2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual

Welcome to SUNY Geneseo’s Sixth 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:

Joan Ballard, Department of Psychology Ginni Jurkowski, Department of Communication Patrice Case, Department of Studio Art Susan Salmon, School of Education Graham Drake, Department of English Aaron Steinhauer, Department of Physics & Astronomy

The GREAT Day Committee:

Anne Baldwin, Sponsored Research Tammy Hill, Campus Scheduling and Special Events Margaret Infantino, GREAT Day Intern Tracy Paradis, Milne Library Erin Pipe, Chamber Music Festival Coordinator Patty Hamilton-Rodgers, GREAT Day Coordinator Andrea Klein, Campus Scheduling and Special Events

Thank You to those who have made this day possible:

Staff: Brian Bennett, Robert Goeckel, Sue Chichester, Student volunteers: Jackie Bowen, Molly Bowen, Betsy Colon, Laura Cook, Joe Dolce, Karie Frisiras, Colleen Bradley, Kasey Cole, Deven Coulter, Margaret Jennifer Glieco, Becky Glass, Paul Jackson, Nancy Craft, Diandra Douglas, Lena Freed, Samantha Freid, Johncox, Minh Bui, Enrico Johnson, Laura Kenyon, Sue Jackie Jenson, Sarah Kucharski, Nicole Laribee, Erica Mallaber, Chip Matthews, Sean McGrath, Traci Phillips, Lasnicki, Yanying Lin, Kristie Lovino, Mellisa Marris, Mark Scott, Helen Thomas, Julie Rao, Katie Tierney and Rebecca Medrano, Tom Naber, Katie Pfisterer, Leanne the SA Tech Services. Rosen, Laura Serpe, Lauren Slezak, Rebecca Smarcz, Taylor Solano, Alyssa Stefanese, Jenna Stenclik, Morgan Wilson, Courtney Yonce, Landon Hurley, Adam Reinemann Special Thank You: President Christopher Dahl and Provost Carol Long for their support of GREAT Day. Jack and Carol Kramer for their support of Geneseo and the Keynote address. Dr. Fredrik Heibert for delivering the Keynote address. Tom Fisher for the online submission form and web program design. Erin Pipe for organizing the Chamber Music Festival. Justin Shapiro for serving as liaison to the Student Association. The Student Association for sponsoring the Luncheon. Campus Auxiliary Services for partially sponsoring the Reception. Milne Library Staff for overseeing the proceedings. Anne Baldwin, Andrea Klein, and Tammy Hill 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 and Campus Auxiliary Service and the Jack '76 and Carol '76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship.

http://www.geneseo.edu/great_day

2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual

TABLE OF CONTENTS SCHEDULE

8:30 – 9:30 AM Schedule ...... 1 Welcome College Union Ballroom Artwork Exhibits ...... 2-3 Remarks – Carol Long, Provost Alma Mater – Devon Borowski Chamber Music Festival ...... 4 Poster Presentations College Union Ballroom & 3rd Floor Balcony Artwork Exhibits Dance Performance ...... 4 College Union Kinetic Gallery & Milne Library Gallery

Keynote Address ...... 5 9:40 – 10:55 AM Poster Map ...... 6 Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 Milne Library, Newton, Welles, South, Sturges, Brodie Poster Abstracts ...... 7 - 31 10:00 – 1:30 PM Concurrent Presentations Quick View Guide . 32-33 Chamber Music Festival Part 1 College Union Fireside Lounge

Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 ...... 33-39 11:05 – 12:20 PM Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 ...... 40-47 Milne Library, Newton, Welles, South, Sturges, Brodie

Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 ...... 47-55 12:30 – 1:30 PM rd Concurrent Presentations • Session 4 ...... 55-62 Poster Presentations College Union Ballroom & 3 Floor Balcony Buffet Luncheon College Union Lobby Index of Student Participants ...... 63-66 Sponsored by the Geneseo Student Association Artwork Exhibits Cover designs ...... back cover College Union Kinetic Gallery & Milne Library Gallery Cover design by MAYUKO KUBO Dance Performance 1:20 pm College Union Ballroom Stage For more information on the GREAT Day Program Cover design project, see Bhangra back cover. 1:45 – 2:45 PM The Jack ’76 and Carol ’76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship Dr. Fredrik Hiebert, Fellow of the National Geographic Society Publish your paper or poster! Wadsworth Auditorium

Did you know that a publication is released 2:55 – 4:10 PM every year containing a selection of the Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 papers and posters presented at GREAT Milne Library, Newton, Welles, South, Sturges, College Union

Day? To have your GREAT Day presentation 3:00 – 4:20 PM or poster considered for the 2012 GREAT Day Chamber Music Festival Part 2 College Union Fireside Lounge Proceedings, contact Sue Ann Brainard at Milne Library, [email protected], x5062. 4:20 – 5:30 PM Concurrent Presentations • Session 4 Milne Library, Newton, Welles, South, Sturges, Wadsworth

5:30 – 6:30 PM

Closing Remarks College Union Ballroom

Christopher Dahl, President Poster Presentations & Reception Sponsored in part by Campus Auxiliary Services rd College Union Ballroom & 3 Floor Balcony Artwork Exhibits College Union Kinetic Gallery & Milne Library Gallery

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ARTWORK EXHIBITS

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS FOR PREPARING THE EXHIBITS: CLAIRE LITTLEFIELD, RACHAEL MT. PLEASANT, ANNE BEINETTI, PAUL ROMANO, KATHERINE PETERSON, CHRISTINE BAE, KATIE FINNERTY, GRACE HUBERT, GILLIAN HOPKINS

MACVITTIE COLLEGE UNION KINETIC GALLERY

______CLAIRE LITTLEFIELD CHRISTINE BAE KATIE FINNERTY FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART Dogfood Untitled Woodcut 1 Railroad It was Weenie's turn to make dinner. This image captured my attention while I was Untitled Woodcut 2 driving to Geneseo on some back roads, and after The Horniest ______Strap on horns? They've got 'em! MAYUKO KUBO flying past it I took a 10 minute detour to see it FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MACPHERSON, ART again, and preserve it in a photograph. It serves to A Slight Case of the Munchies display how sometimes nature and manmade In only a few short moments, Ralph's lifeline will be Staten Island structures come together and create a beautiful snipped by a handful of irate Flesh-eating Goobers. 12"x15", Silk screen printing with acrylic landscape. ______ink. Staten Island, going mellow. RACHAEL MT. PLEASANT Pathway FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART Psychedelic Kirin This photograph was taken while walking through 15"x12" Silkscreen printing with acrylic ink. Gravity the rainforest in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. One dizzying giraffe. It is striking that over time a manmade structure This piece demonstrates an experiment with the ______can melt into nature and become a nonintrusive relationship between text and paint. I used NATE SMITH part of the scenery. movement and text phrases to show how a memory FACULTY SPONSOR: CARL SHANNAHAN, ART withstands time amidst the chaos of life, long after Chess set Blue Boat This photograph was taken in Coba, Mexico. It it was created. The pieces were built on the wheel while the board ______again illustrates the interaction between the ANNE BEINETTI was created with slabs of clay. ______manmade boat and the nature surrounding it to FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART RAY FERREIRA create a cohesive image. Maps of the World FACULTY SPONSOR: DAN DEZARN, ART ______BRIANNE ROSA Acrylic on Canvas Baptism ______FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE BLOOD, ENGLISH PAUL ROMANO Sugar, Wood, Steel, Projector, Human Body ______A Mind in Progress FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART GRACE HUBERT A creative autobiography; a 6'x 6' painting of a Guitar Bat FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART butterfly (a metaphor pulled out of Nabokov's I transformed a wooden bat into a playable guitar. Jaundice autobiography, Speak, Memory) with numbers ______along the tips of the wings. The wing patterns are KATHERINE PETERSON A portrait in yellow done in watercolor and colored map-like, and each number represents a year of my FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART pencil. life. An accompanying autobiographical interactive Hard at Work Communist Walsh multimedia art piece, developed in PowerPoint, "Hard at Work" is a 22"x30" watercolor and pastel Portrait of a figure in a hat, done in watercolor and serves as the "destination" for the painting/map. depicting two young girls hard at play in the colored pencil The cover screen shares the picture of the butterfly, and the numbers can be clicked to take the summer. onlooker to a loop of slides that incorporate Kokopelli Ring creative writing, music, and other artworks that This ring is sterling silver, hollow, and roughly 2"x4" best represent that year of my life. in a stylized Kokopelli form.

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MILNE LIBRARY GALLERY – FIRST FLOOR

______GRETCHEN MICHELLE GUZMAN ______CASEY GILBERT FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART MOHAMMED HOSSAIN FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Pondering Opportunity: A Self FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Monochromatic Copy of Master Charcoal Portrait Portrait 18" x 24" charcoal portrait Painter This is a self portrait that turned into a self ______16" x 20" oil painting discovery painting. Just myself lost in thought; MAKAIA PAPASERGI ______simple yet complex. This is a painting that Elisabeth FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART ANNE BEINETTI FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Louise Vigée Le Brun titled "The Artist's Daughter" Charcoal Portrait and it was through the process of painting this girl 18" x 24" charcoal portrait Copy of Master Painter with her strange expression that I developed a lot ______16" x 20" oil painting (from Oil Painting 3) of the artistic painting style I now have. Though KATHERINE TUSKES ______most artists would consider it an embarrassment to FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART RACHAEL MT. PLEASANT FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART display a work they copied, I consider it a tribute to Charcoal Portrait the process in which I have painted my other Copy of Master Painter works. To not display this copy would take away 18" x 24" charcoal portrait ______16" x 20" oil painting (Oil Painting 3) from my journey as an aspiring artist. JESSICA KIM ______Hush Little Baby Don't Say a Word FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART GILLIAN HOPKINS FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART This is my sister's friend's baby. When I saw this Charcoal Hand picture I couldn't take my eyes off it and was 18" x 24" charcoal drawing of hand Copy of Master Painter instantly inspired. Everyone I know these days ______16" x 20" oil painting (Oil Painting 3) seems to be having babies or is pregnant (even my NATHAN SMITH ______sister!). For me this sleeping baby symbolizes all FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART CORTNEY DODGE FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART the new little one's coming into the world and the Charcoal Hand beginning of life for myself as an adult. 18" x 24" charcoal drawing of hand 4-Line Design Project ______24" x 30" artwork, india ink (2-D Design class) RACHEL WALKER ______LAUREN CORRADO FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Imagine FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Charcoal Hand Artist's Book Charcoal Hand ______18" x 24" charcoal drawing of hand 18" x 24" charcoal drawing of hand from Drawing I KOEUN RO Landscape Drawing ______FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART 18" x 24" charcoal drawing of landscape LUCAS MARTIN 4-Line Design Project Still Life Drawing FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART 24" x 30" design in india ink 18" x 24" charcoal drawing of a still life Charcoal Hand Problems of the World from Drawing I class 18" x 24" charcoal drawing of hand from Drawing I Artist's Book ______VICKI BAUM TED BEEBE REBECCA DE LEON FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Charcoal Portrait Charcoal Hand 4-Line Design Project 18" x 24" charcoal portrait 18" x 24" charcoal drawing of hand from Drawing I 24" x 30" design in india ink (from 2-D Design) ______EMILEI CANTRELL HANNAH GLASER Family FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Artist's Book ______Charcoal Portrait Charcoal Portrait ANNE KELLY 18" x 24" charcoal portrait 18" x 24" charcoal drawing of portrait from FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Landscape Drawing Drawing I 4-Line Design Project 18" x 24" charcoal drawing of landscape Monochromatic Copy of Master 24" x 30" design in india ink ______Painter BRAD KWARTA Unrequitted 16" x 20" oil painting FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Artist's Book ______Charcoal Portrait MOLLY KING SHANNON CAMPBELL 18" x 24" charcoal portrait FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART ______Monochromatic Copy of Master AMANDA HIMMELMAN 4-Line Design in India Ink FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Painter 24" x 30" india ink painting 16" x 20" oil painting ______Charcoal Hand ______NICHOLAS LITTLE 18" x 24" charcoal drawing of hand JODI BENTIVEGNA FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART Charcoal Portrait FACULTY SPONSOR: LESLIE STROZ, ART 4-Line Design in India Ink 18" x 24" charcoal portrait Monochromatic Copy of Master 24" x 30" india ink painting Still Life Drawing Painter

18" x 24" charcoal drawing of still life from 16" x 20" oil painting

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CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Fireside Lounge, MacVittie College Union

10:00-10:30: Trombone Choir: 12:50-1:30 Vivaldi Gloria in D Major Movements. 1, 2, 4, Sibelius Finlandia 5, 7, 11, 12 Bach Air Student conductors: HANNAH GARFIELD ADAM LASALLE, DEVON BOROWSKI, KATELYN HEARFIELD, Eric Ewazen Myths and Legends, Movement 1 ALI MARSHALL CHRIS BOND, DANIEL GOLE, LEXI ATHENS, ANDY PATT, COLLEEN Violin: MARIE KALET GAVIN, PETER O'CONNELL, STEVE BARRON Violin: KRISTEN HADLEY Viola: ALYSON BITTNER 10:30-10:50 Mozart Flute Quartet in G Major, K285 Cello: ERIN PIPE Flute: JESSICA CHAMBERLAND Soprano sax: CHRISTOPHER MARTIN Violin: KRISTEN HADLEY Continuo: LOUIS LOHRASEB Viola: EMILY CIRINCIONE Cello: LAURA DUCLOS 1:45-2:45 Break for Keynote Address

10:50-11:10 Flute Choir: Rodgers and Hammerstein 3:00-3:45 Thursday Night Jazz Ensemble Sound of Music Medley Outside in TOM GARLING JAMIE JAQUAY, SAMANTHA YELLE, ASHLEY HOLMES, CHLOE Passado DAVE HANSON FERNANDEZ, DEVIN GRAU, KADY ROMIG, KELLY BRUNSCHEEN, ANGIE The girl from ipanema ANTONIOS CARLOS JOBIM KLINCZAR, BRYNA TORRE, ALEXIS MAZZEO North shore morning MATT HARRIS Ru chicken KRIS BERG, composer 11:10-11:40 The Iris String Quartet: Dvorak “American” Ascending FRED STURM, composer Movements 1, 2, 3 Well alright, okay, you win E. HEYMAN, composer Louisiana hot sauce GEORGE SHUTACK, composer Violin: HANNAH GARFIELD Alto saxophones: DAN OSGOOD, ALLI CROPSEY, NICK ELLSWORTH Violin: MARIE KALET Tenor saxophones: ADAM ZACZEK, DANIEL FABER-MANNING Viola: ALYSON BITTNER Baritone saxophone: CRYSTAL ZOODSMA Cello: ERIN PIPE Trumpets: MATT COON, BRIAN TILLMAN, BEN LINCHUCK, GREG

CASTO, DEREK D’ARCY 11:40-12:00 Saxophone Quartet Trombones: MEG LINDON, DAVID DUHAMEL, AMY SCHMITT, KEITH CHRISTOPHER MARTIN, NICK ELLSWORTH, TRAVIS O'SULLIVAN, OSGOOD JOE DITURSI Piano: ROSE MANDEL Guitar: ROBERT LEON 12:00-12:20 Samuel Zyman Suite for Two Cellos Bass: KARL DIENER Cello: SARA WIGDERSON Drums: AVI STARK Cello: KELSEY WOOD 3:50-4:10 Exit 8 A Cappella 12:20-12:50 Geneseo String Band: Selection of KRISTIN ECKERT, AMELIA MILLAR, SHELLY MASSACHI, LEAH American and Irish Tunes RANDAZZO, CASEY SEARS, JULIA MASOTTI, ALI NIEMIEC, MARY STEPHEN KOWALEWSKI, KRISTEN HADLEY, RACHEL HOWARD, DAN RAGUS, ELYSSA RAMIREZ, NICK COTRUPI, PATRICK DANIELS, ZACHARY LYNCH, RACHEL MCGEE, TOM ROBINSON, NATHAN THAYER, MAX DUBOIS, RUSSELL ALLEN, BENNETT MARANO, JONATHAN MUSHOCK, WHEELER, ANNA WILSON, PATRICK WORTNER, CAITLYNN ZEPHRO, JEFFREY ZEITLER ROB WOJCIKIEWICZ, LILY WHEELER, CHARLES TURNER, JOANNA SIMONE, NICOLE RAHN, RAYCE MALONE, MARIE KALET, ZACHARY 4:10-4:30 Hips ‘n Harmony A Cappella HENTZE EMILY CIRINCIONE, ALI NIEMIEC, EMILY RITTENHOUSE, THERESA JOHNSON, AMADI BELLEH, NICOLE SIMONS, SEOJUNG CHUNG, SKYLAR JAMESON, KATELYN HEARFIELD

DANCE PERFORMANCE 1:20 pm Union Ballroom Stage

Geneseo Bhangra Geneseo Bhangra is a competitive Indian dance team on campus. This genre of dance comes from the Punjabi culture from Pakistan and India. It is a PERFORMERS: ASAD KHAN, ARIELLE HERBERGER, IRIS HUANG, HAMZA high-energy dance that was originally a celebration of harvest and is now MURTAZA, RESHMA NAIR, NAVNEETH NARAYANAN, ALI REHMAN commonly performed at weddings and competitions. FACULTY SPONSOR: RANDY KAPLAN, THEATRE/DANCE .

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The Jack '76 and Carol '76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship KEYNOTE ADDRESS Wadsworth Auditorium • 1:45 – 2:45 PM

Introduction by Christopher Dahl, President

Dr. Fredrik Hiebert “Afghanistan — Then and Now”

About Dr. Hiebert: National Geographic Explorer and NG’s first Archaeology Fellow, Fredrik Hiebert has studied ancient trade across Asia for more than twenty-five years. Though awarded a citation as a “Future Scientist” in 1972, his interests shifted and he attended Interlochen Arts Academy with a focus on graphic arts. He became involved in archaeology while studying art in Paris, and joined a French expedition investigating ancient seafaring between Mesopotamia and India. He completed his doctoral dissertation at Harvard University in 1992, documenting a 4000-year old civilization in the sands of Central Asia. He served as the Dyson Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the National Geographic Society as Archaeology Fellow in 2003. He is married to archaeologist Katherine Moore and lives in Havertown, Pennsylvania.

Pursuing his fascination with ancient overland cultural connections, he led a 10-year long research project at the famous site of Anau Depe in Turkmenistan. This site spans the period from the earliest villages north of the Kopet Dag mountain range to the medieval cities of the great Khanates of Central Asia. More recently, he has collaborated with engineer Albert Lin on using satellite images to find ancient sites without disturbing the ground surface in Mongolia.

In 1994, Fred founded the Black Sea Trade Project, the first archaeological expedition to combine both land and deep-water archaeology in a single research plan. He is the chief archaeologist on Robert Ballard’s projects in the Black Sea. Seven seasons of land explorations along the Black Sea coast at Sinop have identified more than 170 ancient archaeological sites on land, documenting the importance of the sea trade in the Black Sea. Discoveries of archaeological remains underwater on the flooded shelf near Sinop have led to a re-evaluation of Biblical flood stories and a new understanding of life around the Black Sea some 7000 years ago. Since that time, he has applied sonar technologies to archaeological settings in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, and Lake Issykul, Kazakhstan.

In 2003, Fred began a project in Afghanistan for National Geographic that has become famous around the world. Working with museum curators at the Kabul National Museum in Afghanistan, he led the team that conducted an inventory of the newly-discovered treasures of the museum: art objects and archaeological finds which had been hidden for their protection during a tumultuous decade of civil war. After years of study and archival work, a selection of the objects has appeared as a special National Geographic exhibition around the United States and Europe. Fred curated this exhibition in addition to working to secure the cultural heritage of Afghanistan through advocacy, training, development of museum resources. In addition, he has been active in working with U.S. armed forces on developing a program of cultural heritage awareness for service members.

In 2011, National Geographic and Fredrik Hiebert debuted a new traveling exhibition in collaboration with Lucas Films: “Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology”, which links objects and images from the famous films with real treasures and real stories from the world’s great archaeology museums. This show finally convinced his two sons, now 20 and 14, that their father really is an archaeologist.

In addition to other honors, Fredrik Hiebert received the chairman’s award from the National Geographic Committee on Research and Exploration in 1998 for his work on the Black Sea flood and its Biblical connections.

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POSTER ABSTRACTS

COLLEGE UNION BALCONY prevent students from voting. The poster will also voice of minority groups are suppressed, various explain the goals of these politicians, and why it states such as California will be examined to illustrate HISTORY would help their political career. My goal is to see if how the practice still exists and affects minorities to 1 • Portrayals of Black Women in the there are any patterns of what states’ examples of this day. In this examination, a diverse group of this prevention are happening in, and which political sources will be used to research the contemporary Media parties are more involved. art of gerrymandering which includes academic LACEE HAMILTON, CANDACE HAIRSTON ______journal articles, articles from reputable news FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY 5 • No Party for Black America organizations, and credible web sources. For this presentation we want to look at how black CASEY HOWARD Gerrymandering is a practice that has played an women are portrayed in the media. We are going to FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY extensive role in the political voice of the nation's look at such archetypes like the jezebel, sapphire and It is becoming evident that in America, blacks are minority, and continually changes and challenges the the mamie. With this presentation we hope to figure living under foreign policy. Foreign insofar as the meaning of these citizen's votes. out why black women are portrayed so harshly in the government does not meet the demands or ______media. concerns of her citizens. The Democratic Party, 8 • Gerrymandering and ______largely supported by Black America, does not 2 • Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Redistricting: The Past and Present actually support black beliefs. Instead it offers the DIANA JOSEPH, TAYLOR NAUGLE is the Message lesser of two evils when compared to the FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY VINCENT NICOLOSI Republican Party, therefore offering blacks in The idea that the past is connected to the future has FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY America little support. Regarding issues ranging been said by many people. During the nineteenth Marshall McLuhan was a popular media scholar of from same-sax marriage to support of trade unions, century the tactic of Gerrymandering and the 1960s. He was famous for his critiques of blacks are not being represented by the Democratic Redistricting was used to prevent African Americans technology and modern media. One of his most Party but continue to blindly support it. It is the from voting. The idea of Gerrymandering and famous aphorisms, 'the medium is the message,' presenter's goal to illuminate the level to which Redistricting are changing the boundary lines of claimed that the medium of any given technology is black Americans fail to be supported by any political where one lives. This tactic was used as a way to stop at the very least just as important as the message the party, especially the party to which most of them the large African American population from voting or said medium carries. For example, the content on belong. having their votes count for less if they did choose to ______television is not as important as the fact that the vote. The same idea that prevented a large television has had a dramatic social impact on our 6 • The Legacy of the Civil Rights population to lose their voting rights may occur in society. In the twenty-first century McLuhan's Movement in Contemporary Politics present day Rochester, NY. The present day issue theories have come back to life because of the rise of CODY PRUGH brings one to think how the past issues of social media and ever growing presence of FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY gerrymandering and redistricting have an impact technology. This poster is an extension of my Honors Out of all the topic ideas that were given or offered today. Through the uses of graphs, census report, and Thesis and is an attempt to reexamine McLuhan's as topics to my GREAT Day Poster Presentation for documents of the past will show how the different theories by applying them to modern technologies. my History 288 class, i decided to select: The Legacy races of Rochester would be affected. The larger ______of the Civil Rights Movement in Contemporary implication of this research is to show the negative 3 • Current Balloting Methods Worse Politics; and would focus more on what value or consequences of gerrymandering and redistricting than Nineteenth Century Voting? meaning this has on Modern Times in the United and provide evidence to display affects it will have on ALEXIS SKILL States and why this is an important subject that the minorities in Rochester, NY. FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY should be subject in schools and communities than ______This poster will be able to display the issues and it is currently. A brief description of my poster 9 • What's The Big Deal About ideas behind balloting and voting machines. The presentation and what it would cover is a brief Voting? I'm Just A College Student! differences between voting in the 1800's and current overview of the history of the Civil Rights DONTE MONSON voting tactics will be explained. It will also be movement, and then to explain how its legacy is still FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY discussed on which balloting technique is best for seen today in modern times in the United States My poster presentation will look into the significance current politics. We will discuss how this system of and what impact it has had on recent civil rights behind college students being involved in and voting was corrupted which caused, and still may issues and events that have occurred recently in our educated on politics and voting. Particularly looking cause, many issues with-in states in the nineteenth nation. at the statistics of participating citizens between the ______century. We will also look into the idea that balloting ages of 18 and 23 over the last decade, as well as and voting tactics today are still possibly corrupted. 7 • Racial Gerrymandering in the some factors as to why the participation has If they are, who is responsible for this? How does it Contemporary United States increased dramatically within the last 5 years. happen with the government and laws the country COLE DECLERCK, STEPHEN LANE ______has? This poster will show in detail, how voting FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY 10 • Racial Language in Presidential machines have changed from the nineteenth century The political art of gerrymandering, or when political Campaigns and whether or not the change is for the better. parties manipulate district lines for their own Many different sources from books to web articles GENTARO RAMADHAN, TERRENCE BEVINS, LIAM advantage, is a problematic issue that occurs every ENRIGHT will be used in the research of this topic. decade when new census surveys are recorded and ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY voting areas are redistricted. Gerrymandering is not 4 • Student Voting: How Politicians This poster proposes to examine the rhetoric and only a conflict that affects elected officials' diction used by US presidential candidates during Have Attempted to Dissuade campaigns, but also one for racial minority groups their campaigns. This poster will specifically explore Students from Being Active in who may reside in a gerrymandered district. To the implications of racially oriented language and its complete this poster, research will be conducted that Politics influence on candidate popularity, votes, and the sheds light on recent examples of gerrymandering candidates campaign at large. Efforts to appeal to or CAILEIGH COLLINS restricting the voice of minority groups in the United alienate certain populations based on race seems to FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY States, and it will answer the question of why the be an inevitable occurrence in presidential I will be completing my poster on specific occurrences practice still occurs. To demonstrate how the political campaigns given the complicated racial history and of politicians passing specific legislation which aim to 7

2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual the resulting racial tension in US society. This FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY Political redistricting as a tool of racial prejudice, or presentation will explore specific uses of language This project examines the term dog-whistle politics Gerrymandering as it has been called in some with racial undertones in presidential campaigns in (the use of coded, ambiguous language to appeal to historical contexts, has been utilized since the order to further understand the sentiments of the the prejudices of certain individuals), its history in Reconstruction Era. In reshaping voting districts, leaders of the nation. To what extent is the overt use certain past presidential elections, and its racial majorities in local populations can be skewed, of racial language among candidates a subversive resurgence in the 2012 presidential race. In political with the tactic's ultimate goal being the attainment attempt to promote prejudice? Do candidates rhetoric, the use of bigoted statements or "dog- of political representation swinging in one direction. practice the use of racial language as a progressive whistles," such as "food-stamp president," "uppity," Notably, this tactic was used by Southern Democrats attempt to introduce and begin to tackle long- "strapping young buck," grants politicians agency as one way to keep Black Republicans out of office standing issues of racial inequality? This poster and allows them to hide behind the implicit nature following the Civil War. The issue has not faded with presentation will explore these issues by citing the of their words. Through my research, I will explore time, however, as there are still many cases of words of US presidential candidates and finding the reasons why these messages have been used, strategic redistricting documented on a countrywide connections between their words and resulting while attempting to answer the following: Is dog- basis today, with an unfortunate impact of robbing events. whistling an effective tool for political gain or does racial minorities of representation. This overview ______it hold a greater influence in our society? examines news sources, Census data, and political 11 • Voter Suppression and Furthermore, I would like to understand the hearings in order to synthesize the effects of Disenfranchisement manipulative nature of dog-whistling politics and its Gerrymandering and redistricting. We are able to role in the dynamic process of voter-making see the effect of this tactic and its historical impact in JASON CHON decisions. To what extent do dog-whistles appeal changes in voting patterns and the achievement of FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY and/or persuade a politician's audience? political representation. Its impact as a racial tool This poster proposes to make clearer the problems ______has waned due to Congressional intervention; with contemporary voting practices by examining 14 • The Fight With No End: Voting however its presence is still felt. them through the lens of the past and historical ______precedents in voter manipulation, voter fraud, biased Equality in America voting laws and other areas. The poster and its KATHRYN HART 17 • Felon Disenfranchisement associated research will explore ways in which voters FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY SAM GORINSKY, DAVID O'DONNELL, MIGUEL rights have been abridged in the past (Ballot box Ever since the fall of Radical Reconstruction, African BAIQUE stuffing, violent intimidation, etc.) and how they Americans have faced intimidation, poll taxes, FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY continue to be undermined (redistricting, literacy tests, gerrymandering, and many other In our GREAT Day Presentation, we will focus on the gerrymandering, etc.). The poster will also examine tactics used by whites to suppress their right to topic of felon disenfranchisement. There are ongoing possible reasons for use of these methods of vote. Finally, in 1965 the Voting Rights Act questions whether or not felons are fit to vote disenfranchisement (partisan politics, etc.). Possible outlawed many of these tactics. This legislation because of their previous crimes and if it's sources for this research include Supreme Court brought African Americans much closer to equality unconstitutional to not allow felons to vote. decisions, state voting laws, and works by authorities once they were given a voice. However, the Voting Obviously, excluding felons from the voting process on the subject of voter disenfranchisement. Rights Act of 1965 is being constantly tested. The has certain implications but by starting from a ______fight for voting equality has begun to appear as a sociological perspective, we will look at the groups of 12 • Voter Suppression in Recent never ending battle as states are passing legislation people that generally make up the US jail populations and then find out which ones are generally excluded. Elections and South Carolina's Voter to decrease voter eligibility even in the elections of 2012. With the persistence of state governments Some questions to consider are: who is affected by ID Law trying to limit the vote for American citizens, the this voter exclusion? Will this have significant sway at JULIANA BRESOVSKI Voting Rights Act of 1865's strength. Can the Voting the polls? And which states are the ones lobbying for FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY Rights Act of 1865 overcome the new inequalities this legislation? ______This poster intends to analyze the issue of voter of proposed state legislation in 2012? suppression in recent elections by specifically ______18 • The History of the African concentrating on South Carolina's voter ID law. 15 • Question of Equality: Youth American Vote Beyond 1910 Analysis of this law will identify those who are Participation in Electoral Politics SHANTEL GILES affected and targeted, both positively and negatively, FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY by the voter ID law, and who it will keep from being KATIE JESAITIS, SARAH NAFIS FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY 1910 is the marking point of the climax in which able to vote. South Carolina and other southern disfranchisement had impacted the African states must obtain preclearance from the Justice For our project, we aim to look at the changing demographic of youth voters in presidential American vote. Up to this time African Americans Department before enforcing a law that affects mainly in the south were fighting for the right to voting. This occurs because these southern states elections. Beginning with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the 26th amendment, vote in which was granted to them by the 15th have a history of racial voter discrimination from amendment. After so much ciaos and negative Reconstruction up through the Civil Rights and leading up to groups such as Rock the Vote and Project Vote, the focus has shifted in youth voting. outcomes the north eventually stopped lending a Movement. After South Carolina proposed their helping hand to the southern blacks making to voter ID law, the Justice Department rejected it in Are political processes today preventing youths from voting? If so, how does this affect elections? possibility of retaining the right to vote even harder. December of 2011. Now the state of South Carolina This poster will serve as an overview of the African has decided to fight against the Justice Department's We will examine this by looking at legislation passed at state and national levels, news articles, American vote history as well will uncover the decision. By looking at recent examples of voter reason in which why the amounts of votes changed suppression this poster will address the following Supreme Court cases, election statistics, and mission statements of these various organizations. over time. Rumors have said that the main reason questions. Why does South Carolina deem their behind presidents Obama election is that African voter ID law necessary? And why voter suppression By analyzing these different sources, we hope to find the difference in youth voting from the civil Americans voted for him because he was black. is still occurring in today's local and national Through this research well be able to see if this elections? In order to help answer these questions, rights era to today. ______rumor is true or false. As well by the end of this news reports, government documents, and pertinent 16 • Gerrymandering: Political poster I hope to reveal how the impact of laws, such as South Carolina's voter ID law and the disfranchisement has not disappeared and has Voting Rights Act, will be extensively researched. Redistricting and its Effect on Racial impacted the African American vote so severe it has ______Representation not returned to the status before 1910. 13 • The Low and High Pitches of LIAM COLLINS, SHANE SMITH Dog-Whistle Politics FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY KATHERINE MENJIVAR 8

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______COLLEGE UNION EAST LOUNGE documentation and reference application designed 19 • Racial Language in Presidential ______for use by Emergency Medical Technicians and Campaigns medical providers during a 911 call. Using Geneseo 21 • 1941 Historical Aircraft Group as a test location, EMScribe provides protocols that YASMINE TAHA, ERIN SMITH Museum Dakota Display are current and specific for the Monroe and FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY JOANIE DRAKE Livingston County region. Beyond basic This project proposes to analyze the political FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHLEEN MAPES, HISTORY functionalities, EMScribe has a unique and user- rhetoric spoken by past presidents and the current The 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum holds a friendly environment that will improve both quality presidential candidates that hold racist undertones. Dakota. Student interns at the museum have of care for patients and thorough documentation. The bigoted aspects of such speech are not always researched the plane extensively and designed an ______obvious, and the general public may not always information panel to stand with it on location. This pick up on them. However, through the research of 25 • Development of a Tool for display presents interesting and relevant this language's intent, the use of these words to Creation of New Document Image information to museum visitors with all levels of produce a desired reaction from the population knowledge of the aircraft. Analysis Algorithms that the politician aims to influence will be revealed. ______DANIEL MCARDLE Direct quotes from interviews and speeches will be 22 • The Internship that Changed My FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTIAN SHIN, COMPUTER displayed throughout this project, along with the SCIENCE backlash that later accompanies them. Those who Mind The goal of this project is to create a tool to aid the are able to recognize the offensive nature of the LUKE RAGUE creation of new Document Image Analysis algorithms. content will denounce it for its offensive nature FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHLEEN MAPES, HISTORY The MATLAB-based application contains two display and reinforcement of harmful stereotypes. It is In the past three years I have told myself and others areas for viewing an image and the results of various important to understand that racism is still a very that I wanted to go to law school and possibly functions that have been run on it, such as prevalent issue within the United States. This could become a lawyer. In pursing this ambition, I have binarization, connected component analysis, and not be more obvious, as those who have held the conducted several internships over a period of two projection profiles. The program allows the user to most prestigious political position, the presidency, years. This semester I had the opportunity to draw rectangles that will automatically shrink to the are aware of the fact that they can still sway the participate in an extended internship for six college black pixels inside it, as well as export and import public in their favor with the use of biased remarks credits. However, this most recent stint has not had this region data to and from files. One potential use that trigger the hatred of certain races. the intended effects; rather than strengthening my of this application would be to create ground truth ______desire for law, it has made me reconsider my future data for testing correctness of segmentation 20 • 1941 HAG: Museum Studies and move in an opposite direction. Various factors algorithms. Another potential use case would be Experience in Geneseo's Backyard have impacted this decision, including personal gain familiarity with how an algorithm works by preferences, professional preferences, and moral DANA BESMANOFF, NICHOLAS FENIK, IAN seeing a visual output of what the algorithm has at objections, however the biggest factor is the simple MACPHERSON each state. The application includes implementations fact that I have found myself unbearably apathetic FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHLEEN MAPES, HISTORY of page segmentation algorithms described by towards the work that has been given to me. To Interns at the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group (HAG) Apostolos Antonacopoulos and Theo Pavlidis and, as counter this boredom I find myself yearning for more Museum work to make museum collections more part of Pavlidis' algorithm, includes an algorithm for fulfilling professions, and ultimately it has pushed me accessible to the general public. Tasks include classifying segmented image blocks as halftone to take action towards a career as a Professional Ski creating informative displays for aircrafts, designing image, text, or line drawing using information from a Patroller. Yet, my time has not been wasted: this exhibits, managing collections, and researching cross correlation function borrowed from the field of internship has taught me many valuable lessons to donations. The newest endeavor is the aesthetic signal processing. be used in any profession and in life itself, and it has restoration of the museum's C-119, a World War II- ______saved me from making this determination several era military transport plane. Interns work 26 • Munchful: Mobile Food tens of thousands of dollars later. cooperatively and enhance their knowledge and ______Ordering in Geneseo skills in the area of museum studies. They also 23 • 1941 Historical Aircraft Group JEFFREY SINGER, JAMIE MATTHEWS acquire knowledge of the planes by working with FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTIAN SHIN, COMPUTER primary source material and interacting with 1941 Museum Antonov Display SCIENCE HAG members. VINCENT NICOLOSI Munchful is an Android Application, and mobile ______FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHLEEN MAPES, HISTORY optimized website that allows users to find nearby 20A • After Effects of the Rochester The 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum holds cooperating restaurants, browse the entire menus, Riot of 1964 an Antonov, a Soviet-built aircraft. Student interns put together an order with the ability to calculate at the museum have researched the plane YUSUF ABDI the price in real time, and place an order for pickup extensively and designed an information panel to FACULTY SPONSOR: JUSTIN BEHREND, HISTORY or delivery without making a phone call. The stand with it on location. This display presents My research will investigate the Rochester Riot of application is location aware, showing only interesting and relevant information to museum 1964. The Rochester Riot exposed racial tension restaurants that will deliver to your current visitors with all levels of knowledge of the aircraft. location, or that are within the distance you specify from segregated neighbors to segregated job opportunities. But what was the legacy of the riot for pickup, and guesses where you want your food on the prospering city? To what extent did the COMPUTER SCIENCE delivered to based on your current location. It is city's leaders and communities address the racial 24 • "EMScribe" - An Emergency socially integrated, users log in via their Facebook and economic conflicts in Rochester? Since the riot Medical Services Documentation account, associating saved credit information with schools and job marketing as become equal but it, post that they have ordered to their friends, and more segregated. After 48 years we can examine Application for Android Devices save other information associated with their how the effects of racial separation has benefit or CAROLINE SCHWARTZ account. negatively affected but Rochester and other racial FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTIAN SHIN, COMPUTER ______divided cities in the USA. Through an examination of SCIENCE 27 • Euchre Tourney Android population demographics as well as other economic Smart phones have drastically increased in popularity Application in the past few years due to the wide variety of and social indicators, I will be taking a deeper look KELLY KEENEHAN applications available to users. With more and more as to how the riot impacted Rochester today. FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTIAN SHIN, COMPUTER applications being available on both iPhones and SCIENCE Android based devices, consumers are now turning Euchre Tourney is an Android application I began to mobile devices to serve basic needs. EMScribe is a developing in the Fall 2011 semester. This application 9

2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual is written in the Java Programming Language and effectively correct misconceptions before they provide acceptable performance for situations that utilizes the Android SDK tools to compile the code. become ingrained in the student's practice. do not require failproof security. Euchre Tourney will allow users to efficiently However, classroom teachers often lack the time or ______organize a Euchre tournament. Features of this training necessary to identify and address such 31 • Constructing a Portable application include player name input, number of misconceptions. Consequently, the eventual Computer Cluster Using Laptops rounds calculator, table/teammate assignments, feedback students receive is usually limited to WYATT GORMAN tournament scorecard, trump marker, adjustable "right" or "wrong" with no targeted further FACULTY SPONSOR: HOMMA FARIAN, COMPUTER timer, payout calculator and game point counter. instruction. This project aims to develop Web- SCIENCE The user of Euchre Tourney may enter up to fifty based software designed to immediately assess, Computer clusters are extremely powerful, versatile names for a Euchre tournament and select the improve, and strengthen a student's mathematical tools which allow us to accomplish tasks much number of rounds for the tournament. The user is understanding based on responses to automatically faster than we can on single machines. They are, then taken to a Preferences Screen in which he/she generated arithmetic problems consistent with the however, typically large immobile groups of can define various settings for the tournament. An Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. computers which require significant amounts of editable scoreboard is created to keep track of each ______dedicated power, space and cooling to operate. individual's points per round. The scoreboard can be 30 • Visualizing the Game of Life on a However, each of these requirements can be e-mailed to any number of mail recipients. Parallel Computing Cluster minimized by constructing a cluster using laptops. Additionally, the user can view the different HERBERT SUSMANN This also allows these clusters to be moved into a partner/table assignments for each round as well as FACULTY SPONSOR: HOMMA FARIAN, COMPUTER location advantageous to those utilizing it, rather the ending payouts for the tournament. For each SCIENCE than having the users come to it, maximizing ease round of play, the user may chose to utilize a trump The Game of Life is a famous cellular automata in of use and visibility. The process of building such a marker, an adjustable timer and/or a point counter. which individual cells on a grid can be either alive or cluster is an intricate combination of hardware and By the end of this semester, the Euchre Tourney dormant. Cells change between states based on the software. I have undertaken this challenge and am application will be ready to be placed on the Android state of its neighboring cells. We implemented a currently working on such a cluster of 20 laptop Market. ______cluster based visualization of the Game of Life. The computers provided by the SUNY Geneseo application is written in C and is distributed over a Distributed Systems Lab. This undertaking will 28 • Zombie City: A Tower Defense computing cluster. The cluster is made up of sixteen culminate in a portable laptop cluster and a video Game for the Android Platform computers with individual monitors arranged in a wall for the visualization of data. The video wall is THOMAS BANAHAN four by four grid. The Game of Life is parallelized by made up of the laptop monitors arranged in a grid FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTIAN SHIN, COMPUTER distributing the grid to each computer in the pattern, and acts as one large screen. The cluster SCIENCE cluster. As such, each computer is responsible for and the video wall together provides increased Android is an increasingly popular platform that updating a subset of the total game grid. As the processing power and screen space, providing a offers incredible opportunity for independently Game of Life runs the monitors display a higher-resolution and more detailed display of the developed software. Zombie City is a game visualization of the algorithm's progress. The overall data processed on it compared to a single designed to utilize the strengths of a mobile result is displayed over all the monitor. The computer. platform, and be enjoyable for casual and serious visualization allows observers to watch the Game of gamers alike. The game automatically saves Life progress on a very large grid. Parallelization of MATHEMATICS progress so the player need not worry about playing the program allows both a physically larger for any length of time they wish, or receiving a visualization and faster execution of the algorithm. 32 • Partial Differential Equations phone call or text during gameplay. The player is By combining parallelization with graphical and Stochastic Processes tasked with building a city and keeping its citizens visualization we have created an unique, engaging JACK CRISTOFOLETTI happy, all the while holding off endless waves of way to view the Game of Life. FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDRZEJ KEDZIERAWSKI, increasingly powerful zombie attackers. The ______MATHEMATICS combination of the already popular genres of tower 30A • Perfecting the Vigenère Cipher We use partial differential equations to model and defense and city simulation, offers a uniquely MARCOS DAVILA analyze stochastic processes. In particular, we challenging experience. The theme of a Zombie FACULTY SPONSOR: HOMMA FARIAN, COMPUTER examine the relationship between Brownian motion Apocalypse was selected because it is currently very SCIENCE and solutions of the Laplace equation. Additionally, popular, and offers a simple explanation for an For almost 300 years, the Vigenère Cipher was we use the Kolmogorov partial differential equation infinite number of mindless enemies. The game considered to be "the unbreakable cipher", given to predict the expected values of gambling currently includes 30 player-constructible buildings, this title for its ability to partially mask letter revenues. We illustrate our procedure with several 6 unique enemy types, and randomly generated frequency by utilizing polyalphabetic substitution. Maple and MATLAB programs. Our solution may maps for maximum replay-ability. More enemies Since its inception, the Vigenère cipher has have a practical applications related to banking and and possibly more buildings will be included in the contributed much study to the field of cryptology investing. final release. Areas of research during the and mathematics and was the forerunner to the ______development of this application included touch first provably unbreakable cipher. The intent of this 33 • Inverse Problems for the Heat screen interfaces, accelerometers, game design, project was to assess the weaknesses of the Equation and Thermal Tomography path finding, and graphics. Vigenère Cipher in common usage and create a ______MICHAEL KUSHNIR modification of the traditional cipher that FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDRZEJ KEDZIERAWSKI, 29 • Computer Assessment and preserves the strengths of the original while MATHEMATICS Remediation of Elementary School mitigating the weaknesses to devise a cipher that Solving inverse problems for the heat equation has the properties of being secure while still being Students' Mathematical permits the study of physical properties of a quick and easy to implement. This was done by material. Knowing an objects heat distribution at a Understanding getting the length of the input and then asking for a particular time t and having knowledge of the NATHAN JOHNSON key of a specified length or by randomly generating diffusion coefficients allows us to determine the FACULTY SPONSORS: DOUGLAS BALDWIN, one. The process was further sped up by utilizing unknown initial temperature and to study the heat COMPUTER SCIENCE AND DENNIS SHOWERS, look-up tables, which proved to be much more flow and physical properties of the body. These SCHOOL OF EDUCATION efficient than the mathematical formulas that problems are explored mathematically and solved Recognizing error patterns in an elementary school would be used to produce equivalent outcomes. numerically in MATLAB. These theoretical solutions student's arithmetic provides valuable insight into The conclusion that has been drawn is that with the have numerous practical applications in physical the student's mathematical understanding. This proper key and usage, the Vigenère Cipher can systems. insight allows for individualized remediation to 10

