URC ’07

A welcome to participants and attendees

elcome to our weeklong celebration of undergraduate research at the University of New Hampshire. Now in its eighth year, the UNH Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) showcases the remarkable Wwork of our students and their faculty mentors. We take pride in their efforts.

Undergraduate research and discovery are hallmarks of a University of New Hampshire education. Extraordinary learning opportunities vary from field studies and empirical research to outreach scholarship and creative works. Our students have the valuable opportunity to partner with faculty and discover the intricacies of their disciplines firsthand, thereby enriching the academic experience and gaining essential skills for pursuing graduate study and meaningful careers. There are also benefits for the faculty, who report that the teamwork essential to these efforts strengthens J. Bonnie Newman instruction and lays the groundwork for future challenges.

This conference provides University of New Hampshire undergraduates with a professional venue to present their important research findings. We encourage you to read their posters, listen to their presentations, and ask questions of the student researchers. You will be impressed with their answers and the depth and breadth of their knowledge and understanding.

Sincerely,

J. Bonnie Newman, Interim President John D. Aber

John D. Aber, Vice President for Research

2007 Undergraduate Research Conference •  Measuring the value of the Undergraduate Research Conference

Last year, the UNH Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) evaluation committee asked URC participants to complete a survey in order to gain more insight into the URC student experience. Responses indicated student participation in undergraduate research was a highlight of their undergraduate experience at UNH and had a significant and positive effect on their post-graduate experience. URC participation increased student confidence and presentation skills, and in many cases influenced their graduate school and/or career choices. Participants also reported a sense of pride in being able to plan, implement, and report their research to peers, faculty and family members. For many, it was one of the more memorable experiences of their undergraduate career. One student stated: “Sharing my research at the URC and talking with those who attended allowed me to expand certain ideas of my project, giving it greater depth and helping to determine its importance in the bigger picture.” The students overwhelmingly attributed the success of their research and the resulting URC presentation to collaboration with a faculty mentor. One student wrote: “My faculty mentor has been the most influential person in my undergraduate career. He has provided me with more experience, knowledge, and opportunity than any class could offer. I am completely indebted to him for his support and confidence in me.” The students also reported that faculty mentors play an important role in providing connections and opportunities for students to enter graduate programs or the job market. The survey showed that the Undergraduate Research Conference brings the research “My faculty mentor has been experience full circle by providing a professional venue for students to present their work the most influential person in and engage in thoughtful discussions with other members of the University community. my undergraduate career. Excerpted from the manuscript under review titled Intellectual Growth for Undergraduate Students and Faculty: Evaluation Results from an Undergraduate Research Conference, He has provided me with authored by Sharyn Potter, Eleanor Abrams, and Lisa Townson. more experience, knowledge, and opportunity than any class could offer. I am completely indebted to him for his support and confidence.”

 • University of New Hampshire URC ’07 Contents

Calendar of events 4 Friday, April 27 Events Map 5 Breakfast with UNH Interim President J. Bonnie Newman and Vice President for Research John Aber 17 Thursday, April 19 Events Vice President’s University-wide Research Symposium Graduate Research Conference 6 Poster Presentations: session A 18 Oral Presentations: session A 20 Friday, April 20 Events Poster Presentations: session B 23 2007 Senior B.A. and B.F.A. Exhibition 6 Oral Presentations: session B 26 Oral Presentations: session C 29 Monday, April 23 Events School of Health and Human Services Grimes Award Competition 31 UNH Manchester Engineering Technology Presentations 6 Honors English Undergraduate Research Conference 31 Psychology George M. Haslerud Tuesday, April 24 Events Undergraduate Research Conference 32 UNH Manchester Oral Presentations 7 Philosophy Undergraduate Research Conference 33 History Undergraduate Research Conference 7 Saturday, April 28 Events Wednesday, April 25 Events 16th Annual COLSA Undergraduate Research Conference 33 Office of Community Service Partnerships 7 Student Composers’ Concert 36 Seacoast Reads Exhibition 8 Thompson School Community Leadership Program 8 Events in May Thompson School Student Showcase 8 Mary Louise Fernald Nursing Research Symposium 36 Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Symposium (ISE) 8 Chemistry Department Poster Exhibition 36 UNH Manchester URC—Poster Presentations 14 Whittemore School of Business and Economics John McQuaid Keynote Address Paul J. Holloway Business Plan Competition 37 “Are we ready for the environmental threats of the 21st century?” 16 Additional Features Star-studded breakfast 38 Thursday, April 26 Events URC 2006 Awards of Excellence 39 UNH Manchester Student Film Presentations 16 Committed to undergraduate research 40 Naked Arts—Creativity Exposed! 16 Reaping the benefits of research 42 Acknowledgments 43

All events are free and open to the public. Accessibility accommodation requests may be directed to Lynne Cooper at (603) 862-1997.

2007 Undergraduate Research Conference •  URC ’07 Calendar All events are free and open to the public

Thursday, April 19 2–5 pm 1–5 pm Interdisciplinary Science and Honors English Undergraduate 10 am–4 pm Engineering Symposium (ISE) Research Conference Graduate School Research Conference Morse Hall Atrium 5 Hamilton Smith Hall, MUB, Strafford Room 3 English Dept. Room 129 6 4–6 pm Friday, April 20 UNH Manchester URC— 1–4 pm Poster Presentations Psychology Department 6–8 pm 2007 Senior B.A. and B.F.A. UNHM Auditorium George M. Haslerud Undergraduate Exhibition and Research Conference Preview Reception 1 8 pm Conant Hall 8 The Art Gallery, Paul Creative Arts Center The URC, in partnership with the MUB Current Issues Lecture Series, 4–8:30 pm presents an evening with Philosophy Undergraduate Research Monday, April 23 John McQuaid Conference 8 am–5 pm Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Path of MUB, Rooms 330, 332 3 UNH Manchester URC—Engineering Destruction: The Devastation of New Technology Senior Project Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms, Saturday, April 28 Presentations John McQuaid delivers the keynote address, UNHM Auditorium “Are we ready for the environmental threats 7:45 am–2 pm of the 21st century?” 16th Annual COLSA Undergraduate Research Conference Tuesday, April 24 Memorial Union Building, 3 The New England Center 9 Granite State Room 11 am–1 pm UNH Manchester URC— 8 pm Oral Presentations Thursday, April 26 Student Composers’ Concert UNHM Auditorium 11 am–1 pm Bratton Recital Hall, UNH Manchester URC— Paul Creative Arts Center 1 12:40–2 pm Film Presentations History Department UNHM Auditorium Undergraduate Presentations ADDITIONAL EVENTS Horton Social Sciences Center 2 3:30–6:30 pm The Naked Arts—Creativity Exposed Wednesday, May 2 Wednesday, April 25 Hennessy Theatre, Paul Creative Arts Center 1 8 am–2:30 pm 10:30 am–noon Mary Louise Fernald Nursing Research Seacoast Reads Exhibition Friday, April 27 Symposium MUB, Rooms 330, 332, 334 3 MUB, Strafford Room 3 9 am 10:30 am–noon Breakfast with UNH Interim President Friday, May 4 Thompson School Community J. Bonnie Newman and Vice President Leadership Program for Research John Aber 2:30–4 pm MUB, Rooms 330, 332, 334 3 MUB, Granite State Room 3 Chemistry Department Poster Exhibition 11 10:30 am–noon 9:30 am–2:30 pm Parsons Hall, Iddles Wing UNH Office of Community Service Vice President’s University-wide Partnerships Symposium Wednesday, May 9 MUB, Rooms 330, 332, 334 3 MUB, Granite State Room, 3 8 am–2 pm various rooms Whittemore School of Business and 11 am pm –2 Economics Paul J. Holloway Business Thompson School 12:30–3:30 pm Plan Competition Student Showcase School of Health and Human Services Holloway Commons 10 Stacey’s at Cole Hall 4 Grimes Award Competition Pettee Hall 7

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Events and Presentations

B.F.A. degree candidates: Cindy Burrows Graduate Research Major: Engineering Technology Jason P. Bombaci, Painting Concept Development of a Portable Test Conference Maggie Cedarstrom, Painting & Drawing Cart for Automated Testing of Industrial Christopher Hobbs, Painting & Drawing Chillers Featuring National Instruments’ THURSDAY, APRIL 19 Ryan Murphy, Painting Modules with LabView Software 10 am–4 pm Nathaniel Raymond, Printmaking & Adviser: Ralph Draper Drawing Memorial Union Building (MUB), Mike Cristiano Strafford Room This exhibit runs from April 21 through Major: Engineering Technology UNH graduate students present the May 19 (closed May 3–7). Bead Flattener-reengineering and Design findings of their scholarly investiga- Adviser: Ralph Draper tions. Tyler Ducet Trevor Mann Information on participants will be avail- UNH Manchester Major: Engineering Technology able at this event. URC—Engineering Pruverani Reader Board Technology Senior Adviser: Ralph Draper Project Presentations Philip Dyer Preview Reception Major: Engineering Technology © 2007 Senior Bachelor MONDAY, APRIL 23 VoiceAnnounce Caller ID for Mobile of Arts and Bachelor of 8 am–5 pm Adviser: Ralph Draper UNHM Auditorium Stephen Estevanovich Fine Arts Exhibition Jeremy Richardson The Engineering Technology Program Major: Engineering Technology FRIDAY, APRIL 20 presents the 30th annual Senior NIST Synchronized Clock 6–8 pm Project Presentation day. This event is Adviser: Ralph Draper the culmination of an academic year The Art Gallery, Paul Creative Arts effort where full-time seniors formally Christopher McCutcheon Center present their projects to peers, faculty Major: Engineering Technology This annual show celebrates the members, representatives and techni- Technical Operations Data Collection achievements of graduating art cal advisers of sponsoring companies, Adviser: Ralph Draper and special guests. students from the UNH Department of Nathan Ndajeh Art and Art History. Anthony Amato William Pepler Major: Engineering Technology Major: Engineering Technology Participants include: Velcro Web Controlled Tension Multiple Channel Temperature B.A. Studio Art degree candidates: Unwinder Measuring Interface Colleen Murphy, Mixed Media Adviser: Ralph Draper Adviser: Ralph Draper Matthew Perdoni, Painting Kristian Browne Stany Nepa Alexandra Ross-Raymond, Painting John Kinyanjui Major: Engineering Technology Lauren B. Rowe, Ceramics Major: Engineering Technology Replacement Vibra Continuity Tester Matthew Soltesz, Photography Cable and IPTV Video Test Lab Adviser: Ralph Draper Ryan Tirrell, Photography Automation Jocelyn Toffic, Drawing Philip Percoski Adviser: Ralph Draper Major: Engineering Technology Automated Insulation Resistance Testing Adviser: Ralph Draper

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Javier Philbrick Matthew Paterson Elizabeth McFadden Major: Engineering Technology Major: English Major: History Returnable Reel CLAMP Interning Outdoors Living on the Edge: The Staffordshire Adviser: Ralph Draper Adviser: Fred Metting Moorlands Pan and Life Along Hadrian’s Christopher Price Tali Rojem Wall Major: Engineering Technology Major: Communication Arts Adviser: Gregory McMahon Performance Enhancing Circuit for Communication, Power, and the David Palange Pneumatic Valves Tutor/Tutee Relationship Major: History Adviser: Ralph Draper Adviser: Patrice Mettauer Your Loving Sons: American Warfare Ken Thompson Sean Tandy Through the Eyes of New England Soldiers Major: Engineering Technology Major: History Adviser: J. William Harris Hindsight VNIC Integration The Hutchinson Family Singers and Adviser: Ralph Draper American Protest Song Adviser: Robert Macieski James Woody Office of Community Major: Engineering Technology Hindsight-alarm Service Partnerships Adviser: Ralph Draper History Undergraduate WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 Research Conference 10:30 am–NOON Memorial Union Building, UNH Manchester— TUESDAY, APRIL 24 Rooms 330, 332, 334 12:40–2 pm Oral Presentations This display showcases the work of Horton Social Sciences Center, student service organizations and Room 204 TUESDAY, APRIL 24 student groups engaged in commu- 11 am–1 pm At this event, the History Depart- nity and service-learning projects UNHM Auditorium ment hosts a panel of undergraduate throughout the year. These activities history majors who present research range from spring break service trips The oral presentations are formal projects from their academic classes, to community dinners. scholarly lectures and/or multimedia research seminars, and Honors theses. presentations reflecting students’ Magdalene Balz research interests. Emily Fekete Major: Communication Sciences and Major: History Disorders Rayne Coleman Geographic Literacy Among Students Alternative Spring Break-Project Eden Major: Sign Language Interpretation at the University of New Hampshire: Adviser: Julie Tracy “Could You Pass the Salt?” Comparing Fall 2006 Lena Collins (English) Politeness Strategies of American Sign Advisers: J. William Harris and Cormac Griffin (Environmental Language Users and English Speakers Alasdair Drysdale Adviser: Jack Hoza Conservation Studies) Tara Goulet Elizabeth Joseph (English) James Galipeault Major: History UNH Community Dinners Majors: Psychology and Communication “Power to the People!” Socialist Visions Adviser: Reverend Larry Brickner-Wood Arts in The Black Panther Party and The U.S. Kristin Cowalski (Occupational Therapy) Illness Management and Recovery: An Prison Movement Richard Palazzoll (English) Evidence-based Mental Health Program Advisers: J. William Harris and Carly Prisby (Nursing) Adviser: Gary Goldstein Lucy Salyer Alternative Spring Break-Nazareth Farm Devon Mercer Dan Jasinski Adviser: Julie Tracy Major: History Major: History Obedience Only to God: The Trial of The Severing of the Relationship Between Susan B. Anthony the Catholic Church and the French State Adviser: Jack Resch Adviser: Lucy Salyer

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Office of Community Service Partnerships, continued

Lauren Deitch (Chemical Engineering) Katrina Nunes (Biochemistry) Matthew Jasie (Business) Thompson School Gail Spaien (Non degree) Christine Leonard (Occupational Karrissaann Taylor (Horticultural Therapy) Community Leadership Technology) Kendra Nourie (Wildlife Management) Program Leah Volckmann (Horticultural Alexandra Varga (International Affairs Technology) and Environmental Conservation WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 Horticultural Technology Student Floral Studies) 10:30 am–Noon Designs: Tropical Designs Alternative Break Challenge Advisers: John Hart, Rene Gingras, and Adviser: Marianne Fortescue MUB, Rooms 330, 332, 334 Dana Sansom

