Welcome to SUNY Geneseo’s Eleventh Annual GREAT Day! Geneseo Recognizing Excellence, Achievement & Talent Day is a college-wide symposium celebrating the creative and scholarly endeavors of our students. In addition to recognizing the achievements of our students, the purpose of GREAT Day is to help foster academic excellence, encourage professional development, and build connections within the community. http://www.geneseo.edu/great_day

What’s new this year?

Session 3 ROUND ROBIN This session will have three varied presentations in each room, with ample time to move from room to room between presentations. All sessions are in Welles and South Halls. Block 1 • 2:25 – 2:40 Block 2 • 2:50 – 3:05 Block 3 • 3:15 – 3:30

The Changing of the Posters GREAT Day has reached the point where all of the posters will no longer fit in the College Union. Thus, half the posters will now be displayed in the College Union Ballroom during Session 1, 11:15 am – 12:45 pm, with lunch and the other half during Session 2, 5:15 – 6:45 pm, with the reception.

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2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Table of Contents/Schedule

TABLE OF CONTENTS SCHEDULE

Schedule ...... 1 7:30 – 8:20 AM Opening Coffee Hour Honoring Milne 1st Floor 10 Year Supporters & 2016 Proceedings GREAT Day Honors ...... 2 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM GREAT Battle of the Artists Show Keynote Address ...... 3 CU Kinetic Gallery

Concurrent Presentations Quick View ...... 4 8:30 – 9:45 AM Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 Bailey, Doty, ISC, Milne, Newton, South, Sturges, Welles Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 ...... 5 9:55 – 11:10 AM Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 Bailey, Brodie, Doty, Gazebo, ISC, Newton, South, Sturges, Welles Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 ...... 13 11:00 AM Music at the Gazebo Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 ...... 23 8:30 – 11:10 AM Music Festival • Part 1 Concurrent Presentations • Session 4 ...... 30 College Union Hunt Room

Poster Abstracts • Session 1 ...... 39 11:15 – 12:45 AM Poster Presentation 1 College Union Ballroom Poster Abstracts • Session 2 ...... 58 12:00 PM Buffet Luncheon/Geneseo String Band Music Festival ...... 77 College Union Lobby Sponsor: Geneseo Student Association

Artwork Exhibits ...... 78 1:00 – 2:15 PM Keynote: Dr. Erich Jarvis The Jack ’76 and Carol ’76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship Special Presentations ...... 79 Wadsworth Auditorium

Insomnia Film Festival ...... 80 2:25 – 5:05 PM Music Festival • Part 2 College Union Hunt Room Index of Student Participants and 2:25 – 3:40 PM Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 Faculty/Staff Sponsors ...... 81 ROUND ROBIN Block 1 • 2:25 – 2:40 Poster Map ...... back cover South, Welles Block 2 • 2:50 – 3:05 Block 3 • 3:15 – 3:30 Cover design by Joanna Walters ’13 3:50 – 5:05 PM Concurrent Presentations • Session 4 Bailey, Brodie, College Union, Doty, ISC, South, Sturges, Welles

5:10 PM Geneseo Winter Guard College Union Plaza Sustainable GREAT Day 5:15 PM Hula Hoop Exhibition  Look for the Leaf College Union Lobby Sustainability at Geneseo has selected GREAT Day presentations which include topics that promote 5:15 – 6:45 PM Poster Presentations & Reception sustainability and are designated by. College Union Ballroom

6:00 PM GREAT Battle of the Artists Awards Recycle your Namebadge/Lanyard CU Kinetic Gallery If you would like to recycle your namebadge/lanyard you can leave it at the GREAT Day Check-In Desk in the 6:30 PM reception, 7:00 PM screenings College Union, give it to a GREAT Day Volunteer or Wadsworth Auditorium Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival drop it off at Erwin 202. The badge holders are also biodegradable. 7:00 PM GREAT Knight Quest Awards College Union Fireside Lounge

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2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual GREAT Day Honors

The GREAT Day Opening Coffee Hour 7:30 – 8:20 am, Milne Library Honoring

Ten Year Sponsors

GREAT Day would not be possible without the dedicated faculty who work with students throughout the year on the projects that are presented annually. As we observe the 11th Annual GREAT Day, we would like to acknowledge the following faculty who, as of this year, have served as faculty sponsor for 10 GREAT Days:

BIOLOGY COMMUNICATION POL SCI & INTERN RELATIONS Jennifer Apple Meredith Harrigan Jeremy Grace George Briggs Atsushi Tajima PSYCHOLOGY Harold Hoops ENGLISH James Allen Susan Muench Melanie Blood Monica Scheinder CHEMISTRY Joana Zook GEOGRAPHY Cristina Geiger Jim Kernan SCHOOL OF BUSINESS David Geiger Leonie Stone Eric Helms GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Dori Farthing David Johnson Scott Giorgis

MATHEMATICS Andrzej Kedzierawski

These Students and Their Faculty Mentors have been Published in the Proceedings of GREAT Day 2016:

PETER BENSON KAITLYN MORGAN TZE-KI HON, HISTORY MELANIE MEDEIROS, ANTHROPOLOGY THOMAS GARRITY TZE-KI HON, HISTORY KATHERINE ZASLAVSKY ATSUSHI TAJIMA, COMMUNICATION DILLON FEDERICI JENNY KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY NANA BOAKYE, ELIZABETH BOATENG, SEUNG KIM, JENNY TAYLOR POWERS SOUDACHANH, SKYLER SUSNICK, CHRISTINA AGOSTINELLI-FUCILE, LANGUAGES & LITERATURES & JAWAD TAZARI MARK BROOMFIELD, THEATRE & FELICIA RYAN DANCE STEVE DERNE, SOCIOLOGY

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2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Keynote Speaker

The Jack '76 and Carol '76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship KEYNOTE ADDRESS Wadsworth Auditorium • 1:00 – 2:15 PM

Introductions by President Denise Battles and Jack & Carol Kramer

Dr. Erich Jarvis – Dissecting the Molecular Mechanisms of Vocal Learning and Language: A Personal Journey About Dr. Jarvis, Professor, Rockefeller University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Erich Jarvis’ diverse academic path began while studying dance at the School of Performing Arts in New York City. Upon graduation, he had to choose between continuing his passion as a dancer and beginning his journey to become a scientist. He found that the discipline and creativity of his dance training were equally applicable to scientific study, leading him to choose science. Since then, Jarvis received his degrees in Biology and Mathematics from Hunter College and further pursued his Ph.D and postdoctoral work in Molecular Neurobiology and Animal Behavior at Rockefeller University. Jarvis has continued his scholarly adventure as an Associate Professor at Duke University, and now, through his current role as a Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Languages back at The Rockefeller University.

His lab studies how the brain controls complex behaviors, in which they focus on the molecular pathways involved in vocal learning in songbirds. Through an integrative approach, Jarvis collectively uses behavioral, anatomical, electrophysiological and molecular biological techniques to study the molecular pathways involved in the perception and production of learned vocalizations. Through his research, he hopes to advance the understanding of the neural mechanisms for vocal learning and basic mechanisms of brain function. Along with his extensive research and over 100 scientific publications, he has been the recipient of a number of significant honors such as his recent recognition in 2015 with the American Society for Cell Biology Ernest Everett Just Award, highlighting his impact on diversity in science.

Erich Jarvis’ journey has allowed him to engage in a variety of professional endeavors. For example, through the Science Outreach Program of New York, Jarvis provided laboratory research experience to inner-city students of underrepresented backgrounds. Additionally, he has served in multiple societies and committees such as the National Advisory Mental Health Council and was a founding member of the Black Collective at Duke University in 2001. Furthermore, Jarvis has been featured for his remarkable achievements when he was listed as one of ten most trailblazing scientists in Mental Floss magazine in 2007 and was named one of 50 most powerful men and women of Duke University in 2009.

There will be a reception for Dr. Jarvis in conjunction with the poster session in the College Union Ballroom at 5:15 pm.

All are welcome.

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2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Concurrent Sessions Quick View Guide

CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS DEPARTMENT/ROOM QUICK VIEW GUIDE

SESSION 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM SESSION 3 ROUND ROBIN • 2:25 – 3:40 PM PAGES 5 TO 13 PAGES 24 TO 31

A BUSINESS SOUTH 338 Block 1 • 2:25 – 2:40 B ANTHROPOLOGY BAILEY 104 Block 2 • 2:50 – 3:05 C MATHEMATICS SOUTH 340 Block 3 • 3:15 – 3:30 D BIOLOGY ISC 115

E ENGLISH WELLES 138 A GEOL SCI, BIOLOGY, ART HISTORY WELLES 121 F CHEMISTRY ISC 131 B BIOLOGY, LANG & LIT, PSYCHOLOGY WELLES 123 G THEATRE & DANCE DOTY RECITAL HALL C COMMUNICATION, GEOGRAPHY, CIDD WELLES 115 H EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 1 BAILEY 102 D POLI SCI & INT REL, BIOLOGY, ENGLISH WELLES 134 I EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 2 BAILEY 103 E ANTHROPOLOGY, ENGLISH, BUSINESS WELLES 119 J EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 3 BAILEY 202 F GEOGRAPHY, MATHEMATICS, PSIR WELLES 128 K EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 4 BAILEY 203 G LANG & LIT, COMM, CHEMISTRY WELLES 131 L ENGLISH BAILEY 101 H BIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ENGLISH WELLES 132 M ENGLISH WELLES 119 I POLI SCI & INT REL, GEOGRAPHY, WELLES 133 N GEOGRAPHY BAILEY 201 BIOLOGY O ENGLISH WELLES 128 J COMMUNICATION, MATH, PHYSICS & SOUTH 338 P POLI SCI & INT REL MILNE 105 ASTRONOMY Q HISTORY STURGES 108 K BIOLOGY, HISTORY & CIDD, ENGLISH SOUTH 340 R ENGLISH WELLES 115 L MATH, CIDD, POLI SCI & INT REL WELLES 138 S POLI SCI & INT REL WELLES 121 M CIDD, ENGLISH WELLES 140 T POLI SCI & INT REL WELLES 123 N SUSTAINABILTY, CIDD, BIOLOGY SOUTH 328 U HISTORY STURGES 109 O ANTHRO, PHYSICS & AST, ENGLISH WELLES 24 V SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 204 P MUSIC, ANTHROPOLOGY WELLES 26 W LANGUAGES & LITERATURES BAILEY 105 X MATHEMATICS SOUTH 328 Y EDUCATION NEWTON 204 Z ENGLISH WELLES 24

SESSION 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM SESSION 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM PAGES 13 TO 23 PAGES 31 TO 40

A HISTORY & CIDD BAILEY 204 A ANTHROPOLOGY BAILEY 103 B BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS ISC 131 B BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS ISC 131 C SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 104 C ENGLISH WELLES 111 D BUSINESS SOUTH 340 D ENGLISH WELLES 119 E BUSINESS SOUTH 338 E HISTORY STURGES 106 F EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 5 BAILEY 102 F ENGLISH BAILEY 105 G EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 6 BAILEY 103 G SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 104 H EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 7 BAILEY 202 H POLI SCI & INT REL WELLES 121 I EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 8 BAILEY 203 I GOLD MCU 114 J LANGUAGES & LITERATURES ALICE AUSTIN THEATER J HISTORY STURGES 109 K ENGLISH BAILEY 101 K HISTORY STURGES 108 L ENGLISH GAZEBO L MATHEMATICS SOUTH 340 M ENGLISH WELLES 128 M MUSIC DOTY RECITAL HALL N GEOGRAPHY BAILEY 201 N ENGLISH WELLES 123 O GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES ISC 115 O ENGLISH WELLES 138 P ENGLISH WELLES 134 P SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 203 Q POLI SCI & INT REL WELLES 121 Q SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 247 R HISTORY STURGES 109 R SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 202 S HISTORY STURGES 108 S EDUCATION BAILEY 102 T LANGUAGES & LITERATURES BAILEY 105 T THEATRE & DANCE BRODIE 154 U THEATRE & DANCE DOTY RECITAL HALL U THEATRE & DANCE ALICE AUSTIN THEATER V EDUCATION NEWTON 204 V POLI SCI & INT REL WELLES 24 W THEATRE & DANCE WELLES 138 W MATHEMATICS SOUTH 328 X MATHEMATICS SOUTH 328 X MATHEMATICS SOUTH 338 Y ENGLISH WELLES 119 Y BUSINESS DOTY TOWER ROOM Z ENGLISH WELLES 140 Z POLI SCI & INT REL WELLES 26 AA ENGLISH WELLES 24 AA WOMEN & GENDER STUDIES WELLES 140

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2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM

CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS 1 • 8:30 - 9:45AM

1A • BUSINESS SOUTH 338 has also reinvigorated the discussion on past and many relationships, including her fifteen-year present migration policies and reactions of affair with Voltaire. However, her contributions to Alternative Facts: Economic Truths different U.S administrations, which have been various scientific and philosophical fields are often and Myths in the Trump Era deemed ambiguous at best. Political turmoil in downplayed when discussing her life. In this talk, I FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: LEONIE particular and globalization in general are two of will be highlighting the mathematical work STONE, BUSINESS the numerous factors contributing to this Châtelet did while alive. I also hope to discuss why ______increased movement/displacement of human Châtelet spent her days academically in a time SARAH COMERFORD, AMMAN WEAVER, beings across national boundaries. This when French women were expected to take care of ALEXANDRA BASILE, BEN SWISHER, BRENDAN presentation will explore factors that act as the house and be a socialite. MAHONEY, CONOR KIRBY, EMILY DELSIGNORE, facilitators as well as obstacles to this EMILY HURLBUTT, EMMA HOLTZMAN, phenomenon. On a micro level, new environments 1D • BIOLOGY ISC 115 FRANCESCO CUPELLI, GRAHAM HARRISON, often mean migrants have to navigate shifting FACULTY SPONSOR: HAROLD HOOPS, BIOLOGY JAMES ANANIA, MICHAEL SLATTERY, PAUL identities while also maintaining identity aspects of FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: CUMONE, RAFAEL ZIOTTO, SHIXING FAN, SYDNEY their home country. As such, this presentation will HRISTINA NEDELKOVKSA, BIOLOGY LEVINE, THOMAS BROCK, WILSON TAN likewise focus on transnationalism and other ______The Fed Challenge team discusses the state of the creative ways that migrants are using to capitalize The Use of Saccharomyces economy, 2017, with attention to many of the on their experiences and new surroundings. current economic debates: immigration and cerevisiae as a Model for the Study globalization, financial deregulation/tax 1C • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 340 of Prostate Cancer: A Novel cuts/infrastructure spending, long term growth Mechanism for the Nuclear and productivity, free college tuition/health Applications of Mathematics care/meaningful employment, as well as other FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JEFF Localization and Activation of the issues, and, as always, Fed policy! JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS ______Androgen and Glucocorticoid

1B • ANTHROPOLOGY BAILEY 104 Who's the Real Number 1? Receptors BEN REINER ARIEL YUSUPOV Anthropologists Perspectives on In NCAA football and basketball the ranking system Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the most Contemporary Social Issues has become something of a controversy; the important eukaryotic model organisms in SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, ranking have been shown to have inherent flaws. molecular and cell biology. Its short generation ANTHROPOLOGY In this talk I will be discussing an alternative to this time, ease of transformation of new or deletion of ______system, namely the Colley ranking system. We will existing genes, and the full functionality of human Understanding Diversity review the mathematics behind the Colley system tumor suppressor genes, protein kinases, steroid STELLA ODURO as well as looking at how it differs from the current receptors, transcription factors, and many FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, system. Lastly we will look at the two compared to metazoan proteins make it the ideal model for the ANTHROPOLOGY each other and the advantages and disadvantages study of the androgen (AR) and glucocorticoid (GR) As a result of segregated school environments, of both in order to determine who is the real receptors. Sxm1 is a yeast protein most largely due to differences in socioeconomics, number one. homologous to human Importin 7, which has until college may be the first place where some students ______now been thought to inhibit the nuclear learn to work with people from different races and If You Are Sick, Stay Away from Me localization of the androgen receptor. Using ethnicities (Park, 2014). Interracial friendships not MICHELLE EAMES ΔSxm1, wild type (W303), and Sxm1 only help to develop the racial climate of a campus, Have you ever wondered "What are the chances I overexpressing yeast, transformed with AR-HRE- but also helps students develop positive learning, will get sick while at school?" Influenza spreads LacZ and GR-HRE-LacZ plasmid constructs, our increases critical thinking, and enhances college based on the number of social contacts people yeast model has shown that not only is Sxm1 experiences (Tanaka, 2003). Students do not have during the week. Through the use of required for the nuclear localization of the AR and benefit if homophily forms; homophily is the differential equations, mathematicians create an GR, but also DHT has opposite effects on the two "tendency of like to attract like" (McPherson et al., epidemiological model to predict the spread of a receptors. Possibly a regulating mechanism, DHT 2001: Park, 2014). Homophily can occur if students virus. These equations can be used to predict an induces AR and inhibits GR activity. A yCPGal1- lack precollege experience of interacting with epidemic or test the effectiveness of a vaccine. Importin 7 plasmid was constructed through PCR students of other ethnicities and races or if the ______cloning of Importin 7 into a Gal1 vector (pS310) and college's racial climate does not encourage Can You Check that Digit? transformed into ΔSxm1 yeast containing the students to interact with others from different ASHLEY HERNANDEZ AR/GR reporter plasmids. Betagalactosidase assay racial groups. In this presentation, I will present Have you ever looked at a barcode and wondered has shown that Importin 7 reconstitutes androgen data on whether homogeneity on the Geneseo where those numbers come from and why they are and glucocorticoid receptor activity in ΔSxm1 yeast campus is influenced by racial climate and/or important? In this talk, I will speak about and is required for their activation and nuclear homophily in student's precollege experience. identification numbers and how they are related to localization.

______mathematics. I will be speaking specifically about Former Refugees' Perspectives on the identification numbers found on library books 1E • ENGLISH WELLES 138 Current Issues of Migration & and on grocery items. This talk will be centered on Black British Writing check digit schemes used to find check digits on FACULTY SPONSOR: MARIA LIMA, ENGLISH Refugee Displacement such items. I will also speak about how we can SESSION CHAIR: ELIZABETH MESSANA NATHALIE KALUMBWE, MAMTA SHARMA make sure the identification numbers are correct ______FACULTY SPONSOR: GWENDOLYN FAULKNER, and how we can identify errors made. The Deformation of an English Rose ANTHROPOLOGY ______DANIELA CREGAN The recent refugee crisis has reignited various A Socialite, a Lover, and a Andrea Levy's short story, "Deborah," showcases debates and conversations on migration dynamics how the abuse of a young girl causes her descent of both countries of origin and destination. Mathematician in the 1700s SAMANTHA SEARS into violence. Through the narrative voice of Fern, Whether voluntary or involuntary, the various her young black friend, Deborah is portrayed as responses to migration of the international Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet-Lomont is most commonly known as having the potential to become an English Rose. community has raised issues about global However, the abuse and neglect she suffers make responsibilities and refugees'/migrants' rights. This Émilie du Châtelet. She is also more known for her  Promotes sustainability 5 Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual her instead a vulgar and dirty child who subjects Synthesis of Stercobilin: A Potential FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JONETTE Kenny, their younger playmate, to horrible LANCOS, THEATRE & DANCE violence. The story works to expose how flawed Biomarker for Autism ______conventional expectations of whiteness and white JORDAN COFFEY I Found families are, ultimately questioning Englishness as FACULTY SPONSOR: AMBER CHARLEBOIS, TERESA BECKMAN a white-only club. CHEMISTRY This piece is about falling in love and the heartache ______Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a condition that associated with the experience. The message Fantasy Is the New Reality is currently only diagnosed by psychological tests applies whether it's falling in love with someone MARLO SESKIN and observations or by parental assessment. To who is not good for you or simply falling in love at In Leone Ross' "Covenant," the protagonist, Sarah date, there is no quantitative method to diagnose the wrong time. The movement is meant to reflect refuses to conform to traditional feminine autism. Dr. Troy Wood (SUNY Buffalo) has the bittersweet longing associated with memories expectations, despite efforts by both father and preliminary results that indicate children with of past relationships. Selected for presentation at husband. Having a child and migrating to England autism have a lower concentration of urinary 2016 American College Dance Association do not improve her situation, as her story stercobilin (a bile pigment synthesized in the small Conference, Brockport, NY. highlights the distinction between fantasy and and large intestines). In collaboration with the ______reality, a life of pain and discomfort ultimately Wood group we have synthesized an internal Give/Take standard to quantify the stercobilin in a patient's providing the foundation for her trust in the BRYNN DAVIE urine. We have established and optimized a two- Covenant, a cult of sorts. As Sarah tells the Although it is important to be selfless and give to step method for synthesizing stercobilin from Covenant interviewer, inflicting pain on others those around you, it is imperative to take care of bilirubin that has deuterium (heavy hydrogen) becomes her normal. Readers will have to decide yourself at the same time. It is necessary to ask for incorporated. This synthetic isotopmer of at the end whether the murder of her son is help sometimes; to lean on others in your own time stercobilin has been analyzed using carbon and justified to satisfy a dream deferred as long as hers. of need; to reach out when you feel like you can't proton Infrared Spectroscopy (IR), Nuclear ______go through something alone anymore. Give/Take Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Mass Mrs. Mason's Makeover depicts various emotions experienced by an Spectrometry (MS). Analysis shows complete HEATHER LUBEY individual and a group as they attempt to not only incorporation of deuterium with an increased mass Sheila Auguste's "Mrs Mason's Monologue" offers give, but also accept care, love, and of 13 amu. Selected for presentation at ACS a first-person narrative of the protagonist's support."Accepting help is its own kind of National Conference, Washington, DC. married life, which is strictly structured by ______strength." - Kiera Cass "One of the most important patriarchal norms. It is not until she finds herself things you can do on this earth is to let people belittling other women for their physical Chain Link Dependence on Non- know they are not alone." - Shannon Alder appearance that Mrs. Mason suddenly sees herself Steroidal Biphenyl Gelators ______in these unnoticed women, recognizing how much WILLIAM ROBERTS Vita Incerta she has internalized such misogynistic lens. Upon FACULTY SPONSOR: CRISTINA GEIGER, CHEMISTRY LAURA DOLAN this recognition, Mrs. Mason makes a vow to A series of biphenyl methyl and ethyl diester As we go through life we often have a plan of change her position in the world and stop derivatives of varying chain length were where we think we want to go, what we want to accepting her husband's affairs. It is her daughter synthesized and their gelation abilities and do, and who we want to be. It is often hard to let (appropriately called Angel) who takes her for a properties were compared to similar biphenyl go of these plans as we grow and change. It is physical makeover to match her internal changes. cholesterol diesters previously reported. 4,4'- bis-(5- important to let yourself embrace who you are and Mrs. Mason finally achieves validation and learns methyloxycarbonylpentyloxy)biphenyl (BBO6-Me) where your life is leading you in order to be truly to love herself, leaving her husband, she is finally produced a weak gel in octanol and no gel was happy. "I may not have gone where I intended to ready for the next stage in her life. obtained when 4,4'-bis- (5- go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to ______ethyloxycarbonylpentyloxy)biphenyl (BBO6-Et) was be." -Douglas Adams Critical Essay: Emphasis on 'the tested in several organic solvents. X-ray diffraction of Polite' single crystals grown from slow evaporation of BBO6- 1H • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 1 Me and BBO6-Et in octanol provides insight into the DANIELLE KAHN BAILEY 102 difference in their gelation ability. Stronger and more This paper explores the protagonist Blossom's use SESSION CHAIR: DAVID LEVY, PHILOSOPHY & stable gels were obtained from the longer alkyl chain of self-assurance as a coping mechanism during her EDGAR FELLOWS gelators 4,4'-bis-(7-methyloxycarbonylheptyloxy) journey to England from the Caribbean. ______biphenyl (BBO8-Me),4,4'-bis-(7- Throughout "The Polite Way that British People ethyloxycarbonylhepthtyloxy)biphenyl (BBO8-Et), Veganomics: Reducing Meat Have" from Six Stories and an Essay by Andrea 4,4'-bis-(9-methyloxycarbonylnonyloxy)biphenyl Consumption Through Public Levy, Blossom constantly asserts her minimal (BBO10-Me) and 4,4'-bis-(9- knowledge of English culture as a reason why she Policy ethyloxycarbonylnonyloxy)biphenyl (BBO10-Et). should ameliorate from Caribbean lifestyle, but ERIK MEBUST Methyl ester gelators in general produced better gels unfortunately falls short as the English people in FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRIS ANNALA, BUSINESS than the corresponding ethyl ester gelators. SEM was Jamaica and on the boat see through her façade Few tenets of the current environmental used for the investigation of the morphology of the and take advantage of her. This is exemplified movement garner devotion as fervent as that xerogels. BBO6-Me xerogel displayed platelet-like through Blossom's fixation on hot and cold professed by proponents of veganism. Yet, aggregates and the longer alkyl chain xerogels showed climates, and the use of a coat to protect her from devotion alone cannot ameliorate the serious more typical entangled twisted ribbon-like the coldness. I assert through this paper that environmental threat that veganism aims to aggregates. All gels formed exhibited chirality as Blossom is in fact aware of her shortcomings, address: bringing the United States to sustainable observed by induced circular dichroism (ICD) illustrated by her attack of Petal, another Jamaican levels of animal product consumption will require spectroscopy. On the basis of XRD data and molecular woman on the boat. When Blossom finally arrives structural changes to the systems that produce our modeling, we propose a packing mode for the in England, her coping mechanism finally breaks food and the environments in which we consume formation of the organogelator aggregates. Selected when she learns that the coat she bought isn't a it. In pursuit of these changes, this project explores for presentation at Undergraduate Research "fine coat" like she thought, and that the politeness the role of price mechanisms, government Symposium, Rochester, NY. nudging, and information campaigns in reducing the English people have used with her is actually manipulative rather than kind. the consumption of animal products. On the 1G • THEATRE & DANCE surface, price mechanisms including taxes and the 1F • CHEMISTRY ISC 131 DOTY RECITAL HALL elimination of relevant subsidies seem to hold the SESSION CHAIR: AMBER CHARLEBOIS, CHEMISTRY Dance Composition: Choreographic most promise of a behavioral shift. Lowering meat ______consumption in the long-term, however, requires Projects permanent changes in attitudes, and information 6  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM campaigns will play an important role in Logistics after the 2015 Nepal FACULTY SPONSOR: LISA MEYER, EDGAR FELLOWS accomplishing this objective. The aim of the Although embodiment and physical experience policies presented here is not to eliminate the Earthquake MOVED TO SESSION 2I have historically been excluded from the discipline practice of meat consumption completely, but to STEPHANIE ALLEN of sociology, there has been a push in recent years prompt consumers to substitute meat with plant- FACULTY SPONSOR: CAROLINE HADDAD, to recognize the body as a sociological based alternatives until a sustainable level of MATHEMATICS phenomenon worthy of study. In my presentation, consumption is reached. Though there is strong Disaster relief distribution can be optimized across I will be discussing the various theoretical evidence of likely health and ethical benefits from a variety of objectives such as time, coverage, and approaches to the body within sociology. In such a shift, this argument is presented in terms of the fulfillment of demand. Regardless of the addition to giving a brief overview of the history of eliminating externalized costs on the environment. objective, operations research models can enable the sociology of the body, I plan to focus on ______users to find more efficient ways of distributing theories which conceptualize the body as a Scrapable Insights: How Twitter supplies to affected areas. After the 2015 Nepal mechanism through which social institutions exert Earthquake, the Himalayan Disaster Relief Can Inform on Kenyan Electrical control on individuals. I will then connect the Volunteer Group (HDRVG) distributed supplies to sociological perspective on the body with Grid Growth and Development affected areas and, during this distribution, the theoretical work on embodiment in the performing SHAYNE O'BRIEN organization kept detailed records of their missions arts to form an interdisciplinary understanding of FACULTY SPONSOR: CHI-MING TANG, and made the information public. In this project, the role of the body in society and performance. I MATHEMATICS we model the organization's delivery of supplies to also plan to include examples of how While reports have shown that Kenyan electrical areas as a vehicle routing problem (VRP) - whereby choreographers have explored these social issues connectivity rates have increased significantly over we seek to find the quickest way of routing the of embodiment through dance, with reference to the past few years, there is little known about how delivery vehicles to the locations the organization my own choreographic work exploring the idea of the electric grid and its reliability have changed identified. The VRP has an extensive literature institutional control over bodies. over time. In this study, the research team utilizes regarding possible modeling and solution a Twitter API to scrape tweets from the national techniques. We focus on a two-stage method 1J • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 3 which first allocates locations to vehicles via an electric company Kenya Power and Lighting BAILEY 202 Company (KPLC). Using machine learning integer program and then routes the vehicles according to a specific algorithm. In the routing SESSION CHAIR: MICHAEL MASCI, MUSIC algorithms and techniques rooted in time series ______analysis and inferential statistics, scraped tweets stage, we explore multiple metaheuristics to find are given a binary classification as to whether or the one which minimizes the distance traveled by A Night at the Movies: An Analysis not they are power outage related. Outage related the vehicles. We will present the results of this of Film Music results are visualized and analyzed in an effort to two-stage method for each of the 26 days during JOHN COACCI determine how the Kenyan electrical grid has which HDRVG distributed supplies and will discuss FACULTY SPONSORS: BROOKE MCCORKLE, changed between 2013 and 2017, as well as gain the sensitivity of the model. Selected for MICHAEL MASCI MUSIC insight into what can be learned via the public presentation at State University of New York What has become so captivating about the customer service communication medium. Undergraduate Research Conference, Fredonia, movies? Why are we so attracted to the action and ______NY. the drama? What drives us to the movie theater Energy Storage for a Sustainable every time a new trailer airs? Often, we forget that ______Future it's not always what we see, but also what we hear. Nonbinary Gender in Public Film music is becoming increasing popular, but its CARA GANNETT power lies in its manipulative capabilities. Music FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS Relations has the power to alter our perception of visual & ASTRONOMY JADE BROWN cues, but that often goes unnoticed to the viewers. Two photo voltaic solar panels and a wind turbine FACULTY SPONSOR: ATSUSHI TAJIMA, This presentation will focus on the manipulative have been successfully installed on the eGarden COMMUNICATION power of music in film. We will discuss musical site to produce energy to run any number of The perception of gender as a spectrum rather techniques and styles that composers use, as well electrical devices on site. However, these than a binary opens opportunities for gender as form and structure. Through this analysis of film technologies only produce energy under certain identity and expression. It can help some people to realize that they are nonbinary by informing them music, we can see its true power and influence. circumstances, making energy storage a necessity ______to ensure energy when it is needed. For this of the genders other than male or female, and it reason, a variety of storage systems will be studied can also help men and women to think about Contextualizing Contemporary at the eGarden during the next few years to themselves as on a spectrum as well, and broaden Chicana Art determine the most efficient means of storage. their idea of their genders. People look to the KIAYA ROSE DILSNER-LOPEZ Currently, the solar panel energy is being stored in media to reflect and inform them about society, FACULTY SPONSOR: LYNETTE BOSCH- a bank of four 12 volt deep cycle batteries placed and so a high-profile celebrity openly speaking BURROUGHS, ART HISTORY in series. Although batteries have shown to be about nonbinary gender identities could facilitate From comics to street art, Chicana artists have effective storage devices, they are energetically these processes. The purpose of my capstone is to responded creatively and politically to cultural costly to produce and may not have an effective help prepare me for a career in music public straddling between Mexican and U.S. identities. energy return in their lifetime. In this talk, I plan to relations, in which I hope to eventually specialize in Alongside contemporary U.S. immigration policy, address different forms of energy storage, LGBT+ clients. Fall semester entailed research, the contextualization of Chicana art recognizes specifically lead acid batteries and hydrogen gas including reading academic sources and how perceptions of the Mexico-U.S. border energy storage, as well as the importance of energy conducting focus groups, one-on-one interviews, influence Mexican-American art and culture. While storage in developing a more sustainable and a survey with people in and around the Donald Trump's presidency illuminates anti- community. nonbinary community, and concluding with the immigration sentiment, U.S. perspectives of creation of a hypothetical" client;" a musician Mexican-Americans contain a history of creating 1I • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 2 about to come out as nonbinary and who has hired and enforcing boundaries that limit access to a BAILEY 103 me to help field the process and to best utilize their recognized personhood. This presentation intends platform for trans/nonbinary advocacy. Spring SESSION CHAIR: LISA MEYER, SOCIOLOGY & to expose the continuous work of Chicana artists in semester entails the implementation of this EDGAR FELLOWS their work to deconstruct and challenge systems of ______research through a strategic plan that I would oppression through the creative and social work of propose to my "client." art. 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Old Faces, New Perspectives: The professional opportunities ahead. Geneseo and exploring poetic source as internally conflicting students can learn about the technical and and also as an archive which cannot be overly Role of Studio Art in a Liberal Arts personal aspects of careers in marketing, tampered with. I will also be using footage of Bowie Education consulting, public relations, civil litigation, and to emphasize his role as a sexual idol and gender- MAYA LUCYSHYN more. In this portfolio of transcribed interviews, fluid performer. This is part of the Guided Source FACULTY SPONSOR: LYNETTE BOSCH- Geneseo alumni and other professionals bring to Tour group for Dr. Smith's poetry workshop. BURROUGHS, ART HISTORY light the day-to-day tasks, challenges, and rewards ______Among liberal arts colleges, why are studio arts involved in each of their fields; they also share their Grace's Museum of Source classes and majors so underfunded and under- backgrounds, interests, priorities, and insights. GRACE GILBERT appreciated? I explore this phenomenon, as well as Ultimately, understanding the responsibilities and In forming a tour of my own sources of poetry, I the now-hidden artistic talent of my college motives of these professionals can help Geneseo thought about seeing life as a collection. Poetry is campus, through a project that is part research, students take an intelligent and active role in a collection of my life experiences intermingled part visual exhibition. The exhibition, "Old Faces: planning their futures. with artifacts and found language that have New Perspectives," is curated using artwork that ______infused and directed the poems. In brainstorming students created in their free time, instead of in a Uncovering Trends in Campus Food how to guide others through the incorporation of structured artistic environment. More than half of Purchasing using Data Mining source into my craft, I immediately went to the featured artists were women, and Native thought of crafting a mind museum. This would American, Asian, Hispanic, LGBTQ+, and Jewish Techniques and Correlation involve an empty room with enough wall space and students were represented in the gallery space. Analysis table space to create "exhibits" that show the The themes exhibited in the show--belonging, CAMRYN LIEB sources I regularly turn to (books, found language identity, cultural divisions--reflect the lessons that FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, on cereal boxes, butterfly paraphernalia, etc.) I liberal art students experience in a traditional class BIOLOGY would be playing music that acts as source, and I setting. In my presentation, I will explore the Campus Auxilary Services (CAS) is a not-for-profit would simply let the audience wander around the history and reasoning behind the devaluing of company that serves the SUNY Geneseo museum, poke around the exhibits, and read the studio arts in a liberal arts education. I will also community in a number of ways, and is perhaps poetry that has spawned from source. As a real explore its benefits in educating about different most well known for their dining program. Nine museum-type simulation, and fitting for my cultures and perspectives in an approachable way, different vendors on campus provide varied dining personality, people would be guided by the as well as its usefulness in the mental health and options for students, faculty, and visitors alike. exhibits and their descriptions, able to look around personal growth of students. Finally, I will draw Every day CAS amasses data on thousands of at their leisure and explore the room in whatever examples from the exhibit I curated, "Old Faces: transactions. Data from the 2015-2016 schoolyear way they deem best, without me having to talk New Perspectives," and analyze its worth to its were analyzed using a few specific techniques. A them through it. It is a quiet but powerful way to artists and attendees, and particularly the value of prominent contemporary data analysis technique display my sources and poetry to the general its diverse representation when compared to the is market basket analysis, which is a data mining public, and to show poetry as a collection. traditional art museum. tool that analyzes individual baskets that consumers buy and identifies frequently bought 1M • ENGLISH WELLES 119 1K • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 4 itemsets. Market basket analysis was performed Gaps and Flaws in the Human Soul, for the following six campus vendors: Starbucks, BAILEY 203 From Medea to Trump SESSION CHAIR: SHUO CHEN, BUSINESS Southside Café, Mary Jemison, Letchworth, Fusion ______Market, and Books and Bytes. Frequently bought FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: The Effect of a Flat Tax on the itemsets were identified for each vendor for both GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH the Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 semesters. ______American Tax System Correlation analysis of popular items and seasonal Gender Disparity and Sexual SARA NILES weather patterns was performed. Moving forward, Assault in Ancient Greece and FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHELLE STAEBELL, we hope that the results of these analyses can help BUSINESS CAS optimize the selling of their frequently Modern American Politics Although taxes seem an ingrained aspect of purchased items and minimize food waste. JESSICA PICONE American society, the current income tax was not A comparative analysis of two texts and their established until 1913 with the ratification of the 1L • ENGLISH BAILEY 101 relevance to representation of women in todays sixteenth amendment. Since then, many attempts politics. The two text are Euripides' play Medea, have been made to improve the system, and one Guided Poetry Source Tours 1 and the second is "Why Sexual Assault Persists in type of recurring proposal is that of a flat tax. This FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: LYTTON Politics" by Sheryl Stolberg. Medea was written project evaluates the tax system based upon three SMITH, ENGLISH during the Greek's Classical Era and is considered criteria: simplicity, equity, and efficiency. It ______one of the earliest texts alluding to feminism in compares the current tax system with two flat tax Where is Lori Maddox?: A Tour of Athens at the time. Despite the amount of time proposals. The first is the Hall-Rabushka proposal, Poetic Source between the two texts, many of the actions were which was originally published in 1983 and brought GABRIELLA GARCIA justified by the attitudes (both implicit and explicit) attention to the idea of a flat tax system for On November 3, 2015 Thrillist Entertainment of Jason and the other members of the play. America. The second is H.R. 1040, which is released an interview with Lori Maddox titled "I Stolberg's article specifically outlines some key currently waiting to be brought before the Lost My Virginity to David Bowie," in which behavior and attitudes in American Politics that Committee on Ways and Means. By comparing Maddox reveals that at fifteen-years-old she had both insinuate an uncomfortable environment for these systems to the current system in three areas: sex with David Bowie and her friend who was women and have the potential to deter women effect on average rate of taxes paid by taxpayers, fourteen. In my presentation, I am going to guide from politics. This essay draws parallels between effect on compliance costs, and effect on revenue, audience members through an interpretation of the texts to demonstrate the progression of this paper attempts to find answers to which type my experience learning that my beloved idol who Classical Era Grecians and outline the gender of system is better based upon the established shaved space for gender queer people was a disparity in politics currently. ______criteria. pedophile. As a poet, I have used this negative ______experience to create poetry, but it has not been What Dante Would Have to Say to Career Exploration Project easy as Maddox retells the story as a positive Donald Trump: Examining Trump's MARIELLE BURNETT experience and I feel preserving her agency as a Politics in the Context of Dante's FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT BOYD, BUSINESS woman is also crucial. Since I have found that no The Career Exploration Project is designed to one really talks about this after Bowie's death, I will Inferno inform and remind students of the range of be presenting the interview over Bowie's music EVA PELLEGRINO 8  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM

This paper compares Donald Trump's changing otherwise. This study has used statistics available Systems and their Categorization of policies and political tactics to characters in Dante's on Stats-Japan.com, correlations and regressions Inferno that were punished for similar run in SPSS, and a literature review regarding the the Disabled inconsistencies. In the paper, I reference a news work-place and traditional suicide culture of Japan MARISSA BELLUSCI article written in the New York Times that discusses to identify surprising trends in suicide across the Language is a system that operates according to many of Donald Trump's policies that he has country's 47 prefectures. It has been found that formalized rules, which the linguistically impaired changed since he has been elected, which I used as Japanese suicide more often occurs amongst the do not always follow. In his postmodern novel, The the basis for my argument that his views are elderly in rural settings rather than the middle- Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien questions a system constantly changing. In this essay, I assert that aged in urban settings. of language where the disabled are excluded and because Dante punished many of his sinners for ______consequently categorized as the "other"-- similar wrongdoings, he would be extremely The Impact of Interstate 70 on the something that deviates from the norm. O'Brien deconstructs this system of language by disabling critical of the presidential elect. The purpose of this Population Decline of Places Along essay is not to dissuade anyone's political beliefs, the narrative of his protagonist, an anonymous but rather to compare a literary text to a modern US 36 in Kansas narrator, and thrusting him into a new system issue. KALEB ALEKEL where the relationship between signifier and ______In 1956 President Eisenhower signed the Federal- signified is abnormal. By manipulating the novel's The Flaws of Sir Lancelot and the Aid Highway Act. The goal of the Act was to sign system in unusual ways, O'Brien deconstructs construct interstate highways and facilitate the concept of naming in a system of language Red Cross Knight motorist travel across the country. The first stretch while simultaneously criticizing the way that our QUINN COUGHLIN of interstate to be opened to traffic was part of symbolic system often excludes the linguistically This paper discusses the flaws of two distinguished what is now Interstate 70 in Kansas. Prior to the impaired. knights in literature, Sir Lancelot from Sir Thomas construction of I-70, the primary route to drive ______Malory's Morte D'Arthur, and the Red Cross Knight across Kansas was the old federal highway, US 36. Psychological Interference in the from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen. These two highways run parallel to each other Epistolarity of The Perks of Being a Lancelot's story shows how the combination of across Kansas. The goal of my research was to show chivalry and courtly love is a failure in that both how the construction of I-70 heralded a steep Wallflower values cannot be unified in one single code, as seen decline in the populations of places located along JENNA COLOZZA in the deterioration of Lancelot's chivalry as a US 36. Using census data for 44 such places, I In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen direct result of his inability to keep his love for determined to what extent I-70 caused them to Chbosky employs what Michael Bérubé calls a Queen Guinevere chaste and platonic. Similarly, decline, as well as what other factors influenced "disabled narrative" by delaying the reveal of the The Red Cross Knight's, in his desperate attempts this process. Selected for presentation at Middle essential detail that the main character, Charlie, to prove himself as a worthy hero to his love and States Division of the Association of American was molested by his aunt at a young age. Charlie's the world, makes irrational and reckless decisions Geographers 2016 Annual Meeting, Altoona, PA. resulting trauma interferes with the narrative and that cost him dearly. However, their faults do add sequence with which Chbosky reveals important depth and dimension to what would have been a 1O • ENGLISH WELLES 128 plot details, and affects Charlie's ability to flawless hero, uninteresting and perfect. By giving productively assess human relationships, thereby both characters faults, whether or not it leads to Literary Representations of disabling the narrative. However, the very same their demise or not, it makes Lancelot and the Red Disability and Communication conventions--or non-conventions--Chbosky uses to Cross Knight more believable as human beings. FACULTY SPONSOR: GILLIAN PAKU, ENGLISH disable the narrative also produce a transgressive SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE WEISSMAN and subversive narrative identity that confronts 1N • GEOGRAPHY BAILEY 201 ______ideological norms that silence child sexual abuse Cultural and Social Geography I Autism and Theory of Mind in By survivors and repress emotion in young men.

FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: DARRELL the Light of the Moon 1P • POLITICAL SCIENCE & NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY MELANIE WEISSMAN ______In his science fiction novel By the Light of the Moon, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Couchsurfing the Nile Dean Koontz links Shep O'Conner's mystical MILNE 105 ALISON COGGINS powers to his autism to the point where both Mock Trial of the Year: Riley Winter What began as a research project on the Egyptian conditions achieve the same overall effect in the Governorates bordering the Nile River turned into narrative: emphasizing that Shep's deviations from v. TBD, Inc. a report and analysis regarding the demographics the norm can be both a blessing and a curse. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JOANNA of cities along the Nile River in both Egypt and Koontz creates this connection by presenting KIRK, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL Sudan. Throughout my research, I utilized a Shep's disability primarily as one that impacts his RELATIONS website called 'Couchsurfing', which is a medium ability to communicate with others. There is truth ______for tourists to stay with locals as opposed to having in this characterization, according to the many Riley Winter v. TBD, Inc to stay in a hotel, or motel. The number of Hosts scholars who stress the connection between DARRELL GETMAN, MICHAELA OMECINSKY , per city, the overall population of the city, and the autism and a weak "theory of mind" -- that is, the PATRICK KANZLER, MEGAN METZ, KATRINA city's proximity to the Nile itself as factors of ability to theorize about and attempt to TILLAPAUGH, MEREDITH CONDREN, HARRISON analysis. What determines a location's popularity comprehend the unspoken thoughts and feelings NEIDISH, ERIN LIEBERMANN, JILLIAN O'CONNOR, to Couchsurfers? Does proximity to the Nile River of other individuals. However, Shep is not the only MATT BROWN, NICHOLAS DEON, NELLIE BLACK itself, or proximity to the Nile Delta determine character who struggles visibly with this skill. By Come see the trial of the year this GREAT Day as popularity? Is the location of historical or showcasing other characters' difficulties in their the Geneseo Mock Trial team takes multi- archeological sites more important to efforts to read Shep's mind rather than only Shep's billionaire CEO Sawyer Shaw to court over alleged Couchsurfers than location in terms of Egypt or difficulties in his efforts to read theirs, Koontz workplace discrimination. Sawyer Shaw is a serial Sudan? These questions prompted my research, stresses that the effective communication entrepreneur who took over TBD Inc. in January and thus became the focus of my analysis. necessary for the heroes of By the Light of the 2014, quickly upgrading the flailing magazine ______Moon to save the day requires a strong theory of company from a print publication to an online Parsing Seppuku mind from both autistic and non-autistic parties. platform publishing the hottest and latest news on THOMAS MAGNUS ______everything from politics to Kim Kardashian. But When a member of the Western world imagines a The Third Policeman's after Shaw fired the top paid and most famous suicide victim in Japan, they typically think of a Postmodernist Critique of Sign writer Riley Winter in December 2015, allegations stressed out salary man slaving away in one of arose that Sawyer Shaw actively discriminated Japan's largest cities. The data, however, suggests against older writers at the company in a  Promotes sustainability 9 Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual deliberate effort to make the workforce at the Constructing the "Social Evil": An decency test" for the Eighth Amendment in Trop v. company younger. Now, Riley Winter has his day in Dulles. More specifically, the court asserted that court and you, the jury, must decide if this Analysis of Prostitution in New the interpretation of "cruel" and "unusual" must incomparable culture writer lost his career because York, 1875-1920 change with the "evolving standards of decency of of Sawyer Shaw's prejudice, or if he was simply COLLEN CUMMINGS a maturing society." Thus, courts are tasked with unable and unwilling to adapt to a new and rapidly This presentation will focus on the way prostitution discovering a public consensus on punishments to evolving digital marketplace. was addressed in New York from 1875-1920. interpret the Eighth Amendment. This test Throughout this period, the societal attitudes challenges the traditional method of judicial 1Q • HISTORY STURGES 108 toward prostitution shifted in many different ways, review, which relies on precedent to formulate New York Histories: Tonawandan however always against the practice of decisions, because it necessitates judges to take prostitution. Various groups such as: the police, current public opinion into consideration. This Economics, Cayugan Removal, and policymakers, suffragettes and religious paper examines the impact that using public Perceptions of Prostitutes institutions each held different beliefs as to the opinion in judicial review has on capital FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MICHAEL best way to deal with prostitution. This punishment decisions and the balance of power in OBERG, HISTORY presentation will highlight each different our Nation. Furthermore, it analyzes whether it is ______perspective and the implications these desirable or necessary to insulate the judiciary How the Cayugas Became the Only perspectives placed on prostitutes. from public opinion. ______Iroquois Nation Without a Home, 1R • ENGLISH WELLES 115 Comparative Analysis of the Pillars 1774-1795 Perspectives in 20th-Century of Contemporary American BRANDON GAYLORD In 1774, the Cayugas were one of the Six Nations of American Drama Republican Ideology and the Tenets Iroquois Indians. During the American Revolution, FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: THOMAS of Catholicism they allied with the British and found themselves GREENFIELD, ENGLISH CASSONDRA MCCORMICK the target of an extermination expedition in 1779 ______This study examines the beliefs and voting known as the Sullivan Campaign. General Strange Stage Fellows: Miller's behaviors of modern American Republican Washington's desire to remove the Cayuga from Willy Loman (Salesman) and Harold constituents from the last two decades. Through the lands, prompted by the need to pay soldiers for the lens of Catholic writings, this analysis will their service in land, became one facet of life facing Pinter's Max (The Homecoming) examine how voters understand the Republican the Cayugas in the time of the Americans. While ERIN CARLO, VERONICA TAGLIA platform as an aggregate of their own political, the U.S. government attacked their land with force, "Strange Stage Fellows" presents a rare social, and spiritual beliefs. This examination will the State of New York preferred the use of treaties Miller/Pinter comparison: parallels between address issues including abortion, the implications and rum. Claiming to act on behalf of the Cayugas Willyand Max's reliance on ancestral archetypes to of conservative social policy, and the potential loss and under the guise of preventing white "settlers" legitimize their respective claims topatriarchal of life brought about by war. from encroaching on Cayuga lands, the State authority. ______promised the Cayugas peace and tranquility on ______Déjà vu all over again? Millenials The Apple and The Snake: smaller reservations in exchange for cession from and the Alt-Right Across the their ancestral homelands. The State's purpose Reinterpretation of Myth and was the same as the federal government - the Western World removal of the Cayugas and the selling off of their White Women in Early Drama of AIDEN COFFEY lands. The difference was in the method used. This Amiri Baraka The spread of the "alt-right" across the Western combination of State and Federal attacks proved VERONICA TAGLIA World signifies the greatest shift in western politics successful and by 1795, the Cayugas became the "The Apple and The Snake" brings much-needed since the onset of the Industrial Revolution. The old only Iroquois people without any land. clarity to a half-century of controversy overcross- paradigm of right/left was developed as a ______currents of black aesthetic self-determination and framework to handle the central organizing Tonawanda: Economics and violently misogynistic mythologies that inform question of the 19th and 20th centuries - the Interconnection, 1850-1892 Baraka's canonical early dramatic works. response of societies industrialization. For the 21st century, the battle lines will be drawn between CALEB WEISSMAN globalists and nationalists over fundamental My thesis addresses the Tonawanda Band of 1S • POLITICAL SCIENCE & questions of identity. Many wishfully assume that Seneca Indian's complicated relationship with INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS the alt-right phenomenon is a phenomenon born nearby communities of New Yorkers, as well at WELLES 121 of the old and resentful, but that is wishful their economic situation, in the late nineteenth thinking. The unpleasant reality is that in both century. I will first be briefly describing the PLSC/IR Honors Theses Europe and America millennials drive its political contentious circumstances of the Tonawanda FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON HEROLD, POLITICAL strategy and shape its ideology by drawing from Band's separation from the rest of the Seneca SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS eugenicists and radical intellectuals of the "French Nation. Using local newspapers, I will then discuss SESSION CHAIR: ROBERT GOECKEL, POLITICAL New Right." Decades of growing economic the social connections between the Tonawanda SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______inequality and rapid social change have left millions Reservation and the surrounding communities. of millennials in the "forgotten" parts of the West Next, I will be using the Report of the Special Public Opinion and the Capital ripe for radicalization. Since the conflict centers on Committee to Investigate the Indian Problem of Punishment Question issues of identity, the chances of civil conflict the State of New York, which includes transcripts CLAIRE SHANKLIN increase dramatically. The possibility of domestic of Native American testimony, as well as other Judicial review empowers judges to invalidate laws terrorism, civil war and the even return of documents to address the economics of the that violate the Constitution- a task which totalitarianism cannot be dismissed. Tonawanda Reservation. Finally, I will use traditionally supposes that judges will be insulated information from the U.S. Census, as well as the from public opinion. However, sometimes these 1T • POLITICAL SCIENCE & 1892 Extra Census Bulletin regarding the Six lines blur as judges feel obligated to consider public Nations of New York, to draw comparisons opinion, and tension surfaces between the courts INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS between the economic situation of those residing and the legislatures. This dilemma unfolded in the WELLES 123 on the Tonawanda reservation and the question of whether capital punishment is Political Science & International surrounding communities. unconstitutional, and began when the Supreme ______Court established the "evolving standards of Relations