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______amount of algae within a controlled system with COLLEGE UNION BALLROOM 36 • Sleeping Site Selection in and without barley straw. In containers, we used Howler Monkeys of Ometepe Island, distilled water with a controlled amount of fertilizer ANTHROPOLOGY in each. We then inoculated each container with Nicaragua algae and placed barley straw in half the 34 • A Comparison of Fire Cracked MEAGAN WHEATLEY, ROSANNA CONSIGLIO, containers. After 2-3 weeks, we measured the Rock Distribution at the Lady's Run DEBORAH FARRIS algae in each container by measuring the amount FACULTY SPONSOR: BARBARA WELKER, of chlorophyll produced. This could help to further and Brown's Bottom 1 Sites: An ANTHROPOLOGY understand if barley straw will help control the Analysis of Ohio Hopewell Sedantism Primate sleeping site selection has recently seen growth of algae. SANDRA BENDER, ERIN STEINWACHS renewed interest in the scientific community. A key ______FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, factor identified in influencing sleeping site selection 39 • The Effect of Electromagnetic ANTHROPOLOGY is safety provided from predators (Anderson 1998). Wavelength on Phototropism Investigation at the Lady's Run site produced Welker (in prep.) conducted a pilot study of night MICHAEL ARCURI, RAVIV KATZ evidence of an Ohio Hopewell domestic settlement sleeping tree vs. day resting tree selection among a FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY on the Harness Farm, located 10 km south of mantled howler group in Santa Rosa, Costa Rica. Our Phototropism is an effect on plants in which the Chillicothe, Ohio, on the Scioto River flood plain. goal was to assess sleeping site selection among the plants will physically bend towards the light source. Excavations conducted during the 2007-2011 field mantled howlers of Ometepe, Nicaragua and Depending on the time in which the plants are seasons uncovered multiple secondary refuse subsequently compare our findings with the Santa exposed to light, the plants will have different deposits at the site. In habitation sites, the Rosa group. Based on Welker's preliminary findings responses. We tested the effect of different colors distribution and density of fire cracked rock (FCR) we predicted that Ometepe howlers would of LED light on the height and bending of Oat. For alone is an excellent indicator of patterns of past selectively choose smaller, terminal branches for each plant, equal intensities of different color light human behavior. A comparison between FCR night sleeping sites so as to be alerted via vibrations are shown on the Oat plants after a certain growing concentration within the secondary refuse deposits to an approaching predator. Data were collected for period in the dark. After a period of light, the Oat at Lady's Run and Earth Ovens from Brown's Bottom approximately 2.5 weeks from 30-XII-11 to 13-I-12 plants are then let to grow in the dark again. The #1 and Lady's Run demonstrates distinct patterns of between 5:45 and 6:45am from four groups in height and degree of bending are measured to rock utilization and secondary refuse disposal. different forest habitats. Our results indicate that analyze the effect of different colored light on the Focusing on FCR concentrations at both sites, the Ometepe howlers preferred to sleep on terminal plants. This will help to further understand the data analysis supports the assertion that Middle branches vs. those adjacent to the trunk (χ²=79.77, df = 2, p < 0.005) and they avoided sleeping on thicker effect of certain colors of light on plant growth. Woodland people, Ohio Hopewell culture, resided ______in sedentary complexes at the Lady's Run site. branches (χ²=13.72, df = 2, p< 0.005). Consequently, ______the howler monkey groups of Ometepe do 40 • Neuron-specific Insulin 35 • Quantitative Analysis of demonstrate a similar sleeping tree selection pattern Receptors Modulate Mesolimbic as the howlers of Santa Rosa. Prehensile Tail Use in Alouatta ______Dopamine Exocytosis palliata JULIANA GIACOMINI 37 • Gender, Sexuality and Kinship FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY SANDRA BENDER, ERIN STEINWACHS, JULIANNA LEYDI BASILIO Obesity affects a large portion of the population, PHILIPSON FACULTY SPONSOR: DENICE SZAFRAN, currently over 60% according to the Center for FACULTY SPONSOR: BARBARA WELKER, ANTHROPOLOGY Disease Control (2009). Mesolimbic dopamine ANTHROPOLOGY Kinship offers a provisional and compelling language codes for food reward and thus is hypothesized to Howler monkeys, along with several other genera of for understanding the powers and constraints of play a role in the obesity epidemic. The purpose of New World monkeys, are characterized by human relations. For a long time the topic of gay the present study is to investigate the relationship prehensile tails. Their tails are used for balance, marriage and gay kinship has confounded America's between central insulin signaling pathways and support, and as an additional appendage. We public opinion. After taking a Sociolinguistic course dopaminergic neurotransmission. Although the role investigated the frequency of prehensile tail use in a with Dr. Szafran last semester, I became very of peripheral insulin is well defined, that of central group of mantled howler monkeys on Isla Ometepe, interested in exploring whether there actually were insulin is not well understood. This study used a Nicaragua, from 31-XII-11 to -I-12, yielding 30 hr of any kinship terms to refer specifically to lesbians neuron-specific insulin receptor knockout (NIRKO) data. Results indicate that the monkeys use their and gays. I looked into a variety of sources from mouse model which lacked insulin receptors in tails for assistance in three main functions: feeding ethnographies to historical background and found areas of the midbrain known for their role in (34.6%), locomotion (vertical= 17.0% and that gender, sexuality and kinship are intricately dopamine release. Prior studies have shown that horizontal= 30.4%), and resting (18.1%). Tail use linked and thus cannot be analyzed in isolation. I these animals develop diet-sensitive obesity which varied greatly within each of those activities and by especially took a close look into Kath Weston's leads to the hypothesis that insulin signaling age. Adults used their tails most during feeding and ethnographic work on gay and lesbian communities pathways may modulate the central dopaminergic vertical locomotion (χ²=41.8, df=3, p=0.00). in America, particularly within the San Francisco system. Real-time carbon fiber amperometry was Juveniles used their tails almost exclusively during community, to explore how kinship is constructed. used to measure dopamine release in the dorsal locomotion, with very little use in the other two Although this under-represented group in society striatum, nucleus accumbens, and prefrontal cortex categories (χ²=168.1, df=3, p=0.00). When feeding, has opened the door to the creation of families in NIRKO and wild-type mice. This study provides animals most often had their tails wrapped around different in kind and composition, the struggle to preliminary data suggesting that there is a a branch (χ²=17.4, df=3, p=0.00). While moving challenge the heterosexual gender configuration of significant decrease in evoked dopamine release in horizontally, their tails were usually free (χ²=86.4, the American cultural views of kinship remains. NIRKO mice and, therefore, that insulin signaling in df=3, p=0.00). Finally, when moving vertically, their the midbrain has a role in modulating the central tails were usually wrapped around the branch they BIOLOGY dopamine system. were currently on (χ²=17.7, df=4, p<0.01). We 38 • The Effect of Barley Straw on ______conclude that the animals use their tails primarily to 41 • Medicinal Plants of the Yucatan support themselves when feeding and climbing, as Algae Growth those are more precarious activities than MICHAEL ARCURI, RAVIV KATZ Peninsula forward/horizontal movement, when more FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY SAMANTHA LUCREZIA appendages would be grasping the current Although the reason has not been identified, it has FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY substrate. been shown by some studies that Barley is a My research looked at the medicinal value of sufficient control for certain species of algae. We several plants: Dorstenia contrajerva, Protium

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Cydista aequinoctialis. Samples of these plants were supporting proper organization of the cytoskeleton a symbiotic relationship with bacteria. Research in our all retrieved from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. in the terminal web. lab addresses two questions: What is the identity of ______the bacteria? And, what is the nature of the symbiotic 42 • Mapping the Expression of a 44 • Analysis of the Changes in relationship? Using sequence analysis of amplified 16S-rDNA fragments we have identified the symbionts Novel 5-HT7 Receptor in Aplysia Vegetation of the Spencer J. Roemer as photosynthetic bacteria of the genera californica Arboretum over a 12 Year Period Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus that may also be MATT CAVANAUGH, JULIANA GIACOMINI MOLLY JONES able to fix nitrogen. These bacteria may provide the FACULTY SPONSORS: DUANE MCPHERSON AND FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY larvae with resources, such as carbon and nitrogen, JANICE LOVETT, BIOLOGY A survey of the Spencer J. Roemer Arboretum's that may be essential to clonal reproduction while Aplysia californica is a marine gastropod commonly vegetation transect at SUNY Geneseo, established drifting in the nutrient-impoverished open ocean. used in neurobiology. Serotonin, a neurotransmitter, originally in 1999, was re-surveyed in the summer of ______plays a major role in modulating locomotion in 2011. We were primarily interested in investigating 47 • The Migration and Raiding Aplysia. In the foot muscle of Aplysia serotonin has vegetation changes during this time. The survey been found to raise levels of cAMP, causing a consisted of quantifying the abundance of herbs, Patterns of Slavemaking Ants stronger muscle contraction. Serotonin produces this shrubs, vines, and trees in 144 5x5 plots along the JEFFREY LEVINE reaction by interacting with the cell through a 360 meter transect. We estimated cover, FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY specific g-coupled protein receptor in the cell frequency, density, and basal area for all vascular Slavemaking ants are social parasites that raid the membrane. Our lab has previously isolated and species. We found that white ash and black walnut nests of neighboring ant species, collect larvae and cloned a serotonergic receptor that increases cAMP trees increased in importance. White ash saplings pupae, and raise the brood for their own workforce. In the 8-hectare Roemer Arboretum, the levels, a 5-HT7 subtype. We have mapped the also have increased in importance. Non-invasive slavemaking ants Formica subintegra and Formica expression of this 5-HT7 receptor at the tissue level. understory species decreased in importance, while Expression levels were tested from samples of foot many invasive understory species have been pergandei parasitize Formica glacialis (the host muscle, kidney, heart, and I5 buccal muscle, as well increasing in importance. As tree growth increases species). More than a dozen slavemaker colonies as the pedal, pleural, cerebral, abdominal and buccal and the canopy thickens, understory growth may be were monitored over three raiding seasons ganglia. mRNA was extracted from each of these decreasing due to decreasing access to light. The (summer 2009-2011). Eight colonies migrated at samples and used to create cDNA, which underwent emerald ash borer may also cause more changes in least once during these seasons and the most mobile colony migrated at least twice each of the PCR amplification with primers specific to the 5-HT7 white ash trees and saplings in future surveys as the receptor. Actin mRNA was also extracted and tested insect enters the area and destroys this species. three seasons. Characteristics of the raids of for expression levels. Actin is a ubiquitous ______recently emigrated colonies were compared to pre- housekeeping protein that maintains constant levels 45 • Using Evolutionary Computing migration field data to determine how a migration of expression throughout all tissue types. The level of event can be beneficial to the slavemaker colony. Techniques to Better Understand the Factors such as raid distance and raid frequency expression of 5-HT7 for each sample was compared to the constant level of actin detected to determine the Relationship Between Structure and were examined to determine if the high cost of relative expression of the receptor. Results show that migration (in energy, time, and risk of predation) Function in In Vitro Neuronal could be offset by an increase in the number of the 5-HT7 receptor is consistently present is every sample tested, with the exception of heart tissue. Networks potential host targets and a decrease in the This project was funded by a Geneseo Foundation NICHOLAS COLLISSON distance from targets to the newly settled nest. Summer Fellowship. FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY Other local slavemaker colonies have remained ______The field of computational neuroscience has seen stationary over four raiding seasons. The host 43 • TMD-1/Tropomodulin Is An the pace of data generation far exceed that of data colony density around stationary nests was analysis in recent years, and the increasing compared to the density around nests before their Important Actin Regulator In availability of data acquisition technology seems to migration. These results contribute to our Intestinal Development In suggest that trend's continuance. Microelectrode understanding of the dynamics of slavemaker arrays (MEAs) enable the relatively high resolution colony mobility. Caenorhabditis Elegans and real-time recording of the electrical activity of ______RACHEL WALKER monolayer neuronal networks in vitro. To make use 48 • Survey of Collembola in an Early FACULTY SPONSOR: ELISABETH PAULSON, BIOLOGY of the vast amounts of data generated by MEAs, Successional Forest in Western New While tube formation is vital in organogenesis, the better methods of analyzing the recordings they process by which the fluid-filled lumen develops is make are needed. Accordingly, the goal of my work York: Comparing Sampling Methods not well understood. The intestine of C. elegans is a is two-fold: One, to develop a method for inferring LAURA HANSEN simple unbranched tube that is made via a cord the spatial and temporal characteristics of neuronal FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY hollowing mechanism. The apical membrane that networks in vitro, and two, to be able to design Collembola (springtails) are a microarthropod surrounds the lumen contains a terminal web in networks with the capability of performing a desired subclass common in soil. Their diversity has been which actin and intermediate filaments (IFs) form a computational function. Evolutionary computing used to indicate soil health because of their meshwork. Our lab has identified a novel role for techniques, which have proven to be useful in solving abundance and sensitivity to pollution. They are tropomodulin in regulating the shape of the lumen a wide range of biological problems, similarly lend important detritivores and consumers of bacteria, during tube formation. In vertebrates, tropomodulins themselves to network analysis, and are therefore plant, and fungal matter. Specimens were collected regulate actin by capping the pointed ends of actin suited to my work. Using a genetic algorithm, I was from the eight-hectare Roemer Arboretum on the filaments, aiding in its copolymerization with able to approximate the structures and functional SUNY Geneseo campus in August 2011 using pitfall tropomyosin, and by creating new actin filaments. characteristics of neuronal networks. traps filled with propylene glycol. In September TMD-1 localizes to the terminal web of the ______2011, specimens were extracted using Tullgren intestine; and our work shows that tmd-1 (tm724) 46 • Identification of Bacterial funnels from soil samples taken near the pitfall mutants have 26.6% less F-actin present in the traps. Specimens were identified as specifically as terminal web. Currently, we are doing Western blot Symbionts Associated with Clonal possible, they were measured, and any structural analysis to determine the nature of the tmd-1 Sea Star Larvae From the Open damage that prevented identification was noted. (tm724) strain to see if the allele is null or produces Ocean Pitfall trap specimens were mainly larger epedaphic an abnormal sized protein. Preliminary data also species from families Tomoceridae and shows that there may be a relationship between PAUL SANDELL, SUSAN SNYDER FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY Entomobryidae. Epedaphic species live on the soil TMD-1 and the IFs in the terminal web. Therefore, surface and generally have more developed TMD-1 may promote proper shape of the lumen by The larvae of the Caribbean cushion star, Oreaster reticulatus, reproduce asexually and also participate in appendages, eyes, and pigment patterns than 12

2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual euedaphic species, which live within soil. Tullgren ______FACULTY SPONSOR: RAY SPEAR, BIOLOGY funnel specimens included the same species, but 50 • Using Mitochondrial and The Neogolacial (3000 yr - present) culminating in the also included euedaphic Entomobryidae and species Nuclear DNA to Assess Formica Little Ice Age (c. 1600-mid 1800 AD), and the Mid- from family Isotomidae. Due to its extent, this Holocene (c. 6500-5500 yr BP) are two periods when difference in diversity was attributed to sampling glacialis Population Structure and climate change caused fluctuations in tree method and not seasonal variation. The Tullgren Gene Flow populations. The increase of Pinus in the Neoglacial, funnel method collected a higher range of species, SARAH DZARA and the decline of Tsuga canadensis in the Mid- was less labor intensive, and had fewer damaged FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY Holocene Period are the two major changes in tree specimens and would be the method chosen for Formica subintegra and F. pergandei are two ant populations in the eastern Great Lakes region. To further survey. species considered social parasites, or 'slavemaking' verify these trends, pollen samples from a 2.25 m ______ants. F. subintegra and F. pergandei conduct raids sediment core was taken at Hanging Bog, in 48A • Using Carboxyfluorescein upon a third species, F. glacialis, during which the Alleghany County, NY. The depth in the core Succinimidyl Ester (CFSE) to Measure raiders capture the immature F. glacialis ants. The corresponds to the age of the sediment sample. captives are used as a food source or raised as Through pollen analysis it may be possible to link the Effects of Sulphoraphane on Cell slaves, performing nest maintenance, foraging for shifts in tree population with known climate change. Division in a Human Leukemia Cell food, or caring for the queen and her young within Patterns determined at Hanging Bog will then be Line the F. subintegra or F. pergandei nests. Little is compared to patterns at other sites in the Great known about the reproductive behavior of the ant Lakes Region and the Northeast to demonstrate OSCAR FELICIANO regional climate change. FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY species F. glacialis. We used mitochondrial DNA to determine the number of female lineages present in ______CFDA-SE is a non-permeable fluorescent molecule 53 • Aerobiology: Long-term Pollen that can be used to measure the number of known polygynous F. glacialis colonies, which can doublings in a population of cells in a given time. reveal if queens are recruited from within the nest Seasonal Trends and Analysis of Once inside the membrane, cellular esterase or if colonies adopt foreign queens. The relatedness Student Allergy Symptoms Related cleaves off the acetate groups creating of the offspring-producing queens was assessed Carboxyfluorescein Succinimidyl Ester (CFSE). With based on the mitochondrial DNA sequences of the to Airborne Pollen Levels each cell division the amount of CFSE is cut in half, workers. Genetic relatedness was compared to ROZALYN HESSE, KELLY NOLAN, MICHAEL HOY which can be observed via flow cytometry. distance between nests to test for isolation by FACULTY SPONSOR: RAY SPEAR, BIOLOGY Experiments are planned with HL-60 cell line in the distance over short spatial scales. Differentiation The aerobiology lab analyses airborne pollen presence of sulforaphane and CFDA-SE in a PBS/1% based on mitochondrial analysis was contrasted samples from the Geneseo environment using a BSA solution for 48 - 96 hours. A control population with differentiation at nuclear DNA microsatellite Rotorod Sampler on the roof of the ISC. Daily pollen of cells will be treated with CFSE and no analysis to evaluate sex-biased gene flow. The samples from the years 2008-2012 have been sulforaphane. Preliminary experiments with only results of this study can contribute to our counted and compared to pollen records from CFSE have shown no loss of viability from the CFSE understanding of the reproductive patterns and Allergy Asthma and Immunology of Rochester or the DMSO concentration used to dissolve the factors contributing to population structure of F. (AAIR). We are comparing our data with the CFSE. It is expected that the control cells will show glacialis. records from AAIR in an attempt to distinguish ______more divisions than the drug treated cells as possible changes in growing seasons of plants in evidenced by an increased number of fluorescent 51 • Role of SLC10A1 SNPs in the area. Another aspect of our research includes peaks with less and less fluorescence. Regulating Cytochrome P450 the surveying students about their allergy symptoms. The survey taken in the first week of ______Expression 49 • A Survey of Ant Diversity: March and again in April during the peak spring OLGA VARECHTCHOUK pollen season will help to determine how allergy Seasonal Effects on Ant Activity FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY symptoms of students correlate to high airborne MICHAEL MARCHESE Cytochrome's P450 (CYPs) are a group of enzymes pollen levels. Our lab also plans to maintain a FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY that have a major role in metabolizing drugs, and weekly allergy warning system on the Geneseo Ant diversity and species composition in a site can their variable expression can lead to pharmacokinetic Healthguards Facebook page in order to keep be a good indicator of habitat quality and and pharmacodynamic differences within the students up to date on how much airborne pollen disturbance history. A survey of ant diversity in the population. One cause of such genetic in currently in the air. This will available on 8-hectare Spencer J. Roemer Arboretum in polymorphisms is the presence of single nucleotide http://www.facebook.com/profile.php? Geneseo, NY was conducted through repeated polymorphisms (SNPs) in the gene. SNPs within CYP id=100000732886684&sk=wall. sampling of pitfall traps in spring, summer, and fall genes (cis-SNPs) can lead to altered CYP expression ______of 2011. Multiple samples were collected because a and/or activity. While they have been extensively 54 • The Effects of Glycyrrhizic Acid preliminary survey in July 2010 and field investigated, genetic variants in CYPs only explain a observations in September 2010 suggested seasonal part of the inter-individual variation in hepatic CYP on Tumor Cells variation in the species composition of active ants. expression. A recent study has proposed SLC10A1, a KRISTEN GIUGLIANO, KELLI CONNOLLY Ants were collected from 32 pitfall traps located 10- bile acid uptake carrier, to be a novel regulator of FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY 15 m apart along two transects spanning the CYP expression via the effects of bile acids on ligand- We have been using a component of licorice root research site. Specimens were identified to the activated nuclear receptors like the pregnane X called Glycyrrhizic acid, which has been suggested species level based on species richness estimates, receptor (PXR), the constitutive androstane receptor as a chemopreventive agent. GA has been shown diversity indices, and species similarity among (CAR), and the farnesol X receptor (FXR). We studied to be an inhibitor of lipoxygenase, cyclooxygenase, samples were calculated using the program the effects that functional SNPs (single nucleotide protein kinase C and to down regulate the EstimateS. Comparison of ants sampled in each polymorphisms) in SLC10A1 may have on CYP epidermal growth factor receptor. We are testing season indicates whether pitfall trap sampling is expression. We found a total of eight SNPs in the 98 the effects of Glycyrrhizic acid on MDA MB- 435 sensitive to seasonal shifts in ant activity at this site. analyzed samples, and the genotypes of one exon 1 cells using cytotoxicity experiments, apoptosis Species composition and diversity data can be used synonymous SNP correlated with total mRNA of assays and cell cycle analysis. The concentration of as a baseline for continued long-term monitoring of SLC10A1 as well as the downstream target CYP3A4. 0.0075µg/ml caused 50% cytotoxicity and was this secondary successional forest. ______therefore used for subsequent experiments. Our 52 • Correlating Tree Population preliminary results have shown that Glycyrrhizic is capable of inducing apoptosis after an incubation Shifts to Climate Change in the period of 24 hours, at the above dose. However,

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2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual to increase the G-2 population. Future experiments ______FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI MUENCH, will look at the effect of GA on different cancer cell 57 • The Development Of A Qpcr BIOLOGY lines. If administering this drug can cause apoptosis Assay To Study The Competitive Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease prevalent in in the cancerous cells that are growing developing countries and is transmitted to humans uncontrollably then Glycyrrhizic acid could serve as Fitness Of Escherichia Coli With And by the intermediate snail hosts Biomphalaria a promising potential cancer treatment. Without A Functional DNA Cytosine glabrata and Bulinus truncatues. Drug treatment ______Methyltransferase Gene (dcm) Gene alone has not reduced the prevalence of infection. 55 • The Effects of Sulphoraphane Orange oil and caffeine are reported to have KUN HYOE RHOO and Elevated Temperatures on the molluscidal properties and we have tested the FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT SIMON, BIOLOGY effects of these compounds on the medically Cell Cycle of MDA-MB 435 Breast In prokaryotes, the DNA cytosine methyltransferase important snail Biomphalaria glabrata. The Cancer Cells catalyzes cytosine methylation in the sequence of oviposition of the snails will be used to assess the 5'CCWGG3' (W = A or T). Previous work by Militello effect of the natural molluscides. Six snails were PETER TUNKEY et al. has shown that the dcm gene is conserved in FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY placed in tanks with differing orange oil or caffeine all examined strains of Escherichia coli. In order to concentrations. The number of egg masses and the Sulforaphane (SFN) is a member of the gain insight of the role of dcm gene, I carried out isothiocyanates, a group of chemicals produced by number of eggs within those masses were two fitness tests by competing strains with and recorded. Our results reflect our initial hypothesis cruciferous vegetables. Initial experiments have without the dcm gene with a 1:1 ratio. Also, I shown that the ratio of G2/M:G1 increased from in that the introduction of orange oil into the developed a quantitative assay to measure the environment decreased the oviposition, both the the control cells to the cells incubated with SFN, relative ratio of dcm by using qPCR. The first which supports previous studies that have shown number of egg masses and the number of experiment was to determine which strain has a individual eggs, of the snails. Although there was a isothiocyantes are mitotic inhibitors and arrest the growth advantage in stationary phase (GASP). The cell cycle in G2/M. The investigation of whether or linear increase in concentration between tanks, the two strains were mixed in a rich media at 37°C for decrease in number of individual eggs was not not the application of elevated temperatures twelve days. The result showed that the strain with augments these effects, as analyzed through flow linear. Orange oil seems to greatly reduce the the dcm gene vanished quickly. The second oviposition, but it does not totally inhibit the snails cytometry and MTT assays, was also performed. experiment examined the effects of competition of Preliminary results show that although elevated from producing eggs. We expect the caffeine the two strains in the repeated growth cycles for treatment to follow a similar trend as the orange oil temperatures inhibited cell growth in general, the thirty days. The result was consistent which the presence of low doses of SFN moderated this effect. treatments; experiments on caffeine are currently strain without dcm gene overtook the population. underway. Future experimental testing will look to identify the While the results do not explain the presence of causes of this moderation, possibly through the ______dcm gene, the assay will easily allow further fitness 60 • Novel Insights on the identification of heat shock proteins and their tests in different conditions, resulting in a better potential influence on SFN’s effects. understanding of this phenomenon. Prevalence of Gender Conflict in ______Biomphalaria glabrata: Autosperm 56 • Sulforaphane Induces Apoptosis 58 • The Nocturnal Behaviors of the with Varying Efficacies in HL-60, HTB- Buildup Not a Likely Factor Snail Bulinus truncatus JONATHAN SCHULTZ, JEFFREY HOLLINGER 4, and MDA-MB-435 Cancer Cell RYAN AVERY FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI MUENCH, Lines FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI MUENCH, BIOLOGY TOBY TERWILLIGER, FANGYUAN JIN, JESSICA BIOLOGY Biomphalaria glabrata is a hermaphroditic, tropical, BOSCH The poster will give an overview of the research freshwater snail native to South America and the FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY conducted so far on the nightly behaviors of the Caribbean. This species is an obligate intermediate Sulforaphane (SFN) is an isothiocyanate found snail Bulinus truncatus. It will feature an energy host in the transmission of schistosomiasis, a largely in cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli budget, which will help to explain how they spend parasitic disease that affects 210 million people and cauliflower. SFN has been shown to have anti- their energy throughout night. The major activities globally. An understanding of the reproductive cancer effects, including the induction of apoptosis. observed, such as feeding, different types of ecology of this species will help reduce prevalence We tested the ability of SFN to induce apoptosis in movement, and resting will be discussed in greater of the parasite species. In simultaneous HTB-4 human urinary bladder cancer cells, MDA- depth. It will feature a graph that shows the hermaphrodites, gender conflict arises when two MB-435 human breast cancer cells, and HL-60 average nightly occurrence of these major activities. snails both attempt to mate in the male role. This human promyelocytic leukemia cells. Apoptosis The poster will also compare the nightly activity experiment aimed to determine under what was measured with an annexin V staining assay that found in Bulinus truncatus with another often- conditions gender conflict occurs. Snails were fluorescently tags phosphotidylserine molecules on researched snail, Biomphalaria glabrata. Both of observed for gender conflict after exposure to three the outer membrane leaflet. The cells were then these snails are important in the spread of different environmental conditions for one week. analyzed by flow cytometry to detect those in early schistosomiasis throughout the world. There will be Snails were isolated in individual microenvironments, and late apoptosis. We found different abilities of a section discussing how this research is important isolated from other snails within the same SFN to induce apoptosis for the three cell lines. HL- in limiting its spread, especially since Bulinus' microenvironment, or left in a microenvironment 60 cells were most sensitive to the SFN treatment, nocturnal behaviors have never been formally where they can freely interact. Our experiments with a 24-hour incubation yielding the most studied before. The poster will also explain what indicate that gender conflict was more prevalent apoptosing cells. The HTB-4 cells required a longer experiments were conducted and what equipment among the snails isolated in their individual incubation time of 48 hours for maximum was used to obtain information. In particular it will microenvironments. The results of these apoptosis. MDA-MB-435 cells were least affected focus on the use of a night vision video camera that observations, determined through chi-squared by SFN with the best effects again coming at 24 was an essential aid in the experiment. Overall the analysis, were statistically significant (p<.05). hours. The different sensitivities of these three cell poster should help the average person better Experiments are currently underway to determine lines to SFN are consistent with the heterogeneity understand what behaviors Bulinus truncatus how long the snails must be isolated in order to of different cancers and indicate the need for a displays at night and why researching this behavior observe gender conflict and what chemical cues, if variety of treatments. Our results suggest that SFN is important. any, are acting on the snails. ______may be a potential chemotherapeutic agent and encourage further research into its mechanisms of 59 • The Effects of Natural inducing apoptosis. Molluscicides on Biomphalaria

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______A fiber formation of amyloid beta with 40 or 42 the purpose to coordinate this ligand to Pt(II) and 61 • The Effects Of Common Plastic amino acid sequences is a hallmark of the study its sensing properties in the presence of Hg2+ Pollutants on the Freshwater Snail Alzheimer's disease. The amyloid beta of sequences ions. The Shiff-base condensation reaction of 1,2- 1-40 (Aβ1-40) exhibits a reversible self-assembly in diaminobenzene and two equivalents of 2- Biomphalaria Glabrata, Intermediate water, when they are placed over the 20 nm gold thiophenecarboxaldehyde produced an unexpected Host For Schistosoma mansoni colloidal surfaces between pH 4 and pH 10. intramolecular cyclization and 2-(Thiophen-2-yl)-1- SHADMAN SINHA, CHRISTIAN EVANS However, the amyloid beta of sequences 1-42 (Aβ (thiophen-2-ylmethyl)-1H-benzimidazole (TTBI) was FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI MUENCH, 1-42) does not dissolve in water particularly under obtained instead of the expected DITB product. We BIOLOGY an acidic condition (pH 4) and investigation of self- have attempted a template synthesis using Zinc Schistosomiasis is a debilitating disease affecting assembly process of Aβ1-42 over gold colloidal acetate. A zinc complex connected to two over 200 million people around the world. Infection particles have not been fully investigated. We used diaminobenzenes by a single NH2 group has been is caused by schistosomes, which are parasitic an organic solvent to dissolve Aβ1-42, and self- obtained and its structure has been determined by trematode worms found in freshwater assembly process was investigated over various X-Ray crystallography. The reactivity of the TTBI environments of endemic regions. Schistosome sizes of gold nano-colloids ranging between 10 nm ligand with platinum is now being investigated. parasites exhibit a human-snail-human host life and 100 nm in diameter. As solution was changed ______cycle where the parasite must rely on snails to from basic to acidic condition, the color of the 66 • Synthesis and Characterization become infective to humans. Thus if snail solution changed from red to blue. The pH value of 2-(Furan-2-yl)-1-(Furan-2- populations can be controlled, infection to humans where this color takes place (pHo) is regarded as the may be controlled as well. Our study focuses on the point where the Aβ coated gold colloids possess no ylmethyl)- Benzimidazole snail species Biomphalaria glabrata (B.glabrata). charge and indicating that an formation of JARED DECK Previously, we observed that B.glabrata oviposition intermediate of a fiber formation (precursor of FACULTY SPONSOR: CRISTINA GEIGER, CHEMISTRY increased in the presence of plastic pollutants fiber) As for Aβ1-40 coated gold colloids in water, The synthesis and structural characterization of common in waters of endemic regions. Now we are there was a unique size dependence in pHo, On the benzimidazole derivatives obtained from 1,2- testing to see if plastic bags imported from Ghana other hand, under an organic solvent, no significant diaminobenzene with 2-furaldehyde was could result in increased egg-laying as well, and if size dependence was observed investigated. Coordination of similar compounds offspring from these eggs are viable. So far our data ______(ligands) with platinum, show strong luminescent have been consistent with previous observations 64 • A Time For Choosing: The properties and are used as mercury sensors. We hope our compounds exhibit similar selective sensing that plastics increase egg-laying. Furthermore, some Audacity Of "Knowing" 2+ offspring had hatched from eggs in the presence of properties since Hg sensing is interesting in STEPHANY ROMERO environmental and biological chemistry. The plastic. Thus, there may be a link between FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, increasing plastic pollution in waters, and increased structures of the benzimidazole derivatives CHEMISTRY synthesized were analyzed using Nuclear Magnetic B.glabrata population size. This in turn may lead to The planning, implementation and outcome of a increased rates of schistosomiasis infection to Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-Ray premiere chemistry and biochemistry access crystallography. The major product as determined humans. Our future plans are to determine if opportunity program (AOP) summer course at SUNY plastic induces egg-laying by physical or chemical from NMR spectroscopy demonstrated the expected Geneseo are presented and discussed. The program product in which 2-furaldehyde reacts in a two to one means. seeks to provide some answers to the question of ratio with 1,2-diaminobenzene, producing a recruiting students from underrepresented groups, benzimidazole derivative with two covalently CHEMISTRY specifically; what are the most effective methods for attached furan rings. Surprisingly, the minor product 62 • Characterization of Dialkoxy recruiting and retaining students from as determined by X-Ray crystallography underrepresented groups in the STEM disciplines? It Disulfide Functionalized Nano Gold demonstrated an unexpected structure in which 2- involved working with economically and furaldehyde reacts in a three to one ratio with 1,2- Colloidal Particles educationally disadvantaged students who diaminobenzene, producing a benzimidazole GIANG NGUYEN, AMY TRAN demonstrate potential for achieving success in derivative with three covalently attached furan rings. FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, college. Factors addressed; 1) providing students Our efforts are currently focused on growing single CHEMISTRY with an opportunity to have a feel of introductory crystals for the major product and synthesizing the Aiming to more stably produce an oligomer form of level chemistry and biochemistry, 2) discussions on cyclometalated platinum complexes. amyloid beta (i.e., a key intermediate of general study strategies and overcoming exam ______fibrillogenesis which eventually leads to Alzheimer's anxiety, 3) providing students with transitional 67 • Benzimidazole Derivatives With disease), the surface of gold colloids were information, college level expectations and how they functionalized with nitro-, phenyl-, chloro-, and differ from those of high school. 75% of the students Potential Chemical Sensor Use methoxy-dibenzyloxy disulfide, and molecular found the program helpful to their transition to MATTHEW DESTEFANO, AVA ISAAC interactions were investigated in a dimethyl college academic setting and 98.36% of them have FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID GEIGER, CHEMISTRY sulfoxide environment. The transition of color already joined the college. Benzimidazoles are a class of organic compounds change was observed at pHo as the pH value was ______that find use in areas as diverse as pharmaceuticals lowered externally. As evidence of disulfide being 65 • Synthesis of Transition Metal (e.g., antiviral and fungicidal agents) and adsorbed on the colloidal surface, the pHo values Complexes with a Benzimidazole surfactants. Our research efforts have focused on were dependent of each substituent of the the synthesis and characterization of 1,2- dibenzyloxy disulfide compounds. The trend of pHo Thiophene Ligand disubstituted benzimidazole derivatives. These exhibited a parabolic relationship as a function of F- JAMES DONOHOE compounds can coordinate transitional metals value (Swain-Lupton Field constant). FACULTY SPONSOR: CRISTINA GEIGER, CHEMISTRY leading to luminescent compounds with potential ______Benzimidazole derivatives are an important class of use in chemical sensors, as the luminescence may 63 • Solvent Effect on Nano-Scale organic compounds. They are significant for their be quenched by heavy metal ions such as mercury. pharmacological effects as they are involved in a Our work focuses on changing the substitution Self-Assembly of Amyloid Beta great variety of biological processes, and also they pattern on the benzimidazole ligand to impart Peptide play an important role in environmental chemistry. better solubility and to tune the spectroscopic GIANG NGUYEN, AMY TRAN, EUN SOPHIA Their Platinum complexes exhibit luminescent properties of the complex. We will discuss our HWANGBO properties, which suggest they can be utilized as progress and future plans. FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, metal sensors. With this in mind we carry out a

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______FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, 68 • Chemical Analysis of Soil 71 • Characterization of cis- CHEMISTRY Samples from an Ancient Mayan Site Pt(F phpy) Cl Recent developments of protein functionalized nano- 2 2 2 particles are highly regarded as an important nano- BENJAMIN NAGASING in the Yucatan Peninsula biomaterial. Currently, they are being utilized in the FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCGARRAH, CHEMISTRY MICHAEL NELLIST medical field to probe specific target sites. Our goal is The investigation of cyclometalation of 2-(2,4- FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID GEIGER, CHEMISTRY to extract how protein is attached to the nano-scale difluorophenyl)pyridine (F phpy) with potassium The Mayan ruins of Coba, located in the eastern half of 2 surface, the structure of the protein is significantly tetrachloroplatinate (K PtCl ) yielded a previously Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, is truly an amazing site. 2 4 different from when it was just present in the unreported compound in which no cyclometalation This ruined civilization is a testament to the once solution. The ovalbumin, chicken egg white protein, occurred. The new compound is cis-Pt(F phpy) Cl . great Mayan society that inhabited the city. The 2 2 2 was interacted with nano-scale spherical shaped The identity was confirmed by single crystal x-ray purpose of this research is to examine the chemical crystals (Quantum Dots-QD), which emit light after diffraction. Interestingly, the compound crystallized footprints left by the people of Coba. A vast amount of excitation. The lifetime of QD was investigated as a in a chiral space group P2 2 2 , something unusual chemical information that can be used to help shed 1 1 1 function of concentration of protein at various pHs. for a square-planar platinum(II) compound not some light on the ancient civilization lies stored in the The structure of ovalbumin differs according to the coordinated to an independently chiral organic soil. Phosphate analysis of soil samples has proven to basicity or acidity of its environment, and it conducts ligand. Research in the McGarrah group is focused be a powerful analytical method for evaluating a self-assembly to unfolded shape at acidic condition on luminescence of platinum(II) coordination anthrosols, soils that have been chemically modified and to a folded shape at a basic condition. The compounds and their potential use in organic light by long-term human activity. Already, significant fluorescence lifetime of QD was significantly emitting devices. This effort is focused on the analysis of soil chemistry has taken place in another increased when ovalbumin was attached to the QD cylometalation of 2- (2,4-difluorophenyl)pyridine with ancient Mayan city, Piedras Negras. Like in Piedras implying ovalbumin was stabilized at the surface and platinum to yield Pt(C,N-F phpy)(N-F phpy)Cl (where Negras, soil analysis will provide insight on areas 2 2 an excitation energy to QD was more slowly C,N-F phpy is the bidentate coordinate ligand and N- where the inhabitants cooked, stalled animals, and 2 distributed. F phpy is the monodentate ligand bound through the placed waste, as well as countless other activities in 2 ______everyday life. By performing chemical analysis on the nitrogen atom) Success at synthesizing cis- 74 • Investigation of Memory–Effect soil samples from Coba, knowledge of an ancient Pt(F2phpy)2Cl2 will be presented, as well as x-ray structure data, optical characterization and 1D and of Assembly Structure of Amyloid world can be literally uncovered. 1 19 13 ______2D ( H, F, C) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Beta 1-40 over Gold Colloidal spectroscopy data. 69 • Apocynin as an inhibitor of ______Surfaces NADPH Oxidase 72 • Detection of Fiber Precursor JEFFREY MA, MAKAIA PAPASERGI, DALIA CALIX JOSEPH BOSHERS FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID JOHNSON, CHEMISTRY Causing Alzheimer's Disease by CHEMISTRY Apocynin has been shown to inhibit the harmful Utilizing Surface Modified Nano-Gold Amyloid beta protein 1-40 (Aβ 1-40) has been effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS). However, Colloids known to conduct reversible self -assembly at the surface of gold colloidal particles between pH 4 and the mechanism of this inhibition is relatively AMY TRAN, EUN SOPHIA HWANGBO pH 10. It is also known that the self-assembled unknown. It is theorized that apocynin dimerizes in FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, structures depend on the initial temperature at the presence of reactive oxygen species and that CHEMISTRY which pH 4 was achieved. A significant temperature this molecular dimer inhibits ROS build-up. It is Pathologically, a key hallmark of the Alzheimer's dependence in self assembly is particularly thought that by inhibiting NADPH oxidase, a potent disease (AD) is the formation of insoluble fibrillar observed when Aβ 1-40 is self-assembled over 30 neutrophil used in immune response, apocynin deposits of amyloid beta- peptides (Aβ) as senile nm at either 15°C or 45°C. Utilizing electron effectively stops ROS cascades that have been amyloid plaque that invades the brain's seat of microscopy, we directly observed if this initially shown to play a major role in heart disease and memory and cognition. Extensive studies have constructed structure will be conserved even the asthma. By using L-cysteine and glutathione as been conducted on these fibrillar deposits aiming temperature was later changed. Our results analogs for the p47PHOX subunit of NADPH oxidase, to understand a full mechanism of AD. However, a indicated that the structure prepared at 5°C and research has demonstrated that apocynin key step of the mechanism is an initial stage of a 45°C showed a significant difference, and indicated selectively dimerizes sulfhydryl groups and we formation of fiber precursors (oligomers). Up to that the gold colloidal surface can remain the propose that this may be the mechanism of NADPH now only a few studies on the oligomers are original structure of an initial temperature when Aβ oxidase inhibition. available, since the oligomers are too unstable to ______1-40 was exposed to acid. be observed. The oligomers are regarded as the 70 • Study of Apocynin Dimerization ______most dangerous and neurotoxic entities for brain 75 • Effect of Nanosize "Guest" and Effects on NADPH Oxidase cells, whereas their fully formed fibrils are not. Inhibition Recently, our group succeeded to detect a Particles to the Solvent Diffusion stabilized oligomer by utilizing a force field MICHAEL AZZARO, SARA DITURSI Through a Silica Gel Matrix" available over a newly designed nano-gold colloids. FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID JOHNSON, CHEMISTRY JISU RYU The surface of a gold colloid was modified with Various experiments have been performed to FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, dibenzyl-dialkoxy-disulfide complex, which contains characterize the method of inhibition of apocynin CHEMISTRY a sulfur-sulfur bond (-S-S-). Quite interestingly, a dimers on NADPH Oxidase. NADPH Oxidase is an Effective delivery and direct injection of a drug to a formation of an oligomer was completed with a enzyme that has been shown to produce reactive targeted region of living cells is a challenging issue, simultaneous production of S . It is speculated that oxygen species, a cause of arterial plaque and many 2 especially, the efficiency of a drug can be an Aβ monomer was stabilized by a portion of other inflammatory diseases. The effects of significantly reduced by a damage caused by the dibenzyl- dislkoxy group through a weak interaction apocynin have been observed through the use of stomach acid. Therefore, an acid resistant drug- as S was liberated, so that oligomers were several biological compounds treated with a 2 carrying device needs to be designed. Silica gel is considered to be formed avoiding strong chemical reactive oxygen species work up. Using Liquid regarded as an excellent material that fits such and physical restrictions. criteria. In order to design a capsule with controlled Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry, the effects of ______apocynin have been characterized. Through this rate of drug delivery at highly acidic condition, the experimentation it has been shown that apocynin 73 • Dynamics of Protein Self- diffusion rate of the solvent (acid) reaching into the inhibits the formation of reactive oxygen species by Assembly over Quantum Dot's cavity of the silica based gel material was inhibiting the activation of NADPH Oxidase. Surface investigated. 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2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual drug inside the cavity. The change in lifetime of the ______disaggregation phase, followed by an enthalpy- QD was measured as the solvent penetrated into 78 • Investigation of Intermediates driven CR binding to Aβ12-28. the gel. The dynamics of the host particle was in Alzheimer's Disease by sensitively changed as the size of the guest particles COMMUNICATION Nanomaterials: The Conjugation of ranged between 5 and 80 nm. The penetration rates 80 • "It's Not As Easy As It Looks:" and the guest particle sizes did not exhibit simple Amyloid Beta Protein on the Gold College Student's Experiences with linear relationship, however, the rate maximized Colloidal Nanoparticles' Surfaces when the guest particle size was around 5 nm. For Romantic Relationship Development both silver and gold guest particles, this trend was QUEENY PAN, GIANG NGUYEN, MICHAEL ANNESE not affected. FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, and Decline ______CHEMISTRY KATELYN PALKA 76 • pH and Temperature The conjugation of various sequences of amyloid FACULTY SPONSOR: MEREDITH HARRIGAN, beta, protein (Aβ), Aβ12-28 and Aβ1-40 with gold COMMUNICATION Dependence of Diffusion through a colloidal suspension of 20nm size was studied. As the number of young adults enrolled in colleges Sol-Gel Matrix: A Study Utilizing Absorption spectroscopy was used to identify and universities increases, so too does the need to Ethyl-Violet Dye Reversibility changes in the optical properties of gold colloid for study and understand the communicative pHs, ranging from pH 2 to pH 10. Color changes processes through which young adults engage in JOCELIN KALISH, JISU RYU, DAN MARK were seen for all tested proteins in this study at a romantic relationship development and decline. FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, higher pH than where bare gold colloid exhibits its Grounded in the model of interaction stages in CHEMISTRY color change pH=3.09 +0.02. All tested AB relationships (Knapp & Vangelisti, 2009), the Sol-Gel matrices have multiple applications, sequences except for Aβ1-42 exhibited color researcher conducted eight interviews with college including thermal insulation, biochemical sensing changes around pI values of Aβ1-40, about pH 5.2. women to investigate how young adult women use and membrane simulation. With the intention of The change color change observed at a pH lower interpersonal communication in order to develop, studying the pH and temperature effects of than 5 is attributed to the unfolded Aβ1-42 maintain, and ultimately terminate their romantic diffusion across a membrane, sol-gel was utilized as monomer units around the gold colloidal surface. relationships with those of the opposite sex. The a medium for this study. Addition of ethyl-violet dye Interestingly, only Aβ1-40-coated gold colloidal researcher describes the ten stages of coming to the matrix provided a UV-visible light emission nanoparticles exhibited a reversible color change as together and coming apart using the language of that could be analyzed by ultraviolet-visible the pH was externally altered between pH 4 and 10. the model. Implications of these findings are spectroscopy. Its pH-dependent color reversibility This reversibility is an important implication of the discussed to provide insight to researchers and made ethyl-violet ideal. Under basic conditions (pH observation of a reversible step reported for the individuals who are looking to understand how we 10), ethyl-violet is violet in color, while under acidic fibrillogenesis. It was interpreted that the reversible can effectively learn more about the ways in which conditions (pH 2), it is light blue in color. Initially, process takes place when hydrophilic Aβ possesses young adult women experience relational the sol-gel sample was exposed to an acidic buffer a three-dimensional network containing both beta- development and decline. solution (pH 2) for a period of one hour, during sheet and alpha helices. Currently, circular ______which the absorption was analyzed by Ultraviolet- dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is being used to obtain 81 • Exploring the Communication Visible spectroscopy in five minute intervals. the secondary structure of the protein with varying Afterward, the same process was repeated with a temperature. Dynamics of Anonymous Donor basic buffer solution (pH 10). From the data, the ______Conceived Families: The Parents' diffusion rates of acid and base through the matrix 79 • Temperature Dependence of were determined. The diffusion of base was to be Perspectives higher than acidic diffusion at temperatures above Congo Red Binding to Amyloid Beta EMILY WAGNER, KATELYN PALKA, ALEXANDRA 2°C. Diffusion of acid was observed to be 12-28 PRIORE, CHARLES SCHULZ, ELIZABETH STARCZEWSKI, MELANIE WEINTSTEIN independent of temperature, whereas diffusion of DOUG JACKSON, BAREEQAH AHMAD FACULTY SPONSOR: MEREDITH HARRIGAN, base was dependent. The activation energy for acid FACULTY SPONSOR: RUEL MCKNIGHT, CHEMISTRY COMMUNICATION penetration was determined to be 0 kJ/mol, while KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, CHEMISTRY This study is grounded in a systemic investigation of the activation energy for the base penetration was It is now well known that the deposition of amyloid- communication in families formed through 34.2 kJ/mol. beta peptides contribute to the formation of anonymous donor conception. The purpose of our ______plaques that are a major cause of Alzheimer's specific project is to investigate the 77 • Electron Microscopy Study of disease (AD). The main components of the amyloid communication-related experiences of parents in plaques are the 42- and 40-residue long, Aβ1-42 the Amyloid-beta Protein on the this system. Using qualitative methods of data and Aβ1-40. Conversion of the more soluble Aβ1-40 collection and analysis, we are exploring how Surface of Colloidal Nanoparticles to insoluble aggregates is thought to be important parents talk with their donor conceived offspring MAKAIA PAPASERGI, JEFFREY MA, DALIA CALIX in the early phase of AD. In order to rationally and others about the conception. Important FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, design an effective therapeutic agent, knowledge questions to address include: (a) how do parents CHEMISTRY of the interactions involving the early ordered negotiate private information, (b) how and when Our research involves the investigation of the oligomers at the molecular level is therefore critical. do parents communicate this information to their nanoscale aggregation of the Amyloid Beta Protein Congo Red (CR) has been identified as a potential children/others involved in the system, (c) how (Aβ1-40) under interfacial conditions. Aβ1-40 is therapeutics against amyloid fibril formation. does parenting a donor conceived child affect the involved in the process of fibrillogenesis, a known Several studies have indicated that the segment of parent's relationship with others, and (d) how do characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. Through Aβ monomer between residues 12 and 28 are donor conceived families compare to other research of the reversibility of the Aβ1-40 crucial for binding to CR. Some investigators have traditional/nontraditional family systems. Initial aggregated conformation, it may be possible to find also found that aggregation of Aβ is temperature analysis suggests that (a) parents value openness a process to reverse Alzheimer's disease in its early dependent. In the current work, we have done with their children regarding their conception, (b) stages. We succeeded in characterizing microscale preliminary isothermal titration calorimetric studies parents look for opportunities to communicate with properties of Aβ1-40 coated 20 nm gold and silver to gain insight into the temperature dependence of their child about their conception, (c) parents do colloids by using Transmission Electron Microscopy CR binding to Aβ12-28. Studies done between 15- not hide the truth from others, and (d) there are (TEM) for various pH conditions. This study enabled 35°C show a strong temperature dependence, with shared characteristics between families created by us to determine the behavior of Aβ1-40 as seen CR binding decreasing with temperature. We have adoption and families formed through anonymous through its interaction with colloid nanoparticles. detected two types of interactions differing by two donor conception. It is our hope that our findings orders of magnitude; an entropy-driven CR will offer both theoretical implications for

