly and type B, we transformed a divIVA deletion mutant very cold or frost conditions. Additional complete its life cycle in five weeks. We of B. subtilis with a copy of divIVAep to assess its measurements will be taken this spring. experimented with two different methods that role in chromosome organization. B. subtilis divIVA ______might allow us to determine total weight (both mutants complemented by divIVAep will undergo 11 • How Photosynthetic Activity of root and shoot) of the plant, a measure of carbon normal cell division, and have wild type cell Cucurbita Varies Under Different gain, and total water use. One method was to grow lengths. Preliminary results indicate that divIVAep the plants in test tubes of a nutrient agar that the partially complements a B. subtilis divIVA mutant. Light Conditions roots could penetrate and the second method was We are now exploring divIVAep's potential effect MAXWELL COSTICH, EMILY ELLMANN, NICHOLAS to grow in test tubes of glass beads surrounded by on sporulation, and its localization using GFP ANGELONI, ALICIA SKOWRONSKI a nutrient solution. Using these methods we will be tagged DivIVA. FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY comparing WUE under two different light regimes. ______We studied the photosynthetic activity of ______9 • Mapping Transcript Structure Cucurbita plants grown under high and low light 14 • The Use of Androgen and intensities. The research was conducted using the and Measuring Expression of the Li-6400 Portable Photosynthesis System, which Glucocorticoid Receptor Expressing fsd-1 Gene in Neurospora crassa regulates the airflow, carbon dioxide levels, water Plasmids in Saccharomyces JANELLE GOEKE, BRYCE GEBHARDT vapor concentration, and quantum flux levels that cerevisiae: A Model for the Study of a leaf is exposed to. Using the system, FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HUTCHISON, the Nuclear Localization of the AR BIOLOGY photosynthetic response to changes in incident The female sexual development-1 (fsd-1) gene in quantum flux were measured for plants grown and GR in Yeast and Prostate the fungus Neurospora crassa encodes a under the two light regimes. Also measured were Cancer measurements of stomatal conductance and transcription factor, and is expressed during the ARIEL YUSUPOV estimates of internal carbon dioxide sexual cycle. There are three transcript variants of FACULTY SPONSOR: HAROLD HOOPS, BIOLOGY concentrations. We expect to observe differences the gene which differ in position of the exons and The androgen receptor has been shown to be the in photosynthetic ability between the high light introns. This project focuses on mapping the critical component behind prostate cancer and and low light plants, as well as differences in the starting and ending locations of fsd-1 transcripts, in androgenic alopecia. Freedman and Yamamoto order to confirm the transcript structure. Fsd-1 plant response to changing light intensities. ______(2004) have shown that yeast contain a protein, transcripts were isolated and amplified using a 5' SXM1, that is structurally homologous to the RACE (rapid amplification of cDNA ends) procedure 12 • Tannic Acid as a Germination human Importin 7, which is known to inhibit the and nested PCR. Successfully isolated transcripts Inhibitor of Brassica rapa nuclear localization of the androgen receptor (AR) were then cloned into E. coli cells, and plasmids MAYDELIS MINAYA and induce the nuclear localization of the containing the correct inserts were extracted and FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY glucocorticoid receptor (GR). The yeast
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae was transformed with a perform chemotaxis: navigation along a chemical passed. Hurricane Joaquin, a category 3 hurricane LacZ-reporter containing androgen receptor (AR) gradient. We previously found evidence implying at the time of landfall, struck San Salvador Island, and glucocorticoid receptor (GR) expressing that Astrephomene senses and adjusts its Bahamas in October of 2015, causing significant plasmids into SXM1 null (SXM1-) and wild type swimming based on changes over time in the local damage. We studied how the hurricane affected strains, the latter of which was further transformed concentration of acetate, a food source that it five patch reefs surrounding the island. To do this, with an SXM1 overexpressor plasmid (SXM1++) chemotaxes towards. We sought to learn more the total percent cover of coral and algae, as well and empty vector as control, allowing for the about this mechanism of navigation. Qualitative as the Simpson index of diversity, was determined. inhibition and induction of the AR and GR, observations recommended that Astrephomene Analysis of multiple quadrats along transects, on respectively, to be quantified via beta- colonies reverse direction when they swim from a four different reefs, were compared to data from galactosidase (b-gal) assay. In the wild type region of high acetate concentration to a region of 2015, and previous years, to document changes in SXM1++ strain, b-gal activity in the AR is to be least low acetate concentration. Using tools that we the coral community and in the balance between expressed and in the GR most expressed. In the developed to analyze videomicroscopy data, we coral and algal cover that could be attributed to SXM1 null strain, b-gal activity should have the were able to quantitate this phenomenon. We hurricane damage. The results of this study provide opposite effect and be most expressed in the AR report evidence from two different experimental insights on the affects of hurricanes on patch reefs, and least expressed in the GR. In the wild type systems that Astrephomene reorients in response as well as help determine the status of the reefs control strain, the b-gal activity of the AR and GR to decreases in local acetate concentration. We surrounding San Salvador. should fall in between the SXM1 null and the term this the "Hotel California" model of ______SXM1++ yeast. chemotaxis, as algae become "trapped" wherever 19 • Abundance and Coral ______the acetate concentration is high. Selected for Association Preferences of the 15 • Determining the Mechanism of presentation at Northeast Algal Society Tunicate Trididemnum solidum Thermotaxis in Astrephomene Symposium, Westfield, MA. ______KELLY HUSTAK, KATIE THARRETT gubernalifica 17 • A Method to Quantify Motility FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY NAOMI WILSON Trididemnum solidum is a chemically defended FACULTY SPONSOR: HAROLD HOOPS, BIOLOGY Patterns in Colonial Green Algae tunicate that is becoming more abundant in Astrephomene gubernalifica is a colonial, volvocine STEPHANIE NEWMAN, BENJAMIN YAO degraded Caribbean coral reefs. There are reports green alga. The colonies are hollow spheres of 32 - FACULTY SPONSORS: HAROLD HOOPS AND GREGG of T. solidum frequently overgrowing corals, and 64 cells, each with two flagella. These cells have no HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY causing bleaching and death of whole colonies. apparent means of communication with one Astrephomene gubernaculifera is a colonial green This study investigates the distribution and another, and yet the colony responds as a unit to algae that has the robust ability to perform abundance of T. solidum on coral reefs around the stimuli. Prior studies have demonstrated that in a chemotaxis, a directional movement that leads to island of San Salvador in the Bahamas. Our steady-state temperature gradient, A. the overall algal accumulation around acetate, a hypothesis is that tunicates are found more gubernalifica colonies accumulate at warmer food source. However the mechanism for this is commonly in degraded reefs compared to temperatures. In theory, accumulation might obscure. We developed a system to create and healthier reefs around the island. A second result from colonies slowing at warmer absolute analyze videos of colonial motion. In order to test objective of the study was to observe the temperatures, but Amy Potter and Yuliya models of chemoresponse, we needed to obtain frequency of association of T. solidum with specific Muradova demonstrated that this was not the values for speed, turning frequency and turn coral species. Transect counts of tunicate case. More complex models require the alga to magnitude. Using the Tracker software program, abundance will be conducted in five patch reefs. sense the gradient, and to adjust to changes in we obtained the x,y coordinate positions as a The species of coral interacting with T. solidum will temperature rather than the absolute function of time and velocity data, but quantifying be recorded and photographed. One m2 quadrats temperature. For example, A. gubernalifica could turning is more difficult. To do this, we extract the centered on each association will be analyzed to respond to an increase in temperature by positional angle, theta, and the theta acceleration determine what other corals were present in the swimming faster, making fewer (or shallower) (theta A). Because theta A represents the angle of area. The relative frequency of available corals will turns. We exposed the colonies to temperature acceleration, a shift in sign indicates a change in be used to calculate a theoretical distribution and regimes that mimic algae moving through a the direction of acceleration and thus a "turn". This compared to the actual distribution using a chi temperature gradient and determined their value is obtained by taking a moving average of the square analysis. Our hypothesis is that tunicates positions over time. Preliminary data suggests that theta velocity (provided by Tracker) as a function will be found more commonly in association with there is no significant difference between the of time. Using the x,y coordinates, the distance branching or ridged corals that provide an elevated velocities of the colonies experiencing step up travelled between any two time points can be substrate where tunicates could filter feed more versus a step down temperature conditions. determined using the Pythagorean Theorem. efficiently from the water column. Further studies will investigate the potential for Based on these values, some of the possible ______turning frequency or magnitude to be the calculated metrics include colony turn frequency, 20 • The Effect of Spongivorous average distance traveled per frame, as well as predominant behavioral response of A. Fishes on Sponge-Coral Interactions gubernalifica during step up and step down total difference traveled, and distance MADI MURPHY, BAILEY SAWYER, MICHELLE conditions. Selected for presentation at Northeast displacement. Selected for presentation at WRYNN Algal Society Symposium, Westfield, MA. Northeast Algal Society Symposium, Westfield, ______MA. FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY 16 • The Hotel California Model of ______Sponges in coral reef systems can be aggressive 18 • Effects of Hurricane Joaquin on competitors with corals for space. Some sponges Chemotaxis in Astrephomene Coral Patch Reefs Surrounding the are palatable and can be eaten by spongivorous Gubernaculifera fishes such as parrotfish and angelfish. Other STEPHANIE NEWMAN, GRANT KUSICK Bahamian Island of San Salvador sponges are chemically defended and are FACULTY SPONSOR: HAROLD HOOPS, BIOLOGY BENJAMIN O'ROURKE, TARIK JAMES unpalatable. Spongivorous fish predation can limit One challenge in the early evolution of FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY the extent to which palatable sponges compete multicellularity is the performance of collective The health of coral reefs around the world has with corals. We will examine the extent of behaviors. This transition is drastic within the been in a steady decline due to numerous competition for space between corals and volvocine algae: multi-celled members of the anthropogenic and natural forces that cause stress palatable and unpalatable sponges, and relate Volvocales exhibit many of the same behaviors as and damage to the coral animals. Of these natural patterns of competition to the abundance of their unicellular relatives, but the mechanisms forces, hurricanes can cause lasting damage in a spongivores. Observations of competitive involved must necessarily be distinct. very short period of time. Previous studies have interactions and spongivorous fish surveys will be Astrephomene gubernaculifera is the only multi- documented an increase in algae cover and a conducted on patch reefs of San Salvador Island, celled volvocine alga that has been shown to decrease in coral cover after a hurricane has Bahamas. The rate of competition by unpalatable 38 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Posters sponges will be correlated with the abundance of The transition from archaic faunas dominated by Reflected by Decreased Cellular spongivores on each reef. The results will provide constricting booid-grade snakes to modern ones insights into community level effects of the dominated by active caenophidians was previously Metabolism spongivore functional group and may reveal yet thought to occur during a major global climatic MICHELLE STEVENS, VARUN MEHTA another harmful effect of fisheries in the Caribbean shift from warmer forested habitats to cooler open FACULTY SPONSOR: JANI LEWIS, BIOLOGY reefs. habitats in the middle Miocene. Fossils found in the Vulvar cancer is rare, mostly afflicting women aged ______Late Oligocene Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania show 60 and over. The cancer is often preceded by a 21 • Microsatellite Analysis of Adult evidence of this faunal transition occurring five to common vulvar rash, lichen schlerosis, that is treated with the ultra-potent corticosteroid, and Larval Sea Star Populations ten million years earlier than expected. Recent fieldwork has yielded new fossil material from that clobetasol. However, there is some concern that RACHEL MOORE, COLE GLEASON locality; I categorized the new specimens into clobetasol can promote carcinogenesis in vulvar FACULTY SPONSORS: ISIDRO BOSCH AND different morphotypes, including previously tissue. Using MTT assays, we showed that JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY identified colubroid, elapid, and booid snakes. clobetasol treatment of the vulvar carcinoma cell Sea star larvae that are widely distributed in the Newly discovered fossils include Gonionotophis, line, UMSCV-4, severely inhibits the metabolism of tropical North Atlantic are unusual in that they the oldest and only confirmed fossil of these cells. This suggests that the cells are reproduce by cloning during their larval Lamphrophiinae, capturing the group right at the becoming dormant. Removing the clobetasol development. Despite improved odds of survival beginning of its evolution. The collection also results in reinitiation of growth for these cells while migrating across the ocean, clonal includes a new colubroid morphotype referred to suggesting that clobetasol is actually promoting a reproduction may ultimately reduce the genetic as Colubroid D, and an indeterminate dentary bone state of quiescence in which the cells become variation of the larval populations. The purpose of as the first cranial elements discovered at the site. temporarily dormant. This poses an obstacle to the this study is to document the genetic diversity of In addition to increasing the diversity of the fauna methods of cancer treatment, which typically clonal larvae using microsatellite DNA analysis. found at the site to ten morphotypes, fossils targets cells that are actively dividing. DNA was extracted from Oreaster clavatus tube previously identified as Booid Morphotype C are ______feet, considering it is the only sea star that lives in reassigned as a colubroid due to evidence in the 26 • Clobetasol Treatment of the North Atlantic and belongs to the family we new material. The collection further supports believe is expressing clonal activity. DNA was also Vulvar Carcinoma Cell Lines dominance of colubroids at this locality, consisting extracted from another species of sea star, O. of 83% of the collection found at Rukwa. UMSCV-2 and UMSCV-4 Show reticulatus for comparison. DNA was amplified by ______Evidence of Entering into PCR using microsatellite primers published for a closely related species. Our data has revealed 24 • The Corticosteroid Clobetasol Quiescence seven possibly effective primers from those Causes Downregulation of E- SINDHOORI KOTAPATI , SARAH MILNE previously developed. These amplified cadherin in the Vulvar Carcinoma FACULTY SPONSOR: JANI LEWIS, BIOLOGY microsatellite DNA samples were sent to Cornell Vulvar Cancer is a rare form of female cancer that University for fragment analysis. GeneMarker Cell Lines UMSCV-6 and A431 impacts women who are between 60-75 years old software was used to genotype the tube feet CHIAMAKA OKORIE, MINGXIN LI, JUSTIN and is commonly associated with a vulvar rash samples at each microsatellite locus. With twelve ONGKINGCO called Lichen sclerosis. Clobetasol is an ultrapotent loci appearing to produce reliable genotypes in the FACULTY SPONSOR: JANI LEWIS, BIOLOGY corticosteroid commonly used to help inhibit the adult samples, work is now being done to genotype Vulvar cancer is rare, affecting 2.4 women progression of the rash. There is a possibility that individual larvae specimens in hopes of finding /100,000. It can be difficult to diagnose due to the clobetasol may promote the spread of vulvar sufficient polymorphism to use these markers for masking effects of a common vulvar rash, lichen cancer causing a more aggressive phenotype. This population genetic analysis. sclerosis (LS). We have been treating vulvar cancer change in phenotype is called an EMT (epithelial to ______cell lines that display epithelial characteristics mesenchymal transition) and could enhance 22 • Damselfish Populations (suggesting they are relatively differentiated) with metastasis causing elevated resistance to SCOTT GUYTON, ERIN KIMAK, ANNA MAIO clobetasol, a drug recommended in the treatment apoptosis. Early detection is difficult for physicians FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY of LS. Using immunofluorescence, western blotting because clobetasol may initially be treating the Widespread traumatic events can drastically and microarray analysis, our previous work has rash but potentially promote carcinogenesis. reshape the structure and biodiversity of coral reef shown that clobetasol (clob) treatment of the Another concern is that cells could enter into a communities. One such traumatic event, Hurricane squamous epithelial cell line, A431, causes loss of quiescent state which is a reversible non-dividing Joaquin, damaged reefs around the island of San the expression of the tumor suppressor E-cadherin state. When quiescent, the cells can evade cancer Salvador in October 2015. Assessing the as well as the squamous epithelial marker, p63. In treatment which specifically targets rapidly destruction in the aftermath and following up on addition, the clob-treated cells gained expression dividing cells. Treatment of the vulvar carcinoma the long-term consequences of such a disruption of vimentin, suggesting an epithelial to cell lines UMSCV-2 and UMSCV-4 with clobetasol can help scientists understand and provide mesenchymal transition. We have repeated these appears to promote quiescence. To establish if this optimum conditions for coral reef recovery. As studies using the corticosteroid on a second vulvar is actually happening our research examined territorial fish and algal grazers, damselfish are carcinoma cell line, UMSCV-6 and seen similar loss changes in expression of several markers for uniquely suited to supply information about the of E-cadherin expression. Both cell lines display an quiescence, namely, CDK-2, Cyclin D which are health and composition of a reef in recovery. By altered morphology upon loss of E-cadherin. They downregulated and p21, p27 and p63, which are conducting a survey of the relative abundance of also display the ability to remain viable even when upregulated in quiescent cells. three important damselfish species common to the cells become suspended upon reaching ______reefs of San Salvador, one can hope to provide confluency. To further elucidate if clobetasol is 27 • Isolating Serotonin Receptors important information to aid in reef recovery after acting in a similar manner to cause loss of E- from RNA of the Snail, Lymnaea future traumatic events. cadherin in these two cells lines we used RT-PCR to ______compare the expression of several transcription stagnalis 23 • New Fossil Colubroid Snakes factors known to regulate E-cadherin. Selected for ALLISON DROZDA, SARAH JONES presentation at American Society for Cell Biology FACULTY SPONSORS: JANICE LOVETT AND DUANE from the Late Oligocene Rukwa Rift Annual Meeting, 2015, San Diego, CA. MCPHERSON, BIOLOGY Basin, Tanzania, and Their Bearing ______5-hydroxytryptamine, 5HT or serotonin, is a on the Evolution of the Modern 25 • Clobetasol Treatment of neurotransmitter that functions in muscle Vulvar Carcinoma Cell Lines movement and behavior. Target tissues have Snake Fauna receptors for serotonin. There are seven 5HT SIERRA BOUCHARD UMSCV-4 Show Evidence of receptor types known in vertebrates. The goal of FACULTY SPONSOR: JACOB MCCARTNEY, BIOLOGY Entering into Quiescence as our research is to sequence the analogous 5HT Promotes sustainability 39 Posters 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual receptors in mollusks for comparison across the relapse over protracted withdrawal periods. Forty different species, may be a means of transmission phyla. We started by identifying degenerate rats were given unlimited access to ethanol for 12 as well. Here, my work seeks to identify whether primers determined from a range of invertebrates days and then underwent forced abstinence Wolbachia is being horizontally transmitted that we believed would isolate one of the two 5HT1 conditions for 7 or 30 days, half in EE containers between slavemaking ants and their slaves. and the 5HT2 receptors in mollusks. We performed and half in standard cages. After the protracted Slavemakers and corresponding slaves from the PCR with these primers on cDNA synthesized from withdrawal period, all rats underwent relapse same colony were assessed for Wolbachia Lymnaea stagnalis brain RNA. We also used tests. The results showed that EE rats consumed infection through use of polymerase chain reaction degenerate primers previously identified to significantly less ethanol than the non- (PCR) to amplify Wolbachia-specific genes. PCR amplify the 5HT7 receptor. Bands that appeared to environmentally enriched (NEE) rats during the results point to differing rates of infection between be the genes for 5HT1 and 5HT7 receptors were normal and stress-induced relapse tests for both slavemakers and slaves, with higher incidence of present after agarose gel electrophoresis. These the 7 and 30 day protracted withdrawal periods. Wolbachia infection among slavemakers. PCR products were next inserted into plasmids and This suggests that enriched life conditions are Sequencing PCR products could indicate whether we selected the white colonies resulting from a important in facilitating long-term abstinence and slaves harbor identical strains to slavemakers, and blue-white screening procedure. These colonies preventing relapse in alcohol addiction. thus may have obtained the infection through were then isolated, and DNA was extracted and ______horizontal transmission. sequenced. This confirmed that we had isolated 30 • Comparison of the Genetic ______the receptor gene for 5HT7. We will now design Composition and Colony Structure 33 • Comparison of Insect new primers for 5HT1 and 5HT2 receptors as well Herbivory on Native Versus as test the successful 5HT7 primers on different of Formica glacialis Ant Nests Over species of mollusks. Time Invasive Understory Shrubs ______BOWEN WU HANNAH MRAKOVCIC 28 • ESP’s Effect on the FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY Glucosinolate-Myrosinase Pathway As a common ant species on the SUNY Geneseo The purpose of this study is to compare leaf insect campus, Formica glacialis is a useful organism for damage on invasive shrubs (Amur Honeysuckle, in Brassica rapa studying the causes of distribution and movement Lonicera maackii, and Autumn Olive, Eleagnus AUSTIN LAMB, CAMRYN LIEB patterns. Since 2008, we have been mapping and umbellata) to a native shrub (Gray Dogwood, FACULTY SPONSOR: JANICE LOVETT, BIOLOGY monitoring its nests in the Roemer Arboretum and Cornus racemosa) in Geneseo's Spencer J. Roemer Brassica rapa is an important model plant that has have found that its colonies can be disrupted by Arboretum. A potential reason for the success of been selectively bred so that it is able to grow the activity of slavemaking ants. These slavemaking non-native species in their invaded habitat is that continuously under fluorescent light and complete ants, predominantly Formica subintegra, are social they have escaped their own specialized its life cycle in less than six weeks' time. B. rapa is parasites that raid host ant nests to capture their herbivores. Consequentially, invasive species may closely related to important functional food plants brood; captured ants will become its workforce, disrupt local food webs since they do not support such as cauliflower and broccoli. All of these plants providing care for the slavemaker offspring and native insect herbivores that local birds may prey produce a class of compounds called foraging outside the nest for food. The genetic on. We hypothesized that the leaves of native glucosinolates. These biologically active composition of an active nest may thus change species would have the highest damage levels, compounds are used in plant defenses and over time because of relocation of host colonies or since native herbivores are accustomed to feeding contribute to the plants' nutritional benefits. The founding of new colonies in evacuated nests. We on them, whereas the non-natives are less likely to enzyme myrosinase converts glucosinolates into compare the genetic composition of F. glacialis be fed on by native herbivores. Last autumn, leaves toxic isothiocyanate. The plant also produces workers collected from the Arboretum 5-6 years on 20 shrubs of each species were marked and compounds called epithiospecifier proteins (ESP) ago to workers from the same active location in photographed with a digital camera. Damage was which act to change the end product produced by summer 2015. By examining genetic composition categorized to compare damage types among the the myrosinase to a biologically safer compound. of the samples collected in the two time periods, three species. Leaf photos were analyzed using These compounds still have allelopathic effects. An we are able to determine whether they represent ImageJ to quantify the proportion of leaf area esp gene from Brassica rapa has been cloned into the same or a different host colony. These results damaged per leaf. Preliminary analysis indicates an expression vector and the protein produced. will provide insight into the stability of colonies that there is significantly more herbivore damage Two known glucosinolates were purchased and over time, which is especially interesting given the on the native species than both invasive species, combined with myrosinase and with and without potentially disruptive effects of the threat of suggesting that the native shrub has greater value the isolated esp protein. After being incubated exploitation of slavemaking ants. Selected for in the local food web than the invasive species. together the end products were analyzed using presentation at Northeast Natural History Selected for presentation at Northeast Natural reverse phase LC-MS on a C18 column. Using the Conference, Springfield, MA. History Conference, Springfield, MA. ______LC-MS the effects of ESP on the glucosinolates will ______be observed. 31 • Removal of Fruits by Birds 34 • The Effect of Invasive Shrubs ______on Soil Carbon Dioxide Emission 29 • Environmental Enrichment from Native vs. Invasive Shrubs in Rates Compared to Native Reduces Stress-Induced Relapse Western New York Dogwood in Spencer J. Roemer Over Protracted Withdrawal See SESSION 2J for abstract GINA SCANDAGLIA Arboretum Periods in Ethanol Taking Rats ______JOSHUA BACKHAUS MARGARET MENGUCCI 32 • Incidence of Wolbachia FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: JANICE LOVETT, BIOLOGY Infection in Free-living, Enslaved Invasive shrubs often face little resistance and may Although medications for alcohol addiction show thrive by promoting a microbial community foreign promise in reducing alcohol use when compared to and Slavemaking Formica Ants to the native soil environment, altering the soil's no treatment, they continue to fall short of being HANNAH LOO properties, and resulting in the surrounding soil highly effective when the goal is long-term FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY becoming more suitable for these invasive species. abstinence. One potential treatment strategy to Wolbachia are a group of maternally inherited Spencer J. Roemer Arboretum harbors three support long-term alcohol abstinence is bacteria commonly found in arthropods and are invasive shrubs, Lonicera maackii (Amur Environmental Enrichment (EE). The present study one of the world's most abundant intracellular Honeysuckle), Rhamnus cathartica (Common sought to determine if the implementation of EE symbionts. Although the bacteria is commonly Buckthorn) and Elaeagnus umbellata (Autumn after ethanol self-administration training in rats transmitted vertically, from mother to offspring, Olive), which compete with native Cornus would reduce or eliminate continued ethanol recent research has suggested that horizontal racemosa (Gray Dogwood). The purpose of this consumption and protect against stress-induced transmission, which occurs between members of study was to determine the effect of invasive 40 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Posters shrubs on the CO2 emission rates of surrounding determine the success of bee bowls in attracting Contraceptive Use Affects soil. Abiotic factors, soil temperature and pH were various species of bees. The contents of the bowls also measured. CO2 emission rates were estimated were collected, and the bees were pinned and Pregnancy Rates, Pregnancy using the soda lime method. These tests were identified. The abundance of bees may differ Spacing and Age of First Pregnancy performed at two time periods using 10 shrubs of among sites due to food availability or habitat Among Malagasy Women each species. Soils beneath the invasive species E. quality; other factors such as weather and time of AMELIA SCOFIELD umbellata had the highest CO2 emission rates, year may also affect capture rates. The site FACULTY SPONSOR: REGINA CLINTON, BIOLOGY followed by L. maackii and R. cathartica. Soils comparison aspect of this study can be used to The Ranomafana region in Madagascar is being beneath native C. racemosa had significantly lower inform improvements in habitat quality for local deforested at an extreme rate, largely due to the CO2 emission rates than the invasive shrubs. These bees. exponential population growth despite the differences may reflect differences in ______Malagasy government's efforts to provide free decomposition that can occur when invasive 37 • The Role of the Escherichia coli contraception. An important focus one needs to species are introduced. These changes in dcm/vsr Operon on Stationary keep in mind while studying this problem is decomposition can potentially alter the cycling of women's healthcare. For this study, I found how nutrients in the soil, and result in an environment Phase Fitness employment, ease of access to healthcare, and that fosters the establishment and growth of OOHA KAMBHAMPATI, LARA FINNERTY- contraceptive use, effects pregnancy rates, spacing invasive species over natives. Selected for HAGGERTY and the age of first pregnancy. One hundred presentation at Northeast Natural History FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY eighty-eight women were surveyed from remote Conference, Springfield, Massachusetts. Our laboratory is studying DNA methylation in villages, an hour or more walk from the road in the ______Escherichia coli, a process controlled by the Dcm 35 • Spatial and Molecular Ecology enzyme. Dcm methylates the second cytosine in Ranomafana peripheral zone, non-remote villages, the sequence 5'CCWGG3'. Our laboratory's less than an hour walk from the road in the of the Parasitic Plant Monotropa microarray data indicates dcm- dependent gene Ranomafana peripheral zone, and women uniflora expression changes at stationary phase, suggesting employed by Centre ValBio, a research facility JULIAN KOOB a role for dcm in stationary phase fitness. To test located in the center of the Ranomafana peripheral FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY whether dcm is advantageous to the cell in zone. It was found that skilled women laborers Monotropa uniflora (Indian Pipe) is an example of stationary phase, we set up a competition tend to have lower pregnancy rates, higher ages of a non-photosynthetic mycoheterotrophic plant experiment between the wild-type strain and the first pregnancies and larger pregnancy spacing that obtains its carbon by parasitizing mycorrhizal dcm knockout strain to determine which strain than unskilled women laborers. Results suggest fungi, which mutualistically exchange carbon would persist. Interestingly, dcm is in an operon that helping women in the Ranomafana region gain compounds and mineral nutrients with trees. The with one other gene called vsr, a DNA repair gene. the skills, opportunities, and education they need goal of this study was to determine which trees are Another competition experiment was setup to in order to become skilled laborers will result in indirectly parasitized by M. uniflora, both by determine whether vsr also has an effect on decreased pregnancy rates and therefore decrease mapping its spatial distribution in the Spencer J. stationary phase fitness. In the competition the burden of population growth on deforestation Roemer Arboretum at SUNY Geneseo and by experiment between the wild-type and the dcm rates found in Ranomafana National Park. ______identifying its fungal associates. Fine-scale knockout strains, the wild-type strain mapping of the plants' distribution, mapping of outcompeted the dcm knockout; thus the cells with 40 • ATP-dependent Pump P- tree locations, and subsequent analysis in ArcMap the dcm gene have an advantage over the cells glycoprotein May Confer Resistance indicates that M. uniflora exhibits spatial lacking the gene. To date, in the competition to 5-azacytidine in Melanoma Cells clustering; most clusters fall within the root areas between the wild-type strain and vsr knockout CASSANDRE LOUIS of red and white oak trees, as well as slightly within strain, the vsr gene seems to promote stationary FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, the root zones of black walnuts in some cases. To phase fitness. In summary, both the dcm and vsr BIOLOGY identify fungal associates of individual plants, DNA genes have a positive effect on stationary phase Cancer cells have a high rate of mutation which was extracted from root ball samples of M. uniflora fitness in E.coli. confers on them certain growth advantages. A that were collected from the Arboretum and the ______melanoma cell line (MDA-MB 435), which has been Genesee Valley Conservancy Research Reserve. 38 • Rboh Activity in a Brassica treated long term with a low dose of 5-azacytidine, Mycorrhizal fungal DNA was selectively amplified rapa-Botrytis cinerea Pathosystem has developed a resistance to the drug. To via PCR using primers specific to the ITS region of ADAM WEGMAN investigate this resistance we have utilized siRNA basidiomycetes and PCR product was sent to an FACULTY SPONSOR: MING-MEI CHANG, BIOLOGY to target the expression levels of P-glycoprotein external lab for sequencing. These results Plant NADPH oxidases, also known as respiratory (MDR1), a transmembrane, ATP-dependent pump. contribute to the identification of trees associated burst oxidase homologues (Rbohs), are central MDR1 may be responsible for pumping out 5- with M. uniflora and explore the diversity of its mediators of reactive oxygen species (ROS) azacytidine before the drug has had an effect, and mycorrhizal fungi symbionts over a small spatial signaling involved in plant development, responses thereby increasing the survivability of the cells. scale. Selected for presentation at Northeast to external stimuli, and programmed cell death. With subsequent cytotoxicity assays following Natural History Conference, Springfield, MA. ______These enzyme complexes continuously produce transfection with control or MDR1 siRNA, we have low levels of ROS for cell signaling, and are observed that the 435 cells that were transfected 36 • Native Bee Diversity and significantly upregulated to drive the respiratory with MDR1 showed less resistance when compared Abundance at SUNY Geneseo burst during the hypersensitive response to to the control treated. Future studies will aim to MEGHAN BARRETT, RYAN CARPENTER pathogen infections. Previous studies have quantify the difference in the expression levels of FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY indicated that Rbohs are under both MDR1 between 435s transfected with the MDR1 In this study, fluorescently-painted bowls (white, transcriptional and post-translational control in and the control siRNA using western blotting. yellow, blue) filled with soapy water were used to response to infections; however, the nature of this ______collect bees over the course of ten days from four regulation varies and is not well-characterized in 41 • Analysis of 5-Azacytidine's study sites on the SUNY Geneseo campus: the different plant-pathogen systems. Here, we report Effect on the HL-60 Cell Line College Green, a shaded and a sunny site in the the preliminary results of a project examining the DAVID NICHOLAS Arboretum, and a site by an unmowed meadow. regulation of Rbohs during infection of Brassica FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, The main objectives of this survey were to rapa by Botrytis cinerea. BIOLOGY determine the abundance and types of bees at ______The drug 5-Azacytidine, a methyltransferase sites that varied in exposure to sunlight, level of 39 • How Employment, Ease of inhibitor, reopens expression of genes crucial to activity, diversity of flower types and more, to Access to Healthcare, and the regulatory function of the cell. Molecular compare bee diversity among those sites, and techniques using MTT analysis, NMR analysis, Promotes sustainability 41 Posters 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual