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SESSION CHAIR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL Modern City, Vice City: Workers, 1V • SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 204 SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______Sexuality, and Social Control in Sociology of Emotions The Invisible Minority: Interwar Detroit FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: STEVE EVAN GOLDSTEIN DERNE, SOCIOLOGY International Human Rights & LGBT ______The Paper explores working-class culture in Detroit Equality in the interwar period (between roughly 1918 and State Terror: How Totalitarian MATTHEW BURLEY 1942). The essay examines the relationship States Control The Emotions of FACULTY SPONSOR: JEREMY GRACE, POLITICAL between the working-class in Detroit and the city's Citizens SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS unparalleled expansion under industrial capitalism DAYNER HACKSHAW On 30th June, 2016, the United Nations Human beginning around 1920. This industrial growth led In Darker than Midnight: Fear, Vulnerability, and Rights Council passed a groundbreaking resolution to Detroit's rapid urbanization, and reorganized Terror Making in Urban Burma (Myanmar), establishing a new independent expert to the city along a class-basis (a change from early Monique Skidmore discuses how the government investigate human rights violations against LGBT Detroit's ethnically-separated family of Burma sponsors fear in their citizens. This is individuals worldwide. This proposal, which faced neighborhoods). This reorganization, in turn, led to done through violence and propaganda, which major opposition from culturally conservative the birth of a working-class culture that makes the people of Burma unable to fight back member states, marked the first time that LGBT encouraged social and sexual freedom, allowed due to fear. The reading neglects to talk about rights were formally institutionalized into the spaces for the development of a "gay" culture, other possible emotions that the state may also to human rights mechanisms of the United Nations. resisted bourgeois notions of gender and sexuality create. Initially, my question asked if state However, while this resolution marked a rousing which were forming at the time in Detroit and in sponsored fear may also lead to feelings of unity victory for the LGBT cause, the current system of America at large. international human rights law does not include ______among the citizens. After doing research on North specific provisions aimed towards the protection of The Queen City: The Progress of Korea, another totalitarian state, I found that the rights of LGBT individuals, who face persistent depending on the duration of the totalitarian state, discrimination on the world stage. This Prostitution within the City of citizens may not be able feel other emotions aside presentation will examine the current state of Buffalo during the Late 19th and from fear. ______international human rights law in relation to the Early 20th Centuries protection of LGBT individuals, and will Meditation in a Group: Emotional DEREK KACZOROWSKI demonstrate, through the use of case studies from This paper examines the City of Buffalo's economic Effects the European Court of Human Rights, that the lack and societal development in relation to thecity's SHANNON MAHONEY of explicit language in the International Bill of actions towards prostitution. As the city continued Mukerjee (1937) states that meditation is a solitary Human Rights and similar legislation has to develop throughout the early 1900s,societal act in which the participant enters astate of contributed to a disturbing trend of ongoing groups and city law enforcement increasingly disconnect from their surroundings and looks discrimination, and that further treaties must be stifled the expansion of Buffaloprostitution. This inward. He also states thatmeditation leaves the drafted to ensure that members of the LGBT paper argues that Buffalo's repressive actions participant in a state that is void of all emotions. I community are afforded the rights that they are against prostitution occurredbecause vice studied th effects of meditation in a group setting- owed. specifically looking into the emotions and ______imparted an underdeveloped, and immoral image upon the city and its peoples.Citizen initiative was emotional connections with the other members of Cambiemos: The Rise of Mauricio the determinative factor that induced productive the group that was meditating. To study this, I used Macri prostitution reform withinthe City of Buffalo. The sociological introspection. I participated in a group ADAM DOHRENWEND paper presentation can include a brief examination meditation and journaled about the experience, FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL of the developmentof Buffalo, the creation of and then participated in meditation by myself and SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Buffalo vice districts, and the passive regulation of journaled about it. I then looked at both journals Argentina's 2015 presidential election ushered in a vice by cityofficials. The presentation will focus on and compared the results to see if there was a tsunami of change at Casa Rosada. Mauricio Macri the expansion of prostitution within Buffalo, and difference in the emotions I experienced during the was elected President of the Argentine Nation-- theconsequential social crusade to suppress the solitary meditation and the group meditation. I the first democraticaly-elected non-Radical, non- immoral stain. The institution of prostitution was found that there was no difference between Peronist President since 1916 (Morss, 2016). nota threat to the city of Buffalo; prostitution meditating alone and meditating with a group- Macri's advantages in his native Buenos Aires demoralized the image of the developing city. neither settings produced emotions of any kind. combined with factionalism within Peronism and ______fatigue with the leftist Peronist flavor called From the Shtetl to the Streets: The Ability of Group Meditation to Kirchnerismo all factored in his historic ascendance Transforming Jewish Womanhood Facilitate Emotions to the Presidency. Without garnering support from EMMA GERROL disillusioned lower-class Peronists whose faction on the Lower East Side, 1890-1925 This study is based on Mukerjee's proposition that was eliminated in the first round, Macri's victory ISABEL OWENS meditation is a solemn experience inwhich would have been impossible. Using GIS, statistical Turn of the twentieth century Lower East Side, emotions transcend the person practicing; but it analyses, and regional case studies, this Manhattan lives classically in the Jewish-American neglects to address the possibility that emotions complicated election and various socioeconomic imaginary as a mystic "Jewish place." The Jewish are in fact involved in meditation, especially when indicators at the regional and provincial level will woman, by incorporating both modernity and the meditation is practiced in a group setting. The be dissected in order to illustrate the importance traditionalism, transformed herself and the place method applied to answering this question was of the anti-Kirchnerismo Peronist vote in Macri's around her. How did the Lower East Side create a meditating as a group and observing my own winning runoff formula. space to both shape and defy notions of feelings during and after the meditation. The Americanization and secularization of the working- results of this study indicated a slight difference in 1U • HISTORY STURGES 109 class, first generation Yiddish family? Through the emotions including: relief from life's dailystressors, Research in Gender and Sexuality eyes of mothers, daughters, and popular a feeling of calmness, and a feeling of representations of each, this paper traces the story accomplishment caused by successful practice of History I of the New Jewish Woman of the Lower East Side meditation. However, my group members and I did FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: RYAN and seeks to nuance her. Selected for presentation not experience a feeling of emotional connection JONES, HISTORY at Phi Alpha Theta Western New York Regional to the other group members, as we had predicted ______Meeting, Brockport, NY. there would be. This study allowed us to look

deeper into the emotions involved in meditation and the possibilities to heighten those positive  Promotes sustainability 11 Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual emotions as well as whether it is possible to these students in their foreign language classroom teachers maintain because this information may experience an emotional connection without to make them successful. Teachers have already explain or support the students' ideologies. actually speaking to other people, but simply by implemented accommodations and modifications Moreover, this information can be used to educate sharing an experience. when they try having a student with special needs teachers about the benefits of this practice in their ______in their classroom (Kleinert, 2007). This paper classrooms. The Difference in Emotional Effects seeks to raise awareness of how vital giving the ______Elicited by Communal Meditation students this opportunity is. Factors Affecting the L2 Acquisition ______of the Spanish Vibrants <ɾ> r: Age of Compared to Solitary Meditation Spanish-English Bilingual Education Acquisition, Learning Contexts, and GIOVANNA DONAHUE in the United States In her book, Deep Listeners Judith Becker discusses Linguistic Background the act of meditation. She explains that meditation ELENA BEIDECK While the advantages and disadvantages of MARIA PRIORE is supposed to be done in solitude, silence and The critical period hypothesis (CPH) of linguistics stillness in order for an individual to be freed of different educational models at times remain opaque, the problem is clear: there are significant postulates that there is an ideal age range during emotions. She does not address the effects of which individuals are most prepared to acquire meditation in a group setting rather than in educational disparities between native speakers of the majority language -- in this case, English -- and languages (Hakuta et al., 2003). Prior research on solitude. This study aims to address the difference this subject has found that factors including in emotional responses and emotional connections native speakers of minority languages -- in this case, Spanish (Hamilton, 2006). The current body country of origin, age at migration, similarity of provoked by communal meditation versus solitary mother tongue to L2 (Chiswick & Miller, 2007), meditation. I used sociological introspection to test of literature on this subject indicates that the suggestions that bilingual education may impede amount of formal language instruction, residence this difference. I participated in a communal in a host country, student's prioritization of meditation followed by a solitary meditation a few English learning are largely unfounded (López, 2006), and that bilingual education programs may pronunciation (Shively, 2008), usage of L2 in class days later. Each meditation held Becker's factors and outside (de Carli et al., 2015), motivation for L2 constant, except for being in solitude. After each improve academic performance (Marian, Shook, & Shroeder, 2013). Beyond strict measure of acquisition, and socioeconomic factors (Gursoy, meditational experience, I documented my 2011) can have an equal or greater impact on L2 emotions and then analyzed them. After academic achievement, other important yet subjective factors, such as personal identity learning than age of acquisition (AoA). Does AoA comparing and contrasting the difference between have a meaningful effect on L2 Spanish the two emotional experiences, I found that development, self-confidence, and bilingualism, are favored by bilingual education programs pronunciation? This study examines the factors communal meditation had a more positive that affect the acquisition of [r r] by evaluating the emotional response compared to solitary (Lindholm-Leary & Borsato, 2001). Current literature indicates that the model which best production of these consonants by 93 university meditation and feelings of emotional connectivity students from a range of Spanish ability levels. to others were increased during communal supports development of this characteristics is two-way bilingual education (López, 2006; Participants also filled out a background meditation compared to solitary meditation. questionnaire regarding language acquisition Lindholm-Leary & Borsato, 2001). However, a factors and linguistic background. This 1W • LANGUAGES AND significant issue in this study is the lack of a standardized way in which to compare the presentation will discuss the results of a statistical LITERATURES BAILEY 105 different models, and different researchers use analysis of correlation between the accuracy of Spanish in the US: The Acquisition different definitions of "bilingual education." production of [r r] and the factors that affect Considering these issues, this paper suggests ways pronunciation, with a focus on AoA and exposure and Use of Spanish in Educational in which parents can evaluate these programs in to pronunciation through instruction or social Contexts order to chose the most effective program for their interaction. Selected for presentation at National FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: children's education. Conference of Undergraduate Research, CHRISTINA AGOSTINELLI-FUCILE, LANGUAGES ______Memphis, TN. AND LITERATURES Linguistic Ideologies of ______1X • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 328 Spanish/English Code-Switching in Special Education and Language Topics in the History of Schoolchildren in the U.S. Learning: Why We Should Give MARISSA CASSARO Mathematics 1 Students with Disabilities the This presentation investigates the linguistic FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GARY Opportunity to Learn a Second phenomena of code-switching and the variety of TOWSLEY, MATHEMATICS ideological and scholarly responses to its place in ______Language the education of Spanish-speaking schoolchildren Introducing the Riemann HANNAH MILLICH in the United States. Code- switching is the use of Hypothesis: The Puzzling Primes Students with disabilities often to do not receive two languages in one sentence and/or ROBERT TUMASIAN the opportunity to study a second language while conversation. It is used to mark a change in topic, The Riemann Hypothesis is one of the six remaining students without disabilities do.This paper for emphasis, for clarification or translation, and Millennium Prize Problems that has yet to be examines why students with disabilities do not for direct quotations (Escobar, 2015, p.119). proven. The hypothesis offers insight on the often have the opportunity to learn a second According to Becker (2001) and Reyes (2004), distribution of the prime numbers, and specifically language. It explores the various reasons why children who use code-switching have greater links the zeros of analytic functions and the primes students with disabilities haven't been placed or sociolinguistic competencies, greater vocabularies in a linear manner.This presentation will serve as been able to take a foreign language class in their in both languages, and strong cultural identities. an introduction to the Riemann Hypothesis, and education. These students have a difficult time On the other hand, Martinez (2009, 2013) found preliminary theorems and conjectures necessary being accepted and it is said that foreign language that as a result of community-based stigmas to investigate the mysterious primes.This includes is the environment of acceptance that would against code-switching, some students perpetuate the definition of a prime number, the Prime benefit these students in schools (Wight, 2015). My dominant ideologies that switching from English to Number Theorem, the Zeta Function, theMöbius findings showed that there were no cognitive Spanish represents a deficit rather than a bilingual Function, and related material. Proof of this differences between the students with disabilities ability. Accordingly, it is important to entertain the hypothesis would completely alter thef oundations and the students without disabilities in a foreign possibility that students have different social of cyber security and international banking language classroom (Sparks, 2006). Based on this forces that contribute to whether they use code- systems that highly depend on prime number finding, there are still no students with special switching in school contexts. Future research patterns for protection. needs sitting in a foreign language classroom. I will should focus on individual tendencies of the ______discuss important techniques and students in various contexts and it should include Hamilton: Not the Musical recommendations that teachers can use to support information about the linguistic ideologies that 12  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Session 1 • 8:30 – 9:45 AM

MARGARET MALONEY research until he finally refuted Brahe's initial The Politics of Gender and Sexuality In 1843, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, an Irish thesis and discovered his own Laws of Planetary mathematician from Trinity College, Dublin, Motion. in Modern Film discovered a non-commutative number system RACHEL CRAIG that extended the complex numbers into thre 1Y • EDUCATION NEWTON 204 This project is an in depth look into how the rating and censorship of modern film works to show and dimensional space. The following is the exploration Using An Authentic Literacy in Hamilton's discovery of the quaternion and laws support only certain representations of gender and of the symbol and how they obey algebraic Approach To Teach Students With sexuality. Because of these monitoring properties: including sums or differences, Disabilities mechanisms, the general public faces barriers to consuming diverse material that presents lifestyles multiplication, distributive property, powers, FACULTY SPONSOR: BRIAN MORGAN, EDUCATION counter to accepted and traditional ideologies roots, and logarithms. SESSION CHAIR: KELLI PANARA ______concerning gender and sexuality. There will be a A Glimpse at Bayes' Theorem specific focus on film from 1990 to now. Using Literacy to Teach ______ASHLEY MORAN Bayes' theorem allows one to predict the likelihood Independence Repealing the Hays Code: Black of one event occurring given the probability of KELLI PANARA, VIRGINIA ELEY, JORDON Activism and the Pursuit of MCKINSEY another event having happened. It commonly Representation appears while studying probability and statistics. This presentation will focus on how literacy LIZ KUZMAN-MCRAE From its origins in the early 18th century, the instruction should be formulated for adults with Kuzman-McRae is studying the legacy of the Hays theorem has been utilized and developed for use in intellectual and developmental disabilities. It will Code during the golden age of Hollywood. She many fields. I will give a brief background on discuss the limited amount of research currently gears her research toward miscegenation laws and Thomas Bayes, Bayes' theorem, and discuss its available on the topic and how the available research has advocated for the students to have the lasting impact they may have. modern use. ______more exposure to literacy experiences. The Patronage in 17th Century Europe: presentation will discuss the findings from peer- Sci-fi, Feminism, and Queer Theory reviewed research articles to provide evidence for THOMAS MCCARTHY How Tycho Brahe Influenced strategies and methods that have proven effective McCarthy explores the history of Sci fi films in Johannes Kepler's Research for teaching students with disabilities. It will relation feminist film theory to determine what DANIEL WOLFANGER, MAUREEN HENRY provide suggestions for educators on how literacy ways visions of the future imagine womanhood, This presentation will explore how Johannes instruction should be formulated for adults with bodies, sexuality, and humanity in different and Kepler's personal research was affected by Tycho disabilities. Lastly, the presentation will focus on even liberated ways. Brahe's patronage of Kepler. In addition it will show the implementation of a Literary Magazine into a ______how the countries that they chose to do their classroom setting to create an authentic approach In Search of Sliders: Gender and research in directly influenced the availability of to instruction when teaching adults with Character Creation in Video Games intellectual and developmental disabilities. The resources to them during the Protestant NICOLE PERO magazine will be available to view during the Revolution. Johannes Kepler had a background in How does the protagonist of a video game and presentation while two students from the L.I.V.E.S. mathematics and science, particularly, the their gender affect the player's experience? Is it program share their work as well as the works of computational aspect of science. Brahe on the really possible for players outside the gender other hand worked with direct observation and their peers. binary to reach verisimilitude with their theory. In 1600, Brahe was in Prague due to his protagonists? These are the questions Pero will be commitment to the court of the Holy Roman 1Z • WOMEN'S AND GENDER trying to answer across many contemporary Emperor, Rudolf II. When Brahe and Kepler met in STUDIES WELLES 24 games. Prague, Brahe was in conflict with his patron; the king of Denmark. Moreover Brahe hired Kepler as Women's and Gender Studies: an assistant, and their combined efforts allowed Gender in Film and Gaming both to expand their research. After Brahe's death FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE in 1601, his connection with Kepler helped enable BLOOD, ENGLISH Kepler to continue to build on and revise Brahe's ______

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2A • HISTORY & CIDD BAILEY 204 this selfishness. Thanks to the Geneseo Student Modeling the Transmission and Ambassadorships, an online magazine was Ambassador/History successfully built, submissions were successfully Dispersion of Syphilis in California KARIE FRISIRAS, CENTER FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY received, and an issue was successfully cobbled EMMA BODE, MATTHEW BRENNAN, CAMRYN AND DEVELOPMENT together with the express goal to, in simplest LIEB, ALIDA MOONEY, SYDNEY NG ______terms, not be selfish. This presentation will be one Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) Frankenstein's Review part discussion of the culture industry, one part caused by the Treponema pallidum bacterium. This BRENDAN MAHONEY blueprint of the magazine's creation, and one part STI is passed through direct contact with FACULTY SPONSOR: JOE COPE, HISTORY AND successes and failures from the endeavor. This symptomatic sores and remains an issue unless CENTER FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY & project is supported by the Geneseo Student successfully treated with antibiotics. Left DEVELOPMENT Ambassador Program. untreated, it can progress through four distinct The publishing industry (and to an extent the stages and may result in serious health problems culture industry as well) is an entirely selfish place. 2B • BIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS 1 such as damage to internal organs and eventually death. Data for cases of syphilis in the United Authors are used by publishers to bolster the ISC 131 reputation of their magazine and publications are States indicated an increase in syphilis contraction FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GREGG used by authors to bolster the reputation of their in the past two decades. Using these data, we HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY own writing. Frankenstein's Review is an modeled the spread of syphilis in a contemporary FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTOPHER LEARY, experimental multimedia magazine that has been system in California using a difference equation MATHEMATICS model and then analyzed the effect of various created over the course of the past year to address ______

 Promotes sustainability 13 Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual prevention techniques on disease transmission. In ALLIE DANANBERG, DIANA DEFILIPPIS, IAN it is the media that is the main power holder. addition, we made a bipartite network model to HENEY, MEGAN PRESTON Whoever has control over the media, controls the simulate heterosexual transmission of the T. Human papillomavirus (HPV), is an infection spread narrative the media can give to a specific group of pallidum bacterium and a lattice network model to through sexual contact. HPV is the most prevalent people. For blacks, this is extremely dangerous and simulate transmission through time and space. We sexually transmitted infection globally, with over detrimental. This paper more specifically explores were able to determine the susceptible population 150 genotypically different strains. Persistent HPV the older, more obvious racist narratives about threshold and a critical number of sexual partners can cause pre-cancerous lesions that increase the blacks with the production of The Birth of a Nation in a population for the breakout of syphilis. risk for particular types of cancer, most notably in 1915. It also examines the negative narrative ______cervical cancer. HPV cannot be treated. However, framed and used by the media with regard to civil Modeling the Cholera Outbreak the body's immune system resolves most cases rights leaders and the Civil Rights Movement After the 2010 Haiti Earthquake within 1-2 years. Some strains can be prevented via during the 60s, and the seemingly innocent but vaccination if administered prior to exposure. Not very dangerous "colorblind" narrative the media JUSTEN GEDDES, MEGHAN PRUSINOWSKI, only does vaccination have the potential to reduce currently uses for race relations. The paper also JENNIFER ROWAN, JOSEPH TADROS HPV risk, but also help reduce cancer incidence as explores how the rise of social media gives a voice On January 12, 2010, an earthquake in Haiti a result, making HPV prevention an advantageous back to the black community. Social media puts devastated the country. Following the earthquake, area of study. The main objective of this study was power into the hands of those who choose to use damaged infrastructure and contaminated waters to model the spread of HPV as a consequence of it. It allows people to form new narratives about aided in the spread of cholera to epidemic levels. It human relations. Based on the biology of HPV, we themselves and other groups of people without was determined that a peacekeeping volunteer developed an SEIRV (susceptible-exposed- being swayed by the opinions of the power elite. who entered the country was the initial vector for infected-recovered-vaccinated) model to compute ______V. cholerae that led to the epidemic. By 2011, the the dynamics of the spread of the virus both with epidemic had reached the peak number of African American Women and Mass and without vaccination. A network model was recorded cases in Haiti. We created models to Incarceration also created to analyze HPV transmission in a more understand the dynamics of the spread of cholera NELLIE BLACK realistic and controlled setting by incorporating the for this outbreak. We used multiple data sets from The "War on Drugs" has functioned for the past nuances of a social network. The results of these papers to create continuous, network, and discrete several decades as a means of legalized models were compared to develop a more models. We then tested the variability of several of segregation. This campaign has disproportionately comprehensive understanding of the spread of these parameters by completing error targeted African American men and has human papillomavirus and to analyze the efficacy propagations. Our models suggest that if systemically isolated them from mainstream of vaccination in reducing its spread. responding organizations had taken different society through a system of mass incarceration. As actions, the epidemic could have been better BAILEY 104 with many social issues, women have been left out controlled. Understanding models such as these 2C • SOCIOLOGY of our understanding of this problem. Although not can help to explain the spread of cholera and aid in Black Lives Matter: The Color of in the forefront of the political discussion, African the implementation of preventative measures for Justice in the United States American women have been disproportionately future epidemics. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: DENISE affected by the system of mass incarceration ______SCOTT, SOCIOLOGY through their connections to incarcerated men and Describing the Dynamics of ______through their own incarceration. Large populations Schistosomiasis Transmission Mass Incarceration or Modern Day of men have been removed from families and communities as a result of their mass through a Deterministic Model Slavery? incarceration, leaving African American women ZACHARY KOENIG, ALEXANDER DECKER, JEFF RACHEL CRONEN alone to manage families while also generating DOSER, KYLE FLETCHER The targeting of black males for mass incarceration income. Moreover, the "War on Drugs" has also Schistosomiasis is globally the second most has been described as a human rights nightmare. put large numbers of African American women in debilitating human parasitic infection. Schistosoma This systematic oppression of young black men can prison for nonviolent drug offenses, which has is a genus of trematodes which comprises the arguably be considered a form of modern day both social and economic long-term effects. This causative agents of Schistosomiasis. "slavery," which, according to Michele Alexander, paper focuses on the social and economic ways in Schistosomiasis spreads to humans through skin is defined as a condition compared to that of a which African American women have been contact with contaminated fresh water in tropical slave with respect to exhausting labor or restricted uniquely and disproportionately impacted by the and subtropical areas. We developed a freedom. The racial-caste system, criminality of system of mass incarceration. compartmental model that includes human hosts, young black men, politics, and the media all ______intermediate snail hosts, and the free-living contribute to the seemingly never-ending issues of Mass Media and Its Effects on reproductive stages called cercariae and miracidia. racial inequality and injustice in America. This  Using a system of differential equations we paper examines the criminal justice system and Social Movements modeled the life cycle and transmission of how it maintains a racial-caste system in the United DYAMOND SLATER Schistosoma. Our model takes into account factors States; more specifically, it looks at the This paper examines how the formation of social such as density-dependent birth rates and reduced construction of "criminality," the practices and movements is affected by mass media in America. fecundity of snail hosts that make it more realistic. politics of policing, the media, and wealth and It analyzes how mass media influence both modern We explored how transmission dynamics change power. It argues that the criminal justice system, all day movements as well as ones that occurred with differing prevention methods; including the of its moving parts, and its supporters are to blame during the Civil Rights Era. More specifically, it introduction of clean water to high-risk human for the current problems of mass incarceration, not seeks to build a connection between the two time populations, regulation of snail populations, and the victims of systemic racism. This paper further periods by examining the language used by the the use of preventative chemotherapy on affected discusses potential ways to stimulate change, such media and their portrayal of social movements to populations. By understanding the life cycle of as "crashing the system." the public. Furthermore, it also examines how this Schistosoma, we compared the effectiveness of ______connects more broadly to race and power in these treatment methods. Our model suggests that The Narrative of the Media and America. The particular social movements that are highlighted in the paper are Black Power/The Civil with the introduction of these preventative Mass Incarceration measures Schistosomiasis transmission rates will Rights Movement and The Black Lives Matter ZAKIYA ROSE decrease. Movement.

______This paper explores the perceptions of black people, especially black men, in the American 2D • BUSINESS SOUTH 340 Analyzing the Spread of Human media and how these perceptions affect the Papillomavirus Using Difference treatment of blacks in the justice system and the Impact of Managers on Employee Equations and a Network Model black community as a whole. In The United States Job Performance 14  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM

FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: AVAN industry and must be adapted to fit employee Expropriation and Growth in JASSAWALLA, BUSINESS needs, and (c) subordinates/employees are ______impacted by their managers'/boss' social influence African Economies, 1975-2015 The Impact of a Manager's tactics in a variety of ways. These findings hold MATHEUS FALIERO This paper examines the historical relationship Emotional Intelligence on implications for improving employee relations and work performance. Our presentation will provide between economic growth and uncompensated Organizational Citizenship Behavior further details of our findings and expropriation in developing African countries. The (OCB) of Followers/Employers recommendations to managers and organizations general consensus is that states on the African continent experienced economic stagnation or HOPE RINALDI, JOSEPH BARILE on this important topic. decline in the post-independence period in part This presentation summarizes the key findings on ______due to the common practice of domestic how a manager's emotional intelligence plays a Impact of Employee's Perception of government takeovers of foreign-owned assets. major role on the Organizational Citizenship Fairness on Employee's Job Additionally, it is believed that only after the end of Behavior (OCB) of their followers and employees. these expropriations were governments able to Based on the findings of our research, we Satisfaction attract foreign investment in order to bring about discovered managers with a lower emotional MICHAELA OMECINSKY, RACHEL CHOU, income expansion. I compile a series of datasets intelligence did less self-reflecting and had BRENNAN MACEY, MATTHEW BRYK recording expropriations, which collectively span a employees that were less motivated in the An employee's perception of fairness on their job period from 1924 to 2016. This combined dataset workplace. Therefore, we recommend satisfaction is a relevant topic for management to is used to evaluate the impact of expropriations on implementing more programs in emotional understand. Our first topic of research was the short- and long-term economic growth in these intelligence training for managers at work due to effect of performance appraisals on employee's countries. Selected for presentation at Eastern its high correlation on the OCB. As a manager, job satisfaction. Fair and collective performance appraisals assist management in understanding Economic Association, New York, NY. knowing how your Emotional Intelligence affects ______your employee's Organizational Citizenship employee's work habits. Our next topic of research Behavior will allow you to improve the was the effect of dissatisfaction on employee Examining the Persuasive Power of psychological and social setting of the workplace. A turnover and retaliation. Management aims for Welfare Benefits Using the 1996 low levels of employee turnover and retaliation, to workplace where employees have closer Personal Responsibility and Work relationships with each other is likely to produce limit the waste of company's resources. Our final greater job satisfaction and performance. topic was an employee's perception of fairness on Opportunity Act Emotional Intelligence is a measure of how well job stress and its effect on job satisfaction and DANIEL MAGGIO individuals can perceive, understand, and manage performance. Management should seek to lower On August 22nd, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed their own emotions, as well as the emotions of job stress because it prevents productivity in into effect the Personal Responsibility and Work others. Having a high Emotional Intelligence has employees. An understanding of employee's Opportunity Act as part of the Republican been found to increases employees' Organizational perception of fairness on job satisfaction can help Congress' Contract with America. The bill included Citizenship Behavior. In order to maintain a management create a more positive and a provision that imposed a lifetime ban on the positive environment where job performance is productive work environment for all employees. granting of food stamps through federal SNAP and maximized, managers will need to increase their TANF benefits for anyone convicted of a drug Emotional Intelligence. 2E • BUSINESS SOUTH 338 felony. Effective July 1st, 1997, the bill included a ______Economic Problems: Income state opt-out option, which also allowed for Impact of Cultural Values modifications. This has created a disparity between Inequality, Labor Force states, creating an opportunity for decomposition (Hofstede's Dimensions of Culture) Participation, Expropriation, of the effects that the ban has had on crime. Using on the Link Between Job Welfare and Crime the between-state variation of the ban by year, as well as the FBI uniform crime reports, I find that the Satisfaction and Job Performance FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: LEONIE ban is associated with roughly a 1.5 percent ANH MAI, ARIANNA BORRIELLO, MEGAN STONE, BUSINESS decrease in drug crime. Furthermore, I find that HERRICK ______this decrease has increased in magnitude as time This report provides insight on how businesses can The Effect of Unconventional has passed since implementation of the law. become more globalized and be able to work Monetary Policy on Income Finally, I also find that the effects of the ban have efficiently with people from different cultures spillover influence on the rates of both property around the world. Based on Geert Hofstede's Inequality in the United States crime and violent crime. Selected for presentation cultural dimensions, we will discuss how cultural VICTOR LAZARTE The steady increase in income inequality since the at Eastern Economic Association, New York, NY. values have a tremendous impact on job ______satisfaction and job performance depending on 1980s has focused attention on the causes of that where you are in the world. We have also included inequality, including the effects of government and Using Social Variables to Explain recommendations for managers in various parts of central bank policies. Various studies have shown the Shifting Male Labor Force the world. small impacts of monetary policy through a variety Participation Rate in Europe ______of channels, particularly portfolio effects. In this JUSTIN FISCHER study, I focus on the contribution of The Impact of Managers Social For over four decades, the male labor force unconventional monetary policy to income participation rate (LFPR) has been declining in Influence Tactics on inequality in the United States. I first estimate GINI advanced economies around the world. For most Subordinate/Employee Job coefficients from BLS household survey data, and of that same period, the female LFPR has been then use this data to estimate the effects on Performance increasing, which has largely offset that decline income inequality of the rounds of quantitative LAURA RICCI, CASSANDRA IACONO, KIARRA participation. However, female LFPR has since easing that followed from the initial shocks of the MONROE stagnated, and women are no longer a reliable global financial crisis. While the implementation of This topic focuses on the methods or tactics used source to replace the declining number of males unconventional monetary policies is a recent tool by managers which positively influences individual working, and thus overall participation is falling. In and the full scope of its effects will take many years employees in ways that make them more the U.S., the prime-age male participation rate to realize, initial results confirm reasons for productive in the workplace. We reviewed the declined from 82.7% in 2000 to 77.4% in 2014. concern. Selected for presentation at Eastern existing literature and found that: (a) managers use Some of this decline can be attributed to different social influence tactics to increase Economic Association, New York, NY. ______technological change and associated increases in employee productivity and job satisfaction, (b) structural employment, which eventually lead to these tactics by managers differ according to their exit from the workforce. However, other factors,

 Promotes sustainability 15 Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual such as the health and social habits of the landscape, I met people and saw places that ELIZABETH MESSANA workforce, may play a role. I consider the prime- showed me the complex evidence of social FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT GOECKEL, POLITICAL age male participation rate in a number of upheaval, economic devastation, and uneven SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS European countries and relate falling participation redevelopment that has washed back and forth The latter half of the 20th century bore witness to to changes in disability rates and education, among across America for decades. These poems are an a dramatic rise in international cooperation, a other related variables, to better explain the excerpt from the document I'm working to create: trend that has carried into the 21st century as well. similarities and differences in these trends across an extended interrogation of how to look at This rise of interdependence in the international advanced economies. Selected for presentation at America, how to look at ourselves, at what stories, system has accorded a particular category of actors Eastern Economic Association, New York, NY. what struggles, lay just below the surface of - transnational actors - a much more influential role landscapes we all pass through--and how we might in the social, economic, and political affairs of the 2F • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 5 wake from these nightmares of history. This global system. This presentation addresses the BAILEY 102 project is supported by the Geneseo Student impact of one of the oldest of these actors and one SESSION CHAIR: DAVID LEVY, PHILOSOPHY & Ambassador Program. with renewed influence, the Catholic Church.

EDGAR FELLOWS Through uniting over one billion individuals under ______2G • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 6 a common belief system, maintaining open Towards an Epistemology of BAILEY 103 communication lines, and actively supporting its grassroots with finances, resources, and personnel, Gender Identity SESSION CHAIR: LISA MEYER, SOCIOLOGY & EDGAR FELLOWS the Catholic Church has been able to maintain an JESSICA HEPPLER ______active presence among many sovereign states, FACULTY SPONSOR: AMANDA ROTH, PHILOSOPHY Kodak and the Deindustrialization which may have critical implications for their Most attempts at defining gender identity result in foreign and domestic policies. Furthermore, as the the circular definition, "the gender that you of Rochester current head of this actor, Pope Francis directly identify with." I attempt to escape this circularity JOSHUA DEJOY influences international affairs. In his time as by offering a philosophical account of what it is to FACULTY SPONSOR: KATHLEEN MAPES, HISTORY pontiff, Pope Francis has pushed the role further. know one's own gender identity. In defending an This paper examines the role that the decline of the His active stance on several international issues, intuition-based view of gender identity, I hold that Eastman Kodak Company played in the including global warming, human rights, and the intuitions reflect our personal mental concepts, deindustrialization of the city of Rochester, New refugee crisis, all exemplify a more activist role in each of which have certain satisfaction conditions York. In this paper, I examine deindustrialization in incorporating the Church's values into global for whether something belongs to a kind like "cat" general, including how historians have studied it. I policy. or "sandwich" or "human." Although our intuitions then briefly assess how and why Kodak declined, about what counts as a certain kind are mostly and compare this to the historical understanding of 2H • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 7 uniform, our intuitions about the conceptual how deindustrialization "usually" progresses, BAILEY 202 boundaries of other kinds like "knowledge" or through both historical monographs and SESSION CHAIR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS & "man" are more variable. Such interpersonally government data, among other sources. I also ASTRONOMY variable intuitions are valuable by virtue of their examine the effects that the decline of Kodak and ______ability to illuminate contentious conceptual deindustrialization of Rochester more broadly have boundaries, such as those surrounding "woman" or had on workers in the Rochester area. UBVRI Photometry of the Open "man." I argue that an intuition-based ______Cluster M67 understanding of gender identity illuminates some The Eurasian Union JOSHUA GALLARO of the satisfaction conditions that drive individuals MARIA GERSHUNI FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS to identify as one gender or another. Further, I FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT GOECKEL, POLITICAL & ASTRONOMY explore the social and political forces that shape SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS We present a five-color photometric analysis of the our gender concepts and discuss the potential for The idea of the Eurasian Economic Union, or the open cluster M67. Hundreds of images, taken with these concepts to subvert or reinforce existing EEU, was first brought up by Kazakhstan's the WIYN 0.9m telescope were processed and gender stereotypes. President Nursultan Nazerbaev in 1994. By 2015, individually reduced, finding and measuring the ______the Russian Federation, Belarus, and Kazakhstan brightness of every object in every frame. Point- Formula for Change: Methods of signed the Treaty for the Establishment of the EEU, spread-function (PSF) algorithms were used to map Successful Activism making the idea a reality. The EEU currently the shape of each frame's light distribution, which were then applied to every star in the frame. There THOMAS MCCARTHY occupies nearly 15% of the earth's land, and is the are five different filters and five different exposure FACULTY SPONSOR: ALICE RUTKOWSKI, ENGLISH 12th largest economy in the world. However, very lengths, with a frame for each combination per sky My project is an analysis of effective methods for little is known about this integration project. region. These data were combined into a single change on college campuses primarily dealing with Criticized as Russian President Vladimir Putin's pet catalog, calibrated using Landolt standards taken activism related to LGBTQ+ students. I begin the project, and a hollow imitator of the European on the same night. Cluster parameters such as paper by asking if there is a methodology for Union, the EEU now faces challenges of imbalance, distance, age, metallicity, and reddening were then effective activism, and then I use that model to inequity, and further integration. However, the determined from the resulting color magnitude explore my own activism as well as other activism economic bloc is poised to expand, with talks of and color-color plots. This project is part of a larger done on the campus and elsewhere. The end result incorporating Iran and Turkey into the Union. With effort known as the WIYN Open Cluster Study will be both a traditional-multidisciplinary paper as the European Union weakened by this summer's (WOCS), a collaborative effort of astronomers to well as a PDF guidebook for other collegiate Brexit, the question remains whether the EEU will establish a standard database of open cluster activists. take the opportunity to expand into new spaces or ______whether integration projects all around the world photometry, astrometry, and spectroscopy. ______These Invisible Landscapes are stalled in the anti-integration political environment. Looking at the history, politics, and The Effect of Anthropogenic Noise EVAN GOLDSTEIN possibilities for the EEU, this analysis will examine FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH on Insect Communication the nuances of this largely unstudied organization In the summer of 2016, as part of an MICHELLE MARKOWITZ and predict its future. FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTINA HANNAM, BIOLOGY Ambassadorship of Innovation, I took an eight- ______week drive across America, through its highways For many organisms, a limiting factor in and backroads, cities and small towns. I sought to From Sea to Holy See: Pope Francis reproductive success is the ability to send and begin a process of exploration--of seeing and and The Catholic Church as a receive acoustic signals. This form of documenting--that would allow me to create a Transnational Actor in International communication is being threatened by noise document of social conditions in our time. Though pollution. Research on acoustic communication I only scratched the surface of the vast American Relations can provide examples of how organisms adapt to 16  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM changing environments. Significant contributors to components. Therefore we restrict our attention quiescence, RT-PCR was performed with markers anthropogenic noise are roads, making roadside to unlinking two component links with linking of quiescence, cyclin dependent kinase 2(CDK2) environments commonly studied areas in number zero and both components unknotted. We and cyclin D1, in the treated cells. Both CDK2 and bioacoustical research. The first part of this study gather examples of links of this kind and use some cyclin D1 exhibit repressed expression in quiescent explores the relationship between background technical tools to analyze them such as Conway cells. So, we expect both of these molecules to be noise level and calling characteristics of the Short- and Alexander Polynomials, the Thistlethwaite Link down regulated in the clobetasol treated cells as winged Meadow Katydid (Conocephalus Table, and branched covers. After observing the compared to the untreated cells. brevipennis). The second part of this study analyses number of crossing changes needed to unlink in the change in the calling characteristics of House these cases, we generalize our results beyond 2J • LANGUAGES AND Crickets (Acheta domesticus) when artificial road examples by generating families of links. Selected LITERATURES ALICE AUSTIN THEATER noise is added in a controlled lab setting. In for presentation at Mathematical Association of addition to the ecological and conservation aspects America Seaway Sectional Meeting, Oswego, NY. EN EL ACTO: One-Act Plays in of this research, results could potentially provide ______Spanish evidence for the occurrence of microevolutionary 3D Boundary Detection using FACULTY SPONSOR: FELISA BREA, LANGUAGES changes taking place in these species as a Cellular Automata and Genetic AND LITERATURES consequence of human behavior. SESSION CHAIR: ROSE MCEWEN, LANGUAGES ______Algorithms AND LITERATURES The Role of Plant Respiratory Burst WALTER GERYCH ______FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS BALDWIN, El viejo celoso (The Jealous Old Oxidase Homologs (Rbohs) in MATHEMATICS Susceptibility of Brassica rapa to We designed and implemented an algorithm for Man), a play by Cervantes, adapted Botrytis cinerea Infection boundary detection in 3D images that consisted of to Modern Spanish and acted by ADAM WEGMAN a cellular automaton optimized by a genetic Department of Languages and FACULTY SPONSOR: MING-MEI CHANG, BIOLOGY algorithm. The method involves randomly The first-line plant defense against pathogens is generating an initial population of rule sets for Literatures students. the hypersensitive response (HR), which results in cellular automata. The fitness of each rule set is AOIFE ANDREWS, MARISSA HARRINGTON-VERB, cell death localized to the site of infection. Though determined by the PSNR of the image generated DIANA PÉREZ, SHAY BENEDETTO, LEILA being an effective mechanism against obligate after running a cellular automaton using that rule BOCANEGRA, JONATHAN NIEVES, AARON biotrophic pathogens, the cell death response set on a ground truth test image. A genetic KLUBALL, TIPHERETH HASSAN, TRISTAN makes the plant vulnerable to necrotrophic algorithm then breeds the most fit rule sets JOHNSON, COURTNEY KING pathogens including Botrytis cinerea, which utilize together. After several successive generations, the Hyperjealous Cañizares, the play's elderly dead plant tissue as their food source. most fit rule set is used to define the cellular protagonist, confines his child bride Lorenza to Necrotrophic pathogens can be major threats to automaton that acts as the boundary detector for their home, guarding her under lock and key - ever important crops, such as rice, underscoring the the 3D images. The cellular automaton rule set fearful that the outdoors may enlighten her of the need to understand the processes that govern cell derived from the genetic algorithm produced marital delights he has yet to provide her. When death during infection. Previous studies have results that outperformed a previous method of 3D Cañizares mistakenly leaves Lorenza's doors shown that the oxidative burst of reactive oxygen boundary detection when run on brain scans from unlocked, Hortigosa, their crafty neighbor, timely species (ROS) produced by plant respiratory burst the BRATS 2016 dataset. This project was enters the scene; she suggests to the young oxidase homologs (Rbohs) during HR is the primary motivated by the goal to create an automatic Lorenza that her circumstances would be driver of cell death in infected cells. We sought to method of detecting brain tumors in 3D MRI scans. pleasantly improved were she to allow the test if DPI inhibition of Rbohs prior to Botrytis This method can be used as a diagnostic tool, as neighbor to deliver a young and willing suitor to the cinerea inoculation reduces ROS-induced cell death well as a method of determining the volume of girl's bedroom. The ensuing scenes of this and thus the spread of the pathogen. In order to brain tumors. An automatic method of entremés (a type of humorous one-act plays that in eliminate the possible deleterious effects of DPI on determining tumor volume is of interest to medical Spain's Middle Ages and early Renaissance were Botrytis spore germination and growth, we professionals because tumor volume correlates to inserted between two acts of a serious drama) measured its growth rate on agar medium the stage of the tumor. prove most entertaining--and, ironically, still ______impregnated with DPI. To verify the presence of plausible 400 years after the work's publication. plant Rbohs and their enzyme activities, we Clobetasol Treatment of Vulvar NOTE: Students in Dr. McEwen's Introduction to performed a Western blot against RbohD and Carcinoma Cell Lines UMSCV-4 Hispanic Literatures course have adapted the play's dialog to reflect contemporary Spanish language measured the corresponding superoxide Show Evidence of Entering into production in Botrytis-infected Brassica plants as usage and current Hispanic trends. compared to the control. Quiescence as Reflected by Decreased Cellular Metabolism 2K • ENGLISH BAILEY 101 2I • EDGAR FELLOWS MISCELLANY 8 VARUN MEHTA Guided Poetry Source Tours 2 BAILEY 203 FACULTY SPONSOR: JANI LEWIS, BIOLOGY SUE RUBRIGHT, SPONSORED RESEARCH SESSION CHAIR: MICHAEL MILLS, CENTER FOR Vulvar cancer is rare, mostly afflicting women aged FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH INQUIRY, DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT 60 and older. The cancer is often preceded by a ______common vulvar rash, Lichen sclerosis, that is Pedestrian Crossway treated with the ultra-potent corticosteroid, ALLISON FOX Colored Unlinking MOVED TO SESSION 1I JENNA ZOMBACK clobetasol. However, there is some concern that Do we notice the people we walk past? Do we FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFF JOHANNES, clobetasol can promote carcinogenesis in vulvar notice the surroundings we brush by? Do we pay MATHEMATICS tissue. Using MTT assays, we showed that attention? Typically when we venture out into the In links with two components there are three clobetasol treatment of the vulvar carcinoma cell world we fail to notice the spectacles that sculpt different types of crossings: self-crossing in the first lines, UMSCV-2 and UMSCV-4, slows the our paths. In the effort to be more aware of my component, self crossing in the second metabolism of these cells. Removing the clobetasol outside world, I have begun to observe the component, and crossing between components. results in reinitiation of growth, further suggesting passersby. I wonder, is the one moment that we Previous work by Peter Kohn has mostly not made that clobetasol is actually promoting a state of brush shoulders the single impact we will have on this distinction between the different types of quiescence in which the cells become only each other's lives? I will be leading a small group to crossings. In this talk we examine the minimum temporarily dormant. This poses an obstacle to the 3-5 locations around campus in an effort to shed number of crossing changes needed to unlink methods of cancer treatment, which typically light on the people and places that may have been without changing the crossings between targets cells that are actively dividing. To further a sort of refuge, or may have been an insignificant identify if clobetasol treatment results in blip en route to class. I will recite poetry and read  Promotes sustainability 17 Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual original works, beginning on Main Street by the together that constructs Indian Culture. The another. Being able to travel around the world fountain to witness pedestrians and motor traffic. presenter Dharti Thaker and Shreyya Malik will be makes you aware of all those differences and gives If we start to focus our outlooks onto the accepted speaking about family structure and marriage, you a better understanding of how people behave, trivial surroundings, we create an opportunity to festivals, languages, art, sports, media, and think and feel.We want to introduce some propagate the source. clothing, etc. So, get ready to be painted with the outstanding distinctions between the U.S. and ______colors of Indian essence "Indian- ness". Argentina. Some of the points that we are going to Geneseo Sports & Poetry: A Lit Tour ______develop are related to social interactions: ways of DAVINA WARD My Home Country, Spain greeting and communicating, formalities of the This presentation will focus on the sports world of IVÁN GALLEGO HERNÁNDEZ relationships, and how young people party. In Geneseo. I intend to create a video tour through For GREAT Day, I have planned to deliver a addition, we are going to highlight some the athletic sites located on campus to examine presentation on my home country, Spain. In differences in college education, as well as some of elements of sports at Geneseo that make particular, I intend on focusing first on the different perspectives in cinema industry and in for excellent poetry. These sites would include country's geography, with reference to Spain's the importance of the material things. We hope Softball Fields, Soccer and Lacrosse Fields, Pool, global positioning, as well as to my specific home that appreciating these aspects will provide the Tennis Courts, and Basketball/Volleyball Courts. I town's location. In addition, I will further present audience a better understanding of how cross- would like to create a panel of some head coaches the nuances of Spanish culture. For this section of cultural differences influence our daily behavior. and players from the various sports to discuss my presentation I will touch on the topics of aspects of sports at Geneseo that they could see as language, food, holidays, and some particularly 2N • GEOGRAPHY BAILEY 201 acting material for poetry, as well as detail athletic interesting facts. Cultural and Social Geography II ______moments in recent school history. Additionally, FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: DARRELL this video tour would act as a more in-depth look Who are TCKs? NORRIS, GEOGRAPHY at the sports centers at SUNY Geneseo and YUKA KURITA, KEIKO ISHIZUKA ______determine some concrete moments and examples When people meet for the first time, they The Geography of Exclusivity: Golf of how the particular locations of the Geneseo commonly ask "Where are you from?" and expect campus related to athletic activities are and have them to meet their expectations. However, this in Singapore been the home to poetic source. simple question is always a struggle for third ADAM DOHRENWEND culture kids (TCKs). TCKs are a new category of FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, 2L • ENGLISH GAZEBO people who spent their early childhoods in cultures GEOGRAPHY Guided Poetry Source Tours 3 different from their parents'. Their definition of Singapore, one of the most densely populated "home" is usually different from the norm and is places in the world, is tasked with significant social, SESSION CHAIR: ARIANNA MILLER geographical, and environmental problems rooted ______not heterogeneous. The hegemonic stereotypes of in sport. Golf has made quite the footprint on the Chasing Poetry Across Campus: a TCKs' backgrounds and nationalities challenge them. People generally consider TCKs unique. landscape of Singapore—with 2% of the country's Performance and Workshop However, they are not much different from others very limited land being taken up by golf courses ARIANNA MILLER, DAVID SABOL with more multicultural skills. The globalization (Shih). This phenomenon puts a significant amount FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH increased the population of TCKs, even though the of Singapore's undeveloped land in the hands of We will write a slam piece using a poetically correct understanding of TCKs is still weak. This the few who have climbed to the very top of the inspirational location on campus, specifically, the presentation will focus on hidden struggles of TCKs social ladder to play a game that further stresses gazebo, which would also function as the launch in college life and their home countries. the rest of Singapore's growing population. point of our Guided Source Tour. We would ______Selected for presentation at Middle States perform our piece at the gazebo to our audience. Coming of Age Day in Japan meeting of the Association of American After we have completed performing our piece, we AYUMI KONO, YURI TSUBOI Geographers, Binghamton, NY. ______will walk through Sturges Quad up into Wadsworth The following presentation will discuss the annual and into Welles. As we walk we'll mention aspects Coming of Age Day which occurs each January in The Global Dissusion of Slum of each subject we find inspirational, hopefully Japan. Every year, the Coming of Age Day publicly Tourism and the Issues it Raises conjuring up some inspiration. Following our tour, honors those who have turned twenty years old NICHOLAS MINETT we will move to the College Green where over the course of the past year. In Japanese Slum tourism is a growing reality. It began at least participants will be given the opportunity to create society, young adults officially complete their in the nineteenth century, when London's rich their own pieces about where we visited or transition into adulthood at the age of twenty. would literally "slum it," and still thrives today all somewhere else on campus. We will create a Likewise, at this time they are also granted a new over the world. At least thirty major cities now writing exercise that will help our audience do this set of responsibilities and privileges which go along offer slum tours to rich westerners to "how the and help guide each writer if they need it. There with their newfound status in society. In this way, other side lives." The argument rages on both sides will then be time for people to share their pieces turning twenty is an incredibly significant event for of slum tourism, with many claiming that slum and ask questions. Japanese citizens. The presenters will begin by tours are simply human zoos while others argue

explaining the history of the Coming of Age Day, against that notion and look at the positives of 2M • ENGLISH WELLES 128 and more specifically, how citizens typically tours. Either way, slum tourism has been on a ESOL Cultural Experiences celebrate the holiday. In addition, the personal steady rise. I will focus on how the slums sustain FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: IRENE experiences of each presenter will be discussed in themselves, how the tours operate, and the rich BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, ENGLISH further detail with special attention given to culture that each slum contains within itself. While ______certain experiences involving particularly looking at the slums themselves, what they have to India, the Place Where My Heart interesting events, such as the traditional initiation offer during tours, and some of the other ceremonies. The presenters are very much looking intricacies of the business, this paper will include Belongs forward to sharing both their own personal stories, logistics and first-hand perspectives from tour DHARTI THAKER, SHREYYA MALIK but also a piece of Japanese Culture with their employees and different individuals who have India is a country rich in culture, languages, audience! participated in slum tours. My paper will also focus traditions and religions. It is the country believed ______on giving outsiders a hard look at the reality of to have one of the oldest civilizations like Harappa Cultural Differences between what life in these squatter settlements is. My goal and MohenJo-daro. India is the country of not only Argentina and USA is to raise awareness about what Slum Tourism is an amalgamation of traditions and religions but and bring attention to this subject and these also hearts of people as well. India is the birthplace CECILIA CAMPOS, FERNANDO CALIARI Presenters from Argentina will explain how cultural ignored impoverished areas. Selected for of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. It is presentation at State University of New York the mixture and essence of all these religions put differences vary significantly from one country to

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Undergraduate Research Conference, Fredonia, Apollo and Daphne story often romanticizes the influence, as well as data on public opinion and NY. relationship between Apollo and Daphne, and government responsiveness. therefore skews the viewers' response to the ______2O • GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES ISC 115 narrative. This is especially evident in Renaissance Comparative Analysis of Public SESSION CHAIR: JEFF OVER, GEOLOGICAL art, where instead of emphasizing the horror that Policy of Sex Trafficking in the U.S., SCIENCES Daphne feels in the moment of her transformation, ______artists paint the metamorphosis as being sexual, The Netherlands, Nigeria, and India Breakage and Dissolution of welcomed, and romantic. RACHEL WILCOVE ______The United Nations defines human trafficking as Conodonts in the Digestive System Women's Place in Erotic High Art: "recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, of a Modern Non-teleost Fish The Necessary Glorification of Zeus or receipt of persons by improper means ... for ALLAN ENGELBERT forced labor or sexual exploitation" (National FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFF OVER, GEOLOGICAL in The Rape of Callisto Institute of Justice, 2017). According to the SCIENCES MARGARET PIGLIACELLI, EMMA WILLIAMS International Labor Organization (2017), There is a distinct bias in the fossil record that This presentation shows the disparity between approximately 4.5 million individuals worldwide preferentially preserves P1 conodont elements. A high art depictions of women and of men in erotic (mostly women and girls) are trapped in sexual 2005 study compared a sample of conodont scenes. To show female homoerotic love in a exploitation. Although it is illegal under elements collected in South Carolina, U.S.A., to a positive light, artists often masculinize female international and national laws, many countries given ratio of elements expected in a complete figures or compose the painting in a way that either do not take measures or are ineffective in conodont apparatus. Of what was collected, there suggests traditional gender roles. We examine addressing this heinous crime. This study examines were 673% more P1 elements than expected representations of The Rape of Callisto in which the the laws and law enforcement measures instituted relative to the ratio of P1 elements in a complete gender of the figures determines whether the by four countries to address sex trafficking: the apparatus. Of the S, M, and P2 elements collected, painter emphasizes violence or beauty; beauty United States, Nigeria, India, and (the only subject 3%, 14%, and 49% were recovered compared to a surpasses violence only when there is either an country where prostitution in legalized) the complete apparatus, respectively. Structurally, P1 overt male presence or a woman acts in a Netherlands. elements are larger and thicker than the other S, traditionally male role. Women, seemingly, cannot ______M, and P2 elements. It is possible that the less exist in erotic spaces without a male presence. Strategic Re-engagement: The robust S, M, and P1 elements were damaged as a Russian Federation's Reactive and result of predation on conodonts by other 2Q • POLITICAL SCIENCE & Proactive Maneuvers in Latin carnivorous fish during the Paleozoic era. These INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS pre-depositional factors would have an effect on America WELLES 121 the fossilization potential of these elements, and DAVID GOMEZ could be responsible for the overrepresentation of Honors Theses II After a short disengagement period following the P1 elements in the fossil record. To test this FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia now sees hypothesis, two complete conodont apparatus will SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS various opportunities in reactivating and be fed to Polypterus (Bichir), and then analyzed for SESSION CHAIR: JEREMY GRACE, POLITICAL cultivating new strategic relationships across Latin breakage and dissolution after the conodonts have SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS America. Since the early 2000's, Russia has been digested. This experiment should yield similar ______engaged in a vast array of economic, military, and results to the preservation statistics of conodonts Political Culture, Interest Groups, influence operations designed to achieve specific in the fossil record. and the American Gun Crisis: an short and long-term goals. Russia's reactive, or short term, actions are a direct result of specific 2P • ENGLISH WELLES 134 Exploration of Contributing Factors U.S. foreign policy stances and actions toward Literature, High Art, and Serial Rape and a Comparison to Australia and Russia, and these reactive measures feed and Germany strengthen Russia's proactive, or long term, in the Classroom: Will It Be on the strategy which is shaped by the larger framework LISA KAASIK of the international system and Russia's history. Midterm? The United States faces an unparalleled gun These actions reflect the government's desire to FACULTY SPONSOR: JULIA WALKER, ENGLISH violence epidemic that claims the lives of over reassert Russia's position as a global force, manage SESSION CHAIR: PAIGE GORDON AND TYLER 30,000 people every year. In the last few decades, its own domestic and regional affairs, and counter HERMAN following a sharp increase in mass shootings, the ______what it sees as a preponderance of power in the gun control debate has emerged as one of the United States and the West. Recycling the Rape of Europa more polarizing issues in American politics. Gun RAINA SALVATORE , MARIA SIMAS control legislation in the U.S. is disparate and has STURGES 109 Our presentation focuses on the shift from done little to mitigate gun violence. In order to 2R • HISTORY eroticism to violence in paintings of the Rape of better explain the uniqueness of the American gun Research in Gender and Sexuality Europa. While many early depictions of the crisis, it is helpful to examine how other countries narrative emphasize the erotic nature of Zeus' History II approach guns and gun ownership. Australia, a FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: RYAN abduction of Europa, more modern works suggest country with a similar firearm history, instituted that artists began to see rape as a criminal act. This JONES, HISTORY massive gun control legislation following a mass ______move from hypersexualized versions of Ovid's shooting at Port Arthur in 1996, which resulted in a Cross-Dressing as Comedy in Film narrative to darker interpretations may reflect a dramatic reduction in the amount of guns in change in the mindsets and attitudes of the circulation and rates of gun violence. Germany, and Television, 1950-1999: What a painters' perceived audiences. despite the significant number of guns in ______Joke Costs and Who Pays For It circulation, has very low rates of gun violence due JENNA LAWSON Apollo and Daphne in the to their strict gun control policies. In this paper, I Cross-dressing as comedy in television and film was Renaissance: The Romanticization investigate the role that interest groups play in the performed to the detriment of many transgender creation of gun control policy and their influence individuals in the 1950s through the 1990s and of Possession and Submission on public opinion. I argue that the relationship MARTY BENZINGER, JENNIFER LIRIANO even into the present. In considering performances between the state and interest groups is the most of drag, it is clear that they were and are markedly The Apollo and Daphne story, as told in Ovid's powerful explanation behind the differences in gun Metamorphoses, is one of sexual aggression and different from cross-dressing performed by control legislation. I examine these differences straight men due to the position of marginality held unreciprocated love. Though these themes are with a qualitative evaluation of interest group evident throughout the text, art portraying the by drag performers, who often inverted tropes and  Promotes sustainability 19 Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual stereotypes about queer behavior. This difference interns will introduce the audience to SNCC and the accommodation is facework, the actions that is expressed through the general drag performer SNCC Digital Gateway as well as their individual attend to the faces of the speaker and the listener view on their own reasons behind their contributions and understandings. You can find the (Callahan 2011). Non-specialized jobs (e.g. working performance, where they create humor out of SNCC Digital Gateway at snccdigital.org and one in restaurant kitchens) most often lack linguistic alternative performances of gender instead of at student, Laura Brown, will reflect on what she accommodation, predominantly with the use of the expense of it, while still taking the topic of learned from the website. "Mock Spanish" (Barrett 2006; Escobar & Potowski gender performance very seriously. The 2015). Eliminating the use of "Mock Spanish" and consequences of cross-dressing as comedy can be 2T • LANGUAGES AND employing more facework and code switching in measured through a growing anti-transgender LITERATURES BAILEY 105 the workplace would improve linguistic sentiment that rejects transgender desire to access accommodation. A multilingual person inherently spaces that correlate with their gender identity, Spanish in the US: Spanish and has a more sophisticated and developed most notably in an anxiety about transgender English in Contact communicative competence, and recognizing this bathroom use, and through an expressed lack of FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: is therefore imperative in properly establishing agency and sense of discrimination felt by CHRISTINA AGOSTINELLI-FUCILE, LANGUAGES workplace linguistic accommodation. transgender individuals during this time frame. AND LITERATURES ______While film and television were no means the only ______The Use of Spanish Pronouns in cause for this development, an examination of Why do Bilinguals Code-switch?: New York City: Changes in Spanish these films and the attitudes of filmmakers, viewers, and transgender people finds that they Examining the Causes and Benefits Speech Patterns Caused by Contact helped to propagate these of Speaking Two Languages at the with English and Other Social ______Same Time An bhfuil bean sa codagh: Gaelic, Factors MEGAN MCDONOUGH JESSICA BENEWAY Gathering and Girls in the 1916 Code-switching is the alternation of two languages The conjugations of Spanish verbs based on a Easter Rising in the same speech or sentence (Poplack, 1980). subject's actions makes the use of pronouns THERESA GIBBONS Through analyzing current research and literature optional or contextual. However, it is essential to While the Easter Uprising of 1916 is one of the about the reasons behind code-switching, it is clear use pronouns in English to indicate who is taking most discussed events in Irish history, discourse that there are multiple reasons to explain why it the action of the verb (Shin & Alcalá, 2014). Several surrounding women's participation in the Rising is occurs. Code-switching has often been seen as a studies have indicated that native Spanish- limited in both scope and focus. This study seeks to negative occurrence. The popular, yet misguided speakers interacting with the English language are expand upon previous historiography in order to belief is that people code-switch because they do more likely to include pronouns in the speech understand the effects that gender hegemony not have full knowledge of either language pattern (Shin & Alcalá, 2014; Otheguy, Zentella & played in the development of women's (Heredia & Altarriba, 2001). However, most Livert, 2007). New York City is home to a plethora involvement in the Rising. Rather than rehashing linguists agree that full proficiency in both of populations and languages. Studying previous scholarship on the military achievements languages in necessary in order for code-switching interactions between language and society in a of women in the rising, this study aims to discuss to occur (Poplack, 1980). Other research argues civilization such as NYC is of great importance the female fighters use of traditional gender roles that code-switching can be used to demonstrate because language patterns are often derived from and femininity as a method of gaining social, cultural identity (Kim, 2006) or to better express of social patterns (Otheguy et. al., 2007). By studying political, and military autonomy prior to and during emotions (Toribio, 2001). Additionally, some the Spanish-English interaction in this cultural the Rising. scholars have found that some words or ideas are microcosm, we can identify how Latino ______simply better explained using a different language populations are possibly affected by societal History of Vibrators (Toribio, 2001). Code-switching is useful for interactions (Otheguy, Zentella & Livert, 2007). navigating the increasingly diverse and is a ERIN SHEEHAN These language patterns can indicate gender, resource that multilingual speakers should use to This paper offers a new look at the history of wealth and class inequalities found in Spanish- their full advantage. Studying code-switching can vibrators, from their origins as a medical device to speaking populations (Shin & Otheguy, 2013). help reinforce the idea that it is a non-disruptive solve female (and at times male) physical and Linguistic patterns such as these are essential when tool that can enhance the communicative power of psychological health issues, including hysteria, to studying ever-changing demographics and the speaker. We will discuss why code-switching their shift into becoming a device associated with population statistics. This presentation will unpack should be accepted and even encouraged, sexual pleasure. and explore several social and environmental especially in learning environments. factors that have potentially affected the use of ______2S • HISTORY STURGES 108 Spanish pronouns in New York City's Spanish- Linguistic Accommodation in the speaking population. SNCC Digital Gateway and Geneseo: Workplace ______The Student Nonviolent EMILY DELSIGNORE English, please: The Unjust Reality Coordinating Committee Past and Throughout American history, the freedom of Facing Spanish-Speakers in expression has been among the most beloved of American Workplaces Present American civil rights. Linguistic accommodation in SETH KLEMENICH FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: EMILYE the workplace is a necessary implication of this This research aims to identify the different ways in CROSBY, HISTORY right, and furthermore is a useful tool to combat ______which American workplaces unjustly discriminate language ideology within the workplace. Various THOMAS GARRITY, JENNIFER GALVAO, LAUREN against Spanish-speaking monolingual and aspects of interpersonal relations (specifically, PLEVY, TANAIRI TAYLOR, LAURA BROWN bilingual employees, mostly as a result of growing between employee and client vs. between The SNCC Digital Gateway is an online digital diversity and immigration. Due to certain linguistic employee and employer) and examples within resource for documenting and sharing the work of ideologies and xenophobic sentiments that exist, specific occupations illustrate the absolute the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. many workplaces have begun to implement necessity of linguistic accommodation that SNCC was formed out of the 1960s sit-in policies, such as that of "English-only", which comprises the sociolinguistic competence of movement and was an organization of college- unfairly target Spanish-speaking employees who bilingual American workers. For example, code aged activists on the cutting edge of the Civil Rights may know little English (Wyld 1997). English-only switching (sequences of English and Spanish in the Movement. Four Geneseo students are working as has, however, caused action in the form of court same discourse) is considered an example of an interns on the SNCC Digital Gateway, helping to cases, which have had varying degrees of success employee and client interpersonal communication incorporate Geneseo recordings of civil rights in overturning these policies (Wyld 1997, Del Valle technique (Escobar & Potowski 2015). movement speakers and using social media for 2009). Code switching, in which a bilingual speaker Contrariwise, another type of linguistic promotional and educational purposes. The four easily switches between Spanish and English in one 20  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM conversation, poses risks as well, as employers see project their best personal qualities, and convey a of the pyramid to half the length of the base is Phi. this as the employee being able to "choose" to professional working image. It is also thought that the pyramids were respectfully follow policy and speak English (Colón ______constructed based on theirformula for drawing 2002). Also of importance, Mock Spanish and We Learned to be Successful in an images of the human body, which incorporates Phi. Domestic Spanish serve to dehumanize Spanish- Audit Class The use of the golden ratio evidently also implies a speakers, reinforcing negative stereotypes coinciding use of Pi, which has led to further VIRGINIA ELEY, ELIZA COX, JULIE JOHNSTON, attributed to speaking Spanish (Barrett 2006, Divita research on the use of Pi in ancient pyramid JORDON MCKINSEY 2014). Although it may be difficult to change construction. Many mathematicians stillmarvel the This presentation will focus on an exploration of xenophobic sentiments in the workplace, this fact that the pyramids were so advanced for their skills college students need to be successful in a situation can be improved by using more sincere time. college class and how these skills generalize to life language towards bilingual employees and by ______after school. The students will discuss their audit choosing to learn the other language in question in  class, their individual goals while attending the What is Chaos? depth so as to not use it only for command audit class, the information learned while in class, ELINOL LOPEZ purposes. skills required for success in a college class, as well Chaos theory is the mathematics of surprises. It studies nonlinear and unpredictablerelationships BRODIE 152 as a reflection of the interactions that occurred 2U • THEATRE & DANCE while in the audit class. such as turbulence, weather, even our brain Spiritual Awakenings ______chemistry. We describe these phenomena using FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MARK Skills Learned in LIVES and at fractal mathematics. This is because many objects BROOMFIELD, THEATRE & DANCE in nature such asclouds, trees, organs, and rivers, ______Geneseo and How they Will Help possess fractal properties and behave chaotically. SOPHIA GARBER, MICHAEL REED, JULIA DEACON, Me in the Future Recognizing infinitely complex fractal nature of our PATRICK YEE TAYLOR CATHEY, JESSE CLAUD, AMANDA CROSS, world can give us insight, and wisdom. By Performed in three sections, the danced duet IAN KANE, KALEB KENNEY understanding that our ecosystems, our social "Awakenings" revives and renews the need for This presentation will be a summary of the systems, and our economic systems are spiritual connection to the music of Ruby Philogene students' four years at Geneseo in the LIVES interconnected, we can hope to avoid potentially including Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Chile, Program. Each student will present the skills detrimental actions. 'Tis Me, O Lord, and Walk With Me. she/he has learned in the LIVES Program, in audit ______classes, at non-paid internships, clubs/activities, The Golden Ratio in Art and Design 2V • EDUCATION NEWTON 204 and discuss the development of their social skills. ADELYA BAIMUKHAMEDOVA The LIVES Program at SUNY My research will analyze the importance of the 2W • THEATRE & DANCE WELLES 138 Golden Ratio in art and design. I intend to loosely Geneseo: Our Strengths and Theatre & Dance 1 trace the timeline of the ratio's use. I will begin my Struggles, Work Skills Learned, and timeline with the ratio'salleged Ancient Egyptian FACULTY SPONSOR: RICHARD WESP, THEATRE & "inception" in the proportions of the pyramids at Sills Learned DANCE Giza. I will continue by studying the Golden Ratio ______FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: within the artworks of Leonardo da Vinci and Piet ELIZABETH HALL, EDUCATION Lana Del Rey: Icon of Ephemera Mondrian. I will conclude my timeline by analyzing ______GEORGE GOGA the modern utilization of the Golden Ratio, Our Strengths and Struggles - Sometime in the 90s, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant including digitally (Twitter's User Interface) as well Similarities and Differences became a musician. It would be years later--along as its use in logos (Toyota,Google). the way, an acceptance letter from SUNY Geneseo, Between College Students with and ______too--until she'd become known as Lana Del Rey. Understanding the Fibonacci without Disabilities Her early albums Born to Die and Paradise DYAN MCCLURG, ALEXIS HERMAN, SUZI transported her to fame, today supported by Sequence LOMBARDO, KATRINA FINCH, LEAH RHOADS, Ultraviolence, Honeymoon, and her most recent KATIE VIENNEAU CODY SCHLAGETER, ADAM THARETT, single, Love. But what's the fuss? This talk makes Leonardo Pisano was an influential and talented The first-year students in the LIVES Program the case that Del Rey's success is distinctly literary, Italian mathematician during the Middle Ages. He surveyed Geneseo college students to determine through both her lyrics and persona. Along the introduced the Hindu-Arabic numeral system to their strengths and struggles as college students. way, her songs define a contemporary America the Western world, and is widely known for his The LIVES students then compared/contrasted the whose pop culture isn't trivial: it's essential in fact mathematical contribution, the Fibonacci college student's answers to their own to celebrating life's most literary moments. sequence. The Fibonacci sequencecan be seen in strengths/struggles as being first year college nature, such as in the family trees of bees and the students. The LIVES students found that the 2X • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 328 leaf arrangements of plants. I will explain what the Fibonacci sequence is, what patterns can be Geneseo college students had similar strengths Topics in the History of and struggles thus helping the LIVES Program produced with certain operations and students understand that college students have Mathematics 2 manipulations, and where in every day life the similar experiences regardless of ability. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GARY Fibonacci sequence appears.