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2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual implications for donor conceived families and and overall tone quality. This poster explores ______individuals who communicate with donor conceived current research regarding different techniques 88 • Fluency Materials for Children families. and technologies used to improve music perception ANNE HALSTEAD, SARA CARVER, MICHELLE among cochlear implant users. These techniques CERVELLO, MARY COBLE, KEENA ANTHONY, COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & may not only work to improve music perception, AMANDA HAMMER, SAMANTHA HARTNETT, but speech perception as well, making them KELSEY HOGEL, KATELYNN IMAGNA, KATHRYN SCIENCES incredibly beneficial to recipients. MAKOWIEC, EMILY MECI, MURIEL PEETE, APRIL 82 WITHDRAWN • "It's Not Too ______RUIZ, BRYNNE STURGE, AXITA VORA, MEREDITH Late!" (Justification for Speech 85 • Brochures for Families of WEBER, DANIELLE WILLIAMSON, KATHRYN Children and Adults with Articulation MICHALEK Language Pathologists in Public FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, Middle Schools and High Schools) and Phonological Disorders: COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES JOANNA FINNERTY Assessment and Speech Therapy Students have completed original materials FACULTY SPONSOR: BEVERLY HENKE-LOFQUIST, KATELYNN IMAGNA, MEGAN ALI, KEENA designed to aid in creating fluency in young children COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES ANTHONY, MARY COBLE, CHRISTINA DORNBUSH, with dysfluent speech. The concepts of fluency Throughout the early 1900's, when Speech JULIA GANGLOFF, ANNE HALSTEAD, AMANDA enhancing are demonstrated. The materials are Language Pathologists began to provide services for HAMMER, KELSEY HOGEL, SARA KORMAN, parents friendly and can be used with both male public school children in America, it was recognized STACIANNE LESTER, BRIGHID MARIQUIT, BRIDGET and female clients. by professionals the significance of effective MCGOVERN, EMILY MECI, KATHRYN MICHALEK, ______communication for academic success. Today, many BRIDGET MISKELL, KAITLYN RAFFE, CALLI RAINES, 89 • A Look Inside the Injured Brain: school administrators and policy makers believe APRIL RUIZ, BRIANNA SERGIO, BRYNNE STURGE, Differences in Traumatic and that it is "too late" to deliver effective services to ASHLEY THORNTON, AXITA VORA adolescents with language disorders. Although early FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV, Acquired Brain Injuries intervention is extremely important to overcoming COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES CAROLYN MAHON, STEPHANIE HALVAX, language disorders, many children continue to Students will display the brochures they have made ELIZABETH RYAN, MEGAN OLSCAMP express communication difficulties during middle for families of children and adults with articulation FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, school and high school. Adolescents with language and phonological disorders: from dysarthria and COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES disorders have the right to speech-language services childhood apraxia to craniofacial syndromes, This presentation will place emphasis on the and should not be ignored because of their age. This hearing loss, and other causes. The students' main differences between an Acquired Brain Injury and a ignorance could contribute to adolescent behavioral focus in their research was on presenting Speech Traumatic Brain Injury across all populations. An and verbal liabilities as well as peer victimization. Language Therapy (including assessment) for people Acquired Brain Injury is defined as an injury to the Hopefully with the collaboration efforts of with these disorders and what families can do to brain as a result of a neurochemical change (airway university faculty, researchers, clinical supervisors, assist their loved ones in this process. Presenters obstruction) causing global damage. A Traumatic graduate students, and school-based SLPs, there will also display games, visual aids, and other Brain injury is defined as an injury that is a result of will be a way for SLPs to practice in later education assistive devices they created to go along with their a blunt force causing locational damage. There will a and show that it is not too late for adolescents with brochures. Everything presented is the students' focus on causes, location of damage, prognosis, language disorders to receive help. original work. symptoms, and intervention. ______83 • The Hearing Aid Effect 86 • Augmentative and Alternative 90 • Auditory Processing Disorder SYDNEY LUCE, NICOLE LEFEVER CASSIE GRILLO, ALYSSA CAVALLARI Communication FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, ALANNA EGAN, MOLLY ALLEN COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, The poster will describe what a child with an The term "Hearing Aid Effect" first appeared in a COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES study by Blood, Blood and Danhauer in 1977, Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) struggles with Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) as well as some characteristics of the disorder. looking at how people perceived others with is used by people with severe communication hearing aids. Throughout the years, this study has Viewers will learn what strategies to use during disabilities to assist them in expressing their therapy with clients with APD. been looked at and replicated in an effort to thoughts, needs and desires. These augmentative understand and interpret this effect. Its main ______aids improve the social interactions, school 91 • Autism Spectrum Disorder: purpose has been to understand and change the performance, work abilities and self-esteem of stigmatism that has accompanied hearing aids those whose speech is unintelligible. Augmentative Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment throughout the years. Since the original study, aids are diverse and can either be aided or unaided. DANI MANSI, NICOLE ZUPO different aspects have been researched and new Unaided communication includes an individual's FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, information has been revealed, shedding light on body using gestures, sign language and facial COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES the still-changing perception of hearing aids and movements. Aided communications is the primary Autism Spectrum Disorders are life-long hearing aid users in today's society . focus of our research on AAC and includes the use developmental disabilities often diagnosed prior to ______of external tools or equipment paired with the three years of age. ASD is characterized by 84 • Do You Hear What I Hear?: individual's bodies to assist them with impairments in social interactions, verbal and non- Cochlear Implants and Music communicating. We will discuss the varying types of verbal communication, and repetitive behaviors or STEPHANIE HABURA aided AAC and what disorders cause such a severe interests. The characteristics of Autism vary greatly FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, communication disability that they are needed. across the spectrum. Some children with Asperger's COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES ______Syndrome are high functioning, while there are Historically, cochlear implants have provided 87 • Behavioral Management: children on the other end of the spectrum who enormous benefits to individuals with a severe to exhibit more severe characteristics. The prevalence Elementary of Autism has increased greatly over the past profound sensorineural hearing loss. While there ALISON PETRY, ZOYLA AGOVINO-ROJAS have been tremendous strides in technology, one decade. It is now said to affect 1 in 110 children in FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, the United States. Due to this increasing area of area cochlear implant users are usually COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES disappointed with is music perception. Many need, there is a higher demand for Speech- We will be presenting a variety of strategies based Language intervention. different technologies have been produced in order on behavioral management in clinical and school to improve a user's ability to perceive all ______settings for children of the elementary ages during 92 • Autism Spectrum Disorders components of music such as pitch, timbre, rhythm speech-language therapy. 18

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ERIN BONTHRON FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, the fact that where they are prohibits them from FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES actually meeting with one another. Because this COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES There are many opportunities for employment difficulty exists, there is sometimes a breakdown of An overview of autism spectrum disorders including within the field of Speech- Language pathology. the specialized attention provided to the client. symptoms and possible treatment options. Speech Language Pathologists provide clinical But what if that could all change? What if a client ______services such as prevention and referral; screening; could receive services from anywhere? Now they 93 • Occupational Settings for assessment; early identification and treatment; can thanks to the increasingly popular use of Speech and Language Pathologists consultation; diagnosis; and documentation. telecommunication. Thanks to this technology, it is Clinicians address typical and atypical now easier to provide Speech-Language Pathology HEIDI ROBINSON, ABBY LONG communication in various areas. These areas services to those who, otherwise, wouldn't be able FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, include but are not limited to speech and sound to receive them due to various barriers. COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES production; resonance; voice; fluency; language; ______Our poster is designed to help show up and coming and cognition. Speech language pathologists SLP's, the variety of different occupational settings 100 • Cerebral Palsy provide clinical services in a wide variety of they have to choose from when selecting a job MARILYN YANG, LYDIA JEONG settings. These settings include public and private placement. These explanations will provide details FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, schools; early intervention settings such as such as salaries and hours as well as the pros and COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES preschools and day care centers; health care cons of each placement within the field. Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a non-progressive disorder of ______setting such as hospitals and rehabilitation the brain that leaves children with permanent 94 • The Relevance of Anthropology facilities; private practice setting; universities and motor impairment. There are numerous causes of research facilities; correctional institutions; and CP; some specific causes may be congenital or in Speech: A Linguist's Playground corporate and industrial settings. The role of the neonatal problems such as premature birth. There KAREN DINSE Speech language pathologist can vary depending on are currently no agreed-upon diagnostic criteria to FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, the practice setting. After receiving a degree in make the diagnosis of CP in individual children, COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES Communicative Disorders and Sciences, an making the observations of the child's The poster will outline/touch on how language individual is not limited to one specific professional developmental milestones much more important. shapes communication between two people, how setting. When a child is not meeting developmental language varies from region to region, country to ______milestones, has persistent primitive reflexes, or has country, etc. Language forms social identity and 97 • Speech Pathology and significant abnormalities in the elements of motor group membership, organizes cultural beliefs and Audiology: A Look into Your function, a diagnosis of CP can be made. Cerebral ideologies, and develops a common cultural Palsy can be classified into two categories of representation of natural and social worlds. Education extrapyramidal and spastic types. Seventy five Overall, my poster will show how language/speech KRISTEN SCHULTZ, ELIZABETH RYAN percent of children with CP will have a combination is at the basis of everything regardless of the FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, of these two classifications but this is geographical location; no matter what language is COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES underreported as well. There are currently no being spoken language, as a whole, serves a Relevant information regarding Speech Pathology known cures for CP however there are many bigger/mutual purpose. and Audiology with a focus on programs and treatment methods to cope with the symptoms of ______degrees ranging from undergraduate to the CP. 95 • Hippotherapy: Using Horses as doctorate level. Emphasis will be placed on ______coursework, testing, ASHA standards, job outtake 101 • Personal FM vs. Sound Field a Treatment Strategy and salaries within each level. KATHRYN MAKOWIEC, MURIEL PEETE ______Amplification Systems: Making an FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, 98 • Overview of Multiple Sclerosis Informed Decision About Assistive COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES LISA MARTINEZ, JAMIE SHARRATT, MARILYN Hippotherapy is speech-language, occupational, and Hearing Technology YANG, KELLY BERGIN physical therapy that utilizes equine movement as MARY-CLARE STOKES, LISA MARTINEZ FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, part of the intervention program. The movement of FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES the horse at a walk replicates the physical COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES Our presentation will focus on Multiple Sclerosis. It movement of walking, which increases trunk The purpose of our presentation is to inform, will include symptoms and classifications, strength, balance, posture, breath support, and compare and contrast the benefits of using either a treatment/therapy options, and the role of the motor planning. The implication of hippotherapy personal FM System or a Sound Field Amplification Speech- Language Pathologist. A brief overview of for speech-language pathologists is the movement System in a school setting. This presentation is multiple sclerosis and diagnostic procedures as well of the horse engages the systems that support intended for school officials and parents of school- as prognosis information will be provided. This speech and language. For occupational therapists, aged children with hearing difficulties who would presentation is intended to target Speech Language the horse's gate works on fine motor control and benefit from assistive hearing technology. The Pathologists, patients with multiple sclerosis, and sensory integration. For physical therapists, the presentation also is designed to raise awareness of family members and well as caregivers. populations who would benefit from assistive patient's motor needs can be incorporated into the ______movement of the horse to address skills such as hearing technology. walking, sitting, and standing. Hippotherapy 99 • Telespeech: Speech from a ______enables the patient, adult or child, to participate in Distance 102 • Technology and Therapy: A therapy that takes place outside of a typical clinic MACKENZIE FAHEY Look into New Resources Available setting. Hippotherapy provides a unique experience FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, for the patient and their family, combining COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES for Clinicians intervention with something as fun and relaxing as Speech-Language Pathology services are necessary MEGAN OLSCAMP, JORDAN OVSENIK being around horses. for many individuals and for many reasons. Some FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, ______of these populations may include the disabled, the COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES 96 • Job Opportunities Within the deaf, celebrities, and public speakers. Because With technology becoming a growing part of today's society, it is beginning to integrate itself into every Field of Communicate Disorders and Speech-Language Pathologists have such a broad spectrum of whom they help, finding environments aspect of life. Some may be scared by the new Sciences for their clients can sometimes be challenging. advances, but with knowledge and understanding of KATY PINKHAM, STEPHANIE HALVAX This could be due to the client's, or the SLP's, new technological resources, they can become a schedule with other aspects of their lives, or even great asset in therapy. We will demonstrate unique ways to use electronic tools, such as the iPad and 19

2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual other touch screen devices, Skype and the dementia even if those beliefs are false. The idea is Further research collected will explain the advances made with DynaVox, in therapy and to to agree with them but redirect their focus. The diameters, warning signs, characteristics, and administer therapy in a way never done before. controversy is that this is promoting lying and information regarding the evaluation and ______causes emotional harm to caregivers. However, it is assessment of Childhood Apraxia of Speech. 103 • The Integration of Speech - non- confrontational and the person with AD is Suggestions for parents who wish to be proactive in Language Therapy and Music never belittled. We will also cover basics such as their child's fight against Apraxia of Speech will also symptoms, treatments/supplements, warning signs, be discussed. Therapy for Children with stages, and risk factors. ______Communication Disorders ______110 • Ways to Use iPad Applications NATALIE ADILETTA 106 • "To Practice Any Art..." in Therapy FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, RUSSELL ALLEN, SEAN FUSTER TOMMIE POMEROY, KRISTINA WHELPLEY COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, Speech, language and music all share a common COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES goal: the communication of an individual with the American author Kurt Vonnegut once wrote, "To This poster presentation will contain information outside world. For some individuals, the medium of practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a on the iPads application in therapy, as well as it's music is a preferred and enjoyable method of way to make your soul grow. So do it." In this use as an augmentative communication expression and communication. By having a project, we will examine the positive effects (communication methods used to replace speech speech-language pathologist and music therapist involvement in the arts has on the developing or writing for those with impairments in the work in collaboration, therapy plans for particular speech and language skills of children. This may production or comprehension of spoken or written communication disorders can be created that will include studio art, music, and the performing arts language)device. engage and motivate a child that is naturally drawn for toddlers through adolescence. to music. ______SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ______107 • Advances in Communication 104 • Speech and Language Therapy Using a Dynavox 111 • KKIS: Keeping Kids In School MOLLY JONES, JONATHAN SCHILLACE, GRIFFIN SARAH FLANNERY, MELISSA MADARASZ Materials: Original Student Works MERVINE, DANIELLE CLARK, MICHAEL EISINGER, FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, NICOLE LEFEVER, TOMMIE POMEROY, KAITLYN ERICA GIORDANO, MATT ROMANOW, STEVE COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES RISBERG, ABBY LONG, KATHRYN KREIDLER, BENNETT, APRIL MEYER, JOSEPH CERIELLO, ABBY The Dynavox is a technological advancement that JAQUELYN BOSWORTH, ANNE FELDMAN, CASSIE LITTMAN, ALISON PAYNE, LEAH TINGLEY, CHELSEY has changed the lives of many people. We would GRILLO, ALEXIS MAZZEO, KATELYN MOOTZ, BARKER, ADAM REINEMANN like to shed light on why this advancement has KATHRYN MAKOWIEC, NICOLE KENNEY, FACULTY SPONSORS: JANE MORSE AND BRIAN become crucial in the field of communicative STEPHANIE HALVAX, RUSSELL ALLEN, STEPHANIE MORGAN, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION disorders. In our poster we will explore the ways in ABREU, NATALIE ADILETTA, ERIN BONTHRON, Keeping Kids in School [KKIS] evaluates the impact which the Dynavox assists with communication. We SYDNEY LUCE, DONALD MONACELLI, MURIEL of a two-week summer camp. A Saturday School will touch upon the various disorders that it can be PEETE, ELIZABETH RYAN, JAMIE SHARRATT, MARY- follows the summer camp. The Saturday School CLARE STOKES, ALEXANDRA WILLIAMS used for and how it is helpful. ______meets weekly during the semester for 10-12 FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, sessions. KKIS will compare the graduation rate of COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES 108 • Asperger Syndrome in Children campers to that of the district's students at large. In Displayed speech-language therapy materials were SARAH HEALY, MELANIE DOROSKI 2007 this rate was 39%; in 2008, the rate jumped to constructed by CDSc students in their first semester FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, 47%. In 2010, the graduation rate fell short of the of clinical experience for use with clients in the COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES goal of 53%, graduating only 46% of students. Geneseo Speech and Hearing Clinic. The materials Our poster will include a brief summary of what Graduation rates in the many US cities are below are highly individualized, based on each client's Asperger Syndrome is, how many children it 50%; the national rate hovers around 70%. Most speech and language goals and interests. Students affects, symptoms you may notice in your child, dropout research examines statistics. KKIS used these materials to motivate their clients during and ways of dealing with children with Aspergers. researchers ask the students what keeps them in therapy sessions and teach new communicative We will also include methods to help them cope in school. The participants experience many of the skills. The materials on display were used with the classroom or at home. This poster will offer a same risk factors, such as poverty, segregation, clients demonstrating articulation errors, language good insight to those who have not yet been inadequacy of school funding, which contribute delays and autism, but could easily be adapted for introduced to this disorder and how they can learn dropping out. KKIS is further examining the factors use with any population. more. that keep our participants in school and working to ______develop a method for analyzing coded interview 105 • Misconceptions and 109 • Childhood Apraxia of Speech data. Research shows that summer programs are Controversies of Alzheimer's Disease TARA GERVERA, KRISTIN DIDONATO effective in improving school success, but we have REBECCA REGINALD, NICOLE LEFEVER, KATELYN FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, found other factors emerging in the course of the MOOTZ, RENE LEHMAN COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES data analysis; these include agency, narratives of FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA HOUSE, Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a term used success, and school ideals. This year's poster will COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES cautiously in the field of Speech Language focus on access to college and college and career This presentation is aimed to raise awareness on Pathology due to the uncertainty of its etiology. It is readiness. Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Alzheimer's is progressive important to understand there is no known cause ______presenile dementia which first symptom is impaired for this condition and the possible causes are 112 • The Power of Physical Sciences memory. Alzheimer's is misconstrued at various admittedly theoretical. CAS is considered a motor disorder due to the poor coordination between the (POPS) Motion and Design Day levels. Memory loss is often associated with the ALEXANDRA YAUNEY, KYLE HUBBLE, RACHEL elderly, and is thought to be a normal part of aging. brain and facial muscles. Children diagnosed with Apraxia of Speech have a motor planning disorder KOSOFF, GINNY TATE This presentation will set apart myths from facts. FACULTY SPONSOR: KATIE ROMMEL-ESHAM, The central focus of this presentation is to educate in the absence of motor weakness. Motor planning is the determination of how the articulators will SCHOOL OF EDUCATION that AD is not a part of normal aging. This is done The Power of Physical Sciences (POPS) was designed through examples of early onset and highlights of transition from one posture to the next. This involves a fine tuned awareness of the current to encourage more girls to become interested in cases of people acquiring AD in their 40s and 50s. studying the physical sciences in high school and Another focus is validation therapy and the state and the desired future state of the articulators at any given moment, and a plan for college. The POPS Motion and Design Day, a one- controversial pros and cons. Validation therapy is day workshop affiliated with POPS, examined the validating beliefs of a person suffering from smoothly transitioning from one state to the next. 20

2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual effect that grouping has on middle-school girls' and strategies. We will also present what the results of elementary school students with regards to participation, engagement, science attitudes, and mean for teaching literacy. foreign languages. self-efficacy. The Motion and Design Day involved ______middle-school students from several rural school 116 • "Reading the Word-World" 119 • Exploring the Reading Process districts. The students were purposely placed into Through the Use of Children's and Through Miscue Analysis groups of three (all girls, mix of girls and boys, all MEGAN EISENBACHER, JENNA THEOFIELD, RACHEL boys). Students then took part in hands-on lessons Young Adult Literature KOSOFF, KATY GERBER, COURTNEY PAYNE focused on motion using K'NeX cars. This KYLE HUBBLE, JENNIFER DAVIS, HALAYNA FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIWANAG, SCHOOL OF intervention was based on science education IVERSON, CYNTHIA MORGAN EDUCATION research that indicates that 1) gender differences in FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIWANAG, SCHOOL OF This mini-inquiry, focuses on the reading process by, attitudes about science develop prior to the high EDUCATION utilizing miscue analysis strategy with 4th grade school years, 2) girls are more interested in careers This mini-inquiry research focuses on developing a students. Through a meaning-making lens, we will that benefit society, and 3) girls benefit from hands- list of children's and young adult literature is useful showcase students comprehending and on learning activities. to a classroom teacher. Using Freire's framework of comprehension process. Expected outcomes ______"reading the word-world," we examine how language and knowledge of the world are include a discussion of quality of miscues student's 113 • Who Owns Disability? level of comfort in students reading ability and ROBERT RUBSAM dynamically intertwined. By using several databases of literature and criteria such as Newberry Medal influence of the text. FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA WARE, SCHOOL OF ______and Caldecott Award winners to choose books we EDUCATION 120 • Using Multicultural and This poster will showcase various ways disability has have constructed a diverse list of titles. Expected traditionally been understood: Historically, outcomes include the a discussion of how to create International Literature to scientifically, culturally, through education, and with a booklist and use the book list as an outlet for Understand other Cultures students to explore the views and values of other a feminist perspective. There will be a discussion of MEGAN WHITEHURST, SINDY PARK, FELICIA each, mixing imagery and text. The goal of the cultures through literature. ______VANACORE, ALEXIS RYTEL, BRIANNE LYNCH, poster is to challenge how the audience views AMELIA HOLDING disability, and to question their assumptions about 117 • Pre-Service Teachers Using Eye FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIWANAG, SCHOOL OF it. It is intended to both engage and inform those Movement Miscue Analysis (EMMA) EDUCATION that see it. We will be covering the so-called Ugly to Examine the Literacy Process As pre-service teachers, we have composed a list of Laws, scientific portraits, and how disability is multicultural and international literature works that taught and 'handled' in schools. LAUREN FONTE, ROSE HENDERSON, JESSICA CARL, MARIAH MARIENFELD, NICOLE SWIFT can be used to encourage students' understanding ______of other cultures. This list is meant for teachers 114 • Meaning-Making through FACULTY SPONSORS: MARIA LIWANAG AND ANN MARIE LAURICELLA, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION working with students in grades kindergarten Multiple Modes of Learning This research focuses on using eye movement through sixth grade. We discuss our process for ALEAH MARCAITIS, EMILY MURPHY, CAITLIN miscue analysis (EMMA) as a research methodology compiling this list, including how we drew from SULLIVAN, MARY SHEEDY, MEGAN KNITTER to examine the complexities of the reading process. scholars Friere, Rosenblatt and Vygotsky to FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIWANAG, SCHOOL OF Using the ASL 504 eye- tracking machine, preservice formulate our specific criteria. We have annotated EDUCATION teachers, as novice researchers are immersed in the list with related themes and ways teachers can This mini-inquiry research investigates how tracking, plotting and analyzing readers' eye fixation use this literature to encourage critical thinking students make meaning through the use of patterns as they read various selections of print and skills. The result of this research is an easily multiple modals of learning. Using a case study multimodal texts. Through a constructivist lens of accessible listing of high-quality multicultural and approach, students in our study will be asked to learning, preservice teacher-researchers identified global literature that will enhance the learning physically draw (sketch) their meaning of a selected and gained insights into how proficient readers use environment of any classroom. ______instrumental song as it relates to them. After they various strategies such as correcting, inferring, and have completed their drawing, we will record their predicting to interpret and assign meaning 121 • A Survey of Pre-Service oral interpretation of their work. We will do this to encountered in a text. Implications about the nature Teachers' Perceptions of Basal triangulate our data on the ways students make of a text and how the various modes of meaning Reading Programs: Implications for meaning through other forms of creative embedded in a text influence meaning construction expression other than writing. Using Gardner's are also presented. Teaching Literacy research on multiple intelligences, Bruner's ______NICOLE ZITO, HANNAH-RUTH CIVITA, CAITLYN constructivist theory of learning, and Harste's 118 • Exploring Curricular DOWELL, MEGHAN GOSLINE, ANNIE O'NEILL research on multimodality, we hope to find FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIWANAG, SCHOOL OF information that would support more integration of Development in Foreign Language EDUCATION artistic forms of creative expression in the Learning This mini-inquiry research project reports on a elementary classroom curriculum. MARISA SHUMAN survey of pre-service teachers' perceptions of basal ______FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIWANAG, SCHOOL OF reading programs. We selected texts from the 115 • Understanding the Reading EDUCATION Scott-Foresman and Houghton Mifflin basal reading Process Through Miscue Analysis: This study reports on the development and design series for use with second grade students and of a curricular program for teaching foreign compared two stories from each basal with the Lessons from Reading with Bob languages to elementary students, through which original text. Participants of the survey evaluate CHRISTINA MARCONI, HANNAH HUNTER, the concepts of foreign language teaching and the selected texts based on a set of criteria. Results MATTHEW SOLIMANO, KATHRYN DROZDIEL, bilingual education will be explored. Focus of the of the survey as well as a discussion of what the BRITTANY BOEHM curriculum is on using authentic children's survey means in teaching literacy is presented. FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIWANAG, SCHOOL OF literature to teach the target language. Research ______EDUCATION has shown that second language acquisition is 122 • Journey to an Intellectual Life This mini-inquiry study focuses on using miscue better supported if there is comprehensible input Through Use of Authentic and analysis to understand a second grader's reading (Krashen, 2009) for the student. For example strategies. By using miscue analysis as a framework, Spanish/English and French/English picture books Diverse Literature in the Elementary we seek to understand how readers like Bob make will be utilized to teach Spanish and French to Classroom sense of a text. Expected outcomes include a Grades 1-5 students. As a result, we are able to STEPHANIE BERLAND, STEPHANIE TOTH, KAITLYN discussion of our participant's reading processes learn about the understanding and learning process MAMAY, ELISE MURREL 21

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FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIWANAG, SCHOOL OF ______of rural communities showing stable or growing EDUCATION 126 • Olympic Running, populations. GIS analysis of data from the 2010 U.S. This mini-inquiry research involves reviewing a Performance, and Evolving National Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics is used to series of books that focuses on cultures around the identify these communities and interpret the factors world. These books will be incorporated into the Stereotypes underlying their resilience. Changing age curriculum and used to teach grades 4-6 about EMILY DOUGHERTY distributions, economic and educational indicators, various cultures, in hopes of providing them with FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY and proximity to urban centers or transportation perspective concerning the diversity they may This research looks at the progression of performance arteries are considered. In many communities, major encounter amongst their peers inside and outside in the marathon and the 100 meter dash. We institutions such as universities, prisons, or factories of the classroom. Using Vygotsky as framework for document the decrease to improvement in race are sources of economic and social vitality. In other developing a list of diverse books, we discussed how performance. Four phases appear to have changed instances, however, community resilience is a more "children would grow into the intellectual life international competition since the Olympics began. challenging phenomenon to interpret. around them," (Atwell, 2007) and we need to make The first phase was dominated by privileged, often ______sure that our students receive the appropriate resolutely amateur, Western runners. The second 130 • Ice Internationalization of information to help them grow along their journey. phase consolidated national competition, pride, and SUNYAC, D III Men's Hockey, 1999- ______support. In the third phase Developing World 123 • WITHDRAWN The Paradox of runners emerged as potential medalists. Kenya and 2012 Ethiopia became known as strong marathon STEFAN DECOSSE Christian Conservatism contenders, while Jamaican runners competed FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID ROBERTSON, MATTHEW HARRIS, PAUL MUNIZ successfully in the 100 m dash. Today, in the fourth GEOGRAPHY FACULTY SPONSOR: PHIL NATOLI, SCHOOL OF phase, even poor countries are willing to invest in The purpose of this study is to explore the EDUCATION improving runner performance as a symbol of internationalization of State University of New York Students will produce a poster to demonstrate the national prestige. Whatever physiological "edge" Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) ice hockey. Place of results of a paper produced during a collaborative may have underscored early successes is now birth and previous team data are compiled and interdepartmental directed study. The poster will supplemented or even replaced by an exacting and statistically and spatially analyzed to illustrate examine inconsistencies found between the professional training regimen. emerging trends between the 1999-2000 and 2011- political behavior and ideological commitments of ______2012 seasons. SUNYAC team standings are also individuals that identify as Christian Conservatives 127 • Chinese Urban System Growth: analyzed to investigate whether a relationship exist in America. between internationalization and team success. The Emerging Tiers Place of birth data illustrates country origins of RYAN POWELL ENGLISH players in the SUNYAC but previous team data FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY illustrates the fundamental reason for SUNYACs 124 • Criticism Without Borders: At the start of the 1980s, a period of reform started internationalization. There is a lack of scholarly and a period of immense growth for China. China's Visual Essays on Poetry, Prose, and popular literature concerning the internationalization urban population skyrocketed, with some cities Drama and recruitment patterns not only of the SUNYAC, growing by more than 2000% during the period of GABRIELLE CAMPANELLA but all NCAA men's ice hockey leagues. Athletic growth. Data for the years between 1950-2025 FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL SCHACHT, ENGLISH organizations, both professional and amateur, will were used graph the change in the urban system My poster includes images and descriptions of a benefit from applying the methodologies developed that occurred due to the growth. The graph shows series of drawings I created based on my in this study, methods that are also applicable to the creation of a tiered urban system, drawing interpretations of various readings from English other realms of life. Businesses, colleges, and other special attention to the growth in the emerging 170. Each sketch is what I call a "visual essay," organizations engaged in recruiting activities could second and third tiers. These new tiers demonstrate giving my thoughts on the reading(s), and is potentially apply this studies methodologies to a change in the urban hierarchy of China. The urban supplemented by a written explanation on the make recruitment policies more efficient and centers are no longer exclusive to the coastal areas, poster as well. The goal of this project was not only effective. but now inland cities have some of the largest to creatively analyze literature, but to show that a ______populations. The growth of cities away from the formal essay is not the sole option for people to coast, as well as away from the long-standing urban 131 • Historical Geography of the express their interpretations of literature. centers of Shanghai and Beijing mark a pivotal American Circus: Analysis of Golden change in China's urban history. Age Itinerant Entertainment GEOGRAPHY ______TOBIAS SCOTT-KILLIAN 125 • Mapping Potential 128 • Paraphilia in India FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID ROBERTSON, Hydrofracking Impacts on the SAMANTHA LANDAU GEOGRAPHY FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY Genesee River Basin, NY This study analyzes historical itinerant routes of the The population size, internet usage, income per American circus during its Golden Age. Route BENJAMIN WUNDER capita and literacy rate of the various Indian information is acquired from the Circus Historical FACULTY SPONSOR: COLLEEN GARRITY, provinces are examined and how they effect the Society: Circus Route Library, which draws from GEOGRAPHY FetLife usage in each province. 19th century route books and other primary This project examined the potential environmental ______sources. Two circuses, 'Ringling Brothers' and impacts that hydrofracking would have on the 129 • Communities of Resilience: 'Barnum and Bailey' are analyzed. Historical Genesee River Basin. The primary focus analyzed information related to transportation and the impact on the environment caused by the Population Stability in Rural population is used to interpret circus route scale, drilling based on expected spacing interval and area Communities of New York State scope, and confluence, in the year 1890. As well a of affected land, including both cleared land and KEVIN CONTINO case study of the Ohioan circus confluence is habitat impact. Other impacts that were examined FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVE ROBERTSON, displayed for the year 1890. The circus routes are include potential impacts to roads, potential for GEOGRAPHY brought into a historical GIS for analysis. As a noise pollution, and potential for methane Rural depopulation is a well-documented paramount form of late 19th century itinerant intrusion into private water wells. By examining phenomenon in the United States. Less well studied entertainment, few studies have examined the and mapping these variables geographically, are instances of rural population stability. This study geography of the "Greatest Show on Earth." The community impacts can be better analyzed and examines recent population change in non- introduction of the railroad into circus travel had represented. metropolitan New York State with the goal of recently expanded range over a season; analyzing identifying socioeconomic and cultural characteristics

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2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual the American Circus at this time of technological vacant lots which litter the city's streets. Buffalo analyzes specific legislation and ordinances that are revolution is a fertile topic. pre- suburbanization was the home of thriving already in effect or are being proposed by these ______densely populated neighborhoods where residents communities, as well as their effects on the 132 • Emerald Ash Borer: Patterns of lived sustainable lives in terms of low dependence communities. The goal of our analysis is to assist the an Invasive Species Across the on the automobile. People lived within walking Ocracoke Advisory Planning Board in finding distance of everything they needed. These systems solutions that work for Ocracoke. Landscape faded away along with the people and the sense of ______KEVIN BRONSON neighborhood. Buffalo neighborhoods, particularly 137 • A Study of Travel Trailer FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES KERNAN, GEOGRAPHY on the East Side, have been drastically transformed Ordinances for Ocracoke, North The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) is an into areas of blight and urban decay in a matter of invasive species that is spreading at a rapid pace 50 years. Population decline persists today and Carolina across the Great Lakes and Mid- Atlantic States with there has been little action by the government to STEVEN LUBRANO, JORDAN POTTER, KEVIN little sign of slowing. It is important to fully prevent further decay of these neighborhoods CONTINO, REGINA CONNELLY understand the spatial patterns of the invasion to other than demolition of abandoned houses. FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, make informed management decisions. The ______GEOGRAPHY movement of this insect is aided by human activity, 135 • Ocracoke, North Carolina: An Ocracoke is a formerly isolated small island as evident from past research, but in this work a community in North Carolina, which, in recent closer look was taken at potential human dispersal Exercise in Land Use Regulation and years, has experienced an unprecedented influx of vectors. After collecting infestation data (initial Zoning Enforcement tourism. As a result of the associated rapid infestation dates gathered from web, media, and IAN MACPHERSON, JANE RAFFALDI, PATRICK economic growth, many residents have chosen to personal contact) and mapping the movement of LYNCH, LUKE JOHNSON live in travel trailers when faced with the rising EAB, patterns were analyzed in a GIS. EAB is often FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, costs of traditional homeownership. While there is found in counties that are within five miles of a major GEOGRAPHY an existing Development Ordinance, the Ocracoke highway or have highways directly intersecting the Ocracoke is a remote island town located on the Advisory Planning Board is interested in alternative county, near clusters of recreational areas, and in Outer Banks of North Carolina. Founded as a measures adopted by other communities, and most large urban centers where human populations are shipping pilot town in colonial times, it also became importantly how these measures are enforced. high. Emphasizing EAB dispersal in New York State, a pirate haven, and in recent years it has grown Their primary concerns are about health, safety, maps were generated to recreate the spatial- significantly, with tourism becoming its main water & sanitation, and property setbacks of these temporal advance of EAB at a county scale. A better economy. This rapid expansion as a tourist and travel trailers. To address these concerns, we have understanding of the progression of the invasion retirement destination has put stress on the researched communities of similar size and may make it possible to plan for EAB, and help to existing infrastructure of the village, and possible composition to Ocracoke. Communities with slow the spread. solutions are being inhibited by a lack of cohesive, comparable historical, economic, and geographical ______and enforceable, zoning and land use regulation on features, particularly a strong tourism industry, 133 • Students on the Water - the island. Using case studies of surrounding towns have been selected for case studies. Using Houseboats in Groningen to identify means and methods to improve zoning municipal code databases, such as municode, we regulation, our group is assisting the village of can examine the ordinances implemented by these DANIEL SOLOW, SHANNON CULLIGAN Ocracoke's Advisory Planning Board to help communities and identify popularly employed FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, manage its growth while maintaining its historical measures that could work well for Ocracoke. Upon GEOGRAPHY character. Through analysis of other communities' completion of our research we expect to analyze a The project addressed the viability of student land use regulations and enforcement, our research breadth of in-depth case studies, to provide houseboat living in Groningen, The Netherlands. will aid the Board as it revises the Ocracoke comprehensive recommendations to the Ocracoke The aim was to evaluate if college students and the Development Ordinance. Advisory Planning Board. current houseboat population would desire the ______prospect of students living in the canals. Our stimulus for the project is the short housing stock 136 • Ocracoke Planning Analysis for GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES and housing pressures in Groningen. Unlike Pop-Up Businesses 138 • The Response of Standish Slag American cities, Groningen is a compact city with SHANNON CULLIGAN, MILES SHADMAN, to Acidic Solutions stringent planning regulations and makes JONATHAN BIBER, ROBERT SEMLER, JESSE ELLIS BAEHR development a challenge. Canals and houseboats RABINOWITZ FACULTY SPONSORS: AMY SHELDON AND DORI run through the city so the canal network is the FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES proposed solution. For our data we distributed 202 GEOGRAPHY The objective of this study is to determine how the student (International and Dutch) surveys and 40 Ocracoke is a small island community on the Outer physical and chemical properties of slag change in houseboat resident surveys. Our results indicated Banks, off the eastern coast of North Carolina. Due response to exposure to an acidic solution, such as that Dutch students were largely opposed to the to a rapid increase of populations, especially in acid rain in the Adirondack Mountains. Slag idea while International students were mainly tourism, Ocracokers are noticing several problems samples from Standish, New York were powdered excited for the idea. Additionally houseboat that they have not been able to predict. One of and sieved using an 80 mesh sieve size to residents did not mind students entering the canal these problems includes the emergence of homogenize the slag sample. Ten gram samples neighborhood. This empirical presents a creative unregulated businesses that residents and business were exposed to 100 mL, 200 mL, 500 mL, and 1000 initiative to help address the housing pressures in owners are setting up on their own property to sell mL of 2.0 pH solution of hydrochloric acid. After the Groningen. commodities, primarily to tourists. The people of one hour of exposure, the pH of each solution was ______Ocracoke are very concerned with these "pop-up as follows: pH 11.15 for 100 mL, pH 10.86 for 200 businesses" or "kiosks." Concerns include: waste 134 • Can Sustainability Features mL, pH 10.31 for 500 mL, and pH 9.81 for 1000 mL. management; how these businesses change the Revitalize Buffalo Neighborhoods? Extrapolation of the relationship between the mass look of the community; whether or not these DREW ROGERS to volume ratio and pH suggests a significant long- businesses are paying sales tax; and if the location FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER ROGALSKY, term buffering capacity of the Standish slag to acid of these "pop-ups" creates a serious safety risk. Our GEOGRAPHY rain. Samples will be analyzed by x-ray fluorescence group intends to help the Ocracoke Advisory The city of Buffalo has been severely damaged by spectroscopy to determine elemental changes upon Planning Board address these issues by researching the massive migration of people to the suburbs and exposure to the acidic solutions. The results of this case studies of communities experiencing similar the declining number of industrial jobs. Like many study will provide insight as to the environmental issues, and examining how these communities are other Rust Belt cities, Buffalo now has an impact of the Standish slag in response to the acid attempting to solve these problems. Our research overwhelming number of abandoned houses and rain in the Adirondack Mountains 23

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______FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, GEOLOGICAL ______139 • Geneseo Storm Drain Water SCIENCES 143 • Slag Effect on Soil pH at an Quality When choosing moraine boulders to sample for Abandoned Iron Factory in Ironville, cosmogenic exposure dating, a traditional approach ELLIS BAEHR, KRISTINA NELSON, CHRISTOPHER involves preferential sampling of tall boulders. This NY WAID is based on the assumption that tall boulders are HALEY GALLO, BETHANY MALENICK FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL more likely than shorter ones to have experienced FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES constant exposure. Surface cover of moraine SCIENCES The objective of this study is to provide an boulders decreases the production of cosmogenic Smelting factories mine metals from their metal indication of the water quality exiting Geneseo isotopes in surface material and would result in ores and are located all over the world. A residual Village storm drains. Water samples were collected exposure ages younger than the actual moraine called slag is often left behind as a result of this from four drain locations around the Village of age. Here we test the assumption that taller process and will remain in the area long after the Geneseo during October, 2011; two of these drains boulders yield older exposure ages than younger factory is gone. Slag can affect the surrounding were located near Riverside Drive, one near Seneca boulders by exploring a large dataset of exposure environment through the alteration of water and Avenue, and the other was near Park Street close to ages and moraine boulder heights. Among these, soil chemistry. Areas that are in direct contact with the athletic center. Samples were sent to Columbia few datasets demonstrate that taller boulders yield slag often show a noticeable change in pH. An Analytical Services, Inc. in Rochester and analyzed exposure ages closest to the actual moraine age. A abandoned iron furnace located in Ironville, NY was for nitrates, pesticides, and non-polar oils and linear regression analysis reveals that short surveyed and soil samples were taken from the greases. Nitrate values of 1.5 mg/L were measured boulders yield exposure ages that are not surrounding area. The samples from within a small in the more upstream Riverside location and 4.0 statistically different than tall boulders exposure radius of the site produced a much higher pH than mg/L at the Seneca Avenue location. These were ages. These results indicate that taller boulders on those of the background soils from the area. A the only significant results reported; however these moraines will not necessarily yield more accurate series of maps were created from the data and values are not of serious concern as the EPA exposure ages than shorter boulders. This finding is display that slag does affect the environmental maximum contaminant level is 10 mg/L. Another similar to that of Briner (2009), who found state of an area. set of samples will be collected and analyzed this indistinguishable exposure ages of pebbles and ______spring. While the two sampled dates (one fall, one boulders atop Pleistocene moraines in Colorado. 144 • Tentaculites and the Frasnian- spring) provide an indication of the quality of water Despite the similarity of these findings, the question entering the river, they each represent only a brief Famennian Extinction Event(s) of whether they are evidence of geomorphically period of time. Continuous monitoring would be BETHANY MALENICK stable moraine crests or significant degradation of required to fully characterize the quality of water FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL moraine crests needs further consideration. SCIENCES discharging into the river. ______The Frasnian-Famennian Boundary marks an 140 • Glacial Geochronology and 142 • Precambrian Geology of extinction event that is considered one of the 'big 5' extinction events of geological time. Many marine Paleoclimate Reconstruction in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) and taxonomic groups have a reduction in diversity Northern Montana, Glacier National Surrounding Areas: Plutonic Rocks of along with a changing of habitat. An analysis of Park the Slough Creek Area tentaculites from the Upper Devonian show a BRENDON QUIRK decline in the tentaculites fauna up to the Frasnian- ALISA KOTASH Famennian Boundary extinction event, which only FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, GEOLOGICAL FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES the Order Homoctenida survives. Samples from SCIENCES Michigan and New York indicate a shift in species Mountain glaciers are highly sensitive to changes in Precambrian plutonic rocks of the Slough Creek area climate and provide valuable geologic records of dominance from the Frasnian to the Famennian. in northern Yellowstone National Park are composed The dominance of the Order Homoctenida into the past climate change in the northern Rocky of several different lithologies that range in Mountains of Montana. A valley glacier occupied Famennian suggests that this order of tentaculite composition, grade of metamorphism, structural has some adaptation which allowed them to the Cut Bank Creek valley on the eastern flank of style, and magmatic activity. This indicates a distinct the Lewis Range during the Last Glacial Maximum. tolerate the changing climate and environment. evolutionary history of felsic plutons in this region. ______The ice extended 8.5 km beyond the mountain front Samples collected in 2011 from the 2.8 Ga 145 • No Decline in Ostracode to form a piedmont lobe, depositing terminal and Hellroaring and Crevice granitic plutons located to recessional moraines. Due to land access issues, the the west of Slough Creek, have similar relationships Predation by Gastropods Across the timing of the Last Glacial Maximum in this region is between each other but differ in mineralogy, rock Pliocene-Pleistocene Boundary, poorly understood. Sandstone and quartzite type, and field relations from samples collected in boulders, deposited at the crests of the moraines by the Beartooth Mountains, located to the northeast Southeastern North Carolina the glacier, provide excellent targets for cosmogenic of Slough Creek. The purpose of this study is to ERIKA DANIELSEN, AMY GROGAN, AGNES LINK- 10Be surface exposure dating. Nine boulders were determine the emplacement history of the three- HARRINGTON, THOMAS MACKOWIAK, ANTHONY sampled from these moraines and processed to felsic plutons in the Slough Creek area using PIVARUNAS, KATHERINE TUSKES, CAROLYN beryllium oxides for analysis by accelerator mass mineralogical and geochemical techniques. GORMAN, HTAT WIN MAUNG KAUNG, KIMBERLY spectrometry at Purdue University's PRIME Lab. Petrographic analysis of the Hellroaring pluton LOTITO, JAMES KRUEGLER, SIMON NASH, Paleoclimate reconstruction was completed by reveals mineralogy of plagioclase (19-51%), quartz BENJAMIN TANCHYK, ZACKERY WISTORT, AMBER modeling the extent of the glacier (based on (15-48%), K-feldspar (1-50%), biotite (1-18%), ± LOUNSBERRY, DANIEL MISERENDINO geomorphic mapping) and application of numerical hornblende (0-13%), and epidote (0-3%). Titanite FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL modeling of mass balance and ice flow to constrain and allanite exist as potentially dateable accessory SCIENCES precipitation and temperature during the Last minerals. Hornblende is locally partially replaced by The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary in the Atlantic Glacial Maximum. Results of these two experiments biotite and epidote. Titanite is relatively common, Coastal Plain is characterized by a significant are discussed in the context of glacial chronologies reaching 4mm in diameter. Quartz is recrystallized extinction of mollusks, including a decrease in from elsewhere in the northern Rocky Mountains. showing undulose extinction and subgrain predatory gastropods that feed on clams by boring ______boundary development. Deformation twinning is through the shell. It would be expected to find 141 • Testing the Relationship of present in plagioclase and myrmekite formation. fewer drilled ostracodes, a small bivalved Height and Cosmogenic Exposure crustacean known to be preyed upon by juvenile predatory gastropods that feed on clams, in Age of Moraine Boulders Pleistocene strata - our test hypothesis. Ostracodes

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North Carolina, one in the late Pliocene (3.0 Ma) FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL demagnetization of samples from the sill yielded two Duplin Formation and two in the lower Pleistocene SCIENCES or three component remnant magnetization signals (2.5-1.9 Ma) Waccamaw Formation to determine if The upper New Albany Shale of the Illinois Basin, in almost all samples. Four of seven sites analyzed there was a change in predation on ostracodes as southern Indiana, consists of the Jacobs Chapel, yield remnant magnetization orientations consistent indicated by the presence of bore holes. 300 + Henryville and Falling Run beds. Conodonts, the with the stable North American reference pole for specimens of ostracodes were identified and the phosphatic, tooth-like remains of eel-like organisms, the intrusion age (33-23 Ma). This suggests the sill number of bored specimens tallied. In the Duplin are abundant and diverse in several concentrated was emplaced in its present orientation - i.e. the sill Formation at Natural Well; two valves show horizons. The mixed fauna found in each level, was intruded while the surrounding sedimentary unequivocal borings; 1.9% of the valves had consisting of Devonian and Carboniferous strata were already inclined due to an underlying evidence of gastropod predation. In the Waccamaw conodonts suggests the erosion of Devonian strat laccolith. Our results contrast with the conclusions of formation, 1.1% of valves were bored in one locality and reworking of Devonian fossils into the earlier work by other authors on a distinct but and 2.7% at the other. Across the Pliocene- Carboniferous of the upper New Albany Shale. nearby intrusive center. On the Mount Hillers Pleistocene boundary, assuming the same Conodonts found in the Jacobs Chapel Bed indicate intrusive center, paleomagnetic analysis of marginal depositional setting, there is a decrease in that it was deposited in the Lower Carboniferous sills suggested the sills were intruded and cooled ostracode diversity, but no significant change in Lower crenulata Zone. Three conodont-rich while host rock strata were still horizontal. These predation as indicated by the relative number of horizons below the Jacobs-Henryville contact differing results suggest a complex construction bore holes produced by juvenile gastropods. contain Siphonodella cooperi an indication f the history for the Henry Mountain laccoliths. ______Upper duplicate Zone. The Devonian-Carboniferous 146 • Geologic Map of Indian Fort, Boundary is projected to be in the upper part of the GEOPHYSICS Clegg Creek Member, below the Falling Run Bed. Geneseo, NY ______151 • Relative Age Dating of Sills and PATRICIA GREGORY Satellite Intrusions from FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL 149 • Weathering Rims Found on SCIENCES Chemically Altered Hornblendes Paleomagnetic Data, Mt Hillers, The Indian Fort Reserve, recently acquired by the Within Granites from the Henry Henry Mountains, UT Genesee Valley Nature Conservancy, is located 3.5 Mountains DOMINICK CIRUZZI, MATT FARRELL km (2 miles) south of Geneseo, New York. The FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOPHYSICS ALBERT KIM bedrock geology and the glacial deposits of this The laccoliths of the Henry Mountains in south FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL unique area were assessed and mapped in ArcGIS central Utah provide an ideal place to study the SCIENCES as distinct "layers" that show the stratigraphy: emplacement history of igneous intrusions This project investigates an irregularity in Middle and Upper Devonian Windom shale, the constructed from multiple magma pulses. We paleomagnetism data from a portion of the Henry Penn Yan shale, the Geneseo shale, and the analyzed paleomagnetic data to study the Mountains, Utah. Seven sites were drilled from a Genundewa Limestone, which holds up the construction of the Mt. Hillers intrusive complex. fairly small area from the Henry Mountains to find waterfall. The glacial deposits consist of a till Alternating field demagnetization of samples the orientation of the dipole of that area. But two veneer where there is an exposure near the base of yielded two or three component natural remnant out of the seven cores showed data that were the largest gully. Using no more than a contour magnetization signals in almost all samples. The scattered and not like the others. There were three map, an altimeter, and a measuring tape, the high coercivity component of individual cores at possible explanations for this irregularity: a lightning points of change in bedrock were determined and a each site was consistently oriented at most sites strike, thermal alteration from near-by magma cross-section produced. Although smaller scale (α95 < 5°). We recognize five categories of pulses, and chemical alteration due to weathering. geologic maps have been made of this area, a more intrusions based on the paleomagnetic results and Using the scanning electron microscope (SEM) was detailed and precise map will benefit visitors that the orientation of bedding in the nearby the first step at looking for irregularities within the desire to learn more about what is underneath sedimentary rocks: (1) emplacement into horizontal rock minerals. Fortunately, the SEM found evidence their feet. country rock followed by tilting; (2) emplacement of chemical alteration/weathering. After carbon ______into tilted country rock followed by further tilting; coating the rock sample and looking at them under 147 • Chemical and Mineralogical (3) emplacement into tilted country rock followed the SEM, weathering rims were found on the by vertical axis rotation; (4) emplacement into Analysis of Middle Proterozoic hornblendes in almost all the rock sample, except for horizontal country rock followed by inclined axis two, suggesting that the minerals were chemically Graphitic Calcitic and Dolomitic rotation (i.e. horizontal and vertical axis rotation); weathered with the rims as evidence of chemical Marble from the Eastern and (5) emplacement into dipping country rock alteration. Since a majority of the samples have followed by inclined axis rotation. The categories Adirondacks, NY hornblendes with weathering rims, we hypothesize listed above are placed in order of increasing RACHEL MCGEE that the degree or abundance of weathering rims complexity of their structural history. We FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL plays an essential part in determining if the dipole hypothesize that those units with the most SCIENCES within in the iron bearing minerals has been altered. complex histories are the oldest, while younger A sample of calcitic and dolomitic marble from the ______Grenville Marble Member of the Grenville Series 150 • Paleomagnetic Insight into the units have progressively more straightforward was collected from talus within a cave in Horicon, structural histories.