RTqPCR, Western Blotting, cell cycle analysis, and Previous studies have shown that epigenetic process is characterized by an absence of oxidative flow cytometry to explore both the mechanisms in cancer drugs work more effectively when used in phosphorylation, and is catalyzed by hexokinase II which a low dose of 5-Azacytidine affects the HL- combination with another drug, especially a chemo binding to the outer mitochondrial membrane 60 leukemia cell line, and how HL-60 cells develop preventative agent. The drug 5-azacytidine is an (OMM). PK11195 is a drug that binds to the resistance to this therapy. An MTT analysis epigenetic drug that has been shown to have peripheral benzodiazepine receptor (PBR) on the established a 20 percent cytotoxic dose of 5 ug/ml cytotoxic effects on cancer cells, and could OMM, which inhibits hexokinase II binding and over a 48-hour exposure that was used as a potentially be augmented with aspirin, which is a limits the rate of glycolysis. MDA-MB 435 cells standard for all described experiments. Cell cycle known chemo preventative agent that has very treated with PK11195 showed decreased cell analysis for control and treated cells showed a little side effects. A breast cancer cell line (MDA- survival, yet demonstrated recovery when co- similar profile for G1, S, and G2/M phases. RTqPCR MB-231) will be used to test a known optimized treated with PK11195 and supplemental fatty data showed a 6-fold increase of expression of dose of 5-azacytidine, and an aspirin dose will be acids. Cells co-treated with PK11195 and enzyme UCK2, a kinase of pyrimidine crucial for the further optimized. The effectiveness of this supplemental fatty acids demonstrated increased activation of 5-Aza, and a 6-fold decrease in myc combination will be tested through apoptosis levels of reactive oxygen species when compared oncogene levels. Western blotting supported a assays and western blots measuring protein to cells treated with PK11195 alone, suggesting decrease in myc levels. Cells subjected to weekly product. Preliminary research has shown that that cancer cells can navigate a glycolytic inhibitor treatment of 5-Azacytidine for several months aspirin has shifted the response curve of 5- by reverting back to producing energy via oxidative revealed insights into how HL-60 cells develop azacytidine, killing more cells with the same dosage phosphorylation. Additionally, PK11195 is a ligand resistance. RTqPCR data on long term 5- of aspirin. Aspirin has shown to increase the for the constitutive androstane receptor (CAR), Azacytidine treated HL-60s no longer display the effectiveness of 5-azacytidine, so more cells will be which is a nuclear receptor that pumps drugs out increased UCK2 expression seen previously with killed with the combination than with 5-azacytidine of the nucleus. Cells co-treated with PK11195 and the single exposure to 5-Azacytidine for 48 hours. alone. Further experiments will attempt to 5-azacytidine, a DNA methyltransferase inhibitor, Further experiments will continue to test the elucidate the mechanism by which aspirin demonstrated decreased cell survival, suggesting effects of 5-Azacytidine on HL-60 cells. enhances the killing of 5-azacytidine. that PK11195 may sensitize cancer cells to ______chemotherapeutic treatment by increasing cell 42 • Effect of 5-Azacytidine on 44 • 5-Azacytidine Increases Class I retention of drugs. Thus, PK 11195 may provide Micro-RNA Levels in the HL-60 Cell HLA Expression in Tumor Cell Lines two potential treatment benefits when used to treat cancer cells. PATRICK LONG, CASSANDRE LOUIS, DAVID Line ______MITCHELL GILLARD, NICHOLAS STAFFORD NICHOLAS 46 • Female Genital Schistosomiasis FACULTY SPONSORS: ROBERT O'DONNELL AND FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY BIOLOGY Enhancing HIV Transmission in Sub- The abnormal expression of four micro-RNAs in MHC-I expression is commonly down regulated Sahara Africa patients with acute myeloid leukemia correlates during carcinogenesis due to the proliferative CAROLINE RUSSO, MEGHAN MCELLIGOTT with poor clinical outcomes for these patients. advantage acquired. Without class I MHC surface FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI-MUENCH, Working with the HL-60 acute promyelocytic proteins, neoplastic cells are able to avoid BIOLOGY leukemia cell line, an AML subtype, the first goal of surveillance of the adaptive immune system by Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) is a specific this project was to determine if the HL-60 cell line preventing the presentation of endogenous manifestation of a schistosome infection, caused expressed micro-RNAs associated with myeloid antigens, providing a proliferative advantage. 5- by egg-induced pathology in women. Ova become leukemogenesis. Using a micro-RNA isolation kit azacytidine is a novel epigenetic therapeutic drug deposited in the reproductive tract producing a and qRT-PCR, we were able to detect thepresence that inhibits DNA methyltransferase through variety of symptoms. These include disruption of of miR-223, one of the four major micro-RNAs methyltransferase trapping. Tumor cells display the genital epithelium through the formation of associated with myeloid leukemogenesis. The global hypomethylation of their genome but ulcers and lesions, the tendency to bleed easily, three other micro-RNAs known to be involved in specific hypermethylation of tumor suppressor and an immunological environment that may myeloid leukemogenesis,miR-155, miR-29b-1 and CpG islands. We hypothesized that tumor cell lines facilitate HIV entry and binding to HIV-susceptible miR-196b, were near the limit of detection of the treated with 5-Azacytidine would display an cells. We mapped the prevalence of Schistosoma assay. After determining that miR-223 was stably increased amount of Class I HLA expression on haematobium and Schistosoma mansoni, and the expressed in the HL-60 cell line, the next goal was their surface. To test this model we have begun to prevalence of HIV to explore the association to test whether 5-azacytidine, a DNA methylation treat MCF-7, MDA-MB-435, MDA-MB-231, A431 between S. haematobium and FGS. Using inhibitor and effective chemotherapeuticagent for and HL-60 tumor cell lines with relatively high and Geographic Information System software and data AML, could alter the expression of miR-223. We low doses of 5-Azacytidine over a 48 or 72 hour already compiled on 43 Sub-Saharan African found that increasing concentrations of 5- period. For the MDA-MB 435 cell line we also countries, 3 graduated shading maps were created azacytidine affected the levels of miR-223 compared long term exposure. Class I HLA ABC that demonstrate overlap between S. expression. Using a derivative of 5-azacytidine, 5- proteins were detected with a PE- conjugated anti- haematobium and HIV prevalence; one of S. aza-2'-deoxycytidine, the final and ongoing goal of HLA-ABC monoclonal antibody and fluorescence haematobium prevalence, one of S. mansoni thisexperiment is to determine whether the effects measured by flow cytometry. Preliminary results prevalence and one of HIV prevalence. Statistical of 5-azacytidine on micro-RNA expression inthe HL- have shown an increase in expression in 5- analysis done demonstrates that each S. 60 cell line are the result of blocking DNA Azacytidine treated cells compared to controls, but haematobium infection per 100 people is methylation, blocking RNA methylation, or by a the magnitude of change varied among the cell associated with a 2.9% relative increase in HIV novel mechanism. We believe that these series of lines tested. Selected for presentation at prevalence. experiments will provide greater insight into the Experimental Biology 2016, San Diego, CA. ______role of micro-RNAs in cancer and help determine 47 • Finding Correlation Between 45 • The Warburg Effect: Studying whether their inhibition with 5-azacytidine is Environmental Factors and clinically relevant. Selected for presentation at Cancer Cell Metabolism with the Prevalence of Buruli Ulcer in Ghana Experimental Biology 2016, San Diego, CA. Peripheral Benzodiazepine ______ 43 • Combinatorial Effects of 5- Receptor Ligand PK11195 FABIAN THOMPSON azacytidine and Aspirin on MBA- SARAH ANSTETT, MICHAEL CUSTANCE FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI-MUENCH, FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY MD-231 Cell Line BIOLOGY Buruli Ulcer is a chronic debilitating skin and soft NICHOLAS TERRIGINO Reprogramming of energy metabolism to a state of tissue infection that can cause permanent FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, unregulated glycolysis, known as the Warburg disability and disfigurement. It is caused by the BIOLOGY Effect, is an emerging hallmark of cancer. This 42 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Posters environmental pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans, damage is irreparable. This model of cellular death hypothesis is investigated through Restriction although the mode of transmission of the disease is consistent with the activation of apoptosis seen Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLP's), allowing remains unknown. All major endemic foci of this in the gef mutants. Sequencing of chaf1b in gef us to confirm the genotype of the zebrafish with disease are in wetlands of tropical or subtropical mutant embryos has shown that the gef phenotype confidence. The identification and study of a countries, which has led to the conclusion that correlated with a three-base-pair deletion in intron gef/tp53 double heterozygous zebrafish will allow environmental factors play an essential role in the 3. To determine whether the deletion causes the us to characterize the nature and further analyze survival of the causative agent of the disease. gef phenotype, we are targeting chaf1b using the associated pathways among these mutations, Spatial analyses were conducted on a regional level CRISPR/Cas9 knockout technology. We generated which may open the door a deeper understanding in the West African nation of Ghana using a vector to create double transgenic fish. One of tp53 pathway interactions. Geographic Information Systems (GIS), allowing for transgene drives expression of Cas9 endonuclease the analysis of the spatial distribution of certain and the other a guide RNA specific to chaf1b intron BUSINESS environmental factors and their correlation to the 3 that should result in small DNA deletions only at distribution of prevalence of Buruli Ulcer. The area the same location. Selected for presentation at 52 • City on Fire of pineapple farms and mango farms in Ghana 2016 Northeast Society for Develpopmental JAMES CLARKE correlates with prevalence of the disease, as well Biology Regional Meeting, Woods Hole, MA. FACULTY SPONSOR: MANSOKKU LEE, BUSINESS as number of lagoons and citrus farms. These ______I will be running a multivariate analysis using cross results do not indicate that these factors are a 50 • Multiplex Conditional sectional data to assess the effects different direct cause of Buruli Ulcer, but there is likely a Mutagenesis in Danio Reio Using independent variables have on the amount of fire variable(s) that links these environmental factors that occurs in major US cities. My regression will be to prevalence of the disease. CRISPR/Cas9 and Multiple gRNAs run using 2014 data and I have 5 different ______BOWEN WU, JONATHAN KORDIYAK independent variables with a sample size of 15 48 • The Impact and Epidemiology FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY different cities spread across the country. of Schistosoma infection of a The good effort (gef) mutant zebrafish correlates with a 3-base DNA deletion of chromosome CENTER FOR COMMUNITY Periurban Ghanaian Community assembly factor 1b (chaf-1b) gene, which GUSTAVE LEONE, NICHOLAS WHITTEL ultimately leads to retinal degeneration caused by 53 • Experiences of Bisexual FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI-MUENCH, cell death. A recent study suggests that protein Geneseo Students BIOLOGY tp53 is responsible for signaling this apoptotic SKYLER SUSNICK Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease pathway, therefore we use an efficient, one- FACULTY SPONSOR: AIDEN CROPSEY, CENTER FOR caused by trematode worms of the Schistosoma generation multiplex conditional mutagenesis COMMUNITY genus. It affects approximately 230 million people system on zebrafish using the CRISPR/Cas9 System. This poster summarizes the findings of a focus worldwide, with cases heavily endemic to parts of The CRISPR endonuclease system is capable of group with bisexual Geneseo students and how the Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. The acute targeting a specific gene and consequently school may be able to better support these and chronic symptoms of the infection such as destroying it by inducing a Cas9-mediated double- students. decreased cognitive function and fatigue serve to strand break in the DNA. This endonuclease is keep many of those afflicted within a cycle of incapable of independent cutting, however, and poverty. Praziquantel is the drug of choice for mass requires the cooperation of specific guide-RNAs CENTER FOR INQUIRY, treatment plans and is administered intermittently (gRNAs) to target its cut sites. We plan to integrate DISCOVERY, AND DEVELOPMENT to suppress morbidity in affected populations. Our several gRNAs onto a Cas9 system in order to group measured the prevalence of Schistosoma target the tp53 gene, alongside the chaf-1b gene. 54 • Creating Common Ground: haematobium and Schistosoma mansoni infections If both chaf-1b and tp53 genes were to be silenced Cooperative Living of Geneseo which transmit the urinary and intestinal forms of via a CRISPR system, we predict that cell death will MARY AULD, GREGORY KALVIN the disease respectively. From a sample population be prevented in the induced gef-like mutants. FACULTY SPONSOR: CYNTHIA OSWALD, CENTER of 80 children and adolescents, we found that ______FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY, AND DEVELOPMENT 27.5% were infected with Schistosoma 51 • The Putative Role of Tumor Genesee Valley Cooperative is an organization of haematobium, 86% with Schistosoma mansoni, Suppressor tp53 in the Retinal and undergraduates seeking to actively engage the and 15% with both infections concurrently. Our campus and local community. Through a generous findings help to inform future mass treatment Neural Cell Degeneration of gef award from the Center for Inquiry and plans for Tomefa and make a case for the ongoing Mutants via chaf1b Induced Development, we worked toward that goal this burden of Schistosomiasis and the need for year. Through working with established alternative treatments and prevention. Apoptosis in Danio rerio community initiatives, a cooperative residence ______ROMAN RAHMANI, NOAH CHAUVIN (coop) envisions a broader purpose: to exist as a 49 • Towards Investigation of FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY medium through which individuals, regardless of Tumor Protein 53 (tp53) is a multi-functioning Small-eye Mutant using living status, can participate in and share their tumor suppressor protein which is intricately passions for the community. Our coop is a CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Targeting involved in many pathways to repair DNA, arrest "horizontal business model with an eye towards ALEXANDRA DANANBERG, HANNAH LOO, MARIA damaged cell growth and initiate apoptosis. Tp53 civic engagement and environmental SUAREZ is crucial in maintaining genetic stability and consciousness." Our presentation will focus on FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY preventing cancer formation within cells by defining the value of cooperative living to the A genetic screen to identify alleles affecting eye mediating a molecular cascade that destroys individual and to the community. In addition, we development uncovered the good effort (gef) compromised and irreparable cells. It is suspected will explain how we attained our goals this year: by mutant. The gef mutants are characterized by that the tp53 pathway might be involved in the publishing and distributing a journal of community smaller eyes relative to wild-type fish. Although gef embryonically lethal good effort (gef) mutation. events, working towards establishing a mutants exhibit smaller retinas, the lens appears The gef mutation is an allele of the chaf1b gene makerspace, and facilitating a food share, unaffected, suggesting the gef phenotype is a which is missing an exon on chromosome 9; this community dinners, and skill-sharing workshops. result of retinal-specific degeneration. Meiotic results in a prematurely truncated protein, thus mapping linked gef near the chaf1b gene, which is tampering the protein's imperative function of required for assembly of histone octamers onto histone-loading and leading to disrupted cell CHEMISTRY newly replicated DNA. Loss of chaf1b function division. It remains possible that gef mutants 55 • Synthesis of Stercobilin: A results in inability to attach DNA to new histones, morbidity is a result of an activated apoptosis Potential Biomarker for Childhood ultimately resulting in DNA damage. This damage pathway by tp53, which recognizes the erroneous activates tp53, which may trigger apoptosis if histone-loading as irreparable DNA damage. This Autism Promotes sustainability 43 Posters 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual
JORDAN COFFEY, ANDREW VADAS Previous studies to supplement/replace bone, recently have been explored as alternative liquid FACULTY SPONSOR: AMBER CHARLEBOIS, either by inducing new bone growth with bone transportation fuels. In the United States, food CHEMISTRY substitutes, or using electrical stimulation have crops such as corn and soybean are being utilized Autism is a condition that is, at present, only shown limited success. Normally, an autograft is presently as a feedstock. However, crop- based diagnosed by psychological tests and observations the most effective method for biofuels require large amounts of arable land, or by parental assessment. At this time, there is no replacing/supplementing a bone, but they come invoking competition between the energy sector quantitative method to diagnose autism. Dr. Troy with certain disadvantages. These include a limited and the global food market; thus, precluding their Wood and his team at SUNY Buffalo have observed bone supply among young patients with sole use to meet demand for domestic that children with autism have a lower underdeveloped bones, and in elderly patients transportation fuels. Fast-growing microalgae are a concentration of stercobilin (a bile pigment who, due to heightened bone fragility may not be promising alternative biofuel feedstock as they do synthesized in the small and large intestines) in able to provide a source for the autograft. In this not compete directly compete with food crops. their urine. We are collaborating with the Wood study, we present cement that is designed to act in They are also more efficient at converting sunlight team to create an internal standard that can be place of an autograft, and compare the properties into chemical energy than their terrestrial used to measure the amount of stercobilin in a of said cement to those of a pig's fibula bone. The counterparts, yielding high percentages of the fatty patient's urine. Currently, we are developing and aim is to use this model to create a system that can acids and essentials oils that can be converted optimizing a method for synthesizing stercobilin. replace autografts. Calcium phosphate cement chemically to diesel fuel. Despite these During the synthesis, we are incorporating (CPC), composed of hydroxyapatite (HA), a major advantages, there are many biological, economic, different levels of deuterium (heavy hydrogen) so component of human bone, is often the basis of and resource constraints that have limited the that the stercobilin can be labeled which would many bioactive types of cement. These cements commercialization of microalgae fuels. One allow the amount naturally occurring in a patient's have the unique ability to osseointegrate; roadblock to mass-use of microalgae farming is the urine to be quantified. Once complete, we will be however, they come with problems including a lack high cost of purchasing medium. This research on our way to create the first quantitative method of porosity and overall poor strength. In our work, focuses on the development of a low-cost algal for diagnosing autism. We report here the the ability of CPC to function as efficient bone growth medium and the biodiesel production from synthetic route and the evidence of the cement was optimized using chemical additives to algae grown using this media is compared to that spectroscopy of our stercobilin. Selected for enhance its porosity and mechanical strength. The grown using other growth media. presentation at 252nd American Chemical Society new cement was characterized using published ______National Meeting & Exposition, Philadelphia, PA. methods and the data. 60 • A Comparative Study of ______Cellulose Pretreatment Efficacies of 56 • Analysis of Native and 58 • A Comparison of Synthesized in Situ Prepared Versus Reduced Protein Structures Using and Commercially Made Ionic Commercially Available 1-Octyl-3- HPLC Liquid 1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium methylimidazolium Chloride Ionic MATTHEW STEINSALTZ, RYAN CARPENTER Chloride and Its Role in the FACULTY SPONSOR: AMBER CHARLEBOIS, Liquid for Biofuel Production CHEMISTRY Cellulose Extraction of Rice Husks RUSHKA KALLICHARAN Typically in the undergraduate biochemistry JANE MATHEWS FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, curriculum High Performance Liquid FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, CHEMISTRY Chromatography (HPLC) is used for purification CHEMISTRY Almost all of the world's largest energy sources are purposes; however, there is potential for its use in Fossil fuel depletion and its overwhelming being used up at an alarmingly increasing rate, structural analysis. We are in the process of contribution of carbon dioxide levels in the meaning that sooner or later, they will run out, and developing a novel biochemistry laboratory atmosphere paves the way for the use of biofuels when they do, what will the world rely on for experiment that will investigate structural as a more environmentally and economically energy? Researchers are in a race to find other modifications: native (completely folded), friendly use of fuel. The biofuels used in this means of energy to be used as fuel, not only denatured (partially unfolded), and reduced research are second-generation biofuels, using because the increasing depletion rate of our main (completely unfolded) forms of proteins, only the inedible part of the plant. The inedible sources of energy, but also because the increasing specifically, Bovine Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor part of the plant known as lignocellulose consists carbon dioxide levels that are produced from their (BPTI) and α-chymotrypsin. This is done using of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. For cellulose uses, which contribute to a rise in the Earth's reverse phase HPLC (HPLC-RP), a vital technique for to be broken down into glucose, ionic liquids are overall temperature. Though there have been chemical analysis. The chromatographic results of used as a pretreatment method. The focus of our advances made with wind energy, solar energy, our investigation are reported here using mass study is the synthesis and purification of ionic liquid and, hydroelectric energy, there are still more ways spectrometry (MS) as our detection method. Once 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride in order to to improve biofuel energy. The goal of this study established, this analysis will be optimized and see a difference between in situ and commercially was to synthesize a potentially cheaper ionic liquid, transformed into an upper level undergraduate made ionic liquids and to reduce the cost value of 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride, then biochemistry lab that will provide students with a the research itself. After synthesizing this ionic compare its cellulose pretreatment abilities from deeper understanding and elucidation of protein liquid, purification and characterization will be rice husks to a previous extraction done using the structure, oxidation/reduction reactions, as well as employed through various techniques such as commercially available version of the IL. The hands on experience with HPLC. Selected for CNMR, HNMR, IR, UV analysis, and boiling point extractions followed a previously formed presentation at 252nd American Chemical Society temperature. The synthesized ionic liquid and the procedure. Different analyses such as running and National Meeting & Exposition, Philadelphia, PA. commercially bought ionic liquid will be compared processing 13CNMR, 1H-NMR, UV-Vis, IR, were ______to note which one is able to provide the best carried out to characterize the IL, comparing the 57 • Synthesis, Characterization glucose yields. molecular makeup of the synthesized IL versus the ______and Augmentation of the Chemical commercial IL. The results are presented and 59 • Microalgae Farming in Action: discussed. and Mechanical Properties of An Analysis of the Efficacy of ______Calcium Phosphate Bioactive Growth Media 61 • The Biological Significance of Cement for Use in Critical Bone JASMINE BELOY, JORDAN GRIFFEN Two Dual Oriented Pal Proteins Fracture Repairs FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, from Gram-negative Bacteria DYLAN OFRI, SABRINA MEDINA , SPOZHMAI CHEMISTRY RUSHKA KALLICHARAN QADIRI Reliance on dwindling reserves of fossil fuels poses FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, a major threat to future economic and energy CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY security, worldwide. Plant biomass-derived fuels 44 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Posters
Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) and The structures of the products were determined a zinc complex with 80.75% yield. 1H NMR studies Escherichia coli (E. coli) are Gram-negative bacteria and analyzed by 1H NMR and IR spectroscopies. were inconclusive in determining structure, but IR that each express a peptidoglycan associated Absorbance and emission spectra were also studies suggest bidentate binding of zinc to two lipoprotein, P6 in NTHi and Pal in E. coli. obtained. The synthetic details and spectroscopic mono-substituted benzimidazole ligands through Surprisingly, both proteins have been shown to results of this novel benzimidazole will be the phenolic oxygen and imidazole nitrogen. exhibit dual orientation [1, 2]. The majority of presented. ______P6/Pal can be found in the periplasm of the cell ______66 • Structural Characterization of while a small population of P6 and Pal are toward 64 • Synthesis of Novel Biphenyl- the Reaction Products of Zinc the extracellular space. Here we report on our ester Gelators: the Role of studies which demonstrate the biological Chloride and Two relevance of P6 and Pal dual orientation. We Cholesteryl vs. Methyl and Ethyl Phenylenediamines employed several protein detection methods to Esters on Aggregation and Gelation PATRICIA ZICK elucidate the two orientations of P6 in NTHi under Behavior FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID GEIGER, CHEMISTRY various biologically relevant conditions. More Hydrogen bonding plays important roles in areas specifically, a cell-permeable biotinylation reagent, WILLIAM ROBERTS, DOMINIC MORELL FACULTY SPONSOR: CRISTINA GEIGER, CHEMISTRY ranging from drug design to crystal engineering. (NHS-LC-LC-biotin) and streptavidin-agarose beads The presence of two hydrogen-bond to separate the outward and inward facing The synthesis and gelation ability of 4,4'-bis-(7- methyloxycarbonyl heptyloxy) biphenyl (BBO8- donor/acceptor groups in diaminobenzene makes proteins. We also used protein detection and it a good structural scaffold for exploring purification methods to detect whether or not Pal Me) and 4,4'-bis-(7- ethyloxycarbonyl heptyloxy) biphenyl (BBO8-Et) is reported. These gelators unconventional hydrogen-bonding interactions in and P6 are released from their bacteria in the the solid state. Reaction of o-phenylenediamine presence of human sera. These release studies form 1.5% (w/w) stable gels in n-octanol and n- butanol. Previously we reported the formation of with zinc chloride in ethanol results in the have great biological significance, as released Pal formation of a tetrahedrally-coordinated zinc has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Gram- chiral gels with similar biphenyl gelators containing a cholesteryl moiety instead of an alkyl group. We complex with two chloride anions and a bidentate negative sepsis. Selected for presentation at phenylenediamine ligand. The compound Rochester Institute of Technology Undergraduate attributed the stability and chirality of those gels to the stacking of the cholesterol moiety as one of the crystallizes in the orthorhombic spacegroup Pnma Summer Research Symposium 2015, Rochester, with the zinc atom and the o-phenylenediamine NY. primary driving forces for gelation. BBO8-Me and BBO8-Et gels were investigated by circular ligand residing on a mirror plane. In contrast, the ______previously reported product prepared from zinc 62 • Identifying Reproducible dichroism (CD), absorption, and fluorescence spectroscopies. BBO8-Me forms chiral gels in both acetate exhibits a zinc coordination sphere Methods for Microalgae Biodiesel solvents as observed by induced circular dichroism composed of two monodentate acetate ligands Production (ICD) spectroscopy. BBO8-Et does not form chiral and two monodentate o-phenylenediamine gels in either solvent. On the basis of x-ray ligands [Geiger, D. K. Acta Cryst. 2012, E68, m1040] SHANNON MURPHY, COLLEEN STEWARD and use of chloro and cyano-substituted o- FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, diffraction (XRD) data and molecular modeling, we propose packing modes for the formation of the phenylenediamine ligands yields coordination CHEMISTRY polymer [Geiger, D. K.; Parsons, D. E. Acta Cryst. Reliance on dwindling reserves of fossil fuels poses organogelator aggregates. We suggest the driving forces of aggregation to be a combination of 2014, E70, m247-m248]. Under similar reaction a major threat to future economic and energy conditions employing m-phenylenediamine, the security, worldwide. Fast-growing microalgae are a electrostatic interactions between the carbonyl of the esteryl moiety and the oxygen on the biphenyl diprotonated diamine is isolated as the promising biofuel feedstock because they require tetrachlorozincate salt, which crystallizes in the less arable land than plants and yield high group, hydrophobic interactions between the methylene chain and CH∙∙∙π interactions. orthorhombic spacegroup Pna21. The percentages of the fatty acids and essentials oils benzenediammonium ions form planes parallel to that can be converted chemically to diesel fuel. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used for the investigation of the morphology of the the ab plane. Extensive N-H…Cl hydrogen-bonding Despite these advantages, commercialization is networks are observed in both compounds. The limited in part by the efficiency of the required xerogels. Selected for presentation at 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting & extended structures of these compounds will be chemical processes. This work aims to identify reported. Selected for presentation at 251st reproducible methods for producing biodiesel Exposition, San Diego, CA. ______American Chemical Society National Meeting & from dried algae (Chlorella) sources, so that future Exposition, San Diego, CA. researchers may test improved methodologies. To 65 • Synthesis and Characterization ______this end, organic extraction (2:1 chloroform of Benzimidazole-based Ligands 67 • Studying Cadmium with methanol) was employed to remove lipids from the algae cells. In a second step, transesterification was with Nitrogen and Oxygen Donating Mercury: An Examination of Two performed with methanol and an acid catalyst to Ligands Coordination Polymers convert algae lipids into crude biodiesel (methyl JOSEPH MELUNI SAMUEL WEINSTEIN esters). These crude lipid and biodiesel products FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID GEIGER, CHEMISTRY FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID GEIGER, CHEMISTRY were analyzed using published methods and the Benzimidazole derivatives have a myriad of uses as Mercury, a free program developed by the results are presented hereafter. pharmaceuticals including serotonin receptor Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), is ______antagonists, DNA intercalators, fungicides, small a powerful tool for the visualization and 63 • Synthesis and Characterization molecule storing MOFs, orally potent anti-anxiety investigation of crystal structures, allowing users to of Novel Benzimidazole Derivative drugs and even anti-microbial properties. Our explore networks of intermolecular contacts in research efforts involve the synthesis and PATRICIA ZICK order to study and understand properties of highly characterization of novel benzimidazole FACULTY SPONSOR: CRISTINA GEIGER, CHEMISTRY ordered crystalline solids. Using Mercury, we have compounds with the potential to bind transition Benzimidazole derivatives have a broad range of analyzed the bonding and structure of two metal ions. The reaction of 4,5-dimethyl-1,2- biological activities and play an important role in cadmium-based coordination polymers phenyldiamine and salicylaldehyde refluxed in the medical field. Benzimidazole derivatives have synthesized in our research group with the DMF resulted in the synthesis of 5,6-dimethyl-2- displayed many pharmacological activities such as formulas C10H15CdN2O4.5 and C10H14CdN2O4. (phen-2-ol)-1H-benzimidazole (mono-substituted antimicrobial, antiviral, antidiabetic, anticancer, These inorganic coordination polymers are benzimidazole) with 49.93% yield. This mono- antihistaminic, anti-ulcerative, antiallergenic, and examples of metal- organic frameworks, in which substituted benzimidazole product was antipyretic activity. The novel benzimidazole, 2- metal cation centers are linked by organic ligands characterized through 1H NMR, gCOSY, and [phenyl-4-(8-oxymethyloctanoate)]-1H- to give potentially porous materials, which have HSQCAD studies in deuterated DMSO. A benzimidazole, was successfully synthesized in the use in separation science, gas or liquid purification, subsequent reaction of the mono-substituted lab in a multistep reaction with a yield of 19.9%. benzimidazole with zinc acetate dihydrate yielded Promotes sustainability 45 Posters 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual and catalysis. The results of our investigation will Multisampling of Trans-Resveratrol ______be presented. 73 • Photo-Physical Behavior of in Red Wines by Orbital Agitation ______CdSe Quantum Dots in Controlled 68 • Synthesis and Characterization and Subsequent HPLC Analysis JULEN BASCARAN, CAROLYN THORNTON, SIYEON Environments of Apocynin Dimer Derivatives BRANDON MEHLENBACHER BREANN COFFARO CHOI, MICHAL ZWEIG FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES BOIANI, CHEMISTRY FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY PETERSON, FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID JOHNSON, CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY Current experimental evidence strongly suggests Trans-resveratrol has been hypothesized as a possible explanation for the cardioprotective The photo-physical behavior of single CdSe that oxidative stress, or reactive oxygen species quantum dots were studied using single molecule (ROS), play a major role in the genesis of many effects of red wine. Wine composition varies widely based on factors including but not limited to fluorescence spectroscopy in a controlled inflammatory diseases. High levels of ROS cause a atmosphere. CdSe quantum dots were synthesized myriad of problems within the endothelial wall, the: fermentation time, grape variety, and origin of the vintage. Therefore it is useful to be able to and single molecule samples were prepared using particularly the formation of lesions and increased conventional techniques. Following the synthesis, permeability. From these studies it was determine the amount of trans-resveratrol in the wine. Previous studies have confirmed that the use the blinking trajectories (fluorescence intensity vs hypothesized that compounds that inhibit NADPH time) were then studied in atmospheric conditions. oxidase may be of potential pharmaceutical value. of Solid Phase Micro Extraction (SPME) C-18 Silica micro fibers is applicable to the determination of The entire system was then sealed in a glovebox Apocynin, a structural analog of vanillin, is a where no atmospheric oxygen came into contact NADPH oxidase inhibitor that has shown great trans-resveratrol concentration in wine. Current fibers are advertised as single use, and therefore with the quantum dots and the same approach was promise as a therapeutic agent against taken. Surprisingly, quantum dots kinetic patterns inflammatory processes. The Johnson team is can become a financial burden for institutions utilizing these fibers. The experiment at hand looks are sensitive to surface conditions on the surface working with deviations of apocynin analogs of quantum dot with an on slope value of -1.60±.05 including 4-fluoro-2-methoxy phenol compound into the reusability, reliability, and continual efficiency of these SPME fibers for the analysis of in the nitrogen tank and an on slope of -2.78±.13 in followed by the 4-bromo-2-methoxyphenol ambient conditions. These conditions include the compound. The goal is to work on a dimerization trans-resveratrol. Through HPLC analysis and concurrent comparison using an established composition, environment of measurement, and reaction from the starting materials. It is likely that size of the molecule. Control experiments that most of these compounds will readily form the separation method (Solid Phase Extraction), this experiment will allow for further insight into the followed showed that this isn't due to sampling and dimer because they are closely related to the that the quantum dots blinking kinetics are highly structure of apocynin with a small deviation. It is reusability of SPME fibers. Selected for presentation at 251st American Chemical Society sensitive to oxygen exposure. These results also thought that these dimers are more effective in indicate an important role in surface composition inhibiting the MPO from being produced due to National Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, CA. ______of CdSe quantum dots and their blinking behavior. their more electron withdrawing groups. So far, the 71 • Detection in Polycyclic ______team has successfully created the two 74 • Green Synthesis of Water aforementioned dimers and is now looking into a Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) in Soluble CdSe Quantum Dots as third analog, 4-chloro-2-methoxyphenol. Selected Water using HPLC and LC-MS for presentation at 251st American Chemical MICHAL ZWEIG, SIYEON CHOI Biological Light Probes Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES BOIANI, CHEMISTRY BRENDAN SMITH CA. FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY PETERSON, ______Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are carcinogenic and need to be kept out of the CHEMISTRY 69 • Determination of the drinking water. The EPA tests for their presence An inexpensive and rapid procedure has been Carotenoid Content of the Berries using gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC- developed for the solubilization of CdSe/CdS of Feral Populations of MS). We investigated the feasibility of using liquid- core/shell quantum dots in water. Hydrophobic chromatography-mass spectroscopy (LC-MS) and solubilization of the nanocrystals is achieved by the Autumnberry (Elaeagnus high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) with use of an oleic acid surfactant coating. The oleic umbellate) UV-Vis compound identification to test PAH acid surfactant coating is believed to form a head BRITTANY ABRAHAM, STEPHANIE SOJDA presence in water as an alternative method. To do to tail arrangement with the native oleic acid FACULTY SPONSOR: ERIC HELMS, CHEMISTRY this, we need to find the proper conditions at ligands on the QDs in a micelle-like structure. The Autumnberry shrubs, native to Asia, produce a rich which PAHs would separate from each other. The transfer of the QDs from their native hydrophobic harvest of berries in the fall months of September compounds will be identified by their UV-Vis medium to water resulted in a near 100% percent and October. The hearty bushes can grow in a spectrum and their mass spectrum. transfer efficiency. No significant difference in variety of environments and conditions, and their ______photoluminescence quantum yield was seen berries are rich in the antioxidant lycopene. Ounce 72 • Detection of Pesticides in between CdSe/CdS QDs in water when compared to CdSe/CdS QDs in their native organic solvent. for ounce, autumnberries have 17 times the Locally Produced Honey amount of lycopene as a tomato, the primary The uptake of CdSe/CdS core/shell oleic acid VICTORIA KOMPANIJEC, CHRISTOPHER KUBOW micelles by Escherichia coli K12 was also source of lycopene in the western diet. Lycopene FACULTY SPONSOR: JAY CHARLEBOIS, CHEMISTRY has been associated with various health benefits investigated a potential application for water Colony collapse disorder and other diseases have soluble quantum dots. Future projects will aim to including the prevention of cancer and heart caused the honey bee population to plummet in disease, two leading causes of death in the United investigate the efficiency of the QD oleic acid past years. Many people believe that pesticide use micelle as H2 photogeneraters, as well as States. The berries studied were obtained from is a contributing factor to this decrease. This feral plants in Geneseo, NY, as well as Long Island inexpensive biomarkers, and heavy metal sensors. experiment aims to develop a simple and efficient ______in the months of September and October. The method of detecting trace amounts of pesticide in 75 • Separation of Single-Walled carotenoids were extracted using an organic honey samples. Currently, samples are prepared solvent system, and analysis via UV-Vis using the QuEChERS (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Efficient, Carbon Nanotubes by Gel spectroscopy confirmed that the primary Rugged and Safe) method and run through an Chromatography and Aqueous carotenoid present was lycopene. The amount of HPLC/MS. Several calibration curves have been Two-Phase Extraction lycopene in various extracted samples was created by spiking small amounts of pesticide into ELLEN COONEY determined and compared to previously reported honey, and plotting the concentration of pesticide FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY PETERSON, values from commercialized autumnberry shrubs. against the area of the resulting peak. In the future, ______CHEMISTRY more honey samples from local sources around Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) exhibit 70 • Refining a Solid Phase Micro- New York State will be tested for the presence of unique and chirality-dependent optical and Extraction Method for the pesticides. 