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Conference Presentation Schedule Table of Contents Welcome ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 MSU Texas Information ……………………………………………………………………………………… 4 ForagerOne & Conference Access ………………………………………………………………………. 5 Dennis Boe Award Winners ………………………………………………………………………………… 6 GPHC Schedule-at-a-Glance ……………………………………………………………………………….. 7 Live Oral Presentation Schedule ……………………………………………………………………….... 8 Poster Presentations & Abstracts ……………………………………………………………………… 19 Oral Presentation Abstracts ……………………………………………………………………………… 33 Social Events …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 66 Acknowledgments ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 67 2 Welcome to GPHC 2021 Hello, I am Steve Garrison, the Director of the Redwine Honors Program at Midwestern State University. On behalf of our program and university, we are excited to host you for this year’s Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC) conference. Although we would like to be in person this year, health and safety concerns borne out of the global coronavirus pandemic made such an in-person event untenable, and thus this year’s GPHC conference is virtual. We have a number of excellent student research presentations, including both posters and oral presentations. Additionally, GPHC will be awarding the Dennis Boe paper and John Britt poster awards. So, although sitting in front of our computers is not ideal, let’s make the most of it. See you at GPHC 2021! 3 Midwestern State University Since its founding in 1922, Midwestern State The post-World War II years brought more University (MSU Texas) has grown from a local change in the school’s mission and in its name. junior college to a regional state university In 1946, the senior college division was added, serving a wide and varied public. and accordingly the name was altered to Hardin College. In January 1950, the name changed to Created in 1922 as Wichita Falls Junior College, Midwestern University, the junior division the second municipal junior college in Texas, its remaining Hardin Junior College. In these years, earliest home was in Wichita Falls High School, wider recognition came to the school. In March with which it shared both the building and 1948, the university became a member of the faculty. Later, a legislative act and a vote of the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. people of Wichita Falls set up a separate tax In January 1959, the university added a district to support the junior college. graduate school, which received full approval from the State Board of Education in August of In 1937, the college acquired a new 40-acre that year. campus of its own on the south side of town. Rising above the pastures and wheat fields was A further change in the school’s status came the recently finished Hardin Building, an September 1, 1961, when, by action of the 56th impressive Spanish colonial structure, which Legislature of the State of Texas, Midwestern was presided over by a lofty bell tower. Also in University became a part of the Texas Colleges that year the college was renamed Hardin and Universities System, and the junior college Junior College in honor of Mr. and Mrs. John G. division was dissolved. In 1975, the Texas Hardin. Legislature changed the name to Midwestern State University. During World War II, the establishment of Sheppard Field, later renamed Sheppard Air From its beginnings as a municipal junior Force Base, added to the college’s outreach and college housed in a high school building, community. Since that time, air base personnel Midwestern has become a state university and their families have been continuing whose campus of 255 acres and 70 buildings participants in the campus academic programs. offers a wide variety of academic programs in liberal and fine arts, mathematics, sciences, business, and applied sciences. 4 ForagerOne & Conference Access ForagerOne is the host platform for this year’s GPHC virtual conference. To access the conference platform, click the conference website link sent out via email. Next you will be asked to enter your email address. Please use the email address given to conference organizers during registration. ForagerOne may ask you to verify your email. Once you have verified your email address, you will gain access to the conference platform. On the conference platform you will find a welcome video, poster presentations available for asynchronous viewing, and the live oral presentation session information (see the tabs at the top of the page). Zoom links are available on the conference platform for all oral presentation panels, as well as for the conference social events and executive meetings. Please note that you must be logged into your ForagerOne account in order to post comments or questions to poster presentations. If you have any trouble accessing