Warren County, New York. This unit is similar to the Construction of the Buckhorn Ridge nearby Grenville marbles found throughout the Sill, Henry Mountains, UT LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES Adirondacks, especially in the area surrounding ASHLEY SWEDE-GRAKOWSKY 152 • Neologism, a Quest for Identity Ticonderoga. These marbles were formed during FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL the Grenville orogeny, between 1.2 and 1.0 Ga, SCIENCES and Liberation in Black Africa and which metamorphosed carbonaceous Precambrian The Henry Mountains located in Utah provide an the Caribbean limestone. Ticonderoga and other localities in the ideal place to study the emplacement history of CLADIA PLANTIN, DAISY LUMA-HADDISON Adirondacks are known numerous economic igneous intrusions. The country rock originally FACULTY SPONSOR: KODJO ADABRA, LANGUAGE graphite deposits. consisted of nearly horizontal Mesozoic sedimentary AND LITERATURES ______strata that have been tectonically inactive before and In the early 20th century, a sense of euphoria swept 148 • Conodonts in the Upper New after emplacement. We analyzed paleomagnetic over the African continent as it witnessed one country Albany Shale, Southern Indiana data to study the construction of the Buckhorn Ridge after another experiencing political freedom. As many Sill, a 40-m-thick intrusion that is part of the larger African states struggled to reinvigorate abiding SCOTT EVANS Mount Holmes intrusive center. Presently, this sill subservient cultures and societies, an arresting dips approximately 19 N. Alternating field impulse towards African identity emerged as an 25

2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual expression of revolt against colonialism and its equipment used), and the results including the light CORY YOUNG, BRANDON DEFILIPPIS, JACOB dominant role in the African Diaspora. With the curve. FALLICA continent in transition, neologism became an ______FACULTY SPONSORS: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & important factor in the rediscovery of a true African 155 • The Father of Modern ASTRONOMY AND JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY identity. The voices of scholars and Leaders that were Chemistry: Antoine Lavoisier and the Benjamin Franklin was gifted with an exemplary united in the fight led to one of the greatest mind; his innate curiosity combined with a Puritan movements in favor of a united Africa: Pan Disproval of the Phlogiston Theory upbringing by his father sparked in him an Africanism. This neology became a substantial BENJAMIN PETERSON, ANDREW NICHOLSON, JULIE insatiable drive to improve not only himself, but ideology with multiple currents and played a COOK the lives of others. To him, science was always significant role in the emergence of newer FACULTY SPONSORS: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & more than an intellectual pursuit, but also a tool to movements/revolutions. Pan Africanism encompasses ASTRONOMY AND JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY be used for the advancement of humanity as a various aspects of everyday life such as language and During the era of the French Revolution, major whole. His investigations into house fires led to the culture, while also reaching broader topics such as advancements were made in chemistry by an creation of the first volunteer fire department, and racism and political structures. While Pan Africanism important French scientist, Antoine Lavoisier. further inquiries into electricity culminated with is an important example of the power of neology to Lavoisier (1743-1794), considered the father of the invention of the lightning rod. He unite a people, this poster will illustrate how modern chemistry, was responsible for discrediting demonstrated that the static electricity on earth neologism has produced several equally influential the phlogiston theory, a once widely accepted was a result of the same phenomenon that created movements in Black Africa and the Caribbean, such as theory of combustion. Through his various lightning in the heavens. Furthermore, he made a Negritude,Tigritude, Créolité, Rasta, etc. quantitative experiments, he disproved this significant impact on the study of electrostatics as a rudimentary theory and in doing so, discovered the whole by being the first to postulate that electricity PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY role oxygen plays in oxidation and combustion. At was one "electric fluid" (rather than two separate the time, British scientists, including Joseph ones) which could exist in either excess or deficient 153 • Measuring Super Mirror Priestley, Henry Cavendish, and Joseph Black, quantities. Franklin was eventually inducted into Reflectivity at He-Ne Laser supported the phlogiston theory, and Lavoisier's the Royal Society due to his revelations regarding Wavelength work drew him into conflict with his British electricity (among other fields), showing that a man colleagues. The politics of this intellectual exchange ALEXANDER VAN SLYKE of humble beginnings could secure his place in the are significant. Not only did the scientists on both FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE MARCUS, PHYSICS & history of physical science. sides of the Channel have to deal with issues such ______ASTRONOMY as funding and differing stances on religion and The purpose of this study was to discover the 158 • Optimization of Neutron natural philosophy, but the political conflict reflectivity of cavity ring-down super mirrors for between Britain and France in this period made Activation of Carbon at the NIF use in ascertaining scattering properties of collaboration and productive intellectual exchange DANAE POLSIN, MEGAN RUSS atmospheric particles. The reflectivity of the very difficult. This was also true in a French-only FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & mirrors must be known over the range of context, as Lavoisier's involvement in politics led to ASTRONOMY wavelengths that will be used in further his condemnation and death at the hands of the To determine the ρR of ignition scale targets at the atmospheric scattering studies. A He-Ne laser beam guillotine during the French Revolution. NIF, a carbon activation diagnostic is being was coupled with a sealed optical cavity filled with ______developed to measure tertiary neutron yield. It has filtered and dehumidified air. The time required for 156 • Analysis of Energy Distribution been shown theoretically that the ratio of the the signal at an optical detector at the far side of tertiary yield to the primary yield is directly related the cavity to decay after laser deactivation was Throughout Magmacore Ceramic to rhoR and is nearly independent of hot-spot then measured and the reflectivity was calculated Armor electron temperature. Due to carbon's 20.3 MeV from this time. A threshold trigger pulse generator BRIAN ALEXANDER, CHAD PIERCE reaction threshold, it is insensitive to 14.7 MeV was built for use with this system to enable rapid FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & primary neutrons which are measured by other (<100 ns) laser deactivation. The reflectivity was ASTRONOMY means and allows for an unambiguous measured to be (99.9920 ± 0.0007)%. This value is Ceramic armor is on the cutting edge of military and determination of the tertiary to primary ratio. The in agreement with expectations given that the law enforcement technology. Our research will energy distribution of the 20 to 30 MeV DT documented reflectivity is 99.995%. Further tests contribute positively in these fields by digitally neutrons folded with the (n,2n) cross section in this will be done with a laser diode to observe the recreating such technologies. Research from the energy region determines the degree in which reflectivity at different wavelengths. school year has involved fabricating and analyzing a carbon will be activated. However, the published ______three dimensional representation of ceramic based 12C(n,2n) cross sections in this energy range are 154 • Analysis of an Eclipsing Binary armor using computer automated design software. bifurcated. To set upper and lower limits on the System This armor, consisting of a tetrahedral shaped sensitivity of the activation diagnostic, a finite ANTHONY KAMINSKA plastic core, is populated with small solid ceramic element calculation was used to determine the FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS balls. As a bullet is fired on the armor, the hardness limits of the method's usefulness at diering primary & ASTRONOMY of the ceramic causes the given projectile's energy yields and solid angles for the NIF chamber. It was Many stars orbit each other in binary pairs. When to be distributed across the entire structure, further used to verify MCNPX activation this orbit takes one member directly between its dissipating the impact of the bullet. The simulation calculations. This work was funded in part by the partner and the earth it is known as an eclipsing begins when gravity is applied to the ceramic balls USDOE through LLE. ______binary. These star pairs are interesting because we in order to replicate manufacturing processes. can use data gathered from them to determine Once settling of the ceramic balls has occurred, the 159 • WIYN Open Cluster Survey: properties of the partner stars such as the period of bullet is fired at the armor. LS-DYNA is used to track UBVRI CCD Photometry of Open Star orbit, and the mass and radius of each star. These the kinetic energy and momentum of the simulation Cluster NGC 581 stars are too close together to individually resolve, and produces graphical and video outputs. In field DANIEL GOLE however by taking careful measurements using a tests, after the bullet impacts the structure, broken FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS telescope and CCD (charge-coupled device) camera fragments of the ceramic settle back into place, & ASTRONOMY the change in brightness can be observed. With creating an internal self-healing property of the We present photometry of the young, metal rich enough data a light curve can be created. A light armor. The goal of our simulations will be to open star cluster NGC 581 and an independent curve is essentially a plot of the system's replicate the results seen in these tests. measure of basic parameters including reddening, brightness versus its orbital phase. This poster will ______age, and distance. This study is part of an ongoing include descriptions of binary star systems, the 157 • Benjamin Franklin: The data collection process (including pictures of the Lightning American 26

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WOCS survey of this cluster. This photometry will present high-resolution, WIYN Hydra spectroscopy The Cavendish Experiment was the first experiment be vital to follow-up spectroscopic observations. of slow rotating dwarfs in M37 and report a cluster to yield accurate results for the universal ______[Fe/H]. gravitational constant. Despite Cavendish often 160 • A Triumvirate of Progress: The ______been credited with finding the value of the universal Story of Johannes Kepler, Tycho 163 • Gait Analysis of Equines Using gravitational constant, his experiment actually the PEGASUS System yielded the Earths density. To achieve this Brahe, and Rudolph II Cavendish used a torsion pendulum, a shockingly JARROD LAFOUNTAIN, MARIE KALET, MARINA DANTE TUFANO, CHRISTINA KENNEDY sensitive device for the time. Cavendish did not MASSARO, CHELSEA WEIBEL FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & originally design the apparatus, but he modified it FACULTY SPONSORS: STEPHEN PADALINO AND ED ASTRONOMY AND JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY to purpose. Nor did his experiment yield the value POGOZELSKI, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY While many people are familiar with Johannes for the universal gravitational constant. This A diagnostic force plate system, named PEGASUS Kepler's three laws of planetary motion, less people monumental experiment was only achievable by the for "Pressurized Equine Gait Analysis System Under are familiar with the circumstances under which collaboration of the scientific community of the Strain", was developed to measure the transverse, Kepler was able to pursue his research. Though time. There are many interconnected links between longitudinal and vertical forces, and to calculate Kepler was an astronomer and mathematician, he Cavendish and the other prominent scientists of the torques and impulses exerted by a horse as it walks was also a man with strong religious convictions, time. Due to the fact that Cavendish had crippling over it. The system consists of a steel plate and ten and faced discrimination for his religious beliefs. shyness, and possible mental illnesses his strain sensors that measure orthogonal applied This led him to accept an invitation to work at Tycho contribution to the community was a fraction of forces on the plate. Four 1,000 lb sensors, which act Brahe's observatory under the funding of Emperor what he deserved. He published only a select as vertical supports for the plate, are mounted Rudolph II. Rudolph II's religious tolerance enabled number of his works and theories. Despite this under the plate and measure the vertical force Kepler to work in Brahe's observatory without fear shyness Cavendish was involved in an interweaving exerted by the horse. Six horizontal sensors, each of persecution. Still, Brahe and Kepler's relationship web of other scholars, building on others work and mounted in the sides of the horse plate frame, was often strained by disagreement over Kepler's having his work expanded upon and replicated. This measure the transverse and longitudinal forces. Copernican beliefs and Brahe's refusal to share his continuous till present day. These forces are then converted into torques based data. The goal of this project is to examine the ______importance of Rudolph II's role in supporting on the geometry of the system. The data acquired 166 • Ultraviolet Radiation and Kepler's research and how this is reflected in the by this force plate will allow equestrians and relationship between Brahe and Kepler. We will veterinarians to determine the degree of lameness Plastic Nuclear Track Detectors also be presenting an experiment which parallels of an animal after an injury. When used on a regular JOSEPH MIFSUD, MARK TEETS, DANTE TUFANO Kepler's work, consisting of the use of a pinhole basis the PEGASUS can generate data that can help FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & camera to measure the distance of the sun and the guide the treatment process. This medical ASTRONOMY moon from the earth as well as to examine the orbit diagnostic system can help ensure long term equine When subatomic particles hit a plastic nuclear track of the sun. health if used during the lifetime of the animal. detector, they damage it. This damage can be seen ______as pits when the plastic is chemically etched 161 • Galileo: Scientist, Heretic, 164 • Simultaneous Measurements because the path has a faster etch rate than the of Ion and Electron Energy Spectra undamaged bulk plastic. Ultraviolet radiation has Courtier been found to enhance the track to bulk etch rate ERIC GRATIEN, LUKE PORTER, THOMAS DAVIS Using a Thomson Parabola ratio of CR-39 plastic detectors; this experiment FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & JIAN CONG ZENG, DREW ELLISON, COLLIN aimed to quantify the wavelength that maximizes ASTRONOMY AND JOE COPE, HISTORY STILLMAN, KYLE CROMPTON this enhancement. CR-39 was exposed to alpha Our poster will discuss Galileo's scientific methods FACULTY SPONSORS: CHARLIE FREEMAN, PHYSICS & particles (helium nuclei), then ultraviolet radiation and how his observations led to the validation of ASTRONOMY AND KIRK ANNE, CIT of varying wavelength, and etched. A wavelength the Copernican view of the universe. We will discuss A Thomson Parabola Ion Spectrometer (TPIS) is range centered around 350 nanometers showed to the degree to which Galileo's methods represent a used at the Multiterawatt (MTW) laser facility at the dramatically increase the diameters of the pits and move towards empirical knowledge and a rejection Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) at the therefore the track to bulk etch rate ratio. If used in of ancient "wisdom." Related to this is the University of Rochester. This diagnostic was the future, this enhancement will help distinguish development of the ways in which science is designed to study the energy spectrum of ions pits from noise inherent in the sample and allow valuable as a means of describing the true nature of accelerated from the rear side of targets illuminated for more accurate data analysis. the world. Some specific applications Galileo helped with ultra-intense laser light. The TPIS implements ______foster include his works in astronomy, and his parallel electric and magnetic fields to separate ions 167 • Upgrades to a Table-Top development of new technology to aid in that field. of a given mass-to-charge ratio onto parabolic Additionally, Galileo's conflicts with the church curves on the detector plane. The position of the System for Characterizing ICF show how the modern scientific ideas of the ions along the parabola is used to determine their Charged Particle Detectors Enlightenment were clashing with traditional energy. Recently, this device has been used to KRISTINA PUNZI, HANNAH MILLER, JOHN beliefs. Furthermore, we will explore how his study the energy spectrum of electrons which are DERMIGNY relationship with the Medici family in Italy affected also emitted from the rear side of laser-irradiated FACULTY SPONSOR: KURT FLETCHER, PHYSICS & his science. Our experiment will explore Galileo's foils. A Fujifilm imaging plate (IP) was placed at the ASTRONOMY work on falling bodies, which proves that two rear of the TPIS to detect the ions and another at A simple, high-current system has been assembled objects in a vacuum will fall at equal rates, the top of the TPIS to detect the electrons. The to test and calibrate charged particle detectors for regardless of mass. position of the charged particles on the imaging Inertial Confinement Fusion. A duoplasmatron ion ______plates is used to determine their energy. The data source system produces 0-30 keV deuterons that 162 • WIYN Open Cluster Study: are analyzed using routines written in scientific are focused by an einzel lens and strike a Spectroscopic Metallicity of the analytical software. Preliminary results from these deuterated polyethelene target, initiating the analyses will be presented. 2H(d,p)3H and 2H(d,n)3He reactions. An upgrade of Open Star Cluster M37 ______the system is underway to increase the count rate EVAN LOSH 165 • Cavendish and The Weight of for the fusion products. The main challenge is the FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS The World stability of the polymer target, which melts and & ASTRONOMY disintegrates under bombardment by the intense (1 JONATHAN TATRO, KEVIN LAKAWICZ, ADAM M37 is a very rich open star cluster at an age that is mA) beam. Using a thermocouple system to URBANIC slightly younger than the Hyades which places it in monitor the target temperature, modifications to FACULTY SPONSORS: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & a key position to diagnose important issues in the water-cooled target mount and different target stellar evolution such as the Lithium Gap. We ASTRONOMY AND JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY 27

2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual designs have been studied. In addition, a Wien filter ______Particle counts from different system conditions has been installed downstream of the einzel lens to 170 • Calibration of the Response of were analyzed in Excel and compared to determine ensure that the ion beam is well characterized. The Radiochromic Film to Monoenergetic the most efficient system set-up for particle deflection of the individual electric and magnetic transport through an aerosol transport system. fields of the Wien filter have been measured and Ion Beams from a 1.7 MV Pelletron The curvature of the system's tubing was altered to compared to calculated values. Plans to replace the Accelerator see what affect the number and radius of turns Wien filter system with an analyzing magnet system KYLE CROMPTON, COLLIN STILLMAN, MICHAEL had on the transfer of particles. A particle counter are being implemented. This work was supported in SCHEPIS operated by LabVIEW measured the number of part by the U.S. Department of Energy through the FACULTY SPONSOR: CHARLIE FREEMAN, PHYSICS & particles of various sizes that traversed the system. Laboratory for Laser Energetics. ASTRONOMY A particle neutralizer was installed increasing the ______Radiochromic film (RCF) is used to study protons number of particles transported successfully 168 • A Retrieval System for and other ions that are accelerated from the rear through the system by a factor of ten. Radioactive Target Materials at the side of targets illuminated with ultra-intense laser ______173 • Francis Bacon: The Father of NIF light. An experiment is underway to characterize the response of RCF to protons, deuterons, and Empiricism KYE SHIBATA, MICHAEL KRIEGER, JACOB FALLICA alpha particles of various energies using the 1.7 MV FACULTY SPONSORS: ED POGOZELSKI AND STEPHEN MICHAEL BRANNICK, SEAN MCCLOAT tandem Pelletron accelerator at SUNY Geneseo. A FACULTY SPONSORS: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & PADALINO, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY monoenergetic ion beam from the accelerator is Currently, solid radioactive material collection from ASTRONOMY AND JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY incident on a thin (~0.1 µm) gold foil placed in the In his Novum Organum, Francis Bacon outlines a the NIF target chamber is performed via the DIM. center of a 28-inch diameter scattering chamber. A The retrieval process takes several hours to method of inquiry and reasoning which is often strip of RCF is positioned in a circular arc that is regarded as the antecedent of the modern scientific complete. To decrease this time for short lived centered on the gold foil. The ion beam strikes the radioisotopes, the Target Materials Retrieval method. Bacon's method stressed the use of gold foil, causing the RCF to be exposed to accumulated data and inductive reasoning as the System (TMRS) is being designed to move a elastically backscattered ions. The scattered ion radioactive sample from the target chamber to the basis of a new natural philosophy with which fluence on the RCF strip varies as a function of the natural phenomena could be investigated. We counting station in less than 50 seconds, using a scattering angle. After removal from the chamber, closed-loop helium filled RaPToRS system. The investigate what influences events contemporary to the RCF is scanned in transmission mode using an Bacon could have had on the development of his TMRS consists of three components: the retrieval Epson 10000 XL flatbed scanner. The red channel of apparatus, RaPToRS and the counting station. method. In particular, we examine his interest in the resulting scan is used to determine the optical law and the similarities the legal system has with his Starting at 0.5 meters from TCC, the sample will density of the film. The output from the flatbed move from the vacuum chamber, travel through 60 empirical method, along with legal reforms he scanner is cross calibrated with a precision proposed. We also examine what role Bacon had in meters of 10 centimeter diameter RaPToRS tubes, microdensitometer (PDS). reaching speeds of 10 m/s. The sample will then the development in the modern scientific method. ______Finally, we provide two simple experiments outlined arrive at the counting station, where it be 171 • Tracking Effluent in Conesus robotically placed in front of a gamma ray detector. in Bacon's Novum Organum as ways of The use of helium will decrease background gamma Lake demonstrating the Baconian method in a class setting. These experiments, used by Bacon to show radiation produced by activated N2 normally found LAUREN BOMEISL, BECKY MEISSNER in a pressurized air system. This work was FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & how useful his method could be, focused on supported in part by the US Department of Energy ASTRONOMY deciphering the true nature of heat. ______through the LLE. Many lakes fed by estuaries with high nutrient ______concentration will result in algal blooms and 174 • Scientific Publication from the 169 • Performance Characterization overgrowth of macrophyte algal beds. This disturbs Royal Science Academy of RaPToRS Systems the health of an aquatic ecosystem, and can present PETER O'CONNELL, JOSEPH MIFSUD, NATHAN a potential threat to public health through ingestion KAHN KYE SHIBATA, MICHAEL KRIEGER, JACOB FALLICA or in extreme cases, skin contact. Dr. Isidro Bosch FACULTY SPONSORS: ED POGOZELSKI AND STEPHEN FACULTY SPONSORS: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & has studied Conesus Lake, NY and discovered an ASTRONOMY AND JOE COPE, HISTORY PADALINO, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY inverse correlation between agricultural The Rapid Pneumatic Transport of Radioactive Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle were among the management plan implementation and algal surface first members of the Royal Academy of science in Samples (RaPToRS) system can quickly and coverage. This experiment will support Bosch's efficiently move radioactive materials from their England. The publication of their works was not work, verifying the affect of run-off effluent by only significant because of the material, but also activation site to a counting station. Facilities such following tributary stream and lake currents to the as the NIF and LLE are considering these systems because it helped thrust science into the public eye. macrophyte bed locations using GPS Publication of their work allowed new science to while NRL is currently using one. The system is instrumentation. Holux M-241 data loggers and essentially a 10 cm diameter pneumatic tube with a become accessible to a wider audience as well as real-time commercial tracking devices will be allowed other scientists to collaborate on common cylindrical sample carrier. The performance of the deployed in watertight sealed PVC housing into the system depends on many factors, including the interests. Precedents set forth by the publication of streams and central lake, respectively, to trace these men's work within the context of the rise of mass of the carrier, length of the tube, angle and tributary flow in Spring 2012. The Holux M-241 difference in height of the tube's endpoints, the influence of Royal Society are examined. accurately records latitude and longitude in real- ______carrier's physical design, and the number, type, and time every second within the housing. The accuracy 175 • Analysis of Pit Profiles in distribution of blowers attached to the tube. These of the tracker is dependent on cell phone service factors have been systematically examined to and varies based on location. This method of Plastic Nuclear Track Detectors develop the fastest and most reliable system. The effluent tracking and real-time location ROBERT LITMAN most significant factors are the mass and the transmission is inexpensive and can be used in FACULTY SPONSORS: JAMES MCLEAN AND STEPHEN vertical travel of the carrier. When the carrier mass various freshwater research applications if cell PADALINO, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY is low, moving air supports the carrier in the tube, tower reception within the region allows for it. CR39 is a plastic that is used for nuclear particle resulting in low friction. The terminal velocity ______detection. When etched in a caustic solution, pits ranges from 13.5 to 2.5 m/s for masses varying 172 • Optimization of Particle form where particles entered the plastic as tracks from 1 kg to 3 kg. Using a single 1100 W blower, corrode more quickly than the untouched material. the initial force exerted on the carrier was 11.3 N. Transport A method for viewing CR39 pit cross sections with This work was supported in part by the US MARTHA HAMPSHIRE an optical microscope is being developed. Alpha- Department of Energy through the LLE. FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE MARCUS, PHYSICS & irradiated and etched CR39 samples are cracked by ASTRONOMY 28

2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual hand into shards and secured to a microscope slide prove some of Kepler's ideas about planetary in the mixed sex group than in the male only group. on-edge. From pit cross sections, particle track etch motion. In response, he derived them from his Results suggest that mixed sex training groups rates as a function of position on the track will be Universal Law of Gravitation and put them forward facilitated by male peers may help to promote determined. Experimental results will be compared in his Principia. Supposedly, he did this without bystander intervention behaviors among male to the theoretical predictions of the modeling calculus, although his scratch work likely involved college students. software, TRIM. A solid understanding of how track the new math. Today, there exist derivations of ______etch rate evolves over the length of a track can be Kepler's First Law that can be done using Newton's 179 • Feminine Ideology and Campus used to increase CR39 sensitivity by tailoring etch Calculus in its contemporary form. We seek to Sexual Assault: Are More Traditional and polishing times to the type of radiation one is explore how Kepler and Newton were similar and trying to detect. It may also be used to identify dissimilar in negotiating the conjecture that all Women at Greater Risk? properties of the radiation from pit shape such as planets have elliptical orbits. Further, we will SARA WIGDERSON charge, mass, and energy. Funded in part by the discover some of the motivations of their respective FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY United States Department of Energy. Thanks to communities and audiences and how these Campus sexual assault is a prevalent problem, Mark Teets, Dante Tufano, and Joe Mifsud for influences factored into their proofs. particularly for college women. The present study experimental contributions. examined risk for sexual assault related to women's ______177A • Simulation of Hexagonal feminine ideology and associated behaviors. 254 176 • Rocket Science at SUNY undergraduate women responded to assessments Ceramic Armor of feminine ideology, alcohol use, and sexual refusal Geneseo - Engine Thrust JACOB DESHAIES, assertiveness (SRA). About 15.7% (n = 40) reported Characterization FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & at least one completed sexual assault involving SAMUEL MURPHY, JAMES VAUGHN, DREW ASTRONOMY nonconsensual penetration during college. There ELLISON, MATEUSZ ZUKOWSKI My project involves exploring the advantages and was no direct relationship between women's FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & disadvantages of a ceramic bead armor built out of feminine attitudes and sexual assault. However, as ASTRONOMY hexagonal-shaped beads over an armor made up of expected, different types of feminine attitudes were An investigation to study the thrust characteristics cylindrical beads. This entails simulating an armor- related to risky and protective behaviors. More of various Estes model rocket engines was piercing bullet hitting a section of the armor using specifically, women invested in feminine purity performed and compared to published data and a industry-standard software, and reviewing the consumed less alcohol, and women invested in fuel burn simulation. In order to perform these results. In particular, I examined the final kinetic feminine deference were less sexually assertive. measurements a rocket engine force sensor was energy of the bullet, the eroded mass of the beads, Furthermore, sexually assaulted women consumed mounted on a heavy steel test bench. The engines and the eroded mass of the bullets. By overlaying more alcohol and reported significantly less sexual were held stationary during the measurement and the results over pictures of the different armors, assertiveness than non-sexually assaulted women. electrically ignited remotely via an ignition system. weak and strong points of each of the armors can The present results suggest indirect effects of The trust as a function of time was recorded at be highlighted. Also, graphs of the kinetic energy traditional femininity on women's risk for sexual 10,000 samples per second on a Techtronix TDS and eroded masses over time synchronized with assault via different behaviors associated with 2012B oscilloscope and transferred to a computer for snapshots of the simulation will further clarify the purity and deference. Because risk for sexual assault analysis. The engine exhaust was simultaneously differences in the armors. Our focus is on where the is related to these attitudes and behaviors, effective video recorded at 30 frames per second. Six initial energy of the bullet goes; specifically where, campus prevention programs may educate college different size engines were tested and analyzed to when, and how some of the energy is 'dispersed' women about healthy drinking behaviors and determine the thrust vs. time characteristics due to into parts of the armor and in what form. barriers to SRA, and gender norms/feminine ideals. various engine nozzle sizes. The experimental data ______was compared to an engine fuel burn model PSYCHOLOGY 180 • The Effects of Cyber- and developed for this project which predicted the 178 • Bystander Intervention for Traditional Victimization on thrust produced by a given rocket engine size, geometry, and nozzle size opening diameter. Sexual Assault: Comparing Men's Adolescent Well-Being Research currently underway will record the engine Willingness to Intervene After Single SARA WIGDERSON, NETTA ADMONI, BRIGID trust with a high-speed camera capable of taking Sex Versus Mixed Sex Group Training HEENAN, STEPHANIE EDWARDS FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, PSYCHOLOGY 10,000 frames/sec. This will allow for a critical SARA WIGDERSON, CHRISTINA MILLER The purpose of this study was to examine how analysis of the as exhaust evolution, and ejected FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY different forms of victimization affect the well-being engine debris by correlating the thrust values with Bystander intervention training is commonly used and grade point average (GPA) of adolescents. This the video image every 0.1 of a millisecond. to help prevent campus sexual assault. We ______study assessed both traditional forms of examined outcomes associated with bystander victimization (relational and physical) and cyber- 177 • Geometric and Calculus-based intervention training for sexual assault victimization, and how victimization experiences implemented in single sex (all men) versus mixed Modeling of Elliptical Orbits - The impact depression, anxiety, self-esteem, and GPA. sex groups. Undergraduate men were randomly Science, The Math, The History Adolescent students completed questionnaires that assigned to either a same sex group (n = 25) or a SURAJ UTTAMCHANDANI, GREGORY PALERMO, were sub-divided into several sections, each mixed sex group (n = 10) for a 90 minute bystander MICHAEL EISINGER measuring a different construct. Three-hundred- intervention training session. Personal and FACULTY SPONSORS: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & ninety-six students (51.3% male) from a rural school perceived peer support for sexual assault and ASTRONOMY AND JOE COPE, HISTORY district's middle and high school participated in the barriers to sexual assault bystander intervention In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Johannes study. The data revealed a pattern of association were assessed at baseline, immediately after the Kepler built on the observations of Tycho Brahe to among the various forms of victimization indicating program, and at follow up. Actual bystander conjecture his three laws, the first of which states that many participants experienced multiple forms intervention behaviors also were assessed at follow that planetary orbits are elliptical. At that time, the of victimization, or polyvictimization. Linear up. Immediately following the program, men in conjecture was based only on observation and regression analyses revealed that cyber- both groups reported greater intentions to geometry. A proof was still lacking, possibly because victimization uniquely predicted depression, self- intervene in sexual assault situations. At follow up, there did not yet exist a precise and mathematically esteem and grades. Additionally, interaction effects there was a significant group difference in personal rigorous definition of velocity and acceleration, nor between cyber-victimization and traditional support for sexual assault; men in the mixed sex a quantitative explanation of their relation to these victimization uniquely predicted aspects of well- group showed a decrease in personal acceptance, elliptical orbits. Newton developed calculus to find being. Overall, the links between depression, whereas men in the same sex group showed an these more precise definitions for velocity and anxiety, self-esteem, and GPA, suggest that people increase in acceptance over time. In addition, acceleration. He was soon publically challenged to who experience victimization may experience a bystander intervention behavior was more common 29

2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual depleted sense of well-being. These findings have The emphasis on familial values in the Latino family dynamics of sibling relationships. However, the potential to inform issues that are especially helps coping and adjustment. experiences with siblings may also play a role in relevant for secondary school students. These ______friend interactions. results can be used by school personnel to design 183 • Communicative Functions of ______bullying programs that address the full range of Verbal Irony in Adolescents' Sibling 185 • Parents of Children with victimization experiences that adolescents may Autism in Western New York: Stress encounter, especially in regard to cyber- and Peer Interactions victimization. GINA OTTOLIA, CORRIN PUDLEWSKI, MICHAEL Levels and Accessibility of Autism ______VIZZI, LAWRENCE BELLOMO, MARY VANVOORHIS, Intervention Services 181 • Modifying Physiological SANA SHAKEEL, LESLIE COHOON KRISTEN KOLB Response to Stress with One Session FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY Research on irony in adolescence has focused Presentation of research from a project of Progressive Muscle Relaxation mainly on judgments about meaning and intent in investigating the levels of stress experienced by YAEL MASSEN, MOLLY WALSH, SARAH FREEZE, hypothetical situations; less is known about how parents of children with autism in Western New MICHELLE ENGLEMAN adolescents actually use irony in naturally-occurring York and the possible association between their FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, PSYCHOLOGY conversations and the functional differences stress levels and difficulties in locating and securing The purpose of the current study was to determine between sarcasm and jocularity. Irony can serve intervention services (including educational, whether physiological stress responses could be various defensive functions for adolescents, therapeutic, and medical services, etc.) for their modified to produce greater adaptation. Prior especially in uncertain social situations; it can child(ren). research in our laboratory indicates the existence of provide deniability for both potentially hurtful and ______individual differences in physiological response to potentially affiliative utterances by leaving their 186 • College Women's Verbal challenge. These differences can be seen in patterns intent open to interpretation. To further complicate of reactivity to and recovery from a stressor derived matters, it can be used both aggressively (if the Sexual Coercion: Associations with from recordings of participants' heart rates. The intent is to hurt or bother the partner) and playfully, Hooking Up, Alcohol and Sexual identification of individual differences in sometimes simultaneously. Experimental studies of physiological profiles led us to question whether adolescents' perception of irony can tell us whether Refusal Assertiveness they could be modified. Progressive Muscle they are able to understand various ways of using it, KATHRYN BOYLE Relaxation (PMR) has been found to be efficacious but analyses of adolescent conversations are FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY in decreasing stress, anxiety, and physiological needed to determine to what extent they use irony This study examined the effects of three potential arousal, and to increase the rate of autonomic in each of these ways and how gender, partner, and risk factors for verbal sexual coercion: hooking up, recovery from laboratory-induced stressful events. other aspects of social context make a difference. alcohol consumption and sexual refusal The aim of our study was to determine whether or Our study examined adolescents' verbal irony uses assertiveness (SRA). College women (n = 254) not an individual's pattern of physiological reactivity of dominance, affiliation, distancing, and covering responded to measures of verbal sexual coercion, and recovery in response to stress could be embarrassment and considered these functions in hook up and alcohol frequency and SRA. As modified through the administration of an the context of gender and partner. Gender and expected, women who experienced college verbal abbreviated session of PMR. Initial analyses partner made a difference in the specific purposes sexual coercion also reported more frequent revealed that a single administration of PMR for which sarcasm and jocularity were used, with hooking up and alcohol consumption as well as resulted in more regulated physiological response boys particularly likely to use verbal irony to assert lower SRA compared with non-verbally sexual to challenge compared to the control condition. If dominance. coerced women. Also, as expected, that among the these findings can be replicated, they may suggest ______subsample of women who hooked up (n = 171) that a brief intervention such as a single session of 184 • The Role of Birth Order in those with lower SRA were more likely to report college verbal sexual coercion. For college women, PMR may help people deal with short-term Social Engagement with Siblings and challenges in physiologically well-regulated ways, all three factors examined impacted the risk for thus facilitating more adaptive behavioral and Friends verbal sexual coercion, however, in the context of emotional responses. KRISTA MUSCARELLA, SARA HIRSCH, WHITNEY hooking up those women with lower SRA were at ______SALAMONE, CHEYENNE HIGGINS, JOANNA SANTOS greater risk for verbal sexual coercion. This finding 182 • Latino Immigrant Children's FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY should be implemented in prevention programs As part of a larger longitudinal study, we examined since hooking up is prevalent and higher SRA is a Sibling Relationships: A Context for social engagement in sibling and friend interactions likely protective factor against verbal sexual Positive Development from early childhood through adolescence. There is coercion in the hookup context. ANA NUNEZ, MARIA SALAMANCA, LINDSAY GIPS, reason to believe that social engagement with ______DAVID MURRAY, SARKA TURECKA, CHRISTINE friends and siblings will be influenced by birth 187 • Perceptions and Experiences of DONOVAN order, but this question has been understudied. Sex During Hook Ups: Risk for a FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY Past studies have indicated that, as a group, Previous research and anecdotal evidence indicate laterborn children tend to be more socially Negative Reputation and for Sexual high levels of familism among immigrant Latino competent and popular with peers than firstborns, Assault Among First Year College families. Moreover, sibling pairs' nurturance and perhaps due in part to experiences in sibling Students support help negotiate life in a novel and potentially relationships. Participants in the study were 30 LAURA LAPPAN uncomfortable environment. We explored this white, middle-class children who were videotaped FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY phenomenon by analyzing Latino immigrant at home at ages 4, 7 and 17 in separate sessions A hook up typically is a single sexual encounter children's aggressive and prosocial behaviors with a sibling and a same-age, same-sex friend. between strangers or acquaintances, without the through semi-structured play situations, and Approximately half of the target children were expectation of further contact. Hook ups are compared to similar Anglo siblings. We recruited 50 firstborns. The videotapes were transcribed and common on college campuses. Although men and pairs of siblings from New York State. Latino siblings coded for social engagement at 10-second women students hook up at similar rates, demonstrated lower rates of aggression than a intervals. The results show that age, partner, and penetrative sex during a hook up predicts emotional comparison group of Anglo sibling pairs. birth order all had seemed to have an influence on distress for women only. We assessed perceptions Additionally, there were gender and ethnicity social engagement. Birth order made a difference in and experiences of penetrative hook up sex that differences among prosocial behavior. As predicted, children's interactions with both siblings and friends might explain new women students risk for these interactions indicate protection and not only in target children's behavior, but also in emotional distress. First year undergraduate nurturing, signaling the development of positive the responses of their interaction partners. The students reported their hook up behavior over the and beneficial social functioning between siblings. differences may be explained in part by the academic year, the social acceptability of oral and 30

2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual vaginal sex during a hook up for the average female materialistic individuals. Consistent with with dominance goals. This suggests existence of and male student, and their experiences of hypotheses, results indicated that the effects of two popular subgroups, one that is friendly and nonconsensual penetration since starting college. money are stronger for materialistic than non- academically-oriented and one that is aggressive As expected, a) participants rated oral and vaginal materialistic individuals. and unconcerned with school. sex for the average female student as less socially ______acceptable than for the average male student and 190 • Altruistic Predictors of 192 • Attachment Style and College b) rates of sexual assault were elevated among Environmentally Friendly Behaviors Adjustment: The Mediating Role of women but not men who engaged in hook ups. MATTHEW BOWER, MATTHEW COUCH, DANIELLE Results suggest that women who have penetrative Possible Selves, Self-Efficacy, and BILECKI, CASSANDRA BERBARY, CHRISTINA hook up sex may be at risk for a negative social MONACHINO, MICHAEL INFRANCO, SARKA Self-Regulatory Behaviors reputation and sexual assault. Educational programs TURECKA, MICHELLE ENGLEMAN BENJAMIN PERRY, VANESSA LOBO, NATHANIEL LU, about sexual double standards and consent with FACULTY SPONSOR: JIM ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY MICHAEL MAGUIRE, KATHRYN DANA, GENEVIEVE casual partners may reduce the emotional distress Research indicates that altruistic social norms can MARTIN, LAURA O'BRIEN experienced by some women following hook ups. FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA SCHNEIDER, ______motivate environmentally friendly behaviors. However, relatively little research has focused on PSYCHOLOGY 188 • The Effectiveness of Eroticized the role of altruistic personality characteristics in The current study examined the potential mediating Pro-Environmental Messages predicting environmentally friendly behaviors. The role that possible selves, self-efficacy, and self- CASSANDRA BERBARY, CHRISTINA MONACHINO, results of this correlational study indicate that trait regulatory behaviors play in the relationship MICHELLE ENGLEMAN, MATTHEW COUCH, empathy mediates the relation between trait between students' attachment style and their MICHAEL INFRANCO, DANIELLE BILECKI, MATTHEW perspective taking and environmentally friendly college adjustment. We found that closeness, BOWER, SARKA TURECKA behavior among under graduate participants. depend, and anxiety uniquely predicted different FACULTY SPONSOR: JIM ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY Furthermore, results indicated that environmental aspects of college adjustment. Specifically, Environmental activists are increasingly using values mediated the relation between trait dimensions of closeness and depend were sexualized stimuli to promote environmentally empathy and environmentally friendly behavior. associated with positive social outcomes, whereas friendly behavior. This study evaluated the ______anxiety was linked with negative academic effectiveness of this strategy. Under graduate 191 • Strategic Presentation of adjustment. Closeness was associated with only a few social ideal possible-self dimensions. In participants were randomly assigned to read a Academic Performance and Effort in Public Service Announcement that varied in the contrast, depend was associated with both social degree of eroticism, level of romantic commitment Middle School: Links to Gender and ideal and social feared possible-self dimensions as between the models shown in the PSA, and the Social Goals Elizabeth Thorp, Peter well as one academic ideal possible-self dimension. congruency between the eroticism and the Anxiety was associated with a few dimensions in message. The results indicated that sexualized Kearns, Kevin Cleary, Staci Weiss both social ideal and social feared possible-selves messages can potentially influence observers' FACULTY SPONSOR: JOAN ZOOK, PSYCHOLOGY as well as academic ideal and academic feared attitudes. However, the messages can also We investigated how early adolescents want to be dimensions. Social ideal selves, social self-efficacy, produce psychological reactance in which the perceived by popular peers with regard to their and social self-regulatory behaviors mediated the eroticism becomes counter- productive. grades and effort in school (ideal academic public relationship between the closeness and depend ______selves) and their use of self- presentation strategies dimensions and social adjustment. Likewise, 189 • Money, Materialism, to manage how they are perceived by peers academic ideal selves, academic self-efficacy, and academically. We also explored how ideal selves academic self-regulatory behaviors mediated the Affiliation and Happiness: Does and self-presentation strategies varied by gender relationship between anxiety and academic Money Decrease Affiliation and and social goals (students' desire to be popular, adjustment. These results suggest that students' Happiness for Non-Materialistic dominant, or have intimate friendships). self-conceptions, sense of efficacy, and engagement Participants were sixth- and eighth-graders in two of self-regulatory behaviors provide a more Individuals? rural schools who completed a self-report survey. complete understanding of how students' DANIELLE BILECKI, CASSANDRA BERBARY, Results indicated that the highest rated ideal self attachment issues are related to both their MICHELLE ENGLEMAN, CHRISTINA MONACHINO, was hard-working with good, but not excellent, academic and social adjustment to college. MATTHEW COUCH, MICHAEL INFRANCO, SARKA grades. The most commonly used self-presentation TURECKA, MATTHEW BOWER strategies were giving vague responses to questions SOCIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: JIM ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY about grades and hiding bad test scores. Students Reminders of money reduce individuals' need to with dominance goals had low-effort and low- 193 • Healthcare in Vietnam affiliate with others. Other research suggests that achieving ideal selves and used the most self- AMY TRAN, AARON MOCK low affiliation motivation is associated with lower presentation strategies, while students with FACULTY SPONSOR: ELAINE CLEETON, SOCIOLOGY levels of happiness. However, it is not known intimacy goals had hard-working and high-achieving Our goal of this project is to learn more about whether money driven reductions in affiliation ideal selves and used the fewest self-presentation traditional and western medicine in different reduce happiness. The present study examined strategies. The effects of popularity goals varied, regions of Vietnam, specifically Ho Chi Min City and whether this is the case. In addition, we also being associated with positive ideal academic selves Ben Tre. examined whether money reduces affiliation (and when combined with intimacy goals and associated happiness) equally for both materialistic and non- with negative ideal academic selves when combined

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9:40 – 10:55 AM CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS SESSION 1 1A • ANTHROPOLOGY & GEOLOGICAL 1G • ENGLISH WELLES 138 1N • PHILOSOPHY STURGES 112 SCIENCES MILNE 105 "Is this the promised end?" Three Film The Animal Treatment Debate 1B • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS Versions of Shakespeare's King Lear 1O • POLITICAL SCIENCE & NEWTON 203 1H • ENGLISH WELLES 131 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WELLES 24 Biomathematics and Modeling 1 Ancient Insights from the Greek and Continuity and Change in the Middle East 1C • CHEMISTRY NEWTON 204 Islamic Worlds & South Asia Chemistry Honors Thesis 1 1I • ENGLISH BRODIE BLACK BOX 1P • PSYCHOLOGY WELLES 115 1D • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 121 Macbeth Scenes and Workshop Studies Examining the Response to Edgar Fellows Miscellany I 1K • HISTORY STURGES 109 Threat and Challenge 1E • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 123 On the Borders of Inclusion: Women, 1Q • SOCIOLOGY SOUTH HALL 338 Edgar Fellows Miscellany II Dissenting Confederates, and Black 1R • COMMUNICATION WELLES 26 1F • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Politicians in Nineteenth Century America Communication & History SOUTH HALL 340 1L • MATHEMATICS NEWTON 201 Stories from the Geneseo Storytelling Algebra and geometry Institute 1M • MATHEMATICS 1 NEWTON 214

11:05 – 12:20 PM CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS SESSION 2 2A • ANTHROPOLOGY MILNE 105 2I • ENGLISH WELLES 132 2Q • SOCIOLOGY MILNE 109 2B • BIOLOGY NEWTON 203 Between Centuries: Where Medieval Studies in the Sociology of Religion 2C • CHEMISTRY NEWTON 204 Literature Comes From 2R • INTERDISCIPLINARY: CHEMISTRY, Chemistry Honors Thesis 2 2J • ENGLISH WELLES 133 MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY 2D • COMPUTER SCIENCE WELLES 128 Heard@Geneseo NEWTON 209 2E • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 121 2K • HISTORY STURGES 108 2S • SERVICE LEARNING & GLOBAL Edgar Fellows Miscellany III Fracking & Its Consequences: Part 1 AWARENESS WELLES 134 2F • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 123 2L • MATHEMATICS NEWTON 201 Edgar Fellows Miscellany IV Mathematics 2 2T • THEATRE AND MUSICAL THEATRE 2G • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 2M • PHILOSOPHY STURGES 112 BRODIE BLACK BOX SOUTH HALL 340 The Problem of External World Skepticism Theatre and Musical Theatre Senior LIVES Program 2O • POLITICAL SCIENCE & Projects 2H • ENGLISH WELLES 131 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WELLES 24 2U • CULTURAL EXPLORATION A Reading of Poetry and Fiction by David Health Care Policy in the United States (moved from 3S) STURGES AUDITORIUM Alliger, Walter Murphy, and Greg Sorin 2P • SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 1 SOUTH HALL 338

2:55 – 4:10 PM CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS SESSION 3 3A • ANTHROPOLOGY MILNE 105 3F • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 3K • GOLD Bridging Theory and Practice in Museum SOUTH HALL 340 GOLD LEADERSHIP CENTER CU 114 Studies: High Impact Learning Pre-service Teachers' Research on Diamond Certificate Presentations Experiences and the Six Big Ideas Literacy in the Classroom, Part 1 3L • HISTORY STURGES 108 3B • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS 3G • ENGLISH WELLES 111 Fracking & Its Consequences: Part 2 NEWTON 203 Katie, Katie, and Katie's Senior Reading 3M • HISTORY STURGES 109 Biomathematics and Modeling 2 3H • ENGLISH WELLES 132 "To Elevate Our Race": The Black 3C • COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & Language, Image, and Space-Time Experience During The American Civil War SCIENCES 3I • ENGLISH WELLES 133 3N • MATHEMATICS NEWTON 201 WELLES 26 Mind over Manners, Morals, and Mathematics 3 Language Sample Analysis Modesty: Considerations of Gender, 3O • INTERDISCIPLINARY NEWTON 204 3D • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 121 Society and Decorum in Plays of Shaw, The Hidden Court Street Edgar Fellows Miscellany V Wilde, and Coward 3P • PHILOSOPHY STURGES 112 3E • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 123 3J • ENGLISH WELLES 134 The Occupy Movement, Dido, and New Edgar Fellows Miscellany VI Prescriptions from Langland, Dreams Testament fragments from Malory

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3Q • POLITICAL SCIENCE & 3R • INTERDISCIPLINARY: LANGUAGE & 3T • POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WELLES 24 LITERATURE, ENGLISH INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WELLES 119 Political Science and International WELLES 138 Topics in American Politics Relations Honors Theses 3S • moved to 2U