46 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Posters electronic properties that make them promising amyloid growth. As the size of the gold particles another, allowing unfavorable interactions to be materials for use in various next-generation increased from 10 nm to 100 nm, the fluorescence minimized. A drastic quenching of the fluorescence optoelectronic technologies. One challenge for intensity varied throughout, meanwhile was observed in both highly acidic and basic SWNT researchers is the development of efficient fluorescence decay trend demonstrates a longer conditions. The source of the quenching in highly methods to separate and purify the different SWNT lifetime decay with increasing size of amyloid beta acidic conditions is due to a network formed chiralities that exist in as-synthesized samples. A coated gold nanocolloids. There was no size between unfolded monomers. Increased contact number of different methods have been explored dependence observed in the gold nanocolloids between the folded monomer and the nanogold in the literature, including electrophoretic without the presence of β2m peptide. colloidal surface is a major source of quenching at separation, density gradient ultracentrifugation, ______highly basic conditions. Selected for presentation and diameter-selective solubilization. Here, we 78 • Direct Probing of the at 251st American Chemical Society National present efforts to separate SWNTs using size- Reversible Self-assembly of Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, CA. exclusion gel chromatography and sodium dodecyl ______sulfate. Starting from a parent sample containing Amyloid Beta Peptide and Beta2m 80 • Probing Diffusion Rate and 16 different chiralities that range in relative Oligomers over Nanoscale Metal Internal Peptide Dynamics in a Sol- abundance from 2-12%, we demonstrate the ability to separate out multiple individual chiralities Colloidal Surfaces Gel Matrix: Fluorescence and with purities >90%. Challenges and opportunities ELIZABETH D'AMBROSIO, NICOLE RALBOVSKY Lifetime Decay Studies of associated with this methodology will also be FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, discussed. Selected for presentation at 251st CHEMISTRY Fluorescein-Tagged Amyloid Beta American Chemical Society National Meeting & Both amyloid beta protein and β2 microglobulin are Peptide Exposition, San Diego, CA. amyloidogenic, and their aggregation abilities are JOE CHAPMAN, WILLIAM DOWNS, MAGGIE LUCE, ______of great interest in disease. We investigated RANDHIR SHAH 76 • Conjugation Size Dependence oligomer formation of Aβ1-40 and β2m monomers FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, over nano gold colloidal surfaces as folded and of Fluorescein Tagged Amyloid Beta CHEMISTRY unfolded conformations of the monomers were Hydrogels are very popular, serving as an advanced 1-40 on Gold Colloidal Nanoparticle induced by an external change in pH. Transmission drug delivery method to carry and release drugs to electron microscopy (TEM) was used to probe the specific parts of the body. Our group is attempting Surfaces conformation of the protein situated on metal YEZHONG LU, TARIK JAMES to design a silica sol-gel material-based drug colloid. Using circular dichromism spectroscopy, delivery capsule similar to hydrogels with FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGA YOKOYAMA, the secondary structures responsible for binding to CHEMISTRY sensitivity-controlled diffusion rate parameters. gold surfaces and for protein networking were Inserting a peptide into the sol-gel alters solvent One of the key causes of Alzheimer's disease is investigated. CD spectroscopy revealed an increase incorrect protein folding - fiber formation of diffusion rates because it changes conformation, in alpha helix formation when β2m interacted with possibly blocking gel cavities where solvent amyloid beta protein. More interestingly, amyloid gold. Reduced networking under high pH beta proteins exhibit various shapes depending on normally diffuses through. However, extracting the conditions as seen on TEM indicates that alpha expression of the structural changes occurring is a whether the temperature is higher or lower than helical coils could support the binding and human body temperature. Therefore, our group is challenging study. To probe the peptide dynamics networking of β2m. Overall, we have obtained aiming to investigate the effect of temperature in the gel matrix, fAβ (fluorescein attached to evidence for controlling a degree of Aβ and β2m control on the protein to hopefully find the Amyloid Beta 1-40) is encapsulated into a sol-gel networking by varying pH conditions. Thus, it matrix and subject to fluorescence and lifetime relationship between temperature and protein provided us with a further understating of the conformational change. The structure change was decay assays at different temperatures and pH peptide networking processes taking place in levels to determine both the solvent diffusion rates successfully monitored through a combination of a fibrillogenesis. Selected for presentation at 251st dye-encapsulated protein, a pulse laser-system and the peptide structural changes occurring. In American Chemical Society National Meeting & addition, different sizes of gold or silver and temperature control equipment. Exposition, San Diego, CA. ______nanoparticles ranging from 10nm-100nm were ______77 • Detection of Beta 2- added into the gel to observe their effects. The 79 • Studying Amyloid Peptide diffusion rates and peptide dynamics were Microglobulin aggregates with Oligomer Dynamics over minimally affected by temperature change. varying gold sizes and pH's utilizing Nanometer-interface However, they were found to be sensitive to pH change, which implies that the stable conformation Thioflavin-T assay HONGLING CHEN, MAGGIE LUCE, NICOLE at each pH level reflects on the coverage of the DIMITRA ANASTASOPOULOS, JAISON MEDAYIL ROUNTREE cavity, which in turn affects the solvent diffusion FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, rate. Selected for presentation at 251st American CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, β2-microglobulin (β2m) is known to be the major The conformation of Fab, Amyloid peptide 1-40 San Diego, CA. component of fibrillar deposits causing (Aβ1-40) with N-terminal attached fluoresein was ______amyloidosis. The aggregation of the β2m leads to investigated as the peptide attached to a nanogold the formation of amorphous aggregates, and these colloid. Various sizes of nanogold colloids were 81 • Peptide Coverage and Packing aggregates leads to amyloids which bind to the used and the picosecond fluorescence dynamics of on Gold Nanocolloid Surface dye, thioflavin T (ThT). In order to systematically fluorescein reflecting the conformation of Aβ1-40 KIERAN BROWN, PETER SHEVLIN test the effect of surface potential to the formation were observed. The fluorescence intensity FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, of aggregates, various sizes of gold nanoparticles, increased when Aβ1-40 was adsorbed on a gold CHEMISTRY and varying pH environments were used. The colloid; however, no significant change in dynamics We investigated the effect of Alpha-synuclein and energy transfer took place during the aggregation was found for any given size of nanogold colloid. Beta 2 microglubulin protein coverage on gold process, and it was monitored by fluorescence The lifetime was slowed as the size of the gold nanocolloids in differing pH solutions. An decay time with sub nanosecond time resolution. colloid was increased, resulting in nanosize experiment on the peak absorbance wavelength of It was also monitored with a fluorometer to dependent dynamics. The enhancement of gold nanoparticles provided insight towards a measure intensity of ThT fluorescence. The fluoresence due to the presence of the gold relationship between surface coverage of the aggregates were believed to be constructed out of colloids supports that nonradiative channels were nanoparticles and the first derivative of λpeak with several types of oligomers. Our hypothesis was closed. Based on these results, it is thought that the respect to pH. These relationships hold the key to that as the gold size increased the fluorescence Aβ1-40 monomers align in an organized way along understanding the structure and packing intensity would increase as well. We also the conformation of the oligomer while arrangement of the proteins on the gold surface. hypothesized that a neutral pH would inhibit maintaining enough distance between one Current theoretical models are aimed at the goal of Promotes sustainability 47 Posters 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual minimizing the potential energy of the polypeptide 84 • An Investigation of Nanoscale The conformation of amyloid beta peptide 1-40 arrangements. (Aβ1-40) was investigated through picosecond ______Folding and Unfolding of fluorescence dynamics of directly attached 82 • Investigation of an Effect of Ovalbumin Protein fluorescein (fluorescein attached Amyloid beta 1- Peptide Fiber Formation to Solvent NICOLE RALBOVSKY, JONATHAN BEKOE, HENRY 40, fAβ) to its N-terminal as they were adsorbed HO, JACK EHRET over nanogold colloidal particles. While the Diffusion Rate in a Sol-Gel Matrix FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, components of the band of fluorescence remained KUN IL CHUNG, SUNGAH KIM, JUNG BAN, CHEMISTRY constant with or without the presence of (Aβ1-40), JECEACA AN The goal of this research project is to see how the entire peak intensity has been increased as FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, different levels of basicity or acidity will affect FAï•¢ weakly bind to gold colloid. For the same CHEMISTRY ovalbumin protein that is situated over gold colloidal size, there was no significant Background: Currently, the drug delivery nanoparticles. At different sized gold nanoparticles difference in dynamics was found in the presence technology utilizes sophisticated systems, which ranging between 10 nm and 100nm and at of gold colloid. The fluorescence decay time of the allows specific drug delivery along with persistent different pH levels (pH2-pH12), conformational excited state of fAβ showed evidence of an or controlled release of drugs. Exceptionally, silica change of ovalbumin monomers or aggregates increasing trend as a function of nanogold colloidal gel based materials are bioactive and is regarded to were confirmed through the use of the circular size adsorbed, and a distinct size dependence of be an accurate drug delivery in the biomedical and dichroism (CD) spectroscopic technique within the dynamics was confirmed when fAβ was attached dental field. However, many drugs cannot be able range of 190-600nm. At lower pH levels, the over nanogold colloids. The enhancement of to go through the gastrointestinal tract due to their protein formed a beta-sheet, and at basic fluoresce due to gold colloids closed the channels poor physicochemical properties, a high first-pass conditions, the protein was an alpha helical of nonradiative. The fluorescence intensity and metabolism in the liver, or degradation in the acidic structure. It was discovered that the 20nm gold fluorescence decay are inversely proportional to environment of the stomach. Our research team nanoparticle size and at acidic conditions, there the pH varied between pH 2 and pH 12. The attempted to design a silica Sol-Gel material with a was the greatest difference in data taken with and shortening in decay time correspond to the sensitively controlled diffusion rate parameters. To without the addition of the protein. The spectra for quenching of the fluorescence at highly acidic and probe the peptide dynamics in the gel matrix, fAβ these conditions also showed a shift in peak basic conditions. This feature was regarded as a (fluorescein attached to Amyloid Beta 1-40) is position as well as a less enhanced negative signal. general trend for any nanogold colloidal size tested encapsulated into a sol-gel matrix and subjected to This evidence is a strong indication that 20 nm gold in this work. It is consistent with the decay. fluorescence and lifetime decay assays at different nanoparticles have the largest effect on protein Selected for presentation at 42nd Annual Fall pH levels to determine both the solvent diffusion folding, which can allow us to better monitor the Scientific Paper Session, Finger Lakes Community rates and the peptide structural changes occurring. mechanism of protein folding. College, Canandaigua, NY. In addition, different sizes of gold nanoparticles ______ranging from 10nm- 100nm will be added into the 85 • Size Dependence of Beta2- 87 • Interaction between MbtH-like gel to observe their effects. ______microglobulin Placed over Gold Proteins and Enzymes within NRPS 83 • Nano Size and pH Dependence Nanoparticles Observed under Pathways JAKE CANAVAN of Interfacial Self-assembly of β2 Transmission Electron Microscopy FACULTY SPONSOR: WENDY POGOZELSKI, NIKKEL GOHEL, ELIZABETH D'AMBROSIO, Microglobulin Peptide CHEMISTRY MADELINE TUCKER, SHOURIK DUTTA, JESSICA MASON BLADIS, DAVID HARTNETT, MONICA Non-ribosomal peptide synthetases are series of BATTAGLIA PUJOLS enzymes that create unique natural products FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, serving a variety of different purposes. These CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY enzymes are often coexpressed with smaller Nanoparticles may be used as sensing materials for Our group has discovered that a selective proteins called MbtH-like proteins (MLPs), which the onset of neurodegenerative diseases such as oligomerization of amyloid peptide (β2m) is are needed by the adenylation domains of these Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Our group possible over the nanoscale gold colloidal surface enzymes in order to properly function. Two such has successfully observed how aggregate with an external pH change. Remarkably, a type of enzymes, PvdL and EntF, and their respective MLPs formation of the amyloid protein Beta2- oligomer depends on the size of nanogold colloid. (PA2412 and YbdZ) are the subjects of this study of microglobulin (β2m) depends on pH and gold This was speculated to be due to a most effective NRPS enzyme/MLP interactivity. PA2412 was colloid size. Using Transmission Electron oligomer unit to cover a maximum surface area of mutated in order to study the importance of N- Microscopy (TEM), the morphologies of β2m the gold colloidal surface in an organized manner. terminal residues in MLPs. YbdZ was added to EntF aggregations were observed in vitro attaching to So that monomers composing these oligomers can crystals in an attempt to crystalize a module with gold nano colloid in water. The presence of colloid reversely conform in unfolded and folded an MLP bound to it. The mutated N- terminal aggregation indicates the initial stages of oligomer conformation under an external pH 4 and pH 10, residues seem to play a role stabilizing MLPs bound formation in neurodegenerative diseases. From respectively. Further investigation is being done to to A-domains, as demonstrated by both thermal the tested colloidal sizes, 30 nm, 50 nm and 80 nm discover the type of oligomer that is being formed. shift and activity assays. The EntF crystal seed were found to display the largest respective We investigate the absorbance change in SPR recrystallized in the presence of YbdZ, although the differences in particle dispersion between acidic (Surface Plasmon Resonance) band under the exact structure of this new crystal is still unknown. and basic pH conditions. Particularly large condition where a solvent is at room temperature By diffracting and solving this crystal structure, aggregates were observed in when using 30 nm in order to confirm the stability of gold colloid due more light can be shed on just how important these gold under acidic pH. Using imaging software the to protection provided by the peptide. Correlations N-terminal residues are when it comes to intramolecular distances between gold nano between the size of the gold colloid surface and MLP/adenylation domain binding. Selected for colloid indicated uniformity, a phenomenon often optimal coverage of the peptide were analyzed and presentation at 2015 Buffalo Summer Research seen as a precursor to the formation of cross-β- it was determined that 30 nm was optimal for Day, University at Buffalo, NY. sheet structure seen in mature fibrils. surface coverage and 50 nm had the best ______reversibility for folding and unfolding of the 86 • Dynamic Probe of Amyloid 88 • Effects of Elevated Levels of peptide. Selected for presentation at 251st the Mitochondrial DNA 4977-bp American Chemical Society National Meeting & Beta Peptide 1-40 Oligomer at Exposition, San Diego, CA. Common Deletion on Human ______Nanoscale Interfacial Environment PEI YI CHOO Lymphoblast Growth and FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, Metabolism CHEMISTRY MICHELLE GULFO 48 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Posters
FACULTY SPONSORS: WENDY POGOZELSKI, sexualized images of Asian female characters CHEMISTRY AND ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY influence how males of other races, including EDUCATION Defects in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are White males, perceive Asian females in an altered associated with aging and degenerative diseases. way. Selected for presentation at Eastern 92 • Olivia: The Effect Deafness Has One such defect called the Common Deletion is a Communication Association Undergraduate On a Student's Education large-scale 4977-bp deletion in human mtDNA Scholar's Conference , Baltimore, MD BREEANNA DEXTER, KAYLAN RUIZ, CAYLEY (δmtDNA4977) that affects cellular growth and ______BREGE, KATHERINE BENSBURG energy production. We are studying the growth 90 • Can Given Names Give FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, and metabolism of human lymphoblasts (white Empowerment? The Effects of Non- EDUCATION blood cells) bearing elevated levels of This poster presents Olivia, a 13 year old girl who δmtDNA4977 to better understand how this Conventional Names on Women at the age of 3 acquired severe hearing loss after particular defect affects cell function. These LEANDRA GRIFFITH suffering from meningitis. She is now considered to lymphoblasts are derived from a boy with Pearson FACULTY SPONSOR: ATSUSHI TAJIMA, be profoundly deaf. We present information about syndrome, an incurable and often fatal disease in COMMUNICATION how Olivia became deaf and how it has affected which cells of the bone marrow and pancreas bear This study examines the function of non- her education. We discuss accommodations and elevated levels of δmtDNA4977. We are obtaining conventional first names on women based on the modifications that have been provided for her and foundational data on these and normal perceptions of the individual who holds the name, the related services she needs to facilitate learning. lymphoblasts to investigate how mitochondrial the parent that gives the names, and the authors In addition, we describe how Olivia gets through a defects such as the Common Deletion affect of baby-name media that advise expecting parents school day and how her deafness has affected her cellular growth patterns, energetic profiles, and in name selection. There is a rising trend in parents social interactions with her hearing peers in the response to supplements. We hope that these naming their daughters non-conventional names, classroom. studies will lead to better understanding of the role and the feminist movement has gained its highest ______of mtDNA defects in human pathologies and to the number of supporters to date. Recognizing how 93 • Exploring Attention Deficit development of preventive or corrective therapies gendered today's institutions still are, parents try Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) for them. to provide as much support toward individualism EMILY WIDGER, SARAH HARTNETT, MICHAELA ______and empowerment as possible for their daughters. 221 • Synthesis of a Novel Their attempts begin with a non-conventional first DURR, RYANNE KAMINSKI name. My poster presentation centers on FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, Photoreversible Stilbene educating peers and faculty about the power and EDUCATION Hydrogelator meaning that a simple first name has on an This poster presents a mock-case study of a nine- ERIC NAIOTI individual and their relationships with those year-old girl, named Annie, who has been FACULTY SPONSOR: CRISTINA GEIGER, CHEMISTRY around them. I will present the findings of my diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity Photoreversible hydrogels have many potential study, the implications that come from the disorder (ADHD). ADHD is a developmental uses in the biomedical and pharmaceutical fields. It characteristics of one's name, and future disability, which usually begins in childhood and has been reported in prior research that a peptide- predictions on the long-term effects our society can continue into adulthood. Annie struggles with based molecule can form a gel when attached to may see. Selected for presentation at Eastern concentrating and being distracted during classes an aromatic moiety and that a stilbene-based Communication Association Undergraduate and tests. This poster presents Annie symptoms, molecule has photoreversible gelation potential Scholar's Conference, Baltimore, MD. the cause of the disability, educational when attached to a long hydrophobic tail. This ______implications, related services, and common project focuses on the synthesis of a novel 91 • Occupational Therapy and misconceptions about her disability. Annie's progression into special education and the details photoreversible gel that combined a stilbene Nonverbal Communication moiety and a phenylalanine base, each of which of her Section 504 plan are described in the poster. SKYE CARDONA ______show gelation potential. The total synthesis of this FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDREW HERMAN, molecule is still in progress. Selected for 94 • What Makes Jimmy COMMUNICATION presentation at Undergraduate Research Occupational Therapy aims to help patients return Exceptional? A Case Study of a Symposium for the Rochester Local Section of the to their daily "occupations" after an injury, a Learner with Autism Spectrum American Chemical Society, Rochester, NY. cognitive deficiency, surgery, visual problem, loss Disorder COMMUNICATION of memory, and general aging. It is critical that the KELSEY HUNT, JOHN CUTRONE, TAYLOR CHIOLA, therapist understand not only the individual but COLIN SUGRUE 89 • Male Seeks Exotic Wife: What the breadth of the age and subject group the FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, Might Media Reveal About Racism individual is a part of as well. In order to gain insight EDUCATION into the patient's life, an OT must have excellent and Sexism? Come take a look at what makes Jimmy an communication skills. To investigate the vital exceptional learner and learn about autism ANNA FONG applications and techniques of communication spectrum disorder! Autism spectrum disorder FACULTY SPONSOR: ATSUSHI TAJIMA, that play a role in Occupation Therapy, five (ASD) is a developmental disability that occurs on a COMMUNICATION currently employed Occupational Therapists were wide spectrum of abilities often denoted by This study explores how racism and sexism interviewed about their personal experiences. significant communication, social and behavioral intersects in romantic relationships. Racism and Overall, the data reflects a need for instances of exceptionalities. According to the DSM-5, the sexism have been perceived as major social explicit verbal communication. However, OTs following three areas characterize autism problems—perhaps independent to each other— seemed to favor particular facets of nonverbal spectrum disorder: social interaction, for a substantial duration in the United States. communication in order to connect, treat, create a communication skills, and repetitive and However, the growth of interracial romantic rapport with, and educate patients and caretakers. stereotypical patterns of behavior. In our case relationship and marriages as an extension Be it inherit or learned, through coursework or study we will evaluate how our individual finds his requires in-depth examination of racism-sexism personal experience, nonverbal communication place within the spectrum. In this context we will intersections. This study specifically focuses Asian proves to be an essential aspect in being a discuss how our individual utilizes the many females and their interaction with White males, successful and effective Occupational Therapist. therapies and strategies available today to best one of the most visible interracial romantic This poster aims to educate and assist students in meet the unique educational needs of his diagnosis relationships. Primarily by employing Gerbner's understanding the exact role communication plays within the school setting. Furthermore, we will cultivation theory as a theoretical framework, the in Occupational Therapy as a career, which is a explore the prevalence of autism spectrum study conducts a textual analysis and an online swiftly growing field of interest for students of all disorder and discuss current trends with respect to survey. The study argues that the stereotyped and majors. treatment in education. 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______they can accommodate the student, and provide statistics with a survey of college students’ 95 • Teaching Students with modifications that can be implemented and knowledge of those statistics. Cerebral Palsy: Information, support services. We also present ways in which ______other students in the class can be taught to support 104 • Perform Arithmetic Accommodations, Modifications a peer with a disability. Operations With Complex Numbers and Supports for Students Who ______98 • Timmy JAKE RYDER Have Cerebral Palsy FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL PAWLIKOWSKI, SOPHIE DEFREITAS, ALYSSA KUEHNLING, CLAIRE LAUREN SCHAEFER, TIM NGUYEN, SHAUN-MARIE EDUCATION PAYNE, EMILY WEBER MURRAY Through EDU 302, our class has decided our final FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, project, a lesson plan for a selected high school EDUCATION EDUCATION math topic, could also translate as a series of Timmy has dyslexia; because of this, he sometimes Cerebral palsy is a neurological disorder that GREAT Day poster presentations. My poster will has problems reading, writing, and speaking. permanently affects body movement and muscle focus on finding conjugate roots of complex Dyslexia is a very common learning disability. Even coordination. This disorder usually appears in numbers, as well as using the properties of i to turn famous celebrities like Steven Spielberg have this infancy or early childhood. Symptoms vary unusable imaginary numbers into usable real specific disability. Due to his disability, Timmy between people but they often include poor expressions through the use of the form: a+bi, a-bi. struggles to recognize sight words, so instead of coordination, stiff and weak muscles, and tremors. The properties of i will also be used to multiply, reading a word just a few times, he may have to This poster presents a student who has difficulty add, subtract, and divide complex numbers, read it over thirty times in order to identify it. Sight walking and drags one leg on the ground behind namely through use of i^2=-1. This presentation words are defined as words that do not follow the him. The student also has some difficulty speaking. will cover Common Core sections N.CN.1 and usual rules, so they need to be recognized by sight. This difficulty leads to problems with learning and N.CN.2, with a possibility of adding in N.CN.3 for Because of this, Timmy needs to learn a little communicating appropriately for his age. This completion of this area of study. differently than his peers and needs extra time requires the student to need an Individualized studying using a special activity to help him Education Program (IEP). He also has poor control succeed. Timmy also sometimes needs help with ENGLISH of his hands and arms which can make writing his sound-word connection; in other words, he 105 • Vending Machines in Japan difficult at times. In order to provide the best needs some help with phonics. This poster will then AYANA IKEDO , AYAKO KANEKO, IKKI TANAKA, experience for all students with cerebral palsy, it is address different strategies teachers can use to HIROKI YOSHIKAWA important as an educator to make appropriate facilitate learning, including accommodations, FACULTY SPONSORS: IRENE BELYAKOV- accommodations and modifications to adhere to modifications, and support services. These GOODMAN, ENGLISH AND WESTON KENNISON, their unique needs. ______strategies/activities will be on the poster board. ENGLISH ______96 • Helping Visually Impaired With 1 vending machine for every 23 people, Japan 100 • What Is A Leader? has one of the highest vending machine densities Children Conquer Education JONATHAN KEE in the world. You can find them on various places SAM DECKER, TAYLOR VANTINE, ELIZABETH FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HALL, EDUCATION such as streets, stations, and bathrooms. Vending TRIFONE, ANDREW SMITH I am presenting my research on different types of machines have proven to be a convenient solution FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, leaders from Ancient Greece to modern day to the problem of the population density. Even EDUCATION America. I'm specifically looking at how the today, Japan works ceaselessly to develop new and In the world today visual impairments is a category leadership impacted the people in that country or interesting types of vending machines that attract of disability which has a high impact on children. In group. the attention of both modern Japanese and foreign 2014 The National Center on Severe and Sensory ______customers. Disabilities reported that approximately 45% of 101 • Why Sports Balls are Created ______students who were struggling with severe visual Differently 106 • Divulging into the Special impairments graduated with a high school Needs of English Language Learners diploma. This is alarmingly low in comparison to MATTHEW KLEIN LEXIE BACOTTI the 80% of the general population who received a FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HALL, EDUCATION FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, high school diploma. Therefore, teaching children Matt will be discussing his research about sports ENGLISH who have a disability under this category can balls and why different balls are shaped differently, English Language Learners, or ELL students, like sometimes be a struggle. However, there are many depending on what sport they are used for. He will every other student, have a unique set of special ways in which to minimize these negative effects report statistics and formulas regarding how his needs that need to be addressed in the classroom. on children. Through specific accommodations and information was achieved. ______It is necessary for teachers to familiarize modifications implemented at an early age and themselves with appropriate methods of attending tailored to the child's individual needs, learner's 102 • Golf Ball v. Other Sports Balls to the special needs of these students in order to can blossom rather than let their disability hold (Baseball, Pool Ball, Bowling Ball) maximize their learning outcomes, which will them back. MATTHEW KLEIN ______enable them to become successful and productive FACULTY SPONSORS: ELIZABETH HALL AND MARY members of society. In addressing these special 97 • Emotional Disturbances: Do CONIGLIO, EDUCATION needs, I will elaborate upon successful teaching You Feel Me? This poster is about the mathematics of a golf ball strategies while breaking down traditional SAMANTHA SCOTT , KELSEY DAVERIN , compared to other sports balls. The sports balls I stereotypes of ELLs to set a foundation upon STEPHANIE PEARL , AUTUMN PILETZ chose are the pool ball, the bowling ball, and the reaching these students. In addition, I will focus on FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, baseball. Some examples of the mathematics for methods of enriching ELLs’ English speaking, EDUCATION this poster being presented are the average reading, and writing skills, as well as introducing This poster presents information about a student velocity, size, and the weight of each sports ball for these students to American culture in order to help with anxiety, depression, and other disorders and the open eye to see. them navigate American social conventions. ______describes ways that emotional issues affect a ______student’s academic and social life. Not only has this 103 • Societal Viewpoints 108 • Korean Culture child's academic performance suffered due to the Regarding Sexual Assaults BONGJOO KIM, EUNBIN CHO, HYEMIN PARK, disability, but the student’ssocial life in school and TAYLOR CATHEY NAMYOUNG LEE, YEDARM HAN, SEONG SHIK outside of school has been affected as well. Along FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HALL, EDUCATION PARK, JI SOO YU with the student’s struggles, we represent ways in Taylor will be discussing statistics of sexual assault FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, which teachers can work with this student, how of women in the United States and comparing the ENGLISH 50 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Posters
Our poster will be about Korean culture, which have had high numbers of cases of TB and HIV 117 • Gentrification and consisted of: 1. a comparison between Korean since 1990 and the number of cases has continued university and American university; 2. Lorean to increase since then. Other countries have had Neighborhood Change in Red Hook, cuisine; 3. traditional / national holidays; 4. do’s & success controlling HIV, but not TB or vice versa. Brooklyn don’ts; 5. current issues (from news article...); 6. The little success stories that there are have been JAMES WADE meaning of national flag; and 7. pop culture (K- attributed to hard work and dedication from the FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, pop) government of that state as well as outside GEOGRAPHY partnerships. Cut off from the rest of Brooklyn by the Gowanus GEOGRAPHY ______Expressway, Red Hook has historically been a 112 • The Allerton Coops: The 115 • Paths of Peril: A Report on haven for drugs, crime, and prostitution. Since the the Migration Paths of East African turn of the century, however, people have been Communist American Dream attracted to Red Hook for its cheap real estate, AISLINN KLEIN Refugees proximity to Manhattan, and quiet atmosphere. FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, SARAH BUCKOWSKI Indeed, the process of gentrification has begun to GEOGRAPHY FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, spill over the Gowanus. Concerns remain, This poster details the rise and fall of one of the GEOGRAPHY however, over the equity of this neighborhood first cooperative apartment complexes in America, The civil conflict ravaging parts of Muslim Africa change, as gentrification often raises the cost of the United Workers Cooperative Colony, known as has escalated in the past several years due to the living in an area and "prices out" its original "the Coops." Exploring the philosophy of the Coops increase in activity of Islamic militant groups residents. The goal of this research is to show, is important to studying New York City, culture, and amongst the numerous other threats found in the through a series of maps and spatial analyses, how urbanism, and shows a unique point in housing region. This has created some of the largest Red Hook differs from the Brooklyn archetype and history (late 1920s-1940s) of this leftist, self- population shifts in recent history with hundreds of what changes are currently taking place. I will sufficient community of Jews and African- thousands of East Africans, West Africans and determine whether or not Red Hook is on a similar Americans. Equatorial Africans taking any means necessary to trajectory as other heavily gentrified ______relocate for safety and chance at a more stable life. neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Utilizing zoning and 113 • Welcome to Polonia: A For most, the end goal is Europe, as relocation to land use data from the NYC Department of Historical Geographic Analysis of neighboring countries only ends in Planning, demographic and economic data from disappointment. Usually accessed through a chain the U.S. Census, as well as transportation data Buffalo's Polish Neighborhood of smugglers, men, women and children cross from NYC's transportation authority, I will show BENJAMIN FREIMAN Africa in punishing conditions, in terrible that Red Hook still has a unique character, but that FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, equipment with absolutely no guarantee of their it is also being transformed and is beginning to GEOGRAPHY safety or successful passage to European soil. This resemble the more gentrified neighborhoods that Modern day Buffalo, NY is well-known for its post- poster sets out to explain the situation in a three- characterize much of Brooklyn. industrial blight, night owl bars, and mid-tier pronged approach: 1) an overview, specifically on ______football team. However, since the mid-eighteenth the East African migration crisis, 2) an analysis of 118 • Using Python to Observe century, Buffalo has remained a distinctly Polish one of the major paths in the North East Africa place. The Broadway-Fillmore district, also known migration system today compared to the routes Spatiotemporal Variation in as "Polonia," has been a historical hearth of Polish used in the times of the Arab established Trans- Atmospheric Moisture Conditions immigration in the United States. Despite meager Saharan slave trade route and 3) a case study of the BRANDYN BALCH origins as a small collection of houses and one of the largest nationalities taking part in this FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, churches, Polonia grew into a populous and well- migration, the Eritreans. GEOGRAPHY known Polish hot spot and remained as such well ______Studying spatial patterns in atmospheric moisture into the twentieth century. Though factors such as 116 • Sustainable Benefits of Tree and its relationship to regional climate is crucial to deindustrialization, botched Urban Renewal Canopy at SUNY Geneseo understanding climate processes, including the programs, and steady Rust Belt decline have VICTORIA ROBERTS, SARAH KOWALSKI occurrence of drought under projected climate dramatically changed the demographics and FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES KERNAN, GEOGRAPHY change. However, one of the challenges to appearance of Polonia over the past century, as After creating an interactive campus tree map of understanding atmospheric moisture patterns is well as the rest of Buffalo, its rich Polish ancestry SUNY Geneseo utilizing GIS technology, the project accessing and managing vast collections of remains. This project will attempt to reflect upon has been furthered by analyzing specific attributes atmospheric data, collected at global spatial and analyze the history and impact of Polonia and about the canopy and its relation to sustainability. extents, fine spatial resolution, and fine (i.e. its Polish inhabitants on the city of Buffalo, NY. monthly) time intervals. The purpose of this project ______The coordinates of the trees on campus as well as their scientific names and diameter at breast is to develop a Python “script” integrated with GIS 114 • HIV and TB Rates in Sub- height were recorded in the database and spatially software (i.e. Esri ArcMap) to facilitate the Saharan Africa represented. With this information and use of the processing of large volumes of atmospheric RACHEL WALSH National Tree Benefit Calculator, interpolations of moisture data. Specifically, the script will FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, storm-water runoff intake in gallons, monetary automate routines such as: 1. Isolating 30 years of GEOGRAPHY property value, energy conservation in kilowatt monthly atmospheric data, 2. Deriving raster Tuberculosis is an ongoing epidemic that has been hours, carbon dioxide sequestration in pounds, and “slices” of atmospheric data at various deemed a health emergency by the World Health the overall monetary benefits were mapped. The atmospheric pressure levels for each month, and Organization for a little over 15 years. The reason interpolations can be used by the Facilities calculating their “normals” (30-year averages), and it continues to be an epidemic is due to the Grounds Services department for further 3. Re-calculating monthly climate normals up until increasing rates of new strains of the virus, most evaluation and planning of future landscaping the most recent climate data available. importantly drug-resistant strains of TB as well as designs. The creation of this map has additionally The script will provide a tool for researchers to little resources on hand. On top of all this countries been beneficial in applying for the Tree Campus efficiently visualize atmospheric data at one- are dealing with an equally devastating USA Certification. Selected for presentation at month increments, providing a highly intuitive powerhouse disease, HIV. Countries do not have Association for the Advancement of Sustainability means of analyzing spatiotemporal dynamics of the funds to deal with these issues, especially those in Higher Education, Minneapolis, MN. atmospheric moisture. Future work, such as linking in Africa. Africa has been most affected by the ______atmospheric moisture rasters in an animation tuberculosis "World War," since 1990 when HIV using third party software, will reveal spatial started to affect a large number of people, and changes in atmospheric moisture that occur over even before that. Most countries in South Africa time.