______TOWSLEY, MATHEMATICS Work Skills We Learned in Order to ______2Y • ENGLISH WELLES 119 Mathematics and Architecture of Be Successful True North: Canadian Literature RICHARD JOHANNES, THOMAS COBURN, the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH JENNIFER PEARL, JAMES SNYDER, QUINN KEENAN SESSION CHAIR: DAVID BEYEA ______This presentation will focus on skills learned by the The ancient pyramids of Egypt are amazing feats of LIVES students while participating in a non-paid architecture for the time. Many are amazed at how The Rise of Canadian Identity in work internship on campus, and how these skills the ginormous structures were built. In turn, Barometer Rising generalize to life after school. Living in a rural area people have studied the dimensions of the KATHLEEN JACKSON with jobs being very competitive, having the right pyramids to theorize the proportion system used This essay considers how Hugh Maclennan's novel qualifications and experience is no longer enough to construct the structures. The theories include of the Halifax Explosion of 1917 develops the to ensure employment. The LIVES Program the possible use of: the golden ratio (Phi), Pi, as theme of Canadian Identity. The essay focuses on students have learned that they have to well as the Pythagorean theorem. In particular, how the characters contribute to this increasing differentiate themselves from the next person, there is a theory that the Great Pyramid of Khufu understanding of a nation that is no longer thinking was designed so that the ratio of the slant height  Promotes sustainability 21 Session 2 • 9:55 – 11:10 AM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual of itself as a British colony and draws on aspects of The MTA as a Model for Positive signifies both as a physical symptom of pollution postcolonial theory to advance the argument. and as a symbol of collective fears, even paralysis, ______Climate Propaganda in regard to climate change. The Role of Setting in Sinclair Ross's JACOB SNYDER What is the difference between propaganda and 2AA • WOMEN’S AND GENDER “The Painted Door” changing someone's mind? This paper focuses RICKY NOEL upon Metro Transit Authority posters displayed on STUDIES WELLES 24 The paper is a brief exploration of Sinclair Ross' use New York subways, which work both by direct and WGST Senior Casptones: Gender, of setting in his short story, "The Painted Door." In unconscious means: to reinforce riders' trust in and Spirituality and Witchcraft it, I assert that Ross' choice of a terrible blizzard on loyalty to the MTA, to build a sense of community FACULTY SPONSOR: JESS FENN, ENGLISH the bleak, isolated Canadian prairie is made to both between the two parties, and to encourage further reflect and intensify the protagonist's inner SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE BLOOD, ENGLISH efforts to reduce the overall carbon footprint. ______conflict. It is my take on the oft repeated idea that Potentially, this is a dangerous form of civil a setting can act as its own character in a piece of propaganda that asks people to blindly trust a Reading Sex, Gender, & Sexuality in literature corporation and reshape their thinking Julian of Norwich's Revelations of ______accordingly. I argue that there is such a thing as Comedic Elements of Mordecai Divine Love "positive propaganda" which raises ecological JENNA COLOZZA Richler's “Some Grist for Mervyn's issues and creates meaningful communities Female mystics living in the Middle Ages had a Mill” between individuals and collective entities like the unique position within the realm of Christian MTA. spirituality. With the ability of unmediated contact DONALD ROTHWEIN ______with God, mystics like Julian of Norwich enjoyed a This essay examines the often overlooked light- As Alive as You Are: Empathy for hearted sight of literature through a dissection of certain level of personal independence and Mordecai Richler's "Some Gryst for Mervyn's Mill." the Environment (and Everything authorial agency, yet in some ways existed outside Richler is able to transform his piece into a comedic Else Too) the normative and authoritative structure of the Church. Written in part as she was cloistered as an work through the relative absurdity of main ABIGAIL RITZ anchoress, Julian's Revelations of Divine Love, or as character and aspiring writer Mervyn Kaplansky Edward Snowden's revelation of the National she called them, "Showings," simultaneously paint compared to the mundane and traditional Jewish Security Agency's (NSA's) enormous breach of the a complex, insightful theology and tell us much community he takes up residence in. This privacy of individuals and states across the globe, about sex, gender, and sexuality in the Middle juxtaposition, aided by minor elements of tragedy the use of drone warfare and surveillance by the and the audience's unmet expectation of a greater Ages. United States government, an increasingly ______resolution at the story's close, results in a work of nationalistic and fearful populace: each represents short fiction that serves as an example of the vast a disconnect between Us and the Other, whatever Witchcraft in Television and Film techniques used to create humor in the written the foreign other may be. Such disruptions are STEPHANIE GERSPACHER word. symptomatic of a larger, more threatening The identity of witch and the practice of witchcraft breakdown in empathy as such, especially is often associated with feminism. Scholars have 2Z • ENGLISH WELLES 140 prevalent among our society's most privileged. The suggested that women who were subverting the Under Our Noses: Climate Change powerful also are those, not coincidentally, most popular systems of control, particularly patriarchal likely to deny the existence of climate change. This capitalism, were labeled as witches and suffered in Unlikely Places paper focuses upon empathy--and its erasure--to the consequences. Women as witches in popular FACULTY SPONSOR: KEN COOPER, ENGLISH explore connections between national security, culture is perhaps just as pervasive as the SESSION CHAIR: JACOB SNYDER modern (cyber-)warfare, and environmental appearance of witches throughout history. The ______devastation. ways in which women are portrayed in the media Movement is Life: Mobility and ______offer a parallel for analysis of how they are viewed  them in society. Climate Change Autism as Symptom and Symbol of ______IAN BECKMAN Climate Change The Power of Three and A common but frequently overlooked theme in NATE BARR anthropocene-era culture is the issue of mobility. Autism is a uniquely modern condition. Only Heterosexuality: How Charmed Automobiles, one of the most iconic symbols of clinically identified in the 1940s, the disorder's Excludes Queer Women modern technology, are deeply implicated as one profile has risen over the past thirty years as EMILY HOLDGRUEN of the greatest contributors to carbon emissions: diagnoses of autism spectrum disorders (or ASD) Although witches, demons, and other magical attractive people in car commercials race forward have become more common. This rise, however, beasts exist in the universe of The WB's Charmed, into an ever-narrowing future. This irony has not cannot yet be explained, and basic questions about LGBTQ+ women are significantly nonexistent. This been lost on science fiction writers like George ASD's origins and long-term effects remain. Does it paper offers a textual analysis of the forced Miller, Phillip Reeve, Tetsuro Araki, and Nicholas stem from psychological, genetic, or heterosexuality in Charmed, highlighting its main Smith, who reconceive motion and the vehicles environmental factors? Can toxic environments platonic female relationships and hetero- themselves in their works. There are two themes influence the expression of a genetic normative, fairy-tale narratives. that predominate: first, a total destruction of predisposition to the disorder? Or does greater Earth's environment, either through humanity's consciousness of ASD symptoms alone account for actions or events beyond our control; and second, its increasing prevalence? Running in tandem with . a theme of forced (not volitional) movement. In growing public awareness of ASD is the use of these works no one can stay still, no one can afford autistic individuals in popular media to reflect upon to rest. various aspects contemporary society. When put in ______dialogue with other markers of modernity, ASD provides a metaphor for society's inability to respond or adapt to environmental conditions. It

22  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Session 3 • ROUND ROBIN • 2:25 – 3:40 PM

CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS 3 ROUND ROBIN • 2:25 - 3:40 PM This session will have three varied presentations in each room, with ample time to move from room to room between presentations.

SESSION 3 ROUND ROBIN BLOCK 1 • 2:25 - 2:40 PM

3A • 1 WELLES 121 Victory Day: A Defeat For SESSION CHAIR: JULIE RAO, INSTITUTIONAL SESSION CHAIR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH Democracy? ______SCIENCES KOSTYA GREEN ______Re-Learning Race: On Language and FACULTY SPONSOR: DARRELL NORRIS, The Geology of Art/The Art of GEOGRAPHY Culture in Montpellier, France Geology Ukraine has been and will be further split by a rift CHLOE FORSELL KENDALL FITZGERALD in ideology: fascism versus communism. This can FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, BLACK STUDIES FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL be very well explained, though, more thoroughly When leaving for my semester in Montpellier, SCIENCES using geography and statistics. During the last France with my proposed project in mind, I had An Edgar Fellows presentation. This project seeks parliamentary election in 2014, an unprecedented several anxieties: the language barrier, the to reconcile the perceived divide between science number of right-wing groups and supporters were awkwardness of interviews, my own insecurities and the humanities by examining how both artists elected into office, despite the fact that half the about self as researcher. I did not, however, and scientists depict and understand the natural nation is very much opposed. Because of this anticipate the vulnerability that I would feel on my world. In this presentation I will be examining opposition, the Eastern half of Ukraine has made it end as the one posing the questions. I learned works of art that incorporate geology (like Thomas clear that they no longer wish to live under the quickly the fallibility of dictionaries and online Cole's The Oxbow) alongside data from scientific national government. translators, and discovered "the hard way," what it research in order to uncover how both disciplines means to live in a "color blind" society. Facing the contribute to a fuller understanding of the world. 3D • 1 WELLES 134 frustrations of attempting to redefine words, to re- Through this juxtaposition I aim to show how art SESSION CHAIR: EMILY COLE, INTERNATIONAL learn the word "race" as a pejorative, and to have and science can be used in tandem to PROGRAMS this conversation that is so taboo it is at best communicate research to a broader audience, in ______avoided in France, the cross-cultural gap that I had the hope of working towards a more sustainable Characterization of the intended to bridge by exploring non- white identity cross-continent seemed to only widen, but did future. This talk is an extension of the exhibit with Chromosome Organization and Cell the same name that is taking place in the ISC lobby. offer new and interesting perspectives and insights Division Regulator DivIVA from the as to how nations founded on a history of 3B • 1 WELLES 123 colonization choose to cope with identity and Large, Polyploid Bacterium history. This presentation will follow the research SESSION CHAIR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY ______Epulopiscum sp. type B process and explore/ attempt to make sense of its ALEXANDRA GLATHAR, ZACHARY KOENIG, MARY findings through essay, featuring a PowerPoint The Effect of Type I Diabetes on PYATT presentation, as well as reading excerpts. This Sibling Anxiety and Family FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HUTCHISON, project is supported by the Gerard Gouvernet Functioning BIOLOGY Student Ambassadorship.

TEAGAN PLIMPTON Epulopiscium sp. type B is symbiont of tropical FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY surgeonfish and the second largest bacterium 3F • 1 WELLES 128 An Edgar Fellows presentation. The purpose of my discovered to date. One of the ways Epulopiscium SESSION CHAIR: KYLEE O'HARA Honors capstone project was to study the effect sp. type B has adapted to its large cell size is ______that having a sibling with Type 1 diabetes has on through extreme polyploidy, so this bacterium Education Policy Proposal provides an interesting system in which to explore children. Specifically this study examined CON ROCHE MOVED TO POSTER 438 symptoms of depression and anxiety in children chromosome organization of bacteria with FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL who have a sibling with Type 1 diabetes, as well as multiple chromosomes. DivIVA is a known SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS family functioning as a whole. Due to the body of regulator of chromosome positioning and cell Social inequality is arguably one of the greatest research that exists on children who have a sibling division in gram positive bacteria. We hypothesize issues in our country and greatly skews democracy with a chronic illness, specifically cancer, autism, that while the Epulopiscium sp. type B divIVA gene to that of an oligarchy. Even though there has been and neurological conditions, it was expected that (divIVAep) has some overlap in function with that a significant increase in GDP over the past couple these children would be at an increased risk for of closely related bacteria, it likely carries out novel of decades the vast majority of wages and the rate depressive symptoms and anxiety due to the daily functions due to the unusual cell structure and of poverty have remained essentially the same. support and care their sibling with Type 1 diabetes polyploidy of Epulopiscium sp. type B. As we cannot This is a result of a great majority of the wealth requires from their parents, as well as from the culture Epulopiscium sp. type B, we transformed a aggregating at the top of the socioeconomic ladder sibling themselves. My interest in this topic stems divIVA deletion mutant of B. subtilis with a copy in the hands of the 1%. This illustrates how from my own diagnosis as a Type 1 diabetic my divIVAep to assess its role in chromosome Reaganomics, the conservative ideal of economics, junior year of high school, and my personal organization and cell division. We found that which is modeled around "trickle-down" experience with the changing family dynamic when divIVAep partially complements a B. subtilis divIVA economics doesn't work. When conservative a family is forced to learn how to care for a chronic deletion mutant and are currently exploring policies that provide tax breaks and loopholes to condition that requires around the clock differences in expression levels between the B. large businesses and upper class members of monitoring. subtilis divIVA and the Epulopiscium divIVA genes society are enacted, it is clearly seen that income during complementation. B. subtilis divIVA inequality either stagnates or increases. A large 3C • 1 WELLES 115 localizes to areas of negative curvature, and we are proponent of this inequality is a lack of education. constructing a fluorescently labeled copy of SESSION CHAIR: BETSY COLON, GRANTS According to the Pew Research Center, 21.8% of divIVAep to explore its localization pattern. Alumni MANAGEMENT millennials who have graduated high school (and ______author William Schutt '16. not completed any further education) live in poverty. These millennials face many problems 3E • 1 WELLES 119  Promotes sustainability 23 Session 3 • ROUND ROBIN • 2:25 – 3:40 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual such as unemployment, disparities in wages from around us? The consideration of origin is parties. The researcher believes that this is not an those with degrees in higher education, and are important. The source's source, perhaps. isolated situation, and a more accurate victims of an educational system that does not understanding of such seemingly extremist groups adequately teach people how to perform in the 3I • 1 WELLES 133 must be reached in order to understand the evolving job market. SESSION CHAIR: MARY HOPE, INTL STUDENT & interests of the population at large. This project is SCHOLAR SERVICES supported by the Geneseo Student Ambassador 3G • 1 WELLES 131 ______Program. SESSION CHAIR: CARLY O'KEEFE, INTL STUDENT & Comparing Decomposition Rates of SCHOLAR SERVICES Nitrogen-Fixing and Non-Nitrogen- 3K • 1 SOUTH 340 ______SESSION CHAIR: HANNAH ZIMMER Analysis of Protein Folding Fixing Invasive Species ______JOHN COACCI TEDx: In Pursuit of 'Ideas Worth Structure using LCMS FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY MATTHEW STEINSALTZ This study compares the effects on decomposition Spreading' FACULTY SPONSOR: AMBER CHARLEBOIS, rates of a nitrogen-fixing invasive species (autumn HANNAH LOO CHEMISTRY olive) and a non-nitrogen invasive species (Amur FACULTY SPONSOR: JOE COPE, HISTORY AND In the undergraduate curriculum, the use of High honeysuckle) to a native species (gray dogwood). CENTER FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY & Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is This study was conducted over the course of one DEVELOPMENT often used for purification purposes; however, year in SUNY Geneseo's Spencer J. Roemer The motto for TED is simple - "Ideas Worth there is potential for more. We are in the process Arboretum. The breakdown of litter samples was Spreading." But to a TEDx organizer like myself, of creating a novel biochemistry laboratory tracked by placing a predetermined amount of those 3 words hold so many questions - how do we experiment that will investigate the structural each species of litter into separate mesh bags, find these ideas? How do we convey them to modifications of Bovine Pancreatic Trypsin placing them underneath one of the three shrub others? And how do we convince our audience that Inhibitor (BPTI) and α-chymotrypsin using Reverse species, and retrieving sets of the bags and these truly are ideas worth spreading? Having Phase HPLC (HPLC-RP). BPTI is a 6.5 kDa monomer weighing their contents at particular time intervals. organized the TEDxSUNYGeneseo event for the protein (58 amino acids) that contains three The decomposition of each species of litter was past 2 years, I wanted to improve the program intramolecular disulfide bonds. HPLC has been measured underneath the canopy of each shrub going into our 3rd year. Through the John A. and employed to distinguish the following: native BPTI species. Carbon and nitrogen chemical MaryGrace Gleason Ambassadorship in Student (completely folded), denatured BPTI (partially concentrations were also determined. The mass Affairs, I had the opportunity to attend the unfolded) and denatured/reduced BPTI changes are used to calculate the rate of TEDWomen conference, where I networked with (completely unfolded). For these experiments, decomposition, while the nitrogen and carbon TEDx organizers from around the world, spoke to Mass Spectrometry (MS) is the primary detection analyses will help describe differences in litter TEDWomen speakers about their ideas, and shared method. It was found that a clear delineation quality that can explain differences in some of the challenges our event faced with the between folding states can be observed. We are decomposition rates. Preliminary results indicate TEDx Executive Team. My work culminated in the currently investigating a larger protein, α- that there is a significantly higher decomposition 3rd annual TEDxSUNYGeneseo event: Back to chymotrypsin which is a trimer protein (245 amino rate of the native species' litter under the nitrogen- Basics. Armed with new insight and a commitment acids) that contains 3 intramolecular and 2 fixing invasive. Additionally, the litter of the to innovation, my team worked to create an event intermolecular disulfide bonds. Once these nitrogen-fixing invasive decomposed at a that would challenge participants to consider ideas protocols are formally established, this project will significantly slower rate when under the native of simplicity amidst an increasingly complicated be developed into an upper level undergraduate canopy. Ultimately, studies like this can help world. Attending TEDWomen, I gained a greater biochemistry laboratory experiment that provides researchers evaluate the more complex impacts of vision for the purpose of our event. What's more, students with a deeper understanding of protein invasive species. the things I learned helped lay the groundwork for structure, oxidation/reduction, and a hands-on TEDxSUNYGeneseo to be an agent of change in the experience with HPLC. Geneseo community. 3J • 1 SOUTH 338 WELLES 132 SESSION CHAIR: TRACI PHILLIPS, GRANTS WELLES 138 3H • 1 MANAGEMENT 3L • 1 SESSION CHAIR: COREY WILKINSON ______SESSION CHAIR: CAROLINE HADDAD, ______The Vacuum of Entitlement: A Case MATHEMATICS Origin ______STEVEN MINURKA Study of Conservative Activist The 2016 Presidential Election: Why FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH Group PEGIDA UK Were the Predictions and Results so A source that is can be anywhere, whether the KATHERINE ZASLAVSKY source in question is aware of my usage of it or FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDREW HERMAN, Different? otherwise. The way people interact with one COMMUNICATION ELINORE DUGUAY, JON HARWOOD, JONATHAN another, friends, acquaintances, and strangers. This study seeks to understand the ideology of WEBER From sitting down, talking on the phone, playing PEGIDA UK, a British activist group which opposes FACULTY SPONSOR: CHI-MING TANG, something on their phone, reading a book, or the Islamification of Europe. With increases in MATHEMATICS walking from point a to point b. Ideas and concepts immigration from Middle Eastern war zones, We will be displaying a statistical analysis of the can be taken from something simple, and that's several branches of PEGIDA have formed across 2016 presidential election. We'll begin with an what I want to show in the presentation - what we Europe. In the summer of 2016, the researcher overview of random sampling and its importance observe, and how it came to being there. Keep in attended a rally held by PEGIDA UK in Rotherham, in statistical inference on both a national and mind, this is not exclusive to people, but literally England. Data collected includes conversation with statewide level. This will be related to the various the environment as well. The imagery of nature, leaders and members, the rhetoric of the rally, and polling methods used, and data gathered prior to the shape of campus, and cigarette butts on the the researcher's experiences. The study finds that the election. We will be examining the conclusions concrete ground. Who could have left them there? supporters of PEGIDA UK have lost trust in the drawn from these polls that led to the unexpected How many did they smoke? Was it a full-flavored social institutions around them. This translates to a predictions forecasted. Furthermore, we will of a menthol? What of other people who witnessed vacuum of their previous experiences of explore alternative and nontraditional methods the individual smoking? What about the tobacco entitlement, which can be explained by George that can lead to more interesting predictions. before hitting the factory? What imagery can we Herbert Mead's theory of the generalized other. get from something as insignificant as that? How Supporters a sense of opposition and lack of 3M • 1 WELLES 140 much of a source can we take from all that exists legitimization, which in turn strengthens the SESSION CHAIR: ZACH BERUBE alienation felt between the group and outside ______

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Upstate New York Secession: A reflection of consumption and waste disposal in of the Middle Ages populations from Eastern Geneseo. This live installation, which will take Europe can give insight into the pathologies found COPLAC Digital Project place during Earth Week on Monday, March 17th in their skeletons. The history of the Middle Ages is RACHEL GDULA, MARIA GERSHUNI from 4-6pm on the Union Patio, involves sorting taken into account to better understand how FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL SCHACHT, CENTER FOR through one bag of trash from each residence hall social, political, and resource stress contributes to INQUIRY, DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT and academic building on campus and determining poor health in Eastern Europe. Diet is also As part of an online course through the Council of how much of that waste could have been recycled. considered because it explains why certain Public Liberal Arts Colleges, Rachel Gdula and The sorting process includes the use of proper immune deficient diseases were observed in these Maria Gershuni are exploring the origins, protective gear such as gloves, goggles and skeletal populations. motivations, and politics of the upstate New York protective suits, which will be provided to anyone secessionist movement. Currently, there are who wishes to participate. The bags will first be 3P • 1 WELLES 26 various groups calling for upstate secession, with weighed as-is, and then reweighed once all the SESSION CHAIR: KAITLIN PFUNDSTEIN various amounts of cohesion. Upstate New Yorkers items in the bag have been properly sorted as ______claim that they have been adversely affected by landfill, paper, or glass/plastic/metal. This Heggie and Scheer's Moby-Dick: An policies created by New York City politicians, performance will be transformed into a video, causing them economic and social hardship. Some which exemplifies how much "trash" could have Operatic Adaptation have called for New York State to be split up into been recycled in our sample selection. By doing so EMILY BUCKLEY-CRIST New York (downstate) and New Amsterdam we seek to promote positive environmental action FACULTY SPONSOR: BROOKE MCCORKLE, MUSIC (upstate). One of the largest disputes among on an individual level by encouraging students and There are countless adaptations of Herman various secession groups is where to classify faculty to reevaluate their personal consumption Melville's 1851 novel, Moby-Dick, in many forms, upstate and downstate. Some say the southern and recycling habits. This video is will be shared including films, television series, and graphic border of New Amsterdam should stretch with the campus community in order to a visual novels. Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene horizontally from Pennsylvania, while others say impact of consumption and waste at Geneseo. Scheer's 2010 opera of the same name is a recent that New Amsterdam should encompass addition to the list of adaptations; critics have everything except Long Island and the NYC Metro 3O • 1 WELLES 24 praised the opera since its Dallas premiere, describing it as "sumptuous and stirring" and "a Area. While the upstate New York secessionist SESSION CHAIR: JESSE BENNETT movement is not based on ethnic identity, upstate ______masterpiece of clarity and intensity." Among the New Yorkers share a cultural identity based on The Bioarchaeology of Health in numerous changes necessary in transposing a story shared history as well as political, economic, and from text to the operatic stage, Heggie and Scheer demographic factors. Gdula and Gershuni will Eastern Europe During the Middle make the significant decision to remove the present this movement by crafting their own Ages narrative voice from Ishmael and place it in the website using digital storytelling tools to analyze NATALIE ZHENG orchestra, a move that adheres to Carolyn Abbate's the upstate NY secession movement and the FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, argument that the orchestra and music itself acts various actors involved. ANTHROPOLOGY as the narrator in opera. Ishmael (Greenhorn in the The The Bioarchaeology of health in Eastern opera) experiences the events of the novel in real- 3N • 1 SOUTH 328 Europe during the Middle Ages can be measured time throughout the opera, as opposed to the SESSION CHAIR: JEREMY HALL, INSTITUTIONAL through the numerous remains found in various retrospective account of the novel. These choices RESEARCH burial sites. This study also includes the results of are inventive, but require prior knowledge of the ______my personal experience in Transylvania, Romania, novel for full appreciation. While this work can be Dumpster Dive where I did osteological research on a burial from analyzed as an opera in its own right, its source text SARAH KOWALSKI, PAUL MCDERMOTT, ALIDA Telekfalva, Romania. This personal case study holds such an esteemed place in the literary canon MOONEY, ABIGAIL RITZ, CAROLINE SECHE, focuses on Telekfalva Sir-22, which is one of the that the opera must also be examined as an VANESSA HAAS sixty-nine burials from the site. Along with this adaptation.

FACULTY SPONSOR: DAN DEZARN, SUSTAINABILTY personal case study, research was done on other Geneseo Environmental Organization will be burials across Eastern Europe. The purpose of this presenting their "Dumpster Dive" video about their study is to measure the impact culture has on interactive performance art installation and human health. Studying the socioeconomic status

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3A • 2 WELLES 121 later be transcribed into RNA guides that cause Sages-Femmes of Dakar, Senegal cleavage of viral DNA by CRISPR-associated (Cas) SESSION CHAIR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL and Midwives of the United States SCIENCES proteins to protect the cell from infection. When ______inserted into a eukaryotic organism, the CRISPR- through Firsthand Experience: The CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing: Cas9 system has the ability to precisely target a Differences in the Profession of specific sequence of DNA and modify the genome Teaching Tools to Promote Active by insertion or deletion. This revolutionary genome Birthing an Ocean Apart Learning in Genetics editing technique can be difficult for BIOL 222: MARIA SUAREZ KATHERINE ROCHE Principles of Genetics students to understand. FACULTY SPONSOR: KODJO ADABRA, LANGUAGES FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HUTCHISON, Therefore, teaching tools including visual aids, AND LITERATURES BIOLOGY group questions, and a hands-on learning activity An Edgar Fellows presentation. In the West African An Edgar Fellows presentation. Clustered regularly with multiple modules were created to promote country of Senegal, the profession of a midwife, or interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) are better understanding of the CRISPR-Cas9 system. sage-femme, has an unparalleled major role in an adaptive immune system found in prokaryotes These tools were later presented to BIOL 222 birthing and women's health. But according to the that can be used to facilitate genome editing in students at SUNY Geneseo. president of the National Association of Sage- eukaryotic cells. The CRISPR system evolved in Femmes of Senegal, Marième Fall, the current bacteria and archaea in order to integrate DNA of 3B • 2 WELLES 123 coverage ratio in the capital city of Dakar is one invading viruses into the prokaryotic genome as a SESSION CHAIR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY sage-femme for two thousand women of memory for future invasions. These small ______reproductive status while the World Health sequences of the viral genome, called spacers, can Organization recommends one per every five  Promotes sustainability 25 Session 3 • 2:25 – 3:40 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual hundred. Interviews with current sage-femme ______Effects on Face: An Application of school administrators, instructors and students in Applications of GIS in Ohio Facework Theory Dakar, conducted during the summer of 2015, and Archaeology substantial supporting literary research sustains ERICA DOHERTY, DANIEL STERN SYDNEY SNYDER findings about this struggling yet vital profession in FACULTY SPONSOR: MEREDITH HARRIGAN, FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, Senegal. This presentation aims to first establish COMMUNICATION ANTHROPOLOGY the prominence of sages-femmes within the Framed by Facework Theory (Goffman, 1967; The purpose of this project is to study the Senegalese framework, then attempt not only to Cupach & Metts, 1994), the present study sought application of Geographic Information Systems summarize their pivotal role, but also critically to identify the communication processes that (GIS) to solve problems in Ohio Hopewell examine practical issues faced by these lifesaving emerging adults perceive as face-threatening, as archaeology. An extensive bibliography of recent professionals. To contrast, information about US well as understand strategies used to maintain face GIS applications in archaeology was created in midwifery gathered from research and interviews within the context of a relational termination order to examine how GIS had been used to with local midwives will be presented. Surprising experience. A data set consisting of six interview successfully understand archaeological problems. information about this field and its role in the transcripts showcased three communication From this bibliography I decided to use nearest healthcare system, as well as the obstacles it faces practices that are perceived as face-threatening: a neighbor and hotspot analysis as well as predictive are discussed. In each country, the mother and desire for autonomy, differing expectations, and modelling. The creation of two data sets helped baby's health is the priority but due to region and perceived disrespect. Furthermore, three explore these applications at different scales. A 50 circumstances, reaching this goal is different and communicative facework strategies were acre distribution of surface artifacts was used to faces new obstacles. identified: communication regulation, determine the applicability of nearest neighbor interpersonal management, and selective 3C • 2 WELLES 115 and other statistical analyses. A cluster of Ohio disclosure. Implications of the findings are Hopewell sites from the Little Walnut Creek discussed and suggestions for future research are SESSION CHAIR: BETSY COLÓN, GRANTS drainage was used to determine the applicability of MANAGEMENT provided. predictive modelling to find likely habitation site ______locations from environmental parameters. As a Self-discovery Through 3H • 2 WELLES 132 result, GIS proved to be a useful tool for both SESSION CHAIR: COREY WILKINSON Sustainability nearest neighbor analysis and predictive ______AUBRIE JOHNSEN modelling, but fell short when trying to do a Targeting Candidate Genes for a FACULTY SPONSOR: JOE COPE, HISTORY AND hotspot analysis and in creating contour maps. CENTER FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY & Small-eye Zebrafish Mutant DEVELOPMENT 3F • 2 WELLES 128 NICOLE WINCHESTER This presentation will be about my entire SESSION CHAIR: KYLEE O'HARA FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY ambassadorship. I received money to create a ______A chemical mutagenesis screen for eye defects in sustainable farm, but ended up finding myself first. Prioritizing Conservation Easement zebrafish revealed the good effort (gef) mutant. This mutant is characterized by normal This presentation will discuss what my Acquisitions in the Genesee ambassadorship was, and what it is turned out to morphology for the first two days post fertilization be. It has opened my heart and mind to many new Valley (dpf), followed by elevated cell death, most things. I went on a journey of discovering myself BRANDYN BALCH notably in neural, branchial arch, limb bud, and and bettering the local community around me. I FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES KERNAN, GEOGRAPHY retinal cells. The gef mutants were found to have a explored western philosophy, moral philosophy, A critical objective of the Genesee Valley 3-bp deletion in the chromosome assembly factor sustainable agriculture, and started to explore Conservancy (GVC) in Geneseo, New York, is to 1b (chaf1b) gene at the splice donor site of exon 3, what our bioregion was. I explored local farms, conserve important natural resources in the resulting in severe protein truncation. Chaf1b is a created the Egarden on campus, and had Genesee Valley watershed. One method by which subunit of the Chromatin Assembly Factor 1 internships with some really great sustainablity this is accomplished is the acquisition of complex which loads histones onto newly oriented businesses (The Office of Sustainability conservation easements on properties that are synthesized DNA during S phase, facilitating and the Geneseo Farmer's Market). This project is deemed high priority based upon their role in local chromatin formation. Loss of Chaf1b function is supported by the Geneseo Student Ambassador ecology. A study was conducted in summer, 2016, believed to result in accumulation of DNA damage Program. in order to gain a deeper understanding of which and triggering of tp53-mediated apoptosis. The parcels should be targeted for easement recent development of the targeted genome- 3D • 2 WELLES 134 acquisition. The primary objectives of this study, editing technique, CRISPR/Cas9, represents a SESSION CHAIR: EMILY COLE, INTERNATIONAL through collaboration with the GVC Board of method to knockout multiple genes. We developed PROGRAMS Directors and geospatial analysis using GIS a multiplex CRISPR DNA construct to determine the ______software (ESRI ArcMap), were: (1) Analyze the role Tp53 plays in structuring the gef phenotype. Source Within Me extent to which each parcel in the GVC service area This five guide RNA vector will simultaneously target chaf1b to generate a gef phenocopy, tp53, ALEXA FOX (n~27,000) does or does not fit the definition of puma, and caspase-3a to inhibit apoptosis, and FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH "important natural resource," and (2) Make tyrosinase to induce an albino phenotype as an For my presentation, I would like to use photos of recommendations accordingly, which will aid the indicator of knockout success. myself and my sources and take videos of me GVC in maintaining a proactive approach to conservation easement acquisitions in the interacting with sources all across campus for my WELLES 133 overall video, with a provided voiceover in the Genesee Valley. Methodology was both qualitative 3I • 2 video that has me discussing what I'm doing in the and quantitative in nature, and the result was a SESSION CHAIR: MARY HOPE, INTL STUDENT & videos and why the sources pertain to my writing. visually intuitive map of priority areas for SCHOLAR SERVICES ______I could use sources such as my friends, my RA, my acquisition. GVC currently utilizes this map and the favorite books, spots on campus that hold accompanying data table for resource allocation in Genocide and Communication memories for me such as the gazebo and the continuing conservation efforts. Narratives: Comparing the Green, and song lyrics. Through examining my Rwandan Patriotic Front Narrative sources, I can possibly help other writers think of 3G • 2 WELLES 131 new sources for their own writing. SESSION CHAIR: CARLY O'KEEFE, INTL STUDENT & and the National Liberation SCHOLAR SERVICES ______Narrative That Emerged From the 3E • 2 WELLES 119 Rwandan Genocide SESSION CHAIR: JULIE RAO, INSTITUTIONAL Communicative Processes within AMAL THABATEH RESEARCH Relational Termination and its

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FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MOOR, POLITICAL no distinct effect, and others even negative results. 3N • 2 SOUTH 328 SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 40 patients from OrthoNY were randomly placed SESSION CHAIR: JEREMY HALL, INSTITUTIONAL For my paper, I will review literature to determine into two treatment groups: Group 1 which received RESEARCH the main causes of genocide and the reasons why an additional NMES unit to use at home and in a ______it occurs within countries. My research will focus clinical setting and Group 2 used NMES in the Opera Kids: SUNY Geneseo Young on the case study of the Rwandan Genocide, and I clinical setting only. Patients were tested at 2 will explore the reasons for the emergence of the separate times: preoperative and 6 week Artist Workshop genocide in Rwanda and identify narratives for the postoperative. At all testing times a one legged one FRANCESCA DIGIORGIO emergence. I will draw upon these narratives to repetition leg press maximum was recorded. In FACULTY SPONSOR: JOE COPE, HISTORY AND discuss what they reveal about the nature of civil addition to a leg press measurement, the leg girth CENTER FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY & society, forms of governance, and ethnic politics in (width of the thigh) were measured at 6 cm and 15 DEVELOPMENT Africa. Questions that will guide my research: What cm proximal to the superior pole of the patella.The The lights flickered, signaling the buzzing audience is the framework that scholars have established for results of this study showed a significant increase of nearly 600 to settle into their plush, velvet seats. how genocide typically unfolds?How can this in strength for Group 1 (p=.046) Leg girth A figure dressed in black tails ascended from the framework be applied to the genocide in measurements were not significant at 6 cm orchestra pit and my students' eyes widened. The Rwanda/how did the genocide occur in Rwanda? (p=.16). maestro raised his baton, and with one elegant Identify and assess two competing narratives for flick, the glorious overture of Verdi's La Traviata the emergence of the genocide in Rwanda. What 3L • 2 WELLES 138 flooded the room. Opera Kids: SUNY Geneseo do these narratives assert about the nature of civil SESSION CHAIR: CAROLINE HADDAD, Young Artist Workshop was an immersive society, forms of governance, and ethnic politics in MATHEMATICS educational experience designed for students in Africa? Which is persuasive and why? ______grades 4-5 in the Livingston County Area. In this The Electoral College, Its Flaws, and program, the Finger Lakes Opera Company served as the connecting bridge between our classroom 3J • 2 SOUTH 338 How they Could be Fixed SESSION CHAIR: TRACI PHILLIPS, GRANTS and the world of professional opera. Through WESLEY EBERSOLE MANAGEMENT participatory games and activities, and an F&Q ______FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON HEROLD, POLITICAL with profession performers, students prepared to An Analysis on the Efficacy of SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS attend and appreciate a live performance of La Ever since it's Inception the electoral college Traviata. The long-term objective was that Combination Antibiotic Therapy in system of the United States has been criticized as participation in this program would make the Treating MRSA untrue to the Democratic nature of our nation's world of opera more accessible and encourage RYAN CARPENTER, ALEX WEBBER founding. When the Constitution was ratified in students and their families to attend musical FACULTY SPONSOR: YUSUF BILGIC, MATHEMATICS June of 1788 it replaced the much weaker Articles events at SUNY Geneseo and in their communities GREGG HARTVIGSEN BIOLOGY of Confederation as the ruling document of these Throughout the Opera Kids workshop, our class The purpose of this study is to investigate which United States. However to prevent abuses by the saw the world from the perspective of various combinations of antibiotics are most efficacious government, a series of amendments were put into characters, composers and performers throughout when treating a patient for a hospital acquired place. Contrary to this last statement however in history. In the process, students had assembled an MRSA infection. Data were obtained from the order to override the rule of the masses when arsenal of strategies to navigate the following day's freely available MIMIC III database, from the Beth necessary, the Electoral College was established. performance as well as other music performances Israel Deaconess Medical center in Boston Two of the last five presidential elections were won in the future. This project is supported by the Massachusetts. Data sets from the database were by a candidate who did not have the popular vote Geneseo Student Ambassador Program. merged by the patient identifiers HADM_ID and and although that might not seem like a lot that is SUBECT_ID and filtered for variables pertinent to a 40% failure rate of a system that is supposed to 3O • 2 WELLES 24 MRSA infections, antibiotic usage, and patient predict the will of the people. Through this SESSION CHAIR: JESSE BENNETT demographic information using. All data evidence and much more we can establish that the ______formatting and analysis was completed using the Electoral College is flawed as it stands and it Simulating Quantum Phenomena requires some revisions. This presentation will statistical software R studio . We share the results on the Macro Scale of how the combinations of antibiotics and the delve into how the Electoral College works and ZACHARIAH BARFIELD, CHRISTOPHER RENSKERS doses per combination correlate with patient some proposed methods of fixing it. FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE MARCUS, PHYSICS & recovery time. We also explore how combinations ASTRONOMY containing one or more penicillin-type antibiotic(s) 3M • 2 WELLES 140 Quantum mechanics is one of the most correlate with efficacy in treating MRSA. SESSION CHAIR: ZACH BERUBE ______phenomenal topics in physics and many strange SOUTH 340 Sustainable Environmental experimental results come about because of the 3K • 2 particle-wave interactions of quantum particles. SESSION CHAIR: HANNAH ZIMMER Resource Management and Rural Through studying an analogous macro-scale ______Entrepreneurship in Borgne, Haiti system based in fluid dynamics we can visualize The Effects of Neuromuscular KYLE FLETCHER and better understand some of these phenomena. Electrical Stimulation on Leg FACULTY SPONSOR: WESTON KENNISON, ENGLISH A system was created to bounce a silicone oil Strength Post-ACL Reconstruction: JOE COPE HISTORY AND CENTER FOR INQUIRY, droplet on a vibrating bath. The bouncing droplet DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT interacts with waves traveling on the surface of the a Novel Approach I present work completed as SUNY Geneseo silicone oil, causing the droplet to move around the ADAM HANSEN Ambassador to rural, Borgne, Haiti. I present cavity. Due to the particle-wave interactions taking FACULTY SPONSOR: SARA BURCH, BIOLOGY quantitative and qualitative information place, the probability distribution of the droplet is Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction is documented regarding entrepreneurial, fish- similar to that of an electron in an infinite circular a minimally invasive procedure, in which the farming activities. I present an exploration of corral. By varying the depth and size of the silicone orthopedic surgeon removes the torn ACL and monthly strategies, derived from local, ecological oil bath, we studied how the system changed to replaces it with one of many possible autografts. knowledge-bases, to manage environmental better understand the underlying particle-wave The recovery following this procedure can be quite resource harvesting. And, I present findings from a interactions. Understanding these phenomena difficult for the patient in terms of pain and long set of point-quarter transect analyses, which are, serves to make quantum mechanics less abstract. term strength deficits. The role of Neuromuscular to our knowledge, the first, formal, ecological Electrical Stimulation (NMES) is highly disputed assessments completed on a small, back reef off among therapists due to the wide range of results, the coast of Borgne. some showing positive influences, some showing  Promotes sustainability 27 Session 3 • 2:25 – 3:40 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual

3P • 2 WELLES 26 HAERREEM HYUN mental health and self-efficacy of college students. SESSION CHAIR: KAITLIN PFUNDSTEIN FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE MEDEIROS, Pre-existing literature is reviewed to provide ______ANTHROPOLOGY background knowledge of intersectionality, and The Impact of Low Socioeconomic As an intersectional phenomenon, health is interviews with SUNY Geneseo students of low affected by race, class, gender, and other social socioeconomic status provide first-hand accounts Status on the Mental Health and determinants. This ethnographic study examines of structural inequality and life experiences. Self-Efficacy of College Students the impact of low socioeconomic status on the

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3A • 3 WELLES 121 3C • 3 WELLES 115 Iran by the United States, European Union, and SESSION CHAIR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL SESSION CHAIR: BETSY COLÓN, GRANTS United Nations (as dictated by the JCPOA) has led SCIENCES MANAGEMENT to an increase in Iranian funding of PIJ. It must be ______noted that, due to the covert nature of terrorist Physics through the Ages: A Visual A Pentadic Analysis of Aguinaldo's groups' operations and the opacity of Iran's funding of these organizations, this research Explanation of Scientific History "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"; An necessarily relies on incomplete, but sufficient, MATTHEW RYBECKY Extension of a Masonic Vision of information to form a meaningful analysis. FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MACPHERSON, ART HISTORY Filipino Independence 3E • 3 WELLES 119 THERESA GIBBONS An Edgar Fellows presentation. Physics as an SESSION CHAIR: JULIE RAO, INSTITUTIONAL FACULTY SPONSOR: ATSUSHI TAJIMA, experimental science began only recently in the RESEARCH history of humanity. Before then, the nature of the COMMUNICATION ______universe was a philosophical pursuit. With Galileo Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy's manifesto "Liberty, U.S.-Canada Trade and NAFTA, 20 and other seventeenth century natural Equality, Fraternity" served as one of the first philosophers, science began to progress. This formal manifestos denouncing Spanish rule and Years Later: Is There Still a Border presentation shows that progression through the establishing the ideals of the Filipino Republic. The Effect? portraits of important figures in physics. Their artifact not only served as the cultural and DAVID TERNER science is also shown through tabletop ideological foundation of the then infantile FACULTY SPONSOR: MANSOKKU LEE, BUSINESS demonstrations in a way that ties a face to a Philippine revolution, but also became a hallmark This paper examines the extent to which the discovery. We can see the humanity of the men document over cultural contention over Emilio existence of national borders in general, and the who have revealed the majesty of the world that Aguinaldo's legacy in respect to Filipino nationalist US-Canadian border in particular, curbs the volume we live in. movements. An application of Kenneth Burke's of international trade. This eponymous "border dramatic pentad and Lloyd Bitzer's Rhetorical effect" was first detected by economists in the mid- 3B • 3 WELLES 123 Situation provides a clearer rhetorical 1990's who used standard (e.g. gravity) trade SESSION CHAIR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY interpretation of Aguinaldo's motives as a visionary models to analyze pre-NAFTA trade flows between ______leader. This rhetorical vision of Aguinaldo's U.S. states and Canadian provinces. Despite few, if Control of Schistosomiasis in revolution serves as a pathway to better any, formal barriers to trade, economists understand how Aguinaldo's Masonic experience Ghana: Behavioral and Lab-Based discovered that intra-national trade volumes shaped his vision of the revolution and helps clarify tended to be 10-20 times larger in magnitude Approaches the oftentimes complex and muddled relative to international trade volumes after FABIAN THOMPSON historiography of Aguinaldo's legacy. controlling for regional income, distance, and other

FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI MUENCH, relevant factors. This so-called "border effect" BIOLOGY 3D • 3 WELLES 134 indicates the degree to which international An Edgar Fellows presentation. Schistosomiasis is a SESSION CHAIR: EMILY COLE, INTERNATIONAL markets are segmented by political boundaries, a disease caused by parasitic worms that use PROGRAMS larger border effect indicates more formidable freshwater snails as an intermediate host. ______barriers to achieving economic integration across Affecting almost 240 million people worldwide, the The Joint Comprehensive Plan of international markets. The project analyzes the disease is most prevalent in tropical and Action's Effect on Iranian State long- term effect of NAFTA's implementation on subtropical areas, especially in poor communities the magnitude of the U.S.-Canadian border effect. without access to safe drinking water and/or Funding of Palestinian Islamic Jihad I contribute to preexisting research efforts by adequate sanitation. The sizable number of JACLYN SHAW utilizing a comprehensive and up-to-date dataset, individuals infected and at-risk of infection FACULTY SPONSOR: ANAND RAO, POLITICAL incorporating additional explanatory and worldwide make efforts to control schistosomiasis SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS employing empirically robust modeling imperative. In a lab-based approach to control of Based on the available data, I argue that the Joint techniques. In addition to providing contemporary schistosomiasis, an attempt was made to establish Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has led to insight into North American trade patterns, the the life cycle of the parasite Schistosoma an increase in Iran's funding of Palestinian Islamic project investigates the broader implications of the haematobium, derived from Bulinus truncatus Jihad (PIJ), examining this dynamic as a principal- free-trade agreements' efficacy. snails in the small village of Tomefa in the Greater agent relationship. While analyzing the relevant Accra Region of Ghana. While unsuccessful, this data, it is important to note that there are many 3F • 3 WELLES 128 factors involved in whether and to what degree was done as a necessary first step in facilitating SESSION CHAIR: KYLEE O'HARA future control efforts in the Tomefa area. In a Iran funds PIJ that cannot be completely controlled ______behavioral-based approach to control, I analyzed for. However, these variables will be accounted for The Poisson Distribution: The data from Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices and noted in this qualitative analysis of financial Surveys administered in Tomefa. Doing so allows changes in the principal-agent relationship History Behind the Function for the creation of methods of disease control between Iran and PIJ and Iran's economy since the CODY SHANK based on the behaviors of the vulnerable implementation of the JCPOA. This analysis of FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFF JOHANNES, population. Working in tandem, these approaches Iran's material support for PIJ since the signing of MATHEMATICS can facilitate efforts to decrease prevalence of the JCPOA and Iran's current political and The Poisson Distribution plays an important role in schistosomiasis on both a local and global scale. economic situation indicate that the lifting of many the world of probability and has various economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic of applications. The distribution is used to find the 28  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Session 3 • 2:25 – 3:40 PM probability of a given number of independent combinations of variables affect the efficiency of KATHERINE ZITO events happening over a span of time, or space. earth ovens by comparing how these differences FACULTY SPONSOR: MELANIE BLOOD, ENGLISH Siméon Denis Poisson discovered the function. are reflected in the archaeological record. My William Shakespeare's Ophelia--Hamlet's spurned However, history has revealed that his findings continued research uses data from previous trials lover who goes mad and drowns herself--is an don't have the biggest influence on the to go a step further and predict temperature important cultural representation of female distribution. The Poisson Distribution found its outcomes of earth ovens. madness. I synthesize findings about instances of importance when Ladislaus Von Bortkiewicz used Ophelia's representation-- including portrayals of the function on a study of the deaths of soldiers 3I • 3 WELLES 133 the character in adaptations of Hamlet, depictions related to horse kicks. Sometimes you must look SESSION CHAIR: MARY HOPE, INTL STUDENT & of the character in other media including visual art, beyond the name of something to understand its SCHOLAR SERVICES and allusions to the character and her associated true history. ______imagery in original works--and what those Ecotheology in the South Pacific representations communicate about historically 3G • 3 WELLES 131 SHANNON KEANE contingent understandings of women and SESSION CHAIR: CARLY O'KEEFE, INTL STUDENT & FACULTY SPONSOR: SETH CAVELLO, GEOGRAPHY "madness". Biologically feminine "hysteria" of the SCHOLAR SERVICES The projected rate of climate change in this century womb would have been the contemporary ______is far more than anything experienced on Earth in understanding of Ophelia's distress, and while A Study of Senegalese Hospitality the last 10,000 years. Rising levels of carbon modern psychiatry's understanding of mental Through First Hand Experience dioxide and other heat trapping gases in the illness in women has developed beyond hysteria, atmosphere have warmed the Earth and are Jessica Heppler argues that misogynistic ideas MAGGIE FRANCESE about women's behavior are still represented in FACULTY SPONSOR: KODJO ADABRA, LANGUAGES causing significant impacts such as, rising sea levels; particularly in the South Pacific. Because the psychiatry and moves towards a more AND LITERATURES sociologically grounded understanding of women's Senegal, the most western African nation, is well- physical effects of climate change are prevalent throughout Oceania, a heightened sense of the emotional distress. These shifting understandings renowned for its cultural values of hospitality. of female madness are reflected in portrayals of Known as the guardians of Terre de la Teranga value of life in the environment has become a prominent mentality. When discussing the impacts Ophelia and her imagery. My research is part of the [Land of Hospitality], the Senegalese welcome ongoing conversation between psychology and people of all backgrounds and race with open arms of climate change, culture as a component is rarely mentioned. An important component of culture is sociology regarding the origin and pathology of as friends and family to their beautiful nation. With women's distress. By exploring this conversation Islam as a pillar of culture, there are aspects of the the role of religion and when culture and religion are evaluated on an environmental basis, the result through the character of Ophelia, I show how religion embedded in everyday life that reflect the Shakespeare's texts provide artists with a lexicon of country's concept of hospitality. The Senegalese is ecotheology. Ecotheology becomes particularly important in the South Pacific, because the people imagery to communicate diverging ideas about find solidarity in their understanding of hospitality gender and mental illness; exemplifying the and are made up of different ethnic and religious of the Pacific understand that it is not by the hand of God that the flooding is happening, they know it dynamic quality of Shakespeare's works and their groups that live harmoniously together. Using their ongoing relevance. value of family and tea ritual of attaya, the is human induced. It is with this understanding that The Pacific Churches Consultation was created and Senegalese have opened up their borders to a new 3L • 3 WELLES 138 wave of tourism that has many implications of Otin Tai declaration was established. The value of SESSION CHAIR: CAROLINE HADDAD, globalization and diffusion of culture. Interviews culture lies in its ability to connect generations of people over time, while remaining flexible enough MATHEMATICS with Senegalese citizens and immigrants ______conducted during the summer of 2016 and to interact with changing environmental and social supporting literary research give significance to the conditions. Ancient Indian Performance: The important cultural value of hospitality in Senegal. Expression of Nine Emotions First, this paper will discuss the origins and history 3J • 3 SOUTH 338 MALLIKA SHAH of the concept of hospitality in Senegal. Next, we SESSION CHAIR: TRACI PHILLIPS, GRANTS FACULTY SPONSOR: JOE COPE, HISTORY AND will provide a comparison between Senegal and MANAGEMENT CENTER FOR INQUIRY, DISCOVERY & the United States. Lastly, this paper will explore ______DEVELOPMENT how globalization has affected contemporary Proof of Quantum Mechanics using For my ambassadorship, I travelled to Kerala, India Senegal, and its value and practice of hospitality. Correlated Photons to attend a workshop on acting techniques in ETHAN TURNER Kudiyattam, the ancient temple performance art of 3H • 3 WELLES 132 FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE MARCUS, PHYSICS & the state of Kerala. The workshop, titled Navarasa SESSION CHAIR: COREY WILKINSON ASTRONOMY Sadhana, teaches performers the expression of the ______The quantum mechanical properties of correlated nine emotions as ritualized and written in the Cooking with Rocks the Hopewell photons produced from a nonlinear crystal were ancient Indian dramaturgical text called the Way: Experimenting with Earth observed in an effort to construct a lab for Natyashastra. This project is supported by the Geneseo's Physics Department curriculum. A Geneseo Student Ambassador Program. Oven Efficiency correlated pair of 810 nm photons are generated TESSA HORN via a spontaneous down converting nonlinear 3N • 3 SOUTH 328 FACULTY SPONSOR: PAUL PACHECO, crystal from 405 nm laser photons. The correlated SESSION CHAIR: JEREMY HALL, INSTITUTIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY photons are transmitted or reflected through a RESEARCH My research generates data to show which beam splitter and collected in coincidence with a ______attributes make an earth oven successful and set of avalanche detectors. The anti-correlation An Analysis of Daily and Seasonal efficient. To answer this question, I built earth factor of the photons determined from the Temporal Variation of Soundscapes ovens of different size, shape, and depth. A coincidence rates of the photons was calculated to thermocouple was used to monitor the be 0.74 0.17, which being less than one, is quantum in Western New York temperatures throughout each cooking event. This mechanical. Quantum Mechanical properties could JEFF DOSER allowed me to compare the effectiveness of the further be seen using a Mach-Zehnder FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTINA HANNAM, BIOLOGY different ovens using temperature vs. time graphs. interferometer to see single photon interference. Analysis of soundscapes may provide a way to The size of the ovens and the quantity of rocks used quantify the biodiversity and examine the impact were extrapolated from archaeological data from 3K • 3 SOUTH 340 of anthropogenic noise on an area. I present three Ohio Hopewell habitation sites: Balthaser SESSION CHAIR: HANNAH ZIMMER analyses of the seasonal and daily temporal Home, Brown's Bottom #1, and Lady's Run. By ______variation of four soundscapes in western New York. recreating earth ovens of varying shapes, sizes, and Ophelia's Legacy I determined whether temporal variation of depths, I attempt to explain how different biodiversity was reflected in these soundscapes by  Promotes sustainability 29 Session 3 • 2:25 – 3:40 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual using soundscape-derived measures of understanding of the temporal variation of Every country has its own beauty and distinguished biodiversity. I obtained three 30 minute recordings western New York soundscapes that is required to culture. In this presentation, I would like to each recording day -- morning, afternoon, and accurately predict how organisms and introduce the beauty of my country - Vietnam. The evening -- at both the center and edge of each environments will react to the environmental information covers the basic understanding of my habitat. I performed these recordings once in the stresses found in modern acoustic environments. country ranging from traditional holidays, clothes, early summer from May-June and once in the late food, to several beautiful places. Moreover, I also summer from August-September. Raven Pro 3O • 3 WELLES 24 emphasize the current problems which should be software was used to determine the amounts of SESSION CHAIR: JESSE BENNETT resolved by the government in Vietnam. The different types of sounds in the soundscapes. Using ______problem of traffic, education, freedom of speech, R Statistical Software, I determined the Acoustic Vietnam: Its Beauty and Its and pollution represent the hotly debate in my Diversity Index and the Acoustic Complexity Index  country. The purpose of pointing out these issues for each soundscape. I compared these values Problems is to expose the reality that people in my country across the daily and seasonal time periods to DUNG NGUYEN confront in their daily lives. understand how these measures of diversity FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, changed over time. We present this research as a ENGLISH first step toward achieving a thorough