4:20 – 5:30 PM CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS SESSION 4 4A • ANTHROPOLOGY WELLES 24 4G • ENGLISH WELLES 133 4N • SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 2 From Theory to Practice in Anthropology Paper-Writing on YouTube and Two SOUTH HALL 338 307: Student-designed Grassroots Town/Gown Issues -- The Riviera Theatre 4O • SOCIOLOGY STURGES 114 Organizations to Promote Sustainable and Feral Cats "Yeah, a cereal bar is pretty healthy." Community Development in Pakistan and 4H • HISTORY STURGES 108 4P • THEATRE/DANCE Liberia The Unsettling of America: Competing WADSWORTH AUDITORIUM 4B • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 121 Narratives on the Civil War and The Metamorphosis of Dance- a Edgar Fellows Miscellany VII Emancipation Reflection of the 20th Century Social 4C • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 123 4I • HISTORY STURGES 109 Liberation Movement Edgar Fellows Miscellany VIII Upstate New York Black Freedom 4Q • WOMEN'S STUDIES WELLES 138 4D • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Struggle Women's Studies Senior Project SOUTH HALL 340 4J • LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES Presentations Pre-service Teachers' Research on WELLES 26 4R • INTERDISCIPLINARY: GEOGRAPHY & Literacy in the Classroom, Part 2 La cultura Moderna de España / Modern ANTHROPOLOGY WELLES 115 4E • ENGLISH WELLES 131 Spanish Culture 4S • INTERDISCIPLINARY: BIOLOGY & Renaissance Literature and the Bible 4K • MATHEMATICS NEWTON 201 HISTORY WELLES 119 4F • ENGLISH WELLES 132 Applied Mathematics 4T • ENGLISH (moved from 4H) WELLES 111 The Dandy and the Aesthete in the British 4L • PHILOSOPHY STURGES 112 A Reading of Poetry and Fiction by David Novel Eastern Philosophical Reflections Alliger, Walter Murphy, and Greg Sorin 4M • POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MILNE 105 State and Society in Comparative Perspective

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1A • ANTHROPOLOGY & different segments. The real cost of coffee: History culture. As a new generation of college students, it of fair trade (coffee) at Geneseo and beyond. Fair is important for us to truly understand cultures GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES MILNE 105 Trade coffee at Geneseo currently. Finally, before we judge them. SESSION CHAIR: JAMES AIMERS, ANTHROPOLOGY prospects for fair trade (coffee) at Geneseo and ______what students can do in the future to make it more X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Maya Fair Trade at Geneseo effective on our campus. Pottery from Belize ZEBEDIAH GALLAGHER ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES AIMERS, MOLLY CARNEY "Just Put it In Your Mouth" FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES AIMERS, ANTHROPOLOGY MICHELLE WALPOLE Over the semester, Professor Aimers and I studied ANTHROPOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES AIMERS, Traditionally, Maya ceramics have been classified the history of fair trade coffee at Geneseo and the ANTHROPOLOGY policies and practices of the Starbucks on campus and sorted based upon stylistic attributes of the This program is one that I presented at NEACURH pottery. However, the use of X-ray Fluorescence and off. In short, Fair trade is a movement, (North East Affiliate of College and University supported by various grass roots groups and (XRF) lets researchers identify the chemical Residence Halls). It is an interactive discussion elements or compounds constituting the ceramics, governmental organizations that strive to ensure based on food taboos and food culture in an marginalized farmers receive a fair wage for their thus giving researchers new ways to classify this anthropological perspective. I will discuss all material. The purpose of this directed study was to work. Fairly traded products affect millions and different cuisines from different countries, and how millions of producers providing them with more compare stylistic classifications of Maya pottery American culture would never consider attempting with chemical analysis in order to determine if the resources and control over their lives. My focus to try these foods. This presentation will include was on fair trade coffee. For my research, I classification correlates with the chemistry. 19 video clips, pictures, and excerpts from reliable samples from Tipu and 20 samples from San Pedro submitted two articles in the Lamron and a total of sources. After presenting nutritional facts on these three on Geneseo's wiki. Throughout the study, were analyzed using Geneseo's XRF spectrometer. unique cuisines, I plan on implementing an By studying the classifications and compositions, we many issues that were addressed affect students interactive discussion regarding whether or not on our campus. This includes consumer awareness, are looking to further understand trade and people would be willing to go beyond food taboos exchange routes in the Maya Postclassic period. issues related to fair trade policies, and the to reap nutritional benefits. The purpose of this availability of fair trade coffee on our campus. While the data from our findings is not available at presentation is to promote an open view on trying this time, I will discuss ceramic preparation, the XRF Basically, I broke my research down to three new foods and going above and beyond our own 33

2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual process, and the challenges confronting XRF ______The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) is an analysis of ceramics. The Effect of Batesian Mimicry on obligate parasitoid of ash trees (Fraxinus spp.), ______the Predation of Salamanders which was introduced to North America in the Constraints on Glacial Retreat And 1990s. Tetrastichus plannipennisi is a parasitoid Plethodon jordani and Paleoclimate Conditions for the Pine wasp specific to the emerald ash borer (EAB) in its Desmognathus ochrophaeus native range, and is currently being introduced into Creek Glacier, Montana During the RACHAEL BECKMAN, STEVEN ROSENZWEIG, ASA North America as an agent of biological control. To Last Glacial Maximum WHALEN investigate the dynamics of this relationship and ELIZABETH HUSS Plethodon jordani produces noxious skin secretions determine if the introduction of T. plannipennisi is a FACULTY SPONSOR: BENJAMIN LAABS, GEOLOGICAL that discourage Blue Jays from eating it. viable method of biological control, a modified SCIENCES Desmognathus ochrophaeus (mimic) has evolved to Nicholson-Bailey host-parasite difference equation Although the timing of the Last Glacial Maximum in resemble P. jordani (model) so that the Blue Jays will model of the ash tree, EAB, and wasp populations the northern Rocky Mountains is well constrained, avoid them as well. This is an example of Batesian was developed. The effect of introducing a small the timing and pace of ice retreat during the last mimicry. We developed a differential equation model founding group of EAB to a healthy stand of ash deglaciation is poorly known. A valley glacier to test the effect of Blue Jays on the relative trees was analyzed. Then the effect of the occupied the Pine Creek valley in the northwestern abundance of D. ochrophaeus and P. jordani. We introduction of T. plannipennisi on the EAB Absaroka Range, a sub-range of the northern Rocky used a linear function to represent the consumption population was studied. Parameter values for the Mountains in southern Montana. The glacier in rate of Blue Jays on P. jordani and D. ochrophaeus. model were gathered from previous studies on the Pine Creek valley deposited terminal moraines at Our results suggest that the presence of P. jordani life histories of the species and the nature of their the mouth of a narrow canyon until 17.5 + 1.4 ka, increases the population of D. ochrophaeus because interactions. It was found that by introducing the when it began retreating. Glacially polished the Blue Jays eat P. jordani, decreasing the parasitic wasp, the EAB was eradicated. By bedrock surfaces in Pine Creek valley were sampled consumption rate of Blue Jays on both species. Our controlling the spread of the EAB the ecological and to track the retreat of the glacier using cosmogenic model can be used to help explain the predator-prey economic values of Fraxinus species can be 10Be surface-exposure dating. The timing of ice dynamics between D. ochrophaeus and Blue Jays preserved in an efficient and cost-effective manner. retreat was coupled with numerical modeling of based on the presence of P. jordani. glacier mass balance and ice flow in Pine Creek ______1C • CHEMISTRY NEWTON 204 valley to set limits on temperature and precipitation Combating the 'Clap': Exploring Chemistry Honors Thesis 1 changes that accompanied glaciation. Based on this Intervention Strategies for FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCGARRAH, CHEMISTRY research, I discuss the timing of ice retreat in Pine SESSION CHAIR: CRISTINA GEIGER, CHEMISTRY Creek valley and climate conditions during the Last Gonorrhea in New York State ______Glacial Maximum and subsequent deglaciation in through the Use of a Differential Investigation of the Photophysical the Absaroka Mountains. Equation Model and a Scale-Free Properties of Photoluminescent 1B • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS Bipartite Network Organometallic Platinum (II) GREGORY SPITZ, HAYLEY MARTIN, JAMES Complexes in Self-Assembled NEWTON 203 HARTWELL Biomathematics and Modeling 1 The World Health Organization estimates that Molecular Cages FACULTY SPONSORS & SESSION CHAIRS: CHRIS there are over 62 million new cases of gonorrhea AMANDA AMORI LEARY, MATHEMATICS AND GREGG HARTVIGSEN, each year worldwide. Caused by the bacterium Luminescent Pt(II) and Ir(III) compounds are used as BIOLOGY Neisseria gonorrhoeae, gonorrhea can cause photoluminescent materials in OLEDs because ______infertility, cardiovascular complications, and joint heavy metals allow for efficient conversion of Isle Royale Ticks are Bugging Moose damage. To model the spread of this disease, we electrically generated excited-states in an to Death created a differential equation model in which electroluminescent device. We are attempting to males and females are separately classified into study the aggregation properties of luminescent PATRICK ASSELIN, JEFFREY BIRD, JESSICA GUISE one of three distinct states: susceptible, infectious, square planar Pt(II) complexes, that are relevant to Wolves (Canis lupus) and moose (Alces alces) have or receiving treatment. In addition to this model, OLEDs, in order to understand how coexisted on Isle Royale, an island in Lake Superior, we created a scale- free bipartite network, which photoluminescent efficiency (quantum yield for since 1959. In 1990, winter ticks (Dermacentor simulates the spread of gonorrhea over time. We emission) and energy (color of the emitting albipictus) that feed on moose were introduced to defined parameter values based on data from the compound) is affected by aggregation. This is being the island. Warm summers have led to increased New York State Department of Health, and explored by using the hydrophobic interior of a tick populations leading to increased mortality for adjusted each of our models to simulate the water soluble molecular cage to encapsulate the moose populations. We model the moose and wolf implementation of patient education programs. aggregate. To date, we have shown by NMR populations and include the tick population by Our differential equation model indicates that spectroscopy that a platinum stacking pair may be adjusting for an increased predation and mortality increasing education about safer sex and isolated within a cage. Unfortunately, the rate of the moose population using a modified awareness about gonorrhea will decrease the cage/aggregate solution is not emissive. 1-D and 2- Lotka-Volterra difference equation model. We spread of the disease over time. In addition, our D nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy data, investigate how ticks and wolves interact to affect network model shows that focusing intervention synthesis of the components and their the stability of the moose population. Our model strategies on the most connected individuals is characterization will be presented. appears to accurately simulate the moose more effective than using broad based educational ______population. Tick densities are positively correlated strategies. Acetylenase Gene Detection in with spring temperatures which suggest moose ______populations may decline faster than our model Anaphalis margaritacea predicts should temperatures continue to increase. The Interactions Between the TIMOTHY BARR We compare two models, one with and one without Parasitoid Wasp Tetrastichus Anaphalis margaritacea, commonly known as ticks, to the data and find that unregulated tick plannipennisi and its Host, the Pearly Everlasting, has been found to contain a 13 population growth and the wolves will push the carbon-chlorine containing polyacetylene. Similar moose towards extinction. Our model indicates the Emerald Ash borer (Agrilus polyacetylenes have been found to be moose population can return to a stable size by planipennis) pharmacologically important due to antitumor, reducing the tick population. TYLER GILMORE, THOMAS KOHLMANN, NATALIE antibacterial, and immunosuppressant activities. 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2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual focused on the biosynthetic pathways of more complicated than it's simple feminine though. Michael's goal with this piece included compounds containing one triple bond. However, stereotype would suggest. For reasons both social personal development and a fitting end to his stay the compound isolated from A. margaritacea has and biological, colors such as pink have taken on a at Geneseo, but, first and foremost, A Guided Tour three adjacent triple bonds. Given this, our role that goes beyond hue. I will be discussing the is a means of fostering a dialogue about issues research seeks to determine whether there is one color pink specifically and will be identifying both which are typically taboo; Suicide, Depression, Sex or multiple acetylenases present in A. margaritacea. cultural and biological evidence that will shed some and Sexuality. Intimacy. Health. All of these issues First, genomic DNA isolation followed by PCR light on its feminine reputation. Mentor: TOM are present in A Guided Tour, just as they are a part amplification will be performed using degenerate MACPHERSON, STUDIO ART of the human condition. Mentor: BETH MCCOY, oligonucleotide primers from acetylenease genes in ______ENGLISH related species. PCR product(s) will then be A Mind in Progress ______sequenced to determine the presence of BRIANNE ROSA The Effect of 5-azacytidine on ATP acetylesease gene(s) in A. margaritacea. A creative autobiography; a 6'x 6' painting of a ______Levels and Gene Expression in E. coli butterfly (a metaphor pulled out of Nabokov's SARAH CANTATORE Unconventional Electrophoresis: autobiography, Speak, Memory) with numbers We have performed gene expression DNA Separating Single Molecules along the tips of the wings. The wing patterns are microarray analysis of E. coli cells treated with 5- MIRIAM BARNETT map-like, and each number represents a year of my azacytidine to determine if cytosine DNA Gel electrophoresis and single molecule life. An accompanying autobiographical interactive methylation influences gene expression. To our spectroscopy have been utilized in order to better multimedia art piece, developed in PowerPoint, surprise, expression of all eight ATP synthase genes understand the connections between charge and serves as the "destination" for the painting/map. was up-regulated in response to 5-azacytidine. The florescence intensity of a single cadmium selenide The cover screen shares the picture of the butterfly, effect was observed at early stationary phase, and quantum dot. Blinking is an omnipresent single and the numbers can be clicked to take the not observed in logarithmic phase. To determine if molecule phenomenon and is believed to be the onlooker to a loop of slides that incorporate cells treated with 5-azacytidine have altered levels result of a charging process. By simultaneously creative writing, music, and other artworks that of ATP, we used a luciferase assay to measure ATP merging the two techniques, we gain a better best represent that year of my life. Mentor: levels in untreated and 5-azacytidine-treated cells. understanding of this anomaly. This innovative MELANIE BLOOD, ENGLISH The change in ATP levels in response to 5- approach will aid in reducing blinking behavior, a azacytidine is complex. At logarithmic phase, there critical advance for technological applications. 1E • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 123 are increased levels of ATP in 5-azacytidine-treated Edgar Fellows Miscellany II cells, but this increase subsides as cells reach 1D • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 121 FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: OLYMPIA stationary phase. The increase in ATP levels in 5- azacytidine-treated cells at logarithmic phase was Edgar Fellows Miscellany I NICODEMI, MATHEMATICS ______observed in a cytosine DNA methylation deficient FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: OLYMPIA Virtual Economies: The Real Impact strain (dcm knockout). These data indicate the NICODEMI, MATHEMATICS model of DNA methyltransferase trapping cannot ______of Play Money explain the changes in ATP levels, as this strain lacks The Medium Voice in Opera LAUREN HANSON a cytosine DNA methyltransferase. These data also DEVON BOROWSKI We've all heard of games like World of Warcraft and indicate that 5-azacytidine does not cause its effect Today, the medium of opera is often seen as an Second Life, but they're just games, right? In reality, on ATP metabolism through a loss of DNA antiquated art form suitable only for pretentious this question might not be easy to answer. Millions methylation, and may occur via a novel mechanism. music enthusiasts. What this assessment fails to of American dollars are being used every year to Mentor: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY recognize are the sexy, violent, dramatic, buy and sell virtual houses, swords, and other goods ______humorous, and griping plots that rival any without having a clear legal consensus about Confronting Whiteness in the Hollywood blockbuster. Central to the drama, aside whether these goods even count as part of our from the soaring lines of the soprano and tenor, are economy. The virtual spaces opened up by the Classroom the medium voiced characters: the baritone and internet defy our existing notions of what makes JESSE GOLDBERG mezzo-soprano. Not only do they act as the catalyst property, trade, and even how we define an area as Despite conversations currently circulating about to the action, but they are our direct line into the a "place" where meaningful interactions can occur. how after the election of President Barack Obama world of the opera, inviting us in through their Using both theoretical and experimental economics, the United States has become a "post-racial" similar experiences. Mentors: ANNE-MARIE we can start having an informed conversation about society, the fact of the matter is that white privilege REYNOLDS. MUSIC and PAMELA KURAU, MUSIC whether property needs to be tangible to be real, still exists and racism has not been eliminated, only ______and whether online games and virtual worlds mitigated. This means that our current social Femininity and the Color Pink; should be considered a valid part of the American structure is not an ideally just one, and so we have a moral obligation to work towards a more fully Biological Phenomenon or Social legal system. Mentor: SHUO CHEN, SCHOOL OF BUISINESS realized system of social justice. As a (hopefully) Construct? ______potential future academic myself, I will focus on the GRACE HUBERT A Guided Tour to A Guided Tour ways in which whiteness manifests as the often uninvestigated subject and how teachers can open To many, any serious discussion regarding color MICHAEL VAUGHN up spaces of critical conversation in classrooms to these days is usually limited to something like Michael Vaughn (Me!) has spent the last two years work out the problems of the unacknowledged and "What color do you think we should paint the writing an autobiographical play dealing with issues unearned privileges of whiteness. Such bathroom, dear?" This is a shame, because the role of mental health, sex and sexuality, intimacy, and conversations are often met with resistance both of color in society has been immense for thousands growth. This project has been a labor of love; A overt and subtle, even in classrooms full of liberal of years. It's many connotations resound Guided Tour has been a means of synthesizing young people. The goal of my presentation, then, is throughout the history of human culture, though it Michael's time at Geneseo, both in and out of the to investigate how whiteness works, and how we seems that most individuals today would be content classroom, into one cogent statement of growth can work through resistances to critically study in sitting back and accepting the current obvious and development. It embodies the academic work white privilege in a meaningful way. Mentor: and some not-so-obvious concepts that are he has done - specifically in the fields of English, associated with specific colors. For example, if one BETH MCCOY, ENGLISH Sociology, and Psychology - but it also speaks to the were to ask him or herself the question, "Why has traditionally non-academic as well - memory, pink been established as a 'girl' color?", would there perspective, intimacy, and individual mental health. be an obvious answer? As is turns out, pink is much This play goes beyond intellectual masturbation

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1F • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 1H • ENGLISH WELLES 131 helped them to engage with the play by putting it on its feet and considering it in a theatrical context. SOUTH HALL 340 Ancient Insights from the Greek and 1J • HISTORY STURGES 108 Stories from the Geneseo Islamic Worlds Early Modern British Isles Storytelling Institute FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH SESSION CHAIR: LAUREN AULET FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JOE COPE, FACULTY SPONSORS: SHARON PECK, SCHOOL OF HISTORY EDUCATION AND MICHELLE COSTELLO, LIBRARY ______The Importance of Family ______SESSION CHAIR: SHARON PECK, SCHOOL OF Sir John Davies and the Ulster EDUCATION DEANNA SAVARESE ______Plato's Republic and Euripides' Medea display Plantation Wolves in the Walls extremely different family values. In the Republic, CAILE MORRIS ANNA HOYLER Socrates is attempting to create a perfect society, When considering the attempt of the English to The first storyteller in this session will perform the the kallipolis, in which he describes a very specific colonize Ireland through the Ulster Plantation in story, "Wolves in the Walls," adapted from the idea of the family. Medea is going through a the early 17th century, historians often overlook children's story by Neil Gaiman. challenging time, and the actions she takes are due the legal contributions of Ireland's Attorney- ______to a very different type of family structure. If the General of the time, Sir John Davies. This paper will Mama's Long Hair features of the "Platonic family" were implemented explore various aspects of Davies' contributions MAXINE NADLER into Medea's society, the story of Jason and Medea and analyses of England's failure to execute the The second storyteller in this session will perform simply would not have taken place. However, plans for the Ulster Plantation as well as more the story, "Mama's Long Hair." This is an original Plato's idea of familial relationships is certainly not generally subjugate the Native Irish population. It story based on a true experience. perfect. will do so through analysis of current ______historiography on the Ulster plantation as My Lovely Little Blue Car The Demands of the Dissatisfied and compared to some of Davies' writings, writings of other men prominent in the British legal system, as LUCIA ARAUABIA the Insights of a Sufi well as English government papers from this The third storyteller in this session will perform the KATE WALLACE period. story,"My Lovely Little Blue Car." This is a true story In the essay, I apply aspects from assigned readings ______based on the teller's experiences as a new driver. of Rumi to a news article by Robert Hardaway in ______which he compares the main points of both Occupy The Formation of Central Banking in I Hate the SATs Wall Street and the Tea Party Movement. These Scotland ANDREW MOWRER, MICHELLE MOSHEN two movements argue for an end to bailouts, no TOM REUBENS The fourth storyteller in this session will perform more corporate welfare, a change in taxation, and The formation of the Bank of Scotland in 1695, only the story, "I Hate the SATs." This is an original story for increases in employment. Rumi, on the other a year after the English adopted central banking, that all of us who have taken a test can relate to. A hand, emphasized that nothing is stable except God, was an essential component to the development of fifth teller will also share an original story. acting out of love, equality, and discipline. the Scottish economy. Coincidentally, the Bank of ______Scotland was formed in the volatile years between 1G • ENGLISH WELLES 138 A Dream and a Dialogue the Glorious Revolution and the 1707 Union of DANTE TUFANO England & Scotland. This was an interesting time in "Is This the Promised End?" Three It is a mock discussion between Pericles and Scottish history. The Scottish Parliament was more Film Versions of Shakespeare's King Socrates where Pericles' ideals about Athenian independent and influential during this period than Lear society clash with Socrates' much more pragmatic at any other in its history. However, Scotland was observations about the city. They each discuss the also dealing with severe economic challenges, FACULTY SPONSOR: JULIA WALKER, ENGLISH four major flaws with democracy--the foolishness of including a trade deficit, a seven year famine from SESSION CHAIR: MERCEDEZ HOLLISTER the common man and his effect on government, 1696-1703, difficulty developing industry, the loss King Lear is arguably Shakespeare's most difficult unqualified leadership, the intoxicating quality of of foreign markets and deflation. The play. Kent's Act 5 question "is this the promised liberty, and the inevitability of tyranny. While establishment of the Bank of Scotland helped to end?" brings into focus the question of what Pericles continually argues that Athens is great solve the deflation problem in the long run by constitutes ethical action in a universe with no because of its democracy, Socrates argues that the expanding credit, but it was not an easy fix, and the moral code. But it is a question which is asked only. democracy will ultimately destroy Athens. Socrates Company of Scotland was simultaneously Three film versions of the play -- with Paul Scofield, ultimately wins the debate, and Pericles ends up contributing to the deflation problem. In this Laurence Olivier, and Ian McKellen as the Lears -- sounding somewhat foolish. presentation I plan to address the previous points give us three different responses to the question in greater detail in addition to discussing some that Shakespeare refuses to answer. related issues, such as the coining of a single British ______1I • ENGLISH BRODIE BLACK BOX currency in 1707 and the objectives of William Paul Scofield Version MacBeth Scenes and Workshop Paterson, founder of the Bank of England. SAM BOURNE, CHRIS CROCKER, KAITLIN FISHER, FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE ______MELANEY REBELLO, DANIELLE WOBLER BLOOD, ENGLISH A Look at the Lunatic Fringe: ______Laurence Olivier Version JOSHUA HOROWITZ, JOSHUA LANG, ADAM Sensationalist Press and Radical LYDIA CAPPADONIA, TREVOR COURNEEN, LASALLE, EMILY MCDEVITT, PAUL NARDONE, SAM Religion During the English Civil War, DANIELLA INSALACO, EMILY TIMMONS, MIKE PLOTKIN, KATHERINE WONG, RACHEL TAMARIN, KRISTINA TORTORIELLO 1640-1660 MOSHER, KATHERINE MENJIVAR MEGAN PAOLONE ______Shakespeare's plays were written for performance and This paper aims to explore and evaluate the Ian McKellen Version continue to engage us best when performed. However, all too often, our first encounters with portrayal of emergent radical religious groups in MARIA CHIAPPONE, CODY COTTRELL, MERCEDEZ the popular press during a period of 20 years in HOLLISTER, ALICIA LEWKOWICZ, ALEX WENDE Shakespeare are intimidating due to the language. 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2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual government censorship, ushering in a voluminous did so in response to President Lincoln's call for ______number of corresponding printed materials. volunteers to suppress the secession of the Deep Geometric Algebra - A Unifying Through the reading of these primary-source South States. Rampant inflation, perceived price Mathematical Language printed materials from this period of two decades, gouging of nearly all goods, shortages of food and MICHAEL VAIANA the rise of reactionary religious groups like the goods, and conscription policies that included A great deal of mathematics and physics is built Ranters and Quakers becomes evident. Though loopholes for the wealthy caused many in Western upon the simple concept of vector, which is a religiously affiliated, these groups became North Carolina to rethink their continued sacrifice directed length. Geometric algebra extends this indicative of the full-scale social, political and to the war. As frustration with Confederate policies idea by introducing the concept of directed area religious overhaul of the British Isles at this time. and the realities of a protracted war mounted, and directed volume. Ultimately, these simple ideas Written from a variety of perspectives - including Western North Carolinians began to desert the result in a powerful unifying mathematical the leaders of the religious sects and their critics - Army and evade being conscripted with many even language. For example, the complex numbers and the collection of documents examined in this paper forming bands that openly fought the militia and the quaternions are subalgebras of the geometric and the corresponding secondary sources present a Home Guard units. Soldiers' wives and other algebra. This talk will be accessible to students with wide array of problems associated with examining women rioted against the shortages of food. Many a minimum of elementary linear algebra and a history through sensationalist press. Overall, this more debated the wisdom of North Carolina's multivariable calculus. paper will consider the varying portrayal of several continued affiliation with the Confederacy. ______emergent religious groups and their activities as a Western North Carolina's experience in the Civil reflection of the political and social atmosphere of War reveals the fragile bonds that existed within Contracting and Rotating Ellipses the time. the Confederacy. WILSON CHEUNG ______The correlation between the area of a region and 1K • HISTORY STURGES 109 The Polarization of the Female the number of points with integer coordinates (called lattice points) contained within it has been On the Borders of Inclusion: Women, Gender in the Antebellum South: an ongoing area of interest in the field of number Dissenting Confederates, and Black How Stereotypes Impacted the Law, theory. The problem arises from Gauss's Circle Theorem, which shows that the number of lattice Politicians in Nineteenth Century Medicine, and Criminological Theory points within a circle is approximately equal to the America SAMANTHA MAURER area of the circle. Previous results have determined FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JUSTIN This thesis analyzes how the development of an upper bound for the number of lattice points in BEHREND, HISTORY stereotypes pertaining to black and white women in the interior region formed by two hyperbolas. In ______the Antebellum South influenced women's daily this talk, we will generalize this result to the specific Jefferson Davis' Black Replacement: lives. First, it identifies black women, particularly case of two ellipses and conclude that the area of the enslaved, who faced a polarizing An Examination of Senator Hiram R. the interior region formed by these ellipses has the Mammy/Jezebel characterization, which both same upper bound. We'll describe how the area Revels' Election Through Periodical validated de jure and de facto segregation and and the number of lattice points change under Sources supported the continuance of the ethically contractions and rotations. This is a joint research questionable slave institution. Second, it chronicles project with Patrick Rault. DAVIS PARKER white women, both those in the poorer and the Senator Hiram Revels was the first African American higher socioeconomic classes, who faced a similar 1M • MATHEMATICS 1 NEWTON 214 ever seated in the United States Senate. As Senator polarizing dichotomy, the wench/lady FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JEFF from Mississippi, Revels was notable for the large categorization, which highlighted the extremes of amount of media coverage that he received JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS white femininity. It lastly observes how each ______because of his uniqueness among the leaders of the polarized archetype was developed, why each was country and for the fact that he filled the seat enforced, and how, through legal, medical and Guaranteed Victory in Zero-Sum vacated by Jefferson Davis when he became criminological doctrine, each remained paramount Tournament Games president of the Confederacy. While Revels' term in Antebellum Southern society. BERNADETTE ROUGHNEEN, MEGAN HURLEY was rather short (1870-1871), his inclusion in the Is it possible to guarantee victory when engaging in running of the United States government was the 1L • MATHEMATICS NEWTON 201 zero-sum games? Most people rely on chance when subject of much controversy among the many playing these types of games, an example of which newspapers in the United States during this time Algebra and Geometry would be rock, paper, scissors. This talk will explore period, which were famous for being incredibly FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: PATRICK what happens when you apply game theory to partisan towards the political party that they RAULT, MATHEMATICS simple games such as this one. No prior knowledge supported. Drawing on historical newspapers from ______of game theory is necessary to understanding this all over the United States as well as modern Numerical Range: When is a Matrix talk. scholarly articles and books about Senator Revels, Like an Ellipse? ______this paper will attempt to understand how the The River Crossing Game: How people of the United States viewed the first black DAN ROSSI Senator. Let A be an n-by-n matrix. The numerical range of A, Probability Shifts When Ties are ______denoted W(A), is a map from the set of square Eliminated Disheartened Rebels: Resistance to matrices to the set of complex numbers. We consider the set of 4-by-4 doubly stochastic MELANIE FRANCIOSA, DANIELLE SEICKEL the Confederacy in Western North matrices (i.e. matrices whose rows and columns The River Crossing Game is a game of chance with no each sum to 1) and their numerical range. We optimal strategy to win. Due to this, either player has Carolina a certain probability from the beginning of winning, JOSHUA SCHROEDER categorize the shapes that the numerical range of a 4-by-4 doubly stochastic matrix A may have. We losing, or tying. We are most interested in Western North Carolina was the scene of configurations where ties are possible because widespread and active white resistance towards the then provide our new necessary and sufficient conditions on A for W(A) to have some of these probabilities can shift drastically in favor of one player Confederacy. This resistance grew from a broader over the other when the tie is eliminated. We will dissatisfaction with the Confederacy that was shapes, including ellipses and quadrilaterals. This talk will be accessible to students who have taken show these probability shifts through calculating the rooted in an adverse relationship between poorer probabilities in situations where ties are present and Western North Carolina and wealthier Eastern elementary linear algebra. when they are no longer available. With a simple roll North Carolina. North Carolina, especially the West, was reluctant to secede from the Union and only

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2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual of the dice, we will show that the game can shift in ______regimes and authoritarian practices in Pakistan, any direction and is extremely unpredictable. The Response of the Muslim Pakistani ties with U.S. foreign policy initiatives, ______Brotherhood to Egypt's Arab and the participation in the destabilization of Statistical Analysis of Card Counting Afghanistan beginning in 1979 amongst other Uprising in Casino Blackjack factors. In order to understand the level of success THEODORE WILSON of the policies of the Bush 2 and Obama JACKIE GUTHART, JOE STORM FACULTY SPONSOR: EDWARD DRACHMAN, administrations toward Pakistan, it is crucial to Blackjack is the most popular casino table game in POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS understand the historical and modern perspectives the world, but is it possible to guarantee a player's The Muslim Brotherhood seemed to lie in shadow of both states. Once this is achieved. we can begin success? We will begin with an overview of Hi-Lo during Egypt's January 2011 revolution and the to find solutions to rebuild this relationship and card counting and how it works. Then we will delve subsequent removal of the thirty-year Mubarak work towards the goals of both states. into the mathematics of Hi-Lo card counting used by dictatorship. Yet, in the wake of this Arab Uprising strategic players to determine whether it truly gives in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood organized 1P • PSYCHOLOGY WELLES 115 the player an advantage against the dealer in a tremendous political support in the form of the game of casino blackjack. Freedom and Justice Party and was able to secure a Studies Examining the Response to ______significant plurality in Egypt's parliamentary Threat and Challenge The Two-Move Matrix Game: I'm Bi- elections. Political representation of the initial FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, PSYCHOLOGY Winning Tahrir Square protesters' interests, on the other SESSION CHAIR: MOLLY WALSH SARA SMACHER hand, is scant. In the midst of a deeply broken ______This simple two-player math game has two stages. economy and the encroachment of religious Islamic Modifying Physiological Response to Each player first chooses how to allocate their fundamentalism into the political arena, the Stress with One Session of resources, and then decides which pair of Muslim Brotherhood has begun a rapid and historic outcomes is more likely to give themself the highest campaign to return stability and organization to the Progressive Muscle Relaxation payoff based on the opposing player's actions. An Arab Republic of Egypt. YAEL MASSEN, MOLLY WALSH, SARAH FREEZE, important theorem will present us with a strategy ______MICHELLE ENGLEMAN which ensures that the expected value of a player's US Foreign Policy in a Dynamic The purpose of the current study was to determine payoff will be nonnegative. This talk is accessible to whether physiological stress responses could be Persian Gulf modified to produce greater adaptation. Prior everyone. MICHAEL FANDRICH research in our laboratory indicates the existence of FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT GOECKEL, POLITICAL 1N • PHILOSOPHY STURGES 112 individual differences in physiological response to SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS challenge. These differences can be seen in patterns The Animal Treatment Debate The United States has strategic interests in the of reactivity to and recovery from a stressor derived FACULTY SPONSOR: CARLO FILICE, PHILOSOPHY Persian Gulf characterized by the region's from recordings of participants' heart rates. The SESSION CHAIR: JUSTIN SHAPIRO geostrategic location, natural resources and identification of individual differences in ______relatively friendly Arab leadership. US foreign physiological profiles led us to question whether My Position Regarding Our Duties to policy interests have historically been hampered by they could be modified. Progressive Muscle Non-human Animals the volatile nature of the region's politics. Since Relaxation (PMR) has been found to be efficacious the official end of the Iraq War in 2011 and the in decreasing stress, anxiety, and physiological KEITH INGALLS Obama Administration's pivot towards Asia, US My position regarding our duties to non-human arousal, and to increase the rate of autonomic foreign policies towards the Persian Gulf region are recovery from laboratory-induced stressful events. animals in a state of flux. Furthermore, the Arab Gulf States ______The aim of our study was to determine whether or have not been immune to the wave of My Position Regarding Our Duties to not an individual's pattern of physiological reactivity revolutionary activity collectively termed the "Arab and recovery in response to stress could be Non-human Animals Spring." These uprisings have created issues for modified through the administration of an EVE ANDERSON the United States' relationship with two vital allies: abbreviated session of PMR. Initial analyses My position regarding our duties to non-human Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Because these countries revealed that a single administration of PMR animals represent significant military, security and resulted in more regulated physiological response ______economic interests, the United States has been to challenge compared to the control condition. If My Position Regarding Our Duties to forced to choose between the stability of the ruling these findings can be replicated, they may suggest Non-human Animals regimes and the promotion of democracy. Unlike that a brief intervention such as a single session of in Egypt or Libya where US policies fostered regime PMR may help people deal with short-term RACHEL CURTIS change, the Obama Administration has chosen to My position regarding our duties to non-human challenges in physiologically well-regulated ways, promote the stability of the Al- Saud and Al-Khalifa thus facilitating more adaptive behavioral and animals regimes. The United States will continue to back ______emotional responses. the ruling monarchs in an effort to protect four My Position Regarding Our Duties to ______vital interests: energy, counterterrorism, regional The Effects of Cyber and Traditional Non-human Animals stability concerning Israel and Iraq and the COLIN KEENAN containment of an increasingly aggressive Iran. Victimization on Adolescent Well- My position regarding our duties to non-human ______Being animals US Pakistan Relations since Partition SARA WIGDERSON, NETTA ADMONI, BRIGID EMILY VOEGLER HEENAN, STEPHANIE EDWARDS 1O • POLITICAL SCIENCE & FACULTY SPONSOR: JEREMY GRACE, POLITICAL The purpose of this study was to examine how INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS different forms of victimization affect the well-being An examination of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship and grade point average (GPA) of adolescents. This WELLES 24 since Partition in 1947 reveals a link wrought with study assessed both traditional forms of Continuity and Change in the Middle distrust and misunderstanding. This rocky victimization (relational and physical) and cyber- East & South Asia relationship has contributed to the destabilization victimization, and how victimization experiences of the state of Pakistan, and helped mold it into a SESSION CHAIR: EDWARD DRACHMAN, POLITICAL impact depression, anxiety, self-esteem, and GPA. haven for extremist organizations. This has SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Adolescent students completed questionnaires that occurred as a result of U.S. support of illiberal were sub-divided into several sections, each

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2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual measuring a different construct. Three-hundred- between the practices of 1st century Christians and consumption is a popular movement among college ninety-six students (51.3% male) from a rural school those of the Jehovah's Witnesses. students. Goods advertised as "socially-responsible" district's middle and high school participated in the potentially offer global great social benefits, yet the study. The data revealed a pattern of association 1R • INTERDISCIPLINARY: actual benefits of these products can be unclear at among the various forms of victimization indicating best and completely fabricated at worst. This study that many participants experienced multiple forms COMMUNICATION & HISTORY identifies the discursive strategies socially- of victimization, or polyvictimization. Linear WELLES 26 responsible companies employ to convince regression analyses revealed that cyber- SESSION CHAIR: BETSY COLON, GRANTS consumers that buying their product can change the victimization uniquely predicted depression, self- MANAGEMENT world. Pure Citizen, an online marketplace socially- esteem and grades. Additionally, interaction effects ______responsible goods, serves as a case study of between cyber-victimization and traditional Indonesian Tobacco: A Consumer promotional texts. Products on this website are victimization uniquely predicted aspects of well- Culture of Exploitation marketed as luxurious impulse purchases that can being. Overall, the links between depression, eradicate global injustice. The ads construct a global FRANCIS MANDRACCHIA anxiety, self-esteem, and GPA, suggest that people consumer experience while sidestepping the FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL OBERG, HISTORY who experience victimization may experience a paradoxical inconsistencies of a pro-consumerist Many developing countries experiencing economic depleted sense of well-being. These findings have movement aiming to tackle the problems caused by growth have also seen a rise in cigarette the potential to inform issues that are especially over consumption. Understanding the complex and consumption. Multinational tobacco corporations relevant for secondary school students. These sometimes contradicting messages of the socially- are increasing their presence in these countries in results can be used by school personnel to design responsible consumerist discourse is the next the face of this strong economic growth. In bullying programs that address the full range of critical step in furthering consumerist movements Indonesia, firms have seen considerable growth in victimization experiences that adolescents may that effect positive social change the tobacco market as the country continues to encounter, especially in regard to cyber- ______develop. With tobacco consumption increasing, victimization. Indonesian public health faces the threat of a Marketing Hollywood Personalities KATRINA INNAMORATO SOUTH HALL 338 smoking epidemic. The injurious effects of tobacco 1Q • SOCIOLOGY smoking not only harm public health but also FACULTY SPONSOR: ATSUSHI TAJIMA, SESSION CHAIR: reduce productivity and economic growth. Local COMMUNICATION ______conditions in Indonesia have primed the market for This paper critically examines how America has Envisioning a Localized Food System multinationals to exploit this market largely created a subculture based on the lifestyles of through Community Supported because of the lack of regulation in the tobacco celebrity. In creating this field, advertisers have begun marketing these famous personalities to the Agriculture industry. Assessing the culture of tobacco in Indonesia can render an accurate assessment of point of exploitation. The creation of "celebrity" has KRISTEN BALSCHUNAT the growing problem--and possibly a solution for a been put into production due to the invention of FACULTY SPONSOR: KURT CYLKE, SOCIOLOGY healthy working economy for the future. reality television. Public figures are no longer Can sustainable farming change the world? Biting ______considered a part of the human species but are the into a local apple, or roasting Adirondack Blue Smoke Like a Turk: The Development superhuman, manufactured products of advertisers. potatoes creates more of an impact than you might This creates a large subdivision between normalcy think. Our "grocery store" culture has lost touch of the Industry and Images of and celebrity whilst creating unrealistically high with the origins of food and the system that bring it Cigarettes in Turkey standards for American females. to our plates. This presentation will challenge the AUDREY STEVENS value of the current food system that solely focuses FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL OBERG, HISTORY 1S • SOCIOLOGY WELLES 133 on production and efficiency, and will present As the American tobacco industry came under SESSION CHAIR: ELAINE CLEETON, SOCIOLOGY community supported agriculture (CSA) as an increasing domestic pressure in the 1980s and ______alternative farming model that has the capacity to 1990s, cigarette companies increasingly capitalized Creating the Conversation: When protect the environment and care for people while on developing markets. Building upon existing The Classroom Tells All producing healthy, local, seasonal food. It will be political and economic trends towards Western rooted in the presenter's experience as an intern at DANA LIVINGSTON ideas of liberalization, American tobacco companies FACULTY SPONSOR: ELAINE CLEETON, SOCIOLOGY Kindred Ground Farm, a CSA farm in Avon, NY. promoted cigarettes as an avenue to modern, ______As the students of color became middle class the Western, economic development. Exaggerating Paul Made this Comment: Sociology criticism of persistent American racist practices such associations, advertisements sold the same declined. In a mid-level sociology course originally of Language and its Religious images of Western modernity and wealth to Turkish designed to empower first-generation black women Application consumers and Turkish policymakers. Persisting students evidence of discomfort with materials beyond advertising bans and increased smoking JOEL INBODY challenging racist practices provoked a redesign of regulation, powerful associations still contribute to FACULTY SPONSORS: STEVE DERNE AND BILL the course structure allowing for in-depth the complex and ambivalent attitude toward LOFQUIST understanding and acceptance of history and the smoking in Turkey. Understanding and challenging The Sociology of Language focuses on the effect of present. manufactured portrayals of cigarettes through language on the society which uses it. The Jehovah's ______honestly depicting -and hopefully reducing - Witnesses, a Christian sect which is best known for But I'm Not A Racist cigarette smoking in Turkey can be an important its aggressive door-to-door proselytizing, employ a DANA LIVINGSTON, JOBINA ALEXANDER, NICOLE part of efforts to clear the air. great variety of terms and phrases that are peculiar ______ALIX, VICTORIA CURTIS, NAOMIE FRANCOIS, to the movement, and which convey concisely, if COLLEEN HALBOHN, CECORIA HARDY, HANNAH esoterically, their doctrines. In some cases, the Pure Mythology: What "Good-for- HUNTER, EUN SOPHIA HWANGBO, ELIZABETH terminology is obvious and explicit, and would be the-World" Companies Tell The JOHNSON, JESSICA JONASSE, MEAGHAN KELSEY, easily noticed by outsiders. In others, the Socially-Responsible Consumer PAIGE LAURICELLA-PACK, XERIUS LEWIS, terminology is far more subtle, and must be KATE MCGUIRE CHRISTINA MARCONI, KIMBERLEY MELLE, analyzed within the context of how other Christian FACULTY SPONSOR: ATSUSHI TAJIMA, CHEYENNE MIDI, TORI PRYOR, ASHLEY ROCCO, groups would express the same concept to notice COMMUNICATION BELEM SANCHEZ, MICHAEL SENZER, AMY TRAN, the difference. This language functions, through You don't have to own a pair of TOMS or a Falling KAWAI WONG conscious or unconscious use, to establish the Whistle to know that socially-responsible FACULTY SPONSOR: ELAINE CLEETON, SOCIOLOGY movement's legitimacy and create a connection AND SUE ANN BRAINARD, LIBRARY

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Giving access to the ways that racism is viewed in is no longer one black America. Interviews of the formed and how this influences our behaviors as a America, we explore Eugene Robinson's four classes students family and friends were conducted to society. of black America and expand on the fact that there show how perceptions of race and ethnicity are

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2A • ANTHROPOLOGY MILNE 105 have agency, courage and moral authority. We FACULTY SPONSOR: ABBI PAULSON AND HAROLD SESSION CHAIR: PAUL PACHECO, ANTHROPOLOGY argue that this fantasy world seems real because it HOOPS, BIOLOGY ______affirms a degree of autonomy for children that is, The mechanism of tube development is not well Multiple Maks, Unified Mind: The too often, denied by modern society. understood in the field of biology. Tubes play an ______important role in human development, since many Nature of Online Identity Material Analysis of Buried organs such as the heart, liver, and kidneys develop NATHAN THAYER Secondary Refuse Deposits at the as tubes. The soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans FACULTY SPONSOR: DENICE SZAFRAN, is a great model system for studying tube ANTHROPOLOGY Lady's Run Site: Implications for Ohio development. The C. elegans intestine is made up The advent of digital tribes and Internet Hopewell Sedentism of 20 cells with a fluid filled lumen that forms via a communities has opened the door to new and SANDRA BENDER, ERIN STEINWACHS cord hollowing mechanism. Tropomodulins are interesting ways for the development of the self FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, actin binding proteins that regulate the slow and the formation of groups. Online we are able to ANTHROPOLOGY growing end of actin filaments and can also see the individual writ large in the ever- expanding Investigation at the Lady's Run site produced nucleate the formation of new actin filaments. C. formation of new identities on blogs, Internet evidence of an Ohio Hopewell domestic settlement elegans with loss of function for tmd-1 show communities, and message boards. By examining on the Harness Farm, located 10 km south of multiple defects in their intestine, such as abnormal the formation of these identities online and how Chillicothe, in central Ohio. Excavations conducted lumen shape, accumulation of acidified gut they interact with our offline selves we can better during the 2007-2011 field seasons uncovered granules, and formation of enlarged non-acidified understand the development of the self and how multiple secondary refuse deposits at the site. vesicles. These phenotypes may be the result of that interacts with the larger population. The Density analysis of material remains recovered from defects in vesicular transport. To learn more about purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of these refuse deposits were conducted during the this potential vesicle trafficking defect and to identity and test the validity of the Multiplicity 2011-2012 academic year. Data interpretation illuminate other roles that TMD-1 may play in the Thesis. The validity of Multiplicity will be tested coupled with diagnostic artifacts resulted in intestine, we have been examining the intestinal against survey results and two case studies patterns indicative of sedentary settlements. These ultrastructure of tmd-1 mutants using transmission performed on two different people who have findings support the argument that sedentary, electron microscopy. These studies should yield engaged in creating online personas on the residential Ohio Hopewell complexes were present exciting new insights into the role that actin plays in microblogging website Tumblr.com. This study is a at the Lady's Run site about 1,700 years ago. shaping the development of biological tubes. preliminary work which sets out to change the ______current view of how people form their online selves Middle Late Woodland Settlement Prevalence of Epithelial to and what relation that online person has to the person on the other side of the screen. and Subsistence in Central Ohio Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) ______ROBIN QUATAERT Resulting from Ultrapotent Dumbledore's Army: The FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, Corticosteroid Treatment of Vulvar ANTHROPOLOGY Transgressive Narrative of the Child The Jack's Reef Horizon, also known as the Intrusive Disease Soldier in Harry Potter Mound culture, is a little known aspect of the ARWEN TISDALE, CHOO-HYUN KIM SARAH ROSEN Middle Late Woodland time period in parts of FACULTY SPONSOR: JANI LEWIS, BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: BARBARA WELKER, Eastern Woodlands region and is the focus of this Cells that become tumorigenic undergo an ANTHROPOLOGY presentation which seeks to create a description of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), which The prevailing humanitarian view of contemporary the settlement and subsistence patterns of these is often characterized by a loss in epithelial cadherin child soldiers is that they are deviant products of people in central Ohio. Excavations conducted at a (E-cad) and a gain in vimentin expression. These adult abuse, unlawfully forced into armed conflict series of sites in southern Ohio, six miles south of changes are linked with a more aggressive cancer against their essential natures. This narrative has Chillicothe, Ohio will be the focus of this report. phenotype, therefore E-cad and vimentin have influenced contemporary literary conventions, These excavations include the results of the become prominent markers in determining the reversing the images of child soldiers that once Browns Bottom project as well as a handful of stage of some cancers. Our studies show treatment pervaded literature. Child soldier-heroes of other excavations including the Edwin Harness of the vulvar cancer cell line, A431, with either yesteryear, such as Gavroche in Victor Hugo's Les Mound, and Ceplus. The Browns Bottom project dexamethasone and clobetasol, results in loss of E- Miserables, have been succeeded by figures like has exhibited several features of the Jack's Reef cad and gain of vimentin expression. This is of Agu, the battered victim in Uzodinma Iweala's Horizon which is the basis of this report. The particular concern because clobetasol and other Beasts of No Nation. The Harry Potter series derives objective is to create an accurate compilation of all ultrapotent corticosteroids are commonly used in some of its power from its counter-narrative of data obtained to interpret what this data the treatment of the vulvar disease, lichen children with real agency. Harry and his peers represents in regards to settlement and sclerosus. Our studies are now examining if the loss assume the characterization of heroic child subsistence. of E-cadherin and gain of vimentin expression are combatants with the formation of Dumbledore's commonly seen in vulvar cancer from patients Army. The brainchild of Hermione Granger, the 2B • BIOLOGY NEWTON 203 previously diagnosed with lichen sclerosus and D.A. functions in direct opposition to the will of the SESSION CHAIR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY treated with clobetasol. adult world, as a way for students to teach ______themselves magic necessary to fight Lord Characterizing the Role of TMD-1/ Epigenetic Effects of 5-Azacytidine Voldemort. In a narrative that challenges Tropomodulin in Intestinal on Breast Cancer humanitarian ideology, the students operate a GREGORY ROLOFF combatant organization in opposition to adult Development FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY authority figures. Harry Potter offers young readers COREY HOFFMAN, JOE VOLLO KEVIN MILITELLO BIOLOGY a transgressive counter- narrative, in which children 40