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______water entered the groundwater system can be synchronous lake highstands and moraine 222 • A Historical GIS of Population determined from the concentration of CFCs in the deposition during Heinrich Stadial 1 were water and Henry's Law. This model, however, accompanied by temperatures as much as 12°C Relocation in Western Vieques, assumes a conservative system where the CFCs are less than modern with near-modern precipitation, Puerto Rico not sorbed by the material that the water flows suggesting that cooling assisted in augmenting ASHTON HUGHES through. If CFCs sorb to the surrounding material, effective precipitation during late Pleistocene lake FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID ROBERTSON, then the groundwater is being dated incorrectly, as highstands. Selected for presentation at GEOGRAPHY the measured CFC concentrations in the water are Geological Society of America, Baltimore, MD. In 1941, the United States Navy appropriated lower than when it entered the groundwater ______approximately two-thirds of the island of Vieques, system. A previous study done at the University at 122 • Climatic Conditions of the Puerto Rico, to construct a military base and Buffalo determined that thermally altered Western Uinta Ice Field, Uinta perform weapons testing on the island. The carbonaceous material (TACM) sorb CFCs at high population of Vieques was forced to relocate to the concentrations, and a study at SUNY Geneseo Mountains, Utah During the Last center of the island, which led to decades of tense determined that this also occurs at natural Glacial Maximum Inferred from relations between the United States. and the concentrations. The objective of this study is to Glacier Modeling Viequense people. After widespread protest, the verify and further quantify CFC sorption at ambient WILLIAM YEUNG Navy pulled out of Vieques in 2001, but the concentrations. A new apparatus has been devised FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, geodemographic characteristics of the relocated to more accurately measure CFC sorption to TACM. GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES communities remain mostly unknown. An Preliminary results using the new apparatus The Western Uinta Ice Field (WUIF) occupied the understanding of this oppressed population is confirm CFC sorption to TACM at ambient western sector of the Uinta Mountains during the important in validating the continued struggle of concentrations. last Pleistocene glaciation, forming the largest the Viequense people to regain access to their ______single ice mass in the range. The time when the ancestral lands. Utilizing the 1935 Special Census of 120 • The Effects of Gradient on the WUIF was at its maximum size is known in several Puerto Rico and GIS, this study analyzes the Sinuosity of the Genesee River from glacial valleys from cosmogenic 10Be exposure demographic characteristics of a sample of those dating of moraines, which indicate that outlets of dispossessed by these historic events. Selected for Head Waters to Mouth the ice field occupied moraines near the time of presentation at 2016 American Association of ABRAHAM FERTIG-COHEN the Lake Bonneville highstand at ca. 18 ka. The Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, ______GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES reconstructed, west-to-east rise in glacier 227 • Discovering Small Arms The gradient of the topography along the Genesee equilibrium-line altitudes across this area suggests river will be measured along with the sinuosity in a strong climatic gradient downwind of Pleistocene Patters of Violent Non-State Actors two kilometer intervals to discover what the effect Lake Bonneville, possibly reflecting local effects of KARLY NOCERA of variable gradient has on the sinuosity of the the lake on glacier mass balance. A two- FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, river. The river will then be divided into segments dimensional numerical model of glacier mass GEOGRAPHY based on the type of surrounding topography to balance and ice flow applied to this area in Gangs, cartels, guerrillas, and terrorists may more generally explain how the sinuosity varies previous studies is reevaluated here using higher differ in aim, but each uses violence to from areas of high gradient to those of flatter resolution topographic and meteorological enforce decisions and support trade topography. models. The known ice thickness and area in glacial networks. To hinder this behavior, it is crucial ______valleys occupied by the WUIF was modeled at to understand the source and route of 121 • Evaluating Signals of steady state using a broad range of temperature weapons into the hands of violent non-state and precipitation combinations. Model results actors (VNSA) as well as bolster law Mountain Glacier and Paleolake indicate that lesser temperature and/or enforcement efforts with new techniques to Response to Heinrich Event 1, precipitation changes relative to modern are approach the issue. This research is part of a Northern Great Basin, Nevada needed for ice to fill the eastern valleys occupied larger project to suggest a best-practice for by the WUIF, whereas greater temperature or MICHAEL REED law enforcement to utilize geospatial analysis precipitation changes are needed for ice to fill the FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, and GIS products to better understand and western valleys. These results are consistent with GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES hinder the weapons networks associated with previous modeling studies and the local trend in Pleistocene paleolakes in the Great Basin VNSAs. This study begins at a city-level scale, equilibrium-line altitudes, further supporting the (southwestern U.S.) provide an opportunity to tracing the guns recovered in 2014 and 2015 idea that the magnitude of climate change during identify temperature and precipitation changes that are affiliated with a gang member in the last glaciation was greatest in valleys nearest accompanying lake highstands during the last Rochester, New York. Selected for Lake Bonneville. Selected for presentation at glaciation and deglaciation. Paleolakes Clover and presentation at American Association of Geological Society of America Northeastern Franklin, (northeast Nevada) existed to the east of Geographers, San Francisco, CA. Section Meeting, Albany, NY. the glaciated Ruby and East Humboldt Mountains. ______Chronologies from lake deposits and moraines GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES indicate that mountain glaciers reached their 123 • Conodont Fauna within the 119 • Sorption of extent as lakes reached their highstands during the Schurtleff Separation Horizon Chlorofluorocarbons at Ambient late Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 19.0 ka) and Concretions of the Cashaqua Shale, Heinrich Stadial 1 (ca. 17.0 ka). To infer climate Concentrations to Thermally change during these times in the northeastern Upper Devonian, New York State Altered Carbonaceous Material Great Basin, temperature and precipitation results DANIEL SULLIVAN FACULTY SPONSOR: DANIEL SULLIVAN, CHELSEA KANALEY, KENDALL FITZGERALD, from numerical glacier models are combined with GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES PATRICK SUTER, MATTHEW REBOLINI, COREY those from a hydrologic model of lake water Concretions are widely distributed within the HENSEN balance. The water balance model uses calibrated Frasian marine strata of central and western New FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL evaporation, weekly meteorological inputs, runoff York. These concretion horizons are associated SCIENCES data, and historical dimensions of paleolakes with transgressive pulses, one of which occurs Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are used in hydrology Clover and Franklin to constrain modern hydrology within the Rhinestreet Formation of the West Falls as a tracer to determine water velocity in in terms of soil-water storage and runoff. The Group. By identifying the fauna present within the groundwater systems. Values are known for the glacier model determines mass balance based on Cashaqua shale from the underlying Sonyea Group atmospheric CFC concentrations since the monthly meteorological inputs and insolation it is possible to use the concretion horizon to create production of CFCs began, so the time that the Combined results of the two models indicate that a timeline along the basin during a major 52 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Posters deepening event. Concretion samples will be spectroscopic remote sensing techniques. By modification from a Class 2 to a Class 5 crater collected from the Cashaqua Formation of the analyzing images from the Mars Reconnaissance requires ~600 Ma +/- 90 Ma. From this age we Sonyea Group from several localities across Orbiter, it is possible to determine the presence of calculated a 0.02 m/Myr crater degradation rate, western New York; these include Beards Creek, certain molecules, such as O2 and H2O. These which accounts for rim erosion and the filling of the Murder Creek, Eighteen-mile Creek, and Cazenovia molecules indicate the presence of hydrated crater floor. The rim height data provides a lower Creek. Samples collected from the Schurtleff minerals on the surface, which implies the rate of 0.008 m/Myr. The factor of 3 difference horizon and the conodont lag bed within the upper existence of water on Mars. This project has great between these rates suggests that infill plays a Rhienstreet Formation will also be analyzed from promise because Mawrth Vallis lies in an area that more significant role than erosion in the these localities. Through the study of microfossils it demonstrates alluvial stratigraphy, meaning that modification of craters in this region. Selected for will be determined if there is a spatial change certain phyllosilicates and clays are present and presentation at Lunar and Planetary Science across the basin occurred as well as temporal located in channels that indicate the presence of a Conference, Houston, TX. changes that impact the age biostratiographically previously hydrated environment. By understanding this ______and possibly the lateral facies changes. region, we will attain a better grasp on the aqueous 130 • Compositional Analysis of ______history of Mars. Smooth Units In Valles Marineris, 125 • Introductory Instructional ______128 • Elysium Planitia: Possible Mars Movies for GSCI 141 - MICHAEL O'SHEA Environmental Science Laboratory Volcanic Source Terrain for Young FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, ASHLEY OLIN Martian Meteorites. GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL DAVITIA JAMES, MICHAEL JOHNSON The Valles Marineris region of Mars is an area of SCIENCES FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, intense study on Mars because it is one of the Learning from observation is a natural and GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES largest canyon systems in the solar system. common method of human learning. The overall This study aims to determine the geographic origin Planetary scientists have evidence that purpose of this project is to create supplementary of basaltic shergotites - meteorites ejected from catastrophic outflow channels took place here on lab visuals for GSCI 141: Environmental Science to cooled lava flows at the Martian surface (Bridges the Martian surface. The purpose of this specific assist students in grasping some of the abstract and Warren, 2006). The age of the meteorites is project was to learn more about the compositional concepts and procedures used in the laboratory 300-600 Ma (Nyquist et al., 2001), after the features of the base, within the canyon, of Valles setting. The plan is that before attending lab each assumed end of volcanism on Mars. Two regions of Marineris. CRISM, compact reconnaissance week, students enrolled in GSCI 141 will watch an Mars were identified as potential sources for the imaging spectrometer for Mars, data was used to instructional YouTube video and then take a three shergotites based on the occurrence of relatively determine the surface mineralogy of smooth units question quiz on MyCourses. Movies were large (~10 km), young craters (Corinto and Zunil) in the region of interest. The goal was to determine produced for each lab that: (1) states the goals of that have impacted into young lavas. The exposure the compositional features of these unknown the lab (2) demonstrates techniques used, and (3) age of the shergotites during their time in space is units. CRISM data was uploaded into the program address common errors made in the lab. about 10 Ma (Nyquist et al., 2001); similar to the ENVI. This process involved a series of conversion ______age of either crater. Both craters are located in the and corrections for atmosphere and photometric 126 • Biostratigraphic Analysis of Elysium province which is characterized by long factors. Map projections then took place in order the Broken Rib - Coffee Pot basaltic lava flows. Context Camera (CTX) images to properly upload the images and spectrometry were obtained from the Mars Reconnaissance data into a functional form. Furthermore, the large Transition, Dyer Formation, Chaffee Orbiter at a resolution of 6 m/pixel in the region presence of iron-oxidized dust was accounted for Group, Upper Devonian, West surrounding both craters. The CTX images were and corrected due to its dominance on the Martian then map-projected to construct image mosaics. surface. The data revealed, via spectroscopy data Central Colorado Geologic maps were created in ArcMap 10.3. The based on reflection and absorption coefficients, HUGH HORNER density of craters that superpose the craters and the presence of mafic minerals in the region. This FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL the lava flows will be used to estimate the age of reveals the nature of Valles Marineris and the SCIENCES the target material and the age of the impact presence of volcanic activity in the region. Upper Devonian events are poorly constrained in event. ______the shallow water carbonates of west central ______131 • History of Outflow Channel Colorado of the Dyer Formation, which is 129 • Crater Degradation and subdivided into two members, the lower Broken Flooding from an Integrated Basin Rib Member and the upper Coffee Pot Member. At Surface Erosion Rates at the InSight System East of Valles Marineris, the Monument Lake section, the diverse biota Landing Site, Western Elysium found in the Broken Rib is characterized by corals, Mars brachiopods, orthocone nautiloids, crinoids, Planitia, Mars NEIL WAGNER gastropods, bryozoans, as well as teeth of JULIANNE SWEENEY FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, holocephalians, acanthodians, elasmobranchs, and FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES conodonts of the expansa Zone. This diverse fauna GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES The Eastern Valles Marineris region of Mars disappears just above the contact between the Erosion rate estimates for Martian terrains are key contains terrain formed from extensional forces Broken Rib and the Coffee Pot. The Devonian- indicators of past surface processes. Here, we and release of groundwater. There is evidence that Carboniferous boundary is proposed to be in the utilize new data over the InSight landing region to shows large volumes of water was traveled Coffee Pot Member, but fossils have proven to be quantify the degradation of 100-meter-scale through this area as overland flow. The purpose of rare and position of the boundary has not been craters and to estimate local erosion rates. For this this new study is to better understand the aqueous narrowly constrained. analysis we mapped craters with rocks in the ejecta history of the broader region of eastern Valles ______on three High Resolution Imaging Science Marineris. We present an integrated analysis of the 127 • The Search for Blue on the Experiment (HiRISE) images. The craters were then morphology, chronology, and paleohydrology of visually classified by morphology from Class 1 outflow channels, chaotic terrains, and other Red Planet craters (pristine) to Class 5 craters (degraded). associated landforms. A geomorphic map was AARON WEINTRAUB Using 1 m HiRISE digital elevation models we constructed in ArcMap using the Thermal Emission FACULTY SPONSORS: NICHOLAS WARNER, measured crater depth (d), diameter (D), and rim Imaging System (THEMIS) Daytime IR Global GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND AARON STEINHAUER, height (R). From this data, we estimate 14 m of Mosaic. In addition, several outflow channels were PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY total vertical degradation between Class 2 and mapped at a scale of 1:80,000 using Context The purpose of this research project is to evaluate Class 5 craters, and 5 m of rim erosion. Using the Camera Images (CTX) at 6m/pixel. Channels the composition of the Martian surface using program Crater Statistics, we determined that exposed at Daga Vallis, Columbia Valles, Eos
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Chasma, and Aurorae Chasma have near complete from the fans, place the fluvial activity within the The Maiden Creek sill is a satellite igneous intrusion preservation of flood morphology including Hesperian to Early Amazonian epochs [1, 2], of Mount Hillers in the Henry Mountains of south- bedrock terraces. The relative chronology of flood relatively late in Mars history. Here, we present a central Utah. Prior paleomagnetic work on the sill channels and the surrounding terrain was new map for Xanthe Terra to attempt to constrain revealed a natural remnant magnetization that determined using high resolution crater statistics the timing of fluvial activity in this region. We varies on a meter-scale. This suggests that the sill and standard production and chronology functions demonstrate that the timing of river formation was constructed in at least twenty discrete pulses for Mars. Ongoing mapping of the eastern Valles spans a broad period of Mars history, which of magma over the twenty meter exposure Marineris region confirms that the large chaotic includes the Late Noachian to likely the Early sampled. This finding supports a similar conclusion basins here sourced high magnitude flood events. Amazonian. Selected for presentation at Lunar derived from magnetic susceptibility data which Importantly, the timing of basin formation and and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. exhibits an analogous pattern. Paleomagnetic outflow channel incision suggests that the basins ______analysis was applied to 22 sampling sites spaced pre-date flood erosion of downstream bedrock 134 • Deformation of Quartz ~5cm apart over ~3.7 m vertical distance of an barriers. Selected for presentation at Lunar and Microstructures in a Garnet-bearing exposure. It was found that the samples are Planetary Science Conference , Houston, TX. resistant to alternating field demagnetization, with ______Granofels most only having 80% of the magnetic signal 132 • Analysis of The Great HAYLEY SCHATZ, ATHEEQA AIJAZ removed. Consequently, the remaining 20% Mississippi Flood of 1993: A FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL cannot be analyzed and may contain a significant SCIENCES part of the high coercivity component of the Geomorphological and Depositional A garnet-bearing granofels was collected from an magnetic vector. Further, the declinations and History outcrop along West Chicago Creek in the Front inclinations are inconsistent with Oligocene polar PATRICK DIEZ Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. A shear positions. These observations suggest the rocks FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, zone is located along strike to the northeast of the may have experienced chemical weathering. The GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES sample locality. A quartz grain analysis and shape use of thermal demagnetization in place of In 1993, The Midwestern United States preferred orientation measurement were alternating field demagnetization could allow for experienced one of the costliest, most destructive performed in order to determine if this shear zone the true high coercivity component to be obtained natural disasters ever seen. The Great Mississippi extends to through the sample locality. If so, the and these issues to be resolved. Flood of 1993 was larger than a 100-year flood, sample should be deformed and a have a solid cost the United States $15 billion in damages, and state fabric. The quartz microstructure analysis HISTORY was done by comparing a thin section image of the displaced thousands of people. Using Landsat 5 136 • Walt Whitman Birthplace- images from years 1987-2004, twelve images were garnet-bearing granofels sample, to thin sections analyzed to determine the transport and made after the experimental deformation of State Historic Site-Interpretive deposition of sediment at and near the confluence quartz under a variety of temperature and Center pressure regimes. The thin section of the granofels of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois rivers. ERIK MARCINIK was most similar to microstructures that formed Spectral angle mapper (SAM's) was utilized using FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY between 400-700 Celsius. The quartz grains in the the GIS software ENVI to more easily identify the My summer 2015 internship took place at the Walt thin section were traced and stacked, to quantify changes in water and vegetation. The Whitman Birthplace Association in Huntington, the shape preferred orientation. It was determined geomorphological results revealed meandering N.Y., where I toured visitors through the house in that the sample has a weak solid state fabric and scroll bars most evident at the confluence of the which the poet was born. There is also an underwent low strain deformation. It is likely that Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and at the interpretive center that reflects Whitman's vision the shear zone does extend to the outcrop confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. of democracy, diversity and creativity conveyed Post flood, Channel erosion and migration was location. ______through his poetry. mapped at Pelican Island along the Missouri River 220 • Determining the and at Bloody Island along the Mississippi. The LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Depositional history taken from the images Experimental Capabilities of the revealed that sediment transportation and Geneseo Geology Flume 137 • Initiating Behavioral Science deposition happened at a faster rate prior to the ADRIAN BERGERE Insights to Better Serve the 1993 flood than it did after the 1993 flood. This was FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, mainly due to a decrease in suspended sediment American People through GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES concentration (SSC) as a result of the velocity and Research was conducted to determine the Intervention of Shanghai's Air discharge of the river during the flood. ______experimental capabilities of the Geneseo Geology Pollution flume. Stream flow data collected by SUNY LEXUS LAM, CAMILLE CHIN, SAVANNAH 133 • Timing of Fluvial Activity in Geneseo geology students at nearby Conesus WILLIAMS the Xanthe Terra Region Of Mars: outlet was compared with data collected in the FACULTY SPONSOR: JASMINE TANG, LANGUAGES Implications For The Hypanis Delta geology department flume to determine if the AND LITERATURES flume can be used to model the flow characteristics The title has it all, but why do we ask? Shanghai is And Other Potential Landing Sites of a real stream. Stream velocity profiles across the one of the busiest cities in China where its For Mars2020 and ExoMars channel were determined using data gathered by a population suffers from air pollution. From traffic SAMANTHA ECKES velocity meter in both the stream and the flume. It emissions to heavy industry, it is no wonder why FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, was found that the flume cannot accurately model Shanghai has smog all year round. The government GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES real stream velocity profiles, and therefore real in Shanghai has created policies to prevent further The Xanthe Terra region of Mars exhibits multiple conditions, due to the rectangular channel shape pollution and has effectuated an air cleaning fluvial networks that are of interest for future of the flume. program as of 2013 but is it enough? The exploration. The timing of these channels is poorly Environmental Protection Agency reports that constrained and it's not clear whether they formed GEOPHYSICS Shanghai is the worst and exceeds the normal at the same time or spanned a broader period of 135 • Paleomagnetic Evidence for a standards in air quality by a margin. The United history. Furthermore, sedimentary fans that are States has developed refined methods that may sourced by some of the channels are currently Multi-Sheeted Assembly of the minimize the issue. Renewable energy and under consideration as landing sites for ExoMars Maiden Creek Sill, UT minimizing or altering pollution-intensive and Mars2020. It is therefore critical to understand ZACHARY VAN ORNAM industries are solutions that may change the their timing within the chronostratigraphic context FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOPHYSICS quality of air in Shanghai. Based on executive order of Mars. Current estimates, based on crater counts from the President of the United States, in terms of 54 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Posters the behavioral science insights, if the United States For the last several years there has been a debate This poster looks to address the following question: can intervene in Shanghai, it may help design about the side-effects of vaccinations which has based on research of student learning, what are government policies that can serve the American had a significant effect on the rate of non-medical the best approaches to teach integer operations in people. exemptions. Data on these rates and the possible grade 7? This poster looks at the best teaching factors affecting them was collected from 2008 - strategies to help 7th graders understand integer MATHEMATICS 2014, analyzed, and the findings will be presented. operations. This research is aligned with New York ______138 • Adding Another Dimension: State 7th grade Mathematics Common Core 142 • Teaching Techniques for Standards. There has been extensive research on The Applications and Future of 3D Relationships of Volumes for 3- practices of teaching integer operations and the Number System in Secondary schools. Educators Printing Technology Dimensional Figures AMY LIANG are using multiple representations and different AMBER HO FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON HEAP, MATHEMATICS types of technology rather than rote memorization FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL PAWLIKOWSKI, In recent years, 3D printing technology has become to teach the Number System. The goal is for MATHEMATICS more sophisticated, advanced, and widespread. As students to have a deeper more conceptual An overview of research on teaching strategies for this technology becomes increasingly available for understanding of integer operations and to target high school-leveled geometry courses on volumes consumer use, it is important to figure out where a variety of different learning styles. Knowing of cylinders, pyramids, and cones. The collected this technology can fit into our lives. Up until operations with integers is an extremely important research includes general information on how the recently, 3D printing has almost exclusively been skill for students to have to help them both in volumes of these shapes relate to each other, ways used in the STEM fields. As part of the experimental future math classes and the real world. to incorporate technology into teaching these ______3D Modeling & Printing course, SUNY Geneseo lesson topics, and specific activities and teaching students explore ways they can apply 3D printing 146 • Different Teaching Strategies strategies to utilize during lesson presentations. to various academic fields, and create ideas and ______in Secondary Mathematics possibilities for the future of 3D printing 143 • Teaching Techniques for MICHAEL KANE, FRANK DECICCO technology. FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL PAWLIKOWSKI, ______Bivariate Data Analysis in the MATHEMATICS 139 • Direct and Inverse Problems Middle School Classroom This poster will look at different strategies and for Heat Equation ANNA HOLCOMB ways to go about teaching secondary mathematics KIERAN BROWN FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL PAWLIKOWSKI, at the high school level. We present two different FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDRZEJ KEDZIERAWSKI, MATHEMATICS mathematic topics, specifically Trigonometry and MATHEMATICS This research is on a variety of implementations of Factoring, respectively, and show the advantages We discuss several direct and inverse problems how to teach the Common Core State Standards and disadvantages of the variety of ways to teach related to the heat equation and solve them with regarding Bivariate Data Analysis in an eighth grade these topics. ______varies mathematical and numerical methods. We classroom. This research includes multiple illustrate our numerical methods using activities, labs, and investigations that can be 147 • Effective Methods for Mathematica. incorporated into lessons. The activities will have Teaching Statistics in 11th Grade ______real world applications, will include technology, Algebra II and Trig 140 • Simulating Blackjack for and will allow the students discover important concepts on their own. They will allow for students RACHEL SUNG Maximization of Success Rate to collaborate together and discuss the FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL PAWLIKOWSKI, through Card Counting mathematical concepts in a setting that they will MATHEMATICS ELIZABETH LAWSON-KEISTER enjoy. The research will also help to emphasize the Based on research of student learning, I have FACULTY SPONSOR: HOMMA FARIAN, importance that the teacher should be a guide for investigated the best approaches to teach statistics MATHEMATICS students to facilitate their own learning and that in 11th grade Algebra II and Trigonometry. In order This research is part of the Mathematics this will allow students to gain a better conceptual to do so, I have looked at various teaching Department at SUNY Geneseo. The goal of this understanding of the mathematics being taught. strategies, research articles, and technological research is to analyze the game of blackjack and ______resources that will better enable math teachers to create a program that will find the maximal success effectively teach these topics to their students. 144 • Best Ways to Teach How to ______strategy for the player by using a card counting Solve Systems of Equations in scheme. This project has two phases. The first is to 148 • Teaching Circles in Geometry create a working blackjack simulator in Matlab. Algebra 1 SARAH PETERSON This would support one player against an JACQUELINE PFALTZ FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL PAWLIKOWSKI, automated dealer. Keeping track of the dealt cards FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL PAWLIKOWSKI, MATHEMATICS and the changing probability of winning the game MATHEMATICS During this presentation I will examine the best would enhance the chances of the player. The Based on research of student learning, what are methods to teach properties of circles, tangent second part is to run simulations using different the best ways to teach how to solve systems of lines, and the relationships among inscribed strategies to maximize success rate for the player. equations in High School Algebra? Can integrating angles, radii, and chords. I will look at different I have come to the conclusion that a player is more technology into the algebra classroom be helpful in research based strategies to decide what is the successful with a strategy of "high risk, high teaching this topic? According to some sources, most effective way to teach these things to high reward" on lower counts. However, at higher graphing a system of equations is the best way. On school students. I will also look at technology counts the player should avoid hitting above a 60% the other hand, some say that solving systems resources, which will amplify the concepts so the bust rate. Interestingly the game is designed so the using an algebraic method works best. After taking lessons are most effective. Finally, I will explore player is at a disadvantage and his or her success a look at both of these methods, teachers will be textbooks that help to enhance the concepts and rate will never go above 50%. able to determine which one will work best for promote student discovery. ______their students. ______141 • The Effects of State Policies ______149 • Do Standardized Tests on Trends in Vaccination Non- 145 • Teaching Integer Operations Intended to Assess Common Core Medical Exemption Rates in 7th grade Education Accurately Reflect Actual MAGGIE HALE JOSHUA KOLODNY FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL PAWLIKOWSKI, Student Learning, Using the MCAS FACULTY SPONSOR: LISA SMITH, MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS as a Case Study
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SAMUEL MILLER theoretical causes for the enhancement of lithium, space. Special thanks to Micah Wiesner for the loan FACULTY SPONSORS: YUSUF BILGIC, implications for understanding the primordial of one of the two microphones used in thus study. MATHEMATICS AND MICHAEL RESTIVO, lithium abundance and report on further ______SOCIOLOGY observations required to fully understand the 155 • Preparing Undergraduates for The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment mechanism behind this phenomenon. Selected for Solving Problems in PhD-level System (MCAS) is a yearly assessment presentation at Council on Undergraduate administered to all Massachusetts public school Research Posters on the Hill, Washington DC. Research students in grades three through eleven that is ______JARRETT VOSBURG designed to test students' proficiency in English, 152 • WIYN Open Cluster Study: FACULTY SPONSOR: KURT FLETCHER, PHYSICS & Science, and Math. The MCAS is just one example Lithium in the Globular Cluster M92 ASTRONOMY of many nationwide programs intended to test While 'problem solving' is a task that is heavily DANIEL KROLIKOWSKI student learning proficiency. Passing these tests emphasized in the undergraduate physics FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS each year is a requirement for receiving a high curriculum and often cited as a skill needed in 21st & ASTRONOMY school diploma in many states. Due to nationwide century STEM careers, it is unclear how the We present Li abundances of photometric struggles to obtain an adequate number of passing problem solving experiences of undergraduates candidate member giant stars of the globular grades, the difficulty level of these assessments is compare to those encountered in scientific cluster M92 derived from WIYN Hydra spectra. We often decreased. As a result, some scholars now research and careers. One way to better address membership criteria, as well as discuss the think these tests no longer accurately reflect how understand problem solving in authentic scientific morphology of Li in both V magnitude and B-V well students are learning. Also administered with research settings and how it relates to color. undergraduate preparation, is to explore the the MCAS each year is a student questionnaire that ______asks self-assessment questions about how well the perspectives of graduate students. We conducted students think they understand core materials. The 153 • The LEGUS Survey with the semi-structured interviews with ten graduate goal of this project is to use multivariate tools to Hubble Space Telescope: students to determine what problems they examine the relationship between the students' Classification of Extragalactic Star encountered in their research, what strategies they perceptions of their understanding of core material used to solve these, and how problem solving in and their actual test scores in order to determine Clusters their graduate research compared to their how accurately these assessments predict how KIERAN BROWN, DAVID CLARKSON, GABRIEL undergraduate experiences. We coded these well students are learning. GUIDARELLI, SYED AHMAD, LUCA BEALE, MIKE interviews using emergent and grounded theory WEBER approaches. Our findings include a taxonomy and FACULTY SPONSOR: ANNE PELLERIN, PHYSICS & context for problems and problem solving PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY ASTRONOMY strategies, along with implications for problem 150 • WIYN Open Cluster Study: As part of the Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey solving opportunities in the undergraduate Photometry for NGC 2158 (LEGUS), we classified thousands of star clusters curriculum. Selected for presentation at RIT detected in the nearby galaxies NGC 1313, M 51, DANIEL FINN Summer Research Symposium, Rochester, NY. and NGC 6503. LEGUS is an ongoing Treasury ______FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS Program with the Hubble Space Telescope that & ASTRONOMY 156 • The PENGUINS BLT Program: recently imaged 50 local (closer than 12 Mpc) High resolution UBVRI photometry of the open galaxies in multiple colours with the WFC3 and ACS A Model for Physics Education cluster NGC 2158 are presented. NGC 2158 is an cameras, with an special emphasis in the UV bands. Outreach intermediate- aged, metal poor cluster. The Because of the proximity of all targets, the galaxies JULIA DIBERNARDO, ARI KRAMER, JONATHAN photometric data was taken with the WIYN 0.9m are being resolved into their main components: SPARLING, NICOLE TOMEI, JARRETT VOSBURG telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Using stars, star clusters, and associations. Last summer, FACULTY SPONSOR: KURT FLETCHER, PHYSICS & these results, the astrophysical parameters we focused on classifying star clusters originally ASTRONOMY distance, reddening, and cluster age were derived. ______detected by a computer. The clusters were visually The Physics Educators' Network at Geneseo: inspected, one by one, and assigned a class 0, 1, 2 Understanding, Inspiring, and Nurturing Students 151 • WIYN Open Cluster Study: or 3, based on their compactness, shape and (PENGUINS) provides early high-school teaching Lithium in Red Giants of the Open luminosity profile. The visual classification is experiences for physics undergraduates who are Cluster NGC 2158 currently being used to train a neuronal network interested in becoming teachers. This program was DANIEL KROLIKOWSKI that will automatically classify star clusters in all 50 inspired by PhysTEC, a national coalition dedicated FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS LEGUS galaxies, which be would too big a task for to improving high school physics teaching. Through & ASTRONOMY traditional visual classification. the Build-it, Leave-it, Teach-it (BLT) program, ______Understanding the evolution of lithium throughout undergraduates design and build demonstrations a star's lifetime is of vital importance to the study 154 • Acoustical Analysis of to reinforce fundamental physics concepts in of astrophysics, from basic stellar modeling to Architecture unique ways. After discussing and collaborating on lesson plans, participants present these theories about the origins of the universe. As JONAH PADAWER-CURRY demonstrations in area high school classrooms, lithium was one of a few light elements created in FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID MEISEL, PHYSICS & and the equipment is left for teachers to use in the the big bang, determining its primordial abundance ASTRONOMY future. Additionally, the program has been used to is important for constraining big bang theory. A new dual microphone acoustical testing system conduct physics education research (PER) on Lithium abundances for a sample of red giant has been developed that allows panchromatic student learning. For five years, the BLT program member stars in the open star cluster NGC 2158 analysis of architectural spaces to high accuracy. A has positively impacted physics faculty, high school are presented. Of particular interest is the previous study by Greg Palermo using a physics teachers, undergraduate physics majors, detection of four stars, with nearly identical singlemicrophone system was completed and surface temperature and luminosity, exhibiting and high school students. published for the Doty Hall. This is work has now ______much higher lithium than is expected to be present been extended to Wadsworth auditorium and in stars at their particular stage of evolution. Only Sturges auditorium using a combination of Fourier 157 • Characterizing ICF Neutron one other star has been discovered in a similar and Wavelet analysis. Calibration of the method is Diagnostics on the nTOF Line at evolutionary state with this lithium based on a resurvey of Doty. Results for all three SUNY Geneseo overabundance. Finding four more examples in a spaces will be presented and discussed with HANNAH VISCA, HANNAH HARRISON, ELIZABETH single cluster raises the possibility that this is a emphasis on possible listening experience effects LAWSON-KEISTER, JONAH PADAWER-CURRY common--albeit short-lived--occurrence in a star's of recent renovations applied to the Wadsworth FACULTY SPONSORS: STEPHEN PADALINO AND giant branch evolution. We discuss some possible KURT FLETCHER, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY 56 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Posters