Michaella Landry (Family Studies) The Community Leadership Program Katie Roy Alyssa Stack (Nursing) is an innovative associate degree Major: Food Services Management Circle K and diploma program that prepares Our Heritage Adviser: Marianne Fortescue students of all ages to work effectively Adviser: Eugene Alibrio within community organizations and Caleb Morrill-Winter (Mechanical to be active, influential citizens. Michael Simmons Engineering) Major: Forest Technology Juliet Tarantino (International Affairs Portfolio Presentations Determining the Feasibility of a UNH and Anthropology) Sugarhouse Nicaragua Community Action Trip Jeremy Bourgeois Adviser: Matthew Chagnon Adviser: Marianne Fortescue Jessica Carter Bryan Dwyer Alicia Rossman (Nutritional Studies) Nicole Finitsis Lauren Howard (Social Work) Oliver Fisher Interdisciplinary Cornucopia Campus Food Pantry Christopher Forbes Adviser: Reverend Larry Brickner-Wood Science & Engineering Melissa Morris Brian Reed Symposium Alicia Swain Seacoast Reads Major: Community Leadership WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 Adviser: Kate Hanson 2–5 pm Exhibition Morse Hall Atrium

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 The ISE symposium showcases 10:30 am–NOON Thompson School scientific presentations from under- Memorial Union Building, Undergraduate Student graduate students in all colleges and Rooms 330, 332, 334 departments. The event features un- Showcase dergraduate research that contributes Through the Seacoast Reads program, to or benefits from an interdisciplin- UNH students from all academic WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 ary science and engineering perspec- disciplines tutor elementary school 11 am–2 pm tive. Students have an opportunity to children in reading and writing. Twice interact with peers and gain profes- “Stacey’s” at Cole Hall weekly, volunteers head into schools sional experience presenting re- and after-school programs across Thompson School of Applied Science search. The program includes a poster the Seacoast to work with children. students translate academic instruc- session, remarks from university Seacoast Reads is one of the largest tion into practical presentations at leaders, refreshments, and an awards service organizations on campus. this year’s URC. Join selected students ceremony. Since 1998 nearly 1,000 UNH students who will showcase their expertise in For the second consecutive year, have volunteered for the program. such diverse areas as food services guest presenters from Elizabeth City management and forest and horticul- State University (ECSU) in Elizabeth UNH students serving Children tural technology. City, North Carolina enrich the ISE event. We are pleased to welcome in New Hampshire Schools April Allen (Horticultural Technology) Advisers: Grant Cioffi, John Carney, and Ellen Karelitz (Non degree) continued on page 10 VISTA coordinator Kristin Haskell Kyle Mike (Horticultural Technology)

 • University of New Hampshire Peter Masucci Adjunct Professor

Mission: Marketing How does an aerospace expert find himself teaching college level marketing? For Peter Masucci, adjunct professor at UNH’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics (WSBE), it was a unique trajectory. A Massachusetts native and only child of first-generation Italian Americans, Masucci attended Boston Public Schools, then received a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from Boston University. He went to work for NASA as a proj- ect engineer, and when NASA’s Cambridge office closed due to budget cuts, headed to Downey, Cal. to work for North American Aviation (which later became Rockwell International), the NASA contractor that designed and built the Apollo spacecraft. There, he worked on “crew systems” for several Apollo and Skylab missions—designing and building changes to the space- craft based on feedback from the astronauts. Alan Sheppard, for example, would need to find and use various command module items during flight. He and his crew would communicate to engineers back on Earth how easily or uneasily they could retrieve Masucci is the current guiding light behind WSBE’s signa- and stow the items. Masucci and other engineers took notes and ture experiential course—Marketing Workshop. Seniors taking then built changes to the spacecraft to accommodate the crew’s this class have worked on marketing campaigns for real clients needs for future missions. ranging from corporate giants such as Citibank, Starbucks, and As the Apollo program waned, Masucci and his wife decided Bausch and Lomb, to local small businesses, nonprofits, and to move back east and he began exploring the non-engineering campus organizations. side of his aerospace experience. He landed a position in Digital “Marketing Workshop was a great real-world application of Equipment Corporation’s (DEC) product marketing organization. what we’ve spent the last four years learning,” says one former “In some ways what I did at Rockwell was similar to prod- participant. uct marketing,” Masucci explains. “I was the person positioned Masucci is turning heads. But not just from marketing indus- between the company and the customer.” This, he describes, try leaders whose initiatives benefit from the involvement of sketching the image of an hourglass on its side, “is the essence of his students. In 2006, he received the WSBE Adjunct Faculty marketing.” The company represents one end of the hourglass, the Excellence in Teaching award. customer the other. “Marketing is what happens in the middle.” “I love my work,” he says. “I am very, very lucky to work along- After 13 years in various senior marketing and management side these smart, energetic young people.” positions at the multi-billion dollar company, he sought new His students feel lucky, too. And they tell him so. Comments challenges with several small, pre-IPO start-ups during the high- on Masucci’s faculty evaluations read like this: “Peter is awe- tech sector’s heydays in the 1990s. some!” “He more than lives up to his great reputation among students.” “This was the best marketing course I’ve ever taken!” From corporation to classroom “He gets us excited about learning.” It was about the time he and his wife began contemplating a permanent move to Maine that Masucci envisioned teaching as At this week’s Undergraduate Research Conference, no fewer than his next career. With 30 years of real-world marketing experi- 99 of Masucci’s students will present their work on the various ence, in the classrooms of UNH’s McConnell Hall he teaches marketing workshop campaigns of the 2006–2007 academic year. undergraduate- and graduate-level courses such as Principles of Check them out at the Vice President’s University-wide Symposium Marketing, Advertising and Integrated Marketing Communica- on Friday, April 27 at the MUB. tions, Marketing Management, and various other courses.

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Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Symposium, continued these undergraduates and their facul- John Welch Christopher Black (Physics and English) ty mentors who collaborate with UNH Major: Civil Engineering Hyomin Kim (Graduate Student in researchers in a productive research UNH Dam Project Systems Design Engineering and and educational partnership. Adviser: Kevin Gardner Mechanical Engineering) Marc Lessard (Faculty) Eman Akam (McNair Scholar) Daniel Banakos (Mechanical Paul Riley (Research Project Engineer) Major: Chemistry Engineering) Building and Installing Ground-Based Encapsulation of Fullerene [C60] in Aydin Berhumoglu (Electrical Sensors to Study Pi1B Pulsations in the SWCNT Using Microwave Irradiation Engineering) Region of a Polar Cusp Chemistry Jeffrey Nichols (Computer Engineering) Adviser: Marc Lessard Adviser: Glen Miller Jeffrey Ojala (Computer Engineering) Daniel Reynolds (Electrical Engineering) Ashley Bolbrock Michael P. Allard UNH Fire Fighting Robot Major: Earth Sciences Major: Mechanical Engineering Adviser: Barry Fussell Sources and Mechanisms for Carbon Improving Spatial Ability Delivery to the Deep Sea: Biological Adviser: Brad Kinsey Chris Bancroft (Electrical Engineering) Station M, Monterey Fan, California Matt Jamrog (Computer Engineering) Adviser: Joel Johnson Michael P. Allard Lucas Liimatainen (Electrical Major: Mechanical Engineering Engineering) Amanda Brown Students Without Borders—Helping Niger Chris Sabato (Computer Engineering) Major: Physics Advisers: Jenna Jambeck and Robert Sandler (Electrical Engineering) Effects of Composition on Microstructure Kevin Gardner Katie Schwarzenberg (Undeclared) in Gold-Silica Composite Thin Films Stephanie Allard Mu Chair Adviser: James Harper Adviser: John LaCourse Major: Biology Amanda Brown Determination of Presence of Prostaglan- James Baril Don Carlson dins After Introduction of Daucus carota Joseph Sager Dana Filoti in Danio Rerio Major: Electrical Engineering Major: Physics Adviser: Charlie Cox Backplane Ethernet Transceiver Dependence of Crystal Orientation on Melissa Allen Adviser: Michael Carter Composition in Silver-Silicon Composite Major: Psychology Thin Films Aaron Beckner Adviser: James Harper Calcium Oxalate as an Indicator of Stress Tim Buzinski at Two Sites on Mount Moosilauke Dan Cedrone Gregory Brown (special guest from Adviser: Barry Rock Eric Hansen Elizabeth City State University) Robert Ano (Electrical Engineering) Austin Kennedy Major: Computer Science Steve Geiger (Mechanical Engineering) Rody Lageson Correlations Between the Concentrations Matthew Low (Mechanical Engineering) Travis Parker of Chlorophyll a in Surface Waters and Robert Lumpkins (Mechanical Geoff Sanford Dissolved Oxygen in Bottom Waters of the Engineering) Luke Silk Northern Gulf of Mexico Erick Michaud (Mechanical Engineering) Jesse Sipple Advisers: Linda Hayden and David Woodworth (Mechanical Major: Civil Engineering Jinchun Yuan (ECSU) Proposed Expansions and Improvements Engineering) Adam Bungert UNHubless Engineering to Pease International Airport Adviser: Kevin Gardner Major: Physics Adviser: Todd Gross Case Based Chemistry/Physics Problems Justin Baker Jean Beland (Electrical Engineering) for a Comprehensive Chemistry, Physics, Major: Mathematics Michael Farrar (Computer Engineering) and Biology Curriculum Passive Imaging Using Naturally Smart Spotter Adviser: Charlie Cox Adviser: Allen Drake Occurring Gamma-ray Radiation Bryce Carmichael (special guest from Adviser: Mark McConnell Brandon Bell Elizabeth City State University) Dan Balbo Marcus Proctor Major: Computer Science Jeff Gagnon Major: Mechanical Engineering Robotic Simulation James Medaglia UNH Precision Racing—Formula-SAE Adviser: Linda Hayden (ECSU) Rich Rosencrans Advisers: May-Win Thein and Jeremy Sherman Gerald Sedor

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Jon Carrier Jessica Tokson (Environmental Kristopher Cui Tyler Clark Engineering) Major: Chemical Engineering Tomas Elder Bret Tolivaisa (Environmental ASTM Biodiesel Gas Chromatograph Major: Electrical Engineering Engineering) Testing and Automation of G.hs Message Transmitter Ed Viel (Environmental Engineering) Biodiesel Processor Adviser: Michael Carter Amalia Wasiski-Kuhn (Environmental Adviser: Ihab Farag Engineering) Jason Carroll (Physics) 2006–07 UNH WERC Project— Brian Darnold Engy Henen (Electrical Engineering) Microbial Fuel Cells Nicole Guyette Audio Amplifier Adviser: Jenna Jambeck Ryan Haley Adviser: John LaCourse Anthony Loubier David Connaughton Jonathon Morency Jason Carroll Major: Chemical Engineering Christie Urban Major: Physics In Situ Transesterification of Major: Civil Engineering Practical Consequences of Microalgal Oil Jackson’s Landing Park Upgrade Design Penetrating Radiation for Space Adviser: Ihab Farag Adviser: Kevin Gardner Flight Instrumentation Advisers: Antoinette Galvin and Dana Coolbroth Andrew Dawley (Mechanical Mark McConnell Stephen Evans Engineering) Eric Grenier Zachary Morriss (Mechanical Anne Carson Chad O’Conner Engineering) Majors: English and Psychology Corey St. Sauvuer Peter Palen (Mechanical Engineering) The Effect of Tar Spot on Norway and Brad Sullivan Buba SanYang (Electrical Engineering) Sugar Maples Sara Tasker Tim Schuyler (Mechanical Engineering) Adviser: Barry Rock Chris Williams Ducted Wind Turbine George Clark (Physics) Stephen Zaskey Adviser: Joseph Klewicki Major: Civil Engineering Morgan O’Neill (Physics and Katelyn Dolan Political Science) Cowell Stadium Improvements Adviser: Kevin Gardner Major: Environmental Conservation Star Sensor Flight Calibration and Data Studies Analysis for the Interstellar Boundary Sam Corliss Pan-Arctic Temperatization: A Prelimi- Explorer (IBEX) Andrew Elliott nary Study of Future Climate Impacts Adviser: Eberhard Moebius Major: Electrical Engineering on Agriculture Opportunities in the Benjamin Clarke Embedded Computer Controlled Pan-Arctic Drainage System Ilya Karnauk Hydroponics Greenhouse Advisers: Charles Vorosmarty and Colin Sad Adviser: Frank Hludik Richard Lammers Adam Sayer Tim Corrigan Walter Durack Major: Electrical Engineering James Hughes Joseph Sperry Class-D Electrostatic Speaker Amplifier Timothy Northrup Major: Civil Engineering Adviser: Allen Drake Ryan O’Mahony Beneficial Use of Recycled Materials in a Andrew Clements (Environmental Jill Sanctuary Concrete Mixture Engineering) Major: Civil Engineering Adviser: David Gress Pedestrian Traffic at the Page School in Lisa Damiano (Environmental Angela Kuehn (Microbiology) Engineering) West Newbury, N.H. Adviser: Kevin Gardner Stephen Perros (Biochemistry and Tiffany D’Amour (Business Molecular Biology) Administration) Benjamin Cota Katie Szymanska (Microbiology) Kathy Dietz (Business Administration) Christopher Robert The Role of Evolutionary History in Shawn Dupont (Business Derek Russell Adaptation to New Environments: Administration) James Sherrard Experimental Evolution of the Burkhold- Christopher Getman (Business Brian Smith eria cenocepacia Complex Administration) Major: Civil Engineering Advisers: Vaughn Cooper and Steve Granese (Civil Engineering) Portsmouth Hotel and Conference Center Crystal Ellis (graduate student) Michael Olson (Environmental Adviser: Kevin Gardner Engineering)