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Cancer uses a variety of mechanisms to circumvent degrade, and accordingly, its lifetime measurement Creating a Musical Instrument Using the normal cellular defenses against uncontrolled changes. Utilizing this, QD was used as a probe, and proliferation. Targeting the profoundly altered was encapsulated along with the silver nanoparticle a Kinect Camera epigenetic patterns of cancer cells, especially DNA inside the sol-gel. The sol-gel sample was exposed STEPHEN KOWALEWSKI methylation, has developed as a promising to 1M HCl for about 40 minutes, and the diffusion FACULTY SPONSOR: HOMMA FARIAN, COMPUTER therapeutic avenue. My research involves process was analyzed by lifetime spectrometer in SCIENCE investigating the efficacy and potential of a drug one-minute interval. Diffusion of acid was verified Microsoft's Kinect Camera was originally designed known as 5-Azacytidine. The ability of 5-Azacytidine to be dependent on the size of encapsulated to capture a person's position in space for console to induce apoptosis in breast cancer cells was nanoparticle. video games, but shortly after its release people demonstrated by a significant up-regulation of RNA began using it with computers for all sorts of coding for death inducing proteins via a gene ______things, including musical instruments. Current expression microarray, and further validated by Investigation of the Compounds in implementations of musical instruments using the specific assays measuring apoptosis. Subsequent Anaphalis margaritacea Kinect (many of which have freely available source code) either jump between discrete pitches or slide experiments involving RNA interference of the DNA LAUREN HEALY between pitches but do not have a mechanism for Methyltransferase 1 enzyme are aimed to Anaphalis margaritacea, more commonly known as incorporating both. By allowing for both ways of understand the specificity of the effects observed Pearly Everlasting, has been used by as many as negotiating pitch change, I created a more versatile by this drug. eight Native American tribes, mainly for upper musical instrument. My presentation will cover respiratory problems such as coughs and colds. The how I incorporated discrete and sliding pitches into 2C • CHEMISTRY NEWTON 204 Iroquois, however, were known to use the roots of a single instrument as well as certain key design Pearly Everlasting as a treatment for dysentery and Chemistry Honors Thesis 2 decisions that allowed me to overcome the inherent diarrhea. Discovering the chemical composition of FACULTY SPONSOR: ERIC HELMS, CHEMISTRY precision limitations of the camera. It will also the roots may give rise to why they were so SESSION CHAIR: CRISTINA GEIGER, CHEMISTRY include a live demonstration of the instrument in successful in treating these ailments. Specifically,the ______action. particular compound (E)-5-chloro-2-(octa-2,4,6- Simultaneous Measurement of ______triynylidene)-5,6-dihydro-2H-pyran shows structural Charge and Fluorescence Intensity of similarity to compounds exhibiting antibacterial and Mobile Application Development- CdSe Quantum Dots antifungal activity. Isolating and characterizing the 1...2...3...Crossfit ERIK SKIBINSKI compounds present in A. margaritacea will allow CODY DUNCAN The unique optical properties of colloidal for further investigation into their properties and FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTIAN SHIN, COMPUTER semiconductor nanocrystals, commonly referred to potential uses as pharmaceuticals. SCIENCE as "quantum dots"• (QDs), have stimulated Android mobile is a market which is increasing significant interest in their use in a variety of 2D • COMPUTER SCIENCE WELLES 128 exponentially. Because of this, throughout this technologies, including biological imaging, SESSION CHAIR: DOUGLAS BALDWIN, COMPUTER semester and last I have designed, implemented, photovoltaics, and quantum cryptography. However, SCIENCE and debugged an application for use on the the viability of QDs for such applications is ______Android platform. This began as an elective course, significantly limited by the presence of fluorescence Experimentally Exploring Algorithmic CSCI 380, and continued as a directed study this intermittency in these materials. Fluorescence Descriptions of Three-Dimensional semester. My application attempts to fill a niche in intermittency, also known as fluorescence "blinking"• the physical fitness market. It is used to track one's describes the stochastic switching of fluorescence Geometry dietary and workout regimen, specifically for use intensity from individual QDs between a bright ELIZABETH SKIBA with the Crossfit workout program. It takes fluorescent "ON"•state and dark, nonfluorescen FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS BALDWIN, advantage of XML parsing, the camera, Android's "OFF"•state, all while under continuous COMPUTER SCIENCE alarm and notification system, and many other photoexcitation. The microscopic origin of blinking Describing three-dimensional geometry is technologies made possible through the Mobile behavior remains poorly understood. One piece of important in a number of application areas medium. This application is the culmination of two key data that would help better understand this including scientific modeling and engineering. Our semesters, and will, in the future, be submitted to phenomenon, but is currently missing in the research research team is interested in describing three- the Android market. I will describe, in detail, my literature, is a simultaneous and direct measurement dimensional geometry for particle physics experience developing this application under the of electrical charge and fluorescence intensity from simulations. We've developed a Python module guidance of Professor Shin. Along with this, I will individual QDs. Combining gel electrophoresis and called pyMGeo for physicists to use to analyze the challenges of Android development, fluorescence imaging, we describe a novel automatically generate geometry for the particle specifically those raised in creating a physical experimental approach to perform such physics simulator MCNP. pyMGeo allows users to fitness application, and the solutions I devised. measurements. We will present recent results that describe geometry algorithmically, for example, 2E • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 121 demonstrate the viability and uniqueness of an through the use of classes and loops. I designed integrated approach. To the best of our knowledge, and performed an experiment to test algorithmic Edgar Fellows Miscellany III this technique provides the first direct and description against already existing tools and FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: OLYMPIA simultaneous measurement of charge and methods for describing geometry. Other tools and NICODEMI, MATHEMATICS ______fluorescence in a single QD and can be used to test methods include creating geometry descriptions by conflicting theories that describe this prominent hand and using a visual editor. Since physicists The Cultivation of Uncertainty: an single molecule phenomenon. working with simulators often make changes to Atheist's Experiences with ______their experimental set-up I measured the effort Agnosticism Diffusion Rate Dependence Through needed to make a change to a pre- existing geometry description. My results show that the KIM HALL a Size Controlled Nanoparticle effort needed to make a change using algorithmic That wasn't supposed to be the title of this Encapsulated Sol-Gel Matrix description is less than with other tools and presentation. It was supposed to have to do with JISU RYU methods. I also found that algorithmic description human genetic or physiological factors influencing Various sized silver nanoparticle encapsulated sol- works well in models that repeat a subset of the spirituality. But when trying to understand religious gel was studied to characterize the diffusion rate of geometry. faith, are these really the elements we should address aqueous solvent through the system. Under acidic ______first? My work on this project leads me to think conditions (pH<4) CdSe quantum dot (QD) starts to otherwise, and as the project has changed in scope, so has my attitude toward and understanding of

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2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual belief. I will discuss the factors that have led me away submit an answer to the broader, always troubling explores various ways Shakespeare uses the tensions from a purely atheistic take on religion, such as the question of how a travel writer can responsibly produced by changing and competing worldviews to lack of a scientific language about spirituality, the represent other people and places, a project that is create his works. I examine a variety of plays in terms New Atheism of those such as Dawkins and Hitchens by definition always to some degree hegemonic, of human possibility and limitation, particularly in and its counter-movements, and my own experiences always engaged in the discursive construction of relation to the natural world. For this presentation, I with believers, nonbelievers, and their worldviews. I place and people who do not speak for themselves. will give a general overview of my project as well as will also address questions faced by myself and Mentor: ROBERT DOGGETT, ENGLISH explain in greater depth one section, in which I look at anyone else going through a crisis of faith or of the roles and significance of the pirates in Hamlet. disbelief, including the definition of faith and what 2F • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 123 Mentor: RONALD HERZMAN, ENGLISH the most valid reasons to have it could be. Mentor: Edgar Fellows Miscellany IV THEODORE EVERETT, PHILOSOPHY 2G • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ______FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: OLYMPIA Resveratrol: Red Wine and Beyond NICODEMI, MATHEMATICS SOUTH HALL 340 ______L.I.V.E.S. Program MARIE-JO NASSAR Subtle Shuttling: Identity and Many health benefits of red wine are due to a FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: ELIZABETH particular substance known as trans-resveratrol. In Representation in Jamaica Kincaid's HALL, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION an effort to profit on the growing popularity of Memoir My Brother ______resveratrol, a variety of dietary supplements STASIA MONTEIRO Strengths and Struggles of Being a containing the substance have been developed. This capstone project analyzes the complexity of Freshman However since resveratrol is considered a one's identity, as it is bound within Jamaica ANDREW SASS, PATRICK CHMELA, ELIMARY "nutraceutical," a naturally occurring food chemical, Kincaid's memoir, My Brother. My analysis shuttles VASQUEZ, MARIELY VASQUEZ, CAITLYN companies are not required to disclose the amount between the implications of Devon Drew's identity FRIEDMAN, LAUREN DALY, KEITH HOLMES of resveratrol in the pills they manufacture. In an as a black man dying of AIDS in his native island of Students in the Freshmen Class of the L.I.V.E.S. effort to determine the resveratrol content of these Antigua, and the tensions present in the narrator's Program, a program for students with moderate to supplements, a method has been developed using identity, which simultaneously serve as a bridge severe intellectual and/or other developmental solid phase extraction and high performance liquid between the reader and the unfamiliar, yet also disabilities on campus, surveyed more than 100 chromatography. The positive effects of trans- demonstrates a desire for distance between herself Geneseo college (freshman - seniors) students on resveratrol and the relative merits of analyzed and the family that she is summoned to when news "What were your strengths and struggles when you dietary supplements will be discussed. Mentor: of Devon's illness is first revealed. This project were freshman?" The students in the LIVES JAMES BOIANI, CHEMISTRY confronts the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in Program then compared their strengths and ______which Devon's and the narrator's identities orient struggles to those of Geneseo's regular college Illuminating the Commedia: them within the memoir, and how they are students. The results of the survey showed that the Botticelli Reads Dante positioned within the genre of memoir and practice both populations of students had many of the same HANNAH SCHMIDT of representation as a whole. Mentor: MARIA LIMA, struggles and few of the same strengths. The results Ninety-three drawings comprise the entirety of ENGLISH of the survey will be shared. Sandro Botticelli's illuminated manuscript of Dante's ______Commedia. For the artist, Dante's text is a strong On the Record: Writers, Rights, and The Next Step in College-Advocating set of guidelines for reaching God. His illuminations Rap in Post-Unification Germany for One's Self and Selecting the Right then become the pictorial roadmap. Whether he is AUDREY STEVENS Path emphasizing one particular character, event, theme, Germany faced a medley of identity challenges after TYLER GERACI, ANDREW MACDONALD, ELLEN or the relationship between all the cantos of a the fall of the Berlin Wall, including a growing chorus BEISHEIM, NATHAN CLOUGH, FRED YOUNG, canticle as a whole, Botticelli is purposely leading of voices contesting static notions of citizenship. MELISSA PRICE, CHRIS SCHEIB, KRISTA COBURN the viewer to a deeper knowledge of the divine. Wrapped up in larger political and literary debates, Students in the Sophomore Class of the L.I.V.E.S. This presentation examines several specific aspects Turkish German rappers gave voice and rhythm to Program, a program for students with moderate to of both the illuminations and the text, including the new generations of non-Germans in 1990s Germany. severe intellectual and/or other developmental devils in the Inferno and the role of Beatrice in As the 1999 citizenship reforms fell flat, Turkish disabilities on campus, surveyed more than 100 Paradiso, to understand how the artist read the language hip-hop posed sharp critiques. Not unlike Geneseo college (freshman - seniors) students on poet. Mentor: RONALD HERZMAN, ENGLISH French contemporaries and their counter-cultural rap "Life After High School: Determining the Next Step ______postures, Turkish German rappers refrained from a in College". Students developed a survey about Imaginative Geographies of Anwar passive acceptance of monolithic German narratives advocating for oneself and how to determine the and crafted empowered, subcultural self- Sadat's Egypt next step in college, what classes to take, how to be understandings through hip-hop. Often unnoted by ELIZABETH BARBER successful in college classes, what strategies helped scholars, policymakers, and the public, Turkish All textual representations of foreign space are them to be successful learners, etc. The German rappers voice larger questions of deficient; for a travel writer to give voice to all a Sophomores will share their experiences about transnational identities and agency which deserve to place's nuances and complexities, to represent a auditing some of Geneseo's college classes, how place as it objectively exists, is an utterly impossible be on the record. Mentor: HELENA WADDY, HISTORY ______they selected the classes and strategies that were task. Instead, what emerges in travel writing are successful for them. Next they will share the results 'imaginative geographies' -or, subjective images of a Shakespeare and the Elements: of their survey, are some of the strategies they country produced within the writer's particular socio- Cosmology and the Forms of Human use(d) the same as Geneseo's regular college historical framework. My paper explores 'imaginative Limitation in the Plays students and how they selected their classes with geographies' of Anwar Sadat's Egypt (1970-1981) in the help of some of their college mentors and American travel writing, examining the development WILLIAM PORTER Shakespeare wrote at a time generally thought to peers. of such images of Egypt out of an interplay between ______mark the beginning of a "modern" way of thinking-- numerous factors, most particularly the writer's self- What the Future Holds: Looking conscious engagement with post-colonial and post- particularly, given proximity to the advent of the modern theories. My ultimate purpose, here, taking scientific revolution and an increasingly humanistic Ahead to Life After Graduation as a guide the efforts of travelers writing about Egypt worldview--about individual selves and their relation JOHN FEIDNER, DUSTIN FREDERICY, JEWLEY in the 1970s to reconcile practice with theory, is to to the cosmos. 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Students in the Junior Class of the L.I.V.E.S. Additionally, Gower grants Philomena's expect to hear more than just stories, though. Program, a program for students with moderate to transformation much more attention than the other Presenters will demonstrate, through narratives of severe intellectual and/or other developmental two, expressing her sorrow at the loss of her their own, how generational, educational, and disabilities on campus, surveyed more than 100 virginity but also her joy that she is now a situational gaps can be bridged through storytelling. Geneseo college (freshman - seniors) students nightingale and does not have to endure shame and "Employment and Advocacy". The Juniors are censure from society. Another change Gower ______beginning their internships around campus. They made to Ovid's original was to inject the story with From Page to Pixels, with Terabytes will discuss employment opportunities available to allegory, which was at the time extremely popular Between them both on and off campus, their hopes and literary device. Specifically, Gower in his telling, CHELSEA BUTKOWSKI dreams, and how the L.I.V.E.S. Program has enabled shifts the focus from gory description to the moral Most of us are used to reading stories from printed them to expand job opportunities to them. They will discourse and symbolic meaning. pages, yet the digital media revolutions offers new also share how they have advocated for their ______and exciting ways to access narrative. This choices, strengths and struggles in their The Beowulf and Arthurian Tragedy: presentation will focus on how narratives recorded employment decisions and that the future holds for A Literary Analysis of the Death from Heard@Geneseo have been adapted to them job wise. The students in the LIVES Program different audio and visual mediums. Presenters will surveyed over 100 Geneseo students to see how Scenes of Lancelot, Arthur and describe the drawbacks of digital media, specifically they set about determining what career path they Beowulf Within the Works Le Morte generational gaps, and how to navigate around wanted and how they went about making that path them in digital media endeavors. Attendees can a reality. The L.I.V.E.S. students will provide tips Darthur and Beowulf ASHLEY ALLEN expect to learn about internet liability and and suggestions based on their experiences and copyright, how to preserve stories and voice what they gathered from their research. Based on the concept of Fortune's Wheel, as presented Beothius's Consolation of Philosophy, the through digital media, and how Heard@Geneseo ______has applied these tools to their own audio My Journey Through L.I.V.E.S. unknown author of the epic poem Beowulf and Thomas Malory (within Le Morte Darthur) both recordings. FACULTY SPONSOR: DANIELLE EVERTS used the upturning of fortune to display the tragic 2K • HISTORY STURGES 108 KALEB KING event of a beloved hero lost. Using the elements of In the presentation, he will be discussing himself, Fracking and Its Consequences: Part 1 fate, praise, and betrayal, both authors play up who he is, and what he did before he joined FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JORDAN tragic feelings within the death scenes of three L.I.V.E.S. program. He will discuss about why he KLEIMAN, HISTORY heroes: Sir Lancelot, King Arthur and Beowulf. All joined the L.I.V.E.S. program. He will discuss what ______three men came from immense nobility, riches, and he experienced through the L.I.V.E.S. program. He The Hydrofracking Process and its popularity within their ruling kingdoms. Yet in their will also discuss what he will pursue after leaving last moments of life; each man was alone, without Effects on Public Health: The the L.I.V.E.S. program. ______their prized possessions and without an army or Unaddressed Human Impact of battalion behind them. By analyzing the death Preparation for Obtaining a Job scenes of both the epic poem Beowulf and the work Unconventional High Volume Slick FACULTY SPONSOR: DANIELLE EVERTS Le Morte Darthur, each character is signified by Water Hydraulic Fracturing HANNAH BROWN, JUSTINE DELUCA their high fortune and status as well as their MATTHEW BOWER, ALLISON HOPPE I want to discuss the process of how myself and my descent towards the "bottom rung" in the event of Although Governor Patterson issued an executive peer have gone about to prepare for our future. I their death. order stating that both the environmental and want to discuss surveys I took of the student body health impacts of hydraulic fracturing should be of the SUNY Geneseo campus, of how they 2J • ENGLISH WELLES 133 covered by the Department of Environmental prepared for their future and what they did. I want Heard@Geneseo Conservation's (DEC) Supplemental Generic to share ideas of how to set yourself on the path to Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS), the FACULTY SPONSOR: BETH MCCOY, ENGLISH success of finding a job. human health aspect has been largely neglected. SESSION CHAIR: MICHAEL ROFF ______Unconventional natural gas extraction has been 2H • ENGLISH MOVED TO 4T touted by the hydrofracking industry as a clean and Singing Hero: Solutions to American efficient bridge fuel to facilitate the transition from 2I • ENGLISH WELLES 132 Aging traditional coal and oil-dependent energy Between Centuries: Where Medieval MICHAEL ROFF production to carbon neutral sources (e.g., wind We are not able to transcend time. Nevertheless, and solar technology). However, independent Literature Comes From the social isolation, disengagement, and depression scientific research has provided convergent FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH that accompanies aging in America is no immutable evidence that the hydrofracking process is highly SESSION CHAIR: CLARISSE BIRKBY fate. This presentation will identify the myths, correlated with negative human health effects ______biases, and assumptions typical to American aging, ranging from rashes to asthma to cancer. The Ovid's "Tale of Philomena" and how Heard@Geneseo--a student organized oral results have shown that the negative health According to Gower's Medieval history project--is transforming Geneseo's aging consequences correlated with hydrofracking have Sensibilities climate, one story at a time. Attendees can expect been associated with various stages of the to learn more about American aging and how procedure, including gas and water transportation, GABRIELLE TIEDE Heard@Geneseo's grassroots initiatives can be water and air pollution, gas extraction, and waste This paper discusses various changes Gower made modeled at a smaller scale. management. Before high-volume slickwater to Ovid's "Myth of Teresus, Procne and Philomene" ______horizontal hydraulic fracturing is allowed to proceed in his Confessio Amantis. In Medieval culture, the under minimal regulation in the United States, nightingale was understood to be a symbol of The Making of a Narrative further research on the human health impacts innocent, romantic love. With this in mind, Gower MELISSA VETRANO resulting from all activities associated with the has to dance around the fact that this symbol crops Courage was originally defined as "to tell the story process must be conducted. Our presentation will up in a myth filled with violence, rape and of who you are with your whole heart." Yet for address the growing debate regarding the cannibalism. To this end, in Gower's version of many senior citizens, their stories go unheard. This hydrofracking procedure and its impact on public Ovid's myth Philomene does not participate in the presentation is an opportunity to listen. It will focus on the life stories from of citizens in the Geneseo health. butchering of Teresus' son thus making her align ______more closely with the innocence of the nightingale. community recorded by Heard@Geneseo, as told by the students who interviewed them. Attendees can

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The Potential Cost of Fracking Traffic limited amount of colors. One player will try to CAMERON PERRY color the map properly, while the other player will Heidegger's philosophy stressed the primacy of the on Affected Communities try to reach a bad partial coloring, in which the map question of Being. His phenomenological argument BRIDGET KELLY, AMANDA LANIK cannot be colored another further without coloring for Being as "Being-in- the-World," -- if we accept it, Geologists have long known about the existence of two adjacent regions the same color. The game was has important ramifications for epistemology, and vast quantities of natural gas trapped within black designed to try to prove the Four Color Theorem, dissolves the problem of external world skepticism. shale formations, however it was not until recent but the game was unsuccessful. But it has brought ______technological advances that it has become up another question, "What is the fewest number No(zick's) New Solutions to the economically profitable to extract this shale gas. of colors needed to be able to win the competitive Problem of External World The main technological advance that enables the map coloring game?" Within this talk, I will be extraction of natural gas from deeply buried shale discussing strategies to reach a proper coloring of Skepticism units is the combined usage of horizontal drilling the map and the findings and questions raised by MATTHEW CORDELLA methods and hydraulic fracturing, which has been the game. Robert Nozick argues that, by denying knowledge to termed high volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing ______be closed under known logical entailment, it is or fracking. One way in which this unconventional The Implications of Computers on possible to formulate an externalist epistemology drilling differs from conventional vertical drilling is that solves key elements of the problem of external that it requires far greater volumes of fracking Mathematics world skepticism. I argue that Nozick's non- fluids. These new developments in shale gas AARON WOHL justificational epistemology actually commits him extraction require approximately 4,000 truck trips In recent years, computers have helped aid to a more global version of skepticism, and that it is per well. According to recent estimates by the New mathematicians prove past theorems that were ultimately unmotivated, offering no new insights. York State Department of Transportation, this thought to be impossible to prove. In this talk I will discuss the first computer aided proof, the four- increase in heavy truck traffic could cost the state 2N • moved to 3T and local communities up to $378 million annually. color theorem, and how it changed the notion of a

In addition to these monetary costs, communities proof. We will consider whether or not a theorem may experience additional detrimental side effects has been proven even if no one can read its proof. 2O • POLITICAL SCIENCE & due to traffic increases. Road use agreements and ______INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS The Mathematics of Moneyball laws negotiated between oil industries and WELLES 24 communities offer an opportunity to minimize this THOMAS GORDON socialization of costs. How effective these are in Statistical analysis has become quite commonplace Health Care Policy in the United protecting local communities can be examined in the world of baseball. This talk will go behind the States through case studies in areas that have already numbers and explain the mathematics behind the FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: MARILYN undergone fracking. Moneyball Theory. KLOTZ, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL ______RELATIONS The Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing An Analysis of Polynomials of Degree ______on Air Quality 4 and of Degree 5 Planned Parenthood's Fight for MELANIE WIEDERHOLD, LAUREN BOMEISL BENJAMIN PATRZALEK Funds Our presentation will be on the effects of hydraulic In beginning to intermediate levels of Mathematics, SOPHIE FITZSIMMONS-PETERS fracturing on air quality. We will address the issues much emphasis is placed on Quadratic and Cubic This thesis will take a look at the role that federal of what chemicals from gas drilling operations can Polynomials. While such is worthwhile, it is through funding plays in the functioning of non-profit pollute the atmosphere, and the human health and the analysis of the Quintic and Quartic hat one is organizations, with a focus on Planned Parenthood ecological impacts associated with these chemicals. able to begin to fully comprehend their scale. We as a necessary recipient of such funding. While state We will explore the mechanisms of how these will go through the patterns of both degrees; funding and private donations both play a large role chemicals can enter the air, such as from ultimately our goal is to discover what makes in supporting Planned Parenthood, they are wastewater evaporation pits. Many of the Quintic polynomials so especially unique from the insufficient to ensure that affordable health care chemicals used in fracking fluid are highly toxic, rest. services continue to be provided by Planned even at low concentrations, and have the potential Parenthood. The influence of the economy and to inflict devastating and irreversible harm on those 2M • PHILOSOPHY STURGES 112 politics on such funding sources create an unstable who are exposed to them. One specific example The Problem of External World base of support, and many Planned Parenthood that we will address is the emission of ground level affiliates have been forced to close. As the nation's ozone, which is known to burn lung tissue and cause Skepticism leading reproductive health care provider and asthma and other chronic respiratory diseases. We FACULTY SPONSOR: WALTER SOFFER, PHILOSOPHY advocate, Planned Parenthood has become too will also treat carbon dioxide and methane SESSION CHAIR: MATTHEW CORDELLA, PHILOSOPHY important to risk further closures. While the emissions as air pollutants and look at their ______national government has no constitutional authority implications in global climate change. This G.E. Moore's Anti-Idealist, Common- over health care, federal government funding is presentation will show that hydraulic fracturing in Sense Philosophy necessary to ensure these services based on gender has the potential to ruin air quality for Western OSCAR BALLOVERAS theory, rather than on ideology alone. In order to New Yorkers on multiple levels. In response to the problem of external world establish gender equality and equal participation in

skepticism, G.E. Moore's common sense philosophy government, equality of health care must be 2L • MATHEMATICS 2 NEWTON 201 shifts the burden of proof from philosopher whose provided, and therefore advocates of women's FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JEFF position is being attacked by the skeptic, to the health, such as Planned Parenthood, are vital to the JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS skeptic. This response to the epistemic problem of goals of our democracy. ______external world skepticism also has important ______The Competitive Map Coloring Game implications for arguments surrounding epistemic Medical Liability Reform in the SIM SIRIPHANH idealism. United States: A Comprehensive ______The map coloring game was created by a game Approach to Medical Error theorist named Steven J. Bram and published in Heidegger's "Being-in-the-World" JAMES MULLER 1981. Within this game, two players take turns and the Problem of External World trying to color a map without having two adjacent For decades policymakers have been unsuccessful in regions be the same color, while only using a Skepticism their attempt to create reform in the medical

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2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual liability system. Failed attempts in statutory reform managers can increase employee creativity and irrational the values associated with religion are derive from a lack of consensus on defining the performance through intrinsic and prosocial also pushed aside. However, Weber neglects those problems in need of reform. Additionally, for every motivation. These two critical types of motivation who may be scientifically minded, such as doctors identified problem, there is no agreement on the focus on empowering the employee and generating or scientists, but are also religious. Is it possible to policies that should be adopted to minimize medical internal motivation. By fostering prosocial be rationally minded, and still believe in God? A error and handle compensation. This paper clarifies motivation in the workplace, intrinsic motivation biography of Stephen Hawking, a prominent misconceptions about medical liability; considers will result and creativity will follow. scientist of our time, shed some light on this points of agreement among scholars and ______question. I read a biography about his life, making policymakers; and evaluates some of the popular Fed Challenge Presentation note of any reference to religion or God either in contending reform options. Finally, this paper PATRICK DANIELS, EMMETT O'BRIEN, RAJAN his life or people close to him. I found that concludes by offering a recommendation to BURATHOKI, NAM VU, ANTHONY PROEITTI, MIKE Stephen Hawking provides support for Weber's policymakers on what statutory reform ought to TENENBOYM, MATTHEW HAYES, CAROLINA theory. Hawking does not believe in any sort of resemble if it is to adequately protect patients and LLANOS, DAVID CEELY God. In fact, he works to disprove the idea through reduce healthcare costs. FACULTY SPONSOR: LEONIE STONE, SCHOOL OF his scientific research. Although support for Weber ______BUSINESS is provided in this instance, it is important to note The U.S. Food and Drug The Fed Challenge Team will be giving a presentation that my research consisted of one case study only. Administration's Regulatory Role: on Policy (fiscal/monetary), Housing, Labor, ______International, Occupy Movement (why people are Disaster in Japan Leads to the Reconciling Pharmaceutical Industry mad/does it matter?), Debt/Entitlements, GDP and Formation of Religious Convictions Interests with Public Health Needs Inflation KIMBERLEY GALLUCCI DONNA HANRAHAN Clifford Geertz argued that the rituals that people The American public is rapidly losing faith in the engage in are what generate religious conviction. pharmaceutical industry. This paper sets forth to 2Q • SOCIOLOGY MILNE 109 One thing that he did not take into account was analyze the relationship between the Food and that there are other possible ways for religious Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Studies in the Sociology of Religion FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: STEVE conviction to be formed. For instance, disasters in pharmaceutical industry, particularly the dissonance an individual's life could lead to the formation their between commercial profit and public health good. DERNE, SOCIOLOGY ______religious conviction. The Tsunami in Japan was a Bearing in mind the primacy of public health to Interactions Between the Religious terrible disaster that was all over the news. While industry demands, the FDA must undertake reading about the disaster in articles I found on the sweeping changes to restore public trust, to ensure Sphere and the Sphere of the State internet, I came across the article "After Tsunami, greater access to medicine, and to guarantee safe KATIE DUKARM Japanese Turn to Ancient Rituals", written by use of pharmaceutical products for America. Sociologist Max Weber argues that the religious Barbara Hagerty. In the article, Hagerty discussed sphere of life conflicts with other spheres of life, how in those terrible times, many Japanese people 2P • SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 1 like the state. Weber believes that the religious found comfort in ancient Buddhist beliefs. This SOUTH HALL 338 ethic of neighborliness clashes with the sphere of article provided information that proved disaster SESSION CHAIR: LEONIE STONE, SCHOOL OF the state, which causes an internal conflict for could play a role in forming one's religious BUSINESS many people. Weber describes the religious sphere conviction. ______as peaceful and loving, whereas the state is a ______Corporate Governance and Equity harsher, more rational entity. Because these two Religion, a Source of Disunity? spheres of life are opposites for Weber, it is often Performance: Do Shareholder Rights ALI ROHAN difficult to understand how they may be able to To Durkheim, religion's purpose is to unify people. Matter? intersect. Weber defines the state by its pursuit of It may be true that religion unifies in some cases, ZUBAIR DAWOOD a monopoly of the legitimate use of violence. Since however, it seems that Durkheim neglects to FACULTY SPONSOR: LEONIE STONE, SCHOOL OF the military is controlled by the state, it is easy to mention the fact that religion may not unify in all BUSINESS assume that its primary mission would be to pursue cases. In fact, religion may actually divide some The study creates a composite measure of a monopoly of the legitimate use of violence. The people. In studying Durkheim's potential disparity corporate governance, based on a dataset provided Civil Affairs branch of the United States Army about religious unity, I conducted a study using the by Institutional Shareholder Services. The focuses on civil-military operations, and its primary method of personal introspection. I utilized a composite measure encompasses four categories: mission is to work with civil authorities and civilian journal-type document I had created a few years Audit, Board, Compensation, and Shareholder populations overseas to lessen the impact of earlier. I analyzed the document, looking for Rights. The composite is related to operating military operations on them during peace, anything related to my feelings of being part of a performance and valuation for 3912 firms. The contingency operations, and declared war. My group or of being outcast from one. Overall, I literature shows that good governance, as analysis of the Civil Affairs branch of the United found that during the course of my study, any measured using compensation is most highly States Army shows that the religious sphere and mention of unity in the document relating to associated with positive equity performance. Firms the sphere of the state can indeed intersect religion referred to me feeling like I was not with stronger shareholder rights had higher firm without causing conflict. unified. The results of my study corroborated the value, higher profits, and higher sales growth. ______idea that religion doesn't always unify people. My ______The Disenchantment of Our World - study was beneficial insofar as a single personal Impact of Intrinsic and Prosocial Do Religion and the Intellectual introspective study can be, and the topic would Motivation on Creativity benefit from further study. Sphere Coexist? EVAN PALMER, ORLA KERR, TALIA CHILLEMI, CONNOR HUGHSON 2R • INTERDISCIPLINARY: KRISTIN CLAUSS Max Weber theorizes that religion conflicts with FACULTY SPONSOR: AVAN JASSAWALLA, SCHOOL the intellectual sphere of a society. He states, "The CHEMISTRY, MATHEMATICS, OF BUSINESS fate of our times is characterized by rationalization PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY Motivation is a problem faced by all members of and intellectualization and, above all, by the NEWTON 209 society. It is how we push ourselves and others we 'disenchantment of the world'." (Mcintosh p.155) SESSION CHAIR: BETSY COLON, GRANTS work with that helps innovation and creativity to He is saying that intellectualization has made MANAGEMENT flourish. Looked through a management religion an irrational thing, and that because it is perspective, this presentation will look at how ______45

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Quantum Dots: Lighting the Future Pellatron accelerator and EDS (Energy Dispersive present public service announcements to create MICHAEL RUGGIERO Spectrometry) on the SEM, scanning electron awareness on the impact of child marriage around FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY PETERSON, CHEMISTRY microscope] capable of separating meteorites from the world.

Quantum dots (QDs), spherical inorganic particles pseudo-meteorites. We are working on a donated set of imported objects from Morocco and once a with sizes ranging from 2-50 nanometers, are a ______popular class of nanomaterials, with unique optical sample is confirmed as extraterrestrial, it will be Humanities and Service Learning in and electrical properties as compared to traditional analyzed for heavy element abundances using thin luminescent materials. These properties are a target PIXE as well as specifying its precise mineral Nicaragua strong function of the QDs size and enable their use content using the SEM. JENNIFER GROM, LAUREN WHITE ______in a wide variety of applications, including solid FACULTY SPONSOR: WES KENNISON, STUDY state displays, biological imaging, and quantum Human Gait Analysis ABROAD computing. Cadmium selenide (CdSe) and lead JOHN DRAZAN, ADAM SCHNACKENBERG This session will offer two presentations featuring selenide (PbSe) QDs of various sizes were FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & Geneseo's partnership with El Sauce, Nicaragua. synthesized and optical characterization was ASTRONOMY The first presentation will focus on Humanities II in performed. Methods were investigated regarding An experiment was performed to develop metrics Nicaragua. The second will explore the various reaction reagents and conditions in order to analyze the human walking gait. Two Vernier FR- development of our service learning experience. to produce high quality, monodisperse samples BTA force plates were used to take force vs. time The discussion will draw connections between the with high reaction yields. Samples were data as subjects walked across the two plates. This reading of great books in the developing world and characterized at room temperature using process was repeated multiple times for each the discovery of appropriate strategies for service in absorption and fluorescence spectroscopies. subject. Video was taken of each walking trial. building long-term global partnerships. ______Detailed studies of their electronic structure were Using Tracker video analysis software, the completed by obtaining photoluminescence positions of the subject's toes, heels, knees, and Service Learning in Haiti: An Inside excitation (PLE) spectra at cryogenic temperatures. the nearer shoulder were recorded for each frame. Look at Grassroots Community Using a HeNe laser and a Vernier LS-BTA light The results, as well as an overview of QDs and Development nanotechnology, will be discussed in detail. sensor a photo gate was created. The photo gate ______allowed for the synchronization of the force data GRACE TROMPETER, STEPHANIE KELLY, HAYLEY A Tale of Two Geometries: A with the video and positional tracked data. Using MARTIN, MICHAEL MATTIUCCI, TYLER SCHWAB Matlab, a stick-figure animation of the subject was FACULTY SPONSOR: WES KENNISON, LANGUAGE Comparison of Euclidean and created from the positions of the tracked data. This AND LITERATURES Spherical stick figure was synchronized with the force vs. This presentation follows the experiences of five MEGAN CULLEN time data acquired from the force plates. This new students who travelled on an inaugural service- FACULTY SPONSOR: EDWARD WALLACE, visualization method allowed for deeper analysis of learning trip to Borgne, Haiti, a community partner MATHEMATICS the relationship between the force profile of the of Geneseo. Borgne is a rural and mountainous Most of us learned geometry based on Euclidean’s step and the physical movement of the body. community on the Northern coast of Haiti and theories of geometry. One such theory is that the Funded by the Department of Physics. faces many problems that stem from its geographic sum of the angles in a triangle must add up to 180 isolation and lack of basic infrastructure. We degrees. Our basis for this is the Euclidean Parallel worked with a grassroots community development 2S • SERVICE LEARNING & GLOBAL organization, called Haiti Outreach Pwoje Espwa Postulate, as reworded by Playfair, “For every line WELLES 134 and every point P not on, there exists a unique line AWARENESS (H.O.P.E.), which partners with community that contains P and is parallel to.” But what SESSION CHAIR: CELIA EASTON, RESIDENCE LIFE organizations in Borgne to help serve the needs of ______happens if we assume that there are no parallel the community. We met with organizations working lines? We enter a new realm of geometry, an Too Young to Wed: The Impact of on projects in health, education and economic example being that of the sphere. Will the sum of Child Marriage Around the World development. We will be presenting a collaborative paper, which includes reflection on how we fit into the measures of the angles in a triangle on a sphere KLARISSA GARCIA, KAWAI WONG, MAYA SHAH, the community, education and the mobile teacher still add up to 180 degrees? My presentation will MARYSABEL GOMEZ, KARINA MORALES, NANCY program, health behavior change, community compare these two geometries and zero in on BRITO, SHANNON BUTERA, SHAINA SMITH, health and the mobile clinic program, and the role surprising results of spherical geometry. MARIA-GRATIAS SINON, BRIANNIE CASTILLO, of undergraduate students in community ______LEYDI BASILIO, TENZIN CHOEDON, NIA GUMBS, development work. Ongoing Meteorite Studies Using CYNTHIA JAQUEZ, CHIKAMSO ODUME, AMY ______Proton Induced X-ray Emission and GALEANO, REBECCA TOY, RACHEL KEHI, RACHEL KEHINDE, TIFFANY STEPHENSON, TARYN BURRIS, Geneseo Interfaith Service Project: Scanning Electron Microscopy ARIEN TUCKER, AWA GAYE Diversity, Dialogue, and COLLIN STILLMAN FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICIA GONZALEZ, ACCESS Sustainability FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID MEISEL AND CHARLES OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM FREEMAN PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY SARAH DZARA Over the next decade, 100 million girls under the FACULTY SPONSORS: CELIA EASTON, GENESEO Meteorites from around the world show an amazing age of 18 will marry. Child marriage impacts girls variety of types. Among these are claimed to be INTERFAITH SERVICE PROJECT AND THOMAS throughout the world, including the United States. MATTHEWS, GOLD samples of lunar and Martian rocks most of which, While child marriage is caused by cultural, social, until recently, have been found in Antarctica. At GISP, The Geneseo Interfaith Service Project, is part economic, and religious factors, the impact on girls of a national conversation called by the White least one verified Martian meteorite has been is detrimental. According to the UNICEF Convention found in Morocco along with other suspected House to encourage interfaith dialogue and on the Rights of the Child, all children should have community service. Rooted in Geneseo's Center for meteorite varieties. Such objects are designated the right to an education, the right to be protected broadly as Northwest Africa (NWA) types including Community, GISP has involved many students, from physical and mental violence, injury or abuse, faculty, staff, and community members over the very rare specimens that sell for up to $15,000 per and the right not to be separated from parents ounce. But in every lot of "NWAs" imported "big- 2011-12 academic year in gatherings that address against the child's will, among other rights. Child the diversity of religious and non-religious traditions bags" there seem to always be terrestrial rocks marriage often violates these rights. The Women's mixed in among the meteorites. Available at on campus. GISP has also sponsored talk and action Leadership Institute (WLI) advocates for women and on Geneseo's particular interest, the environment Geneseo are two complimentary techniques [thick girls locally and globally, and has chosen Child target Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) on the and sustainability. This presentation will describe Marriage as its advocacy issue for this year. WLI will GISP's goals and several of the events that students

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2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual have worked on to meet those goals this year, from PAUL NARDONE ______theatrical productions to a dialogue about Nardone will perform a section of I Am My Own Iaido – The Art of Japanese Sword environmentalism and Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Wife by Doug Wright, recently performed as part of Fighting and Native American traditions. the Queer Theatre Festival, in which newscasters CALLA GOEKE are hounding Charlotte and she proclaims her FACULTY SPONSOR: CLINT CROSS, PHYSICS & famous words "I am my own wife" and she 2T • THEATRE AND MUSICAL ASTRONOMY discusses the furniture in her museum collection. THEATRE BRODIE BLACK BOX Iaido is an ancient Japanese sword art based on Regarding furniture, she explains whey she doesn't drawing, cutting, and returning the sword in one Senior Projects throw anything away or repair anything broken; the smooth motion. It has a very long and interesting FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE pieces are valuable for their history. Nardone will history, and is one of the oldest martial arts still in BLOOD, ENGLISH also talk about the challenges of performing forty existence. Practitioners of Iaido are exposed to ______characters, and discuss the influence of topics from cultures and values of a people not their own, and Bringing to Life the Art Form of Anthropology meshing with the script and his practice Iaido to improve their own selves. The Commedia Dell'Arte in research on it. ______SUNY Geneseo Iaido Club is a relatively recent Contemporary Musical Theatre Student Musical Direction: development, but every student that has so far BRIAN CLEMENTE joined our club has not walked away unchanged. One of the first precursors of modern theatre as we Challenges and Rewards of Creating ______know it is the Commedia Dell'Arte which roughly a Show with Limited Resources Sláinte Irish Dance translated means "comedy of the craft" or "comedy KATELYN HEARFIELD MEAGHAN KELSEY, MARIA BLATNER, CARA of craft of improvisation". Rarely performed Hearfield will discuss the challenges faced as a first HALLAHAN, BETHANY MARTONE, EMILY MECI anymore, this art form is the basis for not only time Musical Director of a staged musical (The FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL MCLAUGHLIN, contemporary theatre but the concept of "comedy". Glorious Ones by Ahrens and Flaherty) and how it SOCIOLOGY In the modern musical The Glorious Ones by Ahrens compared and contrasted with previous experience Sláinte Irish Dance is a new Irish dance performance and Flaherty, the art form is explored through the teaching and creating music with other groups. group on campus. The girls performing for GREAT formation of the earliest known Commedia troupe, More specific challenges included the variety of Day are accomplished dancers on the regional, led by real life impresario Flaminio Scala. levels of experience within the cast regarding national, and international level. Our goal is to mix Discussions will include and be followed by learning music and singing, adapting the show to a traditional Irish culture with modern cross-cultural selections from The Glorious Ones, with the small stage, meaning a full orchestra was not influences to develop a unique performance style following cast: Flaminio: Taylor Walders Armanda: possible, and finally finding a way to enhance the of Irish dance. For our GREAT Day performance we Alyssa Conte Columbina: Erin Donovan Pantalone: concept and the story through the music. would showcase our Irish heritage and talent for Greg Maddock Dottore: Sean Leigh Francesco: Jacob dancing. Stewart Isabella: Ali Marshall Pedrolino: Shawn 2U • CULTURAL EXPLORATION Ward (moved from 3S) ______Be Your Own Person STURGES AUDITORIUM SESSION CHAIR: TAYLOR SOLANO

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allowed students from various majors, including cataloguing, and transferring records into the 3A • ANTHROPOLOGY MILNE 105 History, Anthropology, Communication, English, Art PastPerfect system combined with forays into object Bridging Theory and Practice in History, and Geology, to combine the skills they conservation synthesized a multifaceted work have each learned in the classroom with one environment. The size and community education Museum Studies: High Impact another's, as well as to enhance a shared skill set in focus of the institution allowed involvement in public Learning Experiences and the Six Big museum studies. It is intended that participants will programming that exemplifies the goal of Strategic leave the program with knowledge of how to work Community Partnerships. Such visitor outreach Ideas with historical material, design informative displays programs have brought Geneseo students in contact FACULTY SPONSORS: PAUL PACHECO, that are accessible to both the public and aircraft with the local community and educated them about ANTHROPOLOGY AND CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY enthusiasts, and work as a community of self- their college town. A new exhibition this semester SESSION CHAIR: BRANDON ENG starters in order to effectively complete all the offered a chance to write wall texts and create new ______tasks. This unique, hands-on opportunity affords interpretive materials for docents. Establishing new Restoration and Research: Student students the opportunity to explore the practice of pedagogical material for educators and docents Experiences at the 1941 Historical museum studies in a way that lets them bring the demonstrates the interdisciplinary research Aircraft Group Museum theoretical knowledge they have learned in the opportunities in material culture and history offered classroom to life. by the institution. By bringing history, anthropology, DANA BESMANOFF, NICHOLAS FENIK, IAN ______and interdepartmental classes into the museum MACPHERSON we've worked to promote local history, museum Student interns at the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group From Milk Bottles to Lady Livingston: studies, and use and presence of the museum as a Museum work to manage the museum's collections, Intern Experiences at the Livingston resource for academic research. and interpret them to create effective exhibits. County Historical Society ______Tasks include registering items into a database and BRANDON ENG, JENNA FABRIZIO Historic Archeological Iroquois then storing them in decisive locations, researching The Livingston County Historical Society is an items via the internet and through telephone important local institution and repository of Artifacts: Intern Experiences at the conversations with donors, designing and creating regional history. Two students including an Rochester Museum of Science Center displays with relevant information to each exhibit, Americorps worker and an intern will discuss their LINDSAY GALL and doing aesthetic restoration tasks on the work in collections management, research, and I have devoted coursework to the anthropological museum's C-119 cargo plane. This project has education. The experience of inventorying, study of Native American people. During an

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2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual fieldwork experience last summer, I applied my model to determine which parameters are most were found to match the densities found in the coursework to the excavation and preservation of significant in affecting the stability of the system. By paper, suggesting that environmental factors drive artifacts recovered in the field. Artifacts eventually analyzing the Jacobian matrix, we found that the the production of these densities. It was also found find their way to museums, where curators and two populations possess a stable equilibrium point that the fungus and ant relationship is consistent collection managers care for them. I decided to and that inclusion of overfishing of sharks caused with Lotka-Volterra dynamics, indicative of a stable follow the path of the artifacts, but also the path of instability of the equilibrium. By performing a biological parasite-host system. This model helps to Dr. Arthur C. Parker, the Seneca native and New sensitivity analysis to determine which parameters explain the odd relationship between a fungal York State Archaeologist who in 1924 became Direct are most significant to the flux of the system, we parasite and an insect host and could be applied to of the Rochester Museum and Science Center. He can find a way to minimize the effects of overfishing understand slave/slavemaker behavior in other stressed a multidisciplinary approach to the on the white shark population through the relationships. "common man's university" and set the museum on implementation of conservation efforts. It is not both a social science and a natural science tract. As practical to consider the possibility of eliminating 3C • COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & an intern working in the Historic Native overfishing; thus we focused only on the predator- SCIENCES Archaeological archives in the RMSC, I am able to prey interactions between the seals and sharks. put into practice my coursework in anthropology, ______WELLES 26 museology, history, and geology. This hands-on Coral Reefs, Algae, and Herbivores: Language Sample Analysis internship has provided me with practical Returning to Prosperous Stability FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: ROBERT experience that will be a valuable tool for future JOHN CUSHMAN, HANNAH MILLER, TREVOR OWENS, COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS & SCIENCES employment. ______PEGLOWSKI

Coral reefs are among the most productive and Language Sample Analysis 3B • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS complex ecosystems on Earth. Algal growth on the CAROLYN MAHON, STEPHANIE HALVAX, NEWTON 203 surface of corals harms the corals, but the sea MARGARET WAYNE, SARA CARVER, ALYSSA CAVALLARI, MARY COBLE, KRISTIN DIDONATO, Biomathematics and Modeling 2 urchin species Diadema antillarum and the redband parrotfish species Sparisoma aurofrenatum ALANNA EGAN, ANNE HALSTEAD, SAMANTHA FACULTY SPONSORS & SESSION CHAIRS: GREGG consume these algae, which promotes coral growth. HARTNETT, KELSEY HOGEL, KATELYNN IMAGNA, HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY AND CHRIS LEARY, From 1982 to 1984, a disease decimated the NICOLE KENNEY, SARA KORMAN, ALEXIS MAZZEO, MATHEMATICS KAITLYN RAFFE, KAITLYN RISBERG, JYL RISTAU, ______population of D. antillarum, causing the algal population to rapidly increase, while coral area LAUREN SMITH, MARY-CLARE STOKES, ERIC TYLER, Modeling the Effects of Dynamic plummeted. Today, in Jamaica's coral reefs, KRISTINA WHELPLEY Disease Avoidance Strategies on overfishing of D. antillarum and S. aurofrenatum The present study sought to compare the time it Networks has again dramatically reduced the coral cover. takes to administer a standardized language test to Using past recorded interactions among coral, the time it takes to collect and analyze a language NOAH DUKLER sample. The test used was the CELF (Clinical Individuals exhibit the behavior best suited to algal, S. aurofrenatum, and D. antillarum populations, we have developed a difference Evaluation of Language Fundamentals) Preschool-2. preserve their well-being in a given situation. During Twenty-two students administered subtests of the an epidemic an individual may change their equation model, which predicts that, given the current fishing activities and the population size of CELF, including Sentence Structure, Word Structure, behavior to reduce the chance of infection based Expressive Vocabulary, Concepts and Following upon how severe they perceive the risk of infection the species, coral cover will be driven to an unrecoverable state without introducing herbivore Directions, Recalling Sentences, Basic Concepts, and to be. This model examines the consequences of Word Classes to typically developing children ages individual's dynamic adoption of disease avoidance species and reducing overfishing. The model suggests that coral and algae cover can return to a 36 to 72 months. The same students collected and strategies based upon knowledge of their analyzed fifty-utterance language samples. They neighborhood's conditions. The precise conditions stable equilibrium if a larger population of herbivores is introduced. Along with reduced calculated total number of words (TNW), mean under which this occurs is contingent upon an length of utterance (MLU), words per sentence individual's clustering coefficient (how well their fishing, this intervention could return coral reef ecosystems worldwide to biological stability and (Wds/Sen), and clauses per sentence (Cl/Sen). neighbors know each other) and their degree (how These properties of samples were chosen based on many neighbors they have). The results suggest economic prosperity. ______previous studies and represent five years of SUNY that all individuals must adopt highly effective Zombie Ant Graveyards: Modeling Geneseo student research. The purpose of this disease prevention measures and be highly vigilant study is to encourage the use of language sampling for there to be any change in the dynamics of the the Spatial Distribution of Ants rather than relying on standardized tests for epidemic. The health policy implication of this Killed by the Fungus Ophiocordyceps assessment of children with language impairments. model is that educating the public, while Unilateralis Sampling provides a more in-depth description of a moderately useful with specific population child's language capabilities in a more natural JARROD LAFOUNTAIN, MICHAEL ARCURI, BRYAN structures, should not be counted upon as a public setting. The collection and analysis of language RIDALL health measure to prevent disease transmission. samples was on average twelve minutes faster than ______Ophiocordyceps unilateralis is a fungus which the administration and scoring of the CELF affects tropical Camponotus ants by altering their Population Dynamics Between Cape Preschool-2. This proved to be a significant behavior pre-mortem to benefit the fungus post- difference, which reinforces the viability of Fur Seals and White Sharks around mortem. A 2009 study measured the locations of language sampling. Seal Island, South Africa ants killed by this fungus in several 100 m2 plots.