We used SUNY Geneseo's particle accelerator to FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS Child welfare services are composed of various induce d-d fusion reactions and then calculated the & ASTRONOMY components and services. Overall, they are all energies of the neutrons emitted based on neutron Lasers at LLE utilize ultra-intense laser light to services that are designed to promote the well- and associated charged particle time-of-flight produce high-energy ion pulses through Target being of a child to address safety concerns they can measurements. The goal is to prove that we can Normal Sheath Acceleration (TNSA). A Time be facing in their homes. Child welfare services also make the necessary measurements for Resolved Tandem Faraday Cup (TRTF) was aim to promote permanency and strengthen family characterizing fast-response neutron detectors. designed and built to collect and differentiate care for children. These services are primarily Selected for presentation at National Ignition protons from heavy ions produced during TNSA. funded and provided by state agencies. Some of Facility Users Group Conference, Livermore, CA. Heavy ions stop within the primary cup, while less the services offered include foster care, adoption ______massive particles continue through and deposit services, family-centered practices and child abuse 158 • Determining the Depletion their remaining charge in the secondary cup, and neglect prevention. Foster care is a major Region of a Solid-State Silicon releasing secondary electrons in the process. The component of the child welfare services. Foster time-resolved beam current generated in each cup care is designed to aid children that are in Detector will be measured on a fast storage scope in dangerous or unstable living situations and need a HOLLY DESMITT, ARIANA SABZEGHABAE, ELLIE multiple channels. A charge-exchange foil at the temporary, safe environment to live in. Foster care TRELSTAD TRTF entrance modifies the charge state is developed on a system that if a child is in the FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS distribution of heavy ions to a known distribution. system for 15 out of the previous 22 months, he or & ASTRONOMY Using the known distribution and the time of flight she becomes available to enter the adoption This experiment investigates the relationship of the heavy ions, the total heavy ion current can services. There are many various services provided between voltage bias and depletion region of a be determined. Initial tests of the TRTF have been within the realm of child welfare services. The two silicon charged-particle detector. An 241Am alpha- made using a proton beam produced by SUNY largest and main services are foster care and emitting source was placed in a vacuum chamber a Geneseo's 1.7 MV Pelletron accelerator. Secondary adoption. Through the privatization, these services fixed distance directly below a silicon charged- electron production was found to be as large as improved significantly creating more efficiency and particle detector. The voltage bias of the detector 70% for the proton beam current at a bombarding accountability. Privatization of child welfare was varied from 0 V to 50 V causing the resulting energy of 2 MeV. A significant reduction, as low as services in Kansas and Florida are both case studies energy peaks to shift. An energy spectrum for each a 0.7% contribution, was achieved by installing a illustrating these results. voltage bias was acquired in Maestro. The pair of dipole magnet deflectors which successfully ______experimental trials were then modeled with a returned the electrons to the cups in the TRTF. 163 • Reworking Workers’ Monte Carlo simulation outputting a histogram Selected for presentation at American Physical Compensation representing the theoretical energy peak values. Society Division of Plasma Physics, Savannah, GA. MARCUS SCHOEN The depletion region for each voltage bias was calculated from the thickness obtained from TRIM. FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL A correlation between the voltage bias and the POLITICAL SCIENCE & SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS depletion region of the detector was found for a INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS At its core, workers' compensation insurance is in 5.5 MeV Alpha particle. existence with the purpose of protecting those ______161 • The Dangers of Privatization who are hurt in any way, shape, or form from losing 159 • Analysis and Optimization of of Military Intelligence their wages, which are essentially the livelihood of BRANDON GIMPELMAN not only the individual, but also anyone who is a Thermal Storage Device FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL dependent upon them for survival. This type of JENNIFER LOMAKI, ARIANA SABZEGHABAE SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS insurance can, and in many cases should, pay for FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS The privatization of military intelligence has medical costs to heal the injury, rehabilitative & ASTRONOMY expanded dramatically in the United States since services like physical therapy, and maintain at least A heat capacitor is a heat sink which allows for fast the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. in part the wages of the afflicted worker. In the storage and retrieval of thermal energy. In this case Subsequently, private contractors have become an case of an occupational death, workers' we used an insulated cylindrical metal garbage can indispensible part of U.S. intelligence operations, compensation ensures that the families/dependents of that was filled with crushed soda cans to create our accounting for 70 per cent of the intelligence the deceased will not struggle to survive without own heat capacitor. A heat gun was used to heat budget (Bloomfield, 2013; Chesterman, 2008, p. that person's income. There will always be a risk of the cylinder up to 103 degrees Celsius which drove 1056; Shorrock, 2007). Military intelligence, or personal harm involved with hundreds of jobs in out water vapor. The temperature and humidity spying, has become one of the fastest growing the United States, but this risk should not keep inside and outside of the cylinder were monitored private industries in the U.S. Many of the duties anyone from trying to earn the money needed to and recorded using Arduino temperature sensors. and responsibilities of the intelligence community live the life they want. This is the essential function As the cylinder cooled down to room temperature, are now being performed by private firms, of workers' compensation, not only to actually the Arduino temperature data acquisition system including analyzing signal intelligence and even keep those occupationally injured on their financial allowed us to monitor temperature over a period interrogation. This trend is likely to continue as the feet, but to also provide peace of mind to all who of time and determine the rate of heat loss. The need for counterterrorism operations increases all incur risk in making a living that if hurt, they will still rate of heat loss was calculated for the aluminum over the world. Critics have dubbed this be able to provide for themselves and others. cans. A theoretical model for the device using the phenomena as the "security- industrial complex" ______principles of thermodynamics was developed. We (Rohde, 2013). Considering the rise of prominent 164 • Privatization of American then mathematically modeled the heat loss and Islamic terrorist organizations such as the Islamic Prisons thermal storage. The rate of deposition and State (also known as IS, ISIS, ISIL or Daesh), Boko retrieval of thermal energy was experimentally SHANNON PRIMAVERA Haram, al Qaeda and increasing instability FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL measured for the soda cans. The data was throughout the Middle East and North Africa compared to the theoretical model and the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (MENA), the need for accurate military intelligence One of the most booming industries in this country uncertainty was computed. has never been of greater importance. ______is one that often lies in obscurity within the daily ______160 • Time-Resolved Tandem spectrum of news, but in its totality is an industry 162 • Privatization of Child Welfare that garners exponential revenue each year. With Faraday Cup Development for High Services the largest number of prisoners per capita in the Energy TNSA Particles EMMA BAMBURY world, the American prison system is one that MARY KATE GINNANE, ETHAN TURNER, BILAL FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL dominates the background of the governmental KOUSAR SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS system. With high crime rates across the country as well as general prison populations being so obtuse,
Promotes sustainability 57 Posters 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual it was almost natural for the government to begin were paid. Although the pay gap has narrowed levels of economic inequality. Nations that are less to privatize the industry. When the prison system since the 1960s, progress has slowed in recent egalitarian economically are also associated with fell into a downward spiral of lost revenue in the years. This matter, which began as a women's populations that tend to have less positive views 1980s the ground was paved for private prisons to rights issue, is becoming more and more of a towards government and society. Typically, the begin emerging. Yet the issues that surround these societal problem that is unlikely to go away on its public engages less in political participation and private prisons are daunting. This paper will seek to own. For this presentation, I will further explore displays lower levels of trust. Not only does examine not only the history of the prison industry, the pay gap in relation to historical and political inequality predict social ills, but undesirable but also how rising incarceration rates all but context, state party affiliation, race and education. psychological traits as well. Important issues of paved the way for private prison industry to ______note are causality, individual differences and cross- become one of the most profitable markets in the 168 • Income Inequality and the cultural variation. Research suggests that reducing United States. It will seek to explore and compare Gentrification of Urban economic inequality in the United States could how privately-run facilities measure up against increase levels of well-being. publicly-run facilities and how they rank on Neighborhoods ______different performance levels, such as competition, ALEXANDER KWONG 171 • Reducing Income Inequality cost effectiveness, quality of confinement, and FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL in the United States: Small Changes ethical criterion. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______The effect of income inequality on urban with Big Results 165 • The Privatization of Long neighborhoods such as Brooklyn, New York has had DYLAN DRAPER a negative effect on older businesses and FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Term Care consequently, the lower income residents that SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WAY BRIANA populate these areas. As wealthier residents There has been a growing concern in recent years FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL continue to purchase property, they bring trends of among many members of the American public SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS artisinal business along with them as well as driving regarding economic inequality in the United States. The system that America uses for long term care is up the cost of living. The older businesses that Never before has the economic gap between the a hybrid of public and private funding that has occupy these neighborhoods often times cannot rich and the poor and middle class been so great, many failings. The partial private-public system sustain themselvea among this younger, wealthier, and never before has there been such a large removes the accountability of the facilities from and whiter demographic forcing them to close public outcry asking for a solution to be found to the residents and is astronomically affordable. The down. As the costs of rent increases, similarly older narrow the economic gap. The aim of this poster is cost of insurance is very high, and the residents can no longer afford to live in these to present sensible and practical policy proposal requirements for Medicaid often leave the elderly neighborhoods and are forced out reducing the ideas directed at improving existing federal completely at the mercy of a system with no other minority populations of certain neighborhoods programs, such as Social Security and other social options. There needs to be a shift toward more such as Crown Heights by up to 14% in the last 10 welfare programs, in order to reduce economic public provision of care, or there needs to be more years. The gentrification of Brooklyn represents inequality in the United States, as well as improve monitoring of long term care, and more the issue of income inequality and its the effectiveness of the programs, themselves. economically affordable payment options. consequences on the lower income. This Also presented will be proposals aimed at ______presentation will seek to explore the effect of improving the quality and reducing the costs of 166 • Privatization of Hospitals and income inequality on neighborhoods and changing higher education in the country, which would the Impact on Healthcare population and income trends. reduce economic inequality in the United States by Outcomes ______giving more people a better opportunity at financial success by allowing more people to afford ZACHARY SMITH 169 • Defining, Explaining, and to attend college and by reducing the economic FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Analyzing the Evolution of the burden of those already in college. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS American Dream through the 20th ______With the passage of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, healthcare markets have by and large been and 21st Centuries 172 • Public Opinion in America in restructured with a focus on cost efficiency. One of DANIEL LANG the Age of Economic Inequality: the biggest proposals for cost savings has revolved FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Why the American Public is around the privatization of largely unprofitable SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS public hospitals. Due to the unique nature of the The American Dream has its roots in America's Resistant to Economic US healthcare system and due to the special Critical Period stemming from political theorists Redistribution economic characteristics of healthcare in general, like Thomas Jefferson and John Locke. It has also ELIZABETH SCHROEDER the impact of privatization of public hospitals has manifested itself into the canon of American FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL not been widely studied in terms of changes in the literature. However, has modernization into the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS quality of care and cost savings. However by globalized world shifted public opinion from caring Over the last half century, economic inequality in analyzing case studies both in the US and abroad, about unalienable rights to caring about increased America has steadily increased at an alarming rate. it can be concluded that the change in healthcare consumerism? Has this shift made the attainment The share of income held by the top 1% has outcomes relative to cost savings is largely of the American Dream a notion of the past? reached levels last seen during the American ______dependent on what classification of ownership Gilded Age. While in more recent years the change occurred. 170 • Economic Inequality and American public has become more likely to ______Well-Being: A Welfare State is a recognize that economic inequality exists, they fail 167 • The Gender Pay Gap and its Happy State to support economic policies that would redistribute wealth in order to achieve economic Contribution to Economic DANIEL RANDAZZO equality. This presentation will explore the various FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Inequality in America reasons Americans are hesitant to support SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AIMEE BACHER economic redistribution, including longstanding The purpose of my paper is to examine the effects FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL American values and beliefs dating back to the of economic inequality on well-being. Research in SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS founding of this nation, in equality of opportunity, political science and psychology, among other On June 10, 1963, John F. Kennedy signed the Equal but not in equality of outcome. Additionally, it will fields, indicates economic inequality is negatively Pay Act, which prohibited wage disparity based on explore how other factors such as partisanship, associated with life satisfaction and happiness. A gender. Yet over 50 years later, women are still class status, nature of the times, and other social, vast array of social ills such as alcoholism, mental making less than men for the same work. As of cultural and economic circumstances affect illness and child abuse are associated with higher 2014, females were paid 79 percent of what males support, or lack of support, for economic policy 58 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Posters which would reduce economic inequality in Inequality has plagued the United States for over a basic cultural beliefs held by Americans regarding America. century but has been vastly increasing in the past the fairness of taxes in general, the usefulness of ______couple decades. This increase can be partially federal funding, and the efficacy of government in 173 • Is the American Dream attributed to the financialization of the economy general, all of which sow serious doubts in the Actually the American Curse? with particular focus on rent- seeking. Rent- minds of citizens. All of these and more cause seeking is a theory first proposed by Gordon Americans to rail against taxes, even ones that do ERIC BUCHANAN Tullock (1967) in which individuals seek to increase not effect them or may even be to their benefit. FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL their wealth without creating any new wealth or ______SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS without deserving it. This is generally done by The United States has always been considered a 179 • Analysis: Public Opinion on those who are already in the top 10% of wealth and land of opportunity for immigrants, where Welfare Policy have a surplus of capital that they can invest or individuals can achieve a better life for themselves NATALIE HILL utilize to influence others. Their political influence through hard work and perseverance. Today, FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL can be seen by the fact that the top quintile of individuals still immigrate to the United States in SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS wealth has received tax cuts greater than any other order to pursue the American Dream. However, is Public opinion is supposedly a key aspect of any group. My presentation will try to explain why this the American Dream still a reality today? The Democracy. Yet in America, we do not see the phenomenon has occurred and what we can do to nation that prides itself on high rates of social public support of welfare programs translate into curb its negative effect on income inequality. mobility and equality of opportunity is facing a ______any policy changes. Why? Perhaps this is due to a discrepancy between popular rhetoric and the lack of voter knowledge in regards to what welfare facts. Social mobility in the United States has 176 • Blinded by The American is, or perhaps it speaks more to our political leaders decreased and the United States is one of the most Dream: What Does this Mean for disregard of the voters. Using academic research economically unequal advanced democracies. A Economic Inequality? and data, this paper will serve to analyze public major cause of this seems to be American aversion KATHERINE NICKELS opinion on Welfare policy in America today and to taxes and social welfare programs. Americans FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL answer these questions. ______are unique from other advanced democracies in SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS there overtly negative view of these government Does the idea of the American Dream contribute to 180 • Analysis of the Relationship actions. The question that stems from this is why increasing economic inequality in the United between Income Inequality and do Americans oppose government actions that States? The focus of this research will attempt to Public Opinion in the Midwestern would make the American Dream a realistic address the underlying factors that fuel the possibility for a greater number of people? The growing economic inequality in our country. It will United States answer is that the idea of the American Dream also attempt to show how the American Dream SAMUEL EVANS itself promotes policy counterproductive to makes its it difficult for many Americans to accept FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL making it more equally achievable. This paper that there is economic inequality in the United SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS argues that the American Dream has shaped States. Looking at the publics' perceptions about The Midwestern United States is known for its American public opinion to support policies that economic opportunity over time will help support unique geography, climate and demographics. It decrease the equality of opportunity. these arguments. differs most from the rest of the country in that ______most of its inhabitants earn lower incomes due to 174 • Public Opinion and 177 • Where are the 99%? their occupations as farmers, ranchers, small Alleviation of Income Inequality in business owners, etc. Many of these individuals America's Invisible Wall Against and households also hold fiscally and socially the US by the Federal Government: Democracy conservative views. For this analysis, there will be Is This Just Pie in the Sky? LINDSAY HELENBROOK an emphasis on determining whether there is a HARRISON HARTSOUGH FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL relationship between their lower incomes and FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS their political preferences. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS My poster will look at public participation in the ______By examining current literature in political science American political system. Specifically it will 181 • Education Policy Proposal on public feelings regarding social welfare, taxes, examine the anomaly that exists between the SARA WARNER and the general distrust of government, I will public's decreasing satisfaction and trust of the FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL explore how these factors relate to current government paired with decreasing political SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS attitudes about whether the US government participation, including low voter turnout and the Income inequality is a huge problem in the United should attempt to solve the growing problem of lack of cohesive protest movements. It will States today. There are many factors that political income inequality in the US. Tying together these examine why movements like the Tea Party, scientists and economists think are the main three contributing factors (an important Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter have contributing factors causing the huge income gap consideration will be any interactive effects failed to gain political momentum, and why voter and how to fix it. I believe that the biggest between them) it is clear that the American public turnout has continued to decline. This will be contributor to the income issue is the education may have some vague concerns with the problem contrasted against public opinion data that verify system and the lack of funding to help the who live of income inequality. However, since public low levels of government trust and satisfaction to in areas where finishing grade school is at opinion in the three areas I examine is stronger and determine why American democracy has extremely low levels. There is a program that isn't more divisive, the problem of income inequality in seemingly failed to enforce the will of the many. very well known yet, that takes children out of the US becomes a far more difficult one to solve ______homes where there is little possibility for them to when it comes to specific policies. Thus, public 178 • Why Do Americans Hate either attend school or be able to finish school and opinion on these issue areas hampers efforts by Taxes? puts them in a building like dorms to help them the U.S. government to alleviate the problems MAXWELL GARNAAT escape the poor lifestyle. Education is key because associated with income inequality. without it, kids that are born into families in low- ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS income families, have a harder time accomplishing 175 • United States' Rising Simple question: what is the root of the strong a better life for themselves because they get stuck Inequality: How Rent-seeking is American antipathy towards federal taxation? in the lifestyle they were born into. Proposing policy to help increase the possibility for kids to get Widening the Gap Studies show that Americans have a far greater resentment towards such measures than other all the way through grade school and hopefully get JAMES GAVIGAN accepted into college could help the income FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL nations, even countries which have much higher tax rates. Why is this? The answer can be traced to inequality issue because more people would have SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS more equal opportunity. Promotes sustainability 59 Posters 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual
______My poster will have some statistics on different JONATHAN KISLIN 182 • Public Opinion on Areas of congresses and many other aspects of congress FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTINE MERRILEES, American Public Policy such as committees and interest groups. All of my PSYCHOLOGY information on my poster will be the evidence I The Contact Hypothesis, popularized by Gordon ULRICA KIM collected and summarize my paper. Allport in 1950s, posits that contact of high quality FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL between various groups decreases the prejudice SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS each group exhibits towards the other. More This poster consists of an analysis of public opinion PROVOST OFFICE recently, in a study conducted in South Africa in the on some area of American public policy that relates 183 • SPG 2021: Shaping Geneseo’s late 2000s, "harmonious contact" between whites to inequality. Examples of inequality would be tax and blacks was negatively linked with prejudice in policy, government provision of jobs, welfare Direction through Engaging the black telephone survey respondents (Dixon, policy, provisions on jobs, and education policy. I Campus Community Durrheim, Tredoux, Tropp, Clack, & Eaton, 2010). will further explain the wealthy and poor and how ANDREW HAYES, DANIEL MARTIN Research has also examined intergroup contact as that affects our economy. What benefits come out FACULTY SPONSORS: CAROL LONG AND ANTHONY a predictor of intergroup forgiveness in cases of our tax paying citizens. HOPPA, PROVOST OFFICE ______where conflict between groups previously lead to Upon her arrival to Geneseo, newly inducted intergroup bias. Given the socio-political histories 223 • Containing the Beast: president of SUNY Geneseo Denise Battles charged informing intergroup bias, some researchers have Rampant Income Inequality as a the college Strategic Planning Group (The Group) suggested that before bias can be reduced and and the Budget Priorities Committee with Threat to the Just Democratic forgiveness reached, a certain level of intergroup identifying the college's foremost priorities trust must be built. Increases in intergroup trust Ideals through our sesquicentennial year, 2021. These have been associated with positive intergroup THOMAS KOTAK priorities will set the agenda for SPG2021. One behaviors (Tam, Hewstone, Kenworthy, & Cairns FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFERY KOCH, POLITICAL major element of this charge included designing a 2009). It stands to reason that bias will thus SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS plan that flows from our institutional mission, decrease and forgiveness will thus increase with This paper will discuss the topics of political vision, and values statements. Another element increased levels of trust. The present study campaign finance, policy responsiveness to the detailed the importance of engaging stakeholders therefore hypothesizes that intergroup contact of lower and middle class, political apathy regarding so that our final product aligns with feedback from high quality will positively predict intergroup income inequality, and the role of interest groups the campus community. This element is being met forgiveness and negatively predict intergroup bias, in the current political landscape. By curtailing the by the Group through the distribution of six weekly and that both of these relationships will be effect of money in the electoral process, we can polls to gauge how the respondents feel on a mediated by intergroup trust. Preliminary analyses hope for government that responds to the views of variety of issues. Each week features a distinct on correlational data indicate support for this all parties rather than a bias towards the upper topic, with questions and prompts for commentary hypothesis. class. This paper will then make realistic policy on the area of inquiry. In this presentation we will ______recommendations to improve the current problem synthesize the data and findings from the polls. We 186 • Students' Support for Radical of uneven, class-based political representation will explore possible conclusions that we can take evident in the United States. This paper will from the polls and essentially present to the Political Activism address a wide range of possible policy outcomes campus what we make of their interactions. JONATHAN KISLIN, DYLAN HORCHER, CODI LYKE, and discern the solutions most effective in MASANARI YOSHIDA, JENNIFER MAZZOLA, curtailing the threat to democratic governance. PSYCHOLOGY CHLOE OKTAY ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY 224 • The Dangerous Influence of 184 • The Effect of Marital Conflict Previous research (Duncan & Stewart, 2007) on College Students Academic indicates that Personal Political Salience (PPS), the Interest Groups within American degree to which individuals find meaning in Democracy Achievement political events, predict individuals' level of SHANNON KARST JULIA CHMIELEWSKI political activism. However, research has only FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTINE MERRILEES, investigated whether PPS predicts mainstream SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PSYCHOLOGY political activities such as voting, letter-writing, My project will focus on the power of Interest Previous research has examined links between picketing, and petitioning. The purpose of the Groups within the United States and how their marital conflict and academic achievement for present study was to investigate whether PPS also influence in government undermines the principle younger children. However, less is known about predicts more radical kinds of activism, including of representation. I plan to focus on significant bills processes that might be responsible for negative giving hypothetical support for violent or illegal and how interest groups affected the bill's ultimate academic outcomes associated with family acts, or to organizations engaging in these acts for failure or aproval. Specifically, one of the bills I will interactions for emerging adults. The purpose of the sake of political goals. A preliminary sample of focus on is The Affordable Care Act, and the this study is to examine the effects of marital 49 Geneseo students tests how PPS interacts with process of interest group-intervention during the conflict on academic achievement, both during political self- efficacy to predict various types of health care debate. I will also look at specific adolescence and during college. Previous research activism, including radical activism. Finally, PPS is organizations such as the Heritage Foundation and has suggested that more conflict between the also examined as a possible mediator between Americans for Prosperity and evaluate how and parents was correlated with lower cognitive and personality traits and political activism, testing a when interest groups influence politicians. Finally, social competence. This conflict was measured by model proposed by Curtin, Stewart, and Duncan I will demonstrate hw interest groups undermine higher levels of hostility and unresolved problems (2010). the will of the majority within American between the parents. Thus, in the current study, ______democracy, and thus contribute to inequality. mediating factors being looked at include 187 • Moral Licensing, Descriptive perceived threat and self-blame and self-esteem ______Norms and Environmentally 226 • Examining Congress and with be examined as a moderator. We expect that lower academic outcomes will be explained by Friendly Behaviors Politicians Responsiveness to emerging adults' responses of threat and self- DYLAN HORCHER, JONATHAN KISLIN, CODI LYKE, Income Inequality blame in response in their parents' marital conflict. MASANARI YOSHIDA, JENNIFER MAZZOLA, CONOR SUDDABY ______CHLOE OKTAY FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFERY KOCH, POLITICAL 185 • Intergroup Contact: FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Predicting Bias, Trust, and Research on moral licensing shows that individuals A poster presenting my findings pertaining to will act in environmentally destructive ways if they responsiveness to income inequality in congress. Forgiveness are aware of previous behaviors that were 60 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Posters environmentally positive. For instance, and self determination (Coll & Garcia, 1995). Due with same-sex peers. Based on these studies, participants that shop in a "green" store act in a to high levels of familism, and the importance researchers (e.g., Leaper & Ayres, 2007) have long less environmentally friendly manner after this placed on family obligations in Latino culture, we suggested that boys use more assertive language experience. Participants act as if the previous expected that Latino siblings might be less likely to than do girls, and that girls use more affiliative environmentally friendly behavior of shopping in use assertive language and more likely to use language than do boys. However, recent research the green store gives them a "license" permitting affiliative language and to mitigate assertive suggests that the relationship between language less positive future acts (Mazar & Zhong, 2010). utterances than Anglo children. Researchers use and gender is more complicated when negative Research also shows that descriptive norms, or videotaped sibling pairs interacting in a home affect and mitigation use is taken into account information about what other people do, can setting. Only the free-play sessions were analyzed (Dehart et al., 2011). Relatively little is known increase or decrease environmentally friendly for this study. Each session was transcribed and about how adolescent boys' and girls' use of behaviors. For instance, Cialdini, Reno, and coded for assertive and affiliative schemes. Study affiliative language, assertive language, and Kallgren, (1990) found that participants littered participants were 15 Latino, middle- and lower- mitigation may change with different partners more if they were aware that a high proportion of class sibling pairs from the Rochester, NY, and New across varying contexts. Selected for presentation other people littered. However, the opposite was York City areas. The sample was heterogeneous in at Association for Psychological Science, New true if participants were aware that few others age (2-10 years), ethnicity, and acculturation York, NY. littered. We hypothesized that descriptive norms status. Our results suggest that differences in ______block the negative effects of moral licensing. assertive and affiliative language in target children 193 • How Do Maternal Results partially confirmed this hypothesis in that exists between Anglo and Latino children. Contrary Perceptions Relate to Observed participants with strongly positive environmental to what was hypothesized, Latino children values did not show the moral license effect if they displayed more mitigated assertive language Prosocial Behavior in Adolescent were told that others also acted to protect the compared to Anglo target children. Latino target Sibling and Friend Relationships? environment. However, participants with weak children also expressed less mitigated affiliation ZOE MARSHALL, MARYLEN SANTOS, MEGHAN environmental values were not influenced by compared to Anglo children. Total affiliation BERMAN, RYAN KIRRANE, TEAGAN PLIMPTON, either moral licensing or descriptive norms. language was larger among Latino target children ERICA LIEBERMAN Theoretical considerations are discussed. than Anglo children. FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY ______We examined relationships between adolescent 188 • Competition and Cooperation 190 • Asymmetry in Adolescents’ siblings' and friends' prosocial behavior and in Caribbean-American Children’s Use of Verbal Irony maternal perceptions of the relationships. We used Sibling Relationships JOSEPH VENTICINQUE, OLIVIA WOLFRAM, coded data from recorded cooking sessions of 47 BETHANY OWENS, ELISE JOHNSON, AMANDA Caucasian, middle-class 17-year olds, and maternal DANELLE DRYDEN, JENNIPHER COLAS, EVELYN questionnaires that measure perceptions of sibling RODRIGUEZ, ALYSSA MORALES, GENEVIVA BARRY, MATT VOLCY FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY and friend relationships across 5 dimensions. We DODOO, HENRY NIMOH, GLADYS NINSON, BRIA found that maternal perceptions of Intimacy were MONROSE As part of an ongoing longitudinal study of sibling and friend relationships, we examined the usage of positively correlated with Reciprocal behavior in FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY siblings. The lack of other significant correlations The project is an observational study of Caribbean- verbal irony and its important communicative function in adolescence. Verbal irony is defined as suggests that either mothers are not able to American children's interactions with siblings in accurately assess their adolescent children's semi-structured free play situations at home. an utterance in which the underlying meaning differs from the literal meaning. Two forms of relationships at that age, that the taped sessions Research on children's sibling interactions has so and the coding scheme used tap into different far focused almost entirely on white North verbal irony are sarcasm and jocularity. Sarcasm is defined as a form of irony that involves ridicule aspects of the relationships than the maternal American families; little is known about cultural questionnaires do, or that the taped sessions do influences on sibling relationships. The present aimed at a specific target that appears to be hurtful. Whereas, jocularity is defined as a form of not provide a fully representative snapshot of the study videotaped the siblings while completing 3 adolescents' ongoing relationships. Selected for tasks; construction, free play, and board game. irony in which speakers appear to be teasing one another in humorous ways without being overtly presentation at Association for Psychological Videotapes were transcribed and coded for Science, New York, NY. competition and cooperation. The results were hurtful. Ironic utterances can be either symmetrical (in which the surface valence and ______compared to previously collected data on Latino 194 • Attentional Breadth and and Anglo siblings. To our surprise, we found that underlying intent of the utterance match) or the Caribbean-American children showed less asymmetrical (in which the surface valence and the Trade-offs in Spatial and Temporal cooperative behavior with their siblings during all underlying intent are opposite). The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship Acuity three tasks than the Anglo and Latino siblings did. ASHLEY EDWARDS, SALMATA KABA, EMMA we also discovered that the Caribbean-American between the two forms of verbal irony and asymmetry. We expected that sarcastic utterances NERING, DANIEL MIRABILE siblings showed more competitive behavior than FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY MOUNTS, the Anglo siblings did, but less than the Latino would be likely to be asymmetric, such that the surface valence would be positive and underlying PSYCHOLOGY siblings. Results will be discussed in terms of The human visual system contains two pathways, culture and immigration experiences. meaning would be negative while asymmetrical jocular utterances would have a different pattern the magnocellular pathway and the parvocellular ______pathway, defined by which layers of the lateral TITLE AND ABSTRACT CHANGED (Gibbs, 2011). Selected for presentation at Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. geniculate nucleus that the visual information FROM PRINTED PROGRAM ______flows through on the way to the primary visual 192 • Assertive and Affiliative cortex. The magnocellular pathway is specialized 189 • Latino Sibling Relationships: for processing motion and temporal information Assertion and Affiliation Language Language in 4-Year-Olds, 7-Year- while the parvocellular pathway is specialized for in Latino Sibling Relationships Olds and 17-Year-Olds with Siblings processing color and spatial information. GENESIS DIAZ , ALEXANDER CALDERON, Researchers have proposed that these two visual and Friends systems trade-off, such that enhanced spatial YASKAIRY CASTILLO DE LA CRUZ , VANESSA VICTOR BORGES, BRITTNEY RICHARDSON, CEPEDA, ARLENIS SANTANA acuity comes at the cost of decreased temporal CAITLYN FISHER, SHELBY LAMOND, SAMANTHA acuity, and vice versa. Here we examined the effect FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY CYTRYN, MARISSA BERRY In previous research, Latino parents were found to of the breadth of the attentional focus on spatial FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY and temporal acuity. Subjects performed either a encourage their children to identify with the Research on gender differences in children's and prescribed roles in the family and community, spatial gap detection task (parvocellular-focused) adolescents' use of affiliative and assertive or a temporal gap detection task (magnocellular- while repressing goals for individual gain, needs, language has focused primarily on interactions Promotes sustainability 61 Posters 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual focused). We cued the location of the upcoming climate characteristics for sexual minority students intelligence are related to how they want their target with various sized cues in order to than those who did not view a Safe Zone symbol. peers to perceive them academically. According to manipulate the breadth of the subject's attentional Exposure to the symbol was not associated with Dweck and Leggett (1988), there are two implicit focus. We found that small cues increased spatial perceptions of negative campus climate ability beliefs -- entity and incremental. Entity acuity, but decreased temporal acuity. As the cue characteristics. The current results provide theorists believe intelligence is a fixed trait and size increased, spatial acuity declined, while experimental evidence that displaying Safe Zone those who are smart do not have to work hard. temporal acuity was enhanced. These data suggest symbols can promote inclusive, accepting Incremental theorists believe intelligence is that changes in the size of the attentional focus perceptions of the campus community. changeable and working hard increases results in differential weighting of the two visual ______intelligence. We hypothesized that adolescents processing streams. 