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Alethea Evangelou (Mechanical Michelle Garnsey Kyle McLaughlin Engineering) Major: Chemistry Major: Mechanical Engineering Justin Farrell (Mechanical Engineering) Hydrogenation of Single Walled Nano Detector Housing for Angular Detecting Adam Filion (Mechanical Engineering) Tubes Inclined Sensor Philip Gagnon (Mechanical Engineering) Adviser: Glen Miller Adviser: James Connell Kristen Kelso (Mechanical Engineering) Joseph Marston (Mechanical Stephanie Grainger Samuel Meehan Engineering) Major: Chemical Engineering Major: Physics Kyle Mclaughlin (Mechanical Study of Pilot Plant Acetone Use Testing String Theory from the Engineering) Reduction Perspective of Cosmology Michael Ramsey (Computer Engineering) Adviser: Ihab Farag Adviser: Per Berglund Michael Roux (Mechanical Engineering) Michael Howley Matthew Minuti (Electrical Engineering) Matthew Royce (Computer Engineering) Major: Geology Christopher Rappa (Computer Michael Siopis (Mechanical Engineering) Laurentide Ice Sheet Recession Recorded Engineering) Robert Wright (Mechanical Engineering) in a Late-Wisconsin Proglacial Lake in Flexible Communications Hovercraft the Contoocook River Basin, Southern Adviser: John LaCourse Adviser: May-Win Thein New Hampshire Adviser: Joseph Licciardi Jerome Mitchell (special guest from Justin Farrell Elizabeth City State University) Wayne St. Pierre Joseph Iuliucci Major: Computer Science Major: Mechanical Engineering Major: Chemical Engineering Using Active and Passive Microwave High Strain Rate Microforming Tin-Silver Metal Particle Records for Detecting Firn Adviser: Brad Kinsey Electrocodeposition for Lead-free Characteristics in Greenland: A New TreAsia Fields (special guest from Electronics Packaging Indication of Melt Elizabeth City State University) Adviser: Dale Barkey Adviser: Linda Hayden (ECSU) Major: Mathematics Joe Kiley Carlee Moser Creation of a Google Map of Local Jonathan Zink Majors: Mathematics Remote Globe Sites Using Data Major: Computer Engineering Vector-borne Disease Mapping: EEE in Visualization Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Early Warning New Hampshire Adviser: Linda Hayden (ECSU) System Adviser: Ernst Linder Adviser: John LaCourse Kaiem Frank Brian Patenaude (Physics and Lee Smalls (special guests from Heather Larivee Mathematics) Elizabeth City State University) Major: Environmental Sciences Seth Quarrier (Physics) Major: Computer Science Adsorption of Phosphorus by Apatite Flexible Digitally Controlled SPM Estimating Antarctic Firn Average Phosphate Rock—A Potential Solution to Electronics Emissivity Trends at the Ski Hi Freshwater Eutrophication Adviser: Karsten Pohl Automatic Weather Station Adviser: Kevin Gardner Adviser: Linda Hayden (ECSU) Paul Pepler Jereme Leafe Major: Environmental Sciences Janine Fraschetti Christian Torres Denitrification at Burley-Demeritt Farm, Major: Earth Sciences Major: Mechanical Engineering Lee, N.H. The Timing and Chemical Characteriza- Dirty Leafe Designs Adviser: Matt Davis tion of a Possible Toba Ash Occurrence in Adviser: Igor Tsukrov the Bay of Bengal, Offshore India Emmanuel Pitia Adviser: Joel Johnson Gary Lemay Majors: Chemical Engineering and Chris Robert Business Administration Owen Friend-Gray Major: Civil Engineering Biodiesel Fuel from Jatropha Major: Environmental Engineering UNH ASCE Concrete Canoe Adviser: Ihab Farag Activation of Black Phosphate Rock for Adviser: Jo Daniel Heavy Metal Adsorption Emmanuel Pitia Adviser: Jeffrey Melton Benjamin MacBride Majors: Chemical Engineering and Major: Physics Business Administration Turbulence of the Solar Wind Latex Particles Size versus Morphology Adviser: Charles Smith Adviser: Donald Sundberg

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Jasmin Rivers Illiana Thomas Julie Wiggin ’07 Tiwana Walton Health Management and Policy (special guests from Elizabeth City State School of Health and Human Services University) Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Robert McGrath Major: Computer Science Developing Standards and Practices for Digitizing and Archiving Multimedia Material from within the Undergraduate Women and body image Research Experience Program and Other As a female, I have been exposed to the effects that body image have on myself and Associated Programs other women. I am fascinated by the idea that some women are extremely comfortable Advisers: Linda Hayden and with their appearance, while others struggle daily with their self-image. Jeff Wood (ECSU) I believe there are certain factors associated with body image that most people are Brittany Sanctuary aware of such as the media, familial relationships, and peer relationships. Apart from Major: Geography these and other factors that may influence whether women develop a negative or positive Interannual Variability in the Timing body image, I am interested to see if certain personality characteristics may contribute to and Amount of Allergenic Pollen in how women feel about themselves. New England Over the Last Decade How is it that some women surrounded by these factors maintain a positive body im- Advisers: David Brown and age, while the same factors negatively affect others? These questions led me to ask whether Cameron Wake a person’s level of hardiness or resilience actually has a mitigating effect against develop- ing a negative body image. By hardiness I mean a combination of characteristics, such as Andrew Spivack personality and social support, from which they draw when faced with adversity. Majors: History and Geography I have hypothesized that there will be a positive relationship between hardiness and Trends in Heavy Precipitation Events positive body image. I am extremely interested to see what the results of my questionnaire Across Northern New England will be. Adviser: David Brown Talk to Julie about her results at the Vice President’s Symposium on April 27, Alison Spruce 10:50 a.m.–noon at the MUB’s Granite State Room. Major: Geology Paleomagnetic Analysis of the Chickaloon Formation Ashes: Implications for Dating the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary Adviser: Will Clyde

Valerie Stucker Major: Chemistry Isotopic Labeling Traces Fungal Metabo- lism in Phospholipid Fatty Acids Adviser: Erik Hobbie

Jeff Tessein Major: Physics Interplanetary Turbulence Parameters at 1 AU Adviser: Charles Smith

Vassili Vorotnikov Major: Chemical Engineering Automated Detection and Analysis of Interplanetary Shocks Adviser: Charles Smith

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Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Symposium, continued

Arturs Vrublevskis Shawn Allaire ’07 Major: Mathematics and Physics Communication Arts On the Nature of “Crater” Flux Transfer UNH Manchester Events Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Skip Tenczar Adviser: Charles Farrugia Unquiea Wade (special guest from Elizabeth City State University) Reel time Major: Computer Science Airborne Measurement of Snow For this year’s URC film screening, Bryan Connington and I will show three short Thickness Over Sea Ice films, Breakdown, Quiet Time, and Jump to Conclusions. Advisers: Linda Hayden (ECSU) and We made Breakdown last semester and it has probably been our most challenging Prasad Gogineni (University of Kansas) film produced yet. It took the work of Bryan (camera), Steve Whalen (director), and me (producer). The script called for nighttime scenes and we were forced to maneuver around many technical issues such as lighting with power converters, compliance from the town hall, and noise factors. Fortunately, everything went as planned we were able to get UNH Manchester through the project fairly well. The other two films we will show, Quiet Time and Jump to Conclusions, are the shorter URC—Poster of the three films. Quiet Time gave us an opportunity to try out various camera angles Presentations which we had not used before. We also worked a lot with sound editing for this film using the new Final Cut program in our video lab. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 We made Jump to Conclusions during one class period! Three people worked on this 4–6 pm project including Bryan, Steve Bowles, and me. This has been our darkest piece yet in terms of drama and humor. We hope people will appreciate it for what it is. UNHM Auditorium The poster presentations showcase students’ independent research and internship projects, service learn- ing activities, and civic engagement projects in the learning lab of the city of Manchester.

Robin Banker Major: Psychology Anxiety Disorders in the Elderly Adviser: Alison Paglia

Heidi Broadley Francoise Morison Major: Biology ECHO BLAST, a Bioinformatic Exploration of Echolocation Evolution Adviser: Sarah Kenick

Susan Cady (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Robert Goings (Zoology) A Closer Look into the Evolution of CRX/OTX5 genes in Mammals Adviser: Sarah Kenick

Kirsten Hildonen Major: History The Spies Who Saw Through Me Adviser: Robert Macieski

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Troy Maynard Jeffrey Sojka Larry Habel Major: Communication Arts Major: History Major: History WMUR Internship—Entering the Adviser: Robert Macieski Nat Turner Rebellion: Public Response Production Field and Virginia Slavery Debate, 1831–1832 Adviser: Skip Tenczar Religion and Civic Life in Adviser: John Resch Michelle Mitchell America Amanda Massahos Major: History Major: History Aaron Boucher “AME,” A Referential Database of the City Public Response to the Amistad Case, Major: Humanities of Manchester, New Hampshire 1818–1850 1839–1842 Secular Humanism, Faith, and Science: Adviser: Robert Macieski Adviser: John Resch The Debate Over Intelligent Design Kristen Montour Adviser: John Resch Michelle Mitchell Major: Psychology Major: History Amy Barclay Women’s Experiences of Sexual Harass- Manchester, N.H., 1840–1850: Major: Humanities ment in Self-Help Groups and Substance The Public Record The Clash of Science and Religion: Abuse Treatment Adviser: John Resch Embryonic Stem Cells Adviser: Alison Paglia Adviser: John Resch Jamie Ray Francoise Morison Major: History Danielle Boutin Major: Biology The Struggle for Personal and Civil Major: Humanities Sponge Squeeze: How Sanitary Can a Liberation, 1960–1980: The Pill, ERA, and The Scopes Trial: The Clash of Evolution Stinky Sponge Be? An Analysis of the Roe v. Wade and Creationism Antimicrobial Activity of a Gulf of Maine Adviser: John Resch Adviser: John Resch Specimen of the Halichondria sp. Marine Sponge Jonathan Sandlin Adviser: Sarah Kenick Revolution and Democracy Major: History Democracy and the West: The Admission Bruce Benard of Utah in the Union Cold War Major: History Adviser: John Resch The Dred Scott Case: American Aidan Ankarberg Democracy and the Anti-Slavery Amanda Sinotte Major: History Movement, 1857–1858 Major: History Adviser: Robert Macieski Adviser: John Resch Public Response to John Brown’s Raid on Frank Deschenes Harper’s Ferry, 1859-1860 Michael Brunelle Major: History Adviser: John Resch Major: History Adviser: Robert Macieski Case Studies in American Public Jeffery Sojka Marina Ilyuk Education: Horace Mann and the State Major: History Major: History of New Hampshire v. Claremont Case The Civil Rights Act of 1866 Adviser: Robert Macieski Adviser: John Resch Adviser: John Resch

Kathleen Joyce-Page John Clair Major: History Major: History Adviser: Robert Macieski The Millerites and Millennialism: 1841–1850 Jacqueline Quintal Adviser: John Resch Major: History Entertaining the Cold Way Ryan Kimball Adviser: Robert Macieski Major: History Grass Roots Democracy: The Clamshell Amanda Sinotte Alliance, 1976–1978 Major: History Adviser: John Resch Adviser: Robert Macieski

2007 Undergraduate Research Conference • 15 Wednesday 4/25–Thursday 4/26

Shawn Allaire An evening with Steven Bowles Naked Arts— Bryan Connington John McQuaid Major: Communication Arts Creativity Exposed! Jump to Conclusions WedneSDAY, APRIL 25 Adviser: Skip Tenczar THURSDAY, APRIL 26 8 pm 3:30–6:30 pm Shawn Allaire Memorial Union Building, Hennessy Theatre, Bryan Connington Granite State Room Paul Creative Arts Center Steve Whalen The URC, in partnership with the MUB Major: Communication Arts (Reception to follow in The Art Gallery) Current Issues Lecture Series, pres- Breakdown ents an evening with John McQuaid Adviser: Skip Tenczar Samantha Cistulli CJ Lewis Steven Bowles (Business) Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Aaron Sharff Tavia Lee-Goldstein (Communication Path of Destruction: The Devastation Major: Theatre Arts) of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Deconstructing Woyzeck The Big Night Superstorms, John McQuaid delivers the Advisers: David Richman and David Kaye Adviser: Skip Tenczar URC keynote address, “Are we Tucker Sansom Cummings (Theatre and ready for the environmental Stephanie Farrow (Communication History) threats of the 21st century?” Arts and Art Studio) Michael D’Errico (Music Education) Terrence Goyette (Communication Arts) Lily Finnigan-Allen (Art History) Reserve free tickets at In the Bag Nathan Horton (Music) www.unh.edu/urc. Adviser: Skip Tenczar Kelsey Keenan (Art Studio) John Mehrmann (Music) James Galipeault Artistic Improvisations: Majors: Psychology and A Cross-Discipline Creative Process Communication Arts Advisers: David Kaye, Rob Haskins, and UNH Manchester Film Showdown Jennifer Moses Presentations Adviser: Skip Tenczar Michael D’Errico Hilary Harris Major: Music Education THURSDAY, APRIL 26 Major: Communication Arts Wildstyle Metaphysics: 11 am–1 pm St. Michael’s Project The Compositional Process of the UNHM Auditorium Adviser: Skip Tenczar Hip-Hop DJ The film presentations at UNH Tavia Lee-Goldstein Adviser: Rob Haskins Manchester are part of the Major: Communication Arts Lauri Lannan communication arts program, in Paper Hero: The Story of Origami Boy Major: Art Studio which students complete introduct- Adviser: Skip Tenczar Photographic Progression ory and advanced course work in Adviser: Jennifer Moses video production, scriptwriting, Katherine Potter Major: Communication Arts audio production, film aesthetics, Brian Miner A Man and the Moon and documentary production. The Major: Music Education Adviser: Skip Tenczar student films illustrate their work at Fostering Children’s Musical Creativity different stages in the curriculum. Adviser: Susan Hatfield

Shawn Allaire Katharine Mock Bryan Connington Major: Art Studio Major: Communication Arts Exposed: Art, Media, and the Lost Boys Quiet Time Adviser: Jennifer Moses Adviser: Skip Tenczar

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Megan O’Connor Major: Theatre Inaction in Action Advisers: Deborah Kinghorn, David Kaye, and David Richman

Alexandra Ross-Raymond Majors: Studio Art and Women’s Studies Homage to Paula Modersohn-Becker, A Studio Study of Women and Self Portraits in Germany Adviser: Jennifer Moses

Ashley VandeBogart Major: Theatre Reflections of Electra Adviser: David Kaye

Breakfast with UNH Interim President J. Bonnie Newman and Vice President for Research John Aber

FRIDAY, APRIL 27 9–9:30 am Memorial Union Building, Granite State Room Ashley VandeBogart ’07 This informal gathering gives Theatre and Dance students and attendees an opportu- College of Liberal Arts nity to visit with Interim President Faculty Mentor: Associate Professor David Kaye Newman and Vice President for Research Aber. Newman and Aber will provide a preview of the large University-wide event that follows breakfast—the Vice President’s Emanating Electra Symposium. Electra is mad. Her mother killed her father because he sacrificed Electra’s sister so the Greek ships could smoothly sail to Troy. Electra is so hurt and angry that she and her brother, Orestes, devise a plan to kill their mother and her lover! The subject of my research, the Greek tragedy heroine Electra, is seen as the epitome of the angst-ridden teenage girl. But she is so much more than that. She has so much passion, heart, love, resentment, and yes, anger. At the URC, I will bring Electra to life through a series of monologues and scenes from the many plays written about her. At the end of the show I will tie all the different emotions together with a scene from a play called “Curse of the Starving Class” written by Sam Shepard. This scene introduces a new Electra character, a little girl named Emma who brings Electra’s angst full circle to live again in someone else.

See Ashley’s portrayal of Electra at The Naked Arts—Creativity Exposed! event on Thursday, April 26, 3:30–6:30 p.m. at the Hennessy Theatre, Paul Creative Arts Center.