JOSEPHINE CHAMPLIN, JOSEPH BISCARDI, JILLIAN High density regions, deemed graveyards, were WOLF observed and were attributed to specific 3D • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 121 In this study, we explore the interactions between environmental factors i.e. humidity, vegetation Edgar Fellows Miscellany V Cape Fur seals, Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus, and density, and proximity to host nests. A stochastic FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: OLYMPIA great white sharks, Carcharodon carcharia, around model was developed to test the interplay of these NICODEMI, MATHEMATICS Seal Island, South Africa. Our study assesses the environmental factors. Healthy ants walk along a ______predator-prey dynamics of the two species by path in a two-dimensional world populated with Simulation of Hexagonal Ceramic examining factors that affect these populations, fungal spores. If parasitism occurs the ant randomly such as predation rates, growth rates and death wanders, dies, and further disperses spores. The Armor rates. We created a differential equations model to model landscape incorporates heterogeneity in JACOB DESHAIES simulate these populations; then, we utilized this habitat quality for both fungus and ants. Our results

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My project involves exploring the advantages and neurotransmitter receptor. Additionally, the discuss a strategy for a physician to attain this disadvantages of a ceramic bead armor built out of practical significance of understanding this result. Mentors: STEPHEN BEIN, PHILOSOPHY AND hexagonal-shaped beads over an armor made up of mechanism and the evolutionary and DAVID LEVY, PHILOSOPHY cylindrical beads. This involves simulating an armor- pharmacological implications that the identification ______piercing bullet hitting a section of the armor, both of this neurotransmitter receptor would have will Mathematical Model Creation for built in LS-PrePost, and reviewing the results. In be discussed. Mentor: DUANE MCPHERSON, Tumor Growth in Advanced particular, I will be examining the final kinetic BIOLOGY energy of the bullet, the eroded mass of the beads, Neuroendocrine Pancreatic Cancer KAITLYN GAYVERT and the eroded mass of the bullets. Pictures of the ______different armors will be presented and highlighted, Advanced neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer is a rare and the results will be overlaid in order to show the Toil and Trouble on the Trail of a form of cancer that has very limited treatment weak and strong points of each of the armors. Also, Specifier Protein options. Recently two new, promising drugs were graphs of the resulting final kinetic energies, eroded BENJAMIN PETERSON approved by the FDA for its treatment. These new masses, and possibly more will be provided to The myrosinase-glucosinolate system is a secondary treatments raise the need for identification of the further examine the differences in the armor. I hope metabolite pathway responsible for several defense right combination and scheduling of therapies that will to show where the various energies involved in the mechanisms found in the plant family Brassicaceae, have the best effect for the patient. Optimal control is collision went; specifically where, when, and how which includes broccoli, kale, turnips, and mustard often utilized to identify improved drug administration some of the energies were 'dissolved, ' and which seed. The products of this pathway also have protocols through the use of validated mathematical parts of the armor the rest of the energy ends up in important nutritional benefits, and is the basis of the models of the infection. Recent literature proposes and in what form. Ideally, the hexagonal armor will nickname "functional foods" given to this plant ordinary differential equation models of malignant show fewer weak spots, as highlighted by increased family. Specifier proteins (SPs) are largely responsible tumor growth and presents methods for parameter bullet erosion and decreased bullet final kinetic for directing the type of product formed during this estimation and analysis of treatment options. These energy at those locations. Mentor: JAMES pathway, thus directing the plants defenses, as well models are adapted to represent neuroendocrine MCLEAN, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY as determining the nutritional value of the plant. In pancreatic tumor growth through the addition of new ______this project, I identified two putative SPs from the terms to the differential equations and modified The Major Histocompatibility Brassica rapa genome database and cloned them into parameter values specific to this type of cancer. The Complex: The Blessing and Curse of E. coli. Using the transformed bacteria and Gas parameter values are estimated using data available Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy, the directing from clinical trials. Through the use of this model, an Immunity effects of the SPs on the hydrolysis reaction were optimal treatment regimen with a specific drug CLARK DRISCOLL determined. The presence of the SP affects how the combination and schedule is found that produces the The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a plant defends itself against various external evils, greatest effect on the tumor size, while controlling segment of DNA in vertebrate genomes that setting up future experiments that will be able to look harmful side effects Mentor: CHRIS LEARY, regulates how an individual recognizes self from at how the plant uses this protein under different MATHEMATICS non-self and the pathogens that infect it. Often, environmental stressors in its fight to survive. ______these parasites evolve new strategies to confuse or Mentor: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY The Hunt for the Halogenase Gene bypass the host, and in response the MHC has within Anaphalis margaritacea evolved in tandem to become the most diverse set 3E • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 123 EUNWOO SHIM of genes in vertebrates. With this diversity, hosts Anaphalis margaritacea, also known as pearly have a better chance of finding and obliterating Edgar Fellows Miscellany VI everlasting, is a common plant found within North parasites. Immunity comes with a cost, however. FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: OLYMPIA America. Native Americans have traditionally used Great diversity in the MHC, most notably in NICODEMI, MATHEMATICS its roots and leaves for their medicinal value. In humans, can result in various self-destructive ______recent years, researchers have isolated a curious autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, Ethics of Informed Consent in thirteen carbon halogenated compound from A. Graves' disease, and even narcolepsy. A literature- Difficult Medical Decisions: Spina margaritacea's roots. Interestingly, halogenated based study was conducted to understand the compounds are rarely found in terrestrial plants; effects of differential MHC variability on vertebrate Bifida Diagnosed before Birth those found in other organisms, however, have species, as well as the instances of autoimmune MAX JACOBSON demonstrated antifungal and antitumor properties. diseases in populations relative to MHC diversity. Spina Bifida is the most common birth defect in the Because of the recent interest in halogenated With a greater understanding of the patterns of United States. It involves improper formation of the compounds, halogenase genes, which are the MHC and immunity in vertebrates, one might be neural tube early in gestation, normally causing "blueprint" for the enzymes that halogenate able to extrapolate future patterns of disease in severe handicapping below the waist, incontinence, compounds, have become a new focus of interest. animal populations, especially in human and some mental limitations. In this presentation, This project focuses mainly on isolating and populations, as the Earth's climate continues to we will examine a scenario in which a third- extracting the halogenase gene from A. warm. Mentor: ROBERT W. O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY trimester fetus is diagnosed with Spina Bifida. The ______physician will be responsible for informing the margaritacea. Mentor: ERIC HELMS, CHEMISTRY ______The Molecular Mechanism of the mother and father in a meeting scheduled for the next day, and giving them the option of abortion or Social Issues of Pharmacy Catch Response in Mytilus continued pregnancy. We will discuss the DANIELLE DAVIDE AARON IUPPA physician's responsibility as he or she discloses Can you imagine a world in which even the most Have you ever wondered what makes it so difficult information to the parents, exploring some simple surgeries are considered too risky due to to open mussels, oysters, and clams? The resistive interesting ethical questions along the way. Must postsurgical infections? How about one in which all force that often thwarts our efforts arises from a the physician tell every detail to the parents? Can pharmacies have armed guards and metal detectors unique muscle state called "catch". When in the the physician deceive or lie to the parents in any at every entrance? Or can you envision being catch state, these organisms' muscles are able to way? How can the physician comfort the parents as counseled by your pharmacist on the proper way to maintain tension for several hours without they face an extremely difficult decision? In take a medication so that it will end your life? These expending much energy. This presentation will addition, we will examine the major variables in the possibilities are not as far from reality as you might discuss the molecular mechanisms that underlie this prognosis and address how the physician should think. This talk will address these and other issues phenomenon in Mytlius, a genus of mussels, and convey them to the parents. Ideally, the physician's relevant to the future of health care. Mentor: DAVE will present research investigating a hypothesized role is to help the parents make the best decision GEIGER, CHEMISTRY component of this mechanism - a particular for themselves and for their potential child. We will

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3F • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Katie Nottke will be reading short fiction that during which President Gamal Abdel Nasser's reflects the way in which the structural issues of almost utopian promises were increasingly gutted SOUTH HALL 340 our society affect actual people. Her goal is for the as his government took on the contours of an Pre-service Teachers' Research on characters to exemplify our society's dependence oppressive police state in which Egyptians found Literacy in the Classroom, Part 1 on flawed systems by holding a lens up to these little more respect for their aspirations, rights, and FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA PERPETUA LIWANAG situations on an individual level. freedom than had they from the British occupier. In ______AND ANN MARIE LAURICELLA, SCHOOL OF my paper, I explore this disappointment as it is EDUCATION Tsa specifically registered as a crisis of masculinity in SESSION CHAIR: LAUREN FONTE KATHERINE PETERSON Idris' work. Ultimately, I am interested here in how ______I will be reading “Tsa”, a fiction piece about a rather the story's male characters engage in an Learning about Reading through Eye unusual - but factual - interaction between the unsatisfying effort to reclaim the masculinity denied Kalahari bushmen and baboons, told from the to them previously by the European occupier, now Movement Miscue Analysis (EMMA) perspective of a baboon. My hope is that the piece by the authoritarian and patriarchal Egyptian state. LAUREN FONTE, ROSE HENDERSON, NICOLE SWIFT, will prove to be informative, unexpected, ______MARIAH MARIENFELD, JESSICA CARL entertaining, and will also offer insight into our own Shining a Light in the Darkness: This session will focus on pre-service teachers' human interactions with one another and with our Understanding the Central Role of understanding of eye movement miscue analysis environment. This reading will be my required (EMMA) methodologies in examining how people Senior Reading for the Creative Writing major. White Supremacy in Charlotte read various texts. Insights will be shared based on Perkins Gilman's Herland qualitative and quantitative analysis of eye fixation 3H • ENGLISH WELLES 132 GRETCHEN BARKHUFF patterns and what these indicate about readers' Language, Image, and Space-Time The primary reading of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's reading strategies. argument in her 1915 feminist utopian novel ______FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: GILLIAN Herland is that women are capable of Drawing to Represent Meaning: A PAKU, ENGLISH ______independently creating a fruitful society. This Multimodal Approach to Learning The Clockwork of Dante's Cosmos: seemingly universal feminist reading pervades ALEAH MARCAITIS, EMILY MURPHY, CAITLIN Gilman scholarship and is generally taught in SULLIVAN, MARY SHEEDY, MEGAN KNITTER, Some Thoughts on Time in the classrooms. However, a reexamination of the text This presentation will describe an approach to Paradiso reveals that this dominant understanding misses understanding students' comprehension of a WILLIAM PORTER the dangerous complexity of Gilman's Herland. That selected instrumental song as selected students This presentation will deal with Dante's Paradiso from is, Gilman was not merely asserting that women represent their meanings through drawing. Results the starting point of a well-known clock metaphor in were capable of being independent, but rather that from this study and recommendations on how to Canto X, often credited as being the first description white women have the ability to regenerate the incorporate creative forms of expressions in the of the newly- invented mechanical clock. Dante was (white) American race. Drawing upon Toni classroom will be shared. at the exact time and place necessary to observe this Morrison's thesis in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness ______monumental technological development, and uses and the Literary Imagination, it is the very fact that Insights on Using Miscue Analysis in the image as a means of bringing together different Gilman does not make Herland absent of people of thinkers, from Plato to St. Augustine, as well as color, but rather writes them into the novel's the Elementary Classroom shadows, that reveals that Gilman's (white) MEGAN EISENBACHER, JENNA THEOFIELD, RACHEL different concerns in the poem. I will explore the ways the clock, for Dante, serves as an instrument feminism relied on contrasting whiteness against KOSOFF, KATY GERBER, COURTNEY PAYNE, people of color. White women are valuable, she CHRISTINA MARCONI, HANNAH HUNTER, for a deeper understanding of human time, for moral development, and for reaching his ultimate goal in argues, because they will save the white race. In MATTHEW SOLIMANO, KATHRYN DROZDIEL, essence, white supremacy is where Herlanders BRITTANY BOEHM accessing and understanding the eternal. ______come from, where they are, and where they are Miscue analysis as an approach for assessing Like Clockwork: The Pavlovian Sex going. Without this white-supremacist framework, reading will be described, and specific instructional the novel would fall apart. Ultimately, to ignore the strategies will be presented to better use miscues to Drive in Tristram Shandy text's whiteness is to ignore and perpetuate the understand readers’ strengths and needs. MATTHEW CORDELLA often unspoken pervasiveness of whiteness in

While Dante uses the image of the clock in Paradiso America's radical history. 3G • ENGLISH MOVED TO WELLES 111 to map the workings of space and time in the Katie, Katie, and Katie's Senior external world, Sterne uses the image of the clock WELLES 133 in Tristram Shandy to map the workings of the 3I • ENGLISH Reading internal world of the mind. Drawing on Lockean Mind over Manners, Morals, and FACULTY SPONSOR: RACHEL HALL, ENGLISH associationist psychology in his description of the Modesty: Considerations of Gender, SESSION CHAIR: KATIE PETERSON sexual relationship between characters Walter and ______Elizabeth, Sterne explores how the relationship Society and Decorum in Plays of Exile between time, events, and objects gives order and Shaw, Wilde, and Coward KATE JORDHAMO definition to mental life. FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: THOMAS “Exile” is a story about the type of disasters that can ______GREENFIELD, ENGLISH happen in the wrong. Ranging from large scale The Short Story, Masculinity, and ______problems that change the lives of whole The Oppressive Institution of communities to small incidents between two President Nasser's Egypt people, the story touches upon what constitutes a ELIZABETH BARBER Victorian Sexual Morality as disaster and whether it really is relative. Using the In 1956, Egyptian writer Yusuf Idris published one of Represented by the Women of his most overtly political short stories, "Farahat's setting to highlight the similarities between two Wildean and Shauvian Drama seemingly unrelated events, the story seeks to Republic." It is a story that - in its sinister images of EMILY WEBB analyze the magnitude of tragedies in day-to- day paralysis, its almost surreal, nightmarish quality - Through their portrayals of women in late- life. expresses the mood of the decade, during which ______the euphoria of the 1952 revolution and the end to nineteenth century drama, Oscar Wilde and George Dependence seventy years of British occupation dulled into a Bernard Shaw exhibit divergent perspectives on nation-wide malaise. Indeed, these were years Victorian sexual morality as informed by their views KATIE NOTTKE 50

2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual of contemporary social conventions. In the wake of audience." Coward concealed his homosexuality Doctor Piers Plowman: A Poet's the social purity movement, Wilde explores sexual from the public, and, thus, might have concealed politics among men and women in such a way that deeper societal commentary in his works. But Prognosis of Post-Plague England correlates with his own behavior as a sexually excavating such criticism would mean ignoring the ILONA FISHKIN deviant dandy. Expressing his penchant for daring frivolity of his masterfully woven plays. This paper argues that William Langland's B-text of hedonistic pleasures through the discourse of Coward's comedies begin by establishing the Piers Plowman (ca. 1377-9) provides an etiology of amoral characters, Wilde restrains the development expected picture of life and just as quickly subside the social sickness of post-plague English society. of his female protagonists - specifically Mrs. to reveal characters reveling in their own plot-less Written almost thirty years after the onset of the Arbuthnot in A Woman of No Importance (1893) realities of cigarettes, parlor games, and bubonic plague in England the B-text reflects a and Lady Windermere in Lady Windermere's Fan extravagant self-expression. At the center of Private society that is still reeling from the consequences of (1892) - within a binary code of ethics that only Lives, Hay Fever, and Fumed Oak is the struggle for the plague, in which prideful, and therefore sinful, questions oppressive demands for feminine purity individuals to be themselves despite the restrictive self-preservation rather than sworn duty has and maintains arbitrary decorum in high society. circumstances that fight to silence them. become the tenet of the clergy, the nobility, and the Conversely, Shaw scrutinizes discriminatory medical profession. With its biblical overtones standards of Victorian morality in support of sexual 3J • ENGLISH WELLES 134 rooted in Adam's curse and the story of Piers the equality, which reflects his adherence to Fabian Plowman, Piers Plowman, postulates that the socialist doctrine. Through the empowered, self- Prescriptions from Langland, Dreams continued corruption and idleness of the upper reliant characters of Vivie Warren in Miss Warren's from Malory echelons of society has created an imbalance Profession (1893) and Gloria Clandon in You Never FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH between Englishmen and God. This paper Can Tell (1897), Shaw explores their moral conflict SESSION CHAIR: JOSEPH FLYNN postulates that this imbalance lies at the root of the to contest the social construct of ideal womanliness ______social turmoil in England as Langland, in accordance and assert their dominance within the public and Lancelot and Guinevere: Courtly, to the medical practice at his time, derives his domestic spheres. etiological explanations from the humoral theory of ______Virtuous, or True? disease. The search to restore this balance, The Friend Zone: Implicit and Explicit KERRY CONLEY therefore, is the guiding moral of the text and I It is hard to reconcile Thomas Malory's portrayal of argue that the perpetuation of idleness seen in Piers Sexuality in the Plays of George Lancelot and Queen Guinevere with the traditional Plowman offers England a grim prognosis. Bernard Shaw and Noel Coward ideas of courtly and virtuous love. How can he ALANNA SMITH seem to imply that Lancelot is the true hero in Le 3K • GOLD Morte Darthur while having the knight commit such In my paper, I contrast the veiled sexuality in GOLD LEADERSHIP CENTER CU 114 George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession an act against his King and country? This paper and Candida to the overt sexuality in Noel Coward's posits the idea of "true" love between Lancelot and GOLD Diamond Certificate A Song At Twilight and Private Lives. In many ways, Guinevere as the answer to this contradiction, Presentations rather than the much discussed virtuous love. Their Shaw's reluctance--and in the case of Mrs. Warren's FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: THOMAS devotion to each other, and struggle to remain loyal Profession, downright refusal--to directly address MATTHEWS, GOLD sexuality perverts it in ways that are even more to Arthur at the same time, is what redeems them ______uncomfortable as a result of his avoidance. Because in death. Malory's personal feeling toward the Community Engagement Structured Shaw's characters aren't allowed to talk about sex, characters is important to consider when looking at they have to find stranger, almost pseudo- their relationship, and must be considered when Reflection - Martin Luther King Jr. incestuous avenues around it. The outright interpreting the romances. While the lovers fail in Day of Leadership and Service addresses of sexuality in Noel Coward's plays take virtuous love, the idea of Lancelot and Guinevere as ELIZABETH LAWRENCE away the stigma and the shock value and allow him "trew" lovers seems to fits with both the definition This presentation will discuss my reflection of to discuss things in a manner that is much more of courtly love and Malory's depiction of these two involvement with the 2011 and 2012 Martin Luther natural. His frank and overt discussions were characters. King Jr. Day of Leadership and Service. As a ______received in a positive way and paved the way for member of the 2011 planning committee, I worked open discussions of sexuality later on. I also explore Rage Against the Machine: A Look with students and professional staff members to how the differences in time period also affected this into the Authority of Identity in Sir plan and execute the event. The 2011 planning difference between Coward and Shaw, especially Thomas Malory's "The Tale of Sir committee focused on making this event after the moralistic backlash prompted by the non- intergenerational and incorporated service projects explicit sexuality of Mrs. Warren's Profession. For Gareth" that would directly impact Livingston County my argument, I focus on dialogue and stage SHEA FRAZIER residents. I assisted with compiling feedback from directions from both authors as well as various We are all cogs in the social machine, but knights, the 2011 event and remained involved with the theater reviews and scholarly articles. with their adherence to chivalry and the social 2012 planning committee to evaluate and ______hierarchy, fit within that definition, perhaps, more implement suggestions. This annual event is a great Noël Coward: A Celebration of A than others. But who can really determine that? way for students and community members to come Style All His Own Who is the true master of a person's identity? together to honor Dr. King and serve the Looking at Sir Thomas Malory's "The Tale of Sir EMILY MCDEVITT community in which they live. Gareth" and using the essay "Ideology and ______There are two spheres of Coward's critics: one Ideological State Apparatuses," we attempt to believes Coward's success relies purely on his fine- Diamond Project Paper answer that question by analyzing Sir Garth and tuned personality and dandyish eccentricities to GABRIELLE GOSSET Lady Lynet: two characters who, despite the create entertaining characters; a second argues that As the capstone project for the Diamond Certificate importance they place on themselves and individual his frivolous playful style reaches beyond itself, Program, this paper connects my own community identity, are nothing but objects for greater social making his plays notable their insight into how engagement experience with existing literature on forces to express themselves. In the end, we must people truly are behind closed doors. However, to leadership and community engagement. With this wonder if the answer of who, in society, possesses call him a social commentator would be a stretch. reflection, I have developed a better understanding the authority to dictate identity can only be Coward admitted to little pre-meditation in the for my leadership experience, techniques, and style everyone, and no one at all. as well as the connection between leadership and construction of his plays: "(My) motives [are] always ______far less noble...To give myself a whacking good community engagement. part...or the main motive was to entertain the ______

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Leadership in Community economic and energy-independence benefits of wealth of information for those who are interested natural gas drilling are likely overstated. in understanding the meanings of the war for Engagement - The Development and ______individuals of multifarious backgrounds. In studying Achievements of the Community The Impact of Shale Gas the memoirs of Susie King Taylor, a black nurse, Health Alliance Development on Public Health and Elisha Hunt Rhodes, a white colonel, one can elucidate the transcendent meanings of the war for GRACE TROMPETER, MICHAEL MATTIUCCI BETHANY KWARTA, MELISSA GRAHAM two people who actually shaped the conflict's The Community Health Alliance is a service learning With the topic of hydraulic fracturing being direction. The perspectives offered in the two organization dedicated to serving the health needs prevalent to our area, this presentation looks to aforementioned accounts also illuminate many of of local and global communities, while helping its focus on its effects on public health. We will begin the racial outlooks and worldviews that served to members to gain experience in the health care by focus on the different health issues related to inform opinions on the meaning of American Civil field. Since its conception, CHA has become a hydrofracking, with a focus on the endocrine system War for others who fought or provided support recognized and funded student organization and and various forms of cancer. Then we will be during the struggle. Taylor and Rhodes reveal that has developed partnerships in Geneseo, Livingston discussing the difficulties in protecting the public race was inseparable from the conflict for many of County, and abroad. Our efforts are focused in from health risks associated with hydrofracking. its participants. Today, the Civil War exists in achieving a better understanding of our We will finish by discussing possible solutions for popular memory as an event somewhat removed surrounding communities and exchanging dealing with these health issues. from the racial outlooks that influenced many of its knowledge and resources to help improve the ______contemporary witnesses; yet the students of the wellness and health of the people we serve. Hydrofracking and Human Health histories offered by Rhodes and Taylor must be Locally, our projects include shadowing doctors and LISA JOHNSON, JEN BENSON prepared to place the Civil War in its proper social educating patients at the Geneseo Parish Outreach As a significant point of tension between friends, perspective as a result of comparing these Center, nutrition education in afterschool neighbors, and politicians alike, the process of individuals' intimate details of both the physical programs, and partnering with the town of Mt. hydraulic fracturing is both a highly complex, and war and their personal beliefs about that war's Morris to perform a community health assessment highly controversial issue. Massive Slick Water underlying purpose. and institute programs promoting wellness. Horizontal Hydraulic Fracturing is an extremely ______Abroad, we partner with H.O.P.E., a grassroots invasive, unconventional form of natural gas Hearts in the Right Place: The community development organization in Borgne, drilling. This highly industrial process involves Haiti and to educate the Geneseo community millions of gallons of water, thousands of gallons of Relationship Between White Officers about Haiti, its people, and its needs. This chemicals, thousands of truck trips, and shale and Black Soldiers During the Civil presentation follows the formation and growth of fracturing explosions to release the gas. With a the Community Health Alliance as it has worked to myriad of claims being used by each side of the War and Reconstruction find its niche in promoting public health and debate, it becomes difficult to ascertain the ROBERT TERRERI wellness in the Geneseo community and beyond. difference between fact and fiction. This During the American Civil War, 180,000 black men presentation will present and evaluate the potential fought with the Union Army serving in various 3L • HISTORY STURGES 108 health implications of hydrofracking on human capacities from soldier to surgeon. Because of this health. We will present both scientific data as well large influx of men, 138 black infantry regiments Fracking & Its Consequences: Part 2 as firsthand accounts of people living near areas were mustered into service by 1865 necessitating FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JORDAN affected by drilling. the enlistment of an additional 5,000 white KLEIMAN, HISTORY ______officers. These men who received their ______The Potential Impact of commissions with the United States Colored Troops Evaluating Oil and Gas Industry came from a variety of backgrounds but generally Hydrofracking on Wildlife and Their Claims Regarding the Benefits and had ties to the abolitionist movement. The black Habitats soldiers with whom they served played a significant Safety of Hydrofracking CHRISTINE DONOVAN role in the late war period and contrary to turn of ALEX BELENSZ, EVE ANDERSON While the affects of hydrofracking remain largely the century beliefs were not used as pawns due to American oil and gas industries stand to reap unknown, unconventional gas extraction will be a supposed childlike ignorance. In reality they were massive profits from the availability of shale gas. effecting many animals' habitats in the coming actively engaged in politics and in the protection of However, the high-volume horizontal hydraulic years if it continues to progress. This presentation their rights during Reconstruction. The white fracturing (hydrofracking) technique used by the oil deals with some of the potential damage that could officers who created bonds and learned from their and gas companies is highly controversial, as are the be done to ecosystems by hydrofracking. As enlisted men in many cases traveled south after the perceived effects of natural gas as an agent of animals' habitats, air and water quality, predators war as carpetbaggers, and used their experiences climate change. These companies and their and prey are altered, the potential stands for a huge to fight alongside blacks to protect the civil liberties supporters rely in large part on two arguments to amount of harm to be done to wildlife in New York of their former comrades. The relationships that rally public support. The first argument is that State. transcended across the Civil War and natural gas is a clean fuel than can be used as a Reconstruction eras gives evidence that activities "bridge fuel" while more environmentally-friendly STURGES 109 by radical republicans in the south were jointed means of producing energy are being developed. 3M • HISTORY efforts with blacks built upon matured networks of The second argument is that natural gas drilling "To Elevate Our Race": The Black communication. would boost the local economies surrounding the Experience During the American Civil ______drill sites, and could boost the national economy as Black Powder: The Impact of Fugitive well. The improved economy and domestic source War of energy would then contribute to the United FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JUSTIN Slaves on The Civil War States' energy independence and national security. BEHREND, HISTORY PATRICK STEGEMOELLER In our presentation, we will discuss opposing ______When it comes to great conflicts, it is almost viewpoints of these arguments using factual Why They Fought: Perspectives and impossible to point to one event or action that determines the outcome of the struggle. This is evidence and peer-reviewed scholarly publications. Memories from Those Who Shaped Many current studies suggest that natural gas is not especially true in the case of the American Civil as "clean" a fuel as the oil and gas companies the Civil War War, in which there were several instances that purport. Additionally, reports advise that the JUSTIN SHAPIRO could be considered the seminal moment of the The intersection of race, memory, and experience conflict. While battles like Gettysburg or Atlanta in personal accounts from the Civil War provides a come to mind as the essential event in the Union

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2012 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 6th Annual victory, the decision to employ African Americans Specifically, we are focusing on how aspects of group exist today that aren't addressed in the Bible for in the Union Army indisputably belongs in the same theory correlate to the sequence of durations used in which our best guesses will have to suffice. The conversation. Using fugitive slaves to bolster their Messiaen's composition Ile de Feu 2. Occupy Wall Street movement certainly falls into own fighting ability while simultaneously this category: the opinions of Jesus and Moses on weakening the South's, the Union was able to gain 3O • INTERDISCIPLINARY NEWTON 204 financial equality can only be inferred from their the decisive victories it needed to win the war. judgments in analogous cases in the Bible. If these Lincoln himself wrote that to throw away the The Hidden Court Street two patriarchs could be brought back to life, what potential of black soldiers and laborers was to FACULTY SPONSORS OLYMPIA NICODEMI, would they say about this and the moral state of throw away the Union as well. At the start of the MATHEMATICS AND WES KENNISON, STUDY America's economy? war, it was illegal for blacks, even northern blacks, ABROAD to enlist in the Union Army. Yet by the war's end, SESSION CHAIR: WED KENNISON, STUDY ABROAD 3Q • POLITICAL SCIENCE & there were over 350,000 African Americans fighting ______or laboring for the Union Army and Navy. How and Mapping Court Street INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS why this change occurred is essential to the TOBIAS SCOTT-KILLIAN WELLES 24 understanding of the war and to the nature of its Our panel will discuss the project of recreating a Political Science and International outcome. lost part of Geneseo through mapping. ______Relations Honors Theses NEWTON 201 Business on Court Street FACULTY SPONSOR: JEREMY GRACE, POLITICAL 3N • MATHEMATICS 3 SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JEFF LUCIANO SCALA Our panel will discuss how commerce evolved on SESSION CHAIR: VICKY FARMER, POLITICAL SCIENCE JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______Court Street and its surroundings through time. ______The History of Squaring the Circle ______Hidden communities RUSSELL LARSON, AMBER BALCERZAK Redrawing Borders in Africa: Norms JACOB BOUTTE Squaring the circle is a problem proposed by ancient and Exceptions geometers which is accepted to be impossible. It is Our panel will discuss the communities of Court ANDREW KUNTZ the challenge of constructing a square with the Street--communities that are lost and communities Taking into account the unique nature of African same area as a given circle by using only a finite that are hidden. borders and state formation, there is a significant number of steps with compass and straightedge. disparity between the expected number of Many mathematicians and geometers have spent 3P • PHILOSOPHY STURGES 112 secessionist states and actual, successful number of many years trying and failing to find a solution. The The Occupy Movement, Dido, and secessionist states, the only two of those being talk will cover the history of the problem as well as South Sudan and Eritrea. Yet it is unclear whether the different attempts towards its solution. New Testament Fragments ______FACULTY SPONSOR: CARLO FILICE, PHILOSOPHY these cases are exceptions, or they represent a Progression and Analysis of Various SESSION CHAIR: MEGAN CHAPIN shift in the regional and international norms ______governing secession and partition. Analysis of Epidemic Models God and the 1%: Socio-economic different failed secessionist efforts and ongoing SHEA NAJUCH movements across the continent and comparison In this presentation, we will explore various Justice in the Judeo-Christian with the two successful cases, in conjunction with epidemic models capable of predicting the future Tradition relevant historical information and international of numerous diseases, including SARS, HIV, ANDREW PERRY legal theory reveal that South Sudan and Eritrea measles, etc. We will also see just how these ______represent exceptions rather than shifts in the models are used to predict the future of these Dido and the New Testament: The governing regional and international norms. This many diseases using calculations of all different paper offers observations regarding the conflicting sorts. As the presentation goes on, we will observe Queen of Carthage's Opinion of the principles of self-determination, sovereignty and the progressions of models, and how they came to King of Kings territorial integrity in international law and the be perfected through minor calculation KATHERINE JOYCE nature of their application, analysis of policy adjustments throughout the years. This paper explores a hypothetical situation in relevancy, and recommendations of areas for ______which Dido of Virgil’s Aeneid has, through some further research. Running the Numbers Behind series of events, come to be in possession of a ______Natural Selection fragment of the Bible that amounted to the New Leadership Transition in North Testament only. The ways in which Dido may have PHIL MARK Korea: A Chance for Change? reacted to this fragment are explored, as well as the The evolution of complex life forms is often thought JARED DORMAN possibility that Dido may have regarded the Bible of as a mathematical anomaly. After all, how The death of Kim Jong-il marked a pivotal moment very differently at different points in her life. It improbable is it that the diverse and complicated for North Korea. With a new leader, came renewed would be impractical to try to cover the New organisms that cover our planet all arose from optimism about the country adhering to Testament in its entirety, so the sections discussed single celled organisms? The surprising answer is international norms, and becoming a less are those that would have most directly reflected that it is completely possible and reasonable when destabilizing influence in East Asia. There also came upon the life and actions of Dido as she is we account for the math hidden behind natural the fear that the succession would not go represented in the Aeneid. selection. I will take a simple example of a ______smoothly, causing an international crisis. This paper population of organisms to answer questions such examines the only previous succession in North as how long evolution takes to occur and how Jesus and Moses Occupy Wall Street Korean history: when Kim Il-sung died in 1994, and population size and variance affect the results. SAMANTHA SMITH compare it to how the current succession was ______For many people, a code of ethics entails no more supposed to succeed, as well as how Kim Jong- il Analyzing Mathematics in Music than instructions from the Bible. Any interpretation attempted to protect Kim Jong-un from those of these instructions necessarily requires Through Mathieu and Messiaen around him. I highlight the differences in modernizing some of them. 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It serves prominent defectors and scholars that specialize in LITERATURE many varied purposes, especially in a post-colonial the Korean Peninsula, I demonstrate that the ______context; this includes not only an attempt to write likelihood of imminent collapse in North Korea is HER AFRICA the self, but in many instances an attempt to write small, and that instead of progressive reforms, DAISY LUMA-HADDISON the historical, social, and cultural contexts in which North Korea is likely to pursue more oppressive FACULTY SPONSOR: KODJO ADABRA, LANGUAGE the self is located. As a country, South Africa has policies. AND LITERATURES had a unique struggle with the concept of cultural ______From the peak of the pyramids and the heart of the identity in the two decades following the end of the Higher Education in the BRIC Sahara, Owami and Kalahari to the shores of the racist Apartheid regime. The white minority, the Countries: Promoting Democratic coast of South Africa, there have been cries for historical colonizer in the country, has since lost freedom, for uhuru. In a continent where many power to the black majority and had to struggle to Development long gone witnessed imperial invasion and suffered find its place in an evolving society. This paper will JULIE WILLIAMS dismemberment, a culture [the African culture] was examine how in this "New South Africa", white life- Brazil, Russia, India, and China, collectively known oppressed. Liberation rings from within the hearts writing has retreated from traditional white as the BRIC countries, are considered to be the four of the once imprisoned souls. As children of that identity, and aimed to write a post-racial culture for fastest developing economies in the world. Rapid land seek to be reborn, challenges from the past South Africa. It will also suggest that this self- economic development presents new social and and of the future constantly emerge. Cautiously, conscious effort to reform ethnic identity has not political issues that must be addressed by the many intellectuals from Africa and from the yet been successful. It will consider two texts: governmental institutions that oversee such African Diaspora embarked on revolutionary Summertime by JM Coetzee, Portrait in Keys by Ivan growth. Higher education has a historic reputation journeys yet to be redefined in the eyes of a little Vladislavic, each of which is an example of life- for promoting the independent thought that is black girl. The fruits from these vulnerable journeys writing from a white South African in post- considered a tenet of modern liberalism, as well as are assorted: for many, they're called acceptance, Apartheid society. providing educational services that benefit a state liberation, sense of identity, inspiration, inner economically, politically, and socially. Institutions of peace and call for greatness, greatness associated 3S • CULTURAL EXPLORATION higher education within the BRIC countries face with the song of victory and liberation, the Tuko na unique internal and external challenges that range uhuru. So, what is it that is spreading freedom to (moved to 2U) from indigenous students to global competition. the shackled, through the warm yet evolving mind How these states confront questions of autonomy, of the little black girl? The poem, “HER AFRICA,” 3T • POLITICAL SCIENCE & access, quality, corruption, equality, and resources unveils her myriad challenges and thoughts about will have an impact on their liberal or illiberal the motherland sunk in a horizon once blurry still INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS development as influential economic players on a unfolding with guilt of a past unpacked, but with WELLES 119 global scale. This paper examines the systems of hopes of tomorrow within reach. Topics in American Politics higher education in the BRIC countries to assess ______FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JEFF KOCH, how the existing institutions will affect democratic WITHDRAWN Pulling Chestnuts from POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS development in the future. the Fire: Yeats's Traverse Between ______Access to Legal Representation for The Legal and Non-Legal Barriers to the Physical Body and the Dance of One's Imaginative Soul Low-Income Americans Return for Turkey's Internally CLAIRE BOULD KYLE SKOVIRA Indigent Americans receive unequal access to Displaced Persons: An Analysis of FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT DOGGETT, ENGLISH affordable legal representation for settling civil legal Turkey's Resettlement Policies In short this presentation will be a detailed analysis issues. This inequality arises from decreasing levels of SOPHIA HUTNIK of WB Yeats' Poem, “Among School Children”. At federal and state funding for legal assistance In 1978 the Peoples Workers Party (PKK) was the age of sixty, a man carries upon his tired back organizations and declining support for programs formed as a response to the Turkish state's long- years of labor. W.B. Yeats is a man that has labored such as Legal Services Corporation and Legal Aid standing policy of repression of Kurdish identity all his life in writing, in thought, and in passionate Association. Consequently, more low-income people within Turkey's borders. From 1984 on the State and innumerable pursuits of his beloved, Mr are forced to self-represent their cases in court, has been embroiled in a conflict with the PKK that Gonne. In his poem, "Among School Children," known as pro se representation, which invariably has resulted in grave human rights violations by Yeats finds himself reflecting on his travels through decreases the likelihood of achieving a favorable both parties as well as a culture of social trauma. In a life where a substantiated meaning has evaded outcome. Cases involving home foreclosures, divorce an attempt to reorganize the space in which the him. The poem's complex structure reflects Yeats's and family law, and unemployment insurance conflict was being fought, the Turkish military thoughts as they are representative of a man at attainments are among the most common that go began forcibly expelling villagers and burning down sixty coping with the felt absence of his youth. He is unrepresented because of the unavailability of legal villages and fields so that they would not return. looking back on his life as a whole, struggling to representation for the defendants. During the 1990s somewhere between 300,000 and accept the cyclical nature of the biological world ______3 million Kurds were displaced in Southeastern and and the speed at which the anticipated future Eastern Turkey. To this day the majority of the becomes the experienced past. Entangling the cruel The Political Views of American displaced live in poverty, a burden to their relatives and arduous nature of the physical world's effects Jewry and the cities they settled in. This paper will on the body with the fluid nature of the ever DAVID MYERS analyze the barriers of return found in the changing self, "Among School Children" echoes the Although only 2% of the American population of the underlying rhetoric and policies of the State from exhausted yet brightening imagination of Yeats as United States is Jewish, American Jews constitute its inception, relevant international and Turkish he copes with life once more in his senescence. an important political bloc for ambitious politicians. laws, programs of return, and some of the general ______My paper explores the factors that shape American social issues stemming from the repercussions of Rewriting Whiteness: Redefining Jewish public opinion. 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"cultural issues." The goal of the paper is to shed Indigent Defense in the United This paper examines the judicial mandate of some insight on a group often noted for its providing counsel to those who cannot afford it. seemingly paradoxical behavior within the American States: Looking into the Mandate There are many different systems of indigent electorate. and How to Reform Public Defense defense in the US; I will examine them and ______ROSAMOND DORAN determine what addition reforms, if any, are needed to meet the mandate to provide counsel.

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4A • ANTHROPOLOGY WELLES 24 NARDONE, SCOTT NEVINS, BENJAMIN SAPADIN, will cover some of the nationalist origins of the MARIA SIGALAS, IRINA YAKOVLEVA, JONATHAN germ theory of disease and present a case study of From Theory to Practice in YOUNG, SOPHIA HUTNIK how the two mindsets, biological and imperial, Anthropology 307: Student-designed Nimba County, located in the central-northern part merge in the field of tropical medicine; it will also Grassroots Organizations to Promote of Liberia bordering Guinea and Cote d'Ivoire, is the consider how primitivism and nationalism remain second most populated county in Liberia. A large stubbornly ingrained in our medical understanding Sustainable Community number of residents fled the county during the two of disease, epidemic and the self. Mentor: CAROL Development in Pakistan and Liberia civil wars and most of the already weak LONG, PROVOST FACULTY SPONSORS: ROSEMARIE CHIERICI, infrastructure was destroyed, further affecting the ______ANTHROPOLOGY AND KIM HOFFMAN, LIBRARY productivity and social structures of the region. But It's a Cinch for Batman! The SESSION CHAIR: ROSE-MARIE CHIERICI, Currently, the region lacks adequate infrastructure Hidden Intricacies Behind the ANTHROPOLOGY to support development of such roads, health care, ______and schools and slowing the region's recovering Making of an Original Graphic Novel RYKochet: Community Development from the destructive civil wars. This situation is SHEA FRAZIER further aggravated by the recent influx of refugees Comics: for many of us, the word brings up fun through Rural Ties between Rahim from Cote d'Ivoire who have been resettled in memories of colored cartoon spreads in the Sunday Yar Khan, Pakistan and Geneseo, NY refugee camps along the border. Our NGO is papers. But have you ever considered what goes ALEXANDRA CASEY, HUI MIN CHIA, LIANA composed of 5 groups that address maternal health into creating these five panel punch-line CLEMENTE, NAOMIE FRANCOIS, KEVIN FELTER, in relation to child marriages, sanitation in refugee generators? As it turns out, there's a lot. Each is a ZEBEDIAH GALLAGHER, SHANICE GUZMAN, camps, the effect of the mining industry on the local carefully balanced piece of art consisting of a MICHAEL MATTIUCCI, MATHIEU PAFUNDI, ELIZA inhabitants, skill training, and the lack of trained deliberate harmony of color, composition, style and STOLTZ, GRACE TROMPETER, NICOLE TSIEN, doctors in the county. We have utilized the story. Everything, from the panel sizes to the spaces CHRISTINE TURNER, MICHAEL VENTURIELLO, programs and reports of various local NGOs in order between panels, take preparation, thought and a EMILY VOEGLER, CAROLYN WOLFRAM to develop programs that we believe will help to surprising amount of time. Now, imagine applying RYKochet is a grassroots organization committed to create a more economically and socially sustainable all of that time and thought to making not five sustainable community development through rural environment. panels but five hundred. Welcome to the painful connections between Geneseo and the Rahim Yar and wonderful process of making a graphic novel. In Khan district of southern Pakistan. Subsistence 4B • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 121 this discussion, learn about the ups, downs and farming and pastoralism are the main source of many considerations that I experienced as I worked Edgar Fellows Miscellany VII to create my own full-length graphic novel, drafted livelihood in this primarily rural, Muslim area. Yar FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: OLYMPIA Khan's proximity to the Indus River makes it from its earliest stages of development into a NICODEMI, MATHEMATICS completed work. Mentor: KEN COOPER, ENGLISH vulnerable to recurrent flooding, as demonstrated ______by the devastating floods of 2010. These floods Imperialism under the Microscope: result in significant loss of life and damage to Creating and Revising Children's already shaky infrastructure and exacerbate existing an Examination of the Colonial Literature problems in health and education. RYKochet Microbe JUSTINE ROSEN collaborates with the people of Rahim Yar Khan to EMILIE O'NEILL This capstone project is my first foray into creative build and maintain community-initiated projects The discussion of microscopic organisms is framed writing--I am writing a mystery novel aimed at a that lead to self-sufficiency, alleviation of poverty, by anthropomorphic metaphors--those of 3rd-5th grade audience. The novel follows 4th and quality of life improvement. Working in small colonization, culture and war--that present single- graders Ellie and Rose, best friends who have to groups, our team has researched conditions in Yar celled existence as a microcosmic version of human uncover which of their classmates stole the class Khan and evaluated initiatives used by NGOs exchange and conflict. What does this discourse hamster, Oliver, all while planning Ellie's birthday working in the developing world to design our own reveal about the ideology that animates our party and practicing for the biggest basketball game visions of projects that tackle health, education, understanding of microbes? As a tool in the of the season. The presentation will juxtapose the economic development, capacity building, and language of science, metaphor performs key reading of short excerpts from the novel's latest micro financing that would best address conditions conceptual functions for the generation, extension draft with explanations of the process through in our area of intervention. and comprehension of theories. Early in the history which the draft has gotten to where it is. Specific

______of bacterial and microbiologic research, the focus will be placed on how I have created and metaphors "colonization" and "culture" became revised the subplot and characters (and what I plan Designing Innovative Sustainable affixed to the behavior of groups of microbes, and, to do next) in order to lay out a mystery that Solutions: Community Development though their roots are agricultural, these terms children can follow that is also dynamic enough to in Nimba County, Liberia began to take on more political tones as the germ make them keep reading. Mentor: ELIZABETH FALK, BRADLEY ARCHIBALD, JACLYN BEHORIAM, theory of disease transformed the perception of SCHOOL OF EDUCATION BENJAMIN CONTI, MAKENZIE DELMOTTE, KERRY microbes. Consequently, bacterial colonization FERRELL, ANNE-CARINE FREDERIQUE, MATTHEW assumed military and xenophobic aspects that 4C • EDGAR FELLOWS WELLES 123 brought it closer to the version of colonialism HAYES, FELIPE HOYOS, ALYSSA LEPKOWSKI, Edgar Fellows Miscellany VIII CHRISTINE LODATO, LINDSAY MONIN, PAUL operating on an international scale; terms like "foreign" and "invasion" began to abound. This talk

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FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: OLYMPIA purpose in dominance hierarchies and social groups. Multicultural and International NICODEMI, MATHEMATICS Mentor: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY ______Literature Resources for Use in Adult Attachment and the Big 5 as Efficacy of a Brief Mindfulness-Based Middle School Predictors of College Students' Intervention for College Student MEGAN WHITEHURST, SINDY PARK, FELICIA VANACORE, ALEXIS RYTEL, BRIANNE LYNCH, Romantic Relationship Functioning Stress and Rumination AMELIA HOLDING VANESSA LOBO ANDREW FROHN This presentation will focus on sharing strategies for Researchers have examined various personality Mindfulness-based interventions utilize selecting multicultural and international literature factors in an attempt to understand how individual meditation exercises to improve mental and to help readers engage with stories. Specific differences affect romantic relationship functioning. physical well-being through increased awareness resources and recommended instructional Two personality factors in particular--adult and nonjudgmental acceptance of momentary strategies will also be discussed. attachment and the Big 5 traits--have been linked to experience. Various mindfulness interventions romantic relationship satisfaction. Both attachment have been shown to be effective for promoting a avoidance and attachment anxiety have been variety of indicators of psychological and physical ______correlated with lower relationship satisfaction, and well-being, including reduction of stress and An Afterschool Program on Teaching several relationship processes have been found to ruminative thought. The aim of this project was to Foreign Language to Elementary mediate this relationship. Furthermore, the Big 5 adapt the structured 8-week Mindfulness-based trait neuroticism has been found to negatively Stress Reduction program into a less formal 2- Students predict relationship satisfaction, whereas week mindfulness education course for college MARISA SHUMAN extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness students in which mindfulness meditation Presenter will share instructional approaches to positively predict this outcome. The current study techniques are learned, practiced, discussed, and developing and designing an after school curricular was designed to extend past research by examining applied specifically to reducing college stress. program for teaching foreign languages to the potential mediating role of positive and Preliminary data show that the mindfulness course elementary students. Bilingual book resources will negative affect, self-disclosure, attributions about was associated with stress reduction, though a also be shared with the audience. one's partner, perceived conflict, and perceived more traditional stress management course was quality of social support from one's partner in the as well. Mentor: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY 4E • ENGLISH WELLES 131 relationships between attachment and/or the Big 5 Renaissance Literature and the Bible and relationship satisfaction. To my knowledge, this 4D • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH study is the first to test all of these specific SOUTH HALL 340 SESSION CHAIR: ERIC MALDONADO mediators of attachment styles and relationship Pre-Service Teachers' Research on ______satisfaction together in one study, and the first to Genesis and the New Testament in ever test these mediators with the Big 5. A Literacy in the Classroom, Part 2 comprehensive model of some of the major factors FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA PERPETUA LIWANAG, The Faerie Queene Books I & II that predict relationship satisfaction was created by AND ANN MARIE LAURICELLA, SCHOOL OF CHRISTINE O'NEILL systematically analyzing the unique contributions of EDUCATION The Bible has had more impact on Western two principal predictors and their individual SESSION CHAIR: MARISA SHUMAN civilization than perhaps any other text; Edmund mediators. Mentor: MONICA SCHNEIDER, Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1596) is the longest PSYCHOLOGY poem in the English language. The connections

between these two remarkable works of literature ______run deeper than just basic allegory. With the Pension Reforms in Haiti ______precision of an architect, Spenser planned out and VISHAL RAJPUT Multicultural and International wrote six books addressing Christian virtues while Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Literature Resources for Use in tying in biblical concepts, paralleling structure, and Hemisphere. The current pension system in Haiti at times artfully departing from scripture for provides very minimum security for the old age. The Elementary School impact. The major links between the Bible and presentation will analyze the existing pension KYLE HUBBLE, JENNIFER DAVIS, CYNTHIA Faerie Queene appear to be Old Testament allusions systems and suggest reforms that will provide more MORGAN, HALAYNA IVERSON, STEPHANIE and New Testament themes. Spenser's blend of options and security for the work force in Haiti. BERLAND, STEPHANIE TOTH, KAITLYN MAMAY, patriarchs and knights, pilgrimages and epic quests, Mentor: HARRY HOWE, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ELISE MURREL and Genesis and Elizabethan England result in an ______Presenters for this session will describe numerous innovative perspective on Christianity as the College Students' Perceptions of resources for engaging elementary students in Renaissance came to a close. Sarcasm Use in Adolescence reading diverse literature from diverse cultures. ______Strategies for selecting quality resources and how to God's Influence on the Will of a King: ZACHARY GOLD use these in the elementary classroom will also be This discussion will focus on the aggressive or playful included in the presentation. Explicitly Known, Implicitly Nameless nature of sarcastic language use by adolescent boys ______JOANIE DRAKE and girls. Past studies have suggested that boys and Investigating Basal Reading This paper focus on the use of King Ahasuerus and girls have different interaction styles. Boys are more his role driving the plot in the Bible's Book of Esther task-oriented, and girls are more conversational. Programs Used in the Elementary and Racine's play, Esther. There is a brief Consequently, they have difficulty interpreting Classroom informational section on his possible historical interactions of the opposite sex. The same may be NICOLE ZITO, HANNAH-RUTH CIVITA, CAITLYN identity. The fictional king in both works is driven by true regarding sarcastic language. Geneseo students DOWELL, MEGHAN GOSLINE, ANNIE O'NEILL his emotions, a character trait that works as a plot were asked to view short video clips of sarcastic Presenters will share qualitative and quantitative device in creating momentum in scenes. In addition exchanges between 17-year-old adolescents and data from survey conducted on pre-service to the characteristics that help develop the plot is make judgments based on first impressions of each teachers' perceptions and evaluation of selected the explicit and implicit intervention of God, as exchange. I will seek to answer questions about basal readers. Instructional approaches will also be applies to each text. Within the Book of Esther, God gender differences in perception of sarcasm, and I will shared to address issues identified in the study. is present in an understated form, underlying the try to explain the nature of sarcasm and its underlying ______actions of characters and the progress of action. In Racine's Esther, His presence is much more definite.

