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2015 Symposium Program UNDERGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM FOR SCHOLARLY & CREATIVE WORK SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Symposium Judging 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Grand Ballroom at Tutor Campus Center (Judges only – closed to presenters and general public) Wednesday, April 15, 2015 General Presentations, Exhibits, and Displays 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Grand Ballroom, Franklin Suite, and Forum Room at Tutor Campus Center Awards Ceremony & Dinner Reception 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 pm Radisson Hotel ii April 15, 2015 Dear Members of the USC Community: It is my pleasure to welcome you to USC’s 17th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work. The Symposium is designed to provide USC undergraduates with the unique opportunity to exhibit and share examples of their significant research, scholarly and creative work with the university community. Although the Symposium is modeled on a professional conference poster session, students may exhibit their work in a variety of ways, such as through posters, art exhibits, and electronic media. All undergraduates are encouraged to participate. An award ceremony recognizing the most outstanding works will take place at the end of the Symposium and includes First Prize awards of $1000 and Second Prize awards of $500 in each of the following categories. Arts Humanities Social Sciences Life Sciences Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering A panel of distinguished faculty will judge submissions in each category. After the judging, you are cordially invited to attend the Award Ceremony at the Radisson Hotel at 6:00 p.m. where the winners will be announced. We hope you enjoy USC’s Undergraduate Symposium, which promises to be a highlight of the semester this year and in many years to come. Sincerely, Michael Quick Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs iii The USC Undergraduate Symposium for Creative and Scholarly Work provides undergraduates with the unique opportunity to exhibit and share examples of their significant research and creativity with the university community. This year, we have received 170 submissions with participation from nearly 260 students. Students present work in a variety of ways, such as through poster/panel sessions, art exhibits, and electronic media. All undergraduates are encouraged to participate. For some students, the symposium serves as a culmination of work they have produced in partial fulfillment of a senior honors project, or a research project with faculty, both individually and as part of a program. ACKOWLEDGEMENTS On behalf of the Office of Undergraduate Programs and the Office of the Provost, we graciously thank USC faculty and graduate judges for volunteering their time. The success of the undergraduate symposium is largely due to the contribution of their expertise in the judging process. We would like to give special thanks to the USC Helenes for their faithful service. Also, we would like to give a warm thanks to the faculty advisors who have sponsored students in this year’s Symposium. Your dedication to embrace teaching through inquiry-based learning has made this event as successful as it has been. And finally, we would like to express our gratitude to the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy for their time, effort and commitment to this extraordinary event. THANK YOU!!! iv 17th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work Table of Contents SCHEDULE OF EVENTS ................................................................................................. ii LETTER FROM PROVOST MICHAEL QUICK ............................................................ iii WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT ................................................................................................ iv TABLE OF CONTENTS .....................................................................................................v ARTS ...................................................................................................................................1 HUMANITIES ...................................................................................................................14 LIFE SCIENCES ...............................................................................................................22 PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATH & ENGINEERING ......................................................51 SOCIAL SCIENCES .........................................................................................................71 INDEX OF PARTICIPANTS ..........................................................................................105 INDEX OF PARTICIPANTS BY CATEGORY ............................................................111 MAP OF EXHIBITS........................................................................................................116 v that the family is so happily antiquated. For Mrs. K, the Wells family is a new case to explore post-retirement. Behind the Times is a comedic exploration of the world of sitcom conventions and a look at what it Arts means to be a family. §§§§ Exhibit#: A18 Category: Arts Name(s): Carrie Moore Submission Type: Individual Project Sponsor(s) and Collaborator(s): Dana Johnson, English, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences Format: Creative Work Title: Best Behavior: Stories of the Black Exhibit#: A21 Middle Class Category: Arts Abstract: Name(s): Natalie Gordon, Victoria Gordon Toni Morrison once said, “If there’s a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been Submission Type: Group written yet, you must write it.” "Best Project Sponsor(s) and Collaborator(s): Behavior: Short Stories of the Black Middle Joel Parker, Production, School of Class" represents my attempt to do so. Cinematic Arts Though I am widely read, I have often had Format: Creative Work trouble locating novels and stories of Title: Behind the Times contemporary African American middle- Abstract: class experiences. According to a recent Gawker article titled “The Difficulties of For the Wells family, life is one excellent Publishing While Black,” African American adventure after another. Of course, even employees make up only 1 percent of the though it’s 2015 in the real world, they live publishing industry, which makes it more in the non-specific sitcom past. Meet Linda, difficult for writers of color to get their Ron, Brian, Melissa, and Amy, the family stories published in an overwhelmingly more interested in Oregon Trail than World white business. There are not many black of Warcraft; the family where dinner means authors, but novels about slavery such as actual conversation instead of five separate Lawrence Hill’s "The Book of Negroes" and texting conversations; and, most of all, the Edward P. Jones’ "The Known World" family that lovingly mocks the sitcom certainly have a renewed market after the structures and tropes of the first 40 years success of films like "12 Years a Slave." of the medium. Working class experiences with blackness can also be found in Ayana Mathis’ "The While their neighbors have generally come Twelve Tribes of Hattie" or Sister Souljah’s to accept the ways of the "Weird Wellses," "Midnight" and "The Coldest Winter new neighbor Mrs. K, a recently retired FBI Ever." But stories of black middle-class agent, can't wrap her brain around the fact experiences are perhaps even rarer. Terry 1 McMillan, Percival Everett, Ntozake Shange, rejected. Confused, Holly requests Ernessa Carter, and Danielle Evans are permission to visit the doomed man in some of the few authors to tackle black solitary confinement and find out why it middle-class issues, and the critical was refused. Entering further into the attention many receive is small compared prison, Holly meets the prisoner, Waddell, with the fame of their white counterparts. and his anger over her ignorance strikes a As a result, I have written "Best Behavior" chord. as a way of expressing contemporary black middle-class experiences with race and Holly returns to the kitchen and prepares class. The three stories in this portfolio Waddell's meal as specified, and presents it explore varying degrees of racism and to him on the hour before his death. With classism, while also arguing that African his last request fulfilled, Waddell shares his Americans are greater than the sum of the reasoning for the simple, nostalgic request. two. This project also represents the As he is led off to his fate, Holly is left culmination of my work as a creative wondering what she really values. writing major, and I am grateful to Professor Dana Johnson and the other Campbell's was a collaborative effort creative writing faculty for working with between 12 talented film friends. Over an me during my time here. entire semester we wrote, planned, filmed, edited, and finished the ten-minute piece §§§§ using our minimal budget and resources. Our goal was to tell a story about a woman Exhibit#: A20 so caught up in her work that she never Category: Arts stopped to remember what she really valued, and it takes a man's last words to Name(s): Gus Bendinelli, William Cherry, bring it out. Miranda Due, Michael Effenberger, Peter Franklin, §§§§ Stephen Helstad, Jonathan Ho, Sarah Huck, William Ilgen, Exhibit#: A15 William Merrick, Amir Mojarradi, Michael Nader Category: Arts Submission Type: Group Name(s): Yuan Yao Project Sponsor(s) and Collaborator(s): Submission Type: Individual Sheldon Larry, Production, School of Project Sponsor(s) and Collaborator(s): Cinematic Arts; Michael Peyser, Doris Sung, Architecture Production, School of Cinematic Arts Format: Creative Work Format: Creative
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