2007 Undergraduate Research Conference • 17 Friday 4/27

Vice President’s University-wide Symposium Poster Presentations: Session A

Friday, April 27 9:30–10:40 am Memorial Union Building, Granite State Room

Melissa Allen Major: Psychology Calcium Oxalate as an Indicator of Stress at Two Sites on Mount Moosilauke Adviser: Barry Rock

Christopher Anason Major: Mechanical Engineering Studying the Effects of Road Salt Spray and Runoff on the Foliage and Growth of White Pines Advisers: Steve Hale and Barry Rock

Magdalen Balz Major: Communication Sciences and Disorders Evaluation of a Community-based Day Michael Simmons ’07 Facility for Adults with Acquired Brain Injury Forest Technology Adviser: Michael Fraas Thompson School of Applied Science Faculty Mentor: Professor Matthew Chagnon Karinne Brobst (Psychology and Justice Studies) Maria Crossman (Psychology) Danielle DiFranco (Psychology and Tapping in Justice Studies) Allyssa Lanza (Psychology) UNH boasts more than 3,800 acres of forestland, including special pockets of An Implicit Measure of Victim/ sugar maples. With my research project I set out to determine the feasibility of a UNH Perpetrator Responsibility: The Effect maple sugaring operation. of Reputation Using forest-sampling methods, I determined the number of taps that the UNH Adviser: Ellen Cohn Woodlands sugar maples could support. Using that number and the physical layout of the sampled sugar maple stands, I researched the appropriate types of collection and Jodi-Ann Burey (McNair Scholar) production systems. Major: Communication Global Media, Hyperconsumerism, and See Mike’s results at the Thompson School’s Student Showcase on Wednesday, April 25, Social Identity: An Exploratory Study 11 a.m.–2 p.m. at Stacey’s in Cole Hall. Adviser: Jamel Santa Cruz Bell (Boston College)

18 • University of New Hampshire Friday 4/27

Emily Carter Lisa Landry Iris Tavarez (McNair Scholar) Major: Psychology Major: Nursing Major: Sociology Verb Tense as a Predictor of Reader The Experience of Childbirth in China: Success Stories: Factors that Influenced Reactions to Autobiographical Narratives A Direct Observational Study Ten Latina Students´ Decision to Attend Adviser: David Pillemer Advisers: Gene Harkless and College Carol Williams-Barnard Adviser: Eve Spangler (Boston College) Lindsey Connell Major: Social Work Stacey Lynch Sarah Vandeventer Sexually Transmitted Diseases Major: Social Work Major: Biology Adviser: Robert Jolley Harbor Schools and Family Services: Biological Applications of Chemistry Group Homes through Case-Based Learning Jenna Darling Adviser: Robert Jolley Adviser: Charlie Cox Major: Psychology Why You Can’t Teach an Old Rat New Sarah Marcoux Ashley Ward Tricks: How Cholinergic Lesions to the Major: French Studies Major: Psychology Temporal Lobe Mimic Aging La Torture: Examining the Battle of Bystander Attitudes: Sexual and Intimate Adviser: Jill McGaughy Algiers as a Human Rights Failure Partner Violence Adviser: Claire Malarte-Feldman Adviser: Victoria Banyard Katelyn Dolan Major: Environmental Conservation Troy Maynard Sarah Wright Studies Major: Communication Arts Major: Sociology Pan-Arctic Temperatization: A Prelimi- WMUR Internship—Entering the Sexual Abstinence Among College nary Study of Future Climate Impacts Production Field Students on Agriculture Opportunities in the Adviser: Skip Tenczar Adviser: Jean Elson Pan-Arctic Drainage System Caitlin Mussey Advisers: Richard Lammers and Explorations of Social Work Charles Vorosmarty Major: Nursing The Lived Experience of an Unplanned Practice Through Service Robert Gilbert Cesarean Section Learning Major: Health Management and Policy Advisers: Lynette Ament and Carol No Money, No Mission: The Importance of Williams-Barnard Amanda Agnelli Charity Care Programs Major: Social Work Adviser: James Lewis Abigail Noyce Major: Psychology Head Start’s Utilization of Parents in Nichole Guenard Aperture Effects on Texture and Policy Councils Major: Psychology Perspective Depth Cues Adviser: L. Rene Bergeron Sexually Explicit Advertisements: Does Adviser: William Stine Catlin Basile Belief in Rape Myth Differ? Majors: Social Work and Spanish Adviser: Ellen Cohn Nichole Phelan Major: Social Work Is Your Life Filled With Healthy and Kara Judson Child Abuse and Neglect: The Triad of Positive Relationships? Major: Biology Influence Adviser: L. Rene Bergeron Examination of Fas Aggregation on Bo- Adviser: Robert Jolley Kelly Byron vine Luteal Cells: Influences of Cytokera- Jennifer Ryan Major: Social Work tin 8/18 (CK8/18) Intermediate Filaments Navigating Your Way Through Health Adviser: David Townson Major: Social Work New Outlook Teen Center Care Ginny King Adviser: Robert Jolley Adviser: L. Rene Bergeron Major: Nutritional Sciences Stacey Calhoun Bone Health in the College-Age Elizabeth Summers Major: Sociology Majors: Social Work and Spanish Population Lifelong Family Connections Adviser: Jesse Morrell Video Game Violence and Its Effects Upon Violence in Reality Adviser: L. Rene Bergeron Alice Kirega (McNair Scholar) Adviser: Catherine Moran Major: Biology Cloning Human Interleukin-2 Adviser: Stephen Torosian

2007 Undergraduate Research Conference • 19 Friday 4/27

Vice President’s University-wide Symposium—poster Presentations: Session A, continued

Allyson Levy Joseph Botelho MUB, Room 207 Majors: Social Work and Outdoor Major: Communication Recreation It’s Not the Size of the Bull in the Rage: It’s Multidisciplinary Session I: Mentoring the Size of the Rage in the Bull The Virgin, Feminism, and Adviser: L. Rene Bergeron Adviser: Beverly James Black Worldliness Jeanne Murray Jillian Craig Moderator: TBA Major: Social Work Major: Communication Alzheimer’s Disease Adding Femininity to Sports in A League Brian Rebholtz Adviser: L. Rene Bergeron of Their Own Major: Anthropology Adviser: Beverly James Danielle Riss Behold the Virgin: Examining the Major: Social Work Stephanie Heuter Interpretation and Negotiation of the Frannie Peabody Center: HIV Services Major: Communication Sacred in Marian Apparitions in York County, Maine Overcoming Adversity: The Struggle to Adviser: David Frankfurter Adviser: L. Rene Bergeron ‘Girlfight’ Rachel Umberger Adviser: Beverly James Quinn Stein Majors: History and Women’s Studies Major: Social Work Luke Kyle Anti-Feminist Rhetoric of a Feminist Strafford County Department of Major: Communication Adviser: Marla Brettschneider Corrections Program Department Self-Determination and Hope: Morgan Wilson (McNair Scholar) Adviser: L. Rene Bergeron The Cornerstones of a Miracle Major: History Adviser: Beverly James Darci Tretter “The Negro Problem Became a World Major: Social Work Katie Madormo Problem”: Imagined Communities of The Dover Teen Center Major: Communication Black Worldliness and the 1945 Moment Adviser: L. Rene Bergeron Overcoming Adversity in Rudy Adviser: Davarian Baldwin (Boston Adviser: Beverly James College)

Lauren O’Connor MUB, Room 233 Vice President’s Major: Communication The Eternal Optimist: Violet Brown in Understanding Communities in University-wide National Velvet Flux Adviser: Beverly James Symposium Moderator: Sharyn Potter Jamie Rauscher Oral Presentations: Major: Communication Jessica Bean Friday Night Lights: American Values in Major: Sociology Session A Small Town Football The Effects of Sociodemographic Adviser: Beverly James Variations and Strain on the Self- FRIDAY, APRIL 27 Concept of Rural Single Mothers 9:30–10:40 am Nicholas Travalini Adviser: Heather Turner Memorial Union Building Major: Communication Silencing the Critics: ‘Rocky’ as the Shannon Bryne (Sociology and MUB, Room 203 Ultimate Underdog Justice Studies) Adviser: Beverly James Shaua Mahoney (Sociology) Screening the American Dream Jamie Morrill (Sociology) The Effects of Coerced Treatment for in Sports Films Problem Drinkers on Relapse Rates Moderator: Beverly James Adviser: Sharyn Potter

Lesley Angellis Kiley Flanagan (Sociology) Major: Communication Brien Leary (Sociology and Masculine Identity in Mystery, Alaska Justice Studies) Adviser: Beverly James The Knowledge University of New Hampshire Students Have on Immigration Adviser: Priscilla Reinertsen

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MUB, Rockingham Lounge, 3rd floor Power and Practice: Women Working in the Community Moderator: Mary M. Moynihan

Megan McLean Major: Anthropology Adviser: Mary M. Moynihan

Bligh Reynolds Major: Psychology Adviser: Mary M. Moynihan

Erin Stanton Major: Sociology Adviser: Mary M. Moynihan

Emily Todd Major: History Adviser: Mary M. Moynihan

Cory Towne Major: Women’s Studies Adviser: Mary M. Moynihan Ashley Busa ’07 Business Administration MUB, Room 302 Whittemore School of Business and Economics (WSBE) Faculty Mentor: Adjunct Professor Peter Masucci Fidelity Investments: Marketing Career Opportunities Moderator: Peter Masucci Go ahead. Get ahead. Kristen Ackerson Forty-four percent of New Hampshire high school graduates do not go directly to Alexandra DeCola college. My classmates and I in the Whittemore School’s Marketing Workshop are Laura Horton working to change that. Melissa Mastrola “Go ahead. Get ahead.” (GaGa for short) is a marketing campaign intended to Joel McMinn promote the attractiveness and attainability of a college education to young adults who Andrew Murphy are undecided about whether or not to attend college after graduating from high school. Jessica Romaine Developing GaGa required a lot of research. We conducted focus groups with high Major: Business Administration school students to learn everything we could about our target market. Then we created Adviser: Peter Masucci marketing collateral based on that research and tested the collateral with more high school students. The process paid off. When we presented the campaign and prototypes to our client, the University System of New Hampshire (USNH), reactions were overwhelm- ingly positive. In fact, through USNH, our work attracted the interest of the New York Times foundation, which offered to fund the trial phase of the campaign. Students in this semester’s Marketing Workshop are bringing the campaign to implementation. I feel extremely privileged still to be a part of this project as a teaching assistant for this class. Until GaGa, I did not realize how much I enjoyed research. I now know that research is a fundamental component for ensuring success. It is fun, exciting, and sometimes challenging, but always rewarding.

Hear more about Ashley’s work on the GaGa campaign at the Vice President’s University-wide Symposium on Friday, April 27, 10:50 a.m.–noon in the MUB, room 302.

2007 Undergraduate Research Conference • 21 Friday 4/27

Vice President’s University-wide Symposium—Oral Presentations: Session A, continued

Hamel Center for Mark Diedering MUB, Room 332 Undergraduate Research: Branden Vigneault Major: Kinesiology Immigration and Tolerance Marketing the Center to WSBE A National Census of College Outdoor Students and Faculty Orientation Programs Moderator: Marilyn Hoskin Adviser: Brent Bell Moderator: Peter Masucci Adam Gould Brian Miner Majors: International Affairs and Benjamin Brown Major: Music Education Anthropology Kiryl Harris Fostering Musical Creativity in the Castilian Primacy: Exploring the Role Andrew Letendre Elementary Music Classroom of Minority Languages in Peninsular Kyle Marini Adviser: Susan Hatfield Spanish Seth Minard Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Major: Business Administration MUB, Room 330 Adviser: Peter Masucci Morgan Kyrka Post-Communist Search for Majors: International Affairs and History Starbucks Coffee: Measuring The Flow of Immigrants from Africa to Security Spain and Beyond: Political, Economic, and Affecting Loyalty of Coffee Moderator: Irina Trubetskova and Cultural Concerns Drinkers Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Michael P. Allard Moderator: Peter Masucci Major: Mechanical Engineering Kyle Moore Majors: International Affairs and Spanish Jill Dolan Struggling for Peace, Security and What’s with the Wall? Mexico’s Mounting Kimberly Gee Democracy: Eastern Europe After the Immigration Issues Michael Giurleo Cold War Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Kevin Grady Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Tyler Kelley Lesley Collier Carolyn Preston Teresa McNamara Majors: International Affairs and Political Majors: International Affairs and Jennifer Natsios Science Anthropology Matthew Simpson Communism West of the Iron Curtain: ‘Reconquista’: Andalusian Fears of a Major: Business Administration Il Partito Comunista Italiano Culture Invasion Adviser: Peter Masucci Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon

MUB, Room 321 Caitlin Johansen Mary Undercoffler Majors: International Affairs and Majors: International Affairs and Family Multidisciplinary Session II: Sociology Studies Athletes, Outdoor Orientation, The Start of Something New: The 1956 A Prosperous Haven or Another Place Speech, and Music Hungarian Revolution and their Journey of Hardship? Immigration in Spain to Independence Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Moderator: TBA Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon MUB, Room 334 Lia Barros Susannah Pratt Major: Nursing Majors: International Affairs and Political Terrorism, Crime, and The College Athlete’s Perception of the Science Corruption Athlete’s Susceptibility to Alcohol Use A Country on the Move: Overlooked Advisers: Pam DiNapoli and Realities of Rural to Urban Migration in Moderator: Frank McCann Carol Williams-Barnard China Emma Brown Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Stephen Calcavecchia, Jr. Majors: International Affairs and Major: International Affairs and Psychology Linguistics Crime and Corruption in Present Day Sounding Gay: An Acoustic Analysis of Italy Gay Male Speech Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Adviser: Naomi Nagy

22 • University of New Hampshire Friday 4/27

Andrew Genung Juliet Tarantino MUB, Room 340 Majors: International Affairs and Majors: International Affairs and Anthropology Anthropology Political Science: Civil Society at Pushing Back Shadows: A Bloody Struggle Profitable Business, Worthless Language: Home and Abroad on a Shining Path Commercial Success and Rejection of Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Tradition in Otavalo, Ecuador Moderator: Jeannie Sowers Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Discussant: Dovev Levine-Luong Laura Kash Majors: International Affairs and Political Pajika Voravittayathorn Laura Carpenter Science Majors: International Affairs and Political Major: Political Science The Revolutionary Mystique and Science Wind: Bringing Renewable Energy Home Terrorism in Contemporary Italy: Living a Higher Life: The Aftermath of the Adviser: Jeannie Sowers The Face of Terror Foretold by the Red Economic Reforms in China Brigades Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Caitlin Dixon Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Katie Kunhardt MUB, Room 338 Major: Political Science Alex LeBaron Wetlands Conservation: An Integrated Majors: International Affairs and Political Political Participation in Study of International, National, and Lo- Science Democratic States cal Laws and Practices Pursuing Pinochet: How to Arrest a Chil- Adviser: Jeannie Sowers ean Dictator Moderator: Albert Griffin Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Colleen Flaherty Megan Breen Major: Political Science Sara Sohm Majors: International Affairs and Political Democracy without Citizens? Assessing Majors: International Affairs and Political Science Civil Society in Chile Science The Importance of Elections in Africa: Adviser: Mary Malone Cosa Nostra: Understanding Sicily’s A Comparative Study of Senegal and the Foremost Criminal Organization Ivory Coast Alexandra Varga Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Majors: International Affairs and Environmental Conservation Studies MUB, Room 336 Jacob Howard Water Privatization: the Struggle for the Majors: International Affairs and Political Right to Water in a Capitalist Society Growing Out of Poverty Science Adviser: Jeannie Sowers Protest: The Power of French Students Moderator: Fred Kaen Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Nicole Chalifoux Liz Kyriacou Vice President’s Majors: International Affairs and Majors: International Affairs and Political Political Science Science University-wide Conflicts of a Unified Nation: Latin American Politics: Understanding Symposium The Hidden Differences Disparaging the Shift to the Left Northern and Southern Italy Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Poster Presentations: Kayla McCarthy Elizabeth Perez Majors: International Affairs and Political Session B Majors: International Affairs and Spanish Science Combating Poverty in Spain The Impact of the Roman Catholic Church FRIDAY, APRIL 27 Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon on Austrian Political Parties 10:50 am–Noon Kathryn Striffolino Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Memorial Union Building, Granite State Room Majors: International Affairs and Political Emily Soderman Science Majors: International Affairs and Political Rebecca Blaine Paying for History: The Spanish Science Major: Nursing Economic Route The Rise of the Far-Right: The French Young Mens’ Attitudes Towards Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Answer to its Identity Crisis Breastfeeding Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Advisers: Gene Harkless and Carol Williams-Barnard