197 • Neoliberal Beliefs, Victim with entity beliefs would be more likely than those ______Blame, and Willingness to Help a with incremental beliefs to want to be perceived by 195 • Pregnancy Coercion Among peers as "effortless achievers," and use self- Potential Victim of Party Rape College Women: Associations with presentation strategies to promote that MARISA MOTISI, MIRANDA MCKINNEY, JOANNA perception. In a sample of 96 twelfth graders, we Self-Objectification and OSTROOT found support for our hypothesis that those with Contraceptive Outcomes FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY entity beliefs are more likely to want their peers to BRITTNEY RICHARDSON Party rape has unfortunately become a common perceive them as getting good grades with low FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY sobering reality on today's college campuses. Party effort. Entity beliefs were also positively correlated Pregnancy coercion (PC) occurs when a person is rape is a type of sexual assault in which a victim is with a number of self-presentation strategies instructed, coerced, or threatened by a partner targeted for easy sexual access after incapacitation designed to make them appear smarter [e.g., into trying to get pregnant, forgoing the use of by alcohol or drugs. Bystander education for claiming to get a better test score, and not studying birth control, or both. It was hypothesized that past college students can be used to prevent sexual in order to have an excuse for doing poorly (self- experiences of PC would be associated with assault. These educational programs encourage an handicapping).] Entity theorists were especially numerous harmful outcomes including low otherwise uninvolved observer to take initiative in likely to use the self-handicapping strategy when contraceptive adherence and increased body deescalating a potential risky situation. This study they were higher in popularity goals. Selected for shame. Sexually active undergraduate women who examined acceptance of neoliberal beliefs as a presentation at Association for Psychological have been in at least one dating relationship (N = correlate of decreased willingness to intervene in a Science, Chicago, IL. 238) provided data on past experiences of PC and party rape situation. At a macro level, political and ______current contraceptive adherence, contraceptive economic neoliberalism emphasizes the expansion 200 • Conceptions of Other-Sex self-efficacy, and body shame. About 10.5% (n = of capital markets, corporate deregulation, and the Relationships: Variable-Oriented 25) of women reported past experiences of PC. As restriction of government programs. On a micro expected, past experiences of PC were negatively level, these ideologies presume that an individual and Person-Oriented Approaches associated with women's contraceptive outcomes is responsible for their own successes and failures MICHAEL CAREY including both adherence and self-efficacy. In regardless of their circumstances. Data collected FACULTY SPONSOR: KAREN MOONEY, addition, PC was positively associated with body from 95 undergraduates, supported the hypothesis PSYCHOLOGY shame, and body shame mediated the association that neoliberal beliefs promote increased victim Romantic relationships and other-sex friendships between past PC and current contraceptive self- blame, which in turn, significantly reduces become very important for adolescents and college efficacy. The mediational model implies that willingness to help a potential victim. These students. However, most of the research has not experiences of PC promote women's feelings of findings imply that neoliberal beliefs may be viewed these as distinct types of relationships, body shame which in turn interfere with their associated with the current cultural trends of frequently lumping platonic and romantic confidence in using contraception. These findings diminished compassion for others. This decreased relationships into an "other-sex relationships" suggest that PC can have serious physical and compassion may manifest as victim blame, which category. The present study assessed 322 emotional consequences for women's health. negatively predicts bystander willingness to help heterosexual college students' conceptions of the ______others at risk or in need. positive and negative features in romantic 196 • Effect of Brief Exposure to a ______relationships and other-sex friendships with 198 • Attention and the Influence variable-oriented analyses (e.g., correlations) to Safe Zone Symbol on Perceived of Noise replicate previous findings and person-oriented analyses (e.g., cluster analysis) to examine Campus Climate ALEXIS KIDDER, GABRIEL BIRKBY individual differences and distinguish patterns of DILLON FEDERICI, MICHAELA CIOVACCO FACULTY SPONSOR: JOAN BALLARD, PSYCHOLOGY conceptions. How these patterns were associated FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY Previous research has been inconclusive regarding with other-sex relationship experience was also Safe Zone programs are a safe school initiative effects of noise on vigilance performance. In this examined. Variable-oriented analyses indicated developed to support individuals who identify as a study, we aim to explore the relationship between that college students believe romantic member of a sexual minority group. In general, type of noise, volume, and anxiety on attentional/ relationships contain higher levels of positive and such programs operate by identifying and training vigilance performance. The two types of noise in negative features while person-oriented analyses volunteers interested in promoting inclusivity. this experiment were white noise (static) and grouped the students into six clusters based on After training, volunteers show their support for irrelevant speech (such as what one would hear in their conceptions of positivity and negativity in people who are sexual minorities by displaying a a coffee shop). To examine the question, we used romantic relationships and other-sex friendships rainbow symbol and the words, "Safe Zone." This a 2-back identical pairs task. We also used the STAI using standardized scores. Both variable- and study investigated the effect of exposure to a Safe to measure participant anxiety. It was person-oriented analyses indicate that males and Zone symbol on student perceptions of campus hypothesized that performance of low-anxiety females have similar conceptions of other-sex climate. Undergraduates (N = 265) were randomly participants would be maximized at the volume relationships. Analyses also show that experience assigned to read an excerpt from a fictitious course level of 70 dB in the white noise condition. syllabus that either did or did not feature a Safe ______with other-sex friends, but not romantic Zone symbol. Afterwards, they rated campus 199 • Implicit Ability Beliefs and relationships, was associated with conceptions. climate characteristics for sexual minority These findings suggest students typically view students. A sample positive characteristic is Adolescents' Academic Self- other-sex friendships and romantic relationships "Faculty members care about gay/lesbian/bisexual Presentation with Peers differently, and cluster analysis illustrates that the students;" a sample negative characteristic is BRIANNA NELSON nature of this difference varies between "Gay/lesbian/bisexual students experience verbal FACULTY SPONSOR: JOAN ZOOK, PSYCHOLOGY individuals. Selected for presentation at abuse on campus." Participants who viewed a Safe The aim of this study was to examine how Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. ______Zone symbol reported more positive campus adolescents' beliefs about the nature of
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201 • Qualitative Assessment of DOLAN, KADIN FAWCETT, LIAM MCMAHON, feedback, and this rule changed multiple times CAROLINE O'BRIEN, BRAEDEN SHARER, ZARMEEN within the task. Profiles of perfectionism were Parent Satisfaction with the ZAHID associated with differences in cognitive Families on Track Preventive FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, performance on the card sort task as well as indices Intervention for Children with FASD PSYCHOLOGY of symptomatology, well-being, and behavioral The goals of the current study were (1) to evaluate competence. Specifically, perfectionism was BETHANY HETTINGER, TORIA HERD possible determinants of activity in the significantly associated with interpersonal FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DL-PFC), including: competence, and there were trends in its PSYCHOLOGY pre-existing perfectionistic tendencies, current association with happiness and self-harm. Finally, Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) represent symptomatology, and cognitive performance; and after controlling for the effects of perfectionism the range of effects that can result from prenatal (2) to examine the extent to which there was evidence that self-harm was associated alcohol exposure. Children with FASD experience symptomatology and cognitive performance with lower cognitive efficiency. Selected for life-long impairments in cognitive and behavioral moderated the relationship between presentation at Association for Psychological functioning and are at high risk for secondary perfectionistic tendencies and activity in the DL- Science, Chicago, IL. conditions such as mental health problems, school PFC. The sample consisted of 171 undergraduates. ______disruptions, and trouble with the law. The current Participants completed a questionnaire assessing study evaluated the perceived satisfaction and 205 • Understanding Why Students behaviors, cognitions, emotion regulation efficacy of the Families on Track intervention Leave College: Predictors of strategies related to perfectionism, and indicators program from the lived experiences of caregivers of mental health. Functional near infrared (fNIR) Attrition Among Access (n=15) who had completed the program with their spectroscopy was used to assess changes in blood children (ages 4 to 8) with FASD as part of a larger Opportunity Program Students oxygenation across 16 regions as a measure of trial. The Families on Track program was designed JENNIPHER COLAS, TARA BASILE activity in the DL-PFC during two cognitive to prevent secondary conditions in children with FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA SCHNEIDER, performance tasks: a card-sort task and an FASD and improve family adaptation. Caregivers' PSYCHOLOGY anagram task. Perfectionistic profiles, anxiety, evaluation of the intervention was assessed using This study examined the graduation rates of depression, and cognitive performance predicted a brief, qualitative interview administered as part students enrolled in the Access Opportunity changes in blood oxygenation of the DL-PFC during of a larger battery at the conclusion of the 30-week Program (AOP) over a 12- year period, focusing on the card-sort task. Moreover, anxiety levels and program. Interviews were transcribed verbatim factors predicting graduation completion by first cognitive performance modified the association and analyzed qualitatively. All families described generation status, socioeconomic status, and between perfectionism and changes in blood their participation in the program positively. ethnic/racial group membership. Among students oxygenation. Finally, there was a significant Thematic analysis identified that the level of who left the college, we assessed their self- interaction among anxiety levels, depression caregivers' enthusiasm for the program and reported reasons for leaving, examining factors levels, and cognitive performance in predicting subsequent suggestions for improvement varied predicting their reasons for leaving. Institutional changes in blood oxygenation across the DL-PFC. by specific family characteristics, level and type of data were collected from 1429 undergraduate These findings suggest that individual differences skills gained in the program, and the degree of students enrolled in AOP at SUNY Geneseo in perfectionism, anxiety, depression, and program fit with family needs. Results will inform between the years 2002-2014. Results indicated performance are associated with distinct patterns further development of the program. Additional differential graduation rates across race/ethnicity of activity across regions of the DL-PFC during co-authors: Nicole Myers, University of Rochester; and gender, but not first generation status. High cognitively effortful activity. Selected for Mary E. Pandolfino, Mt. Hope Family Center, school GPA, but not SAT scores or financial need presentation at Association for Psychological Christie L. M. Petrenko, University of Rochester, predicted graduation rates; these patterns did not Science, Chicago, IL. differ by race/ethnicity. When examining attrition Mt. Hope Family Center. ______reasons separately, no significant differences were 202 • Effects of SSRIs on Insomnia 204 • The Impact of Perfectionism found by first generation status or by race/ethnicity. However, differences between in Women with PTSD and MDD and Mental Health on Cognitive Performance first-generation and non-first generation students Undergoing CBTi emerged when examining compounded reasons, PATRICK BOUGE, LAURA DOLAN, BRAEDEN CASEY JELONEK with approximately 48% of first-generation SHARER, NICOLE BERGAMO, ARIANA DIPRETA, FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, students reporting a combination of academic, KADIN FAWCETT, TIFFANY LUI, LIAM MCMAHON, PSYCHOLOGY financial, and family reasons, in contrast to 23% of CAROLINE O'BRIEN, TORI SIMPSON, ZARMEEN This study examined the effects of SSRIs on non-first generation students reporting all three. ZAHID insomnia levels in women diagnosed with Similarly, racial/ethnic differences emerged when FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and comorbid examining compounded reasons, with PSYCHOLOGY major depressive disorder (MDD) undergoing approximately 30% - 40% of Black, Latino, and The goal of the current study was (1) to examine cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTi). Asian students reporting a combination of the impact of perfectionism on cognitive Data was obtained from an ongoing study at the academic, financial, and family reasons, in contrast performance and mental health, and (2) to identify URMC Sleep & Neurophysiology Lab. Participants to only 11% of White students. Selected for the extent to which mental health mediates the insomnia levels were compared using the Insomnia presentation at American College Personnel relationship between perfectionism and cognitive Severity Index (ISI) at baseline and T2 after Association, Montréal, Canada. performance. The sample consisted of 171 undergoing CBTi. It is hypothesized that ______undergraduate students. Participants completed a participants taking SSRIs will report higher levels of 206 • The Effects of Sexualized questionnaire assessing behaviors, cognitions, and insomnia following CBTi than participants in the Media on Memory Moved to emotion regulation strategies related to presentation 1S control group. PAMELA EMENGO ______perfectionism, as well as indicators of mental health and well-being. Subscales were factor- FACULTY SPONSOR: STEVEN KIRSH, PSYCHOLOGY 203 • Changes in Blood analyzed to generate seven composite variables, The purpose of this study was to investigate the Oxygenation across the which were cluster-analyzed to group participants influence of gender, sexism, and sexualized- and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex as a into one of four distinct profiles of perfectionism: non-sexualized media on memory for television non-perfectionism, anxiety-driven perfectionism, commercials. After completing a survey on sexism, Function of Perfectionism, Mental overcontrolled perfectionism, and constructive college students viewed either a sexualized or non- Health, and Cognitive Performance perfectionism. Participants also completed a sexualized episode of Japanese Anime. Embedded NICOLE BERGAMO, TIFFANY LUI, TORI SIMPSON, cognitive task. They were instructed to sort cards within each cartoon were sexualized and non- PATRICK BOUGE, ARIANA DIPRETA, LAURA based on color, number, or shape. Participants had sexualized television commercials. Participant to infer what the sorting rule was based on recall and recognition memory for the advertised Promotes sustainability 63 Posters 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual brands was then assessed. Preliminary data adolescence/early adulthood. Preliminary analyses Theories, Using the STIRPAT Model analyses found statistically significant effects for indicate that Flame Stop® I decreased social gender and levels of sexism. However, the effect of interaction and produced a dose-related Anime watched only approached statistical impairment of motor functioning suggesting that JONATHAN CAMPBELL, IAN THOMAS, GABRIELLE significance. These findings will be discussed in this compound, like its predecessors, is not without JUERS terms of schema theory and previous research. In health risks. FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL RESTIVO, addition, the real-world implications of the results ______SOCIOLOGY will be addressed. 209 • Stress-responsivity, Evidence linking climate change to human activity has renewed interest from social scientists in ______Anhedonia, and Motor Deficits in 207 • Analysis of Motor understanding how human societies impact the the MK-801 Mouse Model of environment. This project focuses on atmospheric Coordination in Mouse Models of Schizophrenia and their Partial pollution, as measured by emissions of the Huntington Disease: A Pilot Study greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, and MIKA NAOR, ANTHONY BURGOIS, SUNITA SINGH Reversal by the Glutamatergic nitrous oxide. To assess which factors drive these FACULTY SPONSOR: TERENCE BAZZETT, Drug, CDPPB. emissions, we draw on theories rooted in human PSYCHOLOGY NADINE PIAZZA, ERIC TEBOUL, MEGAN EHMANN, ecology, economic modernization, and political A growing area of research in neuroscience is JOSEPH MCMAHON, KARINA COLE economy perspectives. To test competing concerned with debilitating neurodegenerative FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, hypotheses from these theories about how diseases. Neurodegenerative diseases are marked PSYCHOLOGY political, economic, and social structural factors by anatomical and pharmacological changes that The neurodevelopmental hypothesis depicts drive impacts, we use the STIRPAT model often result in significant changes in behavioral schizophrenia as a long-term consequence of developed by Dietz and Rosa (1994). We estimate functioning. Huntington Disease (HD), an inherited disruption of the interplay between the glutamate emissions for a sample of countries using data from genetic disorder, is classified as a and dopamine neurotransmitter systems during the World Bank and other sources. By neurodegenerative disease in which degradation the perinatal period. The drug MK-801 is a implementing a multivariate extension of the of basal ganglion cells is observed. Destruction of glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor STIRPAT model, we are able to highlight how these cells is characterized by a complex antagonist that has been shown to produce techniques that preserve the multivariate symptomatology that includes motor impairment, schizophrenia-like symptoms in laboratory rodents structure of the data on environmental impacts cognitive deficits, and social dysfunction. The when administered early in development. Our (e.g., multiple related types of emissions) may yield development of useful and sensitive measures of laboratory has been investigating whether CDPPB, results that provide different degrees of support motor coordination in animal models is paramount a positive allosteric modulator of the metabotropic for these theories. ______in advancing basic research in HD. In this glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5), would reverse the preliminary study, C57/BLJ mice were tested in effects of MK-801. To test this, mice were first 212 • A Contemporary Critique of novel paw reaching chambers used to evaluate fine administered 0.25 mg/kg MK-801 as neonates, and Past Statistical Methodology of motor coordination. Future research will use this later given 10.0 mg/kg CDBBD or saline during their Reproductive Health Issues in the same task to evaluate changes in transgenic knock- juvenile period. After mice reached adulthood, in models of HD. their sucrose preference, navigation in the Developing World ______elevated plus maze, and circadian wheel running TASHIRA HARGROVE , AUDREY HOWARD, 208 • Effects of Developmental activity was examined to assess anhedonia, stress ELIZABETH OHMAN, SUSANNA ROHE, KATHERINE Exposure to Flame Stop® I on Stress reactivity, and motor behavior, respectively. ZASLAVSKY Preliminary results from this work in progress FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL RESTIVO, Regulation, Motor Control, and indicate that MK-801 decreased sucrose SOCIOLOGY Social Behavior in the C57BL/6J preference and increased motor output, but did Reproductive health problems, particularly Mouse. not affect stress reactivity. CDPPB reversed the maternal, child, and infant mortality affect MK-801-induced anhedonia and motor developing countries at disproportionately higher ERIC TEBOUL, TYLER BELL, NADINE PIAZZA, hyperactivity, further supporting this drug as a rates than developed countries (World Health MEGAN EHMANN, KARINA COLE, SHANA LEDNER potential therapeutic agent. Organization 2011). Around the world, over one FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, billion children and mothers do not have access to PSYCHOLOGY basic necessities for survival-- clean water, Household and industrial flame-retardants such as SOCIOLOGY nutritious food, adequate housing, and proper the polybrominated diphenyl ethers have become 210 • Medicine and Charity Culture health care (World Health Organization 2011). ubiquitous environmental toxicants known to CHARLOTTE LANGDON Over the past three decades, sociologists have produce a number of adverse healtheffects. FACULTY SPONSOR: ELAINE CLEETON, SOCIOLOGY studied the social, political, and economic Unfortunately, regulatory actions meant to Throughout history, medicine and health care has determinants of health from a macro-comparative encourage non-toxic flame-retardant alternatives been associated with acts of charity. Early perspective to explain differences across countries. might have promoted a new generation of flame- European hospitals became popular through In this project, we review the methodology used in retardants with their own setof potential religion and the spread of Christianity. The cross-national research, following how new neurotoxic effects. The current study seeks to American Red Cross was established in 1881. Since techniques were developed to address problems determine whether Flame Stop®, a new- that time, organizations dedicated to health and and limitations. Using data from the World Bank's generation flame-retardant, has neurotoxic wellness, often associated with specific disorders World Development Indicators, we replicate and effects. Additionally, due to the proprietary nature have become common. In modern culture, critique empirical studies of child, infant, and of Flame Stop® I's ingredients, IR spectroscopy, organizations like the American Heart Association maternal mortality, and also consider which NMR spectroscopy, and powder diffraction were and charitable events, such as Relay for Life have multivariate statistical techniques, such as undertaken to determine the flame-retardant's become prevalent and easily accessible. This has MANCOVA and structural equation modeling chemical composition. Preliminary data suggest allowed for dialog about health care too become (SEM), may be more suited for use in this field of the presence of inorganic phosphorus. To more open and in the forefront of our cultural study. investigate developmental neurotoxicity, neonatal mindset. C57BL/6J mice were exposed to 0%, 10%, 50% or ______STUDY ABROAD 90%Flame Stop® I in a 5µL/g artificial breast milk 211 • Humans and Air Pollution: An solution throughout the lactational period. 109 • Preventive Dental Medicine Evaluations of stress on the elevated plus maze, Evaluation of Three Sociological in Borgne, Haiti WITHDRAWN motor control on the Rotarod and grip strength HARPREET AUJLA meter, and social behavior were conducted in late 64 Promotes sustainability 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Posters
FACULTY SPONSORS: WESTON KENNISON, STUDY FACULTY SPONSORS: WESTON KENNISON, STUDY possible solutions that can help eliminate HIV/AID ABROAD AND SUSAN BANDONI-MUENCH, ABROAD AND SUSAN BANDONI-MUENCH, in Borgne, Haiti. BIOLOGY BIOLOGY Poor oral health has a profoundly adverse affect on A large number of Haitian doctors are trained in TESLA HOUSE the lives and productivity of individuals. Dental Cuba. The doctors in Borgne, Haiti's local hospital hygiene and dental education are topics that get practice under a preventive medicine approach. 217 • What's in Your Water? very little attention in Haiti where there is an Community medicine in which a patient's complete EMILY HAUF, HARRISON ANGELINI, NATHAN average of only one dentist for every 10,000 health is considered. I am interested in observing PEMBROOK, REBECCA GLASER Haitians, the majority of whom practice in the how Borgne's physicians and nurses interact with FACULTY SPONSOR: MEG REITZ, TESLA HOUSE capital, Port-Au-Prince. Moreover, few Haitians their patients, and note any similarities and Water quality and availability is rapidly becoming have ever been to a dentist or owned a toothbrush, differences between Haitian preventive medicine one of the most talked about environmental and reported by the Huffington Post. Though the and United State's medical model. social justice issues around the world. From the country is battling other major public health ______drying climates around the world to the Flint Water threats such as cholera and malnutrition. it's 214 • Insitutional Structures of Crisis to the local conversations about the effects of fracking on our water supply, more and more important to provide dental care as it affects Data Flow and Management in overall wellness. Gum disease can increase the people are starting to think about what is in their likelihood of HIV transmission, tooth loss can Haiti water. This study investigates the water quality of contribute to malnutrition, and oral infections can LINDSEY HACHERL buildings on the Geneseo campus to quantify what lead to blood-borne diseases and heart attacks. By FACULTY SPONSOR: WESTON KENNISON, STUDY is in our water now, so we can better understand providing an education to kids early, we may slowly ABROAD what and how external changes may affect be able to decrease the amount of dental diseases Study of the way health information is taken, Geneseo's water quality. We collected drinking caused by poor dental hygiene. Through my recorded, and archived in the hospital of Borgne, water samples from buildings where students live research in Borgne, I hope to come up with a lesson Haiti. or travel to frequently on the Geneseo campus. We plan on how I can teach kids everyday how to brush ______compare fifteen different elements from the samples to EPA water standards. Contamination effectively, disband common misconceptions of 215 • PT Haiti WITHDRAWN how to have healthy teeth, and promote overall SHANNON WALSH could come from the pollution of the water source good health. FACULTY SPONSOR: WESTON KENNISON, STUDY or the breakdown of pipes. If any of the samples do ______ABROAD not meet the standards, we will be able to report 110 • Advanced Service Learning: In a place where people cannot afford to pause the contamination and look into a source for that contamination. If all samples meet EPA standards, Expanding Relations Between SUNY their daily life because of an ankle sprain or a sore back, I wanted to learn about any rehabilitation then we will have a baseline for each of these Geneseo and A.S.B./H.O.P.E. program they have in place in Haiti. I wanted to elements in the campus water supply to which we KYLE FLETCHER work with the doctors there to develop a program can compare future samples. ______FACULTY SPONSOR: WESTON KENNISON, STUDY that people could utilize while maintaining their ABROAD daily routine. Patients should be able to work on 218 • Indoor Aeroponic Geneseo We examine effective strategies for American range of motion, strength and stability while still Gardens universities engaged in local sustainable being able to take care of their families and still JENNY BYUN advancement initiatives in Haiti, working in work. FACULTY SPONSOR: MEG REITZ, TESLA HOUSE collaboration with local groups. Such strategies ______The purpose of this study is to demonstrate novel include opportunities for curriculum advancement 216 • Cultural Influences of Haitian technologies for high-performance plant growth within SUNY Geneseo's Haiti Service Learning WITHDRAWN and identify its optimal conditions in order to Course. These enhancements will address Dance SOPHIA GARBER incorporate it into the SUNY Geneseo Campus. sustainable economic development initiatives in Aeroponics is the process of growing plants Haiti, working in collaboration with A.S.B./H.O.P.E. FACULTY SPONSOR: WESTON KENNISON, STUDY ABROAD without the use of soil and other mediums. It is a We will also provide a critique of possible new technique that opens new doors for paradigms that will explore models for expanding An exploration of the past and present implications of Haitian dance in not only a cultural context, but cultivating plants. Aeroponic gardens can be grown Geneseo's own relationship with the people of vertically and be grown in portable pots, making it Borgne, Haiti. also in a social one. ______easier to move throughout campus. The eGarden ______225 • HIV Elimination in Bornge, Research Team, headed by Professor Padalino, is 111 • Time in the Lives of the Men studying the optimal conditions for aeroponic Haiti: A Case-Study Analysis and Women of Haiti WITHDRAWN growth. We are researching in the Geneseo MACKENZIE ROSS DANIEL ALOHAN Greenhouse to test different levels of sunlight and FACULTY SPONSOR: WESTON KENNISON, STUDY FACULTY SPONSORS: WESTON KENNISON, STUDY temperature, types of artificial lighting, nutrient ABROAD ABROAD AND SUSAN BANDONI MUENCH, solutions, and more to see which conditions result Since I have not gone to Haiti in order to complete BIOLOGY in the most efficient plant growth. With this data, my project: I am looking at how men and women HIV/AIDS remains a prevalent disease that afflicts we will build aeroponic gardens on a larger scale in Haiti spend their time, and observe the people I many developing countries, especially in the and implement them in building around campus. see throughout my stay there. I will be taking Caribbean region of the world. In Haiti, more Specifically, the gardens will be in MJ, RJ, and pictures of the town throughout the day to show a specifically, there is a 1.8 percent prevalence rate Letchworth dining halls, providing fresh sort of timeline, as well as use conversational of HIV/AIDS, among the highest percentage-wise in ingredients for CAS cooking. interactions with the people I meet to tell the story the Caribbean region; it also has the most overall ______of how time is utilized and perceived in Haiti. I want cases of HIV/AIDS in the region. This poster will 219 • Art is Not What You See, but to see if the perception of time there has an affect explore the various factors that serve as barriers to What You Make Others See on the lifestyle and culture, especially when it the elimination of HIV/AID in Borgne, Haiti, as well as examining current prevention programs SARAH WELHOUS, FRANCES VALINSKY comes to differences in men and women (ex: free FACULTY SPONSOR: MEG REITZ, TESLA HOUSE time, work, child care, education, etc.). supported by the Haiti Outreach Pwoje Espwa (H.O.P.E.) and Alyans Sante Borgne (ASB). Also, by Art is a creative process that allows people to ______express themselves and realize art is around us in 213 • Patient Care in Borgne, Haiti drawing on my interviews with doctors, community health educators, and other integral different forms. This project is aimed towards JENNIFER BOODY WITHDRAWN stakeholders in Borgne, Haiti, I plan on proposing students to increase visual art on campus and make students aware of how different forms of art can be simple but still powerful simultaneously, by Promotes sustainability 65 Posters 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual displaying quotes around specific academic express an increase in art around campus, as well themselves, displaying designs and representations of buildings. The quotes are temporary for this as impacting students. We plan on hanging the quotes. Hopefully, the students around semester, but we hope it impacts students to banners with the quotes around trees near the campus will appreciate and recognize the quotes as continue the project in the future. This could buildings, Newton, Brodie, Sturges, Milne, Welles, an artistic and motivate people to keep art in their happen just by taking the class and coming up with ISC, and South Hall. The banners will display the lives. another way to increase visual art on campus. With designated quotes for each building in an artistic motivation and time, the college will be able to and metaphoric way as well as being artistic
GREAT Day would like to acknowledge our partners:
66 Promotes sustainability Chamber Music Festival 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL HUNT ROOM, MACVITTIE COLLEGE UNION
SESSION 1• 10:20 – 11:15 AM SESSION 2• 2:15 – 3:15 PM Emmelodics 10:20 – 10:40 AM VICTOR BORGES, ALEXANDER WEBBER, ANTHONY GAUDINO, AUDREY HOWARD, AUSTIN TAYLOR, BRIANNA BROOKS-MILLER, BRYCE GEBHARDT, Saxophone Quartet 2:15 – 2:30 PM CHRISTOPHER JONES, GAGE MATYASOVSZKY, CAROLINE HOUSE, JACK Quartet for Four Saxophones, movement III. Scherzo by MCALEVEY, JASON HANDY, JEREMY JACKSON, JONAH GOLDSTEIN, JULIE ECKERT, KAILA MCKIERNAN, KELLY KULAKOWSKI, MACKENZIE HINTZE, Edvard Moritz MEAGHAN BARRY, SHAYNA HELD, SAM NICHOLS Paranoid Saxophrenia by Denis DiBlasio FACULTY SPONSOR: GLENN MCCLURE, ENGLISH Sax Quartet (from Cowboy Bebop) by Yoko Kanno. ALEC FRIEDMAN, JAMES MATTSON, BROOKE WALKER, AUSTIN MAITLAND 10:45 – 11:00 AM Madi and Sarah FACULTY SPONSOR: ERNEST LASCELL, MUSIC That's What's Up, Lennon and Maisy SARAH BISSELL, MADISON KEMLER Geneseo Clarinet Choir 2:35 – 2:55 PM FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV, ENGLISH All Too Soon, Lennie Niehaus; Difference of Opinion, Geneseo Flute Choir 11:05 – 11:15 AM Robert Roden; Capriccio , Philip Gordon; St. Paul's Suite, CAILIN SOFKO, NICOLE ROUNTREE, MARIANNA SHEEDY, NAOMI IWAMOTO, mvt. 4: Finale (The Dargason), Gustav Holst, arr. Matt DYLAN FISCHERA, JACKIE PFALTZ, CATHERINE BLASZAK Johnston FACULTY SPONSOR: GLENNDA DOVE-PELLITO, MUSIC PAUL GARING, ANDREA AMITRANO, JOSHUA GALLARO, EMILY BUCKLEY- CRIST, HANNAH HARRISON, JASON HANDY, ERIN HOGAN, LENA EVERS- HILLSTROM, JAMES ARCIDIACONO, FRANCESCA BOVE, ELENA KLEINHENZ, ALEC FRIEDMAN, NICHOLAS DINIELLI, JAMES MATTSON COLLEGE UNION LOBBY 12:00 PM FACULTY SPONSOR: ERNEST LASCELL, MUSIC Geneseo String Band STEPHANIE SCHECHTER, RUSSELL BRINKMAN, LEEANN BRUETSCH, MIKE Exit 8 3:00 – 3:15 PM GOLE, STEPHEN HANRAHAN, SHELBY INGERICK, CHRISTOPHER JONES, NICOLE PEINKOFER, ALLISON ALTSCHILLER, RYAN ANDREWS, SARAH ARIANA LIPPI, MATT MCCLURE, MORGAN MCDONNELL, AMELIA MINDICH, BISSELL, MATT CRAWFORD, ALEX DECKER, SAIGE HORVATH, PAT HURLEY, JENELLE NYITRAI, CARRIE POTTER, NICOLE ROUNTREE, MARIA SAITTA, KATE KELLER, MADISON KEMLER, NINA LACOMBE, MIKE MASETTA, EMILIOS NATHAN SMARCZ, HUNTER TROGE, PAIGE WALSH, MICAH WIESNER, PAPAS, NICOLE PEINKOFER, SEAN RYAN, COLIN SUGRUE, LAUREN STEVEN WILLIAMS THURBER, SAMUEL WEINSTEIN FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES KIMBALL, MUSIC FACULTY SPONSOR: ERIC HELMS, CHEMISTRY
SESSION 2• 3:45 – 4:20 PM
The Italian Wind Quintet 3:45 – 3:55 PM Suite from Ancient Airs and Dances, Ottorino Respighi, arr. Adam Lesnick PAUL GARING, HANNAH GARTY, ADELE ANTELEK, VICTORIA KOMPANIJEC, KATHERINE ZASLAVSKY FACULTY SPONSOR: MARTHA SHOLL, MUSIC
Katherine and Jenelle 4:00 – 4:05 PM Londonderry Air, Arranged by Katherine Zaslavsky KATHERINE ZASLAVSKY, JENELLE NYITRAI FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDREW BERGEVIN, MUSIC
Geneseo Brass Quintet 4:10 – 4:20 PM In the Hall of the Mountain King, From Peer Gynt, Edward Grieg; Shenandoah, Arranged by Terry Vosbein; Sonata from Die Bankelsangerlieder, Anonymous, edited by Robert King KATHERINE ZASLAVSKY, TORY WELSCH, ANNE KELLY, ROBERT MARINO, TIMOTHY SNYDER FACULTY SPONSOR: JIM TILLER, MUSIC
67 Artwork 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual
THE GREAT BATTLE OF THE ARTISTS MACVITTIE COLLEGE UNION KINETIC GALLERY 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM The GREAT Battle of the Artists is a multi-media art contest that is a partnership between GREAT Day, GCAB Arts & Exhibits and Nassau Hall. Winners were selected by a panel of faculty staff and student judges and will be announced at 6:00 pm.