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4A • ANTHROPOLOGY BAILEY 103 system. Additionally, the prominence of secular cuniculus populations were also determined using SESSION CHAIR: JENNIFER GUZMAN, Yiddish language courses in universities around the a metapopulation model. The effects of the rabbit ANTHROPOLOGY world, coupled with the fact that the population of population decline on the Iberian Lynx were ______native Eastern European Yiddish speakers is modeled by a Lotka-Volterra predator prey model. Language in the Field: Perspectives dwindling, make the goals of such classes unclear, The results from our models indicates that, in order as the majority of Yiddish students will not have a to preserve the endangered Lynx, the rabbit on Spanish Language Ethnographies community of practice outside of the classroom. population must be large enough to support a MARY RUTIGLIANO This article, based on fieldwork from a beginner's growing Lynx population. Introduction of vaccines FACULTY SPONSORS: JENNIFER GUZMAN, Yiddish course in Warsaw, Poland, examines the against RHD and myxomatosis were modeled and ANTHROPOLOGY AND KRISTI KRUMRINE ideologies latent in Yiddish pedagogy in Poland and compared to each other for effectiveness in ANTHROPOLOGY the global Jewish diaspora in general. Using the increasing the number of rabbits in the Lynx Students working on anthropological field research frameworks of memory studies, language territory. With these results, we can determine abroad require not only linguistic competence in revitalization, and imagined communities, this what the best method for increasing the O. the local language but also adequate paper proposes a multidimensional approach to cuniculus population and thus the Iberian Lynx understanding of local interactional norms to work Yiddish in the 21st century, one that considers the population will be. with participants in culturally appropriate ways. In Yiddish language as being at once functional and ______this presentation, I discuss these requirements of deeply symbolic. The ideological and grammatical Comparison of Discrete Models of linguistic and cultural competence through an dissonances between 'archival Yiddish', the Yiddish Generic and Breast Cancer Tumor exploration of my experiences as a research as it was spoken by native speakers from Eastern assistant working on two anthropological projects. Europe, and 'productive Yiddish', the Yiddish that it Invasion First, I discuss linguistic competence in relation to is taught in summer seminars and classrooms YI LIU CHEN, MATTHEW COLLIN, STEVEN SICARI, my work with Dr. Jennifer Guzman to identify, around the world are given particular attention. NAOMI WILSON transcribe, and analyze illness narratives that were This project is supported by the Geneseo Student FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTOPHER LEARY recounted in interviews conducted in southern Ambassador Program. Selected for presentation at MATHEMATICS Chile with indigenous Mapuche Parents. Second, I Migrations of Culture , Pittsburgh, PA. Tumors can grow at various rates and in compare this analysis experience to my field unpredictable directions. Certain enzymes have experience as an assistant to Dr. Kristi Krumrine in 4B • BIOLOGY-MATHEMATICS 2 been shown to degrade the ECM (extracellular southern Mexico. On this project, I was an ISC 131 matrix), allowing more space for the tumor to interpersonal bridge between the research group grow. Mathematical models can be used to better FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GREGG and members of the community, and served as an predict tumor growth by adjusting various HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY interpreter during interviews. This research, ______parameters to reflect real life data. The two funded by the Dean Johnston Research discrete models we used which considered the Assistantship, documented perspectives on Effects of Disease and Habitat Loss interaction of three dependent variables: tumor medicinal plant use in the Maya community of on the Main Food Source of Iberian density, ECM concentration, and concentration of Cobá, Mexico. While both of these experiences Lynx ECM degrading enzymes produced by the tumor. required a high level of Spanish aural CLAUDIA KOLAKOWSKI, SARA TREACY, EMILY These variables are parameterized in time and comprehension, the cultural and interpersonal TIMKEY space. Our first model parameterized extracellular knowledge they required varied. I'll touch on the FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTOPHER LEARY matrix makeup and matrix degrading enzymes to processes of ethnography and conclude with MATHEMATICS predict tumor invasion, while the second model suggestions to foster linguistic and communicative The Iberian Lynx, Lynx pardinus, is an endangered was derived from a partial differential equation competence for student researchers. species located in Southern Spain that preys model and uses the same parameters to ______primarily on the rabbit species Oryctolagus specifically describe tumor invasion into breast Ideology and Postvernacularity in cuniculus. Oryctolagus cuniculus populations have tissue. For each model, we identified a theoretical 21st Century Yiddish Pedagogy been declining due to the recent outbreak of two threshold of the concentration of the extracellular diseases, myxomatosis and rabbit hemorrhagic matrix leading to tumor invasion. ALEX MCGRATH ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER GUZMAN, disease (RHD) as well as a loss of habitat. We ANTHROPOLOGY investigated the effects of the diseases and habitat Modeling the Pesticide Treatment Since the Shoah, the role of the Yiddish language loss on the rabbit population and in turn the and Spread of Teasel has shifted from the everyday vernacular language Iberian Lynx population. The decline in rabbit JONATHAN KORDIYAK of Ashkenazi Jews (the mame loshn) to a populations due to disease was simulated using an FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTOPHER LEARY symbolically loaded, post-vernacular linguistic SIR model. The effects of habitat loss on O. MATHEMATICS 30  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM

Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) is an invasive plant In my final paper for English 427: Literary loose publicity or money due to the inaccuracies species from Europe that often outcompetes Representations of Disability, I explored Jonathan and metaphorization of autism in his novel. native plants in recently disturbed ecosystems. In Safran Foer's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly 2002 the Missouri Department of Conservation Close and the impact of trauma on young people. 4D • ENGLISH WELLES 119 (MDC) indicated that the spread of teasel within Reading the novel through the lens of an Dreaming, Questing, and Resisting the United States has been expedited by the use of educator's perspective, there is an interesting highway lawnmowers. The MDC has already conversation surrounding the different ways in in Medieval Literature advocated early identification and subsequent which the characters try to help Oskar, the main FACULTY SPONSOR: GRAHAM DRAKE, ENGLISH pesticide application as a viable solution to this character, an 8 year old whose father died in the SESSION CHAIR: OLIVIA BINDA spread. Additionally, A study performed by Patricia September 11th, 2001 attack on the World Trade ______Warner (1975) produced a discrete-time model of Center. Dream Vision in Medieval teasel growth under ideal conditions. However, it ______Literature: Instructing Medieval is known that teasel seeds do not travel farther The Individuality of Loss: Examining Peoples and Their Culture than 1.5 meters without assistance. Therefore, a Absence in Extremely Loud and proper model of teasel growth must also consider MARGARET PIGLIACELLI the limited dispersal range of the plant's seeds. I Incredibly Close This paper discusses the appearance and purpose have created a spatial model that takes the spatial EVA PELLEGRINO of dream vision within Medieval English texts. I and biannual life history of the plant into account. In this essay, I look at the function of loss in the identify and explain the cultural background of I incorporated a pesticide treatment into my model novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by many uses of dream vision through different that initiates at the time of my choosing. I have Jonathan Safran Foer. I believe that Foer is trying examples of poetry and prose. Works such as King quantified the success of this treatment within the to show how loss operates on the individual level; Horn, “The Wanderer”, and Piers Plowman, among spatial model by beginning the treatment at that there is no one way to experience loss because others, are used to explain reasons why dream different time steps. I hypothesize that the it is experienced differently depending on the vision was used and how it informed the larger pesticide treatment will lose its effectiveness if individual. In this essay I specifically talk about culture of the Medieval period. Dream vision was started later rather than sooner. Foer's decision to include many different letters used to console and instruct readers about various ______from the characters, and the effect that this has on subjects, as well as provided a link between the Modeling the Spread of the novel. Foer uses these letters to convey a mortal and divine worlds. universal theme of absence by deconstructing our ______Leptospirosis in Canines notion of how an epistolary novel typically Lollard Antifraternalism and the Incorporating Vaccination and Risk functions; to demonstrate reciprocity between Literary Culture of Late Fourteenth Factor Control characters and provide insight into understanding a third person narrative, but instead uses letters to and Early Fifteenth Century England JENICA ACHETA, TYLER BELL, SAM HERAGHTY, NATE BARR JASON LANG convey a universal theme of absence. ______This paper examines the intersection of Lollardy FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTOPHER LEARY Extremely Loud and Incredibly and antifraternalism in the late fourteenth century, MATHEMATICS using examples from works such as Piers Plowman Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection transmitted WHAT? An Examination of and The Canterbury Tales. through contaminated water, soil, or the urine of Narrative Rupture and Failed infected animals. Domesticated dogs are at high 4E • HISTORY STURGES 106 risk of infection which can ultimately lead to death. Communication Recently in the United States incidence of canine SAMI STERN East v. West: An Analysis of infection has increased seven-fold from 2000 to In his novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Shenzhen and Western Views on 2007, demonstrating the need for a greater Jonathan Safran Foer attempts the impossible, to understanding spread of the infection. In order to capture the ineffable quality of a grieving city Chinese Capitalism investigate the risk factors and potential efficacy of following the horrific events of September 11th. FACULTY SPONSOR: RYAN JONES, HISTORY vaccination, a compartment based SIRV model is But how does one put to words that which, by SESSION CHAIR: ADAM PEASE definition, cannot be described? Foer uses the ______used, with differential equations defining ADAM PEASE communication disorders of his two main movement between susceptible, infected, The presentation examines Chinese Capitalism as it characters, autism and mutism, to imagine a world recovered, and vaccinated populations. functions within Special Economic Zones. There are in which reciprocal conversation is impossible. This Additionally we created a network model which case studies that will be presented which outline creates what Michael Bérube terms a disabled demonstrates the spatial aspects of infection how China's unique form of Capitalism functions narrative, or a story that is predicated by disability. within a population. Our models suggests that within the city of Shenzhen. Shenzhen is China's In order to express what his characters cannot, vaccination with annual boostering significantly largest manufacturing center and on pace to Foer relies on both metatextual and visual reduces the chances of a dog becoming infected become the largest city within China. Due to its elements. These narrative ruptures sometimes with the bacteria. Additionally, mitigating known status Shenzhen and its practices of Capitalism baffle and disturb, pulling the reader out of the risk factors such as contact with contaminated have been heavily critiqued by the West. The very story in which they are attempting to immerse water and controlling rat populations, which act as presentation will include examinations of western themselves. This paper examines Foer's use of reservoirs for the bacteria. For infected media, such as the New York Times, and analyze these techniques and their effectiveness at populations our models suggest timely symptom how they have perceived the idea of Capitalist recognition and antibiotic treatment improves capturing both individual and group trauma. ______cities within China. survival rate in canines. Distractions from Autism Coding in 4F • ENGLISH BAILEY 105 4C • ENGLISH WELLES 111 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Guided Poetry Source Tours 4 MEGAN GRANT Disability Representation in SESSION CHAIR: WILLIAM ANTONELLI In this essay, I discuss Jonathan Safran Foer's intent Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ______regarding how he constructs his narrative around FACULTY SPONSOR: GILLIAN PAKU, ENGLISH his autistically-coded protagonist. I believe that Writing Self into Space: Blackness SESSION CHAIR: MEGAN GRANT  ______Foer constructs his novel in an unconventional, in Nature convoluted manner so readers are too busy CHLOE FORSELL Extremely Loud and Incredibly attempting to follow the narrative to evaluate FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH Close: Trauma and Young Students Oskar's potential autism spectrum disorder (ASD). American Environmental Thought is a standard KAITLIN PFUNDSTEIN Foer's intent, I suspect, is to keep critics of his course taught at most universities within the representation of ASD off of his trail so he doesn't Environmental Studies discipline; it is not  Promotes sustainability 31 Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual controversial to have this discourse in American factor that shapes primary and secondary student and what they have gained from the trip, colleges as a place for students, for young writers socialization for foster children as well as proposed as well as on how others can be involved and help and intellectuals, to explore environment, ecology, research directions to explore these factors. This the cause. and nature in relation to self. Yet recent National area of research is inter-disciplinary as it bridges ______Parks' Service data emphasizes the ways black and the extensive research and knowledge of STEAM Fair minority populations visit National Parks. Such developmental child psychology with the EMILY HERSCHBEIN facts raise questions about what might be missing theoretical and empirical knowledge of sociological FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD from current academic practice. Is there a place for social psychology. STEAM Fair is a project that I introduced to blackness in this field of study, for black people as Livingston County in the Spring of 2016. It included students, as authors, as contributors in ecological 4H • POLITICAL SCIENCE & a morning of workshops intended to encourage and environmental discourse? Even more sinister a INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS young students to pursue careers in the Science, question, is there a place for blackness in this Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics exploration of nature and self? Using Black Nature: WELLES 121 fields. Eight Geneseo students planned and Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry From Failed to Fabulous: Ways to prepared around ten activities for the students at as a point of reference, this presentation/ Achieve Stability in the Democratic the Elementary School to partake in, and materials discussion of writing self into space will explore were provided about different career paths and how decades of black nature poetry have seeked to Republic of Congo applications of STEAM to the real world. This reclaim or redefine the nature space in terms of FACULTY SPONSOR: JEREMY GRACE, POLITICAL presentation will discuss how my committee blackness - or rather, to write black bodies and SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS initiated this project, the reception we received, experiences into this nature space. Beginning SESSION CHAIR: PATRICK KANZLER and the work we are doing to make it even better indoors, this presentation will be in motion, ______this Spring. NATHALIE KALUMBWE, JILLIAN PALMER, STELLA attendees expected to take the discussion to ______outside spaces, ending with an exercise in writing ODURO GOLD Diamond Reflection Paper self into space. Almost 60 years after its independence, the Democratic Republic of Congo has had many ALEXANDER MROZEK ______FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD Trauma as a Source of Art difficulties stemming from both domestic and international policies that are undermining Civic engagement begins with service and AMANDA AMEEN democratic processes and institutions. The post- manifests itself in various forms such as: working FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH colonial history and volatile political landscape of with neighborhood institutions, participating in This presentation will demonstrate how trauma, the Congo has been the subject of much research school and community organizations or engaging in particularly sexual assault and childhood sexual and discourse since its years under the dictatorship active service work, to name a few. This abuse, can be a major source material for poetry. I of Mobutu Sese Seko. In fact, in 2016, the Fragile presentation will focus on individual and collective plan to portray trauma through both the State Index listed Congo as a failed state for its actions dealing with civic engagement based on a perpetrator and victim. The former will be through inability to provide basic services to its people. Livingston CARES humanitarian project in Biloxi the form of interview with a previously selected Despite having the largest United Nations Mississippi. By working with community members anonymous volunteer who has been made aware peacekeeping in the world, corruption, impunity, and campus-based officials, this presentation will of the purpose of the interview and who has grave human rights and civil liberties violations identify and address issues of public concern and admitted to having pedophilic urges which will be continue to permeate through the Congo. This offer suggestions to improve poverty in Harrison recorded prior to the presentation and shown presentation will explore the social, political, and County, Mississippi. visually. Note that this interview will also include ______security reforms necessary in reviving Congo from lasting effects of his actions and his a failed state to a more viable one. Insights on Volunteerism and acknowledgements that what he did was wrong. Community Engagement through The latter will be through the form of poetry MCU 114 written by a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and 4I • GOLD My Experiences with Geneseo and rape regarding the lasting effects including, but not GOLD Diamond the GOLD Program limited to, struggles with mental illnesses such as SESSION CHAIR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD GABRIEL PONCE ______PTSD, depression, and anxiety, impacts past abuse FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD can have on present relationships, and navigating Give Kids the World Alternative This paper presentation will encompass my through present rape and pedophilic culture. Note Spring Break 2017 experiences at Geneseo along with experiences that there will be triggering warnings for this MARY PANZETTA, STEPHANIE RESILA, CARA I've had volunteering in the community and how presentation, as it will have to do with childhood BEHRENS, BRIANNAH BIRCH, ABIGAIL BOBBETTE, this taught me the importance of community sexual abuse, sexual assault, and rape. Attendees CHRISTOPHER CUMMINS, SAMANTHA CYTRYN, engagement. I will begin with the activities I are welcome to walk in and out of this presentation BRIANNA FOSS, SHEAMUS KAVANAUGH, SHEA participated my first two years at Geneseo those at their discretion. being the GOLD program, helping me redefine KINSELLA, SAMANTHA NORWAY, GRACE leadership, the ultimate frisbee team, establishing BAILEY 104 ROWAN, CASSANDRIA SANCHEZ 4G • SOCIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID PARFITT, GOLD lifelong friendships, and the Physics department, Exploring Sociological Aspects of Give Kids the World is a nonprofit village located in developing my work ethic. My junior year will cover Child Development Kissimmee, Florida where children with life- my service trip to Ecuador along with the increased time I spend in the physics department and with FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: ANNE threatening illnesses and their families can stay for ultimate frisbee team and how I applied the EISENBERG, SOCIOLOGY a weeklong, cost-free vacation. For the several ______years, Dr. David Parfitt has taken a group of 13 lessons I learned from GOLD in those settings. My Identifying Key Factors in Geneseo students down to the village to volunteer senior year will be the focus of the presentation for a week. Students work one or two shifts a day discussing the lessons I learned from being a GOLD Socialization for Foster Children and help with various activities including serving mentor, completed the diamond certificate, and and New Resarch Directions meals, entertainment, participating in the evening volunteered with the community. Here I will talk EMMA GERROL, EMILY REITER, BRIDGET DOONEY, activities, and doing service projects around the about my service trip to Brooklyn over spring break HUNTER SIMMS, MATTHEW VOLCY, JORDAN village. They help with weekly Village events such along with the GOLD activities that allowed WILLSON as the Winter Wonderland and Halloween party, students to engage with the Geneseo community Through research readings, we have been scoop ice cream, and run the carousel. In this and how this taught me that volunteering can help exploring the sociological dimensions of child presentation, students will discuss the history of develop an individual as well as develop their development for foster children. The members of the Village, what it means to volunteer there, and surrounding community. the research group will each discuss a specific their personal experiences. An emphasis will be placed on how the Village has affected each 32  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM

4J • HISTORY STURGES 109 Speaking of Secrets: Secret Codes, cartoons that came about from the Greek and British media. The aim is to compare the cartoons History Honors Theses Ciphers, and Encryption in Personal that were created by the two countries to FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JOE Communication determine whether or not the British were COPE, HISTORY SAMANTHA MISA invested in the conflict and supporting the Greeks, ______Secret codes and ciphers have long been relegated or if it was not seen as important and their interests The Influence of Dynastic Women to the realm of espionage and military usage. were focused elsewhere. In order to answer the on the Wars of the Roses However, a large amount of evidence exists that question cartoons from both sides will be JACLYN CARLIN during the turn of the 19th century, average examined and compared. This thesis explores the power dynamics and citizens were employing methods of encryption to ______strategies of some of the most prominent and hide their words and thoughts from prying eyes. September Campaign of 1939 powerful women during the Wars of the Roses. While the salacious diary of Samuel Pepys is one of TIM KROL Women such as Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth the most well-known personal texts to utilize a Poland's role in World War II has often been Woodville, Margaret Beaufort, and Elizabeth of secret code, coded diaries of far less notorious relegated to the backwaters of historical study York all played various roles during this long war individuals offer lascivious intimate details as well. outside the borders of the nation. In particular the that greatly influenced the future of English history Usage of secret codes also flourished among September Campaign of 1939 rarely gets more for years to come. While some were more directly postcards, and codes existing on such documents than a couple of sentences in many books written involved in influencing the war than others, each of that I have managed to decipher give insight into about the war. Even in this regard the campaign is these women worked diligently to protect herself the value of privacy and its interconnection with written from a predominantly German perspective and her family from falling out of favor, whether it early consumerism. Personal usage of secret codes and covers extensively German offensive was with the House of Lancaster or the House of for communication tapered off after the advent of operations rather than the Polish defense. By York. From defending their son's right to the the First World War, after which code usage was analyzing over 20 primary sources of Polish throne, making secret alliances, or simply fighting relegated to novelties such as decoder rings and soldiers, officers and military documents, as well as for their own livelihood and independence, these newspaper puzzles. secondary sources, one can draw different women were forces to be reckoned with and conclusions about the Polish defense of the nation should not be undervalued or overlooked in 4K • HISTORY STURGES 108 in 1939. Contrary to the popular image of the Poles history. The part these women played and Honors Theses: New Perspectives being hopeless, technologically inferior and simply consequences of their actions also revealed the a practice exercise for the German Blitzkrieg, the institutional failings of a monarchy that had once on Jury Discrimination and World Polish preparation for the war and the resistance been very stable, and further demonstrated how War II to a considerably larger German force was swiftly one could fall from power during these FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JUSTIN significantly more determined than anything tumultuous times BEHREND, HISTORY France and England could muster. This different ______treatment of Polish forces in the September The Virtues of the Coffeehouse Two Steps Back: The Late 19th Campaign could perhaps spur a different view of Poland in Western historical research and absolve Broadsides: The Normative and Century Retreat of Southern Black the nation of accusations of collaboration with the Practical Public Sphere of English Jury Rights Germans and lack of contribution to the Allied war Coffeehouses MORGAN WEBER effort that have become pervasive in the Western THOMAS GARRITY One of the chief causes of the deterioration of historical narrative.

To study the coffeehouse public sphere of black rights in the post-bellum South can be seventeenth and eighteenth-century England - first attributed to several Supreme Court cases from the 4L • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 340 conceptualized by Jurgen Habermas in his heuristic second half of the 19th century, which established Mathematics of Games work The Structural Transformation of the Public precedents allowing for the eventual legalization of FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JEFF Sphere - historians commonly rely upon the discriminatory practices, such as poll taxes and JOHANNES, MATHEMATICS normative portrayals conveyed in moral weekly literacy tests. Three such cases, Strauder v West ______newspapers and the practical portrayals contained Virginia, Virginia v Rives, and Ex Parte Virginia, all Tic Tac Toe: A Game of One Mistake dealing with the rights of black men to serve on in the first-hand accounts of coffeehouse patrons. JOSEPH GOODHUE juries, were handed down together in 1879-80. However, historians of this field have neglected to Tic tac toe is a game that is very well known, and This paper will analyze the above court cases, and classify and utilize coffeehouse broadsides as a some believe it to have been played for over 2000 explain how they confirmed the citizenship rights source even though they contain valuable years, with variants of the game dating back to the of black Americans but also contributed to future information on the coffeehouse public sphere. Roman era. The rules of the game are very simple: court decisions that undermined black jury rights. Therefore, I endeavored to determine whether the first person to get three Xs or three Os in a row The ruling in these three cases, while again these coffeehouse broadsides portray the wins. If each player plays the game intelligently, affirming the rights of black Americans, did not normative or practical coffeehouse public sphere the game should end in a draw. However, given create precedents strong enough to actively and the broadsides' utility for historians of the that your opponent makes at least one mistake, protect those rights. Further analysis of each case broader English public sphere. Ultimately, I you can easily win. Through the course of this talk, will show that in acknowledging but failing to fully determined that these economic broadsides we will discuss the amount of different ways there address these discriminatory methods, the should be classified as sources that portray the are to start a game, as well as the best possible Supreme Court created avenues for southern normative, rather than practical, coffeehouse move to make in each successive turn, given the whites to legally deny rights such as jury service to public sphere due to the economic biases they move made by your opponent. We will also go over the majority of Southern blacks. Selected for contain. Furthermore, I determined that these the distinct number of ways there are to win a presentation at Phi Alpha Theta Western New coffeehouse broadsides demonstrate - through the game, tie a game, and lose a game. economic tension they and select first-hand York Regional Meeting, Brockport, NY. ______accounts indicate between coffeehouse keepers What's Your Worth? A Talk on and tavern and alehouse keepers - that analysis of Political Cartoons of the Greco- the practical public sphere should extend beyond Italian War Relative Piece Value in Chess MAX ZINTEL the Habermasian focus on the coffeehouse to GEORGE GATZOFLIAS Much of recreational mathematics, over time, has include a more detailed study of taverns and When one thinks of World War II, Britain, France, focused on the game of chess. Here, we will assign alehouses. the US, and Germany tend to come to mind. This and assess relative value for chess pieces. To do ______research looks at an often overlooked section of this, we will derive relative mobility of each piece the war, the Greco-Italian Conflict, and the political in a multitude of scenarios as a simulated game of  Promotes sustainability 33 Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual chess progresses. Relative mobility will be FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: LYTTON The paper will conclude with analyzing the anti- represented by coloring each piece using SMITH, ENGLISH vaccine movement's role in the perception ofthe chromatic numbers; the higher the chromatic FACULTY SPONSOR: OLYMPIA NICODEMI, HPV vaccine and exploring just how much truth is number, the higher the pieces' mobility. This MATHEMATICS behind their claims of danger fromtheinfamous approach will promote logical decision making for ______HPV vaccine. those who are new to the game, and may serve in RYAN CARPENTER, JEFF DOSER, MAYA ______tandem with most chess strategies. BERGAMASCO, ADAM WEGMAN, SARAH STEIL, Exacerbating the Epidemic: BRANDON MEHLENBACHER , HANNAH LOO, EMILY ______Examining the Causes and The Monty Hall PROBLEM RAMIREZ, SHAYNE O'BRIEN, RACHEL POWERS, ETHAN JANNES BRENDAN MAHONEY, OLIVER DIAZ Contributions to the Spread of We begin with a brief description of the Monty Hall Now in its second year, NeuWrite/Edu pairs HIV/AIDS Virus in Sub-Saharan Geneseo undergraduate creative writers and problem and its mathematical solution. We then Africa attempt to answer the question of what about the scientists who collaboratively produce rigorously- MALACHY DEMPSEY problem and its presentation makes it appear so informed creative nonfiction essays about The popular history of HIV/AIDS is a history of non-intuitive to so many people. In our first undergraduate science research at Geneseo. This divisions for American audiences. Throughout the attempt to answer this, we describe the presentation explains the process behind 1980s, HIV/AIDS was conceived as a "gay plague" psychological factors and varying aspects of the NeuWrite/Edu, discusses the need for creative and was used in the continued marginalization of problem's presentation that might lead people to science writing, and shares parts of the essays the gay community. In the past 20 years a division answer it incorrectly. Our second attempt is a more produced by the students. has similary arisen between the conception of constructive one, where we describe cognitive "Western AIDS" and "African AIDS. "This division techniques for solving the problem correctly as 4O • ENGLISH WELLES 138 convinced many that AIDS in Africa was a mere well as provide mathematical solutions to Plagues and Politics: Perpsectives phenomenon that the powers-that-be were variations of the problem, with the goal of on Epidemics and Plagues upon the helpless against; power was thus slow to respond demonstrating that certain assumptions latent to the epidemic, exacerbating it severely. This within the initial problem are necessary for giving Body Politic paper examines how certain governments in sub- its correct solution. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: THOMAS Saharan Africa, Westernmedia, and the American ______GREENFIELD, ENGLISH ______scientific establishment all contributed to that Hit or Stay wide spread complacency. ANDREW LOCASTRO The Anti-Vaccination Movement Blackjack is one of the most popular and JEANMARIE RYAN 4P • SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 203 recognizable games on a casino floor. Bringing The anti-vaccination or anti-vax movement has gained strength through two main factors. The SESSION CHAIR: MINA RAJ Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT ______Students who Took Vegas for Millions brought the internet has been a major factor in the growth of American public an inside look into how the world the anti-vax movement. Some aspectsof the No School Left Behind: The Effects of mathematics gave college students a great internet, such as the fact that websites dedicated of Urban Education Reform on New advantage in the casino. My talk will go even to a certain cause tend to actas echo chambers, York City Public High School deeper in the odds, probabilities, and several other have passively influenced the growth of the anti- aspects to the game of blackjack. Along with the vax movement. At the same time, anti-vaxers have Students data taken on the moves and bets made in actively used the internet, namely via social media, JOHN CORDOVA common scenarios in a game of blackjack, we will to achieve their ends. A second factor that has led FACULTY SPONSOR: YUICHI TAMURA, SOCIOLOGY see whether or not these moves and bets are to the rise of the anti-vaccination movement is Between 2002 and 2013, the New York City statistically the best moves to make. By the end of public fear of government control. A parent's Department of Education permanently closed the talk we hope to have found out that having a mistrust ofvaccines, someargue, might be rooted nearly 200 public schools under the administration mathematical background and application at the in fear of the government having too much of former New York City mayor Michael blackjack table can make one a superior and controlover their children's lives. Again, this fear Bloomberg. Given that New York City's public profitable gambler. has passively influenced the rise of the anti- school system is the largest in the country, serving vaxmovement, but it has also been harnessed by over one million students, it is unsurprising that the 4M • MUSIC DOTY RECITAL HALL anti-vaxers in order to gain support for their cause. policy of closing schools faced fierce opposition by ______teachers, students, and parents. However, to A Night at the Movies: A Concert of HPV Vaccine: Myths and bureaucrats, closing schools was seen as necessary Film Music Misconceptions in order to improve school choice for communities FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: MICHAEL throughout the city. As a result, many large, MARISSA CANARELLI MASCI, MUSIC comprehensive public high schools were This paper will attempt to fully understand the ______deconstructed. In their place, hundreds of small, myths and misconceptions around the HPV JOHN COACCI themed high schools were opened. The focus of vaccine. Rumors of potential harm have been This performance will have you on the edge of your this research analyzes the demographic and circulating ever since the popular vaccines, seats! Come and hear the true power of film music geographic trends of the now-closed high schools, Gardasil and Cervarix, were pushed to be firsthand. You will experience music of action, their shared characteristics, and the citywide administered to preteen girls under the drama, and suspense. Featured in this "domino effect" that was established by closing so recommendation of the FDA in 2006. While these performance is an original composition written for many of them. The second part of this presentation vaccines can defend against HPV and the cervical the recent Batman films, including The Dark Knight. will focus on current mayor Bill de Blasio's cancer that can result, inoculation rates are still Additionally, the performance will feature music by alternative to closing low-performing schools. low. The most prominent explanation for this is the great film composers such as John Williams, Hans Furthermore, the ways in which reforms from both danger rhetoric extorted by the anti-vaccine Zimmer, and Michael Giacchino. For those administrations have disproportionately affected movement. This paper will first explore why interested in an analysis of film music, be sure to minority students from low-income families, vaccines such as Gardasil and Cervarix havecome check out the presentation on "A Night at the immigrant students, and special education under firein terms of potential danger and the Movies: An Analysis of Film Music." students will be examined. The presentation will vaccine metaphors that facilitatethem. The anti- conclude by addressing multiple recommendations 4N • ENGLISH WELLES 123 vaccine movement will be deconstructed in order to help improve New York City's lowest- to understand how the post modern medical performing schools. NeuWrite/Edu: Pairing Scientists paradigm allowed for the movement to rapidly ______and Creative Writers expand and its effect on the scientific community's relationship with the public in terms of vaccination. 34  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM

The Status of Women in Effective Organizational Change in effect on an individual's existence. These factors can be self-dependent, but others are dependent Afghanistan and Somalia: A Social, Non-profits on external sources - such as our relationship and Legal, and Economic Analysis ANDREW ARCESE interactions with others. Relationships are RYAN OCKENDEN Factors related to funding patterns and strategies, described as being mutually beneficial to both FACULTY SPONSOR: LISA MEYER, SOCIOLOGY as well as mission, make organizational change parties in them, and positive interactions create a Patriarchal institutions have led to immense challenging for non-profits. In addition, chain-effect of future positive interactions that oppression toward women and young girls in many organizational change may reveal aspects of positively affect well-being. But what constitutes countries across the world. In this presentation, organizational culture that had not previously been positive interaction, and what about an interaction the status of women in Afghanistan and Somalia obvious. The relationship of how organizations provides a sense of well-being? The works of will be analyzed through social, legal, and respond to crises—whether as an impetus to Derné, Matthews, Markus et al, and Collins all economic lenses. Furthermore, in order to change or a source of stability—is discussed. agree that relationships play some important part understand the current gender gaps in these in the well-being of an individual. Relationships countries, it is vital to uncover the 4R • SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 202 provide a sense of life satisfaction not only to misinterpretations of the Qur'an and how this Sociology of Well-Being and of ourselves, but also to the other people in our directly impacts the oppression of women. Internal Emotional Achievement relationships. issues such as education, domestic violence, FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: STEVE health, and sex trafficking will be spotlighted. 4S • EDUCATION BAILEY 102 DERNE, SOCIOLOGY Solutions will be analyzed for each issue while ______The Speech Buddy Experience : weighing the need for international intervention and respecting non-western cultural identities and Crafting: Can it be Emotional Reaching and Teaching English values along the way. Achievement? Language Learners CARLY RICHARDSON FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: IRENE 4Q • SOCIOLOGY BAILEY 247 Emotional Achievement is a series of emotions felt BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, EDUCATION Internship Capstone Presentations: on the completion of a task. This paper outlines ______what it takes for something to create feelings of Exploring the Methods of Teaching Women's & Children's Welfare and emotional achievement before proposing the idea that crafting could be a source of those feelings. English Language Learners Social Justice CHANNING PORTER FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: BECKY Through the use of documentary evidence in blogs crafting is dissected to see if, in fact, the feelings As a participant in the Speech Buddy Program, each GLASS, SOCIOLOGY student is gifted with the privilege of acting as an ______that result can be considered feelings of emotional ESOL teacher for a few of the International Extracurricular Programs: What are achievement. ______Students. In this presentation I will address my own the Benefits and for Whom? Work and Well-Being: A Complex experience working with my Speech Buddy. MAGGIE LLOYD Likewise, in order to fully illustrate the process of This paper reviews the ways in which participating Relationship teaching my Speech Buddy, I will include a in extracurricular programs relates to academic STEPHANIE GERSPACHER discussion on the specific methods and approaches performance, for students at the elementary, Sociological scholars (e.g. Derné) assess that the used, a list of objectives to be completed by the middle, and high school levels. Attention is also relationship between work and subjective well- end of the semester, as well as images of materials given to the effects of socioeconomic status on being is positive. This study focuses on the used in our sessions. In addition, I will also discuss children's likelihood of participating in complexity between work and well-being. While how my Speech Buddies have taught me more extracurricular programs. work does promote connections to others and a about myself and their own specific cultures. ______sense of specialness about the self, it can also ______Youth Crime in Poorer produce negative feelings and ill-being. Findings An ESOL Adventure were analyzed from a set of 18 in-depth, open- Socioeconomic Areas: Factors that EMILY ROGERS ended interviews conducted by 9 SUNY Geneseo This presentation describes my personal Lead to Acceptance of Perceived students. Analysis of the data suggests that work experiences working with a native Japanese Societal Roles can not only produce ill-being, but also can speaker based on on ENG 277: Methods of promote fluctuations between well-being and a ERIC CORWIN Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. lack of well-being. This presentation describes my baseline data, This paper explores how the concepts of anomie, ______deviant labeling, "pull-down culture," and objectives throughout the semester, approaches restorative vs. retributive justice interact with Religion and Its Effects on Well- and techniques used during the sessions, resources socioeconomic disparity to affect how youth Being and transfer activities, reflection of my experiences perceive crime and their participation in it. VANESSA CALLE etc. This is a great way to share my experiences ______This study focuses on the perceptions of well-being working with the international community at An Analysis of the Economic and among Americans. A semi-structured interview Geneseo and taking ENG 277 to promote student interest future semesters. Social Burdens of Divorce on was created containing basic questions pertaining to well-being in relation to different social spheres ______Women of life, such as, family, work, and religion. These Supporting Long-Term ESOL DIANA GANIS qualitative interviews reveal important Students Women have become less reliant on marriage over information about religion's effect on well-being. ZOE ROSEN time; nonetheless they are disproportionately Although the literature states that religion Every semester SUNY Geneseo becomes home to disadvantaged in the event of divorce. Their positively affects well-being, it neglects that the numerous international students. These students economic burdens are related to spouse rejection of religion also positively affects well- have the option to participate in the Speech Buddy maintenance, eligibility for insurance, retirement being. Our interviews reveal that the rejection of Program where they receive weekly one-on-one planning and implementation, and child support. In religion is also a positive factor in defining well- English instruction. As a speech buddy to these addition, there are social burdens related to child being for some individuals. international students, we informally evaluate custody and perceptions about divorced women in ______their skills. By identifying areas in need of dating situations, as well as on-going burdens for Interactions and Well-Being improvement, we can then create individual lesson women who were abused in the marriage. TRISTAN HYNES plans to support them in reaching agreed upon ______Well-being is a sense of life satisfaction that is goals. In addition, we attend a weekly class to learn comprised of many complex factors and their methods of teaching English to speakers of other  Promotes sustainability 35 Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual languages. While many of these students come for true expression of contemporary life in that it is behaviors and international norms, neoliberalism a semester or a full academic year, there are a few based on how we interpret our life experiences credits international institutions with the change in that complete their entire undergraduate degree with the natural world around us, that it makes us the global system. Organizations such as the at SUNY Geneseo. I will share my experiences of feel alive and important, and that it is constantly European Union, United Nations, and the World working with one of these students, and how we evolving along side us. Dance also serves as a Trade Organization embody the principles upon can continue increasing their confidence and caveat for emotional expression, intuitive which neoliberalism analyzes these institutions. achieving their goals. perceptions, elusive truths, and freewill. This essay Each of these institutions meets regularly, ______will explore how these courageous women defied facilitating communication between many nations, To Teach a Mouse to Roar tradition, broke barriers, and helped aid the birth whether it be to address social, economic, or ALEXANDRA LOVRIC of a new art form, Modern Dance. political problems. However, each of these In this presentation, I will be discussing my unique institutions have flaws which hamper a pure experience working as an ESL instructor within the 4U • THEATRE & DANCE execution of neoliberal ideas. If these institutions context of the Speech Buddy Program. Through the ALICE AUSTIN THEATER wish to remain stable and legitimate for years to use of a powerpoint style presentation format, the come, it is necessary for them to make changes and respective methods of informal language A Lesson from Aloes adapt more clearly to the neoliberal world order. assessment, developing a report with my speech FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: RANDY ______buddy, setting speech goals and assigning KAPLAN, THEATRE & DANCE Power Balancing in a Middle ______behavioral objectives will be discussed. Likewise, BRITTANI SAMUEL, CASEY CHURCHES, RACHEL Eastern Cold War: Saudi Arabia, through the consideration of current research and BRITTON, LORENZO RODRIGUEZ Iran, and the Regionalization of personal experience, I will further explore the Staged reading of Act 2 of Athol Fugard's A Lesson different techniques and specific approaches From Aloes in collaboration with the Edgar Fellows Yemen's Civil War associated with teaching English to speakers of Program and the Theatre and Dance Department LEXI TABER other languages. An extended explanation and at SUNY Geneseo. When the Ansar Allah insurgency took control of visual representations of materials used in the Yemen's capital, Sanaa, in September of 2014, sessions with my particular speech buddy will also 4V • POLITICAL SCIENCE & Saudi officials were quick to direct their suspicion be provided. In addition, proposed plans and towards Iran. It appeared that by supporting the recommendations for future English language INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Houthi movement, Iran was seeking to export its sessions will be articulated along with a brief WELLES 24 revolutionary ideology and establish a Shia-Islamic discussion of how teaching English has been a Theories of International Relations foothold in the Arab Gulf. The result was Saudi transformative experience. FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JEREMY Arabia's Operative Decisive Storm, leading to Saudi and Iranian entrenchment in Yemen's civil war. BRODIE 154 GRACE, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL 4T • THEATRE & DANCE RELATIONS Almost three years later the conflict remains The Spirit and Art of Two ______unresolved, and the nature of the division has Let's Get Realist: Sovereignty is evolved from a domestic contest for political Innovators of American 20th control into a regionalized proxy war fought Century Dance Subjective between Saudi Arabia and Iran. This presentation FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JONETTE TANVIR HAYAT will offer a critique of the pervasive claim that LANCOS, THEATRE & DANCE One of the fundamental underpinnings of alliances, competition, and intervention in the MODERATOR: EMILY ELLMANN international relations is the concept of territorial Arab world is a result of sectarian interests. While ______sovereignty. A precondition of the international the sectarian explanation provides a basis for The Modern Contributions of Loie system is that all states possess sovereignty over analysis, the Sunni-Shia divide instead acts as a distinct borders, and there is a well-entrenched jus second-order factor in state behavior. From a Fuller and Isadora Duncan cogens norm of respecting territorial sovereignty. neorealist standpoint, a purely sectarian SYDNEY KLEIN This concept features heavily in the realist school explanation fails to consider the impact of power In this scholarly paper, I discuss two American of international relations, which goes on to make balancing and maximization in state interaction. modern dance and feminist pioneers, Loie Fuller the assertion that sovereignty is an inherent and Iran and Saudi Arabia are posturing for regional and Isadora Duncan. I wrote about the people, static feature of the international system. Yet an hegemony and engage in proxy wars not purely to places and things that inspired their movement examination of both the historical processes that protect sectarian interests but also to further style as well as their own contributions and what created the modern definition of territorial power shares in the region. has been a result of them. I relate it to a current sovereignty and the varied application of that ______choreographic piece that I am in for Geneseo definition in the modern world seems to suggest Polarity and Hegemonic Change Dance Ensemble, created by Professor Deb French, that sovereignty is not as rigid as realism posits. which includes many themes shared by Fuller and Rather, it is apparent that territorial sovereignty is Through a Neo-realist Lens: The End Duncan. a subjective concept, dependent on the views of of American Hegemony ______the powerful states in the international system at JUSTIN FISCHER Scholarly Paper on Loie Fuller and the time. Powerful states define and apply the The world is not designed to function under Isadora Duncan norm of territorial sovereignty selectively, in order unipolarity indefinitely. Indeed, the current world JESSICA LOOKS to maintain and forward their own self interests. order is already being confronted by various forces In the twentieth century there was a rejection to There is a need for the realist tradition to recognize that seek to destabilize a global system that has the restricting, self-indulgent, artificial, and and account for the malleable nature of territorial only existed for 25 years. In recent years, Russia, traditionalist classical ballet, which came out of the sovereignty as well its dependency on power under Vladimir Putin, has attempted to destabilize many cultural, social, and philosophical influences politics. regions in Eastern Europe and the Middle East with of the time. Some of these include, but aren't ______increasing aggression. Furthermore, nuclear limited to, Physical Cultural Movement, the Neoliberal Institutionalism and its endeavors by both Iran and North Korea continue resurgence of the Greek idea of "sound mind, Critics: The Stability of Today's to threaten the continued stability of the unipolar sound body," the movement for freedom of dress system. Most importantly, China is increasingly for women, French Impressionist Art, the Universal Institutions asserting its dominance in Asia both militarily and Exposition of 1867, changing aesthetics or design JESSE BENNETT through soft power means. Collectively, these elements, Orientalism, and Art Noveau . Isadora The theory of neoliberalism, or neoliberal forces represent an inevitable tidal force that Duncan and Loie Fuller are revered today as two of institutionalism, seeks to explain the existence and cannot be held at bay forever. The US is fighting the leading pioneers of this "anti-ballet" process of cooperation among states in the against a natural progression of events that mark movement. They believed that dance should be a international system. Through the shaping of state 36  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM the beginning of the end of a unipolar world and 4X • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 338 sports teams. Two methods that seem to be the likely signifies the rise of regional hegemonies. most efficient and understandable is the Colley Topics in the History of method and the Massey method. Both these 4W • MATHEMATICS SOUTH 328 Mathematics 3 methods incorporate linear algebra and other Topics in Number Theory FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: GARY mathematical structures to minimize errors or subjectivity. The math behind the ranking gets rid FACULTY SPONSOR: GARY TOWSLEY, MATHEMATICS TOWSLEY, MATHEMATICS ______of the unreliability of certain aspects of the game SESSION CHAIR: CESAR AGUILAR, MATHEMATICS ______The History of the Pythagorean that are usually relied on to rate teams. Such aspects include margin of victory, strength of How Prime Numbers Keep Data Theorem and How It's Used in Our schedules, injuries, suspensions, weather, and Safe Everyday Life performance. After comparing the Colley method JORDAN LAFEVER SYDNEY BERNARD and Massey method I hope to be able to RSA cryptography is a public key cryptosystem that The Pythagorean theorem can be used in our definitively state which is a better sports team assures the confidentiality of datastorage. First everyday life even though most people would like ranking system. I want to determine which has less introduced in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and to disagree and claim that "they haven't used that uncertainty and a more consistent, fair way of Leonard Adleman at MIT, their algorithm based on thing since high school". The use of the ranking teams in a league or tournament. Euler's Theorem and Fermat's Little Theorem is still Pythagorean theorem (although it was not known widelypopular. Their algorithm consists of a as such) can be seen on the Plimpton 322 tablet 4Y • BUSINESS DOTY TOWER ROOM product of large prime numbers which is hard to used in the ancient days of the Babylonians and VentureWorks Investor factor. The RSA algorithm consists of key Egyptians. On the tablet there were columns of generation, key distribution, encryption, andkey numbers now known as Pythagorean triples, which Presentations decryption. The encryption key is public, but the are sets of numbers that satisfy the Pythagorean FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JUDY decryption key is secret. Modulus n and exponent theorem. While many people do not think they ALBERS, BUSINESS e are public, while the modulus n and exponent d need to know math in their everyday life, it turns ______are private. P, q, and λ(n) - the Carmichael function out that they are using the Pythagorean theorem MATTHEW D. BRYK, CHRISTOPHER W. CALLERY, of a positive integer n are also private because they without knowing it. Some of the uses include, RACHEL CHOU, CHRISTIAN D'ANGELO, MOLLY J. can solve for d. The Carmichael function of a figuring out the trajectory of a bullet, building DOWNEY, JACOB H. FLEISCHER, CALLEN S. GROSS, positive integer n is the smallest integer t such that fences, engineering design and more. FRANCESKA HASANAJ, RAIHAN HOSSAIN, LAUREN x^t≡(mod n). As technology advances, factoring ______M. LADEAIROUS, RYAN D. LEFROIS, ANNE M. large primes gets easier so the government adjusts History of the Pythagorean MCCARTHY, CAROLANNE E. MURPHY, ANISH K. OCHANI, SARAH J. PHILLIPS, EVAN J. RADIN, to using prime numbers greater in length. Similar Theorem in Ancient India algorithms are being created formore protection SAMUEL W. RANDALL, COLLEEN R. STEWARD, JENNIFER ARISUMI and the original RSA algorithm has been modified MARGARET E. UEBELACKER, SOFIA M. VILLALON, Although a number of better known into different versions, such as using 2^k primes, JONATHAN C. WEINER, CAROLINE C. WILSON, mathematicians were of Greek descent, the for additional security. PHILLIP WOO, KEVIN H. WRIGHT, BRANDON ______Mediterranean region was only one of the many GAYLORD, AUSTIN LAMB Prime Numbers and the Lucas- places to host mathematicians that would bring Students in the VentureWorks entrepreneurship about progress in their field. Pythagoras's trip to program will be competing in the eighth annual Lehmer Primality Test India helped him learn the principle of New York Business Plan Competition (NYBPC). The CAMERON ZIEGLER mathematics that traced back to the Shulba Sutras. competition begins with regional semi-final rounds Since ancient times, prime numbers have been of The Shulba Sutras is an ancient Indian text related in each of New York's 10 Regional Economic interest to mathematicians. A natural number n is to geometric and algebraic constructions of the Development Council zones. These regional a perfect number if the factors of n other than itself altars on which the vedic ritual was performed. We competitions are generally held in early April. The sum to n. All currently known perfect numbers are will discuss the knowledge of the Pythagorean top twelve teams from each of the 10 regions will even, although no proof has been made that there Theorem in ancient India in relation to the altars then advance to the final round of the statewide are no odd perfect numbers. Each even perfect where the rituals were performed. competition, where they will go head-to-head for number can be calculated from a Mersenne prime, ______monetary prizes in Albany on April 28, 2017. which are prime numbers in the form 2p-1, where The Math Behind the Music Geneseo is in the Finger Lakes region and our p is prime. The Lucas-Lehmer primalitytest can be RACHEL LISCIA student teams will be competing in the semi-final used to determine which numbers of this form are In ancient times, frequency was not a known rounds on April 13th. We expect that some of our prime, and thus, can be used to find perfect concept. Rather, varying pitch was attributed to teams will be selected to advance to Albany. Those numbers. changing the length of a vibrating string. teams will be delivering their investor ______Pythagoras, known by some as the Father of presentations at Great Day. Selected for Methods of Finding and Mathematics and the Father of Music, used string presentation at New York Business Plan Competition, Determining Primality of Large instruments to uncover the mathematical basis Rochester, NY & Albany, NY. behind intervals and scales. Pythagoras discovered Prime Numbers: A Look into that the primary musical intervals could be 4Z • POLITICAL SCIENCE & Various Primality Tests and expressed as simple mathematical ratios. He then INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Algorithms used this knowledge of rational ratio intervals, namely octaves and fifths, to develop an 8-note WELLES 26 TYLER SSMITH scale. This was the first mathematically based The purpose of this paper is to analyze various Why Trump Won music scale that is still used to this day all over the methods of determining primality for large integer FACULTY SPONSOR AND SESSION CHAIR: JAMES world. MOOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL values. In such, methods used will include ______simplistic means such as finding Fermat and RELATIONS ______Mersenne Primes. Additional, more complex The Mathematics behind Ranking methods will be explained as well such as the Sports Teams Colorado as a Swing State Baillie-PSW Test, the Miller Rabin primality test and LUIS PICART RYAN FALK Quadratic Sieving. Further analysis into the Baillie- There is plenty of uncertainty in the way sports The state of Colorado has generally been PSW Test will be presented using example and a team are ranked. Recently a number of categorized as a swing state in past presidential breakdown of the individual processes involved mathematicians have been working on ways to fix elections. With Clinton's narrow victory in with using it to test primality of large integers. this issue. Consequently, there are now multiple Colorado this election cycle, the 2016 presidential methods that incorporate mathematics in ranking election proved that Colorado was very much a  Promotes sustainability 37 Session 4 • 3:50 – 5:05 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual competitive state and provided insight into the data that showed that roughly 11 states would already familiar with the subject. The results are national election results. By analyzing the voting become the competitive "swing states" that would compared to previous literature on patronizing behaviors of specific demographics in Colorado this ultimately determine the presidency. Many of the language between the sexes. past election, it is possible to compare the results predicted states did result in a competitive race ______in this state to the national results in order to between Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton and All (White) Boys Club: Exploring the determine what gave Trump the advantage over Republican nominee, Donald trump, however not Lack of Inclusion in DIY Music Clinton. much else was certain. With a closer examination ______of explanatory variables post election, such as Communities The Case of Colorado divisions among race, income, educational ELLA MOSCO DELANEY NOLAN achievement, and party, we can begin to This presentation examines the exclusion of people I will be presenting on Why Trump Won along with understand Trumps impact on populations like the of color and LGBTQ+ individuals in DIY music four of my peers in a panel format. Our hypothesis white, lower income male which helped him to communities, specifically those in upstate New is that Trump won because he won the white, secure the electoral college within many of the York. By weaving together personal experiences, as lower income male. We will use explanatory swing states, especially in the case of Pennsylvania. well as blogs, zines, and other internet-based variables such as racial divisions and income ______research, this presentation seeks to answer why divisions to explain why Trump won. Myself and Virginia as a Swing State DIY culture is heavily dominated by cis white males. Ryan Falk, specifically, will point out areas of TAYLOR VISHION ______Colorado that can explain the phenomena, despite In the United States, the general presidential Gender in Sports Colorado voting for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election is contingent on the number of electoral MACKENZIE ROSS election. votes a candidate receives. While some states, Ross looks at how sports portray gender, at SUNY ______such as New York or Texas, may be permanently Geneseo as well as in other college sports. She Michigan Blue or Red, others are considered "swing states", presents data from Geneseo's athletic department BRANDON BOURG and can oftentimes secure the election for a on 10 varsity sports: Men's and Women's This past November, Donald Trump was able to candidate. The media hypothesizes that President Basketball, Men's and Women's Lacrosse, Men's capture strategic swing states which ultimately led Trump won the 2016 Presidential Election because and Women's Soccer, Men's and Women's to his surprise victory over Hillary Clinton. Because he obtained the white, lower-income male vote. Swimming and Diving, and Men's and Women's the nature of the American electorate is relatively We argue that the outcome of the election is more Track and Field and Cross Country. Along with that non-competitive, these swing states play a crucial complex, and can be attributed to a multitude of she looks into how the school population looks at role in a candidate's bid for office. This variables within states, including but not limited to gender in sports. presentation will delve into the factors that led voting patterns, racial divisions, income inequality, ______President Trump to edge Clinton in Michigan. educational attainment, party divisions, gender, Doing Gender Abroad: The Factors in the constituency such as household and unemployment rates. Multicultural Gender Performance income, education, party division, and racial demographic will be analyzed and discussed. 4AA • WOMEN'S AND GENDER of Study Abroad NICHOLAS WOOD Ultimately, the goal of this presentation is to STUDIES WELLES 140 discover the underlying factors that led to Trump Studying abroad is an experience like no other; it is winning Michigan and the election. Women's and Gender Studies a chance for students to fully realize who they are ______Capstones: Research on Gender in culturally by being exposed and surrounded by a The Case of Pennsylvania whole new culture. Students abroad must balance Communities their own cultural identity with cultural MELISSA WHYMAN FACULTY SPONSOR: CLAIRE GRAVELIN, expectations of their host country, and no aspect In each Presidential Election year, when the PSYCHOLOGY of cultural identity and expectations is more American people vote for a President and Vice SESSION CHAIR: MELANIE BLOOD, ENGLISH powerful than gender. In this presentation, I will President, they are in fact are voting for ______explore, through numerous first hand accounts, presidential electors, collectively known as the Investigating Mansplaining the struggles study abroad students face in electoral college, who ultimately elect the chief MELODY MCALISTER balancing their own gender performance with the executive. The 2016 Presidential Election year A presentation on a qualitative study done to expectations of their host country. would prove to be unlike any other, even though examine individuals personal experiences with initial polling for the election showed that the "mansplaining." Mansplaining is the phenomenon landscape of the electoral college was largely in which a man will attempt to explain something similar to the one that has determined the past on behalf of a woman despite the fact that she is four cycles of the presidency. This included polling