2007 Undergraduate Research Conference • 23 Friday 4/27

Vice President’s University-wide Symposium—Poster Presentations: Session B, continued

Sandy Chu (McNair Scholar) Kirsten Hildonen Cathryn Minshall Major: Psychology Major: History Major: Sociology Video Games and their Effects on Mental The Spies Who Saw Through Me Student Attachment Rotation and Hostility Adviser: Robert Macieski Adviser: Catherine Moran Adviser: Susan Menees (Boston College) Christina Holman Michelle Mitchell Alicia DeSando Major: Social Work Major: History Major: Social Work Families in Transition Employment and “AME,” A Referential Database of the City Hobbs House Help Center Job Training Program of Manchester, New Hampshire 1818–1850 Adviser: Robert Jolley Adviser: Robert Jolley Adviser: Robert Macieski

Emily Duynstee Ariel Hudson Heather Noyes Major: Sociology Major: Animal Sciences Major: English Non-Medical Use of Prescription Drugs Role of Cytokeratin 8/18 Intermediate Nature as Teacher on College Campuses: Student Use of Filaments in the Bovine Corpus Luteum: Adviser: Michael Andrew Adderall and Ritalin Protection Against Fas Ligand-Induced Adviser: Sharyn Potter Apoptosis? Laura Palombo Adviser: David Townson Major: Kinesiology Grace Festin (McNair Scholar) The Effects of a Long Distance Run on Major: Chemistry Melissa Jeffers Creatine Kinase Levels 24, 48, and 72 Synthesis of Fluoro Tyrosine Inhibitors Major: Health Management and Policy Hours Post-run Adviser: Steve Bruner (Boston College) Assessing Emergency Preparedness in Advisers: Allison Sigler and New Hampshire’s Hospitals Timothy Quinn Loreen Fournier Adviser: Robert McGrath Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Richard Paul (McNair Scholar) Biology Jessica Jolin (Kinesiology) Major: Geology Mechanism of Estrogen Receptor Alpha Hannah Lally (Kinesiology and Water Quality at the Cambridge, Massa- and Her2 Heterodimerization in Human Communication) chusetts Drinking-Water Supply System Breast Carcinoma Cells West Virginia University’s Adventure- Adviser: Rudolph Hon (Boston College) Adviser: Andrew Laudano Based Orientation: A Qualitative Analysis of Student’s Post-Trip Essays Bligh Reynolds Kelley George Adviser: Brent Bell Major: Psychology Major: Undeclared Impact of Hypothermia on Intermittent Study of Daphnia Triet Le (McNair Scholar) Swim Stress Induced Deficit in Spatial Adviser: Steve Hale Major: Chemical Engineering Learning in Rats The Effect of Process Parameters on Adviser: Robert Drugan Tara Goulet Electrodeposited Copper-Indium- Major: History Gallanium-Diselenide (CIGS) Films Joshua Sapochetti “Power to the People!” Socialist Visions Adviser: Dale Barkey Major: History in the Black Panther Party and the U.S. The Shaping of American Identity and the Prison Movement Lindsay Martel Impact of Television Advisers: J. William Harris and Major: Nursing Adviser: David Watters Lucy Salyer The Challenges and Rewards of Working as a Direct Care Provider in the United Tarah Snee Bonnie Graham States and Guatemala Major: Sociology Major: Psychology Advisers: Joyce Cappiello and The Washington Center for Internships The Serial Positon Effects Found in “The Carol Williams-Barnard and Academic Seminars Euclidean Distance Estimation vs. Word Advisers: Paula DiNardo and Recognition Memory” Exploratory Study Allison Mazerall Catherine Moran Advisers: John Limber and Major: Psychology Anne Gilman (graduate student) Does Distance Estimation Accuracy Megan Sullivan (McNair Scholar) Improve Over Multiple Attempts? Major: Psychology Jennifer Herman Advisers: John Limber and Professionals’ Knowledge of the Psycho- Major: Nursing Anne Gilman (graduate student) pathic Construct: Are Clinicians Bound Well Child Health Care in Wales by the DSM IV Criteria? Adviser: Gene Harkless Advisers: Susan Boatright and Robert Eckstein (University of Rhode Island)

24 • University of New Hampshire Sharyn Potter Associate Professor

Affecting change On Saturday mornings, many parents take their kids to soccer games, swim meets, or Tumble Tots. Sharyn Potter and her spouse load their daughters into the backseat of the car and drive across the Seacoast asking neighbors to post signs for their favored political candidate. When a neighbor agrees to post a yard sign, six-year-old Mira and three-year-old Lilia get an M&M candy. “It’s everyone’s responsibility and privilege to work together for change,” Potter says. Potter deploys the same grassroots approach to her research collaborations— getting the results on the street to affect policy and/or people. As a sociologist, “I am interested in the application of research to make social change,” Potter says. Potter’s make-an-impact philosophy translates to the class- Potter helped lead the development and evaluation efforts of a room. In her biennial internship class, students go into communi- first-of-its-kind bystander poster campaign aimed at challenging ty organizations and develop projects that help fill their needs. For community members to play a role in helping end violence against Melissa Mangold ’07, an internship at A Safe Place, a crisis center women. In the posters, bystanders ponder their role in situations providing services to survivors of domestic abuse, prompted her where violence is imminent, and ultimately choose to intervene. to study violence within the college-age population for her senior Based on follow-up evaluations to measure the effectiveness of University Honors Program thesis. the campaign, Potter and collaborators determined that those This week, Mangold and other Potter protégés share what who had viewed the posters had a greater awareness about sexual they’ve discovered. At the Undergraduate Research Conference, violence. Other institutions have since expressed interest in they will disseminate results from studies ranging from dating adopting the campaign. abuse and problem drinker relapse rates, to student use of the pre- Most recently, Potter and other UNH researchers collaborated scription drugs Adderall and Ritalin for non-medical purposes. on the first-ever survey of New Hampshire women to measure the “The UNH Undergraduate Research Conference is an integral prevalence of sexual violence and domestic violence in the state. part of the UNH undergraduate experience,” says Potter. Over Working with the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic the past six years, she has mentored more than a dozen student and Sexual Violence and the New Hampshire Department of presenters and has been an active member of the URC Public Health, they surveyed 508 Granite State women. The planning committee. In addition, Potter chairs the two-year-old findings were profound: nearly one in four have experienced a URC evaluation committee, which designs, administers, and completed sexual assault in their lifetime. Last month, Potter and evaluates a survey of URC participants and faculty mentors to colleagues released these numbers in a press conference at the measure the effectiveness of the conference experience. (See N.H. Attorney General’s office. Potter says state and organiza- related story page 2.) tional leaders will use the results to help improve services and “Presenting at the URC gives students self-confidence,” Potter prevention programs for victims and would-be perpetrators. says. “And it’s good for parents to see how their son or daughter Potter strives for change on campus by serving on the has grown intellectually.” University’s Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program “Plus, it gets their work out there where it has an opportunity (SHARPP) advisory board—a position she’s held for eight years. to make an impact.” And she serves as codirector of the UNH Prevention Innovations Center, the only university center in the country focused exclu- sively on preventing violence against women on college campuses.

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Kathryn Weitz Rachel Umberger MUB, Room 233 Major: Social Work Major: Communication Services for Survivors of Sexual Assault The Morality of Aesthetics: Using Robert Multidisciplinary Session II: and Their Loved Ones Pirsig’s Metaphysics of Quality to Popular Culture, Healthcare, Adviser: Robert Jolley Objectively Evaluate Music Adviser: Michael Jackson and Pedagogy Lindsey Wetteland Moderator: Beverly James Major: Occupational Therapy Matthew Willis Stress and Occupation: Analyzing the Major: Communication Adam Donovan Relations Between Perceived Stress The Burning Monk Photograph: Iconic Major: Communication Levels and Occupational Repertoire Requirements A Narrative Analysis of Television’s One Adviser: Barbara Prudhomme White Adviser: Michael Jackson Hour Drama: A Case Study of Lost, 24 and The O.C. Julie Wiggin MUB, Room 207 Major: Health Management and Policy Adviser: Beverly James The Mitigating Effect of Hardiness on the Multidisciplinary Session I: Sarah Henson Factors Related to Poor Body Image Shklovsky, Profiles, and Major: Health Management and Policy Adviser: Robert McGrath Hadrian’s Wall Women in Health Care Management: A Struggle to the Top Moderator: TBA Adviser: Leslie MacLeod

Vice President’s Benjamin Clemenzi-Allen Troy Maynard University-wide (McNair Scholar) Major: Communication Arts Major: English Survivor-the Ultimate “Survivor” of Symposium Awakening (an) Aesthetic: Contextual- Popular Culture izing Viktor Shklovsky’s Ostranenie in Adviser: Skip Tenczar Oral Presentations: Lyn Hejinian’s My Life Adviser: Ruth Jennison (UMass Amherst) Christa Ricker Session B Major: Kinesiology Mark Kilens Transitioning to College Using Different FRIDAY, APRIL 27 Major: Tourism Planning and Pedagogical Approaches 10:50 am–Noon Development Adviser: Brent Bell Linking Market Valued Community Memorial Union Building Skill Profiles with Corporate Outsourced MUB, Rockingham Lounge, 3rd floor MUB, Room 203 Functions to Identify Financially Attractive Sourcing Targets Women’s Studies Works: Taking it on in Communication: Adviser: Lyndon Goodridge Demonstrations of Community Photography, Humor, Music, Elizabeth McFadden Activism and Sports Major: History Moderator: Mary M. Moynihan Living on the Edge: The Staffordshire Moderator: Mardi Kidwell Moorlands Pan and Life Along Brittany Fecteau Major: Women’s Studies Lindsey Charles Hadrian’s Wall Adviser: Mary M. Moynihan Major: Communication Adviser: Gregory McMahon And Nothing but the Truthiness: How The Sarah LoPresti Daily Show and The Colbert Report’s Major: Sociology Rhetoric of Humor Has Revitalized Adviser: Mary M. Moynihan Public Debate Adviser: Jennifer Borda Katia Mathieu Major: Women’s Studies Adrian Kerrison Adviser: Mary M. Moynihan Major: Communication The Three People You’ll Meet at a Hockey Amanda Potter Game Major: Sociology Adviser: Mardi Kidwell Adviser: Mary M. Moynihan

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Carli Stevenson New York Times: Marketing Elyse Johnson Major: Women’s Studies Entrepreneurship Week USA Majors: International Affairs and Spanish Adviser: Mary M. Moynihan Expelling Dictatorial Influences from Event Chilean Education MUB, Room 302 Moderator: Peter Masucci Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace

Go Ahead, Get Ahead (GaGa) Sheena Foye Joel Marks Part-2: Influencing High School Jessica Gardner Major: Philosophy The Realization of Cesare Beccaria: Italy’s Students to Aspire to Attend Michael Giovinelli Andrew Hinds Relationship with the Death Penalty College Karlee Horan Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace Moderator: Peter Masucci Emily King Alexandra Varga Jenna Maver Majors: International Affairs and Brett Berger Jaime Pruzansky Environmental Conservation Studies Jeffrey Blake Katie Scheier Accounting for Differences: A Compara- Ashley Busa Major: Business Administration tive Analysis of the Zapatista Movement Megan Call Adviser: Peter Masucci Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace Daniel Epner Hannah Fisher MUB, Room 321 Constantina Venetos Shauna Moran Majors: International Affairs and Greek Kathleen Petroff Political Thought Greek Identity and Passions: The Meghan Pritchard Moderator: TBA Macedonian Question Taylor Schwab Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace Kristina Seid David Afonso Amy Surles Major: Political Science MUB, Room 332 Major: Business Administration A Critical Assessment of Simone Adviser: Peter Masucci de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex Tradition and Modernity: Adviser: Marla Brettschneider The Politics of Change in the Go Ahead, Get Ahead (GaGa) Phil Brand 20th Century Part-3: Influencing High School Majors: Political Science and Economics Moderator: Ted Howard Students to Aspire to Attend The End of History as the Road to College Servitude Alexandra Baldwin Adviser: Warren Brown Majors: International Affairs and Moderator: Peter Masucci Art History Pajika Voravittayathorn The Dawn of Modernism Major: Political Science Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace Alicia Cass Police Services and Corruption in Lauren Daigle Bangkok City Julia Blumenfeld Thomas Fitzgerald Adviser: Clifford Wirth Major: Geography Samantha Freni Concrete Coast: Impact of Mass Tourism Christina Houle MUB, Room 330 in Southern Spain Anna Jurta Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace Jenna Lavery Protest, Movements, Power, Kristen Leone and Change Derek Hubbard Keith LeVan Majors: International Affairs and Spanish Erin McCann Moderator: Funso Afolayan CAFTA: Reasons for Resistance Mackenzie O’Connell Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace Janelle Proctor Kathryn Daly Jennifer Ryan (Social Work) Major: Environmental Conservation Christine Leonard Major: Business Administration Studies Major: Occupational Therapy Adviser: Peter Masucci How French Culture has Shaped Nuclear Pragmatic Progress: Islamic Feminism in Energy Policy Contemporary Egypt Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace

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Molly Messenger Owen Friend-Gray ’09 Majors: International Affairs and Environmental Engineering Anthropology College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Tanzania: A Case of Forced Migration Faculty Mentor: Research Assistant Professor Jeffery Melton Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace

MUB, Room 334 An appetite for apatite Insiders and Outsiders: My research involves the adsorption of heavy metals and organic contaminants by a Language, Immigration, and the sedimentary rock known as apatite. Due to its unique structure and chemical properties, Problem of Inclusion in Europe apatite can adsorb contaminants like a sponge, but hold on to them like a rock. It’s an Moderator: Lori Hopkins amazing product that could be used for cleaning up contaminated areas such as old fac- tories, tanneries, and riverbeds. This research is important because it can take a river, for Laura Carpenter example, that is completely unusable and unsafe and transform it into one where people Majors: International Affairs and can swim and fish again. Or an old, condemned factory site could be transformed into a Political Science playground or park. Unemployment in France: Its Effect on I sort of stumbled into this research during my freshman year, but now I can’t imagine Discrimination Against the Immigrant being at school and not being a part of it. I really love the fact that the work I do holds Population the potential to help people and make a difference for the environment. I am studying to Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace be an environmental engineer and those last two stated reasons are exactly why. It’s also exciting that the work I am doing is unique and fresh and that patents are in the making Lauren Fowler around the work I am doing. Majors: International Affairs and History It feels nice to be working on a problem where the solution is not in the back of a Catalan Identity and a Fight for textbook, but somewhere in my mind and my research just waiting to be discovered. Independence Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace

Corinna Gilson Owen Friend-Gray in action at URC ’06. Major: Political Science Running Blind: The Intractable Conflict of E.T.A. Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace

Julia Nudelman Majors: International Affairs and English The Immigration Issue in Spain Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace

Jessica Williams Major: Linguistics Slouching Towards Babel: Language Policy, Linguistic Identity, and Social Cohesion in the European Union Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace

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MUB, Room 336 Nicole Eckert Alicia Shotwell Majors: International Affairs and Majors: Political Science and Philosophy Law, Crime, and the Problem Communication A Study of Increased Nuclear Tensions of Violence A Healthy Serving of Greens: The Role of Between the United States and North the Green Party in Germany’s Renewable Korea Moderator: Kurk Dorsey Energy Policy Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Myra Khan Emily Soderman Majors: International Affairs and Nikki Nichols Majors: International Affairs and Political Communication Majors: International Affairs, Linguistics, Science The Weight of Words: The Construction and Political Science Famine in Niger: Give Aid or Stay Out? and Implications of Genocide Discourse in Here Comes the Bride—Have a Smoke: Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Bosnia and Sudan Why Tobacco is Killing Spain Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Fiona Mokry Laura Plummer Vice President’s Majors: International Affairs and Majors: International Affairs and Spanish Sociology Madre e hijo: Abortion Politics and the University-wide The Mafia’s Rise to Power: How it Lives of Mexican Women Symposium Happened and Why it was Accepted Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace Nic Tanner Oral Presentations: Shaun Seaman Majors: International Affairs and Spanish Majors: International Affairs and Tourism Tata’s Regime: Human Rights Violations Session C in Augusto Pinochet’s Chile Planning and Development FRIDAY, APRIL 27 Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Street Violence in Spain 1:15–2:25 pm Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace MUB, Room 340 Memorial Union Building James Sutherland Majors: International Affairs and History Political Science: Conflict, MUB Theatre I Clandestine Collaboration or Catalyst of Famine, and Refugees Controversy? PC Connection: Marketing Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace Moderator: Alynna Lyon Career Opportunities Candice Turner Lesley Collier Moderator: Peter Masucci Majors: Political Science and Russian Majors: International Affairs and Political Law in the Russian Federation: Positive Science Gregory Aiken Changes and a Hopeful Future The United States’ Changing Perception of Katie Clark Adviser: Nicoletta Gullace Threat: The China Case Christopher Cybart Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Eric Dandurant MUB, Room 338 Amanda Delanoy Liz Kyriacou Benjamin Goodwin Shared Living Environment Majors: International Affairs and Political Paige Kinsley Science Gregory Pliska Moderator: Alan Ray International Refugee Crisis: The Global Heather Rackley Jillian Dur Response to the Darfur Conflict Stephen Sakellar Majors: International Affairs and Spanish Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon Derek Smyrl We Treat, Jesus Heals: Christian Major: Business Administration Influences on Healthcare in Madagascar Adviser: Peter Masucci Adviser: Lawrence C. Reardon

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UNH Alumni Association: MUB, Room 330 Matthew Joyce Marketing to Current Students Majors: International Business, Political Multidisciplinary Session I: Science, and Economics Moderator: Peter Masucci Nature, Politeness, Hip-Hop, Replacing the United States Rifle, Caliber 5.56mm, M16 and the United States Brenna Brink and Biodiesel Pistol, Caliber 9mm, M9 and the Amy Demers Moderator: TBA Resulting Effects on the Small Arms Kristen Favuzza Industry of the United States Katerina Karametros Rayne Coleman Adviser: Bill Machanic Kristin O’Connor Major: Sign Language Interpretation Cheryl Penaskovic “Could You Pass the Salt?” Comparing Alice Sheehan Chris Romanello Politeness Strategies of English Speakers Major: Economics Courtney Sinclair and American Sign Language Users Bringing up Incentives: A Look at the Meagan Southmayd Adviser: Jack Hoza Determinants of Poverty Joseph Stopa Adviser: Edinaldo Tebaldi Major: Business Administration Kristopher Cui Adviser: Peter Masucci Major: Chemical Engineering Devon Thomas(McNair Scholar) ASTM Biodiesel Gas Chromatograph Major: Anthropology Doctrinal Conflict within the Bausch & Lomb: Increasing Testing and Automation of Biodiesel Processor Episcopal Church Awareness and Demand for Adviser: Ihab Farag Adviser: Stephan Reyna LASIK Surgery Michael D’Errico MUB, Room 334 Moderator: Peter Masucci Major: Music Education Wildstyle Metaphysics: The Composition- Technology and 21st Stacy Caler al Process of the Hip-Hop DJ Christene Carbone Century Relationships: Adviser: Rob Haskins Jenny Doane Have Things Changed? Kevin Ebert Heather Noyes Moderator: Sharyn Potter Josh Francis Major: English Stacy Gorman Nature as Teacher Silas Archambault Kaitlyn Grant Adviser: Michael Andrew Major: Sociology Hilary Hamilton Social Interaction on Facebook Shaun Kellogg MUB, Room 332 Adviser: Sharyn Potter Michelle Kenney Samantha Kussman Multidisciplinary Session II: Valerie Hooper Erin Marshall Poverty, Aspiration, Geographic Major: Sociology Tim Masullo The Effect of Television Families on Janine McCarl Literacy, Religion, and Guns Real-world Family Perceptions and Sat- Casey Morrissey Moderator: TBA isfaction Devon Morrow Adviser: Catherine Moran Chelsea Moynihan Connie Chu (McNair Scholar) Skye MacKay Kimberly Nasser Majors: Economics and Mathematics Major: Sociology and Justice Studies Megan Reilly Parent, Peer, and Teacher Expectations on College Students’ Knowledge, Attitudes, Krista Sherburne Student Aspirations and Behaviors Surrounding HIV/AIDS Elissa Sneider Advisers: Cliff Brown (UNH) and Adviser: Catherine Moran Katherine Sullivan Linda Bui (Brandeis University) Justin Toy Emily Fekete Melissa Mangold Jenna Voci Majors: History and Geography Majors: Sociology and Justice Studies Major: Business Administration Geographic Literacy Among Students Dating Abuse in College Relationships: A Adviser: Peter Masucci at the University of New Hampshire: Qualitative Study Fall 2006 Adviser: Sharyn Potter Advisers: Alasdair Drysdale and J. William Harris

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School of Health and Nicholas Perros ’07 Biochemistry Human Services College of Life Sciences and Agriculture Grimes Award Faculty Mentor: Professor Rick Cote Competition FRIDAY, APRIL 27 Eye on vision 12:30–3:30 pm My research focuses on the molecular basis of vision. Our retinas consist of two types of Pettee Hall photoreceptor cells—rods and cones—which allow us to see in dim and bright lights, re- spectively. I am studying an enzyme located in rod photoreceptors known as phosphodi- Jack and Marianna Grimes and family esterase-6 (PDE6). The PDE6 enzyme triggers the first events in vision, and its regulation endowed the funds for this celebra- is vital for propagating the nerve impulse telling our brain that light has been detected. tion of excellence in undergraduate While the light activation of PDE6 is well understood, less is known about how PDE6 is research. The oral presentation com- turned off, particularly in bright light conditions. A novel rod cell protein called Glutamic petition includes finalists who have Acid-Rich Protein-2 (GARP2) has recently been found to bind to PDE6 with high affinity. been selected by School of Health and How GARP2 might function to regulate PDE6 activation/inactivation is not understood, Human Services faculty after rigorous and is the subject of my research. This work will enhance our knowledge of the visual scientific review of written proposals. signaling pathway in photoreceptors, and is medically relevant to understanding retinal Information on participants will be avail- diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa. able at this event. Talk with Nick at the 16th annual COLSA URC on Saturday, April 28, 7:45 a.m.–2 p.m. at the New England Center. Honors English Undergraduate Research Conference

FRIDAY, APRIL 27 1–5 pm Hamilton Smith Hall, Room 129

To complete Honors-in-English, students must conduct a semester- long research project culminating in a 30-40 page senior thesis. The Honors English URC provides these students and students in the linguis- tics program with the opportunity to share their work with fellow students, professors, and families. The pre- sentations include original poetry, autobiographical writing, journalism, and scholarship on literary texts from several different centuries.

Stephen Anthony Calcavecchia Majors: International Affairs and Linguistics Sounding Gay: An Acoustic Analysis of Gay Male Speech Adviser: Naomi Nagy

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Sonja Sorensen Fridell Jim Paul Wood Jenna Darling Major: English Journalism Major: Linguistics Major: Psychology Newspapers and the Online World People are Talking Differently in Why You Can’t Teach an Old Rat New Adviser: Susan Hertz New Hampshire Tricks: How Cholinergic Lesions to the Adviser: Naomi Nagy Temporal Lobe Mimic Aging Tiffany Leigh Heineman Adviser: Jill McGaughy Major: English The Book Tour: Exploring the Intersection Martine Garland between Fiction and Non-Fiction Psychology Major: Psychology Adviser: Margaret-Love Denman Sports Memory Recall: Males vs. Females George M. Haslerud Adviser: Michelle Leichtman Harry Lund Major: English Literature Undergraduate Nichole Guenard “A Wonderer’s Repose”: The Spiritual Life Research Conference Major: Psychology in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre Sexually Explicit Advertisements: Adviser: James Krasner FRIDAY, APRIL 27 Does Belief in Rape Myth Differ? Adviser: Ellen Cohn Michael Luz 1–4 pm Major: English Literature Conant Hall, Room 101 Stephanie Huckins Performative Identity and Authenticity in Major: Psychology The Great Gatsby The George M. Haslerud Undergradu- Undergraduates and their Eating Adviser: Sarah Sherman ate Research Conference, named for Practices the late professor emeritus of Adviser: Pablo Chavajay Cortney Elizabeth McMullen psychology, recognizes and Major: English celebrates undergraduate research Aislinn Johnson Issues of Gender Identity in Edith conducted by psychology students. Majors: Psychology and Family Studies Wharton’s Novels The Relationship Between Autobiographi- Adviser: Brigitte Bailey Emily Bolton cal Memories and Self Concept in Major: Psychology Young Children Lyndsey Ann McMullen Defining Unwanted Sexual Experiences Adviser: Carolyn Mebert Major: English and Consent The Jane Austen Phenomenon: How Her Adviser: Victoria Banyard Abigail Noyce Themes and Characters Resonate Today Major: Psychology Adviser: James Krasner Evan Brooks Aperture Effects on Texture and Major: Psychology Perspective Depth Cues Maureen Reilly The Effects of “Friendly Type” Formatting Adviser: William Stine Major: English on Reading Comprehension Tests Exploring the Relationship between the Adviser: John Limber Bligh Reynolds Aesthetic and Terrorism Major: Psychology Adviser: Sandhya Shetty Emily Carter Impact of Hypothermia on Intermittent Major: Psychology Swim Stress Induced Deficit in Spatial Sarah Elizabeth Rogers Verb Tense as a Predictor of Reader Learning in Rats Major: English Reactions to Autobiographical Narratives Adviser: Robert Drugan Raymond Chandler: From Written Page Adviser: David Pillemer to Wide Screen Lyndsay Schneiderman Adviser: Monica Chiu Rachel Costa Majors: Biology and Psychology Major: Psychology Cholinergic Modulation of Sensory- Kimberly Toth Watson The Use of Feature and Geometry Guided Responding in Central Thalamus Major: English Information During a Two-Dimensional Adviser: Robert Mair Danielle Marie Thompson: Working Task Improves with Development Through Memories Advisers: Brett Gibson and Ashley Ward Adviser: Lester Fisher Michelle Leichtman Major: Psychology Bystander Attitudes: Sexual and Intimate Amy Lauren Willenbrock Partner Violence Major: English Education Adviser: Victoria Banyard The Rapture Trees Feel: A Collection of Poetry Adviser: MeKeel McBride

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Maria Clara Zoccoli Marc Sklar Marissa Ambrosi Major: Psychology Major: Philosophy Major: Environmental and Resource Do Clark’s Nutcrackers Actually Know Democracy is a Dinosaur Economics What They Remember? Adviser: Timm Triplett Impacts of Ecotourism: An Economic, Adviser: Brett Gibson Social, and Environmental Analysis of Hannah Varn Central America Majors: Philosophy and English Adviser: John Halstead Regulative Ideals: A Practical Approach to Philosophy Global Warming Elisabeth Antanavich Adviser: Willem deVries Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Undergraduate Biology Research Conference Determining the Effect of Limonene-3-H 16th Annual COLSA Alleles on Peppermint Oil Production in FRIDAY, APRIL 27 Mint Plants 4–8:30 pm Undergraduate Adviser: Thomas Davis Memorial Union Building, Research Conference Christopher Beninati Rooms 330, 332 Major: Biology Development of Biology-related, The Philosophy URC is a mosaic of SATURDAY, APRIL 28 7:45 am–2 pm Case-based Problems for Chemistry concise and meaningful student Lectures and Assessment presentations, varying from such New England Center, Great Bay Room Adviser: Charlie Cox philosophical topics as applied ethics, language theory, and social justice. Student presentations at the 16th Susan Boisvert Presentations are followed by a brief annual COLSA URC showcase the Major: Biology question-and-answer period. All are research results from various COLSA Iron Sequestration by Siderophore in welcome and sincerely encouraged to departments. This broad spectrum of Vibrio fischeri: Role in Symbiosis attend. Refreshments will be served. work—from field studies and genom- Adviser: Cheryl Whistler ics to developmental and molecular Robert Fisher biology—includes many projects Jacob Borgeson Majors: Philosophy and History conducted in foreign countries. This Major: Wildlife Management Kant and Immortality event is sponsored by the College of Evaluation of Protocol and Conditions Adviser: Willem deVries Life Sciences and Agriculture Dean’s Associated with Genetic Tagging of Black Office and Departments, the Office of Bears in Northern New Hampshire Kraig Lamper Academic Affairs, the Vice President Adviser: Pete Pekins Majors: Philosophy and Music for Research, the Office of Sponsored Jan Boyer Kant’s Thing in Itself Research, and the UNH Hamel Center Major: Biology Adviser: Willem deVries for Undergraduate Research. Density Dependence in Larval Wood Trevor Mauck Jay Agarwal Frogs Majors: Philosophy and Political Science Major: Biology Adviser: Kimberly Babbitt Hume and Morality Aether Student Assessment Jill Brelsford Adviser: Willem deVries Adviser: Charlie Cox Major: Microbiology Patrick Ryan Stephanie Allard A Stressful Lifestyle: The Need for Two Major: Philosophy Major: Biology Paralogous Stress Response Regulators in The Myth of Technological Progress Monitoring Feeding Rates of Algae the Bacterial Symbiont Vibrio fischeri Adviser: David Hiley Intake of Microcystis aeroginosa and Adviser: Cheryl Whistler Nanochloropsus in Mussels from David Samra Katelyn Cassidy Silver Lake and Lake Ossipee with a Major: Philosophy Major: Microbiology Must the Cosmological Argument Depend Multiparameter Probe A Study of the Endosymbiont Bacterial Upon the Ontological Argument? Adviser: James Haney Communities Found within Caulerpa: Adviser: Nicholas Smith Spatial Location and Quantification Advisers: Wayne Fagerberg and Louis Tisa