______: While studying abroad in Berlin there : Butterflies are constantly ABBY GOLFO Berlin Garden Goddess were many opportunities to take photographs and portrayed in media: children's books, TV, movies, Human-Computer Interaction: Human- this was by far my favorite. It was taken inside of artwork. They may seem like dainty accessories for computer interaction is a field that explores how the Kaiser-Wilhelm Memorial Church in West flowers or a simple cutesy thing that goes with stuff humans use technology. This piece of art is 3D Berlin. The original, built in the 1890's, was like rainbows and unicorns in our minds. But do we printed. It is a 3D re-creation of Discobolus of bombed during WWII. The new church stands ever really stop and look at one up close? How Myron (also known as the discus thrower). This directly beside the ruins of the old, reminding intricately beautiful their structure and design is? ancient Greek sculpture represents movement, Berliner's of the past and looking forward to the The power in their painted wings that propel them athleticism, power, and strength. However, when I new. through the sky, across miles and miles, high above first 3D printed it, it did not turn up as such. ______the ground? Fascinating and beautiful, they are Because of the way that the code went in, the print CASEY VINCELETTE incredible creatures dwelling in our gardens. "failed" and appeared frayed. This fraying Our Dear Leader: This is a portrait of my Bead or Berry?: I found this outside and at represents the fragility of both the human and the friend Will Barnes. He is a Geology major from computer. There will be at least three other first was honestly not sure what it was. It was a Bethlehem, which is near Albany, and is one of the dreary, rainy day and it seemed like Nature had iterations, each showing how 3D printing interacts finest human beings I know. I painted this piece with human design. just given me this small gift of strange beauty over the summer as a gift to him and his amid the grayness. It was kind of a challenge too - : Four squares displaying the Focus on One suitemates. It now hangs on the wall of their suite are you going to appreciate this strange, tiny, but four same images - however, there is only one and surveys their lives. I tried to evoke an austere beautiful thing on the wet concrete, or are you unique focus of each picture. It is almost a game to and imperious mood with the grayscale going to walk on cursing the rain? find the other three images somewhat hidden background and the business casual dress of my ______within. subject. The meticulously mixed skin tones HANA MOKONUMA ______represent the best work I have ever done in that ZINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: This is AMY LIANG regard, and I am inordinately proud of this. You a compilation of all the zines I've made during my : Digital Photography may notice a layer of grime overcoating the Cerulean Morning time here so far at Geneseo. The zines are personal surface: this is because the painting has been on Saona Island, Dominican Republic in that they talk about my experience with love, many adventures. It has been paraded around Tibetan Prayer Flags: Digital Photography friendship and general things I worry about!! So residence halls, it has galavanted to the MeiLi Snow Mountain Yunan, China many things are stressful! I just want to share a chowhound, and it has shared in the consumption plate of eggs with someone who loves me! This Stone Forest: Digital Photography of pizza at Mama Mia's (all very late at night). This piece consists of all of my zines unfolded and Zhangjiajie National Forest Park Hunan, China painting has shared in my college experience, and folded to create one BIG collage of zines! ______while I don't expect it to win anything, I am excited AMY PATEL ______to share it with the world. HANNAH FABINY Kiss Of Eternal Bliss ______CHANDRA LABONTE Nassau Gothic: A lovingly photoshopped The Woman Behind The Painting photo of what it means to be an artist in Geneseo's Avengers Assemble: Painting of various arts community, Nassau Hall. Embrasse-moi Marvel's Avengers characters. ______HANNAH MRAKOVCIC ANGELA JOHNSON EMMA BELSON Taking in the light: Jennifer Boody ('16) Split personality: Newspaper covered board Fun House Mirror Church: A black and amidst the garden flora and afternoon sunlight, with printed photos on it. white photograph of a striped church using a Taken at Jardin Botanique de Montreal, March : Clear picture frames with 3 item panorama shot. Bio-portrait 2015 inside. Each has a microscope slide, a photo and a : A Blooming Flower After The Rain The Riviera: Taken at the Geneseo Riviera, water color painting. black and white photograph of a blooming flower February 2016 Chinese market: Acrylic on canvas after a rain storm. Another Dimension: Reflection through ______Through the Windshield: A full color ARIANNA BUTTARAZZI my bedroom window on a snowy blue evening, photograph of the George Washington Bridge Vague Expression: It is a painting from my February 2016 taken while driving in the front seat of a car at ______imagination and it is an expression coming from night. JACOB YATSKO within. ______FEI LANERI Tea (2015), Charcoal on Paper: "Tea" is CAITLIN CASTELLETTI my first portrait study and was submitted as one of Untitled: Wood burning with watercolors five concentration works for my AP Studio Art class Peacock: Photography of a peacock with a ______blurred background taken at the Utica Zoo. GIOVANNINA BRUNO in 2015. The subject is one of my first and long- lasting friends from my hometown in Dryden, NY. I : You hear them chirping during late Keuka: Photograph of the sunset in Keuka in Cricket felt like commemorating her in a piece of artwork early August. summer nights or when someone makes a bad would be fitting since she also was enrolled in the joke. They constantly elude us, teasing us with their Exit: Light Painting Photograph class and shared my artistic passion. Because this ______calls but not allowing us to find them. Here's one I was my first portrait piece and also my first CAITLIN CORRIC did find, and quickly put under the lens of my charcoal piece, I was extremely worried about the camera. results, but this quickly faded as I progressed
68 Artwork 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual through the painting. I had her pose in a way to drawing aims to imitate reality - but with colored simply inspire some to reflect on being lost and bring out the intensity of her eyes, which would pencil. being found. provide a focus point that draws the viewer's ______attention there, but to also make it appear that my JESSICA LISI JULIA KINEL friend was also focused in on the eyes of the Open Hand Theater: The Castle: This Bubbles: An acrylic painting on canvas. viewer. I felt this two-way connection very strongly piece is a Plexiglas intaglio print, meaning it was Traditional blowing bubbles were used in the as I was working on the project, and it was an carved into Plexiglas, gone over with an oil-based creation of the painting. interesting, if not slightly unsettling, feeling to have ink, and pressed onto paper. The piece features a Wind: An acrylic painting on canvas. her face in front of mine for hours on end. I was local building in Syracuse known as The Castle, ______very pleased with the results and I hope that you, owned by the local theater company Open Hand KATE BERDAN as a viewer, find the same impact that I did. Theater. I have worked for Open Hand Theater for Happy (but cold) little trees.: This oil many years and was given special permission to Portrait Study (2015), Acrylic on painting is one I created for my brother. It depicts use their building in one of my pieces. This piece : The subject of "Portrait Study" Is one of one of his favorite places to go camping (a small Paper has a strong focus on detail, rather than color as cabin in the Adirondacks) at sunset in the winter. It my classmates from my hometown of Dryden, NY. with this sort of print, I could only use one color. As uses Bob Ross's wet-on-wet technique. This is the We graduated together and she is also a student a result, I focused a lot of the texture and detail in second painting I've ever done, which just goes to here! However don't be fooled; her hair is actually the building, focusing on the structure and the prove that if Bob Ross can do it, so can you! blonde. This painting was a reaction to many bricks that make it up. The building is older, so I thoughts and concerns I have about the daily ______tried to incorporate the little bits and pieces of KYLIE GRIFFITH misuse that water experiences on a global scale nature and wear that show the history and : This piece is a tribute from human pollution. I portrayed the water as a magnitude of the building. What you taught me sweeping force by using broad curves across the to my mom for being such an amazing person in my painting, but tainted it black with thick acrylic paint Evening Sunset: This piece was done in soft life. pastels. It wasn't based on a specific picture taken, to portray pollution and to contrast the clear purity but rather a collection of pictures, creating a Half Full we expect from water. The jellyfish represent ______animal life in the oceans, and are probably the general sunset image. In this piece, I mainly MADISON SECULES focused on color perception. I used a blend of a most water-like in nature themselves. They idly Hello, It's Me: Self Portrait using Conté float around the human subject embossed with the variety of warm colors to reflect the soft, warm Crayons alchemical symbol for water, whose hair mirrors feeling an evening sunset gives off. I used a multitude of layers so that you're never looking at ______the jellyfish. The human subject at once represents MEGAN HILLIS the beauty of water but also the pain and just one color, but a multitude mixed together. : A study in contrasting mistreatment it has endured for many decades, With the use of perception, I wanted to give off the Autumn Morning represented by the tears. I had not intended for feeling that the viewer was there, in the picture, colors. Acrylic paint on canvas board. this work to be a conservation statement of any looking at the sunset as if it was just over the Untitled: Watercolor and ink on mixed media sort, but every time I review it I am reminded of the horizon. paper. beauty and terror water contains, and how I can Red Tricycle: This piece is a still life drawing of ______contribute to help ease it's pain. an older tricycle done in Prismacolor Colored MEGAN SCHWARTZ The Exit (2015), Charcoal on Paper: Pencils with a watercolor wash background. Here, Keep Your Eyes Open, and Let Your Inspired by a story told over ten years and ten I also had a strong focus on color, as well as texture Experiences Awaken You: Double computer games by Polish artist Mateusz Skutnik, as I wanted to portray the smooth, metallic surface exposure photo using two of my original "The Exit" is my interpretation of the conclusion of the tricycle as well as the less smooth, more photographs of my own eye and a snow covered of a story of science fiction and human morality. rustic parts of the decaying metal. I also wanted field on a sunny day the red to pop out as the object itself was very In the story, known by its game titles as My Escapes: Mosaic of two horses using only "Submachine", a lone unidentified human bright red, and thus I wanted to be able to capture paper out of magazines, newspapers etcetera. awakens in a strange world with all of his someone's eye with the bright, flashy color of the memories gone. He must navigate through tricycle. Imagination: A mix of glass mosaic as well as ______ancient structures, abandoned laboratories, a drawing of different objects with diamond glaze JONATHAN NIEVES crumbling religious buildings, and activate a range covering it making the piece come together of mechanical devices that span time periods from Passing Down: This work was originally done beautifully. those of ancient Egypt to the age of electricity's as a pencil study of one hand, but I liked the way it ______discovery to advanced supercomputers, and looked so much that I wanted to elaborate. Both MICHELLE SORIA everything in between. Along the way he collects studies are of my own hands, but done at different Weekend Blur: The image is a girl from her scraps of paper that describe a large science angles and shot lengths, so it looks as if one is older back with a high pony tail. She is on a bed looking project that failed on a global scale; it tore holes than another. Although the intent was not throughs the room which is meant to be a guy's in space-time and destroyed matter itself. After originally to create something especially room. The room has a desk with alcohol bottles, many days of exploring the depths of these meaningful, the final piece suggests a hypothetical poster, and door. The girl's back shirt says "Number buildings the character finally approaches a holy "passing of the torch", albeit with a daisy, to ?" with the idea that in college guys see girls as a temple where he gains understanding from an denote the passing on of faith from one generation number when having sex. artificial intelligence that shows him the way to to the next. ______return to the rest of the world. The drawing Old Man Sitting Beneath A Tree: This ROSE LIPTON includes various devices and objects found piece is actually not quite finished, as much of the Tornado: Image of a tornado created on Adobe throughout the game series that quite literally work is blank space. It was originally a pencil sketch Illustrator CS5.5 hang over the explorer's head as he prepares to of a figure many assumed to be Gandalf, from the ______face his final challenge and escape the entire book series "Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien. SAM ALTERI structure itself. When I did this pen drawing, I was hoping Untitled: A mixed media piece made of paint, ______photographs, colored pencil, and cloth flowers. JANNA NUNZIATO The Lighthouse: Through this work, I just wanted to capture the wonder of creation, by God Inspired by love and the moon. Time Approximately 18x18, colored pencil on ______and man. A beautiful, amorphous sky; a simple, paper drawing. This drawing depicts with great SARAH ALFONSO yet spectacular lighthouse, guiding ships to the detail the lines, wrinkles, and colors of aged hands. shore. It was not meant to awe or amaze, but a winter momento: Drawing mixed media It is made in the style of photorealism, so this ______69 Artwork 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual
SARAH DYAL different perspective as it naturally changed and to remind you that you are not going to live forever Why? evolved, just as they themselves do, never to be and should probably get copulating soon ______the same again. others/thyself: in order to live for others, SARAH KOWALSKI Love in Plain Sight: This piece was part of an you must first live for yourself. in order to live for Imperfect Cyrcles: These circles were assignment in a 2D design class last fall. The yourself, you must first live for others. created at the Ephemeral Arts Festival last October purpose was to create different patterns and ______in the Spencer J. Roemer Arboretum. They were designs to fill the squares, without an obvious SHUXING LIN constructed by braiding ash leaflet stems together connecting theme. I decided to link the squares Childhood Jar: Pinch pot with lid. Hand into strands, weaving them into circles, and then with a simple cursive word "love," inspired by the painted design. sanskrit phrase, "baba nam kevalam" or in short, attaching them together using more ash leaflet Whimsical: Glazed coil pot stems. Once assembled, the piece was hung in a "love is all there is." To this day I do not think my cedar tree along a trail in the Arboretum, and professor knew of the hidden word in the piece, Transcendence: Watercolor painting. colored leaves were stuck between the woven but maybe you can find ______stems. I spent all day walking around and weaving it. SOPHIE BOKA stems, and inspired by the Native American ______; continuing. I. Am. Medicine Wheel philosophy of circles and the SARAH SIMON ______cycles they create, assembled my piece. This negative space: compliment the cleavages of teaching uses the example of a group of people pointers at rest you stare through my fingers in the sitting around the edge of a circle and observing an dark suspension of your bed; "they are so lovely object at its center. Each person sees the object you are so elegant and blameless" yes I've heard from a different perspective, whether it be due to that before differing angles, senses, or emotional attachment. : lying We all go through life with our own circles and when you say you feel a spark next to me. amphetamines really what can it mean cycles, slowly changing and evolving, and no circles are perfect; each viewer saw my piece from without that eternal feeling which really comes just
70 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual Special Presentations
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
GEO's Dumpster Dive 10 AM – 12:30 PM Patio Between College Union and Mary Jemison JASON PHILLIPS, NICHOLAS LAVIGNE, SARAH KOWALSKI, SUMMER STRATTON, MATTHEW VIGLUCCI, CAROLINE SECHE, VICTORIA ROBERTS, DEBORAH PIERSON, ALISON COOK, DEMETRIOS GIANNIOS FACULTY SPONSOR: MARGARET REITZ, RESIDENCE LIFE Geneseo Environmental Organization will be performing a live, interactive performance art installation and reflection of consumption and waste disposal in Geneseo. This live installation will involve sorting through one bag of trash from each residence hall and academic building on campus and determining how much of that waste could have been recycled. The sorting process will be open to audience participation, and proper protective gear such as gloves, goggles and protective suits will be provided to anyone who wishes to participate. The bags will first be weighed as-is, and then reweighed once all the items in the bag have been properly sorted as landfill, paper, or glass/plastic/metal. This performance will be followed by an analysis of how much "trash" could have been recycled in our sample selection. This data analysis is not intended to be a highly accurate or scientific process, but rather the objective of this interactive art performance is to create a visual impact of consumption and waste at Geneseo. By doing so we seek to promote positive environmental action on an individual level by encouraging students and faculty in attendance to reevaluate their personal consumption and recycling habits.
Sláinte Irish Dance 12:40 PM College Union Ballroon Stage FACULTY SPONSOR: SHARON O'RILEY, STUDENT LIFE Founded in 2011, Sláinte (slahn-chə) Irish Dance has already grown tremendously on the SUNY Geneseo campus, as well as in the Geneseo Community. The dancers are varied in level, including several regional, national, and World Champion dancers. Unique choreography and dedication to dance enable us to provide entertainment for any event throughout the year.
Saphire Winter Guard People Help the People 5:10 PM College Union Plaza (outside) MADISON WAYLAND, ERICA SCHLOTT, JANE FENG, STEPHANIE BROWN, SAMANTHA JAYNE, JASMINE BELOY, FRANCESCA D'AMBRO, BRITTANI JOPSON, BROOKE MONFALCONE, HEATHER TROMBOLI, JASMINE WEED, KAYLAN RUIZ, LESLIE INGALLS, SHELBY SCHMIGEL, VICTORIA SOLEY FACULTY SPONSOR: LISA SMITH, MATHEMATICS Sapphire Winter Guard at Geneseo is completely student-run and is under the direction of captains Erica Schlott, Madison Wayland, and Jane Feng. A fairly new and blossoming team on campus, the commitment and diligence has of our members has led our team to almost double in size over the past year, taking on eight new members, some of whom were completely new to the winter guard world. We compete in the North East Colorguard Circuit and have won first, second, and third place trophies during our first and second seasons. This season's show, entitled "People Help the People," emphasizes the idea of hidden baggage; the fact that you never know what the people around you are carrying, whether it be emotional, such as loneliness, or something more tangible, like hunger or unemployment. Our story portrays how important it is to lift each other up and to spread kindness through small acts. All it takes is one person to help another person, to show sympathy, and the ripple will soon spread. In the end, you truly never know what your neighbor carries with them each day, but we can have a tremendous impact on each other.
Gajjda Bhangra Dance Performance 5:15 College Unoin Lobby JASLEEN KUNDLAS, SWETHA SATHASIVAM FACULTY SPONSOR: RANDY KAPLAN, THEATRE/DANCE Gajjda Bhangra is a co-ed dance team that performs at on-campus events, competitions and various local and off- campus events. Bhangra is a traditional dance that comes from the Northern Punjab region of India. This is a co-ed and high energy team that dances at on-campus events, local events in the Geneseo community as well as competitions in the local area.
Zines & Libraries: Conversations with Milne's Reference Librarians Milne Library 1st Floor MICHELLE NITTO FACULTY SPONSOR: BONNIE SWOGER, MILNE LIBRARY This presentation will focus on zines created in collaboration with Milne's Reference Librarians. Zines function as an accessible medium to document and share personal experiences, conversations, and narratives. Zines are handmade booklets which are extremely cheap to print and circulate. The zines I will be sharing are ones which I created over the course of the semester. The conversations I will share within each zine are from interviews conducted with each Reference librarian. Potential issues which may surface in these interviews include; the future of libraries and librarianship, the function of libraries as community spaces, the role of an academic reference librarianship, the importance of opensource sites, how technology affects librarianship, and how librarianship influences literacy rates.
/ɡəˈrilə/ Throughout Campus KALLIE SWYER, EVAN GOLDSTEIN, JAY GUISAO, DIEGO BARCACEL PENA, PAM HAAS, SARAH SIMON, SARA MUNJACK, CHLOE FORSELL, OLIVER DIAZ FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH Taking part in irregular writing and non-traditional publishing, Guerrilla is a collective effort to make local writing and art visible locally through installation and performance. We accept and review poetry, short fiction, nonfiction and visual art for immediate publication: displaying student works all over campus and the surrounding town. We publish work anonymously (unless otherwise requested), so that artists can feel safe publishing something political, confrontational, or controversial. Membership in Guerrilla is as simple as agreeing to collaborate with us: we use a simple and democratic voting process to select work, so each member will have a say in what gets published. If you submit, we encourage you to come to meetings and join in our endeavor. We view the term publication as more than just putting writing and art in a journal: artistic expression is a vital part of our community, and we will make local art visible.
Promotes sustainability 71 Insomnia Film Festival 2016 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 10th Annual
Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival
6:30 PM reception, 7:00 PM screenings Wadsworth Auditorium
The Fifth Annual Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival took place on April 1st- 2nd (NO JOKE!) Participants had 24 hours to write, shoot, edit, and post a video no longer than 3-minutes in duration using a set of elements provided. Teams competed for prizes against other SUNY Geneseo students in an attempt to create the wittiest, most interesting, and creative video. This was a chance for students of all talents to flex their creative muscles and demonstrate their skills, whether they be writers, actors, videographers, or editors. Submissions were judged blindly by a panel of Geneseo faculty and staff. Now we're inviting you to come see the videos during this special GREAT Day screening and awards ceremony! The event is open to all Geneseo community members and we encourage you to bring family, colleagues, and friends as we recognize the excellence, achievements and talent of our 2016 Insomniacs!