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The paper explores God's presence through purposeless and therefore their quests for self- The Unsettling of America: Ahasuerus' interactions with other characters, and identity through aesthetic development finally it analyses the omission of God's name. The unachievable. Competing Narratives on the Civil book and the play both emphasize the imperfection ______War and Emancipation of humanity as it relates to God's influence. He Raison d'Être: The Dandy, Society, FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JUSTIN created man to be imperfect, to be either kind or and Symbiosis BEHREND, HISTORY mean, good or bad, just as the tale of Esther ______ADAM LASHINSKY illustrates. In his critical Sartor Resartus, Thomas Carlyle The Other Side of the Struggle:

famously pegged the dandy as a "clothes-wearing Freeborn Northern Abolitionists, 4F • ENGLISH WELLES 132 man" with a "thinking-principle in him." Such is the Communication, Perseverance, and The Dandy and the Aesthete in the most common conception of the dandy as both a social and literary phenomenon: he is the brave Brotherhood British Novel soul who distinguishes himself from the crowd for SARAH AHEARN FACULTY SPONSOR: BILL HARRISON, ENGLISH reasons unknown, seemingly elevated and The history of abolition in the United States is rich, SESSION CHAIR: CAILIN KOWALEWSKI enlightened in some peculiar sense. Yet, how involving many different points of view and stories ______dependent is the man on the crowd, or the crowd that are intricately woven together to define the Corruption and Conversion: the on the man? Through inspection of the works and struggle for freedom in America. By focusing on the Artist and the Dandy in Brideshead lives of the most prolific and highly-reputable experience of black slaves and freed people in the Revisited English dandies, the relationship between society South, one will undoubtedly come to realize a rich and dandyism is shown to be a symbiotic one: The and intriguing history of a people struggling for their CAILIN KOWALEWSKI dandy needs a context; his personality is a basic rights as humans. However, the personal and In Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh presents the consumptive one, for "while still respecting the public experiences of those blacks who were born role of the dandy as an explorer of the self through conventionalities" of his society, he "plays with free in the North help to fill in the holes of the the experience of transient beauty, creating a them" in such a way that they become his own. In history of abolition. Those men and women lived in search for the fleeting, the impressionable, and the this sense, the dandy is a lens; he is something a time where it was only a matter of chance that alarming. To reach “art" and beauty in the form of through which the scattershot light of society is they had not been condemned into a life of slavery; experience, the dandy must navigate his mundane focused into a beam of Culture. So we see that it was simply a matter of location that had spared surroundings, remaining necessarily aware of the without the man, society would be lesser, and them their lives. This particular circumstance commonplace, insufïcient habits of culture while without society, the man would be useless. cultivated a group of people who were heavily isolating himself and seeking out the unique. invested in the abolition movement decades before Crucial to this process is the preservation of his 4G • ENGLISH WELLES 133 Civil War erupted in America. Aside from being sense of creative autonomy. To do this, the dandy historically relevant, the personal struggles of those establishes degrees of separation from reality and Paper-Writing on YouTube and Two in the North to free their brothers and sisters in the creates his own sub-spheres, lenses of behavior Town/Gown Issues -- The Riviera South is an intriguing story of perseverance and through which he can interpret social codes. In unity, one that is characteristic of America as a Brideshead, this process is directly threatened Theatre and Feral Cats FACULTY SPONSOR: JULIA WALKER, ENGLISH whole. when the dandy's distancing behavior is ______SESSION CHAIR: MIKE GATTUS reconnected with reality. The dandy is challenged The Post-Civil War Appeal of the by the existence of the artist, who attempts to ‘fix’ ______each occasion or 'scene' of the art that is the Ferocious Feral Felines Republican Party to African dandy's behavior. In this context, Waugh presents ANNA GOYZUETA, MELISSA NOLAN, RACHEL American Women: Why Support a the threat to dandy figures as a stagnancy of HASTINGS normalcy; a re-imposition of cultural ennui that The feral cat population of Geneseo is an on-going Fragmented Party? perverts the immediacy of experience that problem. These students examine the problem, the ANTONIA OVIEDO characterizes the dandy's "life" art. responsibility that SUNY Geneseo students have for African American women's devotion and support ______creating much of this problem by leaving their pets for the Republican platform is of importance in The Aesthete's Faulty Method behind in May, and offer some solutions. Showing defining their ascension into society after the Civil War. The reasons for this support extended far MARGARET CRAFT their video and their "making of" wiki, the panel will beyond the Republican Party being the party Dandyism is a reactive lifestyle that protests against illuminate the problems and pleasures of engaging platform that abolished slavery. To them it was the common social precepts of the time period the with Village residents and the challenges of writing more than merely an abolitionist, racially dandy resides in. The aesthete form of the dandy a college paper as a YouTube video. progressive party, but the party that offered to seeks to develop individual expression through ______increase their socio-economic status. While African assembling collections of objects, food, and What? No Brass Band to Greet Us? American women were dwelling in Republican sometimes people that represent his or her The Politics and Etiquette of politics, Southern white women were quite silent excellent sense-related taste. Characters such as during this time, not just in politics, but also in their Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Town/Gown Projects: The Riviera submission to the patriarchal aspects of the South. Gray, Lady Aldwinkle in Aldous Huxley's Those Theatre Restoration Despite being arguably progressive in terms of race, Barren Leaves, and des Esseintes in J.K. Huysmans's TIMOTHY RUSAW, JAIME ZAHL the Republican Party was also plagued with Against the Grain unsuccessfully attempt to live in Restoring the Riviera Theatre on Center Street is a corruption by entrepreneurs and politicians seeking their own versions of a properly selective and thus collaborative community project with many Village economic advantages. Ultimately, however African aesthetically pleasing world. When these characters groups and individuals working together. The missing American women supported the Republican Party who adopt aestheticism choose to take it to the group was college students. This panel will discuss because despite it's fragmented, and sometimes extreme in some form of withdrawal from society, not only the Riviera project itself and the challenges corrupt tendencies, the party's drive for civil and the very social aspects dandyism rebels against are of writing a college paper as a YouTube video, but political equality was not a result of the party's no longer present to reinforce the dandy's sense of also the reasons why getting involved with the Village interest in Congressional power, as they gained very alienated purpose. This method separates them project wasn't as easy as they expected it to be. little from African Americans in this respect, but the from the social backdrop against which their http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-9Fsi-6TXA sincere ideology that there should be civil and lifestyle and individualism interprets itself and thus political equality. counter-productively makes their selectivity 4H • HISTORY STURGES 108 ______

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Mistress of Disguise: Understanding FACULTY SPONSOR: EMILYE CROSBY, HISTORY fought aggressively to preserve the existing SESSION CHAIR: JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY neighborhood school system. By examining the How Mildred Lewis Rutherford ______political forces that obstructed integration in Operated as a Lost Cause Ideologist “We Spell Black Power in Rochester Rochester, my project also explains the black and GRETCHEN BARKHUFF with Capital Letters – F.I.G.H.T.": Spanish-speaking communities' eventual desertion Mildred Lewis Rutherford is often cited as a leading of integration to pursue community control of their voice in Lost Cause ideology--a white supremacist Community Organizing and the Black predominantly non-white schools. ideology that glorified the antebellum south as a Power Movement in Rochester, NY way to control the direction of the post-antebellum DAVID O'DONNELL future. But, while she is rightly noted as a historical This project focuses on the development of FIGHT figure embedded in a white supremacist social (Freedom, Integration, God, Honor, Today) an project, an important question remains largely organization that was created in 1965 to organize unexplored: How did Rutherford, as a woman, against racial inequality in Rochester, NY. FIGHT's 4J • LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES become a major public figure and thinker for a activism was centered on the issues of WELLES 26 cause that not only desired to maintain a racial employment, poverty, housing, police harassment, hierarchy, but also a gender hierarchy? Her very and inclusion in decision-making institutions in La Cultura Moderna de España / presence as a public speaker contradicted her own Rochester. Using Black Power ideology and Modern Spanish Culture Lost Cause argument that white women's lives were community organizing tactics, FIGHT attempted to FACULTY SPONSOR: LORI BERNARD, LANGUAGE best spent in the home. Taking a step back from break down structural barriers that prevented AND LITERATURES Rutherford's words and focusing instead on her racial equality in Rochester. In its early years, FIGHT SESSION CHAIR: SARAH DZIEKONSKI actions solves this paradox. Rutherford, who argued for community representation in Action for ______understood the extreme power of image and a Better Community Inc. (Rochester's community The Spanish Civil War and narrative, literally disguised herself as an old-time action program), fought to be included in the urban southern belle. Through this belle-hood renewal decision making process, created a Contemporary Film performance she not only secured her social program to prepare members of the community for MALLORY LONG standing as white, upper class individual but also civil service exams, and organized for employment Mallory is going to research contemporary films clandestinely broke into the male-dominated public opportunities. FIGHT's activism contributes to new whose subjects deal with the impacts of the sphere. Essentially, delegitimizing African understandings of the Black Power Movement and Spanish Civil War. She will explore the impact that Americans' claims to freedom allowed Rutherford helps refute common myths that Black Power was these films have had on the generations born after to exercise elite white female agency and shape the solely based on violent rhetoric and reverse racism. the end of the Civil War and after the end of the course of history in a society largely controlled by Franco dictatorship, respectively. She will focus on white, wealthy, men. ______Pan's Labyrinth, Carol's Journey, and Butterfly ______The 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion Tongues. Burned in Effigy: How the Lost Cause KEVEN ADAMS ______Art and Society in Modern Spain Allowed for Reconciliation through I will present a portion of my thesis on the Attica Prison Rebellion, contrasting inmate demands with SARAH DZIEKONSKI Cultural Performances of Surrogation the greater black freedom movement. For my Sarah is going to investigate the relationship JESSE GOLDBERG presentation I will read an edited version of my between social and artistic movements in In the fifty years following the American Civil War, thesis, providing brief background on the rebellion contemporary Spain. She will speak about the very national and cultural identity of the United itself, while focusing primarily on the demands of movements of the twentieth and twenty-first States was on the brink of deconstruction. The the inmates, offering a comparison between prison centuries, including surrealism, cubism, and works white supremacist narratives on which the country's conditions and urban conditions. created during the period known as La Movida. cultural identity was built were being forcibly ______challenged by the emancipation of millions of black Educational Inequality in Rochester - Contemporary Spanish Television people from slavery. While some Americans wanted The Failure of the Rochester City ANDREA BUSH to remember the war as a war fought over slavery - Andrea will explore the history and importance of a memory eventually called the emancipationist School District to Desegregate television in Spain. She will look at how television account of the war, others violently fought to DANIEL BAILEY has changed over the course of the twentieth enshrine a different memory into the American The project aims to make sense of the dismal state century. Andrea will look at how television and cognitive landscape. The continuum of narratives of the Rochester City School District today by society have mutually influenced one another over responding to emancipationist accounts of the war uncovering and evaluating the district's many the course of the twentieth and twenty-first came to be collectively known as Lost Cause attempts to reorganize and integrate its schools centuries. She will focus on public television ideology. The Lost Cause was used to keep white during the 1960s and early 1970s, as well as the shows. supremacy central to American identity, thereby structural and political forces that impeded these ______doing the cultural work of setting the stage for Jim efforts. I found that despite the unyielding support Spanish Food Crow legislation, and allowed the South to engage of the city's black and white liberal community, KEVIN FELTER in multiple complex performances of surrogation in which included a very progressive Superintendent Kevin will look at Spanish food and how order to cope with the Confederacy's defeat at the and a majority of the school district's principals and gastronomical variety manifests itself as an hands of the Union. A common identity narrative teachers, desegregation ultimately failed as a result extension of the distinctive 'Spanish' identities. He for white people was forged and bolstered by the of a resistant, separatist segment of the white will explore several dishes from the different literal hanging and burning in effigy of black people. community and a volatile and recurrently regions of Spain and will examine why each region Thus, the lynching of black people following the conservative Board of Education eager to satisfy so fiercely defends their signature dishes. American Civil War was a cultural performance of the city's conservative power structure. 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Forecasting Time Series Using worldly, impermanent things. The assertion that 4L • PHILOSOPHY STURGES 112 things in the physical world are transient is difficult Multivariate Regression to deny; it seems fairly obvious that most if not all JAKE BARROTTA, TIM JONES, RYAN COLUCCI Eastern Philosophical Reflections worldly objects and experiences will come to an end Through an exploration of advanced statistical FACULTY SPONSOR: CARLO FILICE, PHILOSOPHY at some point. However, complete detachment methods from multivariate regression to SESSION CHAIR: JEFF HANDY doesn’t seem to allow for a lot of what we’d call a autoregressive models the revenue for several ______healthy enjoyment of life. In this paper, I will businesses was analyzed. Nearly a decade's worth A Happy Man: Reflections on advance the position in Filice’s Purpose of Life which of financial data was used to develop a model for Chinese Thought and the Individual states that things and experiences within the forecasting future revenue. These models attempt SAM PREMINGER physical world have intrinsic value that demands to incorporate several business trends including This presentation will offer meditations on the recognition from us. From this, I will argue that the seasonal, cyclical, and secular trends which varied Chinese philosophical traditions of Moism, recognition of value-carrying entities in the physical from company to company. While predicting an Confucianism, and Taoism as explored through world inevitably leads to some form of attachment exact value of future sales is difficult using only creative fiction. These historic ideologies will be to them. The right kind of attachment would statistical methods, we are able to forecast results articulated not merely as a reflection in the recognize their transience in addition to their within a certain confidence interval for each abstract, but as an interpretation of how they possession of positive value, allowing us to enjoy quarter. With this in mind, caution must always be interrelate; both adding to and amending one the experiences the physical world has to offer, taken when forecasting a result outside of the another in their application to an individual life. aware of but unburdened by the knowledge that range of data from which the model was However, as one can only truly write what they these things will soon be gone. generated. This talk will be a co-presentation know, these Eastern traditions – their perceptions between Jake Barrotta, Tim Jones, and Ryan of value, the self, and the ideal way of life – will Colucci. 4M • POLITICAL SCIENCE & here be examined through a lens of Western ______INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS culture, allowing local minds to more easily perceive Elasticity Analysis in Populations how such philosophies play out naturally in their MILNE 105 with Low Birth Rates own lives while still maintaining and accurately State and Society in Comparative RAY COOK representing core beliefs of the rich and Perspective In population biology, age-structured models can enormously influential traditions of Chinese FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: VICTORIA be used to study population growth. By various thought. FARMER, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL methods of analysis, population biologists seek to ______RELATIONS determine the impact of individual age-classes on A Philosophical Dialogue Over Our ______overall population growth. One such method Shared Reality examines changes in survival and fertility between The Internet and the Sociopolitical MATT MCNEILL age-classes in proportion to overall trends in the ______Development of Nation-States population. This proportional response is called the BENJAMIN JAY elasticity and is a measure of the sensitivity to Poohdism Over the past two decades, the Internet has change within an age class. In populations with low JEFF HANDY revolutionized the spread of information across the birth rates, as is the case with wolves, it becomes Benjamin’s Hoff’s book The Tao of Pooh seeks to world. Much like the printing press of the difficult to calculate this sensitivity due to low uncover the ostensibly mysterious principles of the Renaissance, the Internet has enabled access to a fecundity. One solution to this problem is to Taoist Eastern philosophy by using Winnie the Pooh wealth of ideas and facilitated greater simplify the age-structure of the wolf population as an allegory for the ideal Taoist. However, I think communication across larger communities than had and then perform an elasticity analysis on the the allegory struggles to translate to the human previously been possible. As Benedict Anderson has simplified model. The results of this analysis can experience accurately. Hoff doesn’t seem to argued, Gutenberg's press and the ideas it spread in then be compared to simulated data in the consider the differences between the shallow and vernacular languages played a major role in presence of mange to assess the proportional deep free wills in Pooh and humans respectively. establishing the states of Europe. The Internet has sensitivity of overall population changes to changes Pooh’s shallow free will makes it impossible for him similarly broadened opportunities for social in individual age classes. Using this method, we find to do anything other than act in the way an ideal communication and access to information. For that young wolves make up the most sensitive age Taoist should by following his Tao (his path or way). example, in India, rapidly expanding mobile networks group. Humans, however, have a deep free will that allows connect people in remote areas to each other and to ______them to self-shape, or reprogram, their inborn their government officials. In China, the Internet can Wavelet Based Pan-Sharpening wants and values. Perhaps it is a fundamental be used to create social networks that give citizens a problem of Taoism that it doesn’t consider this Techniques voice against an autocratic regime. This paper uniquely human ability. Buddhism, on the other explores the possible effects of Internet technology MINCHUL KANG hand, acknowledges our deep free will, encouraging on state-society relations. Pan sharpening is an image sharpening technique its followers to rid themselves of suffering by ______that is essential to applications in geosciences, actively choosing to eliminate desires. I believe Economic Interests and Working- national defense tasks, and even in medical Taoism would more accurately capture the human imaging. Pan sharpening is widely used in remote condition by incorporating some aspects of Class Authoritarianism sensing satellites, which use spatial data from a Buddhism. Let’s call this blend of the two STEVEN FISHER panchromatic image and the spectral philosophies “Poohdism.” Understanding voting behavior in democracies is characteristics of a multispectral image to create a ______difficult, particularly since it is not uncommon for single image with high spatial and spectral Here and Gone: Value in an people to vote for outcomes that are directly resolution. Four common methods include the Hue- opposed to their economic interests. Political Saturation-Intensity (HSI) Method, the RGB Impermanent World scientist Seymour Martin Lipset has argued that it is Wavelet Method, the Brovey Method, and the HSI ANNA BATTAGLIA often those lowest on the economic ladder who are Wavelet Method, which integrates HSI with the Central to Hinayana Buddhist philosophy is the most skeptical of the liberal institutions that would RGB Wavelet Method. We examine and present claim that existence necessarily includes suffering. offer them the greatest opportunity for upward several wavelet and non-wavelet based techniques The source of this suffering is attachment to the mobility. This paper analyzes the implications of the to determine which method produces the highest transitory things of this world. Freedom from theory of working-class authoritarianism in fidelity image based on quantitative analysis using suffering and the achievement of nirvana must be comparative perspective. 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National Identities and the State in Officers. The number of Hispanic workers has what they believe to be healthy food, and the increased. Target has created a website, impact the setting has on what they eat. Analysis of Yugoslavia target.com/espanol. Target employees complained the interviews revealed multiple contradictions MATHIEU PAFUNDI of cultural insensitivity and racial discrimination. challenging intentions to eat well. The fall of communism in 1990 throughout the Target was sued by the EEOC in February 2002 and Eastern Bloc and Russia had profound effects on NFB in 2006. Recommendations for Target include 4P • THEATRE/DANCE political stability across the globe. Yugoslavia, which more direct anti-discrimination policy, training in had been held together and ruled by the strong employee perception, and adhering to lawsuit WADSWORTH AUDITORIUM hand of its own Communist Party since 1946, agreements. Target has excelled in two major The Metamorphosis of Dance- A quickly broke apart and degenerated in to a series environmental areas: utilization of reusable bags Reflection of the 20th Century Social of violent ethnic conflicts. The break up along ethnic and implementing in-store environmental efforts. lines can be linked to the strong ethnic based Despite these successes, proper waste disposal Liberation Movement nationalism that had existed in the region for over a requires much improvement. Target was accused of FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: JONETTE century. The Communist Party and the strong dumping hazardous materials in trash compactors LANCOS, THEATRE/DANCE leadership of Josip Tito had repressed the instead of approved waste disposal areas which cost ______ERIN GIRARD, CAROLINE GERARD, EMMA PORTER, expression of ethnic nationalism, and prevented over 22.5 million dollars in the state of California STEPHANIE WILLMARTH nationalist tensions from exploding. This paper lawsuits. We recommend that the company This presentation will outline the historical investigates the relationship between the state and provides a better training program for its transition of the dance art form from the classical national identities through a case study of employees. Yugoslavia. ______ballet tradition of the 19th century to today's Human Resource Management for American modern dance. In our investigation we 4N • SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 2 will examine the particular contributions of Chipotle Mexican Grill American modern dance forerunners, Loie Fuller SOUTH HALL 338 ELIZABETH JERABECK, PETER CONLEY and Isadora Duncan, to the dance community, as School of Business We will describe the steps taken by Human Resource well as the influence of their liberated ideologies FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: AVAN Management of Chipotle in regards to environmental and lifestyles on the social liberation movements of JASSAWALLA, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS responsibility, corporate responsibility, ethics, the era- the feminist movement in particular. The ______eliminating discrimination in employment, development of dance transcended artistic Causes and Consequences of Abusive sustainability and human rights. boundaries into the social scene, and a progressive Supervision ______American identity was established through dance. This presentation will also incorporate small dance JENNIFER HOFFMAN Employees and Organizations performances in order to demonstrate ideas Factors Contributing to Abusive Behavior a) Handling Surprises and Unexpected discussed. Displaced aggression- Displacement operates in the Events mind unconsciously and involves emotions, ideas, or KAREN SCHVARTZMAN 4Q • WOMEN'S STUDIES WELLES 138 wishes being transferred from their original object This presentation will provide an overview of the to a more acceptable substitute b) Personality/ procedures, course of actions, and precautions that Women's Studies Senior Project Cultural Conflict Recommendations a) Any work organizations and employees can take in order to criticism that a boss/supervisor makes to an Presentations better prepare themselves for unexpected events. It FACULTY SPONSOR & SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE employee should be legitimate and constructive. b) was found that observing and learning from Managers should acknowledge and recognize BLOOD, WOMEN'S STUDIES organizations that deal on a regular basis with ______employees as full and complete adults who have surprises can provide insightful ideas to the upper Becoming Velma: Women in skills and abilities. Moreover, managers should management of any area. Besides, companies need empathize and understand that employees also to accumulate the appropriate resources and have Children's Television have personal life and needs outside the them readily available as needed. We also found that COLLEEN WILSON organizations. c) Make sure everyone in the when the knowledge of the task to be completed is Inspired by my own experience of bearing a company understands the policies on abusive shared between employees and everyone has shocking resemblance to Velma Dinkley from behavior and what things the company will not common work flow expectations, the ground is set Scooby Doo, this presentation will discuss my senior tolerate. d) For the bosses/supervisors throughout for the organization to respond to unexpected project research about female characters in the company also make sure it is clear the type of events and to surprises by making use of children's television shows, paying special attention punishment that will ensue if they should organization bricolage. The concept of organization to cartoon representations of females. I will analyze participate in abusive behavior bricolage will be further discussed. Mitroff also subtle messages expressed in the portrayals of ______proposed a six steps model that allows for these characters, begging the question, what does Target Corporation: Social organizations to face and overcome surprises and TV teach children about gender? Responsibility, Diversity, unexpected events. ______Cross Cultural Comparison of Environmental Responsibility BRITTANY JORGENSEN, KYLEIGH CARPENTER, 4O • SOCIOLOGY STURGES 114 Sanctioned Partnerships KELLY MARKOWIT "Yeah, a Cereal Bar is Pretty YAEL ROSENSTOCK Target approaches health and wellness through While specific partnerships are sanctioned legally, different programs that incorporate the physical Healthy." socially, and religiously within a culture, others are and emotional aspects of employee's health. These FACULTY SPONSOR: ELAINE CLEETON, SOCIOLOGY still being negotiated as to whether they are programs include health care, adoption assistance, SESSION CHAIR: ZACHARY DUBOIS acceptable or not within the framework of their ______culture. I will examine the United States as a and legal services. Coalitions like the Alliance to MAKENZIE DELMOTTE, ALEXANDRA DIETZ, Make US Healthiest help to create a common goal starting point to compare sanctioned partnerships ZACHARY DUBOIS, BRITTANY FIATO, DEMIANNA found in other cultures. of helping U.S. citizens. Target focuses on safer ISKANDAR, CAITLIN MAHER, KATHERINE MURPHY, communities, healthy living, and commitment to ______RHIANNON CARRIER An Intimate Conversation with education. For recruiting, Target maintains An ethnographic study of college student food relationships with organizations including the decisions was conducted. 15 students were Bearde Gavis (Beard-ee Gay-vis) and National Black MBA Association. 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NICHOLAS BECHT Combatting an Invasion of Tastes: A suggests that place-specificity in titles enjoyed a A presentation by the author and performer(s) of strong height when Country "went mainstream" but one of the Queer Theatre Festival pieces. A Case Study of French Behavior has lapsed in recent years. My analysis shows that reflection upon some of the ways in which a Toward the Influx of Foreign Cuisine places have historically been an integral element of personal biography can be examined through and MARISSA KONIECZKO American country music. However, deeper research engaged with the intersecting lenses of feminist, FACULTY SPONSOR: ROSEMARIE CHIERICI, has revealed that what appears on the surface to be gender, and queer theory, and how that exploration ANTHROPOLOGY a steadily increasing occurrence of allusions may was then transformed into a staged performance. In the past century the French gastronomic arena actually be evidence of a changing culture of Some points of interest include: Patriarchy and has witnessed a growing influx of foreign and ethnic Country music in which place names do not play as Gaytriarchy; Coming out of many closets; Beauty food. This trend has been linked to increasing major a role. myths; Gender expression and transgression; globalization and large-scale immigration due to the "Performance" anxiety; and Bearded lady drag. decolonization movements of the 1960s. While the 4S • INTERDISCIPLINARY: BIOLOGY & ______French have accepted the inevitable inclusion of Comparing the Impact of Bystander- foreign food into their country, their valuation of HISTORY Themed vs. Provocative Posters on these foreign cuisines and the distribution of ethnic WELLES 119 restaurants in their cities indicate the power of past SESSION CHAIR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY Sexual Assault Awareness and prejudices, the formation of a definite culinary ______Willingness to Help Peers hierarchy and a defensive resistance to change. This Modelling the Rise and Fall of CATHERINE HERMAN paper is based on research I conducted during a 5 Empires This study will discuss the impact of a poster month study abroad experience in Montpellier, a HERBERT SUSMANN, ELLIOTT REGAN, NICHOLAS campaign on Geneseo's campus that specifically city on the southern Mediterranean coast of France. COLLISSON targeted sexual assault. The effectiveness of The data utilized in this paper was collected from FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY bystander-themed and provocative posters will be informal discussions with residents, material in the Computer modeling has been applied to such analyzed for student's increased awareness of primary literature, my personal observations, and diverse fields as molecular biology, epidemiology, sexual assault as an issue on our campus, responses to a survey that I administered to a and economics. Our presentation will discuss how willingness to intervene in a situation to help peers, sample of residents. Information from restaurant computer modeling can be applied to the study of and their overall receptivity to having these types of distribution maps that I created was also included. history and the reasons for doing so. We posters in their residence halls The data reveal that the native French tend to value implemented a dynamic model of civilizations over their cuisine more highly than any other and time in which empires rise and fall due to 4R • INTERDISCIPLINARY: increasingly shun the cuisines of immigrant groups, endogenous forces. Each empire has levels of most especially those of the Maghreb peoples from GEOGRAPHY & ANTHROPOLOGY assabiya, or social solidarity, that vary over space, North Africa. increasing near borders and decreasing in the heart ______WELLES 115 of the empire. The ability of an empire to expand is SESSION CHAIR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY Israeli-American Children: Split partly determined by its average assabiya over the ______Between Two Cultures area of the civilization. This method of modeling Legacies of Colonialism: Retrospect ELIZABETH SHENN lead to complex emergent behavior in which and Prospect in Namibia's Ghost FACULTY SPONSOR: ROSEMARIE CHIERICI, empires went through cycles of expansion, Town Mining Landscape ANTHROPOLOGY stabilization, and collapse. We compared such an Offspring of Israelis who have grown up in the approach to modeling civilization growth with an BRIDGET KELLY United States often feel that they do not belong alternative method based on population growth. FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY fully to either the American or Israeli community. This approach, based on the theory of historical Post-colonial scholarship conventionally focuses on Through interviews, both formal and informal, with secular cycles, models the behavior of an empire the persistence of systems of economic activity, and observations of such individuals, mostly based on the relationship between population size power structures, social frameworks and cultural between the ages of 17 and 23, it was clear that and the carrying capacity of the environment. norms, including language. In large part, while they explore their identity through language. This Modeling empires based on population growth also important, these systems lack material expression can be seen through both code switching and word lead to emergent cycles similar to that of the model in the landscape. Economic exploitation through choice. Based on the data, I argue that the process based on a theory of collective action. mining activity, however, has always been of identity exploration for Israeli-Americans is accompanied by striking landscape modification, dynamic and a pattern has developed which often subsequently abandoned owing to factors ______expresses itself through language use. such as depletion, technology, outside competition ______Questions of Authorship and and fluctuations in market prices. Coastal Namibia, (Mis)attribution in The Story of formerly German Southwest Africa, is one such Toponymic Elements in American landscape. My presentation focuses on the human Country Music Mattie J. Jackson landscape infrastructure of diamond mining by ELIZABETH RECK STEPHANIE IASIELLO German interests in the early 20th century and the FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY FACULTY SPONSOR: CATHERINE ADAMS, HISTORY subsequent decline of the industry by 1950, leaving This paper details my study of the past fifty years of The concept of authorship is particularly relevant in ghost and near-ghost towns scattered throughout American Country music in which many titles of understanding The Story of Mattie J. Jackson. Even the Namib Desert. A striking neoliberal legacy of released singles include allusions to geographic keeping with the title page's indication that this early European exploitation has been evident in the place names. The main website where I derived the narrative is "a true story," "written and arranged by re-visioning of the ghost town landscape as a high- lists of song titles was Billboard.com, which displays Thompson," "as given by Mattie," there is a third end international tourist experience and the revival the top Country singles charts from the current authorial presence that is unacknowledged. That of the diamond industry through increased offshore week back to around 1960. I recorded the titles voice belongs to Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a activity. Whether these initiatives will thrive or give with toponymic allusions from every month in that prominent African American abolitionist and author. in to the stresses of one of the world's most time-span and then analyzed the data according to While the narrative is replete with allusions to inhospitable landscapes remains to be seen. categories such as the actual place of reference Harper's early work, no attribution within the ______(within the United States), the occurrence of such narrative indicates her contribution-- this applies to allusions over time, and artists' gender and all editions of the text, from its original publication geographic origin. The chronological record in 1866, to the Oxford Press edition (1988), to the most recent reprint in 2010. This essay will explore

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Index of Student Participants

A Benson, Jen · 52 Chamberland, Jessica · 4 Davide, Danielle · 49 Bentivegna, Jodi · 3 Champlin, Josephine · 48 Davila, Marcos · 10 Abdi, Yusuf · 9 Berbary, Cassandra · 31 Cheung, Wilson · 37 Davis, Jennifer · 21, 56 Abreu, Stephanie · 20 Bergin, Kelly · 19 Chia, Hui Min · 55 Davis, Thomas · 27 Adams, Keven · 58 Berland, Stephanie · 21, 56 Chiappone, Maria · 36 Dawood, Zubair · 45 Adiletta, Natalie · 20 Besmanoff, Dana · 9, 47 Chillemi, Talia · 45 De Leon, Rebecca · 3 Admoni, Netta · 29, 38 Bevins, Terrence · 7 Chmela, Patrick · 42 Deck, Jared · 15 Agovino-Rojas, Zoyla · 18 Biber, Jonathan · 23 Choedon, Tenzin · 46 DeClerck, Cole · 7 Ahearn, Sarah · 57 Bilecki, Danielle · 31 Chon, Jason · 8 Decosse, Stefan · 22 Ahmad, Bareeqah · 17 Bird, Jeffrey · 34 Chung, Seojung · 4 DeFilippis, Brandon · 26 Alexander, Brian · 26 Biscardi, Joseph · 48 Cirincione, Emily · 4 Delmotte, Makenzie · 55, 60 Alexander, Jobina · 39 Bittner, Alyson · 4, 53 Ciruzzi, Dominick · 25 Deluca, Justine · 43 Ali, Megan · 18 Blatner, Maria · 47 Civita, Hannah-Ruth · 21, 56 Dermigny, John · 27 Alix, Nicole · 39 Boateng, Abigail · 14 Clark, Danielle · 20 Deshaies, Jacob · 29, 48 Allen, Ashley · 43 Boehm, Brittany · 21, 50 Clauss, Kristin · 45 DeStefano, Matthew · 15 Allen, Molly · 18 Bomeisl, Lauren · 28, 44 Cleary, Kevin · 31 Diener, Karl · 4 Allen, Russell · 4, 20 Bonthron, Erin · 19, 20 Clemente, Brian · 47 Dietz, Alexandra · 60 Alliger, David · 32, 33, 62 Borowski, Devon · 1, 4, 35 Clemente, Liana · 55 Dinse, Karen · 19 Amori, Amanda · 34 Bosch, Jessica · 14 Clough, Nathan · 42 DiTursi, Joe · 4 Anderson, Eve · 38, 52 Boshers, Joseph · 16 Coble, Mary · 18, 48 DiTursi, Sara · 16 Annese, Michael · 17 Bosworth, Jaquelyn · 20 Cohoon, Leslie · 30 Dodge, Cortney · 3 Anthony, Keena · 18 Bould, Claire · 54 Collins, Caileigh · 7 Donohoe, James · 15 Arauabia, Lucia · 36 Bourne, Sam · 36 Collins, Liam · 8 Donovan, Christine · 30, 52 Archibald, Bradley · 55 Boutte, Jacob · 53 Collisson, Nicholas · 12, 61 Doran, Rosamond · 54 Arcuri, Michael · 11, 48 Bower, Matthew · 31, 43 Colucci, Ryan · 58, 59 Dorman, Jared · 53 Asselin, Patrick · 34 Boyle, Kathryn · 30 Cong Zeng, Jian · 27 Dornbush, Christina · 18 Athens, Lexi · 4 Brannick, Michael · 28 Conley, Kerry · 51 Doroski, Melanie · 20 Avery, Ryan · 14 Bresovski, Juliana · 8 Conley, Peter · 60 Dougherty, Emily · 22 Azzaro, Michael · 16 Brito, Nancy · 46 Connelly, Regina · 23 Dowell, Caitlyn · 21, 56 B Bronson, Kevin · 23 Connolly, Kelli · 13 Drake, Joanie · 9, 56 Bae, Christine · 2 Brown, Hannah · 43 Consiglio, Rosanna · 11 Drazan, John · 46 Baehr, Ellis · 23, 24 Brunscheen, Kelly · 4 Conti, Benjamin · 55 Driscoll, Clark · 49 Bailey, Daniel · 58 Burathoki, Rajan · 45 Contino, Kevin · 22, 23 Drozdiel, Kathryn · 21, 50 Baique, Miguel · 8 Burris, Taryn · 46 Cook, Julie · 26 Dubois, Zachary · 4, 60 Balcerzak, Amber · 53 Bush, Andrea · 58 Cook, Ray · 59 Duclos, Laura · 4 Balloveras, Oscar · 44 Butera, Shannon · 46 Coon, Matt · 4 Duhamel, David · 4 Balschunat, Kristen · 39 Butkowski, Chelsea · 43 Cordella, Matthew · 44, 50 Dukarm, Katie · 45 Banahan, Thomas · 10 C Corrado, Lauren · 3 Dukler, Noah · 48 Barber, Elizabeth · 42, 50 Cotrupi, Nick · 4 Duncan, Cody · 41 Calix, Dalia · 16, 17 Barker, Chelsey · 20 Cottrell, Cody · 36 Dzara, Sarah · 13, 46 Campanella, Gabrielle · 22 Barkhuff, Gretchen · 50, 57 Couch, Matthew · 31 Dziekonski, Sarah · 58 Campbell, Shannon · 3 Barnett, Miriam · 35 Courneen, Trevor · 36 Cantore, Sarah · 35 E Barr, Timothy · 34 Craft, Margaret · 2, 57 Cantrell, Emilei · 3 Eckert, Kristin · 4 Barron, Steve · 4 Cristofoletti, Jack · 10 Cappadonia, Lydia · 36 Edwards, Stephanie · 29, 38 Barrotta, Jake · 58 Crocker, Chris · 36 Carey, Megan · 24 Egan, Alanna · 18, 48 Basilio, Leydi · 11, 46 Crompton, Kyle · 27, 28 Carl, Jessica · 21, 50 Eisenbacher, Megan · 21, 50 Battaglia, Anna · 59 Cropsey, Alli · 4 Carney, Molly · 33 Eisinger, Michael · 20, 29 Baum, Vicki · 3 Cullen, Megan · 46 Carpenter, Kyleigh · 60 Ellison, Drew · 27, 29 Becht, Nicholas · 60 Culligan, Shannon · 23 Carrier, Rhiannon · 60 Ellsworth, Nick · 4 Beckman, Rachael · 34 Curtis, Rachel · 38 Carver, Sara · 18, 48 Eng, Brandon · 47 Beebe, Ted · 3 Curtis, Victoria · 39 Casey, Alexandra · 55 Engleman, Michelle · 30, 31, 38 Behoriam, Jaclyn · 55 Cushman, John · 48 Castillo, Briannie · 46 Enright, Liam · 7 Beinetti, Anne · 2, 3 Casto, Greg · 4 D Evans, Christian · 15 Beisheim, Ellen · 42 Cavallari, Alyssa · 18, 48 D’Arcy, Derek · 4 Evans, Scott · 25 Belensz, Alex · 52 Cavanaugh, Matt · 12 Daly, Lauren · 42 Belleh, Amadi · 4 F Ceely, David · 45 Dana, Kathryn · 31 Bellomo, Lawrence · 30 Faber-Manning, Daniel · 4 Ceriello, Joseph · 20 Daniels, Patrick · 4, 45 Bender, Sandra · 11, 40 Fabrizio, Jenna · 47 Cervello, Michelle · 18 Danielsen, Erika · 24 Bennett, Steve · 20 Fahey, Mackenzie · 19 63

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Fallica, Jacob · 26, 28 Gorinsky, Sam · 8 Hopkins, Gillian · 2, 3 Kang, Minchul · 59 Fandrich, Michael · 38 Gorman, Carolyn · 24 Hoppe, Allison · 43 Katz, Raviv · 11 Farrell, Matt · 25 Gorman, Wyatt · 10 Horowitz, Joshua · 36 Kearns, Peter · 31 Farris, Deborah · 11 Gosline, Meghan · 21, 56 Hossain, Mohammed · 3 Keenan, Colin · 38 Feidner, John · 42 Gosset, Gabrielle · 51 Howard, Casey · 7 Keenehan, Kelly · 9 Feldman, Anne · 20 Goyzueta, Anna · 57 Howard, Rachel · 4 Kehinde, Rachel · 46 Feliciano, Oscar · 13 Graham, Melissa · 52 Hoy, Michael · 13 Kelly, Anne · 3 Felter, Kevin · 55, 58 Gratien, Eric · 27 Hoyler, Anna · 36 Kelly, Bridget · 43, 61 Fenik, Nicholas · 9, 47 Grau, Devin · 4 Hoyos, Felipe · 55 Kelly, Stephanie · 46 Fernandez, Chloe · 4 Gregory, Patricia · 25 Huang, Iris · 4 Kelsey, Meaghan · 39, 47 Ferreira, Ray · 2 Grillo, Cassie · 18, 20 Hubble, Kyle · 20, 21, 56 Kennedy, Christina · 27 Ferrell, Kerry · 55 Grogan, Amy · 24 Hubert, Grace · 2, 35 Kenney, Nicole · 20, 48 Fiato, Brittany · 60 Grom, Jennifer · 46 Hughson, Connor · 45 Kerr, Orla · 45 Finnerty, Joanna · 18 Guise, Jessica · 34 Hunter, Hannah · 21, 39, 50 Khan, Asad · 4 Finnerty, Katie · 2 Gumbs, Nia · 46 Hurley, Megan · 37 Kim, Albert · 25 Fisher, Kaitlin · 36 Guthart, Jackie · 38 Huss, Elizabeth · 34 Kim, Choo-Hyun · 40 Fisher, Steven · 59 Guzman, Gretchen Michelle · 3 Hutnik, Sophia · 54, 55 Kim, Jessica · 3 Fitzsimmons-Peters, Sophie · 44 Guzman, Shanice · 55 Hwangbo, Eun Sophia · 15, 16, 39 King, Molly · 3 Flannery, Sarah · 20 H Hyoe Rhoo, Kun · 14 Klinczar, Angela · 13 Fonte, Lauren · 21, 49, 50 Klinczar, Angie · 4 Habura, Stephanie · 18 I Franciosa, Melanie · 37 Knitter, Megan · 21, 50 Hadley, Kristen · 4 Iasiello, Stephanie · 61 Francois, Naomie · 39, 55 Kohlmann, Thomas · 34 Hairston, Candace · 7 Imagna, Katelynn · 18, 48 Frazier, Shea · 51, 55 Kolb, Kristen · 30 Halbohn, Colleen · 39 Inbody, Joel · 39 Fredericy, Dustin · 42 Konieczko, Marissa · 61 Hall, Kim · 41 Infranco, Michael · 31 Frederique, Anne-Carine · 55 Korman, Sara · 18, 48 Hallahan, Cara · 47 Ingalls, Keith · 38 Freeze, Sarah · 30, 38 Kosoff, Rachel · 20, 21, 50 Halstead, Anne · 18, 48 Innamorato, Katrina · 39 Friedman, Caitlyn · 42 Kotash, Alisa · 24 Halvax, Stephanie · 18, 19, 20, 48 Insalaco, Daniella · 36 Frohn, Andrew · 56 Kowalewski, Cailin · 57 Hamilton, Lacee · 7 Isaac, Ava · 15 Fuster, Sean · 20 Kowalewski, Stephen · 4, 41 Hammer, Amanda · 18 Iskandar, Demianna · 60 Kreidler, Kathryn · 20 G Hampshire, Martha · 28 Iuppa, Aaron · 49 Krieger, Michael · 28 Galeano, Amy · 46 Handy, Jeff · 59 Iverson, Halayna · 21, 56 Kruegler, James · 24 Gall, Lindsay · 47 Hanrahan, Donna · 45 J Kubo, Mayuko · 1, 2 Gallagher, Zebediah · 33, 55 Hansen, Laura · 12 Jackson, Doug · 17 Kuntz, Andrew · 53 Gallo, Haley · 24 Hanson, Lauren · 35 Jacobson, Max · 49 Kushnir, Michael · 10 Gallucci, Kimberley · 45 Hardy, Cecoria · 39 Jameson, Skylar · 4 Kwarta, Bethany · 52 Gangloff, Julia · 18 Harlin, Katelyn · 54 Jaquay, Jamie · 4 Kwarta, Brad · 3 Garcia, Klarissa · 46 Harris, Matthew · 22 Jaquez, Cynthia · 46 Garfield, Hannah · 4 Hart, Kathryn · 8 L Jay, Benjamin · 59 Gavin, Colleen · 4 Hartnett, Samantha · 18, 48 LaFountain, Jarrod · 27, 48 Jeong, Lydia · 19 Gaye, Awa · 46 Hartwell, James · 34 Lakawicz, Kevin · 27 Jerabeck, Elizabeth · 60 Gayvert, Kaitlyn · 49 Hastings, Rachel · 57 Landau, Samantha · 22 Jesaitis, Katie · 8 Geisendorfer, Jeffrey · 13 Hayes, Matthew · 45, 55 Lane, Stephen · 7 Jin, Fangyuan · 14 Geraci, Tyler · 42 Healy, Lauren · 41 Lang, Joshua · 36 Johnson, Elizabeth · 39 Gerard, Caroline · 60 Healy, Sarah · 20 Lanik, Amanda · 43 Johnson, Lisa · 52 Gerber, Katy · 21, 50 Hearfield, Katelyn · 4, 47 Lappan, Laura · 30 Johnson, Luke · 23 Gervera, Tara · 20 Heenan, Brigid · 29, 38 Larson, Russell · 53 Johnson, Nathan · 10 Giacomini, Juliana · 11, 12 Henderson, Rose · 21, 50 LaSalle, Adam · 4, 36 Johnson, Theresa · 4 Gilbert, Casey · 3 Hentze, Zachary · 4 Lashinsky, Adam · 57 Jonasse, Jessica · 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GREAT Day 2012 Cover Design Project ANNE BEINETTI, ANNE GILES, LAUREN HANNEL, SAMANTHA HUEBLER, JESSICA JAROSZKO, MAYUKO KUBO, KALEB KING PAUL ROMANO, KELSEY SCHOENECK, INHWA SONG, MARIANNA WIEBICKE FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL TERES The ARTS 204 Graphic Design Class developed cover designs for the GREAT Day Program. The colver selected was created by Mayuko Kubo. The work submitted by the remainder of the class is featured here.