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Robert Citorik Maire Folan Alison Hudson Jong Yu Major: Biology Major: Animal Sciences Major: Microbiology The Effect of Flame Retardants on a Effect of Prostaglandin F2a on Tissue Effects of Probiotics and Organic Acids Biochemical Marker for Obesity Inhibitors of Matrix Metalloproteinase on Toxin Production in Escherichia coli Adviser: Gale Carey Expression in the Bovine Corpus Luteum O157:H7 Adviser: Paul Tsang Adviser: Frank Rodgers Jennifer Forcina Major: Medical Laboratory Science Kara Judson Lena Collins Interactions in Neutrophils Between Major: Biology Major: Biology Bcl-2 Family of Proteins and Stx-2 Examination of Fas Aggregation on Bo- The Effect of the Invasive Seaweed, Produced by Escherichia coli O157:H7 vine Luteal Cells: Influences of Cytokera- Caulerpa taxifolia, on Native Adviser: Frank Rodgers tin 8/18 (CK8/18) Intermediate Filaments Species Interactions in St. George’s Basin, Adviser: David Townson Australia Loreen Fournier Adviser: James Byers Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Alisha Kennell Biology Major: Zoology Kathryn Daly Mechanism of Estrogen Receptor-a and Spatial Learning Cues and Acquisition Major: Environmental Conservation Her2 Heterodimerization in Human Time in Two Rodent Species Occupying Studies Breast Carcinoma Cells Different Habitats (Microtus pennsylva- Case Studies in Sustainable Agriculture: Adviser: Andrew Laudano nicus and Peromyscus leucopus) How Small Farms Can Be Successful Adviser: Michelle Scott Adviser: Mimi Becker Adam Gourley Major: Environmental and Resource Tye Kindinger Michelle Desrosiers Economics Major: Zoology Major: Biology Optimizing the 4000 Footers Evolutionary Adaptations of Daphnia Distribution and Abundance of Advisers: John Halstead and Doug Morris pulex in Peripheral Rock Pools on the Early Successional Shrubland Birds in Isles of Shoals, Maine: Effects of Salt Powerline Rights-of-way Caitlin Hamer Concentration and Ultraviolet Radiation Adviser: James Taylor Major: Biology Adviser: James Haney Local Variation and Trait-mediated Nicole DiManno Indirect Interactions of Nucella lapillus Tye Kindinger Major: Zoology Adviser: James Byers Major: Zoology The Plight of Vernal Pool Amphibians Effects of Habitat Diversity on Catch per Adviser: Kimberly Babbitt Cheryl Harary Unit Effort of Chelonia mydas and Eret- Major: Zoology mochelys imbricata Populations in South Katelyn Dolan In Vitro Analysis of Bluefin Tuna Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands, British Major: Environmental Conservation Stomach Content West Indies Studies Advisers: Molly Lutcavage and Adviser: James Haney Pan-Arctic Temperatization: A Prelimi- John Logan (graduate student) nary Study of Future Climate Impacts Ginny King on Agriculture Opportunities in the Stephen Hennigar Major: Nutritional Sciences Pan-Arctic Drainage System Major: Nutritional Sciences Bone Health of the College-age Advisers: Charles Vorosmarty and The Potential Link Between the Exposure Population Richard Lammers to Environmental Pollutants and Adviser: Jesse Morrell Preference for Sweet-Tasting Fluids Dustin Elwood and Obesity in Rats Elisabeth Kispert Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Adviser: Anthony Tagliaferro Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Biology Autophagy Versus Growth of Sea Urchin Ariel Hudson Sources of Knowledge and Attitudes Nutritive Phagocytes—Differential Major: Animal Sciences Toward Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Control by a Complex of Proteins Role of Cytokeratin 8/18 Intermediate Vaccine Among Female College Students Adviser: Charles Walker Filaments in the Bovine Corpus Luteum: at the University of New Hampshire Protection Against Fas Ligand-induced Advisers: Rosemary Caron and Apoptosis? Robert McGrath Adviser: David Townson

34 • University of New Hampshire Saturday 4/28

Avery Krein Holli Pinard Frederick Ta Major: Animal Sciences Major: Animal Sciences Major: Biology Sensory Cues that Initiate Conspecific Calf Starter Chemical and Physical Use of the G-I-G Model as a Basis for Aggression in Male Red-backed Characteristics as They Relate to Overall Improving Student Problem Solving Salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) Performance in the Chemistry Classroom Adviser: Michelle Scott Adviser: Peter Erickson Adviser: Charlie Cox

Angela Kuehn (Microbiology) Stephan Pirnie Derek Thibault Stephen Perros (Biochemistry and Major: Biology Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Molecular Biology) Introduction of Phytochelatin Synthase: Biology Katie Szymanska (Microbiology) Creating a Phytoremediator Isolation of Arabidopsis thaliana The Role of Evolutionary History in Adviser: Subhash Minocha Palmitoyltransferase Mutants Adaptation to New Environments: Advisers: Aaron Argyros and Experimental Evolution of the Burkhold- Kristen Rauwerdink Estelle Hrabak eria cenocepacia Complex Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Advisers: Vaughn Cooper and Biology Jennifer Towle Crystal Ellis (graduate student) Formation and Study of [60] Fullerene Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Nanowhiskers and Nanotubes Biology Amanda LaVoie Adviser: Glen Miller Bio-adhesion: Search for Vitronectin Major: Biology in Caulerpa The Effect of Human Land Use Practices Brian Schuster Adviser: Wayne Fagerberg on the Wildlife Dispersal Area in Major: Microbiology Southern Mbirikani Group Ranch, Kenya You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks: Heather Tucker Adviser: Moses Okello (Center for Revitalizing Penicillin Enrichment for Major: Nutritional Sciences Wildlife Management, School for Field Mutant Generation The Maasai-Elephant Conflict Studies, Kenya) Adviser: Cheryl Whistler Adviser: Andrew Conroy

Monique Lessard Gwen Stewart Chelsea Vario Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Major: Nutritional Sciences Major: Nutritional Sciences Biology Visual and Biochemical Assessment of Chronic Nitrogen Additions Affect Estrogen Receptor-a Blocker the Color Change in Egg Yolk Following Aboveground Sporocarp Diversity in Adviser: Andrew Laudano Lutein and Zeaxanthin Supplements Hardwood Stand Adviser: Joanne Curran-Celentano Adviser: Serita Frey Keith Morley (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Joy Stronk Marjorie Wainwright Charles Traverse (Microbiology) Major: Biology Major: Nutritional Sciences Beyond Darwin: Gaining Insight into Effects of Depth and Salinity on the Long-term Exposure to Flame Retardants Mutational Effects through the Removal Behavior of the Horseshoe Crab, Limulus and Insulin Sensitivity of Fat Cells of Natural Selection polyphemus Adviser: Gale Carey Adviser: Winsor Watson Adviser: Vaughn Cooper Jennifer Walsh Benjamin Orcheski MacKenzie Stuart Major: Biology Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Major: Tourism Planning and Identification of Sharp-tailed Sparrow Biology Development Species Using Genetic Techniques Towards the Determination of Sex Identification of Potential Job Linkages Adviser: Adrienne Kovach Expression in Strawberry Between “American Citizen Skill-Groups” Adviser: Thomas Davis and Businesses Currently Engaged in Domestic and International Outsourcing Nicholas Perros Adviser: Lyndon Goodridge Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Paul Sweeney The Regulation of Phosphodiesterase-6 Major: Biochemistry and Molecular by Glutamic Acid-Rich Protein-2 Biology Adviser: Rick Cote Positional Cloning of the Hydroxyurea- Sensitive hus2 Mutant in Arabidopsis thaliana Adviser: Kevin Culligan

2007 Undergraduate Research Conference • 35 Saturday 4/28–Friday 5/4

Student Composers’ Mary Louise Fernald Chemistry Department Concert Nursing Research Poster Exhibition

SATURDAY, APRIL 28 Symposium FRIDAY, MAY 4 8 pm 2:30–4 pm WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 Bratton Recital Hall, 8 am–2:30 pm Parsons Hall, Iddles Foyer Paul Creative Arts Center Memorial Union Building, This exhibition is the result of stu- The UNH Student Composers’ Strafford Room dents’ yearlong senior thesis research Concert is an annual event featuring in such areas as organic, inorganic, the compositions of undergraduate The Mary Louise Fernald Nursing physical, or analytical chemistry, and and graduate students in the Research Symposium is a program of under the direction of their research Department of Music. The music scholarly presentations by undergrad- adviser. is newly-composed and is almost uate Honors students and graduate exclusively performed by fellow music students. Matthew Buchanan students. Major: Chemistry Lia Barros Adviser: Charles Zercher Diane Anderson Major: Nursing Major: Music Studies (Composition) The College Athlete’s Perception of the Hee Yeon Cho Wind Trio Athlete’s Susceptibility to Alcohol Use Major: Chemistry Adviser: Lori Dobbins Advisers: Pam DiNapoli and Graphite-Sensitized Microwave Carol Williams-Barnard Flash Pyrolysis Adam Davila Adviser: Richard Johnson Major: Music Rebecca Blaine The Dirty Rag Major: Nursing Michael Dunn Adviser: Lori Dobbins Young Men’s Attitudes Towards Major: Chemistry Breastfeeding Modifications of Tripodal Ligands Based Andrew Greene Advisers: Gene Harkless and on the TAMEPYR and TACHPYR Major: Music Performance Carol Williams-Barnard Framework Strength and Beauty Adviser: Roy Planalp Adviser: Michael Annicchiarico Lisa Landry Major: Nursing Michelle Garnsey Ben Mafera The Experience of Childbirth in China: Major: Chemistry Major: Music Education A Direct Observational Study Hydrogenation of Single Walled 5 Limericks of Edward Lear Advisers: Gene Harkless and Nano Tubes Adviser: Michael Annicchiarico Carol Williams-Barnard Adviser: Glen Miller

John Mehrmann Lindsay Martel Allison Greene Major: Music Performance Major: Nursing Major: Chemistry Music for Hands, Marimbas, and The Challenges and Rewards of Working Fragmentation Mechanisms of Vibraphone (2006); Variations on a as a Direct Care Provider in the United Carbohydrates in ESI Mass Spectrometry Theme in D Minor (2006); Music States and Guatemala Adviser: Richard Johnson Keyboards and Percussion (2007) Advisers: Joyce Cappiello and Advisers: Chris Kies and Lori Dobbins Carol Williams-Barnard Sarah Huckins Major: Chemistry Timothy Miles Caitlin Mussey Structural Analysis of Glycosphingolipids Major: Music Major: Nursing Adviser: Steven Levery Two Songs and The Winter’s Nights The Lived Experience of an Unplanned Adviser: Michael Annicchiarico Cesarean Section Jeffrey Kirkland Advisers: Lynette Ament and Major: Chemistry Scott Thibodeau Carol Williams-Barnard The Enhancement of Ozone Chemistry in Major: Music Education a General Chemistry Curriculum Quintet I Adviser: Christopher Bauer Adviser: Andrew Boysen

36 • University of New Hampshire Wednesday 5/9

Whittemore School of Business and Economics Paul J. Holloway Business Plan Competition

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 8 am–2 pm Holloway Commons

The Paul J. Holloway Business Plan Competition is an integral part of the undergraduate experience at the Whittemore School. Students are re- quired to research and prepare busi- ness plans, which they present to a panel of industry leader judges. Prizes are awarded for the most feasible and fundable plans for starting, acquiring, or expanding a business venture. Information on participants will be available at this event.

2007 Undergraduate Research Conference • 37 Star-studded breakfast

Eight stars of student research 2007 Legislative Breakfast Presenters represented the University at the UNH Legislative Breakfast in Concord on Lisa Bedford ’06 Joseph McGuiness ’07 April 4. An annual spring event, the Gilmanton, N.H. Somersworth, N.H. breakfast brings the New Hampshire The Relationship Between Biological Quitting for Life: Group Smoking General Court together with some of Rhythms in Horseshoe Crabs Cessation UNH’s finest student researchers to discuss their work and findings. Jacob Borgeson ’08 Michelle Mitchell ’07 This year’s participants represented Gilford, N.H. Nashua, N.H. the diverse array of research underway Building a Better Bear Trap? Genetic Tag- In Search of the Yankee Farm Girls turned at UNH in all disciplines, from biology ging of Black Bears in Northern Mill Operatives New Hampshire and history, to nursing, earth science, and Abigail Noyce ’07 beyond. Michael Howley ’08 Newmarket, N.H. Many of these students are presenting Salem, N.H. Optical Illusions Based on Motion at this week’s Undergraduate Research Laurentide Ice Sheet Recession in Conference. Ask them about their experi- Southern New Hampshire David Palange ’07 ence in Concord. Londonderry, N.H. Lisa Landry ’07 Your Loving Sons: American Warfare Bow, N.H. Through the Eyes of New England The Experience of Childbirth in China: Soldiers A Direct Observational Study