GIFF Teams and Participants
Asskickers United Southside 69ers TIMOTHY BLOMQUIST WALKER BRADSHAW Hyuk Am I Right Ladies? JAWAD TAZARI DIEGO BARCACEL PENA CAROLINE TARANTINO ABBY GOLFO THEO DIBEI BENJAMIN BURDETT EMILIE SCHMELZER Reel Team 6 EMILY WARNKEN Newton’s Knights SAMANTHA CLOWES For the Honor Of [Team CAITLYN MULLOOLY IAN COSTLEY ANNA SAMS Name] NICK LAURELLI AARON WEINTAUB The Cold Cuts CODY ESPOSITO PBS Kids NADIR MAHMOOD AUDREY FROATS TRAVIS BURNS DAVID BONE KADIN FAWCETT DYLAN HORCHER ETHAN BROWN JULIA CAMERON GIL CRUZ The Reel MVP’S LUCIO ACCORSO CAROLYN ENGELHARDT JULIA CUMMINGS JAMES WADE 19th Millennial Wolf MOLLY DOWNING TIMOTHY WILLIAMS Cat’s Pajamas Team Rocket HANNAH MRAKOVCIC MUSTAFA AMINALHAQ ERIN SHEEHAN SI YING LIN MICHAEL MACDONALD VICTORIA ELLIOTT MCKENNA MILLER WILLIAM ANDRADE SHANNON HAYES MATT TYLER The Harlem Globe Trotters CON ROCHE BRITINA CHENG Campus Auxillary KATHLEEN MANEY Filmic Brilliance KEVIN CALLERY ALPHA BARRY Productions SARA PROUD NANA BOAKYE WILLIAM MORRIS SARAH SIMON ARIANNA BUTTARAZZI DANIEL KING BRITTANY RODRIGUEZ
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Index of Student Participants and Faculty/Staff Sponsors
Ban, Jung · 48 Bove, Francesca · 67 Chichester, Noah · 20 Bandoni-Muench, Susan · 14, 42, Bradshaw, Walker · 72 Chin, Camille · 55 A 43, 65 Braunagel, Michael · 17 Chiola, Taylor · 50 Bannister, Lara · 5, 23 Brege, Cayley · 49 Chmielewski, Julia · 60 Abdellatif, Amelia · 30 Barcacel Pena, Diego · 71, 72 Briana, Way · 58 Cho, Eunbin · 51 Abraham, Brittany · 46 Barcomb, Heather · 29 Briggs, George · 37 Choi, Siyeon · 46 Accorso, Lucio · 72 Barlowe, Alexandria · 37 Brinkman, Russell · 67 Chong, Julia · 20 Adabra, Kodjo · 10 Barrett, Meghan · 8, 14, 27, 31, Brock, Thomas · 20 Choo, Pei Yi · 48 Adams, Catherine · 2, 54 32, 36, 41 Brody, Tahlia · 2, 32 Chung, Kun Il · 48 Adjegan, Yaovi · 9 Barry, Alpha · 72 Brooks-Miller, Brianna · 67 Chung, Seung Min · 9, 29 Agostinelli-Fucile, Christina · 15 Barry, Amanda · 61 Broomfield, Mark · 7, 31 Cicero, Mary · 28 Ahmad, Syed · 56 Barry, Meaghan · 67 Brown, Ethan · 72 Ciezki, Paige · 10, 22 Aijaz, Atheeqa · 54 Bartholomew, Nicholas · 23 Brown, Kieran · 48, 55, 56 Ciovacco, Michaela · 62 Albers, Judy · 32 Bascaran, Julen · 46 Brown, Stephanie · 71 Clarke, James · 43 Alfonso, Sarah · 31, 69 Basile, Gabriella · 36 Bruetsch, Leeann · 67 Clarkson, David · 56 Allen, James · 60, 61 Basile, Tara · 63 Brunner, Megan · 33 Claud, Jessee · 18 Allen, Stephanie · 19, 27 Battaglia, Jessica · 48 Bruno, Giovannina · 68 Cleeton, Elaine · 23, 64 Alohan, Daniel · 65 Bazzett, Terence · 64 Buchanan, Eric · 7, 59 Clinton, Regina · 14, 41 Aloni, Tal · 32 Beale, Luca · 11, 56 Buckley-Crist, Emily · 14, 67 Clowes, Samantha · 20, 72 Alonso, Alberto · 23 Begovic, Ermina · 23 Buckowski, Sarah · 51 Coates, Noah · 20 Alteri, Sam · 69 Behrend, Justin · 16, 22 Burdett, Benajmin · 28 Coburn, Thomas · 18 Altschiller, Allison · 2, 1, 28, 67 Bekoe, Jonathan · 48 Burger, Timothy · 31 Codera, Lily · 20 Amico, Jennifer · 8 Bell, Tyler · 64 Burgois, Anthony · 64 Coffaro, Breann · 2, 46 Aminalhaq, Mustafa · 72 Beloy, Jasmine · 44, 71 Burns, Travis · 72 Coffey, Jordan · 44 Amitrano, Andrea · 37, 67 Belson, Emma · 68 Buscemi, Gino · 5 Colas, Jennipher · 61, 63 Amos, Serena · 10 Belyakov-Goodman, Irene · 17, Bush, Tyler · 18 Colberg, Kelsey · 7 Amuso, Rebecca · 29 50, 51 Bussmann, Madison · 12 Cole, Karina · 64 An, Jeceaca · 48 Bensburg, Katherine · 49 Buttarazzi, Arianna · 22, 68, 72 Colling, Ryan · 29 Anania, James · 20 Benson, Peter · 11, 20 Buttice, Ashley · 25 Collins, Yaela · 16 Anastasopoulos, Dimitra · 47 Berdan, Kate · 69 Byun, Jenny · 65 Colon, Betsy · 5 Andrade, William · 72 Bergamo, Nicole · 7, 63 Comerford, Sarah · 20 Andrews, Ryan · 67 Bergere, Adrian · 54 Conard, Benjamin · 13 Angelini, Harrison · 65 Bergevin, Andrew · 20, 67 C Condren, Meredith · 30 Angeloni, Nicholas · 37 Berman, Meghan · 61 Coniglio, Mary · 50 Anstett, Sarah · 42 Bernard, Lori · 9 Calderon, Alexander · 61 Connolly, Shannon · 25 Antelek, Adele · 67 Berry, Marissa · 61 Callery, Kevin · 72 Cook, Alison · 71 Apple, Jennifer · 39, 40, 41 Bilgic, Yusuf · 8, 32, 56 Cameron, Julia · 72 Cooney, Ellen · 47 Arcidiacono, James · 67 Birkby, Gabriel · 62 Campbell, Jonathan · 64 Cooper, Ken · 35 Arter, Camille · 25 Bissell, Sarah · 67 Canavan, Jake · 48 Cope, Joseph · 22, 24 Asher, Ken · 16 Biuso, Anna · 25 Caracciolo, Rebecca · 32 Corcoran, Katie · 20 Aspenleiter, Sydney · 32 Black, Nellie · 30 Cardona, Skye · 49 Corey, Jessica · 32 Aujla, Harneel · 34 Bladis, Mason · 48 Carey, Michael · 62 Corric, Caitlin · 68 Aujla, Harpreet · 20, 65 Blaszak, Catherine · 12, 67 Carpenter, Ryan · 41, 44 Costello, Michelle · 36 Auld, Mary · 35, 36, 44 Blomquist, Timothy · 72 Castelletti, Caitlin · 68 Costich, Maxwell · 37 Blood, Melanie · 7, 8, 28 Castillo De La Cruz, Yaskairy · 61 Costley, Ian · 72 Boakye, Nana · 31, 72 Cataldo, Melissa · 25 Cox, Eliza · 18 B Boateng, Elizabeth · 31 Cathey, Taylor · 50 Crawford, Matt · 67 Bockino, Katie · 11 Caughlin, Dennis · 7 Cropsey, Aiden · 12, 34, 43 Boiani, James · 46 Cross, Amanda · 18 Bacher, Aimee · 58 Cepeda, Vanessa · 61 Boka, Sophie · 70 Chang, Ming-Mei · 41 Cruz, Gil · 72 Bachmann, Jordan · 20 Bone, David · 72 Cummings, Colleen · 9, 29 Backhaus, Joshua · 41 Chapman, Joe · 32, 47 Bonetto, Alexandre · 17 Charlebois, Amber · 44 Cummings, Julia · 72 Bacotti, Lexie · 51 Boody, Jennifer · 20, 65, 68 Cumone, Paul · 20 Bae, Jessica · 35 Charlebois, Jay · 46 Booker, Sarah · 29 Chauvin, Noah · 2, 35, 43 Cupicha, Maura · 12, 26 Bailey, Travis · 43 Borges, Victor · 61, 67 Custance, Michael · 42 Balch, Brandyn · 51 Chawla, Gurnaina · 32 Bosch, Isidro · 14, 38, 39 Chen, Hongling · 47 Cutrone, John · 50 Ballard, Joan · 2, 62 Bouchard, Sierra · 7, 39 Cytryn, Samantha · 61 Balsano, Antonino · 19 Chen, Shuo · 16 Bouge, Patrick · 63 Cheng, Britina · 13, 72 Czerwinski, Kristen · 7 Bambury, Emma · 57 Bourdage, Jessica · 32
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D Elliot, Ashley · 29 Garnaat, Maxwell · 13, 24, 30, 59 Hadley, Angelica · 23 Elliott, Victoria · 72 Garrity, Thomas · 20 Hale, Kristine · 32 Ellmann, Emily · 37 Garty, Hannah · 67 Hale, Maggie · 55 D'Ambro, Francesca · 71 Emengo, Pamela · 64 Gaudino, Anthony · 67 Hall, Elizabeth · 18, 50 D'Ambrosio, Elizabeth · 47, 48 Endo, Manami · 17 Gavigan, James · 59 Hallahan, Cayley · 2 Dananberg, Alexandra · 27, 43 Engelhardt, Carolyn · 72 Gaylord, Brandon · 5 Hallenbeck, Zachary · 11 Daverin, Kelsey · 50 Ercolano, Emily · 5 Gebhardt, Bryce · 37, 67 Han, Yedarm · 51 Davis, Azaria · 33 Esposito, Cody · 72 Geiger, Cristina · 45, 49 Handy, Jason · 67 Davis, Rachel · 19, 30 Esposito, Sarah · 28, 30 Geiger, David · 45, 46 Hanrahan, Stephen · 67 DeBose, Deidre · 29 Evans, Sam · 23 Gershuni, Maria · 6, 30 Hargrove, Tashira · 64 DeCicco, Frank · 55 Evans, Samuel · 59 Gerych, Walter · 23 Harrigan, Meredith · 23 Decker, Alex · 67 Evers-Hillstrom, Lena · 67 Getman, Darrell · 30 Harrison, Hannah · 57, 67 Decker, Sam · 50 Giacalone, Kimberly · 29 Hartnett, David · 48 deFreitas, Sophie · 50 Giannios, Demetrios · 2, 71 Hartnett, Sarah · 49 DeHart, Ganie · 2, 61 F Gibian, Galen · 19 Hartsough, Harrison · 5, 20, 28, DeJoy, Joshua · 9 Gikonyo, Barnabas · 44, 45 59 Delles, Sean · 32 Gillard, Mitchell · 42 Hartvigsen, Gregg · 2, 5, 16, 23, Dempsey, Malachy · 36 Fabiny, Hannah · 2, 68 Faleiro, Matheus · 20 Gimpelman, Brandon · 57 29, 38 Derne, Steve · 33 Ginnane, Mary Kate · 57 Hashimoto, Mai · 17 DeRosia, Marley · 36 Farian, Homma · 55 Fawcett, Kadin · 63, 72 Giorgis, Scott · 17, 54 Hatem, Jimmy · 6, 20 DeSmitt, Holly · 57 Gladstone, Will · 23 Hauf, Emily · 65 Dexter, Breeanna · 49 Federici, Dillon · 12, 62 Feng, Jane · 71 Glaser, Rebecca · 65 Hayes, Andrew · 60 Diaz, Genesis · 61 Glathaer, Alexandra · 37 Hayes, Shannon · 72 Diaz, Oliver · 36, 71 Feng, Jimmy · 31 Fenn, Jess · 11, 20 Gleason, Cole · 39 Heap, Aaron · 55 Dibei, Theo · 72 Glover, Sara · 20 Held, Shayna · 67 DiBernardo, Julia · 56 Fernández Agüera, Javier · 17 Fibich, Lauren · 26 Goeckel, Robert · 6 Helenbrook, Lindsay · 59 Diez, Patrick · 54 Goehle, Todd · 2, 10, 18, 27, 30 Helms, Eric · 46, 67 DiGiorgio, Francesca · 20 Fiegl, Joshua · 32 Filkins, Timothy · 27 Goeke, Janelle · 14, 37 Henriksen, Tiffany · 29 Dilsner-Lopez, Kiaya Rose · 30 Goga, George · 32 Henry, Erin · 23 Dinielli, Nicholas · 67 Fineberg, Randi · 12 Finn, Daniel · 56 Gohel, Nikkel · 48 Hensen, Corey · 52 DiPreta, Ariana · 11, 12, 63 Goldberg, Miles · 31 Herd, Toria · 63 Dodoo, Geneviva · 61 Finnerty-Haggerty, Lara · 41 Fischer, Sean · 24, 34 Goldstein, Evan · 12, 27, 36, 71 Herman, Andrew · 49 Doggett, Robert · 11 Goldstein, Jessica · 9, 20 Herman, Tyler · 26 Dolan, Laura · 63 Fischera, Dylan · 67 Fisher, Caitlyn · 61 Goldstein, Jonah · 67 Hermitt, Olivia · 37 Dolce, Joe · 2 Gole, Mike · 67 Hess, William · 36 Dove-Pellito, Glennda · 67 Fitzgerald, Kendall · 27, 52 Fletcher, Kurt · 2, 56, 57 Golfo, Abby · 13, 68, 72 Hettinger, Bethany · 63 Dowd, Molly · 27 Grace, Jeremy · 2, 14 Hewko, Alexander · 23 Downing, Molly · 72 Fletcher, Kyle · 65 Flores, Tatianna · 30 Graham, Sara · 26 Hill, Natalie · 59 Downs, William · 47 Gramlich, Kelsey · 18 Hillis, Megan · 69 Drainville, Alexander · 32 Floss, Jamie · 32 Fong, Anna · 23, 49 Grant, Mackenzie · 72 Hintze, Mackenzie · 31, 67 Drake, Graham · 2, 11, 13 Gray, Layna · 24 Ho, Amber · 28, 55 Draper, Dylan · 58 Forde, Aoife · 14 Forsell, Chloe · 27, 71 Gray, Shanique · 32 Ho, Henry · 48 Drozda, Allison · 39 Greenfield, Tom · 7 Hogan, Erin · 67 Druse, Kristen · 28 Foster, Evan · 19 Fox, Allison · 25 Greeno, Thomas · 5 Holcomb, Anna · 55 Dryden, Danelle · 61 Griffen, Jordan · 31, 44 Holden, Gordon · 32 Durr, Michaela · 49 Fradkin, Sarah · 6 Freedberg, Jonathan · 32 Griffin, Hannah · 29 Holtzman, Emma · 20 Dutta, Shourik · 48 Griffith, Kylie · 69 Hoops, Harold · 5, 37, 38 Dyal, Sarah · 70 Freeman, Charlie · 2, 27 Freiman, Benjamin · 51 Griffith, Leandra · 36, 49 Hoppa, Anthony · 60 Friedman, Alec · 33, 67 Guidarelli, Gabriel · 56 Horan, Noah · 29 Guisao, Jay · 71 Horcher, Dylan · 60, 61, 72 E Friedman, Jillian · 28 Froats, Audrey · 72 Gulfo, Michelle · 27, 49 Horn, Tessa · 36 Fulcoly, Jordan · 32 Guyton, Scott · 39 Horner, Hugh · 53 Eames, Michelle · 10 Guzmán, Jennifer · 26 Horvath, Saige · 67 Easton, Celia · 16 House, Caroline · 67 Eckert, Julie · 67 G Howard, Audrey · 64, 67 Eckes, Samantha · 54 H Htun, Sam · 12 Edwards, Ashley · 62 Hughes, Ashton · 52 Ehmann, Megan · 64 Gallaro, Joshua · 67 Hunt, Kelsey · 50 Ganley, Mallory · 32 Haas, Pam · 71 Ehret, Jack · 48 Haber, Noah · 34 Hurlbutt, Emily · 20 Eley, Ginny · 18 Garber, Sophia · 20, 65 Hurley, Pat · 67 Garcia, Gabriella · 36 Hacherl, Lindsey · 65 Elia, Marcus · 8 Haddad, Caroline · 2, 8, 19 Huss, Rebecca · 8 Elkady, Djoni · 20 Garing, Paul · 67 Hustak, Kelly · 37, 38
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Husted, Kevin · 9 Kawabe, Shu · 17 L M Hutchison, Elizabeth · 37 Kedzierawski, Andrzej · 55 Kee, Jonathan · 50 Keenan, Connor · 32 Laabs, Benjamin · 52, 54 MacDonald, Michael · 72 I Keim, Brandon · 13 Labonte, Chandra · 68 MacKenzie, Douglas · 49, 50 Keller, Kate · 67 LaCombe, Nina · 67 Maddock, Kevin · 23 Lage Venterink, Stef · 22 Mador, Sarah · 32 Ikedo, Ayana · 10, 50 Kelly, Anne · 67 Kelsey, Natalie · 24 Lam, Lexus · 55 Maggio, Daniel · 11 Indelicato, Alyssa · 11 Lamb, Austin · 40 Mahmood, Nadir · 72 Ingalls, Leslie · 71 Kemler, Madison · 67 Kendall, Tanner · 34 LaMond, Shelby · 61 Mahoney, Brendan · 20 Ingerick, Shelby · 67 Lamontagne, Michael · 16 Maio, Anna · 39 Inoue, Mizuna · 17 Kennison, Weston · 20, 34, 50, 65 Kenny, Michael · 27 Laneri, Fei · 68 Maitland, Austin · 67 Islam, Apaula · 25 Lang, Daniel · 58 Maney, Kathleen · 23, 72 Iwamoto, Naomi · 67 Kernan, James · 51 Kidder, Alexis · 62 Langan, Amanda · 32 Manou, Andrew · 33 Killegrew, John · 5 Langdon, Charlotte · 64 Mans, James · 32 Langworthy, Alycia · 23 Mapes, Kathleen · 9, 22 J Kim, Bongjoo · 51 Kim, Kun Hee · 18, 23 Lantry, Ryan · 32 Maplesden, Robert · 18 Kim, Seung · 31 Lascell, Ernest · 67 Marcinik, Erik · 54 Jackson, Jeremy · 35, 67 Kim, Sungah · 48 Laurelli, Nick · 72 Maric, Antonia · 7 James, Davitia · 53 Kim, Ulrica · 60 LaVigne, Nicholas · 71 Marino, Robert · 67 James, Tarik · 38, 47 Kimak, Erin · 39 Lawson-Keister, Elizabeth · 55, 57 Mark, Brandon · 11 Jassawalla, Avan · 6 Kimball, james · 67 Leary, Christopher · 2, 23, 29 Markowski, Vincent · 64 Jayne, Samantha · 71 Kinel, Julia · 69 Ledner, Shana · 64 Marshall, Zoe · 61 Jefferson Alvarez, William · 29 King, Daniel · 72 Lee, Mansokku · 2, 11, 43 Martin, Daniel · 32, 60 Jefferson, William · 29 Kirk, Joanna · 16, 28, 30 Lee, Namyoung · 51 Martinson, Katharine · 29 Jelonek, Casey · 63 Kirrane, Ryan · 25, 61 Legenhausen, Erik · 33 Masetta, Mike · 67 Jenkins, Jack · 16 Kirsh, Steven · 64 Leonard, Robert · 13 Mathew, Michelle · 29 Johanes, Richard · 18 Kislin, Jonathan · 60, 61 Leone, Gustave · 43 Mathews, Jane · 44 Johannes, Jeff · 9, 18 Klein, Aislinn · 51 Levine, Sydney · 20 Matina, Robert · 24 Johnson, Angela · 68 Klein, Matthew · 18, 50 Levy, David · 2, 8 Matthews, Kyle · 26 Johnson, Claire · 36 Kleinhenz, Elena · 67 Lewis, Jani · 2, 6, 39 Matthews, Thomas · 5, 17, 18, Johnson, David · 46 Klima, Cynthia · 10 Lewis, Julia · 19 25, 31, 32 Johnson, Elise · 61 Knowles, Douglas · 27 Li, Mingxin · 39 Mattison, Laura · 32 Johnson, Julie · 18 Koch, Jeffrey · 28, 58, 59, 60 Lian, Shelly · 9 Mattson, James · 67 Johnson, Michael · 53 Kohn, Thomas · 20 Liang, Amy · 18, 55, 68 Matyasovszky, Gage · 67 Jones, Christopher · 9, 26, 67 Kohrs, Yoshua · 26 Lieb, Camryn · 40 Mazer, Noah · 36 Jones, Ryan · 33 Kolodny, Joshua · 55 Lieberman, Erica · 61 Mazzola, Jennifer · 60, 61 Jones, Sarah · 39 Kompanijec, Victoria · 46, 67 Lieberman, Erin · 30 McAlevey, Jack · 67 Jopson, Brittani · 71 Koob, Julian · 41 Lima, Maria · 2, 30 McCarthy, Thomas · 11, 13 Juers, Gabrielle · 64 Kordiyak, Jonathan · 43 Lin, Amber · 23 McCartney, Jacob · 39 Jun, Minjung · 17 Kosmerl, Erica · 32 Lin, Shuxing · 70 McClure, Glenn · 67 Kossover, Phillip · 16 Lin, Si Ying · 72 McClure, Matthew · 20, 34 Kotak, Thomas · 60 Lionetti, Alex · 25 McCormick, Jamie · 20 K Kotapati, Sindhoori · 39 Lippi, Ariana · 15, 67 McDonnell, Morgan · 67 Kousar, Bilal · 57 Lipton, Rose · 69 McElligott, Meghan · 42 Kaba, Salmata · 25, 62 Kowalski, Sarah · 51, 70, 71 Lisi, Jessica · 69 McEwen, Rose · 32 Kallicharan, Rushka · 44, 45 Kramer, Ari · 56 Lomaki, Jennifer · 57 McGrath, Alex · 15 Kalumbwe, Nathalie · 10 Krolikowski, Daniel · 56 Lomazzo, Kate · 25 McKiernan, Kaila · 67 Kalvin, Gregory · 44 Krumrine, Kristi · 34, 36 Long, Carol · 2, 60 McKinney, Miranda · 62 Kambhampati, Ooha · 41 Kubow, Christopher · 46 Long, Patrick · 42 McKinsey, Jordon · 18 Kaminski, Ryanne · 49 Kuehnling, Alyssa · 2, 50 Loo, Hannah · 20, 40, 43 McMahon, Joseph · 64 Kanaley, Chelsea · 52 Kulakowski, Kelly · 67 Loo, Tiffany · 20 McMahon, Liam · 63 Kane, Hunter · 36 Kumra, Sheena · 35 Louis, Cassandre · 41, 42 McPherson, Duane · 37, 39 Kane, Ian · 18 Kundlas, Jasleen · 71 Lovett, Janice · 39, 40 Medayil, Jaison · 47 Kane, Michael · 55 Kurita, Yuka · 17 lu, yezhong · 47 Medeiros, Melanie · 22, 29 Kaneko, Ayako · 50 Kusick, Grant · 5, 38 Luce, Maggie · 47 Medina, Emma · 26 Kang, Eunju · 57, 58 Kwong, Alexander · 58 Lui, Tiffany · 2, 63 Medina, Sabrina · 44 Kanzler, Patrick · 30 Luke, Rayanne · 8 Mehlenbacher, Brandon · 46 Kaplan, Randy · 7, 28, 71 Lyke, Codi · 60, 61 Mehta, Varun · 39 Karst, Shannon · 60 Lynch, Michael · 63 Meisel, David · 56 Katayama, Ryo · 17 Melfi, Kristi · 32 Katz, Jennifer · 2, 62 Meluni, Joseph · 45
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Mengucci, Margaret · 40 Nieves, Jonathan · 69 Pendleton, Paige · 29 Rountree, Nicole · 47, 67 Mensinger, Mark · 18 Nimoh, Henry · 61 Peraino, Alexandra · 34 Rubright, Suzanna · 30 Mercer, Dayna · 27 Ninson, Gladys · 61 Perez, Marcos · 32 Ruiz, Kaylan · 49, 71 Merrilees, Christine · 60 Nitto, Michelle · 71 Pero, Nicole · 36 Rus, Elizabeth · 22 Mertens, Ellie · 19 Nocera, Karly · 52 Peterson, Jeffrey · 46, 47 Russo, Caroline · 42 Meyer, Lisa · 15, 16, 34 Norris, Darrell · 25, 31, 51, 52 Peterson, Sarah · 56 Rutigliano, Mary · 26 Michaelsen, Ryan · 6 Nunziato, Janna · 18, 27, 69 Pfaltz, Jacqueline · 55 Rutkowski, Alice · 13 Miki, Ayano · 17 Nyitrai, Jenelle · 67 Phillips, Jason · 26, 71 Ryan, Felicia · 33 Militello, Kevin · 2, 8, 41, 42 Phillips, Sarah Jane · 31 Ryan, Sean · 67 Miller, McKenna · 72 Piazza, Nadine · 64 Rybak, Brian · 32 Miller, Samuel · 56 O Pierson, Deborah · 71 Ryder, Jake · 50 Milne, Sarah · 39 Piletz, Autumn · 50 Minaya, Maydelis · 37 O'Brien, Caroline · 63 Plimpton, Teagan · 61 Minaya, Melissa · 12, 34 O'Brien, Grace · 9 Pogozelski, Wendy · 48, 49 S Mindich, Amelia · 67 O'Brien, Kathleen · 35 Pollock, David · 18 Minett, Nicholas · 25 Ockenden, Ryan · 6 Polosky, Grace · 13 Sabatino, Jonathan · 5 Mirabile, Daniel · 62 O'Donnell, Robert · 2, 42, 49 Ponce, Gabriel · 32 Sabol, David · 20 Misa, Samantha · 10 Oduro, Stella · 9 Potischman, Joseph · 32 Sabzeghabae, Ariana · 57 Mizutani, Julia · 14 Ofri, Dylan · 44 Potter, Carrie · 67 Saeli, Meghan · 10 Mohan, Nicola · 28 Oh, DongWon · 36 Powers, Taylor · 15 Saitta, Maria · 36, 67 Mokan, Jessica · 36 O'Hara, Thomas · 30 Preston, Kelly · 35 Sams, Anna · 72 Mokonuma, Hana · 68 Ohman, Elizabeth · 64 Priestley, Adam · 22 Sansola, Corey · 13 Monfalcone, Brooke · 71 Okorie, Chiamaka · 6, 39 Primavera, Shannon · 58 Santana, Arlenis · 61 Monrose, Bria · 61 Oktay, Chloe · 60, 61 Prusinowski, Meghan · 14 Santos, Marylen · 61 Mooney, Karen · 62 Olin, Ashley · 53 Pujols, Monica · 48 Sarrab-Bekri, Nadjet · 10 Moor, James · 5 Omecinsky, Michaela · 30 Sarrantonio, Lauren · 27, 36 Moore, Rachel · 25, 39 Ongkingco, Justin · 39 Sathasivam, Swetha · 71 Morales, Alyssa · 61 Opoku, Prince · 27 Q Sawyer, Bailey · 38 Morell, Dominic · 45 O'Rourke, Benjamin · 38 Sayed, Madelyn · 26 Morgan, Brian · 7, 25 O'Shea, Michael · 53 Qadiri, Spozhmai · 44 Scandaglia, Gina · 40 Morgan, Kaitlyn · 22 Ostroot, Joanna · 62 Schaefer, Lauren · 50 Morris, William · 72 Oswald, Cynthia · 5, 13, 44 Schatz, Hayley · 54 Morrow, Lorelei · 27 Over, Jeffrey · 17, 53 R Schechter, Stephanie · 14, 67 Motisi, Marisa · 62 Owen, Kimberly · 15 Schlott, Erica · 71 Mounts, Jeffrey · 62 Owens, Bethany · 61 Schmelzer, Emilie · 72 Mrakovcic, Hannah · 40, 68, 72 Raffloer, Gavin · 12, 35 Rahmani, Roman · 43 Schmigel, Shelby · 71 Muhlbauer, Zachary · 11 Schneider, Adam · 27, 29 Mullooly, Caitlyn · 72 Ralbovsky, Nicole · 17, 47, 48 P Ramsey, Michael · 19 Schneider, Monica · 12, 34, 63 Munjack, Sara · 26, 71 Schoen, Marcus · 57 Murphy, Aidan · 23 Ranalli, Benjamin · 28 Pablo, Juan · 17 Randazzo, Daniel · 58 Schroeder, Elizabeth · 59 Murphy, Madi · 38 Schultz, Anna · 18 Murphy, Shannon · 45 Pacheco, Paul · 2, 8, 34, 36 Rao, Anand · 6 Padalino, Stephen · 2, 11, 57 Rasquin, Megan · 33 Schutt, William · 23, 37 Murray, Shaun-Marie · 50 Scofield, Amelia · 41 Myzelev, Alla · 5 Padawer-Curry, Jonah · 56, 57 Rault, Patrick · 10, 13, 26 Paku, Gillian · 24, 34 Rebolini, Matthew · 52 Scott, Nelson · 20 Panzetta, Mary · 25 Reed, Michael · 52 Scott, Samantha · 50 Seaman, Kristen · 6 N Papas, Emilios · 67 Reitz, Meg · 65, 66 Parfitt, David · 25, 31 Resila, Stephanie · 25 Seche, Caroline · 71 Park, Hyemin · 51 Restivo, Michael · 56, 64 Secules, Madison · 69 Nackenson, Chase · 33 Park, Seong Shik · 51 Richardson, Brittney · 25, 61, 62 Serianni, Anthony · 30 Naioti, Eric · 23, 49 Pascoe, Dylan · 14 Riggi, Vanessa · 13 Shah, Randhir · 47 Naor, Mika · 64 Patel, Amy · 68 Riggio, Nicole · 16 Shank, Cody · 18 Neidish, Harrison · 30 Pawlikowski, Michael · 32, 33, 50, Roberts, Victoria · 51, 71 Sharer, Braeden · 63 Nelson, Brianna · 62 55, 56 Roberts, William · 45 Sharrin, Sarah · 20 Nering, Emma · 62 Payne, Claire · 50 Robertson, David · 52 Sheedy, Marianna · 67 Newman, Stephanie · 38 Pearl, Jennifer · 18 Roche, Con · 72 Sheehan, Erin · 72 Nguyen, Phuong · 9 Pearl, Stephanie · 50 Rodriguez Johnson, Fatima · 23 Sheldon, Amy · 52 Nguyen, Tim · 50 Pease, Adam · 34 Rodriguez, Brittany · 72 Sheldon, Nicole · 36 Nicholas, David · 42 Peinkofer, Nicole · 67 Rodriguez, Evelyn · 61 Shevlin, Peter · 48 Nichols, Sam · 67 Pellegrino, Elizabeth · 27 Rogalsky, Jennifer · 25, 51 Shik Park, Seong · 51 Nickels, Katherine · 59 Pellerin, Anne · 11, 56 Rohe, Susanna · 64 Shinkle, Blain · 34 Nicodemi, Olympia · 2, 27 Pembrook, Nathan · 65 Ross, Mackenzie · 20, 65 Sholl, Martha · 67
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Short, Tyler · 32 T Vantine, Taylor · 50 Wiesner, Micah · 56, 67 Sigler, Khloe · 26 Vasco, Mark · 22 Wigsten, Blair · 37 Signor, Alyssa · 25 Vecchio, Michael · 22 Wilcove, Rachel · 30 Simon, Sarah · 70, 71, 72 Tadros, Joseph · 20 Venticinque, Joseph · 61 WIlkins, Kala · 24 Simpson, Malcolm · 19 Tajima, Atsushi · 2, 23, 24, 49 Viglucci, Matthew · 26, 35, 71 Williams, James · 24 Simpson, Tori · 63 Talbot, Justine · 8 Villalon, Sofia · 25 Williams, Jonelle · 12, 23, 35 Singh, Sunita · 64 Tanaka, Ikki · 50 Villazhinay, Gina · 18, 34 Williams, Savannah · 55 Skinner, Jane · 7 Tang, Jasmine · 55 Vincelette, Casey · 20, 68 Williams, Steven · 67 Skowronski, Alicia · 25, 37 Tarantino, Caroline · 72 Visca, Hannah · 57 Williams, Timothy · 72 Slater, Joshua · 27 Taylor, Adam · 13 Volcy, Matt · 61 Williams, Yvette · 12, 34 Smarcz, Nathan · 67 Taylor, Austin · 67 Vosburg, Jarrett · 56 Willows, William · 15 Smith, Andrew · 50 Tazari, Jawad · 72 Wilson, Naomi · 38 Smith, Brendan · 46 Teboul, Eric · 64 Winberry, Shayna · 6 Smith, Lisa · 55, 71 Terrigino, Nicholas · 42 W Winters, Anna · 16 Smith, Lytton · 27, 30, 36, 71 Thapalia, Samikshya · 29 Witkowski, Julia · 29 Tharrett, Katie · 38 Smith, Zachary · 58 Wade, James · 51, 72 Woidat, Caroline · 24 Snider, Katie · 24 Thomas, Ian · 64 Wolfram, Olivia · 61 Thompson, Fabian · 43 Wagner, Amanda · 15 Snyder, James · 18 Wagner, Neil · 54 Wong, See Long · 19, 26 Snyder, Timothy · 67 Thornton, Carolyn · 46 Woods, Aaron · 13 Thurber, Lauren · 67 Walker, Brooke · 67 Sofko, Cailin · 67 Walker, Julia · 2, 12, 26 Woughter, Daniel · 12 Sojda, Stephanie · 32, 46 Tialios, Kristian · 6 Wrynn, Michelle · 38 Tiller, Jim · 67 Wallace, Jenelle · 17 Soley, Victoria · 71 Walsh, Paige · 67 Wu, Bowen · 40, 43 Soria, Michelle · 69 Tomei, Nicole · 56 Towsley, Gary · 8, 32, 33 Walsh, Rachel · 51 Sorrentino, Joseph · 32 Walsh, Shannon · 20, 65 Soudachanh, Jenny · 31 Trelstad, Ellie · 57 Y Trifone, Elizabeth · 50 Ward, Ryan · 27 Sparling, Jonathan · 56 Warner, Nicholas · 53, 54 Stafford, Nicholas · 42 Troge, Hunter · 67 Tromboli, Heather · 71 Warner, Sara · 59 Yaeger, Chase · 32 Stahnk, Alex · 20 Warnken, Emily · 72 Yanar, Mel · 5 Stanley, Benjamin · 32 Trost, Jacob · 12 Tse, Alvin · 22 Wayland, Madison · 71 Yao, Benjamin · 38 Starr, Victoria · 25 Weaver, Amman · 20 Yatsko, Jacob · 68 Steidle, Jessica · 27 Tsitsuashvili, Meghan · 32 Tucker, Madeline · 48 Webber, Alexander · 67 Yeung, William · 52 Steinhauer, Aaron · 2, 53, 56 Weber, Christopher · 9 Yokoyama, Kazushige · 2, 16, 47, Steinsaltz, Matthew · 44 Tulowiecki, Stephen · 51 Turner, Ethan · 57 Weber, Emily · 50 48 Stevens, Michelle · 39 Weber, Mike · 56 Yoshida, Masanari · 60, 61 Steward, Colleen · 45 Tyler, Matt · 72 Tzavelis, Katelyn · 31 Weed, Jasmine · 71 Yoshikawa, Hiroki · 50 Stich, Jason · 6 Wegman, Adam · 41 Yu, Ji Soo · 51 Stone, Leonie · 6, 20 Weiner, Jonathan · 34 Yu, Tilaina · 23 Stratton, Summer · 71 U Weinstein, Samuel · 2, 16, 46, 67 Yusupov, Ariel · 37 Suarez, Maria · 10, 43 Weintraub, Aaron · 53 Suddaby, Conor · 60 Weissman, Caleb · 34 Sugrue, Colin · 50, 67 Uddin, Fatima · 23 Welch, Evelyn · 20 Z Sullivan, Daniel · 53 Welhous, Sarah · 66 Sung, Rachel · 55 Welsch, Tory · 67 Susnick, Skyler · 31, 43 V Zahid, Zarmeen · 2, 63 Wentworth, Amanda · 11 Zaslavsky, Katherine · 19, 23, 64, Suter, Patrick · 52 Wenzel, Juliet · 36 Sweeney, Julianne · 53 67 Vadas, Andrew · 44 Wesp, Richard · 32 Zhu, Jia Wen · 2, 25 Swoger, Bonnie · 71 Valinsky, Frances · 66 Wheeler, Travis · 25 Swyer, Kallie · 71 Zick, Patricia · 45 Van Orden, Soukee · 33 Whittel, Nicholas · 14, 43 Zito, Katherine · 24 Van Ornam, Zachary · 54 Whittle, Julia · 29 Zook, Joan · 2, 62 Van Slyke, Mikaela · 22 Widger, Emily · 49 Zweig, Michal · 46
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POSTER SESSIONS: POSTER CENTRAL – COLLEGE UNION BALLROOM, 3RD FLOOR, STARBUCKS STAGE 11: 15 AM – 12:45 PM with Lunch and the Geneseo String Band performance at noon 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM with Bhangra, Reception, Keynote Speaker Booksigning, and Closing Remarks by President Battles