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ANTHROPOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY the hearts on the Zeiss confocal microscope to obtain 3D images all the way through the heart and 102 • Reassessment of Skeletal 103 • Characterization of identify differences in the heart development Material from the Macauley Benzothiazole/Benzoquinone-DNA between the controls and the experimental groups. This can be applicable in pharmaceuticals, Complex Site 2 in Western New Interactions Using Spectroscopic because Japanese quail hearts and human hearts York Titration and Topoisomerase DNA- are similar. Anti-depressants are selective LÉA BAROUCH Unwinding Assays serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, and expectant FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTI KRUMRINE, ERICA KOSMERL mothers should be aware of the possible effects it ANTHROPOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: RUEL MCKNIGHT, may or may not have on their developing child's A number of sites, called the Macauley Complex, BIOCHEMISTRY heart. ______were excavated at the confluence of the Genesee DNA is a common binding target for anticancer and River and Canaseraga Creek in western New York antibiotic compounds, which bind via two primary 105 • Characterization of fsd-1 in the 1960s. This research focuses on a site named modes: intercalation or minor groove binding. Transcript Structure, Localization, MAC 2 where a single burial dated to the Late Assessing the intercalative and/or minor groove and Protein Expression in the Woodland period was found. Skeletal inventory of binding properties of potentially therapeutic the remains uncovered at this location has compounds may uncover novel, less toxic drugs for Fungus Neurospora Crassa revealed an MNI (minimum number of individuals) cancer treatment. Benzothiazoles are known to BRYCE GEBHARDT, THOMAS HURYSZ, CHRISTINE of one. Skeletal analysis of cranial fragments and display anticancer, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, TOUFEXIS long bones led to the conclusion that the individual and antiviral activities. The McKnight lab seeks to FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HUTCHISON, is male. However, there was confusion about examine the binding properties of synthetic BIOLOGY estimating the sex of the skeleton due to poor prior benzothiazole/ benzoquinone derivatives to DNA via Neurospora crassa is a filamentous fungus that can cataloguing processes. Dental analysis suggests the noncovalent interactions. Preliminary studies on two reproduce sexually and asexually, and relatively individual is an adult. Due to the highly benzothiazole/benzoquinone series were completed little is known about signaling pathways controlling fragmentary condition of the skeletal remains, using combinations of spectroscopic (fluorescence sexual development. fsd-1 encodes for a little else could be determined. This information and circular dichroism) titrations and transcription factor (a DNA-binding protein that allowed for a reassessment of previously recorded electrophoretic gel-based assays. While one series regulates gene expression), and it is known to play information and highlights the importance of (Series-A) presumably prefers a DNA minor-groove an essential role in the development of N. crassa maintaining a detailed field and laboratory record binding mode, the other series (Series-B) appears female reproductive structures. To confirm the for documenting the excavation and analysis of to involve DNA intercalation. Structural differences localization of this transcription factor to the human remains. In addition, the literature between the series likely attribute to each nucleus, we have tagged the FSD-1 protein with a concerned with the Macauley Complex does not respective binding mode. Series-A, containing fluorescent protein, GFP. FSD-1-GFP localized the include a detailed description of this individual. benzothiazole/benzoquinone hybrids, preferentially nuclei of female reproductive tissues, but not to This analysis attempts to shed light on cultural targets the DNA minor groove, while members in tissues where meiosis occurs. In addition, the fsd-1 features such as burial practices using the tools Series-B, containing only the benzothiazole core gene is transcribed into three transcripts which provided by physical anthropology and more attached to a phenyl ring, prefer DNA intercalation. differ in length and intron/exon structure. specifically bioarchaeology. Selected for This could be due to two structural features: (1) Quantitative RT-PCR showed that one variant is presentation at American Association of Physical The presence of the benzoquinone in Series-A may expressed much more highly than the other two Anthropologists, New Orleans, LA. allow additional hydrogen binding within the minor during development. We are currently in the

groove. (2) Several members of Series-A contain an process of reaffirming expression differences using ART HISTORY alkyl-amino substituent that may be too bulky, thus a new crossing medium that has been shown to 235 • ∆ DANCE LIKE ∆ precluding intercalation. These interesting results result in less sample-to-sample variation. Although SARAH SIMON warrant further investigations. all three fsd-1 transcript variants are expressed at FACULTY SPONSOR: THOMAS MACPHERSON, ART some level during female sexual development, it is HISTORY BIOLOGY unknown whether all three encode for protein. The last objective of our experiment is to determine TODD GOEHLE, HISTORY 104 • The Positive and Negative ∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆ It was Ansel Adams (1902-1984), the whether all variants are translated into protein, famous landscape photographer, who said, "Don't Effects of Varying Serotonin Levels and if protein expression levels vary. ______take a photo, make one." There's not as much on Japanese Quail Heart 106 • The Effects of Light room for Adams's film methods today; so much of Development photography is now spontaneous, as visionaries KIMBERLY LEFFLER Deprivation on Growth Rates of briefly uncap their lens or unthinkingly raising their FACULTY SPONSOR: DUANE MCPHERSON, Brassica rapa iPhone. Reconciling film with digital methods, the BIOLOGY ALICIA SKOWRONSKI, EMILY ELLMANN DANCE LIKE photo project embraces both sides of The purpose of this research is to identify how FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY Adams's statement: making and taking -- planning varying amounts of serotonin affect Japanese quail Brassica rapa is a model plant organism commonly and spontaneity. During a session, students arrive heart development. In other research, inactivation studied in the lab, most noteable for it's at the studio, play a song of their choice, and of 5HT2B causes issues in cessation of the accelerated five-week life cycle. Because these dance. While they dance, I take photos. Here, I chambers of the heart in mice, and it is expected plants grow and mature quickly, we were make the controlled studio environment, in an that quail hearts will mimic this. The eggs were interested in determining the effects of light abandoned room of an iconic academic building – injected with varying amounts of serotonin and deprivation on growth rates. Two experiments to then take the moments that planning can’t. So, allowed to incubate with the experimental were conducted: one in which plants were yes, I “take” photos. But this would not be possible treatments. After the incubation period, micro- deprived of light for a set period of time post- if the dancer did not dance, if I did not hope that dissections were performed on the eggs to extract germination, and another in which plants were people would dance – if lovely human curiosities the heart. We staged the quail overall deprived of light for set intervals of time and bodies were not made for the momentary development based on chick development, which throughout the growth period. A regression was taking. ∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆ in many ways mirrors the quail heart. We imaged developed to estimate leaf areas based on leaf  Promotes sustainability 39 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual lengths, and leaf area was used to estimate changes in stomatal conductance were slower, Tree Diversity: A Preliminary theoretical CO2 acquisition based on a measured resulting in an increase in the estimate of leaf leaf photosynthetic rate. We expected to see that internal carbon dioxide concentration. Approach there is a relationship between CO2 assimilation Photosynthetic responses to increases in light were DAVID MURPHY and growth rate, contributing to overall plant slower and more variable. FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, mass. However, data suggests that there is no ______BIOLOGY significant difference in the final masses of plants 110 • Lévy Flight Hypothesis: A The introduction of the China-native Cryphonectria parasitica fungus to ecosystems along the US in the light-deprived treatment compared to the Foraging Model in Resource-Poor control. It appears that these plants are able to Eastern seaboard caused a widespread blight in the compensate for loss of time in the light. Environments early 20th century that caused the once plentiful ______ADAM SCHNEIDER American Chestnut tree to become functionally 107 • The Role of Epithiospecifier FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, extinct. A similar Mexico-native fungus, the BIOLOGY Geosmithia morbida, is now causing a widespread Protein on the Glucosinolate- CHRISTOPHER LEARY, MATHEMATICS blight - the Thousand Cankers disease (TCD) - that Myrosinase Secondary Metabolic The Lévy Flight Hypothesis is a simple model of an targets walnut tree species throughout the Pathway in B.rapa animal foraging strategy. It is theorized to be a western half of North America. Should it be introduced to forest communities along the AUSTIN LAMB, CAMYRN LIEB, OLIVIA CARD more effective strategy of foraging in resource- Eastern seaboard, the blight could endanger yet FACULTY SPONSORS: GEORGE BRIGGS, JANICE poor environments. The Lévy Flight Hypothesis another plentiful, Eastern-native tree species - the LOVETT, BIOLOGY states that the optimal search strategy for a Black Walnut tree. In my study, I use data from the Glucosinolates are secondary metabolites forager to find food is to make successive Roemer Arboretum to parameterize a transition produced by the Brassica family. When the plant is movement steps that have uniformly random matrix model to predict the future composition of damaged by herbivory the enzyme, myrosinase, directions, with lengths drawn from a heavy-tailed the arboretum in the event of a TCD outbreak. My acts on the glucosinolate. Depending on the probability distribution. This project tests the results show how drastically the composition of the conditions, such as pH and ion concentration, the ability of the Lévy Flight as a strategy to find food arboretum's forest community will be affected by cleaved glucosinolate will rearrange into different more efficiently in environments with varying food the hypothetical (yet probable) outbreak. In end products. The epithiospecifier protein (ESP) density. I developed a genetic algorithm that particular, my predicted data suggest that an will act on the cleaved glucosinolate to force the optimizes the scale parameter of a gamma outbreak will cause White Ash saplings to intermediate to a different end product. The goal distribution that governs the spread of step length predominantly replace Black Walnut trees. In doing of the research is to elucidate the ESP end product distribution that individuals in the population so, White Ash saplings will outstrip the growth of using LC-MS and Liquid-IR techniques and to see follow. It was determined that the scale parameter all other sapling species and dominate the which factors, such as pH, temperature, and ion of the gamma distribution increased with lower food plot density, indicating that heavy-tailed overhead canopy. concentration, help or hinder this process. ______Selected for presentation at American Chemistry distributions increase the fitness of populations in Society Undergraduate Research Symposium, resource- poor environments. 113 • The Use of Artificial Neural ______Rochester, NY. Networks in Image Processing and 111 • Untangling Risk Factors that Diagnostics ______Influence Alzheimer's Prevalence JOSEPH TADROS, JOHNNY CHEN 108 • Chlorophyll Concentrations in CODY MCKEE FACULTY SPONSORS: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, Shaded vs. Non-shaded Brassica FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, BIOLOGY AND CHRISTOPHER LEARY, BIOLOGY rapa Leaves MATHEMATICS Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative An artificial neural network (ANN) is a system of OLIVIA HERMITT, ALEXANDRIA BARLOWE disease that is currently affecting over 5 million interconnected nodes that is a model of the FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY Americans. According to the Alzheimer's neurons found in biological neural networks. Like We are examining the effect of shading on Association this number is expected to increase to its biological counterparts, an ANN can recognize chlorophyll concentrations in the leaves of Brassica 16 million by 2050. The purpose of this study was patterns through learning by example. An ANN was rapa, and how the quality of shaded light might to identify factors that explain the variation in the made to classify images of lung biopsies as affect chlorophyll degradation. Plants were grown prevalence of AD cases in each state across the cancerous or non-cancerous. The ANN was fed for two weeks and then individual leaves were country. Independent variables were identified read in raw input data from a set of 100 biopsy shaded with one of two treatments: (1) a neutral from research regarding high risk factors that are images as well as their known outputs in order to filter that eliminates equally all wavelengths of thought to contribute to the onset of the disease. train the ANN to recognize the patterns of the light, and (2) plant leaves, which are transparent in Variables I investigated included: physical biopsy images. Following training, the ANN was fed the far-red and thus produce shading that is inactivity, diabetes, hypertension, and data from a second set of images to test its ability enriched in the far-red. After four days of cardiovascular disease which were all positively to sort the biopsy images. The process of creating, treatment the concentration of chlorophyll a and b correlated with Alzheimer's disease. Along with the training, and testing was repeated 100 times, and will be compared between treatments and proportion of STEM jobs in each state which was on average the ANNs classified 70% of the images between the treated leaves and control leaves that negatively correlated. Factors were analyzed using correctly. were not shaded. a path analysis in order to determine the influence ______that each factor had on AD prevalence. The results 114 • Modeling Hepatitis C Cure 109 • Simulated Light Flecks and of this analysis demonstrated that although these Photosynthesis factors are commonly associated with AD, they do Methods MICHELLE SIKORA, SARAH WARD RAJAE BROWN not explain all the variation in prevalence across FACULTY SPONSOR: GREGG HARTVIGSEN, FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE BRIGGS, BIOLOGY the country. A regression tree was then used to BIOLOGY The influence of simulated sun flecks (rapid visualize how factors can predict, through a Hepatitis C is a chronic liver disease caused by a changes in incident radiation) on the classification scheme, the prevalence of AD. blood borne virus that affects over 3.2 million photosynthetic rate and stomatal conductance of Although strides are being made, more research people in the United States, with approximately plants was tested. Plants were grown in moderate still needs to be conducted to identify the factors 54% of new infections related to injection drug use. light (~150 umol m-2 s-1). Measurements of that cause AD. Within the last decade, a new cure for hepatitis C photosynthesis, stomatal conductance were made ______has been developed with a 95% success rate, but is using the LI-COR 6400 system while incident light 112 • How the Thousand Cankers still unavailable to many due to cost. This was switched for ten-minute intervals between Disease and the Emerald Ash Borer treatment provides an opportunity for a global 800 and 20 umol m-2 s-1. Drops in photosynthesis health initiate to reduce the prevalence of the occurred rapidly when light levels dropped while will Alter the Roemer Arboretum’s 40  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM disease by targeting injection drug user networks, colonies during a step up and step down between specimens. The results of our shape where the disease is most likely to spread through temperature change (Kruskal-Wallis p=0.208). It is analysis demonstrate that skull morphology is needle sharing. This study models the progression possible that the chosen temperature regime did significantly different between habitat types. of hepatitis C through a small world network of IV not induce the behavioral response. To more Surprisingly, the data do not show significant drug users, in which the most highly connected precisely determine the kinetics of accumulation, morphological differences related to diet. Diet individuals are treated and removal from the we exposed the algae to a spatial gradient and should play a major role in cranial morphology; a community. The goal was to find the most found accumulation at 41°C within 15 minutes. diet composed of mostly nuts requires a skull economic treatment plan by varying the frequency Therefore, we will repeat the kinetic analysis at capable of withstanding high crushing forces, at which individuals are cured, as well as the higher temperatures in future studies. whereas a diet of grass would result in stresses number of individuals cured at a time. Statistical ______related to chewing. Future work will explore the analysis found that both the number of individuals 117 • Sxm1/Importin 7 is Required sources of variation. removed and the frequency has a significant effect for the Nuclear Localization and ______on the prevalence of the disease, and was able to 119 • The Nonsteroidal Drug, Activation of the Androgen and narrow the parameters to find the most cost Tacrolimus, does not Cause Loss of effective treatment plan to significantly reduce Glucocorticoid Receptors disease incidence. ARIEL YUSUPOV E-cadherin Expression in the Vulvar ______FACULTY SPONSOR: HRISTINA NEDELKOVSKA, Carcinoma Cell Lines, A431 and 115 • Therapeutic Targeting of BIOLOGY SCV-6. GPCR Gβγ-GRK2 Signaling in Importin 7 has been shown to remain bound to SAMUEL MYO HTUN, JAMIE WANG Osteoarthritis cytoplasmic androgen receptor (AR) in contact FACULTY SPONSOR: JANI LEWIS, BIOLOGY with the bipartite DBD-NLS and LBD-NLS, hindering Vulvar rash affects women of all ages. Its treatment ELIJAH CARLSON the NLS-binding of and nuclear import by the FACULTY SPONSOR: HAROLD HOOPS, BIOLOGY often involves the use of topical creams containing karyopherin proteins, Importin alpha/beta. Ligand clobetasol, an ultrapotent corticosteroid. It works Cartilage health maintained by the Chondrocyte. In (DHT) binding induces a switch from Importin 7 to OA, chondrocytes undergo differentiation and by decreasing the immune response that promotes Importin alpha binding, with some studies redness and itching of the skin. However, this hypertrophy causing the cartilage to degenerate suggesting that Importin 7 inhibits the nuclear and increased friction as bone replaces it (pain). In treatment option may promote vulvar localization of AR; however, this contradicts carcinogenesis. We previously found that OA, GPCR Gβγ maintains the chondrocyte in non- previous observations that Importin7/Sxm1 are hypertrophic state. Gβγ activates kinases (GRK2), clobetasol treatment of A431 and UMSVC-6 vulvar both necessary and required for nuclear import of carcinoma cell lines resulted in loss of the tumor which cause GPCR internalization and signal the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). Given the close termination. In OA, increased Gβγ-GRK signaling suppressor protein, E-cadherin. An alternative similarity between AR and GR and the fact that treatment option is the use of tacrolimus, a causes a dampening of Gβγ and leads to a direct Importin 7 remains in contact with the AR LBD and downstream effect causing hypertrophy. We found nonsteroidal immunosuppressant used to treat DBD- NLS, it is hypothesized that Sxm1/Importin 7 atopic dermatitis such as vulvar rash. In this study, increased GRK2 levels in human and mouse OA plays a critical role in securing the high-affinity samples, as well as In Vitro experiments with we investigated the correlation between conformation of AR for ligand binding and nuclear tacrolimus treatment and the loss of E-cadherin differentiating chondrocytes. We aimed to inhibit import. Previously, it was shown that Sxm1 is Gβγ -GRK2 activity by using inhibitors of Gβγ and expression to compare with clobetasol treatment required for AR import and its absence causes of A431 and UMSCV-6. In contrast to treatment GRK2 as well as by genetic KO of GRK2 in mice with significant reduction/elimination of AR and GR induced OA. Analyzed histological samples with clobetasol, our preliminary studies show that activity. ΔSxm1 yeast previously transformed with tacrolimus does not cause loss of E-cadherin following treatments and our results support our AR- HRE-LacZ and GR-HRE-LacZ reporter plasmids hypothesis that inhibiting Gβγ -GRK2 is expression in either the A431 or UMSCV-6 cell were each transformed with a yCPGal1-Importin 7 lines. This suggests that tacrolimus might be a chondroprotective and has an overall decrease in plasmid construct or empty vector control cell hypertrophy. Research was conducted at the preferable treatment of vulvar rash and dermatitis (pPS310). Beta-galactosidase assay have shown related to vulvar carcinogenesis. University of Rochester under Dr. Fadia Kamal in that Importin 7 reconstituted AR and GR activity in the Center for Musculoskeletal Research. Dr. ______ΔSxm1 yeast and is required for the nuclear 120 • Documenting the Extended Hoops acted as my liaison for this research at localization and activation of AR and GR. Geneseo. ______Leaf Phenology of Invasive Shrubs ______118 • The Relationship of Skull 116 • Continuing to Determine the Using A Citizen Science Approach Morphology to Ecology in Different FRANCES MURRAY, RYAN COLLING Mechanism of Thermotaxis in Species of Squirrels FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY Astrephomene gubernaculifera Phenology refers to the timing and of seasonal JACQUELINE ARISUMI, SHAWN MATHEW events in the life cycles of plants and animals. NAOMI WILSON, AMBER LIN FACULTY SPONSOR: JACOB MCCARTNEY, BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: HAROLD HOOPS, BIOLOGY There are opportunities for the general public to Our study quantified cranial variation within and contribute to phenological databases, such as the Astrephomene gubernaculifera is a colonial green between different species of squirrels, and related alga made of 32 - 64 cells, each with two flagella. National Phenological Network (NPN). In this study their morphology to their ecology. The sample we contributed phenological data for shrubs on the These cells have no apparent means of intercellular included tree squirrels (gray, fox, and red communication, yet the colony responds as a unit SUNY Geneseo campus to the online platform for squirrels), and terrestrial squirrels (chipmunks and NPN, Nature's Notebook. A comparison can be to stimuli. Prior studies have demonstrated that in a groundhogs). We tested for differences in cranial steady-state temperature gradient, Astrephomene drawn between invasive shrubs like Amur shape related to diet (nuts or grass) and habitat honeysuckle and native shrubs like gray dogwood. colonies accumulate at warmer temperatures, and (tree or ground). We tested for these differences that this is not a result of simple thermokinesis where Both grow in the Roemer Arboretum on SUNY by running a 2-dimensional geometric Geneseo's campus. Initial analysis supports an inverse correlation exists between temperature morphometric analysis. This method involved and swimming speed. More complex models evidence for extended leaf phenology in the photographing skulls of different squirrel species, invasive. This gives these plants an advantage over require the algae to sense the gradient, and to and recording morphological landmarks using the adjust to changes in temperature rather than the natives as they break buds earlier in the spring and software Tps dig/util. We then analyzed the retain leaves later in the fall. In fall 2016, absolute temperature. To assay this, we exposed outlines produced with the geomorph package in the colonies to a temperature regime that mimics phenological events were recorded by trained the statistical software R. We performed a observers and novice undergraduate biology algae moving up and down through a temperature sensitivity analysis to assess the impact of skull gradient of 27°C to 32°C, and determined their students for a class project. The project focused on orientation during photography. There was no phenophases characteristic of the fall season. The velocities over time. However, we found no significant difference within each species, significant difference between the velocities of the students' recorded observations were found to indicating that skull orientation was consistent show inconsistencies when compared to those  Promotes sustainability 41 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual made by trained observers. By determining the important ecological roles as predators, colonizing the honeydew deposits. There are gaps shortcomings of this class project, we can take parasitoids, and pollinators. Measuring the in our current understanding of the fungal measures to improve the reliability of data from abundance and diversity of wasps may provide community relying on G. imbricator colonies. In these projects and contribute to efforts to track insight into local habitat condition and their this study, we could either confirm S. spongiosa as patterns in phenology in the face of climate impacts on the surrounding fauna and flora. The the only colonist of this site's G. imbricator change. abundance and identity of wasps may differ among honeydew deposits, or present novel information Selected for presentation at Northeast samples due to food availability, habit quality, linking other fungi to this species of aphid. Selected Natural History Conference, Cromwell, CT. weather, and time of year. for presentation at Northeast Natural History ______Conference, Cromwell, CT. 121 • Examination of Multiple 123 • Screening and Optimizing ______Infection of Wolbachia in Free- Microsatellite Loci for Genotyping 125 • Patterns of Native Bee Living, Enslaved and Slavemaking Formica Ants Diversity: Comparison of Sampling Formica Ants MERIN VARGHESE Methods and Effects of Floral HANNAH LOO FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY Resources and Habitat FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY Formica ants are commonly found in SUNY SAM HERAGHTY Wolbachia are a group of maternally inherited Geneseo's Roemer Arboretum with nest mounds FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY bacteria found in arthropods. While commonly numbering in the hundreds. Genotyping Recently, there has been a significant decline in the transmitted vertically, from mother to offspring, individuals within these nests offers insight into abundance and diversity of native bees in North research has also identified horizontal their population structure. Microsatellites are America due to a range of factors including habitat transmission as a possible means of spread. Within genetic markers that can be used to genotype loss and anthropogenic activity. In order to help the Roemer Arboretum are two species of individuals within colonies. Highly polymorphic combat this decline it is vital to have a clear slavemaking ants, F. pergandei and F. subintegra, microsatellite loci are advantageous because they understanding of factors that affect bee diversity. which exploit a common mound-nesting ant, F. provide data that can be used to easily distinguish Both bee bowl traps and active sampling methods glacialis. Previous research has revealed individuals within a population. Currently, our lab were employed at four sites in the Arboretum to Wolbachia infection in both slavemakers and uses four markers developed for ant species assess bee diversity and abundance. In addition, slaves, and studies have shown ants may harbor up related to our Formica. It would beneficial to have floral resource usage and availability were to 8 different strains of Wolbachia simultaneously. more loci to generally increase the resolution of described at each site. Overall, 19 unique bee This study examined whether Wolbachia-infected our data. The objective of our study is to screen genera were collected over the course of the study slavemaker ants contain multiple strains. PCR published microsatellite loci for Formica ant with 320 samples gathered in total. Bee bowls products of samples were cloned and transformed species in order to assess their utility in describing were found to be ineffective at collecting larger into cell lines. Plasmid DNA was purified from genetic variation in local ant species. We bees since almost all of the large-bodied genera colonies, verified via PCR, and submitted for performed PCR amplifications on a small number like Bombus were gathered using active collection sequencing. Data were analyzed using Geneious of samples with each of six new microsatellite methods. Additionally, it was found that the most software and BLAST analysis. Preliminary analysis primers and employed gradient PCR programs to commonly used floral resources during the suggests there are 4 or 5 unique sequence variants find optimal annealing temperatures. All tested loci sampling period were Centaurea nigra (Black of Wolbachia among 5 samples tested, and up to 3 amplified in our samples and were subsequently Knapweed) and Monarda fistulosa (Wild unique sequence variants within a single sample. amplified using fluorescently labeled primers in Bergamot). This is particularly interesting because Furthermore, investigation of Wolbachia infection order to be sent out for fragment analysis to assess C. nigra is an invasive plant that is being considered in both F.glacialis slaves and free-living ants the polymorphism of the microsatellites. With for removal from the Arboretum and was located showed infection in slaves only, suggesting more highly polymorphic loci, our lab can better at all sites. Future studies should examine the infection may be transferred unidirectionally from detect genetic differences within and between the effects of invasive plants as potentially aiding or slavemakers to slaves. Taken together, these colonies of this common ant species. Selected for hindering native bee conservation efforts. Selected results provide greater insight into Wolbachia presentation at Northeast Natural History for presentation at Northeast Natural History transmission dynamics and contribute to our Conference, Cromwell, CT. Conference, Cromwell, CT. ______understanding of Wolbachia infection in Formica ants. Selected for presentation at Northeast 124 • Identifying the Fungal BUSINESS Natural History Conference, Cromwell, CT. Associates of Honeydew Deposits ______126 • Harmonizing the Needs of from the Beech Blight Aphid Consumers and the Music Industry 122 • Wasp Diversity at SUNY ROBINA NAGEL JULIA CUMMINGS Geneseo FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES QUINN, BUSINESS JASON LANG The specialized herbivore, Grylloprociphilus Since the birth of the music industry, technological FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER APPLE, BIOLOGY imbricator (Beech Blight Aphid), forms large changes have altered the dynamic of the An ongoing study on bee diversity conducted on colonies along branches of Fagus grandifolia relationship between the consumer and producer, the SUNY Geneseo campus used a standard (American beech) where they pierce through the prompting legal action. This poster will examine sampling method involving small bowls painted bark to access the sugar-rich phloem. changes in copyright law over time in order to find with different fluorescent colors and filled with Accumulation of sugary excrement, honeydew, balance between the needs of both parties and soapy water to capture bees; this type of trap often below these aphid colonies is reported to support sustain the music industry. I will then discuss the attracts other flying insects including wasps. My growth of a specialized sooty mold, Scorias reasons for the current state of the industry, and study aimed to describe local wasp diversity by spongiosa. This study's goal was to determine if the the effect of its latest technology, streaming identifying wasps captured as part of this bee fungal growths that we saw associated with aphid services, on the future viability of music. diversity survey. Samples were collected from the colonies were the fungus S. spongiosa. Samples College Green, a shaded site in the Arboretum, a were collected from leaf litter underneath colonies sunny site in the Arboretum, and a site by an in the Genesee Valley Conservancy Research CHEMISTRY unmowed meadow. The wasps were either pinned Reserve and Letchworth State Park. DNA extracted 127 • Synthesis of Stercobilin: A or pointed (a technique in which insects are glued from these samples was subjected to PCR with a Potential Biomarker for Autism to a pinned paper point when too small to pin), and fungal-specific primer designed to amplify the ITS ANDREW VADAS identified to a distinguishable taxon level. The region of the ribosomal DNA gene. PCR product FACULTY SPONSOR: AMBER CHARLEBOIS, wasps were catalogued by collection date, was sequenced at an external lab. Results CHEMISTRY location, bowl color, and identity, and given unique confirmed the presence of the S. spongiosa fungus Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a social disorder voucher numbers. Wasps fulfill a multitude of in some samples, but other fungi also may be that is characterized by difficulty or inability to 42  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM communicate in social settings or to develop social lignocellulose; which in turn consists of cellulose, using a hemocytometer to determine the potential relationships. The bio-molecule, stercobilin, a hemicellulose and lignin. Ionic liquids are used as a of using the modified Bold's medium for algae natural metabolite of bilirubin has been implicated pretreatment method in breaking down cellulose, culturing compared to the commercially made in ASD. We have synthesized stercobilin in vitro via hemicellulose, and lignin into glucose yields. The Alga-gro©. The second part of the experiment a hydrogenation-reduction reaction followed by an glucose extracted can then be fermented into tested whether the cultured Chlorella would aeration-oxidation reaction in effort to investigate ethanol and can ultimately be used as biofuel. The produce high lipid yields. IR spectroscopy was then its potential use as a biomarker for an early focus of our study is the synthesis and purification used to detect the presence of fatty acid methyl diagnosic test of ASD in children. The of ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium esters (FAME), signifying the successful creation of hydrogenation reaction was performed with chloride (S-IL). The efficacy of lignocellulose break crude biofuel. The lipid yields from the cultivated various reagents including hydrogen gas and glacial down to glucose for this locally synthesized IL will Chlorella were determined and compared to those acetic acid (H2H), hydrogen gas and deuterated be compared to a commercially available 1-butyl- of the dried Chlorella control group. The results are glacial acetic acid (H2D), deuterium gas and glacial 3-methylimidazolium chloride (C-IL) through presented and discussed hereafter. acetic acid (D2H), and deuterium gas and various techniques such as 13C NMR, 1H NMR, and ______deuterated glacial acetic acid (D2D). Unusual IR. The results are presented hereafter. 132 • Synthesis and results were obtained when the hydrogenation ______Characterization of Biphenol reaction was performed in the H2D and D2H 130 • Critical Bone Fracture Derivative Organic Gelators reactions because of a difference in the number of Repairs: A Comparison of the deuterium atoms that are added to the stercobillin SHAWN MOORE, JENNIFER SCHULMAN, MELANIE product. It is unclear what serves as the specific Mechanical Properties of Calcium TRAN source of the hydrogen or deuterium in these Phosphate Bioactive Cement and FACULTY SPONSOR: CRISTINA GEIGER, CHEMISTRY reactions and may suggest a possible unique The synthesis and characterization of 4,4'-bis-(9- mechanism of hydrogenation that differs from the Pig Bones ethyloxycarbonyl nonyloxy) biphenyl (BB010-Et), current mechanistic understanding of the SABRINA MEDINA, MARK SOTO 4,4'-bis-(9- methyloxycarbonyl nonloxy) biphenyl hydrogenation reaction. Selected for presentation FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, (BB010-Me), 4,4'-bis-(7-ethyloxycarbonyl at 254th American Chemical Society National CHEMISTRY heptyloxy) biphenyl (BBO8-Et), 4,4'-bis- (7- Meeting & Exposition, Washington DC. Previously, the most effective method for methlyoxycarbonyl heptyloxy) biphenyl (BBO8- ______supplementing/replacing a bone was an autograft. Me), 4,4'-bis-(5-ethyloxycarbonyl pentyloxy) 128 • Spectroscopic This method comes with risks as a result of the biphenyl (BBO6-Et), and 4,4'-bis-(5- invasive nature the autograft procedure ensues; by methyloxycarbonyl pentyloxy) biphenyl (BB06-Me) Characterization of Cresyl Violet removing a small section of bone and using it as a is reported. The structures of the molecules were MATTHEW ESPOSITO, CHRISTOPHER KUBOW bone simulant at the fractured site. Increased confirmed using 1H nuclear magnetic resonance FACULTY SPONSOR: AMBER CHARLEBOIS, infection and limited bone supply in younger and spectroscopy (NMR) as well as X-ray diffraction CHEMISTRY elder patients are some concerns associated with spectroscopy (XRD). All but one of these gelators Cresyl violet (CV) is a visible oxazine dye that is this approach. This study aims to develop an were found to form stable gels at 1.5% (wt) in a commonly employed as a histological stain and we alternative system to replace an autograft. For variety of polar solvents. Modes of stacking and the have found that is can also be used to stain nucleic these initial studies, we use pig fibula to compare natures of attractions within these gels were acids in electrophoretic gels. Visually, it can distinguish the properties of our novel cement system. investigated using circular dichroism (CD), between DNA and RNA, as it stains DNA blue and RNA Calcium Phosphate Cement (CPC), a biocompatible absorption spectroscopy, and fluorescence purple. We have used multiple spectroscopy bone substitute composed of Hydroxyapatite (HA), spectroscopy. Gelation was found to be dependent techniques to explore the structure of the CV as a a major component of human bone, is a base upon temperature of formation, physical monomer, as a dimer and as it is bound to nucleic acid ingredient for the cement. Due to the successful disruptions, rate of formation, and molecular molecules. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) ability of these cements to osseointegrate and structure itself. Spectroscopy has been employed specifically to initiate bone growth, we focus our efforts in the ______investigate the monomer and dimer forms of CV. challenges of adequate porosity size and 133 • An Exploration of Hydrogen Concentration and pH rate profiles, Fluorescence mechanical strength. The new cement was Spectroscopy, Circular Dichroism and UV-Vis characterized using published methods and the Bonding Interactions in a Series of Spectroscopy have also been used to explore the data obtained is presented and discussed Organic Salts dimer/monomer ratios and the CV-Nucleic acid herewith. KYLE POWERS complexs. The ratio of the dimer to monomer was ______FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID GEIGER, CHEMISTRY found to be greater at higher pHs and at higher cresyl 131 • Investigation into Cost 1,2-diaminobenzene was reacted with 2-picolinic violet concentrations. Finally, we have implemented a Effective Cultivation and Biofuel acid and benzoic acid at room temperature to form novel method of in situ ultraviolet-visible the organic salts of the compounds. The structures spectroscopy to analyze such complexes directly in Production from Chlorella Algal of the salts were studied by X-ray crystallography electrophoretic gels. Selected for presentation at Species and 1H NMR spectroscopy. The 1,2- 254th American Chemical Society National Meeting ZOE MARR, COLLEEN STEWARD diammoniumbenzene 2-picolinate salt crystallized & Exposition, Washington DC. FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, in a monoclinic unit cell with the space group C2/c. ______CHEMISTRY The structure exhibited antiparallel chains formed 129 • Toward Making Bioethanol As resources for petroleum-based fuel become by CH-π interactions between 2-picolinate and the Production Economically Viable: An increasingly scarce, third generation biofuels, protonated 1,2-diaminobenzene in each chain and Investigation into the Use of Locally which utilize algae as a renewable feedstock, offer π-π stacking between 2-picolinate molecules in a promising solution. Despite algae's potential use adjacent chains. The protonated 1,2 Synthesized Ionic Liquids for for biofuel production, complications arise when it diaminobenzene benzoate salt crystallized in an Cellulosic Pretreatment comes to obtaining consistently high lipid yields orthorhombic unit cell with the space group Pbcn. JANE MATHEWS, JASMINE BELOY and making the cultivation more cost efficient. Our The structure similarly exhibited π-π stacking FACULTY SPONSOR: BARNABAS GIKONYO, research aimed to make algae cultivation more between benzoate molecules and CH-π CHEMISTRY feasible by focusing on two critical aspects in this interactions between benzoate and 1,2- The role of fossil fuels in increasing the levels of process: the growth of algae and its conversion to diammoniumbenzene. When viewed down the c- carbon dioxide in the atmosphere justifies the crude biodiesel. To make cultivation more cost axis, the structure exhibited a paddlewheel search for a more environmentally friendly efficient, a modified Bold's Basal medium using low structure as a result of hydrogen bonds between alternative such as biofuels. Biofuels are fuels that cost materials was produced and then Chlorella, a molecules. Selected for presentation at American are derived from organic matter. Rice husks, the fast growing microalgae with high lipid content, Chemical Society Local Chapter Meeting, organic material of choice, is composed of was introduced. The cell growth was monitored Rochester, NY. ______ Promotes sustainability 43 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual

134 • The Structural containing about 3 mg of lycopene per 100 g of COMMUNICATION fresh tomato. Elaeagnus Umbellata contain on Characterization of Transition average 54 mg of lycopene per 100 g of berries, 140 • An Investigation of Relational Metal Benzimidazole Complexes about 17 times more lycopene than fresh tomato. Issues Related to Laptop Use in ROBERT LEWIS Carotenoid biosynthesis has been studied in many College Classrooms FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID GEIGER, CHEMISTRY plants, and the pathway is mostly conserved ALEXANDRA ALIMARAS, JENNIE GIARDINO The coordination chemistry and structural throughout. Accumulation of specific carotenoids FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDREW HERMAN, characterization of transition metal complexes of in tissues throughout development depends on the COMMUNICATION benzimidazole is one of the areas under investigation regulation of the genes and enzymes in this Today laptop use is seen in campus classrooms all in our laboratory. The benzimidazole ligand 5,6- pathway. The purpose of this project is to explore over the country. With the introduction of such dimethyl-2-(pyridine-2-yl)-1-[(pyridine-2-yl)methyl]- the regulation of carotenoid biosynthesis and technology being fairly new, a lot of research 1H-benzimidazole was synthesized by combining 4,5- accumulation in organisms in which the pathway continues to be done on the academic effects of dimethyl-1,2-diaminobenzene and 2- has been heavily studied to formulate hypotheses laptops in the classroom. However, the purpose of pyridinecarboxaldehyde in ethanol. The ligand was for the surplus of lycopene found in autumn olive our research is to understand the thoughts, combined with copper(II) acetate monohydrate in fruit. perceptions, and feelings one person may have methanol to form the copper(II) complex. Attempts to ______towards others in response to their choice to use a grow single crystals included using the solvents 138 • Polycyclic Aromatic laptop in class. By better understanding the methanol, propanol, butanol, a mixture of acetone Hydrocarbon (PAH) Detection Using relational impact of laptops, we hope to improve and methanol, and acetonitrile. Only acetonitrile both faculty and students' knowledge of facework yielded crystals suitable for x-ray diffraction studies. High Pressure Liquid and the ways in which laptop use can be more The results from the structural analysis will be Chromatography (HPLC) Techniques appropriate and effective in regards to the presented. Our attempts to prepare complexes of the and Solid-Phase Microextraction decisions they make when they are choosing to use ligand with other metal compounds including nickel(II) a laptop, and the nonverbal messages the laptop acetate, palladium(II) acetate, dichlorobis (SPME)  MICHAL ZWEIG use may be sending to others in the class. (triphenylphosphine) palladium(II), and cobalt(II) ______nitrate will be presented. FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES BOIANI, CHEMISTRY ______Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are 141 • The Failing of Public Health 136 • Investigating the carcinogens that need to be kept out of drinking Arguments for Gun Control: An water. The EPA tests for their presence using solid Analysis of Themes in Firearm Phytochemistry of Autumn Olive phase extraction (SPE) and gas chromatography- Elaeagnus Umbellata mass spectroscopy (GC-MS). We found that it is Advertisements BRITTANY feasible to identify and separate PAH compounds NOAH PFEIFFER ABRAHAM using high pressure liquid chromatography with FACULTY SPONSOR: ATSUSHI TAJIMA, diode array detection (HPLC-DAD). However, we COMMUNICATION FACULTY SPONSOR: ERIC HELMS, CHEMISTRY wanted to further explore different methods and This paper analyzes the possible efficacy that a Autumn olive shrubs produce a rich harvest of evaluated the practicality of using solid phase public health argument for firearm control would berries in the fall months of September and microextraction (SPME) fibers instead of SPE for have with a gun-enthusiast population. It is often October. The hearty bushes can grow in a variety chromatography sample preparation. argued that America has the highest rate of gun of environments and conditions, and their fruit are ______violence among any First World nation. Tens of rich in the antioxidant lycopene. It has been shown 139 • Detection of Pesticides in thousands die every year of firearm violence, and that autumn olives have 17 times the amount of Locally Produced Honey yet little has been done to curtail the problem due lycopene as a tomato, the primary source of to political gridlock between gun enthusiasts and VICTORIA KOMPANIJEC lycopene in the western diet. Lycopene has been gun control advocates. First, this paper explores FACULTY SPONSOR: JAY CHARLEBOIS, CHEMISTRY associated with various health benefits including various discussions concerning gun violence such Colony collapse disorder and other diseases have the prevention of cancer and heart disease. The as the industry's political power, the public health caused the honey bee population to plummet in carotenoids were extracted from berries and concern, and harmful cultural themes found in past years. Many people believe that pesticide use analyzed via UV-Vis spectroscopy. The amount of firearm advertisements. The paper then employs is a contributing factor to this decrease. This lycopene in various extracted samples was both a small-scale content and textual analysis of experiment aims to develop a simple and efficient determined weekly for five weeks to determine firearm advertisements to understand the culture method of detecting trace amounts of pesticide in peak ripeness using lycopene content. The of firearm owners, and whether a public-health honey samples. Currently, samples are prepared lycopene levels in jams and jellies made from the argument could possibly be used to sway them using the QuEChERS (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Efficient, fruit was also examined and compared to levels in their opinions towards accepting gun control Rugged and Safe) method and run through an HPLC the unprocessed fruit. Additionally, antioxidant measures. However, the paper goes on to identify to obtain a mass spectrum. Several calibration studies have shown that the carotenoid extract is four themes in these advertisements that seem to curves have been created by spiking small amounts an efficient radical scavenger. indicate this culture would not be moved by a of pesticide into honey and plotting the ______public health argument. These themes are given 137 • Exploring the Molecular concentration of pesticide against the area of the the terms a) face obstruction; b) versus mentality; resulting peak. A variety of pesticides have been c) individualist presences; d) gender portrayals. Mechanism of Lycopene tested, including glyphosate, the main ingredient in Selected for presentation at 108th Annual Eastern Accumulation in Elaeagnus the common herbicide Round-Up. These honey Communication Association Conference, Boston, samples are obtained from local sources around Umbellata: An Analysis of the MA. New York State. Any results that show the ______Carotenoid Biosynthetic Pathway presence of pesticides in honey could contribute to 142 • Sports Cuties Sell: The Impact STEPHANIE SOJDA the hypothesis that the declining bee population is FACULTY SPONSOR: ERIC HELMS, CHEMISTRY linked to pesticide use. Selected for presentation Diet- and Fitness-Oriented The berries of Elaeagnus Umbellata, commonly at 254th American Chemical Society National Advertising has on Body known as autumn olive, are rich in the carotenoid Meeting & Exposition, Washington DC. Dissatisfaction and Anxiety lycopene. Lycopene is an antioxidant that has been reported to have a variety of health benefits such Development Among Women as reduced risk of chronic diseases like RIAGAN MCMAHON cardiovascular disease and certain types of cancer. FACULTY SPONSOR: ATSUSHI TAJIMA, Currently, the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is COMMUNICATION the main source of lycopene in the American diet, 44  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM

This study explores physical and mental 145 • Native Advertising's Impact teachers or parents. People using PECS are first ramifications mediated through female images taught to give pictures to others in exchange for within Shape Magazine, one of America's leading on the Magazine Industry: the item pictured. They use the picture cards to fitness magazines. Literature has suggested that Perspectives from Publishing, eventually increase their sentence structure, ask women are heavily affected by unrealistic body Advertising and Public Relations for things in full sentences, and improve their shapes in the media. Both the increase of body overall communication. PECS is meant to be dissatisfaction and anxiety-like symptoms, as a Professionals learned quickly in order for users to be able to result, could be explained through the lens of social HEATHER MOLZON communicate as soon as possible. The system is comparison theory. This is due to internal FACULTY SPONSOR: SARAH BROOKES, fairly simple and can be used in both the home or pressures by women to compare themselves to the COMMUNICATION at school. It is also a fairly inexpensive system and bodies featured across the media. Concretely, the Native advertising is defined as "the practice by straightforward for use by anybody who comes in study explores those structural concerns through which a marketer borrows from the credibility of a contact with it. PECS has grown to be beneficial for 1) a textual analysis of images appearing on covers content publisher by presenting paid content with children, adolescents, and adults with a wide range of and within Shape magazine and 2) a survey a format and location that matches the publisher's of disabilities that affect their ability to questioning how young females perceive those original content" (Wojdynnski and Golan). Some communicate using speech. images. While Shape proposes an aspirational examples of native advertising are sponsored ______lifestyle through its celebrity models, the findings social media posts, articles and videos on 148 • Boardmaker: An Alternative suggests that women paradoxically develop a publishing sites, and print advertorials. The ethics Form of Communication negative perception about their bodies and mental behind native advertising is highly complicated and ISABELLA OVEJERO, JENNA ZIMMERMAN, health as they are exposed to what Shape has caused conflict within the magazine industry ADRIENNE REDA, JILLIAN DECKER represents. Selected for presentation at James C. since its creation. Native advertising appears FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, McCroskey and Virginia P. Richmond beneficial to magazines, both in their print and EDUCATION Undergraduate Scholars Conference at the digital form, because the ads appear as regular, Severely impaired speech is a problem faced by Eastern Communication Association Convention, authentic content but have the added value of many students in elementary classrooms. This Boston, MA. generating revenue. Native advertising, however, poster provides an overview of Boardmaker, a type ______blurs the ethical line between genuine journalistic 143 • Dynamical Probe of content and sponsored advertisements. of AAC that is used to facilitate communication in Publishers, advertisers and public relations educational settings. This poster will cover topics Oligomerization of Amyloid Beta 1- specialists in the magazine industry are all involved such as the different versions of Boardmaker that 42 on Gold Colloidal Nanoparticle in different aspects of native advertising and are commercially available, the specific settings consequently, have varying opinions. Through where it can be utilized, characteristics of students Surfaces who may benefit from its use, and the different TARIK JAMES, EGHOSA OKUNGBOWA , JESSICA industry research, the examination of specific publications, and interviews with various features it offers. FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, ______professionals I will explore the different COMMUNICATION 149 • Assisted Communication: The The amyloid beta protein is regarded as a hall mark perspectives on native advertising and how it protein associated with forming fibers leading to might shape the future of the media industry. Sono Flex App by Tobii neurodegenerative disease. The formation of fiber STELLA ALDRIDGE , EMILY COREY, EMILY is triggered by an ensemble of monomeric amyloid EDUCATION THOMAS beta (called oligomer), and not much of details are 146 • Eye Gaze Edge Talker: Gaze FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, known. Our research group established a EDUCATION systematic way to study this oligomer over nano into a High-tech Option for This poster describes the Sono Flex app and how it scale gold particles. One big question needs to be Augmentative and Alternative helps non-verbal users to communicate. We will answered is how energy is used to form this Communication show the features of the app and how they oligomer. By using the fluorescein attached facilitate communication for a person who is BRITTANY FABRIZIO, SYDNEY CAROLLO, ALEX nonverbal. The poster will discuss the the "lite" amyloid beta 1-42, we can monitor how the SAPONE, MADDIE MCCABE provided energy is used to form an oligomer. We version and the "purchased"version , and the FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, benefits and limitations of each. We will have are in the process of studying the energy EDUCATION redistribution depending on the size of available an iPad that has the "lite" version The Eye Gaze Edge Talker is one of many eye installed on it to show what the app actually looks nanoparticle. It will reveal the subtle surface tracking devices that has been used in recent years potential change as a function of the size of the like and functions as a highly tech form of AAC. with individuals who are unable to speak and have ______gold nano particle. undeveloped or impaired motor skills. This poster ______150 • Development of Women's will provide information on its use with school-age 144 • An Examination of children. Rights Throughout the World Pedagogical Methods in Student ______TAYLOR CATHEY 147 • Picture Exchange FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH HALL, EDUCATION Surveys In this poster session, I will be discussing how THERESA GIBBONS Communication (PECS): Uses and women throughout the world are currently FACULTY SPONSOR: MEREDITH HARRIGAN, Advantages for School-Aged expanding their rights within their local COMMUNICATION Children communities. This study aims to qualitatively analyze students perception of learning styles and ideal pedagogical CLAIRE HILL , KELLY TEEL , JESS SIDOTI methods via online surveys (hosted on Geneseo's FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, GEOGRAPHY LimeSurvey software).The survey will ask students EDUCATION 151 • Impact of EU Membership on for their major and class year as well as asking them This poster will include a detailed description of States of Eastern Europe to describe their learning style and ideal classroom how picture exchange communication system (PECS) works, its history, the phases involved, and COLLIN CLARK format. All surveys will be anonymous with the FACULTY SPONSOR: COLLEEN GARRITY, only identifying factors being the participant's who it can benefit. PECS is a "low-tech" form of augmentative and alternative communication, GEOGRAPHY major and year. All participants will be informed of In the early 21st century, a significant number of their right to refuse to participate prior to originally developed to be used by those with autism. There are many uses for PECS and many Eastern European states were for the first time beginning the survey. accepted for membership into the European Union ______advantages for those using the system, as well as many advantages for support personnels, such as (EU). The EU is a regional organization that seeks to eliminate barriers to free trade within its  Promotes sustainability 45 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual constituents to foster development in and the nutrient-loading risk assessment (Li et al., report also serves as a model for sustainability economic stability of all member states. This poster 2007; Nielsen et al., 2012). The criteria were planning for other shared student housing at SUNY combines subject matter from the fields of weighted differently when performing the site Geneseo and beyond. Selected for presentation at Geography, Economics, and International Relations suitability analysis, which was run using ArcGIS American Association of Geographers 2017 in order to investigate whether or not it was software. The results are shown in a 30mX30m Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. beneficial for these new member states to join the resolution map of the Genesee basin’s major ______EU. By juxtaposing GDPs (PPP) per capita to their tributaries. The nutrient-loading risk is shown with 156 • Influence of Former Pasture Eastern European counterparts who did not gain or a 100 point scale. The areas depicted as high risk Trees on the Regeneration of Black seek entry during the 2004-2013 period, the data can be used to help prioritize areas that should be demonstrate what the benefits - or the focused on when managing waterways and Walnut (Juglans Nigra) in a consequences - of joining were for the new allocating resources that mitigate nutrient-loading Successional Woodlot, Geneseo, members. Economic data acquired from the World most efficiently. Selected for presentation at  Bank were placed in and modified with ArcGIS, Association of American Geographers, Boston, NY resulting in maps and graphs that offer an MA. BRIANNE HART explanation to the matter in question. ______FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, ______154 • Indian Fort Nature Preserve GEOGRAPHY 152 • Secondhand Geography: A Biogeographers and forest ecologists have long Palisade Project studied forest successional processes in Place-Name Analysis of Goodwill ELIZABETH HOLLAND abandoned agricultural areas including former Clothing FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID ROBERTSON, agricultural fields and pastures. At the same time, BENJAMIN FREIMAN GEOGRAPHY research has examined the duration of impacts FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVE ROBERTSON, This project inventories tree growth and human upon ecosystems after the cessation of a particular GEOGRAPHY disturbances on two palisade mounds, erected land use, termed “land-use legacies”. The purpose Can the items found in thrift stores provide insight circa 1400-1500 AD, at the Indian Fort Nature of this study is to assess how the distribution of into the cultural characteristics of the communities Preserve in Geneseo, New York. Also explored are large, formerly open-grown pasture trees they serve? This research is premised on the idea tree removal, revegetation, and other strategies influences regeneration patterns for black walnut that because their inventories are sourced from for protecting this archeological site. This work was (Juglans nigra). A second purpose is to test the surrounding communities, items in Goodwill conducted through an internship with the Genesee predictive accuracy of different methods for stores, such as used clothing, will reflect local Valley Conservancy (GVC), owner of the Indian Fort interpolating the distribution of forest tree species. cultural geographies. This project examines and property. The mounds are the remains palisades The study area is the Spencer J. Roemer compares the geographic characteristics of place- enclosing a Seneca meeting place. An important Arboretum, an 8-hectare park and abandoned name-bearing clothing collected from one rural, Seneca archeological site, the palisade mounds are pasture in Geneseo, NY. The research consisted of one suburban, and one urban Goodwill store threatened by tree growth and human activity, four steps. First, data on black walnut distribution located in Western New York State. Clothing was including excavation and trail use. Data was was collected using the point quarter transect examined at each store and place-names were collected from extensive fieldwork to map the method and a GPS unit. Second, interpolation recorded, geocoded, and assigned a typology. present condition of the mounds, and options were techniques, such as indicator kriging and inverse- Place scale and proximity to the store was also presented for clearing, restoring and preserving distance weighting, were applied to black walnut measured. The resulting place-names were then the palisade mounds. The GVC is presently species presence (1) and absence (0), to produce a mapped using a GIS and analyzed using spatial and considering these options. continuous prediction for the relative abundance ______qualitative methods. This unusual data source of black walnut. Third, the distribution of black shows that substantive differences exist in the 155 • Greeks Go Green: A walnut was compared to the species composition cultural geographies of rural, suburban and urban Sustainability Report for Sigma of, formerly open-grown pasture trees including black walnut, white oak (Quercus alba), and black areas serviced by Goodwill stores. Place-name Delta Tau analysis of secondhand clothing also provides oak (Quercus velutina). Fourth, the accuracy of JENNA SABERS unique insight into local patterns of consumption predictive methods was assessed using cross- FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID ROBERTSON, and travel as well as attachments to place and validation techniques. Results suggest that black GEOGRAPHY regional identity. Selected for presentation at walnut regeneration is clustered around old More than one-quarter of students at the State American Association of Geographers 2017 pasture black walnut trees, and regeneration is University of New York College at Geneseo Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. lower proximate to pasture trees of different ______participate in Greek life, but only 1 of 32 Greek species. Explanation of patterns include (1) 153 • Nutrient Loading Risk organizations (Sigma Delta Tau (SDT)), has a formal proximity to former pasture black walnut and (2) sustainability initiative. Unusual living conditions dispersal of propagules via small. The kriging and Assessment of the Genesee River exist in Greek housing, large shared housing inversed distance weighted interpolation Watershed facilities with frequent guests, and these factors technique produced the most accurate prediction VICTORIA ROBERTS have a significant impact on sustainability. This of black walnut distribution. This study FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVE ROBERTSON, poster communicates results of a sustainability demonstrates how past land use continues to GEOGRAPHY report, produced by SDT in 2017, to facilitate impact forest ecosystem processes. Selected for The purpose of this GIS study is to use adoption of more environmentally sustainable presentation at Association of American environmental data to explore potential nutrient- living practices at its sorority house at SUNY Geographers, Boston, MA. loading from agricultural land on the Genesee Geneseo. In addition to inventorying living ______River basin's major tributaries. Increased amounts conditions, the report utilized surveys to analyze 157 • The Geography of Urban student behavior and resource consumption in five of nutrients in the water, specifically nitrogen (N) Stereotypes Using Google and phosphorous (P), can lead to increased lifestyle impact areas: water use, energy use, waste submerged aquatic vegetation and increased management, community engagement, and social Autocomplete speed of eutrophication in freshwater ecosystem gatherings. Strategies for facilitating more R. TRUE CAPALBO (Li et. al, 2005; Nutrients, 2008). Sediment environmentally sustainable practices in each FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN TULOWIECKI, contamination specific to the Genesee basin is impact area were proposed at three levels: GEOGRAPHY primarily from agriculture and livestock behavioral suggestions, low cost strategies, and Urban imagery creates stereotypes which urban (Kerkeslager, 2011; Genesee River, 2015). Thus, higher cost strategies. Although there are geographers recognize as an important element in proximity to agricultural land parcels, soil data, sustainability advantages inherent in shared the perception of cities. Social media and internet elevation models, and presence of a riparian zone housing, the report showed the need for search engines present new media for the near waterways were implemented as criteria for improvement in behaviors and habits related to proliferation of positive and negative stereotypes sustainable living practices in the SDT house. The of various entities. Previous research has revealed 46  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM stereotypes of social groups in internet search this past summer near Geneseo, NY, that shows Pukaki contained particles composed of silica, iron, engine features including Google's evidence of aeolian dunes advancing across glacial aluminum, magnesium and potassium which were "Autocomplete", an algorithm that suggests search pond sediments only 3.5 miles northeast of larger and fewer in number. Watersheds for the terms based upon incomplete terms entered by a campus. This documents the arrival of Holocene lakes were outlined using ArcGIS to determine the user. However, the study of city stereotypes drought conditions in western New York before the provenances of the glacial flour. Hooker Glacier evident in Google Autocomplete has not been onset of the more modern climate. Verification of was found to have a much smaller watershed than formally studied previously. To that end, this study the dune origin of the sand has been demonstrated that of Lake Pukaki. aims to understand city stereotypes manifested by quantitative sieve analyses in the Geological ______through Google Autocomplete and the spatial Sciences Laboratory. Optically stimulated 162 • An Analysis of Devitrified patterns in such stereotypes. To study Google user luminescence (OSL) and carbon fourteen (14C) Obsidian from Aratiatia Rapids, perceptions of cities, stereotypes of 104 cities in dating of these sediments is currently in progress the United States were explored by entering in to determine whether the age of this event Taupo, New Zealand "Why is ____ so" into the Google search engine to corresponds with an 8,200-year-old climatic ALISON COOK, RILEY SESSANNA generate a maximum of four stereotypes per city. cooling documented in the broader geologic FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL Content analysis was performed to classify the record. Selected for presentation at Buffalo SCIENCES nature of the stereotypes as positive, neutral, and Association of Professional Geologists, Buffalo, Samples of a felsic igneous rock were collected negative, and furthermore to classify stereotypes NY. from the footpath at Aratiatia Rapids. The rapids into 7 categories such as physical characteristics, ______are located off highway 1 in Taupo, roughly 11 km politics, or demographics. Stereotypes were 160 • Beach Sand Grain Analysis to northeast of Lake Taupo, New Zealand. The hand mapped and analyzed using a spatial Determine Source Regions, North samples collected consisted of roughly 20 percent autocorrelation. The results for this study show rhyolitic glass (obsidian) and 80 percent globular positive spatial autocorrelation of cities with a and South Island, New Zealand shaped spheres called spherulites. Individual greater percentage of negative stereotypes. FORREST LEGAWIEC, LAUREN BRANDT spherulites were observed under a scanning Selected for presentation at American Association FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL electron microscope (SEM). Through backscatter of Geographers 2017 Annual Meeting, Boston, SCIENCES imagery the spherulites were found to contain a MA. Samples of sand were collected from four different fibrous material as well as smaller, more well- beach localities in New Zealand during January developed micro-spheres in their internal GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2017. The samples were taken from Hokitika and structure. Individual spheres and fibers were Gillespie Beach located on the West coast of New analyzed using backscatter images and energy 158 • Lichenometric Dating of Zealand's South Island, Murawai Beach located on dispersive X-ray technology (EDS) maps. SEM Outwash Near Hooker Glacier, New the West coast of New Zealand's North Island, and analysis allowed for the chemical identification of Zealand from White Island located in the Bay of Plenty. The the spherulites, spheres, and fibers each with samples were then transported back to SUNY mineral structures that complement one another ERAKLIS HRISTODOULOU, ABBY DENNETT Geneseo where the samples were sieved to yet differ in maturity. The elemental composition FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL determine grain size distribution. SEM and a light of the spherulites peaked in Si and Al, with SCIENCES microscope were then used to aid in mineral significant traces of Na, K, and Ca. This chemical Lichenometric dating techniques were applied to identification and determine mineral abundances analysis we concluded that the microspheres are the glacial outwash of Hooker Glacier in the in each sample along with grain angularity. Data christobalite while the fibers anorthoclase. Based Southern Alps, New Zealand, to determine the was then used to determine relative proximity to on the physical and chemical characteristics the approximate time of emplacement. Lichen source region of the sand grains and a probable spherulites are thought to be a product of obsidian measurements were collected at four locations in source region. devitrification. outwash channels of the Hooker Glacier. Using a ______method adapted from Stefan Winkler (2000, 2004), lichen mean diameters (mm) were applied to the 161 • The Mineralogical 163 • Mineralogical and SL1 lichenometric dating curve to yield dates since Composition of Glacial Flour Petrological Comparison of Volcanic first exposure. The outwash dates were then Suspended in Glacial Lakes, Hooker Rocks from Tongariro Crossing, compared to dates of local moraines determined by Winkler (2000) to create a local glacial history. Lake and Lake Pukaki in the New Zealand Comparison of known moraine dates and Southern Alps, Mt. Cook Area, ANDREW THEAL, ANNA CHINCHILLI FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL determined outwash dates suggest that the glacial South Island, New Zealand outwash of Hooker Glacier was redirected SCIENCES RYAN MCKENDRY, KIRSTEN LOMNITZER approximately 110 years ago. Two samples were collected from Tongariro Alpine ______FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL Crossing in New Zealand's North Island. The rock 159 • 39,000-Year Record of SCIENCES samples were collected from the area between the The regression of glaciers in the Mount Cook region two mountains with the intention of studying the Extreme Climate Change in the of New Zealand has produced many glacial lakes homogeneity of TgVC lavas. The rocks were Genesee Valley, NY that are fed by the small surviving glaciers that examined on a hand sample level, as well as in ERAKLIS HRISTODOULOU exist near Mount Cook. Water samples were greater detail with the aid of petrographic and FACULTY SPONSORS: AMY SHELDON, RICHARD collected from two glacial lakes in this region to scanning electron microscopes. Sample 1 has a YOUNG, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES determine the mineralogical composition of the porphyritic texture, with hornblende phenocrysts For over 40 years the Geological Sciences' student glacial flour suspended in the water. The first of approximately 1 mm diameter. Closer viewing and faculty joint research has provided a synoptic sample was collected from the pro-glacial lake of revealed that the matrix consists of view of the extremes in climatic variation over the Hooker Glacier, at the base of Mount Cook. The microcrystalline plagioclase and quartz, and that past 39,000 years in the Genesee Valley, beginning second sample was collected farther downstream the rock contains apatite as well as iron- and with a middle Wisconsin glacial advance correlative at Lake Pukaki. Samples were filtered through a titanium-rich minerals. Certain minerals contain with the well-known iceberg armadas in the 0.45 μm glass fiber filter and the filtered sediment zones of high chromium and low iron Atlantic Ocean known as Heinrich Events (H-4). was compared to determine which had the concentrations. Sample 2 also has a porphyritic One pending research project confirms that the greatest amount present. Particles could not be texture, but it contains only plagioclase last (youngest) glacier advance in the valley was as identified using a petrographic microscope, so a phenocrysts of approximately 1.5 mm diameter in recent as 13,000 years ago, coincidental with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) was used. The a dark gray matrix. Based on our findings, we have world-wide sudden climatic cooling known as the samples from the Hooker Lake contained more and broadly characterized Sample 1 as an andesitic Younger Dryas event. In addition, unusually well- smaller particles composed of silica, iron, basalt and Sample 2 as a basalt. The rocks' textures preserved cross-bedded sands were discovered aluminum and magnesium. The samples from Lake suggest that they share a similar cooling history,  Promotes sustainability 47 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual having crystallized slowly before being erupted. section coming from volcanic processes largely in explain why it is rare in the fossil record. Selected However, their differences in mineralogy show the absence of water. for presentation at Buffalo Association of that they formed from magmas with different ______Professional Geologists, Buffalo NY. compositions. Selected for presentation at Buffalo 166 • Dertermination of the ______Association of Professional Geologists, Buffalo, Frasnian-Famennian Boundary with 168 • Utilizing Fall and Flow NY. Characteristics to Determine Large ______Conodont Biostratigraphy of the 164 • Utilizing Reflectance Dyer Formation, Western Colorado Scale Eruption Styles, TVZ New Spectrometry to Define the Hue, JOSEPHINE CHIARELLO, EMILY HAUF Zealand FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFERY OVER, GEOLOGICAL CHRISANNE ROSS , ANASTASIA FLANARY ESPINAL Value, and Chroma of Colors SCIENCES FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDSAY MACKENZIE, BRENNAN VOORHEIS The Dyer Formation, made up of the Broken Rib GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES FACULTY SPONSOR: DORI FARTHING, GEOLOGICAL and Coffee Pot members, is abundant in biota up The Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) on the North Island, SCIENCES until the Frasnian-Famennian boundary, which New Zealand is host to multiple volcanic events, Color is often an indicator of chemical variation denotes a mass extinction event. The rocks being including the Taupo and Oraunui eruptions. The among different samples of the same rock type in sampled consist of mudstones, shales, grainstones, eruption events are preserved as ash fall and flow the field of petrology. When being treated as a and dolostones. These carbonates were deposited deposits whose emplacement mechanisms are significant variable, it is important to define a in a shallow marine environment, which occupied recorded within the distributions of particle size sample's color as accurately as possible, and the mid-United States. The boundary is found in and shape, denoting level of sorting. Flows are communicated with precision. Reflectance the lower Coffee Pot member, not much above the characterized as poorly sorted and matrix- spectrometry can be utilized to numerically define transition. Researching the biostratigraphy of this supported, whereas falls are well sorted, clast- a sample's color in order to meet this requirement. formation should aid in determining the cause(s) of supported, and weakly layered. Samples of A reflectance spectrometer displays the sample's this Devonian extinction event. Samples collected volcanic ash were collected near Taupo, from the light reflection and absorption properties, which come from two localities, Bison Lake and Deep Totaio Cut Short Ride to Waikato River path, to can be interpreted to define the sample's color. Creek Canyon. As a continuation of an existing distinguish fall versus flow and to clarify the Using various mathematical techniques, several project, we have been researching the eruption style through textural characterization. aspects of the studied sample's color can be biostratigraphy of these two specific locations. Samples were weighed and sieved to determine defined with a high degree of accuracy, such as its Biota in our specific research has yet to be found. flow style and competencies. Thin sections were hue, degree of lightness or darkness, and Based on past research of this formation, we are prepared to observe the internal microstructures saturation. Samples that feature multiple forms of expected to find conodonts in our samples. The of larger lapilli. The microstructures of the lapilli coloration within the studied area can also be upper Broken Rib and lower Coffee Pot are will give insight into the amount of water present accurately defined, however it does create a small expected to yield conodonts. Research has shown during formation to further identify the style of degree of potential error if one of the colors is that Siphonodella and Pseudopolyganthus are volcanic eruption. The data will clarify the variety caused by chemical alteration, such as oxidation. found in the upper Coffee Pot strata. These fossils of eruption styles exposed in this area, as well as The use of reflectance spectrometry to numerically are expressive of the Lower Carboniferous, and reveal the source--Oraunui or Taupo eruption--of define color allows for easier findings of statistical occur above the boundary. Our further research the ash deposits. correlations between a rock's color and chemistry. could find more conodont zones in the upper ______In finding these correlations, color can be used to Coffee Pot. 169 • Geochemical and Structural quickly determine properties of an individual ______Analysis of Siliceous Sinter Deposit: sample, such as previous exposure conditions and 167 • Degree of Pyritization of concentrations of economically valuable materials. Tongariro Crossing (TVZ), New Selected for presentation at Geological Society of Various Tissue Type: A Taphonomy America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. Zealand Experiment MATTHEW HARNISH, ALEC MANKE ______CAMERON CUMMINGS 165 • Sedimentary Analysis of Beds FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDSAY MACKENZIE, FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDSAY MACKENZIE, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Within the Upper Huka Group GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Sinter deposits are formed in association with COLE FARNAM, COREY HENSEN Complete pyritization of organisms is rare in the hydrothermal vents and can have a variety of FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFERY OVER, GEOLOGICAL fossil record, but these exceptional instances morphologies formed through biotic and abiotic SCIENCES provide incredible insight into past forms and processes. These hydrothermal environments are Sediments were collected from two locations on environments. Pyritization preserves fine details of host to diverse microbial communities tolerant of the Totara Gut bike path at Huka Falls on the North both plant and animal tissues, which are lost to extreme conditions. Sinter from ancient vents can Island of New Zealand. Initial field analysis bacterial activity under normal decay conditions. fossilize microbes within its layers, providing suggested a lacustrine depositional environment The specific taphonomic processes responsible for information about life in these environments. for both outcrops. The stratigraphically lowest the preservation of the variety of tissues observed These deposits are thought to be analogues for sample was identified as a diatomite based on prior in the fossil record remain unclear. This study aims early life on Earth as well as life on other work. Further sedimentary analysis of the to determine which tissues are most likely to be planets.This study focuses on sinter collected from diatomite revealed the composition to be primarily preserved under conditions similar to the Eocene an ancient vent at Tongariro National Park in New mud with some angular volcanic glass and diatoms, London Clay. Taphonomy experiments were Zealand. Our goal was to search for evidence of dominated by Pinnularia, Stauroneis, and Surirella, conducted using plant leafs, plant stalks, chitons, microbes and to evaluate sinter polymorph confirming a quiet, lacustrine depositional and polychaete worms to observe the degree of structures with rock chemistry using light environment. The vast majority of microfossils in pyritization in the different tissues. Pond microscopy and SEM/EDS. The results of this study this sample do not appear to be diatoms but some sediments doped with 1% amorphous gives us a better understanding of ancient other form of unidentified organism made of oxyhydroxide, 1.5% yeast extract solution, and hydrothermal systems and the alteration siliceous material. Sedimentary analysis of the artificial seawater were used to bury the processes they may undergo. This research can be stratigraphically higher bed revealed that it was organisms. Samples were sealed and left for six used to identify similar structures in other sinter likely not lacustrine in nature, due to the absence weeks, with anoxic zones rapidly developing deposits both on Earth and other planets. of diatoms or mud and the abundance of tephra. (within a week) in the sediments surrounding most ______Given the distinct sedimentary characteristics of of the decaying organisms. At the end of the 170 • Experimental Taphonomy: the two outcrops, it is apparent that they were experiment the samples will be harvested and formed under different depositional analyzed using XRD, SEM, and ICP-OES. This study The Effects of Sediment Grain Size environments, with sediments higher in the will reveal the impact tissue type has on the potential for pyritization of an organism and may