the conference platform, please contact the conference organizers, who will be more than happy to assist you: Cody Parish – (940) 397-4069 or [email protected] Dr. Steve Garrison – (940) 397-4978 or [email protected] 5 Dennis Boe Award Winners The Boe Award honors the late Dr. Dennis Boe, Director of Honors at East Central Oklahoma State University. The untimely death of Dr. Boe robbed the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) and the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC) of a long-time leader, scholar, musician, poet, and good friend. GPHC sponsors the Dennis Boe Award to showcase and reward outstanding scholarly work by the honors program/college students of its member institutions. Under 60 Credit Hours 1. Alissa Boxleitner (Lone Star College-Montgomery) – “Hypersexualization at Middle School Dances: An Analysis of Self-Presentation in Pen15 and Big Mouth” 2. Joseph Flores (Lone Star College-CyFair) – “Submit to Sin: Contextualizing the Roman Empire in Augustine's Detailing of Sexuality in Confessions” 3. Joel Reyes (Lone Star College-Tomball) – “Band-Aids Don't Fix Bullet Holes: A Pentadic Analysis of Emma Gonzalez's 'We Call B.S.' Speech” Over 60 Credit Hours 1. Maleeha Ahmad (Texas A&M University at Commerce) – “Synthesis and Study of a Porphyrin Host for Perfluoroalkyl Contaminants” 2. Riley Mitchel (McLennan Community College) – “Faith vs. Profane in Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d. city” 3. MacGregor Thomas (Oral Roberts University) – “The Gut Brain Axis and the Apparent Links to Autism Spectrum Disorders” 6 GPHC Schedule-at-a-Glance* Wednesday, Mar. 10th: 8:00 a.m. – GPHC virtual conference goes live; poster presentations may be viewed asynchronously on virtual conference platform Saturday, Mar. 13th: 9:00-10:00 a.m. – Live Oral Presentation Session 1 10:10-11:10 a.m. – Live Oral Presentation Session 2 11:20-12:20 p.m. – Live Oral Presentation Session 3 12:20-1:00 p.m. – Break for Lunch 1:00-2:00 p.m. – Live Oral Presentation Session 4 2:10-3:10 p.m. – Live Oral Presentation Session 5 3:20-4:30 p.m. – Boe Award Presentations 5:00-5:45 p.m. – Yoga w/ Diane Nguyen 6:00-7:00 p.m. – GPHC General Business Meeting 7:00-8:00 p.m. – Honors Faculty & Staff Social 8:00-10:00 p.m.† – Trivia w/ Dr. Marcos Lopez 10:00 p.m. – Conference Concludes * The conference proceedings will take place in Central Standard Time (CST). † This end time is approximate; trivia will conclude no later than 10:00 p.m. but possibly as early as 9:15 p.m. 7 Live Oral Presentation Schedule Session I 9:00-10:00am Panel A Moderator: Yoseph Helal Angelica Bernal – “Disease Outbreaks and the Historical Narrative: An Analysis of the Portrayal of Native Americans and Epidemics in College U.S. History Textbooks” Brayan Gutierrez – “Greco-Roman Medicine” Mauricio Sanchez Mendoza – “Medical Imaging During the Chinese Classical Period and the Indian Delhi Sultanate (ca. 1200s)” Kumali Schoen – “Multicultural Funerary Art of Sogdian Immigrants in China” Panel B Moderator: Steve Garrison Elizabeth Brownell – “BRCA1 Mutant 2ING: Genetic Predisposition to Cancer” Alicen Wilcox – “Microglia Display Partial Recovery After TDP-43 Stimulation” Jordan Voegeli – “The Beginning of Life and Health Professions” Panel C Moderator: Cody Parish Christine Foley – “Irish Women and the Developing Nationalism of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” Katherine Dullen – “‘Crucifying the Warmest Affections of the Heart': How Religious Conformity and Traditional Gender Roles Impacted Female Institutionalization in 19thCentury” 8 Ariana Lopes Rodriguez – “The Genesis of a Deadly Culture: Comparative Analysis of the Femicide Causative Factors in Latin America and the United States” Madelyn Treat – “Words from the Female Confederacy: Analyzing the Effect of Location on Women's Perceptions of the Civil War” Panel D Moderator: Emma Lane Emily Tran – “The College Student Mental Health Crisis: How to Encourage Help Seeking in Online College Students” Lea Hart – “The Effectiveness of an Anxiety Intervention on Increasing Mental Health Literacy Among University Students” Ana Zaidan, Greyson Givens, Marcelina Perez, and Kaycee West – “Not so Dumb Jocks? The Effects of Physical Activity on Test-Related Anxiety in College Students” Averee Gumm – “Perceptions of Racial Diversity on a College Campus” Panel E Moderator: Braelyn Ringwald Brendon Miller – “Fair Competition in the Digital Markets Following the Creation of the USMCA: A Complex Balance” Theodore Abuhamad – “Historically Modern: A Comparative Analysis of Countermovement Strategies Used Against the CRM and BLM” Tisha Haukongo – “A Comparative Study of Human Rights in the United States and Namibia” Eric Halsell – “Agent Within the Structure: How Gorbachev Himself Empowered the Baltic Awakening” 9 Session II 10:10-11:10am Panel A
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