2006 Legislative Breakfast

38 • University of New Hampshire URC 2006 Awards of Excellence

Last year, the UNH Undergraduate Sarah Grieve ’06 Matthew Reno ’06 Research Conference distributed more Nicole Young ’06 Regional Stagnation: The Undermodernization Cytokeratin 8/18 Intermediate Filaments and of Southern Spain than $23,000 in scholarships and their Role in Regression of the Bovine Corpus grants to student participants for their Jessica J. Santos ’06 Luteum. Senior Seminar Project: Internship at BAE award-winning work. The following Jasmine L. Harris Systems undergraduates received scholarship Shawn M. Laplante Mark Santos ’06 Awards of Excellence. Hannah R. Onoroski Film: Assimilation Transnasal Delivery of a GnRH Analog in Miniature Swine Nicholas Adams ’06 Kristin Harris ’06 Jenna Darling ’07 Satya Sardonicus ’07 Financing the Evolutionary Machine: Capitalist Circulating Concentration of Interleukin-18 The Effects of Norepinephrine and Dopamine in Ideology and Social Darwinism in Zola’s The Remediating Selective Attention Deficits Binding Protein in Obese and Non-obese, Ladies Paradise and Dreiser’s Sister Carrie Asthmatic and Non-asthmatic Women Magdalen Balz ’07 Courtney Hazleton ’06 Electronic Journal Writing: Communicative Alice Sheehan ’06 The Preservation of Tradition in an Increasingly CAFTA: An Intelligent Choice? Freedom for Adults with Brain Injury Globalized World Michael Simmons ’06 Lisa Bedford ’06 Andre Hoehl ’06 The Influence of Endogenous Circadian and Interactive Computer Demonstration of Integration and Cultural Tension in the German Geographic Information Systems Software Circatidal Clocks on Horseshoe Crab (Limulus Turkish Community polyphemus) Locomotion (ArcView) and NH’s GRANIT Database Mark Joseph ’06 Katie Smith ’06 Andrew Begley ’06 Can Kant Accommodate Supererogation? Disintegration: Ross Barnet, the Kennedys, A Nuclear Iran? and the Politics of Integration at Ole Miss Gina Lalli ’06 Nathan Smith ’06 Highlighting the Margins: Empowerment and When Do Terrorists Attack? Michael Borrelli ’06 Engagement I George Clark ’08 Courtney Strait ’06 Morgan O’Neill ’09 Gina Lalli ’06 Highlighting the Margins: Empowerment and Design and Testing of the Star Sensor for the Gender Attitudes Among Men and Women at Engagement II UNH Interstellar Boundary Explorer Mary Veronica Vandoloski ’06 Jeremy Bourgeois ’09 Kraig Lamper ’06 Verb Tense as a Predictor of Listener’s Reactions Brian Reed ’08 Fluxus as Fragmentation and Continuity to Autobiographical Narratives Cornucopia Food Basket Project Nora Larkin ’06 Andrew VanHoogenstyn ’06 Jessica Cawley ’06 Changing Ethnic Identities in Post-National The Effects of Intermittent Cold Water Swim Investigating the Ways the Irish Learn Music Germany: A Study of Turkish-German Stress on Navigational Learning and Memory Literature, Politics and Society Molly Cooper ’06 Kelly Vogel ’06 Bad Girls: Romantic Feminine Rebellion in Meghann McCluskey ’06 Reproductive Rights for Chinese Women Politics and Film: A Focus on Freedom Political Renaissance Drama Ashley Ward ’07 Scott Crawford ’06 Heather Moulton ’07 The Effects of Victim and Perpetrator Jonathan Oppelaar Using Site Occupancy to Assess Population Reputation on Physical Distance: Do Individual FFT Component Project Health of Hochstetter’s Frogs (Leiopelma Differences Matter? hochstetteri) in the Kokako Management Area Emily Demers ’06 Anna Weaver ’06 Female Monster: Eileen Wournos and the Jonathan Nguyen ’06 EPR Spectroscopy for the Forensic Analysis Transgressions of Public Sexuality Fracture Testing for the Evaluation of of Glass Self-healing Composites Emily Duynstee ’07 Kristen Woodruff ’06 Non-medical Use of Prescription Drugs on Catherine E. Overson ’06 Girls Gone Wild: Academic Culture and the College Campuses Perinatal Loss: Its Challenges to Nurses and Reinvigoration of the College Coed Educators Roger Eichorn ’06 Theories of Historical Knowledge Brenton Paolella ’06 Identifying Components of the Circadian Clock These awards were made possible by the gener- Roger Eichorn ’06 that may Entrain Germ-line Stem Cell Mitosis ous sponsorship of the following University Philosophy and Common Life: Skeptical Crisis in the Green Sea Urchin (Stronylocentrotus offices and departments: The Office of the Vice or Dogmatic Crisis? drobachiensis) President for Student and Academic Services, Sarah Eisenlord ’06 Stephan Pirnie ’06 the Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research, The Effects of Warming on Soil Microbial Evan Jordan ’06 the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, Metabolism Harnessing the power of an invasive species: and Space, the New Hampshire Space Grant Engineers without Borders creating a bioremediator out of purple Consortium, the College of Engineering and Engineers without Borders Project loosestrife Physical Sciences, the UNH Parents Associa- Michelle Giguere ’06 Sarah Raymond ’07 tion, the Environmental Research Group, and The Censorship has Sailed: Spanish Media Crime Deception and the Misleading of the the Center for International Education. and Democracy American Public

2007 Undergraduate Research Conference • 39 Committed to undergraduate research

Engagement in research: For those students who get involved, it’s the defining factor of a UNH undergraduate education. And it is exactly what you will see at this week’s URC. The conference How to get involved in undergraduate is an annual celebration of the remarkable research and learning research at UNH: between motivated undergraduates and active faculty researchers here at UNH. This student-faculty collaboration is the backbone of the UNH • talk to a favorite professor, faculty adviser, or research experience. It begins in the classroom with research- teaching assistant; intensive coursework, but exists everywhere across campus and • visit the UNH Hamel Center for Undergraduate beyond. Look around and you’ll find undergraduates in faculty Research, which sponsors student research projects labs, teaming up with their teachers to find solutions that benefit at home and abroad; society. You’ll see them in UNH’s many living labs such as the greenhouses, the farms, and the New England Center; or at one of • pay attention to department bulletin boards and more than 40 centers and institutes dedicated to studying a wide Web sites, which often post job openings in UNH range of issues, where undergraduates conduct research along- labs or departments where students can work on side experts in their fields. In UNH theatres, studios, and recital actual, ongoing research projects; halls, our creative arts students explore the intellectual processes behind their works. • take a research-intensive course, such as INCO 590 Nourishing these undergraduate-faculty relationships is “Student Research Experience.” UNH’s Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research, which gives students the opportunity to make research and creative explo- rations a more formal part of their academic experience. Each semester, dozens of students from varied academic disciplines apply for grants and fellowships from the center’s Undergradu- ate and International Research Opportunities Programs (UROP and IROP). The funds enable them to embark on collaborative research projects with faculty mentors, and to learn the key The students you will meet at URC ’07 are exploring police elements of any research project—from proposal and budget to corruption in Bangkok, studying the effects of flame retardants research and presentation of results to peers. Many of the students on obesity, developing wind turbines and biodiesel fuel, and com- presenting here this week conducted their research using UROP posing their own music. This direct participation in meaningful and IROP grants. research is one of the unique characteristics of a UNH education, The McNair Graduate Opportunity Program also fosters where students, together with faculty, push back the frontiers of student-faculty collaboration. A graduate school preparation knowledge. program, McNair includes an intensive research component. Stu- dents may design a research project, receive funds to implement the project, take a research methods course, participate in writing skills workshops, and have the opportunity to present their find- ings at the UNH McNair Program Summer Research Symposium, among other activities. In addition, the Research & Discover Program offers a series of two summer internships to eligible students—the first sum- mer at UNH, the second at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Research and Discover interns work alongside environmental scientists on the groundbreaking discoveries underway at the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, such as investigating the effects of human activities on the Earth, including the causes and effects of global climate change and deforestation; studying dynamic processes in the Earth, oceans, and atmosphere using remote sensing, GIS, computer models, and other state-of-the-art tools; and exploring chemical, physical, and biological oceanography.

40 • University of New Hampshire Inquiry journal of undergraduate research Links to research opportunities

The URC is but one means for students to share their findings. Centers and Institutes at UNH Some of the works you see here today might become the basis http://www.unh.edu/research/centers of a University Honors or master’s thesis; others may find their way to national conferences and professional meetings where Center for International Education UNH undergraduates present their work to future colleagues and www.unh.edu/cie peers; still others may appear in Inquiry, UNH’s online journal of undergraduate research. Published annually, Inquiry features Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research the research articles, briefs, and commentaries of undergradu- www.unh.edu/undergrad-research ates. The third volume, now online, features works on Slovakian communism and democracy, the Latin American tradition of McNair Graduate Opportunity Program Quinceañera, and the American toad. www.unh.edu/mcnair Last summer, using a grant from the UNH International Research Opportunities Program (IROP), senior Laura Louise Outreach and Research Opportunities Plummer spent nine weeks in Puerto Rico studying the custom of www.unh.edu/outreach/opportunities.html Quinceañera. Here’s an excerpt from her Inquiry article “Quince Años: The Transition to Womanhood in Puerto Rican Culture.” Research & Discover Summer Internship Program in Earth Sciences In some Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas, a girl’s www.eos.sr.unh.edu/ResearchAndDiscover/ fifteenth birthday, called the Quinceañera, is a sacred and time-honored rite of passage. The word “Quinceañera” is University Honors Program made up of the Spanish words for “fifteen” and “years,” and www.unh.edu/honors-program can refer to both the celebration and the woman turning 15. The Quinceañera has roots in ancient indigenous ceremonies as well as the European debutante ball, which was intro- duced during the Spanish colonization of Latin America in the 1500s. Every country (and indeed every individual girl) celebrates the Quinceañera uniquely. What remains constant across cultures, however, is that the Quinceañera is meant to represent a girl’s transition to womanhood.

Read more at www.unh.edu/inquiryjournal.

2007 Undergraduate Research Conference • 41 Reaping the benefits of research

Former student researcher brings UNH experience to career

Beth (Gagnon) Daly ’02 admits she’s ambitious. One need behavior for malaria in Tanzania, a project Daly, herself, created only glance at her curriculum vitae for proof. Three degrees, six and executed using a grant from UNH’s Hamel Center for Under- awards, five published reports, and a hefty dose of public service graduate Research, which funds student research projects. After commitments, memberships, and work experience. And she nine weeks in Dar es Salaam, she went on to report her research graduated only five years ago. findings at the National Undergraduate Research Conference in Daly is a communicable disease epidemiologist at New Washington, D.C., which she describes as “good exposure.” Hampshire’s Division of Public Health Services in Concord. She The experience helped Daly nail down her interests. “I was manages the investigation and surveillance of food-borne disease sending away for graduate school materials while in Tanzania,” outbreaks, such as salmonella. she says. Ultimately, Daly decided on Emory University’s master When the bagged spinach debacle broke last year, she tracked of public health program. There, she found herself ahead of her for cases in New Hampshire, conducting interviews with patients classmates. “Many had studied abroad, but none had conducted whose symptoms, as reported by their doctors, pointed to research abroad at the undergraduate level,” she says. “I was lucky food-borne illness. that UNH had a program for undergraduates. Most people don’t Although it was Daly’s strong interest in science that first have that opportunity until graduate school.” brought her toward disease investigation, she points out the socio- logical, psychological, behavioral health, biological, and economic factors in the public health realm. “What I like about working in this field is that it’s so multidisciplinary.” At UNH, Daly received both a B.S. in zoology and a B.A. in English. She first became interested in epidemiology while taking a class with Jeffrey Salloway, professor of health management and policy at UNH. She indulged that interest in Africa, studying community perceptions, control activities, and health-seeking

Elizabeth Gagnon Daly ’02 Epidemiologist, Acting Chief of Communicable Disease Surveillance Section N.H. Division of Public Health Services

42 • University of New Hampshire Acknowledgments

The UNH Undergraduate Research Conference has grown to Sheila McCurdy, Assistant Director, Center for International become a signature event at the University and an annual high- Education light of the spring semester. One of the largest and most diverse Jeffrey Melton, Research Assistant Professor, Department of conferences of its kind, bringing the URC to fruition each year is Civil Engineering the result of a collaborative, behind-the-scenes network of a great Cari Moorhead, Associate Dean, Graduate School many campus community members. Here, we acknowledge these Lori Nolan, Multimedia Web Services Manager, CIS folks and thank them for helping make URC ’07 happen. Sharyn Potter, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Douglas Prince, Manager, UNH Photographic Services Special thanks to: Dan Reagan, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Center for International Education UNH Manchester College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (CEPS) Mark Rubinstein, Vice President for Student and Academic College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Alumni Association Services College of Life Sciences and Agriculture Lisa Townson, Outreach Associate, Office of Outreach Scholar- Dave Zamansky, MUB Current Issues Lecture Series ship and Extension Specialist, UNH Cooperative Extension Elizabeth Parmalee ’07 (URC 2007 Evaluation Project) Ruth Varner, Research Assistant Professor, Climate Change Environmental Research Group Research Center Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research Cameron Wake, Faculty Fellow, Office of the VP for Research and Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space Research Associate Professor, Climate Change Research Center Memorial Union Building administrative staff Julie Williams, Associate Vice President, Outreach Scholarship New Hampshire Space Grant Consortium and Research Office of the Vice President for Research Office of the Vice President for Student and Academic Services 2007 URC Event Coordinators Phi Beta Kappa Mike Annicchiarico, Student Composers’ Concert The University Honors Program Janice Chadwick, Psychology George M. Haslerud URC University Hospitality Services Grant Cioffi, Seacoast Reads Exhibition UNH Marine Programs Lynne Cooper, Vice President’s University-wide Research UNH Media Relations (Erika Mantz) Symposium UNH Parents Association Jane Dufresne, Mary Louise Fernald Nursing Research UNH Photographic Services Symposium URC Interns Marie Grossiman ’10 and Megan Zerega ’10 Wayne Fagerburg, 16th Annual COLSA URC Web Solutions Marianne Fortescue, UNH Office of Community Service Partnerships 2007 Conference Planning Committee: Cynthia Giguere, Thompson School Undergraduate Student Eleanor Abrams, Director, Outreach Scholarship, VP for Research Showcase Sarah Aldag, Assistant Director, Editorial and Creative Services Elizabeth Hageman, Honors English Undergraduate Conference Martha Barker, Graphic Designer, Editorial and Creative Services Kate Hanson, Thompson School Community Leadership Program Tracey Bentley, Writer/Editor, Editorial and Creative Services David Kaye, The Naked Arts: Creativity Exposed! Janet Cass, Director, UNH Parents Association Jennifer Moses and Catherine Mazur, Senior B.A. and B.F.A. Lynne Cooper, Project Coordinator, Outreach Scholarship, Exhibition Preview Reception VP for Research Cynthia Nizzari-McClain, WSBE’s Paul J. Holloway Business Wayne Fagerburg, Associate Professor, Plant Biology, COLSA Plan Competition Lynnette Hentges, Manager of Program and Proposal Dan Reagan, UNH Manchester URC Development, Office of Sponsored Research Cindi Rohwer, Chemistry Department Poster Exhibition David Kaye, Associate Professor, Department of Lucy Salyer, History Department URC Theatre & Dance Ruth Varner, Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Diana Koski, Vice President and Director of Planned Giving, Symposium UNH Foundation Hannah Varn ’07, Philosophy URC Clara Kustra, Educational Program Coordinator, EOS Neil Vroman, School of Health and Human Services Grimes Ginger Lever, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, Award Competition UNH Manchester Peter Masucci, Adjunct Professor, Marketing and Management, Whittemore School of Business and Economics

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