48  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM on Microbial and Mineral Film ______from the silent era to the present day. Within films, 172 • Effects of Exposure Prior to music and sound are used to depict characters and Growth on Tissues Burial on Preservation of Detailed portray the film narrative. However, the specific MATTHEW NIGRO ways in which they are used to do so have changed FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDSAY MACKENZIE, Morphology in Fossils as the role of sound in film has expanded. GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES TIMOTHY CLARK Specifically, the earliest adaptation relies upon a Exceptionally preserved fossils are rare in the fossil FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDSAY MACKENZIE, cue sheet for musical accompaniment, while the record and are often found buried in fine-grained GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES latter film and musical adaptations have specific sediments, as seen in many fossil Lagerstätten. Preservational bias in the fossil record is associated scores written for the productions. Our projects Biofilms are linked to high fidelity preservation by with the composition of an organism's tissues. For draws on archival materials donated to SUNY rapidly encrusting organisms and precipitating example, a hard-shelled organism is more likely to Geneseo by Professor Jim Kimball, collections held mineral films. Fossilization experiments have be fossilized because hard tissues are more at the George Eastman House, and the films shown this process, but mostly focus on varying resistant to decay than the soft tissues. In deposits themselves. chemical conditions in the water. To better containing exceptional fossils with soft tissues, understand Lagerstätten, attention must also be rapid burial is often cited as a factor to PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY given to the entombing sediments, which affect preservation. It is unclear how quickly after death diffusion rates, limiting nutrient availability to the burial needs to occur in order to preserve the 175 • Reduced Noise UV biofilms. This study analyzed how varying sediment morphological detail seen in high-fidelity fossils. Enhancement of Etch Rates of grain sizes affect microbial film growth and This study aims to determine how post-mortem Nuclear Tracks in CR-39 development of mineral films on the tissues of burial timing affects morphological detail and DAVID CLARKSON, RUBAB UME buried organisms. Marine snails were euthanized, mineralization potential of marine worms. Worms FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & buried in different grain sizes (silts and clays, very were buried in fine-grained sediments and artificial ASTRONOMY fine sands, and fine sand) of granitic sediment, and seawater at short-term time intervals (0, 3, 6, 12, The use of CR-39 plastic as a Solid State Nuclear had artificial seawater added to imitate the 24 and 48 hours) after euthanasia and left buried Track Detector is an effective technique for depositional environment of many Lagerstätten for 2 weeks. The exhumed samples and encasing obtaining data in high-energy particle experiments settings. Samples were harvested, and analyzed sediments were analyzed using scanning electron including inertial confinement fusion[1]. To reveal using light microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and microscopy and X-ray diffraction. Control worms particle tracks after irradiation, CR-39 is chemically scanning electron microscopy to identify timing of were left unburied to examine morphological etched in NaOH at 80°C for 6 hours, producing biofilm and mineral film development in each grain deterioration and decay over the experimental micron-scale signal pits at the nuclear track sites. size. This research provides better understanding period. Disarticulation occurred rapidly and Using CR-39 irradiated with 5.4 MeV alpha particles of the role of sediment grain size on the morphological detail was lost in samples left and 1.0 MeV protons, we show that exposing the preservation of soft tissues, and helps constrain unburied. This taphonomy experiment highlights CR-39 to high intensity UV light before etching, the taphonomic processes responsible for how decay affects tissue preservation and how with wavelengths between 240 nm and 350 nm, fossilization. Selected for presentation at 2017 post-mortem burial can mitigate this. Selected for speeds the etch process. Elevated temperatures Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, presentation at Buffalo Association of during UV exposure amplifies this effect, with etch Seattle, WA. Professional Geologists, Buffalo, NY. ______rates up to 50% greater than unprocessed 171 • Using Sediment Classification conditions. CR-39 pieces exposed to UV light and LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES heat can also exhibit heightened levels of etch- to Determine the Provenance and 173 • 21st Century: World is induced noise (surface features not caused by Depositional Setting of the Clay Changing From Worse to Better? or nuclear particles). By illuminating the CR-39 from the side opposite to the tracks, a similar level of Cliffs, New Zealand Better to Worse etch enhancement was obtained with little to no NATHAN SMARCZ, PETER VAN ECK QI ZHENG, THOMAS LIN, IVAN GALLEGO noise. The effective wavelength range is reduced, FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDSAY MACKENZIE, HERNÁNDEZ due to strong attenuation of shorter wavelength. GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES FACULTY SPONSOR: JASMINE TANG, LANGUAGES Selected for presentation at 2016 American The Clay Cliffs in the Mackenzie Basin, New Zealand AND LITERATURES Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics are a cliff-forming sequence of coarse and fine- Our GREAT Day Presentation is going to represent Conference, San Jose, CA. grained siliciclastic sedimentary facies, whose Chinese 102. Our great day project is consists of 3 ______depositional environment is unclear. The goal of different cultures including American culture, 176 • Bulk Etch Rate and Swell Rate this research was to determine the mode of European culture, and Chinese culture. The 3 deposition and provenance of the grained facies of different cultures bring about similar and of CR-39 the Clay Cliffs. Two sample were collected, one differences of culture customs. Through this poster DAVID CLARKSON, RUBAB UME from an upper flow and one a lower flow, for presentation we want to spread the knowledge FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & sedimentary analysis. The samples were sorted by about different culture to different audience about ASTRONOMY grain size through sieving and classified by all 3 of these cultures to better the understanding The use of CR-39 plastic as a Solid State Nuclear composition using a light microscope. Using a of 3 different communities, and their way of life. Track Detector is an effective technique for sieve, the samples were separated into 10 different obtaining data in high-energy particle experiments size increments respectively, ranging from 5660 MUSIC including inertial confinement fusion[1]. To reveal microns to under 63 microns. Each grain size was particle tracks after irradiation, CR-39 is chemically then weighed and plotted to illustrate the size 174 • Music, Movies, and Oliver etched in NaOH at 80°C, producing micron-scale distribution and different competencies of the Twist signal pits at the nuclear track sites. The flows. Classification of 3,426 sand grains were JOHN COACCI, STEPHANIE BROWN, FRANCESCA development of these pits depends on both the plotted on a Quartz-Feldpsar-Lithics (QFL) diagram DIGIORGIO, MIRANDA FIERO, HANNAH LOO, bulk etch rate and the faster etch rate along the in order to determine a composition of the TORI SHERELIS, KATHERINE ZASLAVSKY track, and is complicated by swelling as water is provenance. The imbrication of grains within the FACULTY SPONSOR: BROOKE MCCORKLE, MUSIC absorbed. Contrary to common etching models, we strata and the presence of a clay matrix contradicts Charles Dickens' classic story Oliver Twist has find the bulk etch rate to be depth dependent, as the previously thought glacial origin of these inspired numerous cinematic adaptations, revealed by swelling TASTRACK CR-39 pieces to deposits and are instead indicators of deposition including films from 1922, 1948, and 1968. These their maximum capacity prior to etching. The bulk by a debris flows with two different competencies. three films represent contrasting examples from etch rate was measured using the standard mass We also concluded the provenance to be a product silent film, classical Hollywood era, and movie method as well as the fission fragment track of a recycled orogen through the use of a QFL musicals. This presentation examines how the role diameter method. Combining models of swelling classification diagram. of audio in film versions of Oliver Twist has evolved and etching rates predicts the progress of bulk  Promotes sustainability 49 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual etching during a standard etch, without pre- sources. Selected for presentation at National access to a meeting to express their concerns or swelling. This result has implications for the Ignition Facility Users Group Meeting, Livermore, opinions. I am going to do more research beyond understanding the chemistry of the etch process, CA. this study about campaign contributions and how as well as the outcome of CR-39 surface ______that facilitates access to politicians. I am also going preparation methods. Selected for presentation at 180 • Time-Resolved Tandem to look at what gaining this access to politicians 2016 American Physical Society Division of Plasma Faraday Cup for High Energy TNSA accomplishes. Physics Conference, San Jose, CA. ______Particles 183 • Ethnic and Economic 178 • Comparision of Energy MARY KATHARINE GINNANE, BILAL KOUSAR,  SARAH MANDANAS, KEVIN PALMISANO, JOSHUA Inequality in Public Policy Storage Systems for a Sustainable SLISH CAROL SANCHEZ Future FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL CARA GANNETT & ASTRONOMY SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS The MTW Laser at LLE utilizes an ultra-intense laser I plan to explore the effects of public policy in the & ASTRONOMY to produce high-energy heavy ion pulses through United States in regards to the vast inequalities Two 1,200 watt photo voltaic sun tracking solar target normal sheath acceleration (TNSA). Using that exist in the ethnic and economic playing field. panels and a 3,500 watt wind turbine have been the Time-Resolved Tandem Faraday Cup (TRTF) the I will compare different tactics used by politicians successfully installed on the eGarden site. The total number of heavy ions produced by TNSA can and policy-makers in order to create policies that power they generate run a number of different be determined, which is needed for stellar nuclear tend to reward their supporters or specific electrical devices at the eGarden. The excess reaction cross section measurements. TNSA heavy constituencies while purposely leaving out many energy produced during the day must be stored for ions stop within the thin walled front cup, while unpopular groups of the American public. ______use when these sources are not available. For this light ions pass through and deposit their remaining reason, a variety of storage systems will be studied charge in the back cup. A two channel storage 184 • Mentorship as a Tool for at the eGarden during the next few years to scope measures the voltages produced by the Ameliorating Economic Inequality determine the most efficient means of storage. beam currents collected in the cups, respectively. EITAN SIRKOVICH Currently, the solar panel energy is being stored in The charge state fraction of the plasma ions is FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL a bank of four 12 volt deep cycle batteries placed modified by passing the heavy ions through a SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS in series. Although batteries have shown to be charge- exchange foil at the TRTF entrance. While Over the last half-century, the United States has effective storage devices, they are energetically passing through the foil, the ions equilibrate to experienced a growing gap between the incomes costly to produce and may not have an effective known charge states based on their velocities. of the poorest and richest members of society. The energy return in their lifetime. Through this poster Using time of flight, the total heavy ion current can issue of income inequality is complex, and there is I plan to show data I have gathered on the be normalized to the correct charge state fraction. no solution that will be a silver-bullet. That being efficiency of energy storage in lead acid batteries. A pair of dipole magnets deflect relativistic TNSA said, improving the United States' education This poster intends to show the connection electrons from the cup's entrance. They also system is viewed by many as one of the best between the voltage and current outputs of the prevent secondary electrons from escaping the remedies available. A good education provides two battery to the reactions occurring within the front and back cups. Funded in part by a LLE things: skills and role models. Advocates of the battery while it undergoes charge/discharge contract through the DOE. Selected for education solution focus predominantly upon cycles. This poster is intended as a compliment and presentation at American Physical Society skills. Improved skills combat inequality by making extension of the information presented in my Division of Plasma Physics, San Jose, CA. it easier to acquire good- paying, stable jobs. The GREAT day presentation. impact of role models is discussed less frequently. ______POLITICAL SCIENCE & Mentors grow students' social capital and serve as 179 • Characterizing ICF Neutron INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS connections to the labor market who can help Signals on the nTOF Line at SUNY them land a job. Mentors also inspire students to 181 • Where is the New New Deal? reach higher by encouraging them to go to college Geneseo ALEXANDER FANTAUZZO or to take advantage of other opportunities that HANNAH VISCA, HANNAH HARRISON, PRAVEEN FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL may improve their condition later on in life. This WAKWELLA, DAVID (ALEX) CHIN SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS research examines the gap in availability of FACULTY SPONSOR: STEPHEN PADALINO, KURT This poster will compare the policy responses of mentors to rich and poor youth, what mentorship FLETCHER, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY the Great Depression and the Great Recession, and programs currently exist and what distinguishes During the summer of 2016, a series of examine why the former resulted in significant them from one another, the impact of mentorship experiments were conducted at SUNY Geneseo's changes in economic policy while the latter did not. programs on low-income youth, and if investing in Tandem Pelletron Accelerator Laboratory to study It will include factual information about the these programs is an efficient way of combatting the response of a BC-412 plastic scintillator to downturns as well as analysis of the political inequality. various types of radiation. Because scintillation climate. ______detectors are sensitive to both neutrons and ______185 • Enlightened Preferences and gamma rays, it can be difficult to isolate a single 182 • Campaign Money and neutron response. Furthermore, plastic Perceptions of Economic Inequality scintillators are incapable of making accurate Economic Inequality JACOB FLEISCHER energy measurements for incident particles. The ANTOINETTE LUBICH-CLAPS FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Associated Particle Technique (APT) has been FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS shown to be a useful method for tagging neutron's SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Economic inequality is a growing concern for many signals produced by the detector, however it is a I am going to be researching how contributing Americans today. However, perceptions towards challenging and time consuming process. The hope money to campaigns grants people access to inequality can be influenced by a host of factors, is that by using cosmic-ray muons or UV photons, politicians. There was a study done where including the extent to which an individual is which are readily available, a comparison can be researchers sent emails to different politicians and politically informed. By analyzing ANES survey made between their response and an APT neutron some stated that the person was a campaign donor data, I will examine the influence that "enlightened response. If the light-decay curve produced by an and others just stated that they were constituents. preferences" have on opinions of economic APT in the scintillator can be correlated to different The campaign donors were able to gain access to a inequality. Previous research into this subject has types of radiation, then this would suggest that meeting with the politicians at a statistically explored the relationship between party these more convenient sources could be used to significant higher rate than constituents. This identification and opinions of inequality, but for my calibrate detectors for ICF and HEDP applications, contributes to economic inequality because not presentation I will also take into account the mitigating the need to use only neutron-producing everyone can afford to donate to a campaign and impact of other demographic variables. thus not everyone has an equal chance at gaining ______50  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM

186 • Economic Inequality and education for socioeconomically underprivileged 192 • Decreasing Income Inequality children in terms of future incomes. Gender: A Comparative Analysis ______in the United States: Possible JESSE BENNETT 189 • Perspectives of the American Solutions FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Dream overtime in Varying Social RACHEL CAMPBELL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL In the 21st Century income inequality has grown Climates SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS significantly across the developed world. This MARGARET DORAN Income inequality in the United States has growing gap between the top 1% and the bottom FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL increased substantially since the 1970s and, as the 20% has had a disproportional impact on women in SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS saying goes, "the rich are getting richer while the particular. Historically, women have been granted My presentation will be exploring the different poor are getting poorer". This phenomenon is less advantages in the work place compared to perspectives of the American Dream and how it has problematic for many reasons, but perhaps the men. Changes in the family structure, such as an developed or depleted in our culture. I will main one being that the level of income inequality increase in single-parent homes and increased examine the American publics overall attitude we have today allows for some groups of people divorce rates, have exacerbated economic towards it. I will then draw in on specific areas of (specifically the affluent) to have more of a voice inequality between men and women. the country and how those perspectives vary based and power in politics. This goes against our idea of Furthermore, women have been paid less than on the culture of the specific community. For a Democracy where each person is equally men for the same jobs, in the United States still example, the perspective of the American Dream represented. However, it is not enough to simply only earning 76 cents to the dollar compared to in the Moron Community in Utah versus the examine and study income inequality, but it is even men. Government policies across Europe and the perspective in an urban, large city setting. more important to examine plausible solutions to United States have tried to compensate for this ______stopping the increase and even decreasing income growing disparity. A comparative look at the 190 • Exploring the Phenomenon of inequality in the United States. This poster United States and several European countries American Economic Equality presentation will thus examine potential policy reveals the differences in treatment of women choices that could be (or perhaps are already regarding income and welfare. The European through an International being) made that will stop the exacerbation of Welfare state with robust social safety nets provide Comparative Lens income inequality. a staunch comparison to the individualistic MATTHEW COOK ______American Dream where "welfare" is a stigmatized FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL 193 • Unequal Opportunities for word. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______Higher Education I seek to research and discuss American economic RACHEL WILCOVE 187 • Public Opinion on Income inequality, a topic increasingly relevant in the FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL modern political atmosphere. Instead of merely Inequality: Facts versus Perception SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS researching the effects of income inequality on all KYLE PIPER Higher education paves the way for many future factors of life in America, I wish to apply my FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL opportunities, and today is often seen as a previous findings to other nations around the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS requirement for educational and career world in order to create a more comprehensive Income inequality in the Unites States has advancement. However, the growing income look into the issue of income inequality. Most cultivated a growing body of research in recent inequality in America inhibits many from achieving importantly, I hypothesize that the existence of the decades. Studies from scholars such as Larry a higher education. This presentation will focus on American Dream plays a very large role into the Bartels have provided evidence that Americans the divides created as a result of income inequality, overall equation of international income are, in fact, aware that the wage gap between the and how this affects access to higher education. In inequality, especially as it pertains to the United wealthiest Americans and the middle/working addition, it will explore the intersections of class, States' perceived need to come first for almost classes has significantly widened. Despite this race, and gender, and how these factors can serve awareness, the issue remains on the periphery of every internationally progressive policy. ______as obstacles for access to higher education. current political discussions and debate. I theorize Moreover, this presentation will also discuss how that while Americans perceive that income 191 • Lobbying and the Inequality the lack of access to higher education for inequality is a problem, the issue does not attract of Political Representation individuals of lower socioeconomic status, may the necessary popular attention required for policy MICHAEL BARANOWSKI contribute to increasing income inequality in the change for a variety of reasons. These factors FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL United States. include the complexity of the issue, the slow SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______responsiveness of elected representatives to The topic takes a look at the effects that lobbying 194 • Analysis of Public Opinion on address the problem, and the impact of the media has on political representation by the members of Healthcare in presenting the information in a clear and the Legislative Branch. Through efforts of debate SASHA MILLER understandable manner. My poster will detail the framing, legislative creating, and issue funding, FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL influences these factors have on the lack of policy lobbying corporations have pushed their policy SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS surrounding this issue and discuss proposed agendas throughout the American public and their This research project seeks to determine public methods aimed towards shifting public opinion political representatives in Congress. This paper opinion on Healthcare as it relates to inequality. regarding income inequality as a salient political examines the level of representation interest Within the current socio-political climate, concerns issue. groups have been able to secure over members of ______regarding the repeal and replacement of the congress and tries to gage how this influenced the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as 188 • Long-Term Effects of political landscape. Further by examining who ObamaCare, has reached the forefront of the major lobbying groups are representing, it is Childhood Educational Inequality political agenda. I seek to examine the possible to gauge how much they are able to tilt on Income Inequality in the United consequences of repealing and replacing ACA and the scales of political representation towards their States the public's response to said ramifications. policy goals. Lastly, by adding in an examination ______LISA KAASIK into the ethics and morality of lobbying as an FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL industry, a full picture of lobbying and its effects on 195 • Economic Inequality in the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS the inequality of political representation can be LGBTQ Plus Community For this project, I propose an analysis of the impact of created. TAYLOR VISHION childhood educational inequality on future earnings. I ______FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL will examine the existing literature on the long-term SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS impacts of poor school districts on future income The more marginalized an individual is in the inequality and the efficacy of improving childhood United States, the more likely they are to be  Promotes sustainability 51 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual impoverished. This study aims to analyze the been made, especially when focusing on women's ______economic disparity between the average American sexual rights. I argue that although a lot has been 201 • Motives and Intentions of and the LGBTQ Plus community, further broken done, the way rights have been enforced has Refugees in an Era of Border down by race, gender, and geographical location. limited the full potential of equality and has ______dragged the process on for longer than necessary. Protectionism 196 • Public Policy, Economic By looking at how the policies were implemented BRANDON DAY Inequality, and the Business Cycle it is possible to see how, in many ways, China has FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL fallen behind, and although making progress today SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS VICTOR LAZARTE equality has still not been achieved. Throughout the history of Africa, once desired FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL ______resources have been found, mass conflict arises. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 199 • Analysis of the Political This trend has been observed so much so that it The steady increase in income inequality since the aptly has been termed the "resource curse". In 1980s has focused attention on the causes of that Economy of China: How China's more recent history however, the discovery of high inequality, including the effects of government Economy Helps Maintain a Unitary quality diamonds in Sierra Leone, in combination policies on the trend. Likewise, various studies State with the seemingly ever increasing demand for have shown that the business cycle can impact the diamonds by the developed world, helped to shape distribution of incomes through a variety of ANCHI FRIEDMAN FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL and define this curse. Through overarching political channels. This research focuses on the contribution economy theory of international relations that of federal economic policy to changes in the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS China is quite interesting in terms of its relationship perpetuated the resource curse, Sierra Leone saw income distribution given the known effects of civil war that lasted more than a decade and fluctuations in the business cycle on inequality. I between the economy and its government. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role the created countless refugees. In today's world, with look at major polices that affect the economy the increasing discussions of refugees, the civil during expansions or that are aimed at addressing political economy plays in China's ability to maintain a communist state. Looking closely at conflict derived from the resource curse in Sierra contractions to determine whether they Leone, can help us further understand refugee exacerbate or diminish the contemporaneous China's history, the path to democratization looked promising, but there have been many factors that motives. In particular, through surveys of first hand pressure on inequality. accounts by refugees who fled the country and ______changed its course, which include the rise of Mao returned along with those who didn't return, in 197 • Impact of America's Public Zedong and his failure to run the state efficiently and successfully and the rise of Deng Xiaoping as contrast with those who could not flee the war. The Opinion on Public Policy the father of Chinese economics. I argue that findings of this conflict, though only representing a ZORA RAGLOW-DEFRANCO economic success is the main reason for the small sample of refugees within a single case study, FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Chinese Communist Party being able to remain in will help add to the knowledge and understanding SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS political power for the last few decades. I will rely of refugees fleeing conflict and their intentions How does the American public's opinion of the on my exploration of China's history and economic thereafter. ______poor affect public policy? More specifically, does a data to help support my argument. This study will negative opinion of the poor translate to less help highlight the importance the economy has 202 • Government Stability: How congressional policies being implemented that played in shaping the actions of its government. the Monarchy of Jordan Maintains decrease American economic inequality? These ______Control in a Democratic World are important questions because often public 200 • Comparative Environmental opinion of the poor is undeservedly negative. BRIAN YALE Public opinion can be affected by biases in the Politics of the German Middle FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL media and a misguided idea of the American Class SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Dream. Public opinion that can be heavily impacted ANDREW NAGEL The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan gained its by personal bias or non-factual beliefs should not FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL sovereignty in 1946 as a parliamentary be a basis for what public policy is implemented, SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS constitutional monarchy, which has created a especially if the policy increases the ever-growing In developed nations, climate change has become surprisingly stable yet limited democraticstate. economic inequality in America. Although many increasingly debated over the past decade. The Throughout history we have experienced many Americans do not tie public opinion to tangible unique, pluralistic European community provides a revolutions that have been caused bythe actions such as the creation of welfare policies, strong base for comparative environmental introduction of democracy to its people, however research shows that there is a correlation between political analysis. Germany, specifically, plays an Jordan has maintained its patrimonial system with the American public's opinion of the poor and the important social, economic, and political role fake democracy without experiencing a major creation of public policies that affect economic inside Europe. I ask and answer: what are the revolt from its people. I argue that this is due to the inequality. social, economic, or political effects of ability of this government to keep the upper ______environmentally friendly policies on the German echelon of those identified in its distribution of 198 • Comparing Feminism middle class? Are there consistent, observable wealth content with the current government, along withthe government's interest in Legislation and How Much Progress political outcomes on the middle class because of the presence of popular green parties? Does maintaining relatively low levels of socio economic Has Been Made membership in the European Union spotlight inequality. These two factors give adequate AMY KELLEY environmental issues and what are the resultant reasons as to why the people of Jordan arecontent FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL changes over time, due to support for with their government and are unlikely to change SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS environmentally friendly policies, to the middle regime forms. I will be examining information Gender equality in China is something that has not class of Germany because it is an EU member provided by the World Bank and the CIA to provide come as easily as in other countries. The history of country? I use qualitative research and case-study socioeconomic information to justify Jordan's lack Confucianism as well as yin and yang both view analysis to determine whether environmental of revolution. The analysis of the lack of regime women as a lower position than men in the order policies have any social, economic, or political change should betreated with the utmost of the universe. Men were expected to find a wife influence on the German middle class. There is importance, as constant regime changes in this but stay home and take care of the elders while reliance on comparative environmental theory, particular area ofthe world would only add to its women left the home, often becoming members of institutional theory, and the workings of the unstable nature. ______their husband's family. Feminist theorists of both political economy of Germany. This case-study is comparative politics and feminism in China have examined under the confines of these theories. 203 • The Saudi Arabian Feminist: been able to analyze the different methods of The findings of this research may help predict the Dangerous Instigator or Respected creating equality in the country. Although full rise or fall of the German middle class as climate Revolutionary? Do Current Feminist equality has not been achieved huge steps have change becomes an even more prevalent issue.

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Movements Pose a Threat to the communism, a rampant attempt at capitalism, only how men use politics to oppress women and deny to return once again to the authority of an them civil liberties, leaving a legacy of gender Absolute Theocratic Monarchy? autocratic ruler, Vladimir Putin. Despite shifting inequality. By using feminist theories, we can DANIELLE SCHMALZ political regimes over the course of the twentieth examine the evolution of the place of women in FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL century, Russian political authority has the Egyptian society throughout the Mubarak regime. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS tendency to revert back to autocratic leadership. Research shows that since Mubarak obtained Saudi Arabia is the one of the world's most sex- Applying theories to political culture, I seek to power, fewer women are enrolled in school, there segregated states, yet a growing number of citizens determine whether or not Russian citizens truly are fewer prestigious jobs available for women, are emerging as feminists, demanding more rights desire or depend on a strong political monarch. If and the number of incidents of sexual assault and for Saudi women. In this presentation, I will look at they do not, do they consider their government harassment has increased dramatically. By gaining several news sources and social media campaigns legitimate? Are there others entirely politically a better understanding of the causes eternizing to determine if the feminist movements pose a unengaged? Political scientists, Almond and Verba gender inequality in Egypt we can attempt to find threat to the regime type, an absolute theocratic argue cultural factors produce certain regime solutions that take into account the historical and monarchy under King Salman. I will begin by outcomes. The desires of the participative citizen political influences leading to injustice. examining the mechanisms of the Saudi State and indicate which political system should be in place. ______the presence of Sharia law. I will then look at a In Russia's case, the citizen may call for a central, 208 • The Brexit Referendum: How history of women's growing rights under the late authoritative ruling body of power. Inglehort's the Remain Campaign Failed to king, Abdullah, and analyze the current king's World Values Survey works to asses peoples values stance on women's rights. Several feminist leaders across national borders, the political impact these Appeal to the Masses and groups will be explored, specifically their goals values have, and support for democracy. Both FRANCESCA PANZARIELLO and their plausibility of success. Iran will be resources can be used to evaluate political cultures FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL included as a basis of comparison and hypothesis impact on regime type. The tendency for Russia to SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS generation for the case of Saudi Arabia. Through revert to autocratic rulers may be explicable by a On June 23, 2016, the United Kingdom voted in the the use of Contentious Politics and Feminism political culture demanding a strong political "Brexit" referendum to leave the European Union. theoretical frameworks, I intend to generate a leader. The referendum, a vote in which a single political hypothesis about whether or not the feminist ______question is put up for a general vote, held an movements are popular enough among the Saudi 206 • Gender Equality in ulterior significance for the British public, citizens, and unpopular enough among the especially in terms of class divisions. In a larger government officials, to inspire a coup d'état. Scandinavia: How Feminist Theories context, the outcome reflected the growing These questions could be crucial in predicting the Came to Shape Sweden's disillusionment held for the current party system, future of Saudi Arabia, and perhaps other Government and served as a rejection of the status quo. In conservative states. particular, using the political culture theory, I argue ______EMMA BIXLER FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL that the working class vote, which did not align 204 • Success of Revolution: The SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS with the Labour Party's Remain platform, Cuban Perspective Scandinavia--comprised of Sweden, Norway, functioned as an outlet of disapproval against the DEJIA JAMES Denmark, Finland, and Iceland--is frequently hailed elitist government and their Remain campaign FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL as the most progressive region in the world spearheaded by the Conservative Prime Minister, SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS regarding gender equality and women's rights. The David Cameron, and the Chancellor of the Political culture theory aims to identify the aim of this paper is to apply feminist theory to the Exchequer, George Osborne. The working class felt sentiments of a population and its ability to dictate Swedish government and analyze how those neglected and disconnected with Cameron's political outcomes. Revolutions incorporate an theories have shaped its democracy and, in a government, especially in regards to immigration aspect of cultural spirit in order to rally support and greater respect, Scandinavian institutions, through and traditional ideas of what constitutes propel the success of its work. Contemporary detailed research of the country's history and "Britishness." The statistics represent how the authoritarian regimes have historically utilized legislation. I argue that Sweden's self-proclaimed Leave campaign were successfully able to tap into revolutions to forge a connection to the population "feminist government" benefits its institutions, as working class issues to the extent that it broke it seeks to dominate. The Cuban Revolution well as society as a whole, in comparison to traditional party lines and created a crisis within embodies the role cultural relevancy plays to democracies without such rigorous policies for the British political culture. The Brexit referendum instate authoritarian rule. The admiration and gender equality. I begin by tracing the origins of illuminated contrasting ideas of national identity attachment to revolutionary figures like Fidel women's rights through the context of Sweden's between the metropolitan elite and the working Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos, democratization after the abolition of royal class. ______exhibit the integral role revolutionaries maintain in absolutism, with a specific focus on enacted Cuban society. Castro and the revolution became legislation and the political representation of 209 • The French Revolution: How a infused with Cuban culture and subsequently women. Using this information, this paper then Tumultuous Political Economy fostered support for his political accomplishments. applies feminist theory to Swedish government Mobilized the Masses The ultimate success and legitimacy of a regime and takes a comparative approach to observe how GABRIELLE SMITH depends on its cultural relevancy. Through the these factors act to benefit social and economic FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL example of Cuba, it is demonstrated that cultural aspects of Swedish democracy. This research is SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS significance gained through the process of significant in promoting a worldwide embodiment In the early 18th century the political climate was revolution determines the support and ability to of feminism through its incorporation in the dominated by monarchies. Monarchies were sustain an authoritarian regime. framework of democratic institutions. ______slowly being challenged with the rise of democracies and republics and the formation of 205 • Regime Change, Political 207 • Gender Inequality During the what we now know as modern-day politics. With Culture and the Reoccurring Mubarak Regime in Egypt the American Revolution only a few years before, Demand for an Autocratic Leader in FATIMA ELMARAKBI there was restlessness amongst the French people FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL that resembled that of the American colonists. Russia SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS With millions of Frenchmen living in poverty and ELODIE JACOBSON Arab countries are often criticized for perpetuating the monarchy splurging on a life of luxury, the FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL gender inequality and have been failing women by French masses led by the disgruntled bourgeoisie SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS denying them equal education opportunities, jobs, had met their breaking point. In a political After the tsarist autocracy fell in 1917, Russia autonomy, and a general sense of safety. The economic view of the French Revolution, I will transitioned from an autocratic monarchy to a Mubarak regime in Egypt is a perfect example of examine the relationship between land ownership Marxist-Leninist regime style, followed by  Promotes sustainability 53 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual and inequality and the effect this had on the role of gender inequality, it causes problematic issues for into the Australian population has ultimately the elite, the bourgeoisie, and the masses. Using society as a whole. This paper indicates why there created a distorted view of outsiders that has the redistibutivist theory discussed by Ansell and needs to be an improvement in gender parity when resulted in a neo-colonial era with grave human Samuels in the book, Inequality and it comes to education in Senegal if the country rights abuses. Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach, I wants to move forward. This project is supported ______will examine and detail the importance of the by the Geneseo Student Ambassador Program. 214 • The Institutional Limitations economic variables of inequality and ______of Nicaraguan Democracy landownership in relation to social class unrest. 212 • Wealth Inequality in South RYAN HAYES Additionally, my analysis will include the Africa: How Apartheid-era FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL mobilization of the masses against the elite SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS autocratic state in their demand for increased Economic Structures Persevere at With the 2016 election of incumbent Daniel participation in government affairs and increased the Expense of the Majority Ortega, the efficacy of Nicaraguan democracy has economic equality. KATHLEEN HEANEY ______come into question. This paper will work through FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL the assumptions of rational choice institutionalism, 210 • Movers and Makers: The SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS and explain how Nicaragua's president limited Effects of Labor Mobility on China's Remnants of the social order constructed during party competition by manipulating the Industrial Transformation and South Africa's apartheid era continue to manifest constitution, allowing him to avoid term limit themselves within the nation's economic structure. restrictions and win another term. The ability to Emergent Middle Class After the fall of the National Party, the means of run again combined with the monopolization of GALEN GIBIAN production were placed into the hands of the public resources to run for reelection, limited the FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL African National Congress. Instead of dismantling opposition in the latest election, securing Ortega SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS the prior economic system and demanding more the presidency and his wife the vice presidency. In As China shifted towards a market-based economy equitable wealth redistribution, ANC elites short, rational choice institutionalism posits that in the 1980s, a trend of rural-to-urban migration maintain their economic dominance by preserving institutions influence the strategy of political developed to meet labor demand in apartheid era business policies. This is at the actors, and when combined with personal manufacturing-intensive regions. Due to the expense of the poor, working class black majority. preferences, produces systematic results. The restrictive hukou registration system, many I will use the structure of the South African mining evaluation will include a spatial model designed to migrant workers lack access to basic provisions industry to demonstrate the way in which an elite represent the preferences of the executive and the granted to permanent residents. Rational-choice minority is benefitting from the continued judiciary. This will show how Ortega interacted institutionalism and political economy can exploitation of the black working class. The events with the courts, and how the institutional strength illuminate the decisions made by bureaucrats and leading up to the strike at the Lonmin mining plant of the executive office combined with the relative laborers alike. I argue that the hukou system in Marikana exemplify the tension between the weakness of the judiciary contributed to the subdued political efficacy and directly contributed working class and the government's capitalistic amendment of the constitution, which ultimately to the lack of wage growth among migrant ventures. To examine the public's reaction to this influenced the last election. The research to populations, thus facilitating the expansion of continuing wealth inequality, I utilize the current answer this question consists of qualitative China as a developmental state. As China's political organization of South Africa, particularly, scholarly studies, including an analogous case of economy transitions towards consumption-based political parties and protests. Through the lens of electoral authoritarianism in Mexico, serving as a growth, government policy has begun to raise the political economy, one can see the ways in theoretical point of reference (Greene, 2009). wages and provide permanent relocation for which South Africa's democratization has done ______migrant populations, presenting a potential threat little to affect the nation's inequitable economic 215 • What Makes Feminist to the nation's political traditions. I will employ a structure. comparative historical approach focusing on ______Movements Effective: A institutional reform and macroeconomic trends. As 213 • A Fearful Reality for Asylum Comparative Examination of similar patterns become evident throughout the Seekers in Australia Argentina and the Feminist Global South, it is increasingly important to NORA MCKENNA understand the dynamics of rural-to-urban Movements within FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL migration as it applies to political and economic SARAH HERNANDEZ SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS development. FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL Australia's approach to asylum seekers has been a ______SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 211 • Gender Inequality and topic of contested public policy, critique by human The history of Argentina is a tumultuous one. From rights bodies and non-governmental organizations. colonization to a series of dictatorships and dirty Education in Senegal: A Political Attitudes about outsiders stem from White wars, the history of this South American nation is Aspect Australia being a founding principle of the nation. complex. Feminist theories of comparative politics HERSHLEY NELSON The economic and social vulnerability that can provide a framework to explain the political FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL Australia experienced during the period of events that have shaped this country. I argue that SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS neoliberal reform sought to figure out a scapegoat despite the history of colonialism and the often JOE COPE, HISTORY AND CENTER FOR INQUIRY, for these issues. My paper will analyze how the patriarchal legacy it imposes, women have been DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT political culture of Australia's attitudes towards able to adapt and even alter their own course of In the past several years the study of Comparative outsiders influenced the formation of harsh life and in turn have impacted in the national Politics has significantly evolved. From a focus on immigration policies, such as the Papua New government. In order to examine to the the politics of superpowers to the study of Guinea Agreement, which created an offshore development of feminist movements in Argentina, different institutions in the most remote areas of detention center for asylum seekers. I will be I will rely upon historical events starting from the the globe, comparative politics offers us a list of administering a qualitative case study that analyzes era of Juan Perón and his notorious wife, Eva Perón lenses through which we can better comprehend the history of Australia's relations with the more commonly known as "Evita". I will end in the the world around us. Howbeit, there are disciplines indigenous people, how those attitudes translated period commonly known as the "Dirty War". I will such as education, that the field still fails to during the neoliberal era and then the result of the demonstrate how specific political events such as explore. In this paper I investigate the State of modern day human rights abuses occurring at "Peronismo" and the "Dirty War" have led to Female Education in Senegal, West Africa. Using Nauru and Manus Island, also known as asylum feminist movements and how they shaped the feminist political theory, I demonstrate how seekers off-shore processing centers. My research Argentina in terms of political participation by the gender disparity in education has negative will emphasize the importance to the Australian women. The study of historical events is crucial as impacts on the country. When a critical component government of "border security" over "human they have the potential to reveal and explain the of civilization such as education complies with security". The political culture that has translated

54  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM subsequent political movements of this and other The present study examined Latino and Anglo with friends at single time points during early or countries. mother's and children's perceptions of sibling middle childhood. Relatively little is known about ______relationships and their linkages to observed differences in boys' and girls' use of affiliative 216 • Weimar Why Them Why prosocial and conflict behaviors during sibling language, assertive language, and mitigation over Then: An Analysis of Why the interactions. Because of the importance placed on the course of development, across interactions family harmony and obligations in Latino culture, with different partners, or across different tasks or Weimar Republic Fell through the we expected that Latino siblings might show a interaction contexts. Selected for presentation at Lens of Political Culture more intimate bond, less conflict, and more Association for Psychological Science Annual STEVEN KELLER prosocial behavior than Anglo siblings. Videotapes Convention, Chicago, IL. FACULTY SPONSOR: KARLEEN WEST, POLITICAL were transcribed and coded for prosocial ______SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS behaviors (defined as any voluntary behavior 220 • Quality of Social Engagement World War I brought great change to the world and intended to benefit the other party or the Between 4-year-old Siblings and some of the greatest change occurred in Germany relationship) and conflicts (defined as exchanges where the historical monarchy was dissolved and containing mutual opposition). Our hypotheses Friends replaced with the Weimar Republic. The regime were partially supported; Latino mothers rated CARLY ANZALONE , ALYX RAMSAY, MELANIE would last for approximately fifteen years until it their children's relationships as having more DUDEK, AMANDA HARTMAN, MELODY CHOI, was dissolved by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. intimacy and harmony and less conflict than Anglo NICK TRELINSKI Many reasons have been given for why the regime mothers did. These results may be attributed to FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY fell including The Treaty of Versailles, The Great sociocultural differences. The Latino children may We examined social engagement and quality of Depression, and numerous other factors. However be exposed to environmental factors that may engagement in 4-year-olds' interactions with I argue that the fall of Weimar was inevitable, and elicit mothers to be more attentive to their child's siblings and friends. Research has previously this is proven through an analysis of Germany and upbringing, creating a more in sync bond. Selected observed length of time spent engaged, semi- its Political Culture after World War I. Political for presentation at Society for Research in Child engaged, or un-engaged. The present study culture is defined as making more explicit concepts Development , Austin,TX. examines the quality of social engagement. Our such as political ideology, national ethos/spirit, ______results indicate that both partner and gender play national political psychology, and the fundamental 218 • Observed Conflict and a role in quality of social engagement. Selected for values of a people. In short political culture is a set Averted Conflict in Middle presentation at Association for Psychological of attitudes, beliefs and sentiments that give order Science Annual Convention, Chicago, IL. ______and meaning to a political process. Through my Childhood Across Three Tasks analysis of the Political Culture of Germany it is BRIANNA BROOKS-MILLER, MEAGAN SULLIVAN, 221 • Competition and Cooperation clear that the fall of Weimar was inevitable as the KATRINA GALVIN, MARIA REMILLARD, KAYLEIGH in Caribbean Children's Sibling-Peer SCHNEEBERGER, NICOLE SPENCER previous government structure still dominated the Relationships political climate of Germany leading to the failure FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY DOMINIQUE ELLIS, MARLIN MOREL, DIMITRI of fledgling democracy in Germany. As part of a longitudinal study of sibling and friend ______relationships, we examined 7-year-olds' conflicts WING-PAUL, GLADYS NINSON, NANA BOAKYE, 236 • The C.I.G.A.R.S. Act; Creating and averted conflicts with siblings and peers during SABRINA CHAN free play, construction, and game tasks. We FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY Incentive for General Use and hypothesized that siblings would have higher Children engage in social interactions among peers Adjustment of Rehabilitative overall rates of conflict, aggression, and intensity and siblings. Some of the social interactions that than friends. Furthermore, we expected that the children make can develop social competence of Services game task would result in a higher rate of conflict certain peers. Social competence can be ADAM ONTIVEROS-OBERG and averted conflict, with more aggression and a established when the peers are able to bond FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL higher average affective intensity. Selected for through similar values and engagement of SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS presentation at Association for Psychological activities and routines (Kyratzis, 2004). This study The CIGARS Act is a hypothetical piece of legislation Science, Boston, MA. investigated the dynamics and differences in that could be passed by a hypothetical congress to ______competition and cooperation among Caribbean address the rising problems of drug use and 219 • Task and Partner in Seven- siblings and peers. We further analyzed and addiction in New York State. The policy is a three- focused on Caribbean children's sibling and peer pronged approach that, if successful could easily be Year-Old's Use of Assertive and interactions and measured how cooperative and expanded and implemented in other states as well. Affiliative Language competitive these interactions were during the The presentation would detail the intricacies of this CAITLYN FISHER, SHELBY LA MOND, SAMANTHA three different tasks. These tasks were given in the legislation. CYTRYN, MARISSA BERRY, ADNAN AHMAD, JULIA form of construction, free-play, and board games CAMERON, ELIZABETH FURST and were then measured with a coding scheme PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY scale. These games were used as a good medium 217 • Observed and Perceived As part of a longitudinal study, we examined 7- for the participants to form a social order of their year-olds' use of assertive and affiliative language own that consisted of either alliances or criticisms Conflict and Prosocial Behavior in with siblings and friends during free play and a (Kyratzis, 2004). In each family, these observations Latino and Anglo American board game. Contrary to past research, we found were focused on a target child between the ages of Children's Sibling Relationships that task and interaction partner may influence the 5-11, interacting with a sibling and peer in a similar use of assertive and affiliative language more than age range, separately. Even though there are few ARLENIS SANTANA, YASKAIRY CASTILLO DE LA gender does. Research on gender differences in studies that focus on familial and peer behavior in CRUZ, VANESSA CEPEDA, DANNETTE LOMBERT, children's and adolescent's use of affiliative and Caribbean children, this study inquires the ISABELLE ORITZ, DEBBIEANN SANTANA, assertive language has focused primarily on significance of familial and peer cooperation and JENNIFER LIRIANO interactions with same-sex peers. Based on these competition. FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY studies, researchers have long suggested that boys ______Research conducted on Latino children's family use more assertive language than girls and girls use relationships remains surprisingly incomplete, 222 • Aggression in Childhood and more affiliative language than boys. However, although the Latino population is the fastest Verbal Irony in Adolescence recent research suggests that the relationship growing minority group in the United States. ELISE JOHNSON , AMANDA BARRY, BETHANY between language use and gender is more Previous research has found that Latino parents OWENS , MATTHEW VOLCY, MEAGHAN BARRY , complicated, especially when negative affect and encourage children to identify with prescribed WILSON MEI, SABRINA SALETA mitigation are taken into account. Most research family and community roles, while repressing FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY has focused on data collected during interaction individual needs, goals, and self-determination.  Promotes sustainability 55 Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual

The purpose of the current study was to examine Sing group). In the other group, participants read occurring due to a chronic stressor, these the relationship of aggression over time in seven some words silently, others aloud, and mumbled mechanisms can cause damage to our bodies over year olds and adolescents. We then compared others aloud (the Mumble group). In both groups a time (Saposlky, 2004). One of these adaptive aggression to verbal irony use in adolescents. We memory test followed in which, participants were responses is electrodermal activity (EDA), or the expected that aggression in seven year olds would shown studied words intermixed with new (i.e., not electric characteristics of the skin due to sweat relate to aggression in adolescents and verbal studied) words. For each word at test, participants released during emotional stimuli by the irony. Based on the intent to harm in aggression, indicated whether the word was studied or new. sympathetic nervous system (Benedeck, 2010). we expected there to be a link to sarcasm usage in Surprisingly, sung and mumbled words were Electrodermal activity can be measured by adolescence. Forty-four middle class seven year equally memorable between groups. However, counting skin conductance responses (SCR). This olds were videotaped at home engaging in free- participants in the Mumble group had significantly research looked for structural patterns in the play and again at 17 in separate 15-minute cooking more false memories for new words than physio-emotional manifestation of stress. sessions with a sibling and a friend. The videotapes participants in the Sing group. Mumbling may Selected for presentation at Nebraska Summer were coded for aggression and verbally ironic therefore reduce memory accuracy, but mainly by Research Symposium, Lincoln, NE. utterances. Our results showed different patterns increasing false memories. We discuss the singing for males and females. Males verbal aggression results in the context of musical experience and the SOCIOLOGY and physical aggression was related to verbal irony mumbling results in the context of in adolescents. Females were seen to have a representational vagueness. Selected for 226 • A Study of LGBTQ+ Students relational aggression pattern from age seven to presentation at State University of New York on Campus adolescences. This demonstrates the connection Undergraduate Research Conference, Fredonia, BARAK STOCKLER between aggression in childhood to verbal irony in NY. FACULTY SPONSOR: BECKY GLASS, SOCIOLOGY adolescence. This suggests that the intent to harm ______The study conducted addresses a question of the in childhood may transform into an attempt to 225 • The Interaction of Meaning comfortability of LGBTQ+ students on campus. The ridicule, which may appear to be hurtful. This could and Forgetting study focuses on the social life here at Geneseo and show that the internal intent is still there from addresses questions regarding where and when MOLLY BRADY, KYLE WALSH, ADAM WEAVER childhood, but the manifestation comes about in a students feel uncomfortable and how they react to FACULTY SPONSOR: JASON OZUBKO, more socially acceptable way. Selected for those situations. The purpose of this study is to PSYCHOLOGY presentation at Association for Psychological identify the places within SUNY Geneseo that the Memory can be separated into two categories: rich Science, Boston, MA. students feel most comfortable, least comfortable, and detailed memories (recollection) and feelings ______and why. As well, this study serves to identify areas of familiarity. Past studies have shown that of interest for further investigation if possible. 223 • Differences in Social familiarity-based memories for meaningful items Symmetry Between Siblings and ______(such as words) are forgotten at a slower rate than 227 • Geneseo Breakout Program Friends in Early Childhood and familiarity-based memories for meaningless items (such as nonwords, like "HENSION") (Ozubko & TYNASIA HAMMOND, MEAGAN CENTENO, Adolescence Seli, 2016). The forgetting rates for recollective AMBER MAYO RYAN KIRRANE, TEAGAN PLIMPTON, ERICA memories are not affected by the meaning of what FACULTY SPONSOR: BECKY GLASS, SOCIOLOGY LIBERMAN, MELODY MCALISTER, NICOLE is stored. The present study investigated the effect WESTON KENNISON, LANGUAGES AND ACCIERNO, AARON SLACK, SYDNEY WANKOFF- of artificially induced semantic encoding on LITERATURES BIGNESS forgetting. During a study phase, participants were An overnight college outreach program created by FACULTY SPONSOR: GANIE DEHART, PSYCHOLOGY shown sets of three words, which were either students of the Real World Geneseo class that gives We examined the relationship between siblings' semantically related (DOG-CAT-BIRD) or unrelated students from underrepresented backgrounds the and friends' prosocial behavior at age four and age (CLOWN-GRASS-FRIDGE). Memory for each set of opportunity to visit Geneseo and learn more about seventeen. We used coded data from recorded words was tested at two later intervals to assess the college process. Our project name is the sessions of 43 four-year- old and 29 17-year-old whether the items were familiar or recollected, "Geneseo Breakout Program". The goal of our Caucasian, middle-class children interacting with and then to see if the items were remembered or project is to provide a pathway for minorities to their siblings and their friends. We found that 17- forgotten at a final test. Results revealed that SUNY Geneseo to not only increase the diversity year-olds have higher rates of prosocial behavior words learned in semantically related sets were rate in the university but to expose inner city kids than 4-year-olds, and that the social symmetry of more likely to be remembered at the final test than to the possible university options outside of CUNY interactions depends on gender composition of the words learned in an unrelated set, but only if they schools. ______dyads and age group. Selected for presentation at were familiar. The forgetting rates of recollected Association for Psychological Science Annual words was unaffected by whether they were 228 • Diversity in the Freshmen Convention, Chicago, IL. learned in related or unrelated sets. Selected for Orientation Program and Beyond ______presentation at State University of New York SASHA MILLER 224 • When Vague Memories Make Undergraduate Research Conference , Fredonia, FACULTY SPONSOR: BECKY GLASS, SOCIOLOGY Things More Memorable NY. This service learning project seeks to transform LUKE BAMBUROSKI, SARAH SIMON, JUSTIN ______Geneseo's campus community to become more LEONTI 237 • Sweating the Small Stuff: culturally sensitive. This is being done by changing FACULTY SPONSOR: JASON OZUBKO, Exploring the Link Between the freshmen orientation program to focus on PSYCHOLOGY issues that are socio-politically relevant. Diverse The production effect is the finding that words read Electrodermal Activity and Daily students often feel underrepresented on campus aloud are better remembered than words read Emotional Experience and I seek to change that by setting the standard silently. One explanation is that reading aloud is a NATALIE DUBOIS for what our community holds dear. more distinct action, which leads to better memory FACULTY SPONSOR: CHRISTINE MERRILEES, for the spoken words than the read words. If this PSYCHOLOGY TESLA HOUSE account is correct, then engaging in an even more As animals our lives are full of stressors; including 229 • Destruction of Nature distinctive process (such as singing words) should but not limited to, traffic jams, promotions, first further enhance memory, whereas engaging in a dates, scary movies and predators with big teeth. Through Photography less distinctive process (such as mumbling words) Throughout human evolution, our bodies have ALYSSA HENDERSON, BRIANNA ACKERMAN, should reduce memory. In the present adapted to deal with these stressors, both good BARRY GRANT, BRADY DERICK, RYAN MATHERS, experiments, participants studied a series of and bad, through physiological mechanisms, such TROY PARISH words. In one group, participants read some words as release of glucocorticoids and the inhibition of FACULTY SPONSOR: MEG REITZ, TESLA HOUSE silently, others aloud, and sang others aloud (the certain metabolic systems (Sapolsky, 2004). If Nature has been plagued by destruction brought on by the ignorance of our human race. We must 56  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 1 • 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM start taking action now as a number of serious LAUREN KUSKI, TESLA HOUSE small video performance to highlight and utilize consequences have already started to unfold: the The purpose of this study is to build a working these tactics to illustrate their functionality. loss of resources such as water and clean air will definition of "Post-Truth," and to investigate its ______result in an increased rate of extinction and effect(s) on modern society and science learning at 233 • The Formula of Popular sickness due to these poor conditions. Not only SUNY Geneseo. The working definition, resulting Music: Analyzing Musical Trends does preserving the environment help subdue from research and discussion, is that "Post-Truth" PHILLIP KOENIG, BRENNAN MURRAY these dangers, but it also carries many benefits. is a phenomenon where objective facts are less FACULTY SPONSORS: MEG REITZ, LAUREN KUSKI, Some of these benefits include a greater diversity important in developing opinions than one's TESLA HOUSE of life, more opportunities for medical discoveries, emotion or personal belief. Preliminary research Music has been a basic aspect of human life for and possible prevention of climate change. Our has shown that "Post-Truth" is a term that has thousands of years and acts as a way of expression. main goal for this project is to provide evidence of existed for a while, but has only become hyper- According to The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins human destruction of nature and illustrate what popularized within the last few years. Further of Music, Language, Mind and Body, by Mithen, preservation efforts can do for our planet. We are research has shown that this rise is due to events music is an evolutionary precursor to language and focusing on the Geneseo area in hopes that by in modern world politics, which also gives evidence is what separates humans and other primates remaining close to home it will appeal more to the that "Post-Truth" is a concept that primarily resides communication. By looking at music as a way of emotions of the audience, thus having a stronger in the political arena. Despite this fact, "Post- communication and expression, it may be effect on their comprehension of the issue at hand. Truth" has effects in many areas of First-World life, concerning to see the lack of diversity in popular Demonstrating a thorough selection of examples the focus in this case on science education. music today. A study conducted by a group of from our surrounding area to a public audience will Although the "Post-Truth" phenomenon can be Spanish researchers deemed the "Million Song apply this understanding to illustrate why pollution perceived as a beneficial due to the equality of Data Set" took a look at how homogeneous in the Geneseo area is a relevant issue. ideas, in regards to science, this phenomenon has modern pop music has become over fifty years. ______encouraged the use of incorrect data and The study took a look at the pitch frequency, information in order to support incorrect or flawed 230 • The Pedestrian Experience at tempo, and timbre in nearly 500,000 songs. It was hypotheses. This aspect of"Post-Truth" has also led SUNY Geneseo concluded that modern western pop music has to aweakness in the science literacy of the western ANDREW SCHUYLER, TRAVIS KASSNER, TYLER become much less complex, louder, and less world. TIEDE, ALEX BELCHOU ______creative. To further their research, we took a look FACULTY SPONSOR: MEG REITZ, TESLA HOUSE at the Billboard Top 40 and discovered that pop Most students spend 30-45 minutes walking 232 • Theatrics and Television: music does follow the trends set out in the data set around campus per day -- shouldn't that time be Early Educational Programming and for the most part. But what does this mean for enjoyable? Although walking is unavoidable, there Impact on Childhood Education human communication? Its possible that we as certainly are times when we all wish the trip could HANNAH MCCLOW, TREVOR GRECO, ERIC LEARY, humans may be missing out on vital stimulation by be shorter. Wintery conditions from November to TIFFANY PLATTE, MIRANDA FELONG listening to such homogeneous music. ______April, the suboptimal footpath network, closed FACULTY SPONSORS: MEG REITZ, LAUREN KUSKI, staircases, icy walkways, and poorly-parked TESLA HOUSE 234 • Geneseo Facilities' Resource campus vehicles all build up to create an How do people learn? This seemingly innocent Usage and Moving Towards a experience walking around Geneseo that is less question is the fundamental thought to which Greener Campus than ideal. Studies show that people are less education systems are built upon; yet there is no SCOTT BOOTH, CHRISTINA MORROW, stressed when they commute via walking. If we can definitive answer. The purpose of this project is to CHRISTOPHER HINES, LUCAS FINN make that experience even more enjoyable, we investigate this question by analyzing how children FACULTY SPONSOR: MEG REITZ, LAUREN KUSKI, have accomplished our goal. Via analysis of campus learn through one specific medium: theatrics in TESLA HOUSE maps, collection of anecdotal experiences from educational television. The objective is to The use of natural gas and the production of students on campus, and careful observation of demonstrate the theatrical tactics that are used in electricity have threatening effects on our areas that we have identified as "problematic", we educational television to both entertain and teach environment, including localized pollution and the have compiled a list of changes we believe would young viewers. Previously performed statistical resulting contribution to global climate change. As improve the pedestrian experience on campus. analysis determined the effects of various greenhouse gases continue to collect in the These things are all relatively small, but important childhood education television shows on atmosphere, the percentage of solar radiation when they are all done together -- paving a adolescents. Shows such as Sesame Street and Mr. reflected back into space decreases. This has led to walkway, designating some walkways as Rogers' Neighborhood, have demonstrated an a significant rise in global temperature over the last "pedestrian only" to keep walking students safe increase in positive behavior in children while century. This practice is not sustainable and has from campus vehicles, and placing signs near areas shows such as The Magic School Bus and Bill Nye lead to an increase in sea level, health risks, and the where dangerous conditions may occur. The goal the Science Guy promoted an interest in science. extinction of many species.Through gathering and of our project is to create a better environment on Theatrical elements such as humor, positive interpreting data on the various forms of resource campus that will benefit anyone who happens to reinforcement, music, puppetry, and spectacle usage on the SUNY Geneseo campus, including walk around it -- not just students. contribute to the improvement in children's ______electricity and natural gas, we hope to behaviors as well as an understanding and demonstrate where Geneseo has made progress 231 • Schrödinger's Facts appreciation of academic fields. By studying and and where the institution still needs to focus ARTHUR FOX, ALEC BADER, KATHERINE identifying these beneficial theater tactics in energy in order to make buildings are more MEERDINK children’s television shows, we intend to create a FACULTY SPONSOR: MEG REITZ, TESLA HOUSE efficient and become more environmentally friendly.

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BIOLOGY 304 • Analysis of Cyanobacterial Competition for space between sponge and corals is widespread in Caribbean coral reefs and involves 302 • Are Coral Diseases Caused by Blooms at Lake Lacoma in Pittsford, many species of sponges, including fast-growing Opportunistic or Primary Pathogens New York palatable and slow-growing non-palatable in Reef Systems Located in San KATIE THARRETT, KATHERINE ROCHE, GINA sponges. Studies indicate that overfishing of SCANDAGLIA, SCOTT GUYTON, BAILEY SAWYER spongivorous species such as parrotfishes and Salvador, Bahamas? FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY angelfishes, may have released fast-growing ALLISON JONES, MEGAN KLOOSTERMAN, KAELA Aquatic photosynthetic bacteria (cyanobacteria or palatable sponges from predation, thereby TOBACK blue green algae) and eukaryotic algae are known intensifying sponge-coral interactions.The goal of FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY collectively as phytoplankton. Phytoplankton are this study is to test the hypothesis that palatable Over the past forty years, the health of coral reefs the primary consumers of phosphorus, nitrogen sponges are competing more intensely than non- has been in decline, as a variety of factors such as and other nutrients dissolved in lakes and oceans. palatable sponges in overfished reefs of San overfishing and eutrophication have led to the Excess nutrients can produce dense blooms of Salvador Island, The Bahamas. Transect surveys degradation of these systems. Coral diseases are phytoplankton that may include toxic species of will be conducted to determine the extent of another significant factor leading to the cyanobacteria that pose major environmental sponge coral competition and the species involved. destruction of these reefs. This study will test the problems in lakes, including the study site, Lake Chi Square analysis will be used to compare the hypothesis that the diseases infecting sea fans and Lacoma in Pittsford, New York. Cyanobacteria such expected frequency of interactions based on stony corals in San Salvador, Bahamas are as Microcystis aeruginosa and species of Anabaena species abundance to the observed frequencies. opportunistic infections that are taking advantage produce toxins that may harm other species and The results of this study will show whether of the degraded status of coral reefs. A survey of restrict recreational activities due to detrimental overfishing will harm coral reefs indirectly by six reefs will be conducted, three of these were effects on human health. In this study, intensifying space competition and increasing coral previously deemed healthy, while the other three cyanobacteria were sampled from June to October loss due to overgrowth by sponges. are considered unhealthy. We will record the 2016 to characterize the development of blooms. ______incidence and virulence of diseases in healthy and Specifically, we sought to determine the timeline 307 • Are Parrotfish Communities unhealthy corals. We anticipate that these findings of cyanobacterial blooms, the dominant species, More Diverse in Healthy or will support our hypothesis that opportunistic their abundance and biomass, and the level of pathogens are responsible for the high rates of toxins produced. Characteristics indicating two Impacted Coral Reefs? disease in Caribbean coral reefs. major blooms were observed throughout the study LAUREN STERNBERG, JOHN MULLEN, NATHAN ______period, shown by elevated chlorophyll levels and LOPARCO 303 • Analysis of Zooplankton cell counts. However, neither bloom was found to FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY Diversity in Lake Lacoma in Monroe have toxin levels exceeding DEC regulations. The The family Scaridae, commonly referred to as results of this study were used to advise the parrotfish, plays a critical role as herbivores in County, NY residents of Lake Lacoma to determine best Caribbean coral reef ecosystem by limiting algal BAILEY SAWYER, JENNIFER RUBIN, KYLE management strategies for mitigating future dominance over corals. Parrotfish scrape reef SANDUSKI cyanobacterial blooms. surfaces for food and their feeding activity may FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY ______cause significant damage to coral. On balance their Lake Lacoma is a small spring-fed lake located in 305 • Lake Lacoma Preliminary feeding activity is generally believed to be Pittsford, New York. Over the last few years, beneficial to reefs but it is unclear how reef Lacoma has experienced persistent blooms of Aeration Assessment community health is related to parrotfish phytoplankton including, potentially toxic blue SCOTT GUYTON population health. The objective of this research is green algae. Zooplankton act as the dominant FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY to determine the relationship between population herbivore in lake ecosystems with the ability to Lake Lacoma is a small, eutrophic, kettle lake that size and species diversity of parrotfish and reef filter feed and ingest blue green algae and other has recently been plagued by summer long blooms health as indicated by the coral cover in reefs off photosynthetic organisms. We are studying the of potentially toxic blue green algae. This past the island of San Salvador, Bahamas. The working zooplankton of Lake Lacoma to evaluate the autumn, local residents invested in an aeration hypothesis is that large parrotfish population size potential of the community to control the growth system intending to control the blooms. . The and higher species diversity will occur in coral reefs of phytoplankton. Samples were collected and aerators artificially mix the water column using with high algal cover and low coral cover because analyzed to determine the abundance, species bubbles and the resulting oxygenation is expected of algae will be an abundant food source for composition, and size distribution of the to help trap nutrients in the lake bottom herbivorous parrotfish and large populations of zooplankton during fall, 2016, 9 years after sediments. Decreases in nutrients will help to grazing parrotfish could cause significant damage collections were made by Geneseo students. Our hinder the proliferation of toxic algae blooming in to living coral. initial analysis showed that two large species of the lake. Surveys of water quality were taken and ______zooplankton had disappeared from the lake since compared to data collected during summer and fall 308 • Progress in Identifying of 2016. This management technique has not been the last collections in 2007. Overall, the Antarctic Sea Star Species zooplankton of Lake Lacoma is impoverished and it widely used or studied in our region and could OLIVIA HOLODNIK, KRISTY DEGENER has a limited potential to feed on algae. The potentially be an alternative solution to internal FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY zooplankton community may have been harmed nutrient loading and toxic algal blooms in lakes. The goal of this study is to genetically identify what by the presence of toxic blue green algae or by ______may be a new species of Antarctic sea star. occasional stocking of predatory baitfish carried 306 • Competition for Space Specimens of large adults of Glabraster antarctica out by local residents. We are continuing this study Between Corals and Palatable and and a closely related dwarf form that may be a new into 2017 to determine how efforts to mitigate the species were collected in McMurdo Sound algal blooms with artificial lake wide mixing might Non-Palatable Sponges in Antarctica. Larval development and cytochrome be affecting the zooplankton community. Overfished Bahamian Coral Reefs oxidase gene frequencies are being studied to ______KAYLEIGH SCHNEEBERGER, EMMA SCHNEIDER, determine whether the dwarf form is a new FRANK LOPINTO species in the genus. To date we have amplified FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY gene fragments of cytochrome oxidase and

58  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM samples will be sequenced to allow species genetic can also be used to delete a large section of the Arboretum, one at the GVC Island Preserve, and comparisons. gene.With a frame-shift, the gene will be coded two at different residential areas. Each research ______into an RNA strand, and the protein translated will site was close to a road and had a bird feeder set 309 • Population Genetic Analyses be nonfunctional; while the deletion will affect the up for a week before recordings were performed. of Stalk-eyed Fly Collection function of the RNA and protein. CRISPR- cas9 Audio recordings of feeding site vocalizations took requires a specific signal sequence called an guide place at hour-long intervals for each site, once ALLISON JONES, RYAN LANE RNA in order to determine where in the genome during the morning (between 6 am - 10 am) and FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, the mutation is produced, so we used sequence once during the afternoon (between 12 pm - 5 pm). BIOLOGY building programs to design region-specific Observers noted species identity and behavior In 1989, Stalk-eyed flies were collected near Kuala strands. We will inject gRNA constructs we during recordings. Each recording was analyzed Lampur in Southeast Asia either as individuals or designed into a stock of flies has been genetically using Raven Pro software to measure maximum from aggregations. Two different species were modified to always express cas9 in its cells, so the frequency and minimum frequency of each collected, so we are investigating how species stock is currently being grown in the lab under vocalization. We will report on differences distribution and the presence of meiotic drive optimal conditions. We are currently learning how between species, between sites, and the either changes or remains constant over time. To to do methods needed for CRISPR-cas9 such as relationship of vocalization characteristics to do this, we are extracting DNA from the 1989 lining up and injecting embryos, PCR, and anthropogenic noise. samples and using PCR and gel electrophoresis to dechorionation. ______determine which species each sample belongs to ______and whether each individual carries meiotic drive 314 • Longitudinal Assessment of genes. We anticipate that we will be able to 312 • Microbial Identification Using Occupational and Environmental determine whether species identity or meiotic Sugar Utilization Mutants During Exposures to Chlorpyrifos in drive status correlates with membership in an Bacterial Stationary Phase aggregation. Finally, we will compare this data to Adolescent Egyptian Agriculture present-day collections. Currently, we have Competition in Escherichia coli Workers successfully used PCR to amplify genes of interest, RACHEL KNAPP, SHELBY STENSLAND ASHLEY PEPPRIELL assessed genotypes in samples, and determined FACULTY SPONSOR: KEVIN MILITELLO, BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: ROBERT O'DONNELL, that the squish method does not work on the old The Militello laboratory is studying the role of the BIOLOGY samples. dcm gene in DNA methylation in the model Chlorpyrifos (CPF) is an organophosphorus (OP) ______bacterium Escherichia coli. The addition of a insecticide that is applied seasonally by the 310 • The Effects of Sexual methyl group to DNA, catalyzed by the DNA Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture. The specific cytosine methyltransferase (Dcm) protein, results Selection and Sex Ratio on the urinary metabolite of CPF; trichloro-2-pyridinol in changes in gene expression that may influence (TCPy), along with butrylcholinesterase (BuChE) Ratio of X vs. Autosomal Variation stationary phase fitness. A system was developed and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) were used as in Teleopsis dalmanni utilizing MacConkey and LB-Tetrazolium plates to biomarkers for exposure and effect, respectively, allow for a wild-type strain and a sugar utilization JOSEPH TADROS, RACHEL GUINTHER in Egyptian adolescent pesticide applicators (n = mutant with a kanamycin resistance gene to be FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, 57, 12-21 years of age) and age- matched non- grown on the same plate but distinguished based BIOLOGY applicators (n= 38). Spot urine and blood samples on colony color. Competition experiments Because standard populations have frequencies of were collected from each individual from April between the wild-type strain and two sugar 4 autosomes for every 3 X chromosomes, X 2010 through July 2011; prior to, during, and after utilization mutants were conducted to determine chromosomes will have less genetic variation than scheduled CPF application. Urinary TCPy was whether either mutant could replace the wild-type do the autosomes. However, two separate analyzed via GC/MS and normalized to creatinine. strain in a competition experiment with the dcm mechanisms in sexual reproduction make the Blood esterase was quantified via the Ellman knockout strain. This would be advantageous as amount of genetic variation on the X chromosome method. Applicators demonstrated significantly both strains would be equivalent with respect to grow relative to that in the autosomes: heightened higher levels of TCPy and greater BuChE depression the kanamycin resistance gene. Results indicate ratio of females to males in a population, and compared to non-applicators over the OP spray the wild-type strain has an advantage over the galK female sexual selection for certain traits in males. period. Throughout the study, large inter- knockout, but the manA knockout may be neutral The combined effects of sexual selection and individual differences in TCPy were observed, with in this system, indicating that it may be able to biased sex ratio on total population genetic individual peak TCPy levels ranging from 8.4 - 5,715 replace the wild-type strain in the next set of variation are still unknown in T. dalmanni, though. ug/gram creatinine for applicators and 8.6 - competition experiments. 138ug/gram creatinine for non-applicators. To examine the relationship between these two ______variables and on fly populations, theoretical Elevated TCPy levels persisted 4-7 weeks, populations were produced using SFS_Code. The 313 • Assessing Winter Feeding indicating sustained exposure to CPF or slow amount of X and autosomal variation of the Vocalizations of Black-Capped metabolism of CPF. Biomarker data in non- theoretical populations under varied female and Chickadees and American applicators mirrors that of applicators indicating sexual selection parameters was assessed at each unintended environmental exposure. It is still generation. These theoretical values were then Goldfinches and their Response to necessary to identify work practices, or other compared to standing genetic variation of Anthropogenic Noise parameters that may contribute to the high Teleopsis dalmanni, a species that exhibits sexual LEEANN BRUETSCH, KAYLA SCHUM variability observed. Selected for presentation at selection and sex-ratio distortion. Thus far we have FACULTY SPONSOR: KRISTINA HANNAM, BIOLOGY Society of Toxicology, 2017, Baltimore, MD. successfully produced simulated populations for Birds vocalize for many reasons, including ______autosomal and X-linked genes and assessed their communication of potential threats, behavioral 315 • Osteological Indicators of levels of genetic variation. cues, and alerting others to new food sources. We Prey Size Preference in the ______focused on winter vocalizations at feeding sites 311 • Mutagenisis of CG 34434 in because few researchers focus on bird behavior Forelimbs of Felids and Nonavian Drosophilia melanagastor outside of breeding season. Effects of Theropod Dinosaurs JULIA NICOSIA , PRAMUK WAKWELLA anthropogenic noise on winter behaviors and SAMANTHA GAGE FACULTY SPONSOR: JOSEPHINE REINHARDT, vocalizations have not been studied intensively, FACULTY SPONSOR: SARA BURCH, BIOLOGY BIOLOGY but we predict changes in song and call As obligate bipeds, nonavian theropod dinosaurs We used CRISPR-cas9 , a gene modification tool, to characteristics. This investigation of winter freed their forelimbs for non-locomotory uses, create de novo (null) mutations in the Drosophilia vocalizations and behavior focused on Black- including a likely role in prey capture. Among melanagastor's CG 34434 gene. CRISPR-cas9 works Capped Chickadees and American Goldfinches. modern animals, one of the few groups that use by inducing a frameshift mutation in a gene, but it Five study sites were used, two at the Roemer their forelimbs in prey capture are cats. A previous  Promotes sustainability 59 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual study showed that aspects of the morphology of a tree cannot grow, are more likely to have their these global health issues. In this study, a forelimb elements can serve as indicators for prey tree diversity shaped by human. Our preliminary Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices questionnaire size preference in cats, despite the forelimb's results show that the SUNY Geneseo campus is from Tomefa, Ghana was analyzed to examine the prominent role as a locomotory structure. To dominated by a few ornamental tree species, epidemiology of cultural factors and their relation investigate this relationship in theropods and its including Crataegus (Hawthorn trees), and Malus to disease. Activities known to be associated with similarity to that in cats, we performed (Crabapples). Despite not being native to the area, diarrhoea, malaria, schistosomiasis, sleeping phylogenetic principle components analyses on a most Hawthorn and Crabapples are palatable to sickness and intestinal worms were compared with set of forelimb indices that were previously found birds and insects, helping to support biodiversity in knowledge levels and prevalence rates. The results to be functionally relevant to forelimb use and prey the area that they are planted. In addition, about of this study hold implications regarding how size preferences. The patterns found in cats and 50% of the SUNY Geneseo campus has 20-100% of human behavior can be a major contributor to theropods show broad congruence. These results surfaces that are impermeable; suggesting that disease emergence and spread. An understanding suggest that some theropods can be classed as that a higher percentage of impermeable surface is of the cultural influences on disease provides an large, mixed or small prey specialists based on the associated with tree species homogeneity. intriguing perspective from which effective usage of their forelimbs in prey capture. The However, even if few species are chosen, it can still treatment and prevention programs can be similarity in the patterns between theropods and be done responsibly when their aesthetic and created. cats suggests that theropods may have engaged in wildlife values are considered together. Selected ______similar forelimb-based behaviors in predation, for presentation at Northeast Natural History 320 • The Effect of Schistosomiasis such as grappling with large prey or swiping at Conference, Cromwell, CT. Resistance on Reproductive Success small agile prey. Selected for presentation at ______Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Calgary, 318 • Spatial Distribution of Beech in Biomphalaria glabrata Alberta, Canada. Blight Aphids at Multiple Levels NICHOLAS WHITTEL, ANNE RITTSCHER ______FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI MUENCH, 316 • Analysis of Student Feedback TULPEN HANSEN-SCHWOEBEL BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY The WHO estimated that in 2014 at least 258 from Introduction to Biology Grylloprociphilus imbricator (Beech Blight Aphid) is million people required treatment for Courses an Aphid species that lives on the East Coast and schistosomiasis, but only 24% of infected people DAVID MCGLASHON, RENEE WEINSTEIN forms colonies almost exclusively on Fagus were successfully treated. The disparity between FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY grandifolia (American Beech Tree) branches. Beech the estimated number of cases and the number of Why are student attitudes important to study? We Blight Aphid behaviors related to colony structure treated individuals highlights the need for a cost conducted this study in order to determine how and choice of host are relatively unknown. effective, long term solution. Schistosomiasis is a students felt towards an application-based Studying colony distribution patterns and structure water contact disease that uses an intermediate teaching style in an introductory biology course at is crucial to understanding the Aphids' effect on snail host, as well as a human definitive host in Presbyterian College. Student feedback from the their ecosystem. To accomplish this we compared order to reproduce. Host control measures are years 2013 through 2016 was examined and the spatial distribution of Aphids at the colony level often proposed, but initiatives are often limited by analyzed. In 2013, an application-based to their distribution across a patch of Beech Trees. funds, or their potential impact on the existing instructional curriculum was introduced to the We dissected a colony and counted numbers of aquatic ecology. Innovative initiatives propose the introductory biology courses. We surveyed the non-reproducing Aphids and winged adults at 5 cm introduction of snails, that express a genetic students' original reactions to this new curriculum, intervals, and found that the distribution along a resistance to Schistosome infection, into the as well as their reactions as the teachers grew branch was not normal (Shapiro-Wilk, p=0.04). existing snail populations. The goal of the project is more experienced using this curriculum. The first Instead we found that the Aphids colonies are less to replace the susceptible population gradually, as method we used was Wordle, which created word concentrated the further they are from the trunk to not disturb existing ecological equilibria. In clouds that emphasized the most common words of the host tree (skewness= 0.14). To analyze practice, it has been observed that the resistant in the student feedback. We next used R to distribution at the patch level we identified Beech population struggles to replace the susceptible improve the accuracy of the word clouds, so that trees with and without colonies and recorded their population due to increased gender conflict, a we could omit words from survey questions from characteristics and placement in a patch. At patch phenomenon observed in many hermaphroditic being incorporated in the clouds. Using R, we next level, distribution of Aphid colonies appears to be snail species. Gender conflict decreases made bigrams and trigrams that analyzed the most nonrandom. Our results will have implications for reproductive success of Biomphalaria glabrata common two and three word phrases in student the Aphids interspecific and intraspecific that express the resistant phenotype. responses. Our preliminary results show that interactions, including how they affect their host ______students feel less positive towards biology after trees and how this could potentially negatively 321 • Towards Investigation of affect their ecosystem. Selected for presentation introduction of this new curriculum. We will now Small-eye Mutant Using In Situ try to discover why these negative feelings are at Northeast Natural History Conference, manifesting. Student attitudes are thus important Cromwell, CT. Hybridization ______to study in order for professors to make decisions ALLIE DANANBERG, HANNAH LOO, REBECCA on how best to teach their classes. 319 • The Influence of Human MIRVELLE, EVAN MULTALA ______Behavior on Parasitic Disease FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY 317 • How Land Use Affects Tree Transmission in a Disadvantaged A genetic screen to identify alleles affecting eye  development uncovered the good effort (gef) Species Diversity Community in Ghana mutant. The gef mutant is characterized by smaller HANNAH CHASE MAKAYLA ROSS eyes relative to wild-type fish. Although gef FACULTY SPONSOR: SUANN YANG, BIOLOGY FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN BANDONI MUENCH, mutants exhibit smaller retinas, the lens appears Within our environment, the many interacting BIOLOGY unaffected, suggesting the gef phenotype is a ecological factors that determine diversity are well The threat of parasitic diseases remains prevalent result of retinal-specific degeneration, as small-eye studied; however, in human-dominated in countries that are a part of the developing world. mutants normally display defects in both the retina landscapes, the influential factors are less so. We The village of Tomefa, Ghana is a marginalized and lens. Meiotic mapping has linked gef near hypothesized that tree species diversity is community on the outskirts of the capital of Ghana chaf1b, which is part of the CAF-1 complex. decreased by people's landscaping choices since that is affected by a multitude of these diseases. However, other genes may be involved in inducing they will often choose low maintenance, Certain behavioral patterns associated with culture the gef phenotype. Here, we present the results of ornamental species. Quantifying tree biodiversity have become major contributors to the spread of global analysis of RNA-Seq data from gef and wild- in human-dominated landscapes can reveal the disease. A combination of anthropological and type zebrafish. Statistical analysis identified a large ability of these landscapes to support overall biological methods is necessary in this situation, in subset of genes which were up- and down- biodiversity. We predict that areas that have a order to better understand the implications of regulated in gef mutants as compared to wild- higher percent of impermeable surfaces, on which 60  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM types. After selecting 626 significantly down- endonuclease is capable of creating a double- BLACK STUDIES regulated genes, gene IDs were entered into stranded break in DNA. Cas9 requires the DAVID, a bioinformatics tool which allows grouping cooperation of a specific guide-RNA (gRNA) to 325 • Voter Suppression Study of genes by functionality and common pathways. target it to a specific cut site. We can determine MARY ELIZABETH LUNDQUIST Based on DAVID analysis, we identified 5 pathways where Cas9 activity is strong by observing the FACULTY SPONSOR: EMILYE CROSBY, BLACK of interest, the most intriguing being the Notch disruption of pigmentation in fish where the STUDIES signaling pathway. Previous studies in Drosophila melanin promoting gene, tyrosinase, is targeted. Looking at voterW suppressionITHDRAWN in the context of both melanogaster have indicated CAF-1 signals through We created a plasmid that expresses three specific the 2017 election and Civil Right's Movement. Notch in order to cause differential target gene gRNAs targeting tyrosinase, Tp53, and Chaf1b to expression. We then selected 2 Notch pathway ensure equal expression of their gRNAs in all cells. CHEMISTRY genes, her15.1 and notch1a, for further analysis via We hypothesize that the cell death will be in situ hybridization. prevented in the Chaf1b zebrafish mutant if Tp53 326 • Fluorescence of Single CdSe ______was also silenced. Quantum Dots in Contolled 322 • CRISPR Club: The Good, The ______Atmospheres Bad and The Statistically 324 • Evaluating Feed for Zebrafish BRANDON MEHLENBACHER Insignificant to Maximize Cultivation Efficiency FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY PETERSON, HANNAH LOO, ADAM WEGMAN, ALLIE TYLER MACK CHEMISTRY DANANBERG, MEHDI ELMOUCHTARI, NAOMI FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY The photo-physical behavior of single CdSe WILSON, STEPHANIE SOJDA, ERIN MOZINGO, Zebrafish (Danio rerio) have become increasingly quantum dots were studied using single molecule AMBER LIN, BETHANNA JONES valuable model organisms in numerous biological fluorescence spectroscopy in a controlled FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY disciplines since their introduction in the mid- atmosphere. CdSe quantum dots were synthesized A Journal Club is a meeting of individuals for the twentieth century. However, culturing them can be and single molecule samples were prepared using purposes of reviewing and critiquing scientific fairly labor intensive as standard feeding protocols conventional techniques. Following the synthesis, literature, as well as eating food. Previous studies require upwards of twenty man-hours per week. At the blinking trajectories (fluorescence intensity vs. have suggested that the implementation of Geneseo, students spend many volunteer hours time) were then studied in atmospheric conditions. undergraduate Journal Clubs improves student feeding the zebrafish colony before they can do The entire system was then sealed in a glovebox performance, particularly students' abilities to research. Skretting USA claims that their feed where no atmospheric oxygen came into contact effectively communicate science. They thus product can reduce these labor requirements while with the quantum dots, and the same approach present a means by which to increase scientific being nutritionally advantageous to standard was taken. Surprisingly, quantum dots' kinetic literacy in universities which may have limited feeding regimens. Further, they claim their feed patterns are sensitive to atmospheric conditions. In access to educational resources. Here, we present will increase viability and fecundity of fish raised on air, the power law exponent for the ON event our reflections on Geneseo's first undergraduate GEMMA Micro feed. To validate these claims, probability distribution is -2.65 ± 0.10; in N2, the Journal Club, now called as "CRISPR (Critical treatment fish were given GEMMA Micro feed and power law exponent is -1.61 ± 0.05. Control Reading in Scientific Peer Review) Club" - the name control fish were given standard feed. Mortality experiments that followed showed that this isn't change was intended to provide clarity to those rates were compared for each experimental group due to sampling and that the quantum dots who thought we were a club about journalism. under identical living conditions. blinking kinetics are highly sensitive to oxygen ______Started at the suggestion of Dr. Travis Bailey, we exposure. Generally, people measure blinking found that although club attendance was constant, 438 • Hymenopteran Trap Color kinetics of quantum dots using shell quantum dots, it was difficult to recruit underclassmen and the Preference in a Forest Clearing whereas these results show that an "N2-only" approach is a viable means to investigate the club largely consisted of a self-selecting group of RYAN CARPENTER quantum dots kinetics in simple systems. These motivated individuals involved and invested in FACULTY SPONSOR: ISIDRO BOSCH, BIOLOGY results also indicate an important role in surface scientific research (many of us being friends with Water-filled pan traps are commonly used to composition of CdSe quantum dots and their one another). However, we were consistent in sample insects, and yellow is considered the best blinking behavior. Selected for presentation at bringing food every week, and found that switching color for collecting a maximum number of species. American Chemical Society 253rd National to topical presentations made our meetings more However, preference has been assessed for enjoyable for members. In the future, we hope that Meeting, San Francisco, CA. relatively few taxa, mostly insects in ______efforts to increase undergraduate scientific literacy agroecosystems, using a small number of colors. will expand, and garner the support of students The objective of this research is to determine if 327 • Separation and Purification of and faculty. species richness, composition, and abundance Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes ______differ with pan trap color for select groups of through Aqueous Two-Phase 323 • Multiplex Mutagenesis in Hymenoptera. Bees, Proctotrupomorpha, Extraction Danio rerio Using CRISPR/Cas9 and Cynipoidea, Ichneumonoidea, and several feeding guilds were analyzed in this study. To address the MARGARET DAVIS Multiple gRNAs research objective, insects were sampled using FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY PETERSON, JONATHAN KORDIYAK, MAXWELL COSTICH, colored and clear water-filled SoloTM bowls placed CHEMISTRY MEAGAN SULLIVAN, QUINN JOHANSON in a power line easement forest clearing. Bowls Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with FACULTY SPONSOR: TRAVIS BAILEY, BIOLOGY were arranged in circular plots, and each plot different diameters demonstrate different The good effort (gef) zebrafish mutants develop contained seven different colored bowls. The material properties. An important step in the small eyes because their retinal cells die. A 3-base- collection resulted in 25,004 specimens, that have research and use of SWNTs is the development of pair deletion was found on the 5' end of intron 3 of been sorted into 402 morphospecies. Species an efficient and effective purification method to the chromosome assembly factor-1b gene (chaf1b) richness was analyzed for five groups, and separate SWNTs based on their different in gef mutant embryos. Chaf1b protein is abundance was analyzed to reveal that bee diameters. This research works to further the responsible for loading histones onto DNA; failure abundance was significantly higher in all colors understanding of how varying the amount of to do so leaves the genomic DNA prone to compared with clear and red, but otherwise, different surfactants promotes different cleavage. A recent study of chaf1b mutant significant differences were not observed between separations of SWNTs in an aqueous two-phase zebrafish suggested that the Tumor suppressor any of the other colors. Proctotupomorpha was separation (ATP). A sample of SWNTs was mixed protein 53 (Tp53) might be responsible for significantly higher in yellow then compared with with a surfactant solution that produced two promoting the cell death seen in Chaf1b mutants. all other colors. Evaluating quantified color immiscible phases, into which the SWNTs To investigate this claim, we developed a one- preferences, will allow researchers to make spontaneously separated. The relative generation multiplex gene-targeting construct scientifically sound decisions about what colors to concentration of SWNTs present in each phase of using the CRISPR/Cas9 system. The Cas9 select for sampling. the separation was determined using optical

 Promotes sustainability 61 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual spectroscopy. We find that the particular SWNT there may be quasi-reversibility of β2M on the FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, species that is concentrated in each phase can be 50nm gold surface at 65 °C. However, further CHEMISTRY tuned by varying the amount of sodium cholate experimentation is necessary to determine if this We investigated the structure of protein-gold and sodium chloride in the stock solution . The temperature and gold size is significant in β2M nanoparticle complexes with regards to surface results demonstrate the viability of ATP for SWNT reversibility. coverage and three-dimensional packing of the purification and point to further possible ______proteins. Coverage of gold nanoparticles by optimizations in the future. 330 • Investigation of Reversible proteins is a new field of study, which can only be ______Self-Assembly of Amyloidogenic determined indirectly through data-analysis and 328 • Sizing Curve and Extinction geometric reasoning. Our goal was to create an Peptides at Nano-Scale Interface Coefficient Determination of accurate model of surface coverage to be used to JESSICA BATTAGLIA, MANAMI ENDO describe protein structure and organo-metallic CdSe/CdS Core/Shell FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, interaction. In addition, this research sought to Semiconductor Nanocrystals CHEMISTRY understand the effect of pH on protein folding with REMY RIZZO, CHRISTOPHER BRIGHTON The folding process of the amyloidogenic peptide the gold interaction. This information can be used FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY PETERSON, is regarded as the crucial conformational change as a standard work and it will help to better CHEMISTRY leading to fibrillogenesis, which eventually triggers understand how a specific protein can fold into a One of the most intriguing nanoscience topics is neurodegenerative diseases. Our recent studies more toxic structure that can lead to quantum dots (QDs), spherical nanoparticles with indicate that a key oligomeric form associated with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's diameters approximately 1/10,000th the width of fibrillogenesis can be stably made provided by a disease. Ultimately, we have successfully described a human hair. QDs exhibit unique optical metal surface potential. In recent studies, we a peptide coverage over a nanoscale surface. properties that render them attractive for a variety successfully identified the layer of Beta-2- Selected for presentation at 253rd American of technological applications. For example, by Microglobulin (β2M) to be approximately 0.9 nm in Chemical Society Conference, San Francisco, CA. controlling the QD size, one can tune the width over a 30 nm gold colloid surface. This layer ______wavelength of light they absorb and emit over wide is used to aggregate residual β2M coated gold 333 • Effect of Peptide Insertion to regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. One colloid particles under only acidic conditions, in a Solvent Diffusion Rate in a Silica current challenge is developing simple methods to which unfolded β2M oligomers were formed. reliably determine the concentration of QD While we are not certain if this layer is a monolayer Sol-Gel Matrix solutions. Here, we present a simple method to or multilayer, the oligomeric form can determine RANDHIR SAH, KIMI SMYTH, ERIKA ESQUIVEL meet this challenge in a novel type of nanomaterial this thickness. Therefore, the layer's thickness FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, using absorbance measurements. CdSe/CdS showed signs of being dependent on the size of the CHEMISTRY core/shell QDs with absorption peaks between gold colloid. We are investigating the stable form The rate of solvent (acid) diffusion in silica based 500-600 nm and 1-3 monolayers of shell material of the oligomer and associated layer's thickness sol-gel matrix was found to be controlled by were synthesized. QD diameters were measured over the gold colloidal size between 10 nm and 100 inserting different size of nano-gold collide with transmission electron microscopy and nm, as well as a pH ranging from 2-12. Selected for dopants (n-GCD) by a factor of 10. This rate was correlated with their absorption peak to produce a presentation at 253rd American Chemical Society maximized when the size of 20 nm (n-GCD) was "sizing curve." QD concentrations were National Meeting, San Francisco, CA. inserted to rearrange the "channels" resulting in an ______determined with inductively-coupled plasma enhancement of flow. However, the rate was optical emission spectroscopy and were combined 331 • Investigation of Hydration slowed/stopped when the size of 60 nm (n-GCD) with absorption spectra to determine extinction Process of Semi-frozen was inserted to close the "channels". The flow rate was increased as the n-GCD increased from 60 nm- coefficients at 300 nm. Results are compared with Amyloidogenic Peptide simple theoretical models and with results from 100 nm because of the "cavities" being destroyed ISHAN DESHMUKH, PETER SHEVLIN other QD materials. We expect the results will be by a dopant and building new "channels". Recently, FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, of significant practical utility for researchers we discovered that the diffusion rate based on pH CHEMISTRY working with these materials. . sensitivity can be changed dramatically by utilizing ______We investigated the effects that protein coverage a peptide pre-coated with gold nano-colloids. As 329 • Beta-2-Microglobulin has on the diffusional motion of gold nanoparticles the acid/base solvent intrudes into the sol-gel in a frozen solution. This effects were confirmed matrix channels and cavities, they interacted Temperature Dependent through the measurement of fluorescence directly with peptide and conduct either protein Reversibility spectrum and picosecond fluorescence decay time folding or unfolding. Since, the conformation of APAULA ISLAM, MANAMI ENDO, MONICA of the frozen peptide-gold solution. The size of the peptide is controlled by pH, degree of interaction PUJOLS, VALERIE MEDINA, RAVNEET SINGH gold nanoparticles being studied ranged between between peptide and sol-gel cavity, and the gold FACULTY SPONSOR: KAZUSHIGE YOKOYAMA, 20 to 60 nm. The solution was studied at a constant colloid results in a different degree of diffusion CHEMISTRY temperature of -2 °C and at varying pH. The rate. To probe the diffusion rate of a solvent, The Alzheimer's association of America estimates purpose of this research was to understand the fluorescence decay and time decay of Fab that as many as 5.1 million people suffer from intermolecular effect that peptide folding and (Fluorescein Amyloidβ1-40) coated gold colloid is Alzheimer's disease nationally. Millions more conformation has on a nanoparticle surface under encapsulated into a sol-gel matrix was monitored suffer abroad. One of the key proteins implicated a constant freezing temperature. This information as a function of diffusion time. Selected for in Alzheimer's disease is the amyloid beta protein. can be used as a standard work and it will help to presentation at American Chemical Society 253rd It is the key component in amyloid plaques found better understand how a specific protein can fold National Meeting, San Francisco, CA. in Alzheimer's patient brains and is theorized to be into a more dangerous structure that can lead to ______one of the main causes of this neurodegenerative neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's. 334 • Development of Silver disease. Beta-2- Microglobulin (β2M) is a precursor In order to understand the effect of frozen peptide Nanoparticle Decorated Graphene to this amyloid beta protein, as it aggregates to conformation on the gold nanoparticle surface, we form amyloid. In this experiment, we aim to studied the peptide, Fluorescein-Beta Amyloid (1- Oxide for Enhanced Detection of determine the temperature dependence on the 40). Microplastics in Lake Water ______folding of the β2M protein. Using nanoscale gold MATTHEW SCHWEIZER surface particles and UV-Vis Spectroscopy, we can 332 • Investigation of Gold Nano FACULTY SPONSOR: RABEKA ALAM, CHEMISTRY determine if the protein is folding on the surface or Particle Shielding Due to Protein Effectively apply silver nanoparticles and graphene if at certain temperatures it shows reversibility in Surface Area Coverage oxide to filters in order to detect the presence of folding. The experiment deals with two variables, microplastics via surface enhanced Raman PETER SHEVLIN , KIERAN BROWN , MINA the gold size, and temperature, while the quantity spectroscopy (SERS). By applying a graphene oxide ABDELMALIK of β2M remains constant. Results so far suggest film to a surface, silver nanoparticles can be

62  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM deposited that allow this complex to become SERS- Human mitochondria (mt) contain circular DNA 339 • Computational Finance Using active. This will allow for the detection of molecules of 16549 base pairs. Mispairing of this microplastics in a sample of water through Raman DNA can occur during replication, resulting in large Python spectroscopy. The goal of this project is to deletions. One particular deletion of 4977-bp BRENDON COLBY, ABDULLAH MONIM, JACOB synthesis and characterize 2-D graphene oxide results in truncated respiratory complexes and BORTH nanosheets and silver nanoparticles with reduced cellular lifetimes, but cells bearing this FACULTY SPONSOR: KIRK ANNE, CIT controlled morphology and dimensions. Which will deletion are functional due to the fact that normal The purpose of this project will be to combine our allow us to control the optical and electrical and abnormal mtDNAs co-exist in the cell. group's knowledge of python with our knowledge properties of these materials, hence allowing us to However, an accumulation of mtDNAs bearing this of financial markets. Using python, we will build a apply them to sensing applications. deletion is known to result in physiological way to import stock information from an ______symptoms, yet how metabolism and cell growth application program interface (API), and express 335 • Synthesis and are affected is still unknown. Our group compared that data in the form of a candlestick chart. Furthermore, we will take the imported data and Characterization of Plasmonic the growth and metabolism of the normal lymphoblasts with lymphoblasts containing create common technical indicators and strategies Semiconductor Cu2-xS Nanocrystals elevated levels of mtDNA bearing this deletion. We for certain stocks and index ETFs. In addition, we MICHELLE LEIP show differences in growth using media with will be building other indicators and implementing FACULTY SPONSOR: RABEKA ALAM, CHEMISTRY varying glucose content, and we show differences other strategies involving options trading, The effect of size and composition on the in rates of glycolysis and oxidative specifically a cal-put ratio and a pricing model. properties of plasmonic Cu2-xS particles was phosphorylation, as well as shape. Selected for Then, we will see how some of these strategies studied. Cu2-xS nanoparticles of varying sizes were presentation at Experimental Biology, Chicago, IL. fared over time, and what the net profit margins synthesized using high temperature ______were. organometallic reactions and characterized using 437 • Dimerization and UV-vis spectroscopy, transmission electron Recrystallization of Apocynin and EDUCATION microscopy (TEM), and X-ray powder diffraction 340 • Innovative Communication (XRD). We are currently investigating charge its Analogs transfer capabilities between Cu2-xS and other TORY WELSCH, REIDIS LATA Technology (Smartstones :prose) nanomaterials to charge the Cu2-xS with visible FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID JOHNSON, CHEMISTRY DANIELLE LEVY, MOLLY ST. THOMAS, BARRY light energy. Selected for presentation at State Apocynin, a naturally occurring plant extract, has GRANT University of New York Undergraduate Research been shown to prevent inflammatory diseases FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, Conference, Fredonia, NY. caused by reactive oxygen species through NADPH EDUCATION ______oxidase inhibition. The reactivity of apocynin has This form of augmentative and alternative 336 • Spectroscopic and been investigated by studying its dimer form, communication (AAC) has a wide range of options Calorimetric Analysis of DNA G- diapocynin, and its analogs, such as 4-fluoro-2- and can be used in a variety of different ways. It methoxyphenol. A dimer of 4-fluoro-2- can be used by anyone from a child who has Quadruplex/Ligand Interactions In methoxyphenol was successfully prepared using difficulty forming sentences, to someone who is Vitro iron (II) sulfate heptahydrate and potassium paralyzed and cannot speak. The program can be MEHDI ELMOUCHTARI peroxydisulfate, and the structure was confirmed installed through an app on iPhones, iPads, or on FACULTY SPONSOR: RUEL MCKNIGHT, CHEMISTRY through nuclear magnetic resonance an Apple Watch. Words and sentences can be The classic image of DNA is the iconic double helix: spectroscopy. The determination of diapocynin's programed into the app to then be repeated back. two interwoven strands of DNA held together by solubility and its crystallization were also In addition, a sensory remote controller can be noncovalent interactions. However, recently, attempted to potentially view its crystalline used to help users control word expressions they attention has been brought to other structures structure via X-ray crystallography. A crystalline want to use. This technology allows the user to formed by DNA. The G-quadruplex occurs when structure would elucidate the mechanism by which record up to 24 phrases that can be said aloud. It four guanine nitrogenous bases interact with each diapocynin helps prevent atherosclerosis and can also be used for people who lack the ability to other to form a tetrad. These structures have been diabetic retinopathy in the human body. use a traditional AAC application or press small shown to limit excess cell division, making them a buttons by using a remote control. It can also be target for cancer research. We have created G- CIT set up so that it can read people's brainwaves and quadruplex structures in vitro using the human use that information to form words and sentences. 338 • Chocolate 3D Printer ______telomeric repeat sequence (5'G3(T2AG3)3) and ANTHONY TANTILLO have analyzed the interactions of these structures 341 • Take a Gaze at our Poster FACULTY SPONSOR: SUE CHICHESTER, KIRK ANNE, JORDAN WISSET, EVE ZANCHELLI, DANIELLE with small molecules via circular dichroism (CD), CIT UV melting, and isothermal titration calorimetry DISABATO A 3D printer has been modified to print in materials FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, (ITC). The compounds we have worked with have such as chocolate and wax. Current printers on the been shown to bind to G-quadruplexes. In EDUCATION market cost upwards of $2,000 US and are This poster provides a detailed description of how particular, we have been focusing on disubstituted restrictive in their operation. The printer was naphthalene diimides (NDIs), a class of compounds and why some individuals with disabilities use the designed to accept many materials, which expands Tobii Dynavox Eye Gaze as a form of AAC. The Tobii for which there is limited research with regards to the options for 3D printing applications. Material G- quadruplex interactions. Selected for Dynavox Eye Gaze is used for communication when will flow while printing and harden shortly after an individual is unable to communicate verbally presentation at American Chemical Society extrusion. The frame comes from a Solidoodle Rochester Undergraduate Symposium, Niagara and lacks physical abilities that limit motor Apprentice printer and the electronics are responses. This poster will also discuss the history Falls, NY. controlled by a Printrboard. The design consists ______of this form of AAC and give background mostly of 3D printed parts and can be customized 337 • Effects of the 4977-bp information on why it was developed and how it for various printer frames. This is a proof of may be used by students with disabilities. Further Common Mitochndrial DNA concept suitable for insight into non-plastic based details about different features offered by this Deletion on Metabolism and Cell extrusion systems. The desired outcome is to print form of AAC, as well as limitations and benefits, will layer heights at a minimum of 0.5 mm with a print be included. 3 Growth of Lymphoblasts volume of 216 in (6 in x 6 in x 6 in). ______CHRISTOPHER KECK, AMANDA KEPLINGER ______342 • Proloquo2go: What it Can Do FACULTY SPONSOR: WENDY POGOZELSKI, CHEMISTRY for Your Students ROBERT O'DONNELL, BIOLOGY RACHEL BLOCK, JESSICA DRECHSLER, JUSTIN FRANKEL  Promotes sustainability 63 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual

FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, mission states, "through community organizing, For our Great Day project, our group has decided EDUCATION mobilizing and education, SURJ moves white to focus our presentation on the performance of Proloquo2go is an IPad app specifically made for people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for karaoke within the context of different cultures. students with certain types of disabilities, such as justice with passion and accountability." To We will begin by providing a brief overview of the autism. The app provides keys/buttons that paraphrase Mariame Kaba, this is an opportunity history of karaoke in order to build a foundation for contain pictures and words. When the child to get our people. Organizing, facilitating and the how the practice has since evolved. Similarly, we presses the key the app vocalizes that word and the host of other skills included in effective activism will also include a discussion on how exactly the child can form sentences or phrases. The app can are new to me, and while SURJ puts its work into practice of karaoke became so popular globally. be customized to fit the needs of individual action, it is crucial to engage in self-education and Throughout the presentation we will display children. This poster will provide information on development to ensure effective, inclusive pictures of different karaoke rooms as a visual how the apps works, benefits to users such as organizing. My position as a new, young, white representation to better inform the audience. Our accessibility, affordability, and customization, and organizer necessitates that I call upon the past presentation will conclude with a display of some discuss specific disabilities where it may be work and knowledge of experienced activists. This of the most popular English songs which are sung beneficial in a school setting. poster will outline the theory and ideas behind the abroad, particularly in Japan, China and Korea, ______practice of SURJ and my own experience as an new during karaoke performances. 343 • Sign Language as a Form of activist in the context of our Geneseo community. ______Augmentative and Alternative ______349 • Korean Holidays 346 • Argentina's Exquisite SEUNG WHYAN LEE, TAEWON HWANG, MIN Communication JUNG HA, YEDARM HAN REBECCA GENNES, KIMBERLY BUEHLMANN, Treasure CONSUELO MANSILLA, FACUNDO ARIZAGA FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, ELIZA COX, NICOLE EDWARDS, DANNI RAFFLOER ENGLISH FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, ENGLISH Our group is going to make a poster about Korean EDUCATION holidays. such as New Year, March 1st Day, This poster will examine how various sign language Argentinean presenters will make a poster describing their country's cuisine by showing some Memorial Day, Chu-Suk (Korean Thanksgiving Day), systems are used as a form of augmentative and Independence Day, Gae-Chun Day, and Hanguel alternative communication (AAC) for students with traditional dishes and drinks. They will also explain how they connect to their culture and why they are Day. We will present traditions, family disabilities. The poster briefly describes the history celebrations, and cultural phenomena that are of using sign language as a mode of AAC. A number of paramount importance to creating a sense of belonging within society. Some of the dishes associated with these holidays. of different signing systems used, such as American ______described in the poster will include dulce de leche Sign Language, Invented Manual Signing, Manually 350 • To the Shoreline Coded English, and Simultaneous Communication, (milk candy), asado (Argentinean barbecue), and empanadas. As for the drinks, the presentation will JASON GUISAO, SASHA MILLER will be outlined, as well as how each would be used FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH in an educational setting. The implementation of include fernet con coca and mate. Presenters will not only give a description of these exquisite plates With assistance from S.A.S.I. President Sasha sign language for students with disabilities will be Miller, To the Shoreline--a socio-political chapbook discussed, as well as advantages and disadvantages and beverages, but they will also explain the role Argentinean food plays in creating special project funded by the Geneseo Foundation of this implementation. Finally, the poster will Undergraduate Summer Fellowship--will be detail studies regarding the use of sign language as moments within families and groups of friends. The students will make a special emphasis on the presented and discussed; namely, the experience a form of AAC in students with disabilities, of writing political poetry; and the ways in which specifically in children with autism and cognitive historical background of Argentinean cuisine and the significance of preparing these meals together. said poetry navigates the macro-American disabilities. landscape. S.A.S.I.--student experts on social ______Finally, the presenters will depict a typical Sunday injustice resistance and activism--will provide 344 • Disability Studies in Higher family meal while trying to illustrate the feelings associated with this shared moment. veritable discourse on the myriad injustices that Education ______appear in the collection. JESSICA RILEY, CATHERINE HEZEL, KITRICK 347 • Korean Lifestyle and MCCOY, LAURA SATURNINO, LEONIDAS Etiquette Compared to American GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES CHRISTOFILOPOULOS 351 • Foraminifera from the FACULTY SPONSOR: LINDA WARE, EDUCATION Culture Our analysis will present a study on the importance HEUIJOON YUN, ANDY LEE, DOHYUN KIM, HYUN Muriwai Formation, Auckland, New of disability studies which directly leads to the SEONG PARK Zealand critical need of a disability minor at SUNY Geneseo. FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, DEBORAH PIERSON, MACKENZIE WATTS We believe this minor would be a great asset to our ENGLISH FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL college because it will add a level of diversity to our We will be covering the cultural differences SCIENCES campus, that it is currently lacking. A new between South Korea and the United States in Miocene turbidite deposits of the Muriwai perspective on disabilities in America that applies terms of etiquette and lifestyle. More specifically, Formation located on the southern end of Muriwai on a societal level will also be a direct implication we will demonstrate cultural differences in Bay, near Auckland, New Zealand contain of this new minor. schools, workplaces, and restaurants. There are foraminifera. Globigerinae, Orbulina, and many major cultural differences that Korean's and Allomorphina which range from 0.5mm to about ENGLISH American's have. For instance, Korean's value the 1.55 mm in diameter. Four separate methods were 345 • Community Organizing: idea of respecting elders, even among similar age used to break down the rocks to extract the groups. We will explore differences in the general foraminifera specimens. After careful sifting and Creating a Tool Box for Efficiency atmosphere of workplaces and restaurants within drying the foraminifera were examined with a and Inclusion these categories and discuss some fun facts that scanning electron microscope to identify them. The MARY RUTIGLIANO people from other cultural backgrounds may not foraminifera indicate deposition in an offshore FACULTY SPONSOR: BETH MCCOY, ENGLISH know. Overall, we will try our best to present what environment, likely a deep marine shelf. This poster will give context to my work with Dr. it feels like to experience Korean etiquette and Allomorphina are benthic in nature while the McCoy in the directed study, Community lifestyle. We hope our presentation will help those Orbulina and the Globigerinae are planktic in Organizing:Readings to Guide Practice. Currently, who might be interested in traveling to Korea. nature. The rock containing these foraminifera was ______my organizing includes the start up of Geneseo a siltstone section that was likely a section of a Chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). 348 • Karaoke Cultural turbidite sequence, which was not well cemented. SURJ is a national organization dedicated to IKKI TANAKA, GRACE JIN, QI ZHENG ______organizing white people for racial justice. As their FACULTY SPONSOR: IRENE BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, ENGLISH 64  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM

352 • High Frasnian Conodonts an intermediate composition provenance from the 356 • Comparison of the Timing surrounding area and was moderately well sorted from the Canaseraga Sandstone, indicating that it was deposited in a sub mature and Hydrology of Drainage Java Group, Upper Devonian, fluvial environment that was likely a result of the Networks in the Xanthe Terra Western New York often-flooded Paleo Lake Huka. The ignimbrite Region of Mars deposits low presence of Fe and Mg alluded to a EZEKIEL MCGINN ANNE KELLY rhyolitic source confirming it came from the Taupo FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, volcano. SCIENCES ______GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES A fossiliferous calcite cemented conglomeratic In order to better understand the surface and sandstone formed at the base of a large channel 354 • Petrographic Analysis of climate history of the equatorial highlands of Mars, feature in the marine strata of the Canaseraga "Shrunken" Ooids of Upper the river systems of both the Xanthe East and Sandstone, close to the Frasnian-Famennian Cambrian Age, Allentown Xanthe West regions were analyzed. Both drainage boundary (Upper Devonian), contains a diverse density calculations as well as relative age dating Polygnathus (Conodont) fauna in addition to fauna Formation, Bethlehem, techniques were used to gather information on the typical of a deep shelf environment, including the Pennsylvania climate and the physical features of the drainage brachiopods Cyrtospitrifer sp. aff. C. whitneyi, NICHOLAS JONASSE basin present at the time of the most recent Spinatrypa sp. aff. S. compacta, Nervostrophia sp. FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL activity. Data regarding the craters, ejecta Douvillina sp. Douvillinaria cf. D. perversa, and SCIENCES blankets, and fluvial networks of the East Xanthe Pseudodouvillina cf. P. euglyphea, as well as The Allentown Formation of eastern Pennsylvania Terra region of Mars was collected and analyzed bivalves, bryozoans, cephalopods, corals, crinoids, is characteristic of half-moon or shrunken ooids. using GIS software. The area of study spanned and fish. The genera Douvillinaria and Ooids of shrunken structures project an upper light 361,259 km2, and included 83 identified fluvial Pseudodouvillina became extinct in central and and a lower dark portion within the inner structure networks. Of those 83 networks, 25 were given western North America shelves during the Lower which appears as a half-moon texture. This is the relative age dates in relation to the catastrophic Kellwasser extinction (LKE) in the uppermost part result of settling and deformation of the core outflow channels that cut across this region. 17 out of Frasnian Zone 12. Nervostrophia occurs in post- structure that develops later concentric rings that of the 25 were found to have postdated these large LKE Frasnian Zone 13a strata in the Iowa Basin, and form around the inner nuclei. Internal structures of outflow channels. Crater statistics performed on Cyrtospirifer ranges into early Famennian rocks in shrunken ooids are rare within the rock record and the 401 craters that were mapped yielded an eastern and western North America. Spinatrypa are characteristic of Cambrian age strata which average crater area of 114.93 km, and an average compacta Cooper and Dutro, is restricted to provides interpretation on diagenetic processes diameter of 7.47 km. This data was compared to Frasnian Zone 13a deposits of the Contadero and depositional environments. From microscopic the data gathered from the West Xanthe Terra Formation in the San Andres Mountains in and cathode luminescence observations, shrunken region of Mars in order to yield greater insight into southern New Mexico, although similar species ooids of the Allentown show textural and how these massive outflow channels affect the such as S. trulla first occur in Frasnian Zone 11 mineralogic alterations due to burial diagenesis basin drainage of specific regions. deposits but are extinct in Iowa at the close of the and eustatic sea level changes during the Upper ______LKE. The conodonts include Polygnathus aequalis, Cambrian. The presence of anhydrite minerals 357 • Using Remote Sensing to Map Po. alatus, Po. brevis, Po. webbi, and at least one correlate to the introduction of dolomite which Hydrothermal Alteration of new Polygnathus taxon, as well as two effected the diagenesis process of ooid growth palmatolepid fragments suggestive of within the Allentown Formation. Geothermal Sites on the North Palmatolepis hassi. Both the conodont and ______Island of New Zealand brachiopod faunas are typical of an Upper 355 • Remote Spectroscopy of CASEY HOFFMAN, DAVITIA JAMES Devonian offshore shelf environment. The Hydrothermal Fields in South West FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, conodont fauna is may be as young as Frasnian GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Zone 13 in the Late Frasnian. The channel is Iceland This study aims to test the accuracy of the ENVI speculatively representative of a significant sea- ALLISON BARGABOS program, a geospatial software application, by level fall at the end of the Frasnian that coincides FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, creating mineral maps of geothermal sites on the with the Frasnian-Famennian boundary. GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES North Island of New Zealand. These will be ______Geothermal systems are actively studied for their compared to field photographs and notes taken at 353 • Petrographic Analysis in economic and environmental benefits. They are the locations in January 2017. Three hydrothermal Determining Sand Layer Origin and common in Iceland, and are often characterized by areas in New Zealand were examined: a fields of hydrothermally altered rocks and geothermal national park in Rotorua, the Tongariro Timing Between Two Ignimbrite minerals. These systems can be identified from Alpine Crossing, and White Island. High resolution Deposits from 26.5 Ka Oruanui orbit using Advanced Spaceborne Thermal images from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Eruption, New Zealand images. Three ASTER images of known geothermal NICHOLAS JONASSE, MATTHEW REBOLINI database were obtained for each study area. In systems in South West Iceland, including Krysuvik, ENVI, Regions of interest (ROIs) were created for FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY OVER, GEOLOGICAL Geysir, and Hengill, were obtained, and then SCIENCES the areas. All areas of distinct composition were analyzed with ENVI software. The results validated highlighted as a ROI, including basaltic andesite Two Ignimbrite deposits from the Oruanui ASTER as a source for locating unique eruption, 26.5 Ka, located 46 km north east of the lava flows, pine forests and ocean water. This hydrothermal spectra, and for mapping other allowed the program to differentiate between Taupo supervolcano caldera, New Zealand, were geologic landforms, such as basaltic lava flows, found to be bisected by an unidentified sand layer. minerals and other materials by comparing surface palagonite, and vegetation. Mean regions of reflectance of ROIs to the rest of the image. Samples from the three layers were analyzed using interest (ROI) plots show diagnostic absorption Munsell colors, sieving and imagery from a Specific minerals were identified using spectral features for hydrothermal ROIs at around 2.2 μm, library matching techniques. Minerals of interest Scanning Electron Microscope to determine further validating ASTER's accuracy in locating maturity and chemistry. The yellowish gray were selected, then categorized maps of the study hydrothermal systems. These methods can be areas were created. Finally, the extent of ignimbrite deposits contained pumice lapilli and applied to other locations with geothermal activity, ash sized particles signifying that they came from hydrothermal alteration at each site was such as New Zealand, and can be tested with higher examined. This demonstrated the effectiveness of pyroclastic density flows. The pale yellowing resolution instruments to further improve brown, coarse to medium sand layer had angular ENVI as a tool in mineral mapping. Selected for precision. presentation at Buffalo Association of to sub rounded grains, ample amounts of quartz, ______hornblende, plagioclase, and potassium feldspar Professional Geologists, Buffalo, NY. ______grains as well as a presence of Mg and Fe indicating

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358 • Laki Lava Flow - The Rise and produced ~14 km3 of inflated, rubbly pahoehoe and topographic maps were downloaded from (10-15 m thick) lava which flowed down a former Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), and a NASA Collapse of Pits in the Eastern Lobe pro-glacial valley, with properties similar to a TOPSAR digital elevation model was downloaded ELIZABETH PELLEGRINO confined sandur plain. The emplacement of the from UAF (Uni. Alaska.) Using the aerial imagery, FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, Laki Flow blocked the valley and the flow routing in we identified and mapped block and ash flows and GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES this region has since had to respond to that event. lava flows from both systems. Morphometric The 1784 Laki eruption, located in Southern The primary objective of this research was to properties of the lava flows such as length, width Iceland, created an inflated pahoehoe lava constrain how a river responds to a lava flow filling and thickness were collected from this map and composed of basalts. This lava flow is noted for its valley. The rivers were digitized and overlain on input into a series of equations for yield strength, meter to ten-meter sized pits. The larger of those the digitized lava flow. The data suggest the rivers effusion rate, viscosity and time of emplacement. are thought to be lava-rise pits, which formed have responded in three ways. First, rivers diverge Distinct features of lava flows such as the presence during the flowing and cooling processes of the around the lava flow. Second, where the rivers of compression ridges and fractal lobate flow lava. The smaller pits, however, showed a slightly flowed into an obstacle, the water ponded in semi- fronts were identified. Key characteristics of block different morphology when examined in the field, enclosed basin and at some locations could spill and ash flows such as their lack of coherence and specifically the moss growing on the top of the lava over the basin margins. Third, runoff that infiltrates impermanence were also identified. Because the flow hung over the side of the pit. If the these one- through the porous lava flow reemerges at the toe values for viscosity, etc. fell well within acceptable meter to three-meter large pits were not formed of the lava. Low stream ordering, low drainage ranges, the empirical models were determined to like lava-rise- pits, then they might have formed density, and a convex up long-profile indicates the be valid. due to the rock collapsing underneath the moss. river systems are immature. Our study suggest ______Using remote sensing programs, ENVI and ASTER, inaccuracies in ArcHydro predictions of significant 363 • Age Constraints on Faulting and techniques, we studied the variation in channelization on the flow due to the porous from Paleomagnetism, Mount vegetation health on the lava flow and observed pāhoehoe lavas. Selected for presentation at where the rivers were in the area. ROI images Buffalo Association Professional Geologists, Talloc Roof Pendant showed that there were multiple types of Buffalo, NY. BRANDON PERPALL vegetation grown in the area and that healthier ______FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL vegetation grew on the western side of the lobe, 361 • Evaluating Impact Crater SCIENCES which correlated with where the densest areas of The Mount Talloc roof pendant is an isolated block pits were located, suggesting that groundwater Ejecta Thickness Models in Xanthe of Jurassic volcanic arc strata completely played a part in forming the smaller pits by causing Terra, Mars surrounded by younger igneous intrusions. In an the rock to collapse. MORGAN MCDONNELL effort to understand the geologic history of this ______FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, region our collaborators from the University of the 359 • Characterization of Ancient, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Pacific collected samples from the dikes that High Thermal Inertia Units on Mars This research aims to evaluate the ages of impact intrude the roof pendant. Dikes are tabular igneous KATHRYN CHRISTOFF craters in the Xanthe Terra region of Mars as well bodies that cut through pre-existing units and FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, as the crater counting methodologies involved in typically preserve the inclination and declination of GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES the age assessment. Ages of craters are used here Earth's magnetic field at the time of emplacement. This research focused on age dating and to determine the relative age for rivers that By analyzing cores drilled from these hand samples resurfacing history of two distinct units in the Terra superpose, or are blanketed by, crater ejecta. dikes through the process of demagnetization, we Cimmeria region on Mars that were previously Ejecta thickness for large, >3 km sized craters has can determine the remnant magnetization of the dated to Noachian age. There is a distinct high been calculated to test the validity of ages dikes during emplacement. These data can then be thermal inertia olivine-bearing unit that is present generated by crater counting their ejecta blankets. used to calculate the age of emplacement, which in Terra Cimmeria as well other locations on Mars This method does not traditionally consider that will place a time constraint on the age of the including two of the Mars 2020 landing site finalist. some craters in the count may either superpose faulting in the region. Preliminary analysis indicates Thermal inertia is a materials resistance to change the ejecta blankets or are partially buried by the that most of the sites have a stable paleomagnetic in temperature. Olivine-rich high thermal units are ejecta. Partially buried craters should not be signature with a consistent orientation. These data unusual for old terrains on Mars because they tend included in crater counts of ejecta. To determine suggests that it is possible to use magnetics to to be degraded and lacking olivine. Craters with a the maximum crater diameter that should be constrain the age of an intrusion to a specific minimum diameter of 200 meters were counted included in a count, a depth to diameter ratio is geologic time period. ______and then crater statistics plots were produced. The used to illustrate how crater depth must not high thermal unit yielded an age of 820 ± 0.3 Ma exceed ejecta thickness. An annulus of certainty is 364 • Magnetic Susceptibility of for smaller craters while the low thermal unit calculated to show the maximum size of craters Samples Deformed within the (which decreases as ejecta thins) that should be yielded an age of 2.30 ± .1 Ga for smaller craters. Variscan Foreland Fold-Thrust Belt The difference in age suggests degradation, either counted. The average thickness at varying erosion or resurfacing in the area. The difference in distances from the centers of craters is determined in the Western Irish Namurian age suggests that the high thermal inertia units is from profiles taken with 3D Analyst in ArcMap. ______Basin (WINB) possibly more friable and unable to retain older 362 • Rheology, Emplacement HANNAH SACKETT craters. The high thermal units could be a lava in- FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL fill or exposed bedrock due to a strong wind regime Characteristics and Morphology of SCIENCES while the low thermal units are well covered in Andesitic Lava Flows, Tongariro The Western Irish Namurian Basin (WINB) exhibits regolith. kilometer-scale deformation related to the ______Crossing, New Zealand Variscan foreland fold-thrust belt, yet recent 360 • Drainage Development and PATRICK SUTER, WILLIAM BARNES studies have revealed that the grain-scale strain Evolution in Response to a Valley FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, within the strata has little to no tectonic fabric. GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES These studies were completed using normalized Filling Lava Flow, Laki Iceland On the North Island of New Zealand lies the Fry Analysis to create ellipsoids for each sample; MARK LING Tongariro Crossing, containing Mt. Ngauruhoe and providing information on both shape and FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, Red Crater. This research aims to 1.) Establish orientation of the grains. Measured fabrics were GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES criteria in order to distinguish a lava flow from a weakly deformed, primarily oblate, and indicative The Laki flow is located in southeast Iceland block and ash flow from both systems and 2.) Test of vertical flattening due to compaction and originating at the Lakagígar fissure located the validity of empirical models for flow rheology lithification. Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility between 64.0707°N, 18.23378°W and extending to and emplacement characteristics as demonstrated (AMS) was performed to further analyze the 63.831°N, 17.743°W. The Laki eruption (1783) by Warner and Gregg (2003). Aerial photographs magnetic fabrics of the carbonate samples from 66  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM the WINB. AMS fabrics are characterized by z-axes 366 • Newton V. Hooke: The Battle interactions that Joule had with notable members consistent with vertical shortening, while the x- of the scientific community including scientists axes suggest NE-SW elongation. AMS ellipsoids over Intellectual Property and such as Kelvin and Playfaire. This will lead into were primarily oblate and weakly anisotropic, with Scientific Knowledge Joule's creation of his heat apparatus in 1845 and anisotropy parameter (Pj) values ranging between CONNOR TERRY, LIAM COLLINS, DEMETRIOS the implications of this invention thereafter. The 1 and 1.06. Similar to the strain analysis performed GIANNIOS map will include short descriptions of Joule's in prior research, AMS fabrics are consistent with FACULTY SPONSORS: JOE COPE, HISTORY scientific contacts and his relations to them, in compaction rather than tectonic activity. A GARY TOWSLEY, MATHEMATICS order to illustrate that scientific progress does not regional scale investigation of strain could provide This poster explores the rivalry between Isaac come from one person, but rather is the result of a more clarity as to why grain-scale strain does not Newton and Robert Hooke and the motivations confluence of scientists collaborating with one reflect the large-scale deformation. The similarity behind their arguments over the theories of light another. There will also be a timeline describing between the strain and AMS fabrics suggests that and gravitation. Both men were driven by personal Joule's introduction into science, the progression AMS is a good proxy for strain, which could provide recognition within the Royal Society. Newton's of his influence in the community, and the a more efficient approach for collecting a larger Theory of Light was rejected by fellow scientists. discoveries resulting from Joule's works. Joule's data set. Selected for presentation at Buffalo However, after Hooke's death, Newton's Theory of connections to other scientists serves as a Association of Professional Geologists, Buffalo, Gravitation achieved widespread scientific reminder that while great innovations are NY. acknowledgement. To this day, Newton's frequently attributed to one person, this view ______theoretical framework is considered the most potentially discounts the influence of a scientist's 365 • Evidence for Shear Strain in accurate and useful model. Hooke's contributions social network to any one person's work. the Fabric of Gneiss: An Analysis of to Newton's work, however, are largely ______uncredited. Newton did not credit Hooke's work in 368 • Voices from the War on the Alpine Fault at Gaunt Creek, Principia, but rather emphasized the superior Terror West Coast, New Zealand quality of his mathematical presentation and the KATHERINE ZASLAVSKY, RACHEL OLLIS, ISABEL PAIGE HAVENER, PAIGE WALSH support of his new patrons. Ultimately, their OWEN FACULTY SPONSOR: SCOTT GIORGIS, GEOLOGICAL rivalries signified the importance of intellectual FACULTY SPONSOR: MEGAN ABBAS, HISTORY SCIENCES property, quality of patronage, empirical research, In 2001, a foreign terror attack devastated the Gaunt Creek is a well-preserved exposure of New and the reputations of their philosophies. American nation. Sixteen years later, 9/11 remains ______Zealand's Alpine Fault, an active tectonic boundary in our country's consciousness as one of the most between the Pacific and Australian plates. The type 367 • Robert Boyle: The significant events in recent history. The world has of boundary the Alpine Fault represents on the Relationship Between Spirituality been shaped by this event and the ensuing societal South Island is a transpressional zone, where both and Scientific Inquiry changes. Utilizing the methodology of oral history, shear and convergence occur simultaneously. A we explore the narratives of individuals, TALIA FABIILLI, LENA EVERS-HILLSTOM, CARLOS stream cobble of gneiss was collected from the juxtaposed against the official accounts that shape ABREU study area and turned into two microscope slides, our understanding of global events. This project FACULTY SPONSOR: JOE COPE, HISTORY or thin sections. After a series of cutting, grinding, seeks to share the multitude of experiences JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY and polishing, a fabric analysis was performed in affected by and related to the War on Terror, the Our poster will look at the relationship between order to better understand the mechanics of the ongoing military conflict stemming from 9/11. active fault. Gneiss is a metamorphic rock that has Robert Boyle's religious sensibilities and scientific ______been subjected to intense heat and pressure, work. Influential in shaping science around 369 • Drag Balls, Drag Queens, and which alters its mineral and structural composition. experimentation and observation, Boyle was also Multiple microfabrics, or alignments of the very religious and concerned with finding a way to AIDS in New York City: How Drag minerals that make up the overall structure of the prove his religious ideals through scientific means. Culture Became a Source of Specifically, Boyle was concerned with the rock, are present within the sample. These include Liberation, Community, and mica fish, rotated porphyroclasts, sheared reconciliation of his scientific and religious world microfolds, and others. From the data collected, views through experimentation with the Identity the sense of shear expressed by all of the transmutation of metals, such as the JESSICA LISI microfabrics are consistent with each other, transmutation of gold into base metals. Boyle FACULTY SPONSOR: RYAN JONES, HISTORY indicating that they all experienced shear linked this with the presence of the otherworldly, Drag queens and the art of drag is often viewed as deformation in the same direction. as he believed that through transmutation he a small subculture of the LGBT community, rather ______could give more legitimacy to the potential than an essential part of LGBT history. This 439 • Fluvial Terraces of the Castle existence of spirits and, on a larger scale, God and presentation argues how instead, drag was a form religious belief. Thus the poster looks at how of gay liberation before Stonewall; how drag Hill Basin, New Zealand religion led Robert Boyle to experiment with culture flourished along with the LGBT community ANTON GRUNING, NICOLE GREGG certain aspects of science, and how this after Stonewall and provided a safe space for FACULTY SPONSOR: NICHOLAS WARNER, experimentation reflected Boyle's perception of homosexuals and transsexuals figuring out their GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES the world. identity in the Post-Stonewall period; and how drag The aggradational terraces of the Castle Hill basin ______culture and drag queens played an important role were used to calculate an uplift rate for the basin. 435 • From the Minds of Many: during the AIDS crisis. Whether it is for 72 terraces were mapped as polygons with aerial James Joule and the Scientific Social transformation of one's self and identity, blurring imagery and DEM's from data.linz.govt.nz. These the lines of gender and sexuality, or to create a were correlated to each other by using a Hillshade Networks of the 19th Century feeling of belonging, drag queens participate in model, DEM, Google Earth, and 3D Analyst tool in GABRIEL PONCE, TRAJEN CRACIUM, MORGAN drag to express some aspect of themselves and Arcmap. Using values for average elevation of the WEBER show it openly to the world. Drag is visible, drag is basin, base elevation, and a glacial age of FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES MCLEAN, PHYSICS & a form of art and creative expression, and drag approximately 15,000 years, an uplift of 16.6 ASTRONOMY remains to be an important aspect of LGBT art and mm/year was calculated. This fits within the JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY culture. This presentation aims to analyze the expected 10-20 mm/year range previously James Prescott Joule is a significant 19th century importance of drag queens within the larger LGBT calculated. Sources for error could include English scientists and whom the unit of energy, the historical narrative, but also in New York City, and resolution conflicts between the aerial imagery 'Joule',is named after. His work on the mechanical how the culture and atmosphere of New York City and DEM, and vertical datum inaccuracies. equivalence of heat redefined the way scientists and the culture of drag work well with each other,

viewed heat and laid the foundation for the study creating a symbiotic relationship. HISTORY of thermodynamics. This poster will map out the

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MATHEMATICS 372 • 3D Boundary Detection Using ______374 • Applications of Discrete 370 • How a Flipped Classroom Cellular Automata and Genetic Mathematics in Computing: Approach to Teaching Algorithms Apportionment, Forbidden Undergraduate Students in WALTER GERYCH FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS BALDWIN, Positions, and Shortest Paths Mathematics Can Instruct My MATHEMATICS SHAYNE O'BRIEN Future Teaching We designed and implemented an algorithm for FACULTY SPONSOR: HOMMA FARIAN, NICOLE TOMEI boundary detection in 3D images that consisted of MATHEMATICS FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS BALDWIN, a cellular automaton [1] optimized by a genetic The purpose of this study is to demonstrate select MATHEMATICS algorithm [2]. The method involves randomly applications of discrete mathematics in computer As a pre-service teacher, I hope to utilize a generating an initial population of rule sets for science. In particular, we consider the “flipped” instruction approach in my future cellular automata. The fitness of each rule set is apportionment problem, computing arrangements classroom. A flipped format is where the determined by the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio of the given forbidden positions, and the notion of finding traditional delivery of material through lectures is image generated after running a cellular a shortest path. While these problems are not moved out of the classroom, and in-class time automaton using that rule set on a ground truth novel, they are foundational to many tangible, real- concentrates on hands-on learning exercises (such test image. A genetic algorithm then breeds the world problems such as gerrymandering, as might traditionally be done through homework most fit rule sets together. After several scheduling, and the traveling salesman problem. assignments). Alongside my hope to utilize a generations, the fittest rule set resulting from the flipped instruction approach, my desire to teach genetic algorithm is used to define the cellular NEUROSCIENCE automaton that acts as the boundary detector for high school mathematics motivates why I am 375 • A Neuroscience Approach to observing Dr. Baldwin’s teaching style. There is the 3D images. We compared the performance of great value in flipped classroom teaching, as I this genetic algorithm-derived cellular automaton Fostering STEM Education in discovered in research literature on flipped to the performance of other boundary detectors, Elementary School Students: instruction; it has been shown to increase student using the PSNR as a metric for performance. The performance. Flipped classrooms permit more cellular automaton rule set derived from the Impact of STEM Workshops at the time for students to build their knowledge. In genetic algorithm produced results that RKids Afterschool Program contrast, in a traditional lecture-based class, outperformed a previous method of 3D boundary MOLLY BRADY, SUNITA SINGH, WILSON MEI, students have less opportunity for self-discovery detection when run on brain scans from the BRATS RAVNEET SINGH, MONICA PUJOLS and are doing less independent thinking. To better 2016 dataset . [1]: Wolfram, Stephen, A New Kind FACULTY SPONSOR: TERENCE BAZZETT, gauge the effectiveness of mathematics classes oF Science. Champaign: Wolfram Media, 2002. NEUROSCIENCE taught in a flipped format, I am holding a focus Print. [2]: Toffoli, T., MArgolus, N., Cellular THOMAS MATTHEWS, GOLD PROGRAM AND group session for Dr. Baldwin’s students. Their Automata Machines. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987. JESSIE GYR, NYCC AMERICORPS VISTA responses will provide me with a better sense of Print. Selected for presentation at Consortium for Recently, there has been a surge of education the similarity between Dr. Baldwin's instruction Computing Sciences in Colleges, Northeastern promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and and flipped classrooms I have read about. I hope Region, Albany, NY. Mathematics (STEM). Within the overarching field thereby to gain insight on how students view a ______of science, neuroscience is among the fastest- flipped classroom in contrast to classes taught by 373 • Patronage in 17th Century growing areas. Increasingly advanced research direct instruction. Europe: How Tycho Brahe technology and methods allow for better ______Influenced Johannes Kepler's understanding of nervous system functions and 371 • Connecting Conventional malfunctions, and how researchers can work to Computer Rendering with 3D Research in Planetary Motion prevent and combat some common malfunctions DANIEL WOLFANGER, LOGAN CLEARY, MAUREEN such as neurodegenerative disorders. Printing HENRY Neuroscience is a field of the future, making it STEVEN SICARI FACULTY SPONSOR: GARY TOWSLEY, beneficial to begin teaching students about the FACULTY SPONSOR: DOUGLAS BALDWIN, MATHEMATICS brain and nervous system as early as elementary MATHEMATICS JOSEPH COPE, HISTORY school. Sparking an early interest in STEM fields is When working with computer graphics in object This poster will explore how Johannes Kepler's essential to future research and advances in oriented programming it is common practice to use research was affected by Tycho Brahe's patronage medicine, and beyond. A collaboration with SUNY class hierarchies to establish renderers which all of Kepler. Furthermore, we will look at how the Geneseo's Center for Community, AmeriCorps present the same interface to clients but draw to countries that they chose to conduct their research VISTA, and the RKids afterschool program different display devices. The question was: can in directly influenced their resources during the presented a STEM outreach opportunity. Thus, one create an STL (Standard Tessellation Language) Protestant Revolution. Johannes Kepler had a SUNY Geneseo Neuroscience majors enrolled in file renderer class which exists in a given renderer background in mathematics and science, Applications in Neuroscience (NEUR 215) spent the hierarchy which was constructed with the intent of particularly, the computational aspect of science. current semester developing a series of workshops making screen renderers? The answer is yes, I have Brahe on the other hand worked with direct to present at an afterschool enrichment program been able construct such an STL renderer and put observation and theory. After their meeting in for 4th-6th graders. These workshops are designed it in use with models of crystals. In this project, I Prague, Brahe hired Kepler as an assistant; their to expose students to a range of neuroscience worked with an already existing rendering class combined efforts allowed both to expand their activities, including studying anatomical structure hierarchy which was being used to perform generic astronomical research. Throughout their of the brain and perceptual abilities involving visual screen rendering for models of crystals. The collaboration, Brahe and Kepler had to work and tactile stimuli. Basic student understanding existing screen renderers receive triangles from around political and cultural instability associated and interest were assessed pre and post- the client and draw all the triangles onto the screen with the Protestant Reformation. Brahe and workshops to determine the relative impact of this using a single "draw" method. The STL renderer I Kepler's collaboration in Prague was the result of novel program. wrote overrides this "draw" method and writes the the former's conflict with his former patron, the triangles into an STL file. After successfully King of Denmark, and a new patronage relationship PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY constructing the STL renderer, I was able to find 3D that he had formed with the Holy Roman Emperor, printer settings which work very well with my Rudolf II. After Brahe's death in 1601, his 376 • WIYN Open Cluster Study: models and print out the models on both the connection with Kepler helped enable Kepler to UBVRI Photometry of Open Star LulzBot Mini 3D printer and the MakerBot continue to build and revise Brahe's research until Cluster M48 Replicator 3D printer. he finally refuted Brahe's initial thesis and ALEXANDER BELLES, ALEXIS IRWIN ______discovered his own Laws of Planetary Motion. 68  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM

FACULTY SPONSOR: AARON STEINHAUER, PHYSICS evaluation. Images of a variety of samples will be of varying thickness. RBS spectra were also & ASTRONOMY presented and will include small metallic objects of obtained for a cylindrical iron buried-layer target We present a five-color photometric study of the various sizes and shapes. with aluminum dopant which was mounted on a open star cluster M48. A total of 130 images, taken ______silicon carbide stalk. The computer program with the WIYN 0.9-m telescope over three nights, 379 • The Target Chamber SIMNRA is used to analyze the spectra. Co authors: were processed and stellar magnitudes were Manipulator C.R. Stillman, S. Ivancic, S.P. Regan, T.C. Sangster, calculated using a point-spread-function Laboratory for Laser Energetics DILLON RAMSEY determined for each frame. This data was Selected for presentation at Omega Laser FACULTY SPONSOR: EDWARD POGOZELSKI, calibrated using Landolt standards taken on one of Users Group, Rochester, NY. PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY the nights and then combined into a master Geneseo's Pelletron accelerator is used to photometric catalog. Cluster parameters of accelerate ions. These ions are accelerated into a POLITICAL SCIENCE & distance, age, interstellar reddening, and terminal vacuum chamber in which they collide metallicity were derived. This cluster, although INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS with a target. A nuclear reaction occurs and the very nearby, has not been well-studied previously products of this reaction scatter about the 383 • The Unique Challenges Only and M48's age makes it an interesting candidate chamber. To detect these products, detectors are Homeless Women Face for future spectroscopic abundance studies. ______positioned around the target. Frequently detectors ALISHAH BHIMANI need to be moved to different positions. The FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL 377 • Quest for Signs of Life in the Target Chamber Manipulator is a device that SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Midst of Chaos automatically repositions targets in the vacuum Homeless women are faced with more difficulty than JEFF DOSER chamber without the need to break the seal of a man would because of their unique biological FACULTY SPONSOR: DAVID MEISEL, PHYSICS & vacuum. The Target Chamber Manipulator can differences. Women have certain inherent challenges ASTRONOMY move targets to new positions in seconds. This that force them to need more care that causes a Automated classification of habitats and its species device eliminates the time needed to ventilate the financial strain on their everyday lives. As a homeless using deep learning techniques can provide a way to chamber and manually reposition the targets. woman, that strain is multiplied tenfold. Women have more easily and accurately assess the biodiversity of a ______to manage themselves physically every month during habitat and its surrounding soundscape. To 380 • Photon Existence in an their menstrual period. This requires having the accomplish this task with minimal quantitative Adaptation of the Hanbury Brown- financial means to buy overpriced sanitary products. representation for unique identification, we For a homeless woman, it means choosing between performed a complete multi-resolution analysis of the Twiss Experiment buying food or the products they need to take care of characteristics and qualities of the signals using TRISTAN WILKINSON themselves. The government subsidies for the Mathematica. We developed a series of model signal FACULTY SPONSOR: GEORGE MARCUS, PHYSICS & homeless do not allocate enough money to include sources, including sounds of common predator ASTRONOMY enough of these invaluable products in shelters. species, prey, and neutral species, as well as a series of In an adaptation of the Hanbury Brown and Twiss Another example of how biology influences homeless model noise sources, including mobile and fixed experiment we explicitly demonstrated the women is their difficulty to gain access to maternal anthropogenic sounds. We performed an exploration existence of the photon. To do this we used a high health care. Not only do homeless women have to of different types of wavelets and other filtering power diode laser and a nonlinear crystal to worry about how to willingly have a child, they have techniques to determine what techniques had the generate correlated pairs of 800 (nm) photons. the added fear of being raped in the streets and/or in desired characteristics of shift- invariance, optimum One of the pair traveled directly to a high efficiency the shelters. More of a problem is that these women time-frequency localization, and classification avalanche photodiode detector, while the other felt that they could not get the medical attention they enhancement of features for the deep learning was sent to a beam splitter and subsequently one needed. Homeless women have a higher chance of system. Upon analysis, three wavelets showed the of two other detectors. To show the photon exists having birth complications than women who are not desired characteristics: the Cohen-Daubechies- we looked at coincidences between these three homeless. Feauveau wavelet, the Biorthogonal Spline, and the detectors using nuclear instrumentation module ______Daubechies Orthogonal. Testing of these wavelets was electronics (NIM). Showing that there are no 384 • Creating Employment performed by using a deep learning identification coincidences between the two detectors after the Opportunities for Disabled system to locate individual sound sources from a beam splitter, with the other two coincidences recording of Mendon Ponds Park, from which we present means that the photon does exist. We Americans judged the success of the system with each wavelet at showed this to be the case by calculating an anti- ANTHONY KESLER identifying specific sound sources. correlation coefficient of 0.74 ± 0.17. FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL ______SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 378 • Explorations of an X-Ray/ 381 • Using Rutherford There are thousands of people in the United States Backscattering Spectroscopy to that have documented physical disabilities. Many Alpha Particle Micro-Imager people with these disabilities also fall well below LAUREN FARRELL Characterize Targets for MTW the poverty line. Getting out of poverty is a difficult FACULTY SPONSORS: DAVID MEISEL, CLINT CROSS, BARAK STOCKLER, GUNNAR BROWN, RYAN task for any American, but being a working aged PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY WARD American with a physical disability makes getting A low cost X-ray microscope built by modifying an FACULTY SPONSORS: CHARLIE FREEMAN, out of poverty even harder. The only way to help optical CCD device uses electromagnetic radiation STEPHEN PADALINO, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY these disabled Americans is to provide them with in the soft X-ray band (or low energy alpha A study is underway to determine the composition jobs. Employment is the only way to keep someone particles) to produce lens-less but magnified and thickness of targets used at the Multiterawatt out of poverty, and finding a job with a physical images of small objects. The first step was to (MTW) laser facility at the Laboratory for Laser disability is extremely difficult in the United States. fabricate a detector housing that also holds the Energetics (LLE) using Rutherford backscattering The current policies that are in place have failed target mount. A Kapton window is placed over the spectroscopy (RBS). In RBS, an ion beam is incident many disabled Americans for far too long. These detector and optionally over the target to protect on a sample and the scattered ions are detected policies need to be changed, and something needs the CCD surface that for image clarity has to be in with a surface barrier detector. The resulting to be done to help the thousands of disabled close proximity to the target object. Two lens-less energy spectra of the scattered ions can be Americans who have no choice but to remain in configurations are available: parallel rayed, analyzed to determine important parameters of poverty. monochromatic X-rays reflected onto the CCD the target including elemental composition and ______from a plane metallic reflector, and a mono thickness. Helium and deuterium beams from the 385 • Policies to Aid Homeless LGBT energetic point source illuminating the sample 1.7 MV Pelletron accelerator at SUNY Geneseo  with alpha particles. Minimization of diffraction is have been used to characterize several different Youth essential to get sharp shadows cast on the CCD for targets for MTW, including CH and aluminum foils ARAM PEERS  Promotes sustainability 69 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual

FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL mental health and may be mistreated without 390 • Resolution in Veteran Social SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS sensitivity to their disabilities. The recidivism, or In the United States, it is estimated that up to 40% tendency of individuals to reoffend after being Issues and Affairs of the 1.6 million homeless youth identify as being convicted of a crime, of mentally ill or challenged CULLEN BRENNAN apart of the LGBT community (True Colors Fund). people causes a draining of resources for the prison FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL LGBT may be defined as any persons who identify system and the government that funds it and SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender. Only neglects to work in the best interest of this Issues that surround veterans and their families are 7% of American youth identifies as any of the overlooked population. quite serious and revolve around the well-being of defined groups under the umbrella term, LGBT ______the veterans themselves. Suicide is one of the (True Colors Fund). These youths are often forced 388 • Giving Foster Children a largest issues that the veteran community faces. Related to suicide, another issue is the trauma out of their homes due to unaccepting parents Stable Support System: Keeping and/or other family members, or they leave due to faced by many returning veterans. Service unsafe living conditions, such as abuse from family, Siblings Together members and their families endure this hardship be it physically or emotionally. According to the CATHERINE WALSER because of the involvement in combat and stress True Colors Fund, "More than 1 in 4 are thrown out FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL filled, taxing experiences. The trauma raises the of their homes" (True Colors Fund). Policy based SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS question of the mental health in the community solutions for this issue are not simple or easy, but Children in foster homes have a hard time and the amount of veterans that are coping. It if found successful would help an often overlooked adjusting to a new living environment as well as life seems that many use drugs to combat their issues, group. after they turn 18. One factor that can make the which leads to facing legal issues. Lastly, veterans ______foster system even more difficult to thrive in is the seem to make up about ten percent of the nations 386 • Teenage Mental Illness in splitting up of siblings. Research has shown that homeless population. Due to healthcare being a primary issue, and more specifically, mental health  children do better in school and are less likely to be America involved in crime when they have at least one of being one of the biggest issues facing veterans, all CAITLYN BEST their siblings placed in the home with them. healthcare options for veterans that need FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL However, keeping kids together can be much psychiatric and mental health doctors should be SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS harder than it seems. There are many factors that covered under federal healthcare, as well as an Mental illness among the youth in America is an determine if siblings will be placed in the same option to fund and facilitate private plans that enormous amount, reaching 20% between ages 13 home, including when they were admitted to the cover mental health substance abuse. Many more and 18. 37% of students with a mental illness system, ages of the children, and the abilities of the implementations will be addressed in the article on dropout of school, which is the highest dropout foster parents. I plan to discuss options for new the variety of issues that veteran's are now facing, rate among disabilities. 50.6% of children aged 8- regulations and procedures that would increase as well as the challenges that follow the policies. 15 have received services for mental treatment. this likelihood, such as monitoring homes with ______70% of the youth in juvenile justice programs have multiple children both in and out of foster care, 391 • Reintegration a mental illness. Suicide is the third highest cause and supplying the foster parents with more DIANA GANIS of death among this age group and 90% of suicides resources so that they can better take care of FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL had an underlying mental illness. Not only do many multiple children. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS mentally ill teenagers wind up dropping out of ______The target population I will examine is formerly school, ending up in jail, but some may go on to be 389 • Public Policy Challenges incarcerated men and women. These men and homeless or develop substance addictions. As we Surrounding American Veterans women often struggle to productively integrate see through the statistics on adult mental illness, into society as members with the capacity to earn 26% of adults who are homeless have a history of Suffering from Post-Traumatic sufficient income. This problem is serious, as mental illness and 10.2 million adults have mental Stress Disorder disenfranchisement with society leads to illnesses concurring with substance abuse recidivism. The failure to integrate formerly disorders. The prevalence and effects of mental CEARA GILMARTIN FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL incarcerated men and women into society will illness have an effect on those not suffering from keep ex-prisoners impoverished and disconnected. them as well. 193 billion dollars in American SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS America has been at war for a large portion of our This phenomenon is a public problem because the earnings each year are due to mental illness. high recidivism rate creates a tax burden. In New ______history. From World War I to the Iraq War, many York State, for the fiscal year of 2010, the annual 387 • The Recidivism of Mentally Ill men and women have devoted their lives to military service. Current policy regarding Veterans cost to keep one person incarcerated for a year was Individuals In Federal And State Affairs needs to be improved so that American $60,076 (Vera Institute of Justice, 2012). There are Correctional Systems veterans are receiving the benefits they deserve. additional costs associated with the judicial system including the cost of public defenders. To mitigate CALLEN GROSS Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a common mental illness which affects veterans. Battle recidivism and therefore the tax burden, the public FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL must accrue the burden of assisting formerly SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Fatigue, Irritable Heart, and Shell Shock have been names for PTSD in the past. Many veterans who incarcerated men and women with re-integration Impoverished mentally ill individuals comprise a into society. Lastly, prisoners have the potential to large portion of the inmate population in our have PTSD are not afforded the care that they deserve. 12,632 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans become productive members of society upon nation's correctional facilities. Of this mentally ill release. Guiding ex-prisoners towards bettering population, only 33 percent of inmates received were diagnosed with PTSD in 2013 alone.The stigma around mental illnesses in America is society and lifting them from poverty is a moral mental health treatment while incarcerated. They duty everyone owes to his or her society. are sent through the same criminal channels and already an issue, so veterans do not seek help because it is very difficult to receive any in a timely ______are detained and incarcerated without sensitivity 392 • Title I School Reform to their challenges. Often lacking family support manner. Untreated PTSD can lead to the ELLIOT TOLKIN systems to vouch for their disability or see that development of depression, suicidal behavior, FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL they receive the right care, these individuals are homicidal tendencies, or unsafe situations for SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS doomed to fall into a cycle of imprisonment that loved ones of the afflicted veterans. Some of the The American education system is severely flawed, becomes harder to escape over time. Their low tragedies from untreated (or lack of regular with clear inequalities between public schools economic status may prevent them from posting treatment) can result in events such as the Fort across the country. The main problem I will be bail once they have been detained, regardless of Hood shooting in 2014, the murder of "American addressing regarding the American Education the severity of their crime. While it may be more Sniper" Chris Kyle, and the shooting at the Fort System is under funded public schools, specifically beneficial for these individuals to be sent to special Lauderdale airport this past year. ______Title I schools and there lowered graduation rates. treatment facilities or mental hospitals, they are Title I schools are considered poor enough by the incarcerated with other offenders of more sound 70  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM federal government to be eligible to receive federal 395 • Unemployment and government, these children are entitled to a funds. Commonly Title I schools are found in the satisfying home environment. With this inner cities across America. These under funded Transportaion responsibility that the government has taken on, Title I schools and by extension their poor students GNIRE KONE there should be thoughtful evaluation of foster are suffering. My target population, these so called FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL parents and homes. These past insufficient Title I students, face many problems including SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS evolutions have left an alarming amount of poverty. One such way of escaping poverty is In December, the number of unemployed persons children to be victims of abuse, inadequate care through a strong education. Thus by helping these increased by 632,000 to 11.1 million and the and other cases that may hinder their Title I students we are effectively fighting to end unemployment rate rose to 7.3 percent. Since the development. There are statistics that report poverty at the source. This is why we need to help start of the recession in December 2007, the children in foster care not measuring up to their Title I schools raise their graduation rates. number of unemployed persons has grown by 3.6 counterparts outside the system whether ______million, and the unemployment rate has risen by academically, financially or economically. For 393 • The Mentally Disabled and 2.3 percentage points. The number of long-term example, only about 10% of foster youth graduate unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) the Prison-Industrial Complex from college. In comparison about 60% of people rose to 2.6 million in December and was up by 1.3 who start college graduate from college nationally. FRIAS ANABEL million in 2008. However, today the These statistics call for a change to the foster care FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL unemployment rate is just 4.8 well below the system. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS natural unemployment rate (Figure 1). Yet, many ______The United States Department of Justice has been people are still unemployment, many reason are 398 • Reducing Childhood notorious for depriving mentally disabled prisoners because of forces out of their control, for example rehabilitative services to focus on incapacitation many of those in the auto industry lost their jobs Obesity and retribution that appease voters. Prison due to technological advances (automation) as well HYESUN YI privatization has caused further maltreatment of as corporations moving factories to other countries FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL mentally disabled inmates for many reason. Private such as Mexico for cheap labor. Another reason SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS prisons play a major role in the marketplace and that job lose occurs, is because of the demand of The goal of this policy is to help facilitate better aim to make a profit at any cost, which requires employers wanting workers with more experience nutrition amongst individuals living in poverty, them to have prisoners inhabiting their facilities at and higher education levels. This poses a problem particularly children, to decrease the rate of obesity. In all times. Many times the target population for of people being unable to enter the work force the United States, the National Center for Children in prisoners-for-profit are poor mentally disabled again. In my opinion the unemployed are a group Poverty estimated that 15-16 million children live at or people who have little representation and are seen of people that need reform and additional welfare below the poverty line. They represent 23.3% of the is a nuance to society. When deciding to minimize policies. The unemployed, low income in the top 3 total population and 33.3% of the population living cost prisons, private or government- funded, populated states, New York, California, and Illinois below the poverty line. A study published by the US eliminate fundamental services that aim to aid the are often told to "buckle down" and "lift National Library of Medicine showed counties with mentally disabled. When mental health services themselves by their bootstraps." These statements poverty rates exceeding 35% have 1.45 times higher must be provided, they are usually lackluster or undermine the difficulty that unemployed people rates of childhood obesity. In the long term, children limitedly available. My goal is to determine three go through and additional social welfare policies with obesity are predisposed to diabetes II, respiratory potential policies that could divert this targeted will allow the unemployed to have a better quality issues, cardiovascular issues, and orthopedic issues. group away from the prison-industrial complex and of life. Obesity also affects childhood confidence, stress, and towards receiving the services they need to ______may leads to decreased academic performance. Some eventually re-entry society productively. 396 • Mentally Ill Homeless, may argue that these health issues are personal. ______However, there are nationwide economic effects as 394 • Low Income Families American Social Welfare Policy well. The Harvard School of Public Health reports GEOFFREY MOORE HANNAH KNAB obese individuals spend 42% more on healthcare than FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL those who are not obese. The cost of obesity related SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS complications have varied findings, but is estimated to A major problem in the United States right now is The target population of this poster is the mentally be 20% of medical costs in the United States, upwards the state of American health care. Even with the ill homeless; they are often overlooked by of $190.2 billion per year. Given these economic and Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law by American policy makers and suffer from serious social effects, continued dialogue on improving former President Obama in 2010, the state of debilitating mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia nutrition is important. American health care is still troubling. My target or bipolar disorder. The mentally ill homeless face ______population, which is currently suffering the most a number of issues: they are at higher risk of being 399 • Veterans & Post Traumatic beaten, robbed, threatened with a weapon, from America's poor health care system is the 30 Stress Disorder million low income Americans that are uninsured injured, and sexually assaulted. Additionally, there quality of life is lower than the mentally stable IAN STEWART which represents 10% of the U.S. population. The FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL main reasons these low income people are homeless person, and they are at higher risk of death (Torrey, 2013). Through this poster I shall SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS uninsured is because there is no ideal healthcare The United States has roughly 21.8 million veterans coverage plan that is available to them. Medicaid is bring up policies that would be solutions for these problems, look at what the American welfare of the armed forces. This is a huge percentage of a government social welfare program that covers the total population and they are an important part low income families, but unfortunately many low system is currently doing to help the mentally homeless, and discuss how to improve on these of our society. A large majority of veterans suffer income families don't qualify for medicaid. from different issues such as mental disorders or Obamacare offers health coverage to these low existing policies. ______physical problems. One of the worst ailments income families, through purchasing private 397 • Foster System Policy Changes afflicting veterans is Post Traumatic Stress insurance that is subsidized by the government to Disorder. It is estimated that about 30% of Vietnam be made more affordable. There is a mandate that in US veterans, 12% of Gulf War veterans, and between taxes the uninsured to encourage buying HILDA GOMEZ 11- 20% of the second Iraq War veterans suffer Obamacare,but many low income families find it FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL from PTSD or have at one point in their life. more economical for them to pay the penalty than SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______to purchase obamacare. These low income families Foster children are the responsibility of the 400 • Additional Effort Required: are not poor enough for medicaid but are left government. These children are displaced from without a feasible option for purchasing health homes that were not able to provide sufficient care Working Towards Educational care. A solution is needed to bring coverage to to sustain a healthy development for these Equity in Secondary Schools these low income families. children. Now under the care of the US JASMINE CUI ______ Promotes sustainability 71 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual

FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL order to ensure the highest levels of care of shows that 4.8% of Americans began the new year SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS children among the education system. Therefore, unemployed. This percentage consists of From the SAT & the ACT to International children with special needs in the education individuals who are unemployed through no fault Baccalaureate (IB) exams & Advanced Placement (AP) system are among the target population for of their own, who have enough work hours and testing, standardized tests have become the standard receiving necessary social welfare benefits. This wages covered in previous employment, and are bearers in terms of measuring a student's academic project will work to address the possible welfare currently employable and actively seeking new proficiency. Moreover, in many institutions benefits that can be made available to these work, defining them as unemployed. Social policies standardized tests are often utilized when students. are in place for those who are eligible to receive determining class placements. In other words, test ______unemployment benefits from government welfare results, in many cases, determine the trajectory of a 403 • Assisting the Homeless programs, such as unemployment insurance in student's academic career. When it comes to these Population New York State and federal Social Security, which tests, the "playing field," so to speak, is not level for contains provisions for UI. However, within this LAUREN GIANTELLI individuals with LDs & appropriate accommodations population of individuals, are those who have been FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL (e.g. extended time, separate test location, etc.) must unemployed for 27 weeks or more, falling into the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS be administered to compensate for any deficiencies; category of long-term unemployment, while most The targeted population of interest is the homeless however, accommodations are typically granted only unemployment benefits are designed to shelter population. The National Health Care for the with extensive documentation -- something which few individuals against distress for only a short period Homeless Council defines homelessness as "an find themselves able to afford or obtain. When of time. By further exploring the causes and effects individual who lacks housing, including an students are misplaced in classes the effects are of long-term unemployment, and the already individual whose primary residence during the multifarious and resonant, often having a existing policies, social welfare policies can be night is a supervised public or private facility that demonstrable, negative impact on student outcomes, better proposed and implemented to address the provides temporary living accommodations, and affecting college prospects & compromising issues and concerns of not only the target an individual who is a resident in transitional postsecondary readiness. Clearly, the stakes are high. population (the long-term unemployed), but the housing. A homeless person is an individual This study assesses deficiencies in special needs remaining population of the unemployed as well. without permanent housing who may live on the education concerning standardized testing for ______streets; stay in a shelter, mission, single room students ages 14-18 (secondary school) with occupancy facilities, abandoned building or 406 • Veterans Access to Health ADD/ADHD and poses possible solutions, specifically, vehicle; or in any other unstable or non-permanent Care and VA Hospitals increased coordination between "in-house" disability situation [Section 330 of the Public Health Service PATRICK CALDARELLI coordinators and test providers such as the Act (42 U.S.C., 254b)]. As of November 2016 there FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL Collegeboard and the Educational Testing Service. ______was a reported 62,840 homeless people in New SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS York City alone, 15,899 homeless families with In the United States there are nearly one million 401 • Treatment of Opiate 24,251 homeless children. Research shows that veterans with injuries and psychological issues they Addiction as Social Welfare Policy some of the many causes of homelessness include; receive serving their country. The Wounded JOHN SULLIVAN the lack of affordable housing, eviction, job loss, Warrior Project, calculates as of Jan. 1st, 2017, that FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL and dangerous housing conditions. Permanent there are 52,000 wounded veterans, 400,000 SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS policies need to be put in place to improve the veterans with PTSD, and another 320,000 with a The Center for Disease Control has described the welfare system in order prevent homelessness. brain injury. These men and women bravely served current state of opiate addiction as an epidemic. ______this country and became injured as a result. It is the The rise in addiction and addiction related deaths 404 • Rural Education Reform duty of the U.S. government to provide our in the past decade have had socio-economic MADELINE STOKLOSA veterans with appropriate health care. For many effects that reverberate throughout all strata of FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL veterans it is difficult to obtain access to health American society. I will look at the relationships SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS care and for others the quality of the health care is between economic and education levels and their Whenever education reform is discussed, many poor. In an effort to provide healthcare to military relationship with opiate addiction as well as automatically think of the failing inner city schools personnel the government created the current treatment services offered by the and the multiple problems they endure to produce Department of Veterans Affairs, which included government. My project will explore the primary quality students. Schools in rural areas do not even hospitals and facilities specifically for vets. Funding causes of opiate addiction in America as well as cross their minds, but the students from these rural for the VA and its facilities comes from the offering three policy proposals to help curb the schools are arguably worse off than those who taxpayers and the issue of aiding our veterans is rate of addiction and addiction-related issues. attend urban ones. Rural and urban education rarely controversial. Both parties support the ______approaches must vary to meet the needs of the veterans and are engaged in ensuring they get the 402 • Special Education Welfare post-graduation job market in their respective medical treatment they deserve. Challenges for Services in the Education System geographic locations. Since there is no single, improving the accessibility and quality of the care, are mainly finding the most efficient way of KRISTEN RASQUIN magical solution to education reform, there are expanding the availability of healthcare and how to FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL several avenues that should be explored to curb the problems America's educators face within rural ensure veterans receive the best care possible. SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______Within the education system it is critical for all areas. Rural education reform can be achieved students to receive access to the same through a combination of quality teachers, 407 • Comprehensive Reproductive opportunities and benefits that an education can distance education, and a 4-day school week. The Healthcare Access in Poor Rural target population for these policy proposals are afford to them. Children with disabilities require Areas the same, if not more, guidance from the primary and secondary school age children and their parents who live in impoverished rural RACHEL CRAIG education system. However, sometimes it is FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL difficult to overcome certain aspects in the communities and attend rural public schools. ______SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS education system in order to grow and improve 405 • American Social Welfare Impoverish rural women lack agency in their their overall educational opportunities. There are reproductive healthcare choices. State-level cuts many problems that a child with special needs may Policy: Long-Term and restrictions have caused poor women in rural, face while in the education system. Some specific Unemployment isolated areas to be unable to regularly receive problems these children are facing include a lack of MELISSA WHYMAN proper reproductive healthcare. There are few parental participation, defining the standards FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL facilities in these areas that are able to provide necessary for children with disabilities, and the SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS safe, reliable, and truthful healthcare options. A children's performance levels in the classroom. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the lack of funding has been caused by a lack of These problems need to be addressed properly in survey of the current population for January 2017 governmental support and a fierce movement to 72  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM limit a women's access to reproductive healthcare, individuals as well as their families and loved ones. the United States has been known to churn out including abortion. When women are not in control To ease the pain of the patient as well as the strain criminals, due to numerous obstacles -- not of their reproductive healthcare, their well-being is on their caretaker and family, we must give our starting or ending with an education system far threatened and society as a whole suffers. The greatest teachers the care they desire and deserve. below standard of that which one would find in United Nations declared the right to an abortion a Many of the people suffering from such diseases affluent neighborhoods. These obstacles make the human right along with the ability to plan and are our grandparents and parents; those who lack of opportunity for upward economic mobility regulate your family. The bulk of the burden of worked, raised children, and made this world a more than obvious to the individuals within these family planning falls upon women in our society. better place. It is time that we serve to them, in neighborhoods, making the decision to turn to For a poor woman in the United States, having their darkest hour, what is owed to them for crime as a way to survive that much simpler. When another child could mean financially drowning nurturing us. I propose that welfare policies are these people are caught by law enforcement, they especially if it is a single-income home or for a created to supply elders living with dementia or find themselves with higher sentencing rates than single mother. A woman in control of her body is in Alzheimer's disease with live in care so that they individuals of a higher economic class who may control of her future. Without access to clinics, can spend the remainder of their days in the have committed the same crime. The individuals women and families suffer. comfort of their own homes and surrounded by who are disproportionately prosecuted effectively ______those who love them. diminish the low-income voter population, making 408 • Policy Suggestions for Urban ______it easier for legislators to ignore the concerns of  411 • The Rise of Heroin in the low-income families. High School Dropout Rates ______SAMANTHA PAWLICKI United States FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL TIMOTHY PREZLOCK 436 • Economic Inequality in SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL America: Effects and Solutions The urban/inner city ctudents of the public school SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS NATHAN WAGNER systems are at a higher risk of dropping out than From coast to coast, heroin is devastating FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL any public school setting in the United States. For communities and overwhelming the healthcare SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS example, In Rochester New York, the inner city system. In 2015 alone, 591,000 people had a Economic inequality in America has been growing public schools had a 46 percent four year substance use disorder involving heroin and over rapidly, especially in the late 20th century and into graduation rate, meaning, that 46 percent of all the 12,000 died of overdoses. This Presentation the 21st century. The majority of the American students that enrolled in 9th grade graduated with intends to evaluate why heroin has seen such a people are not among those seeing gains in wealth their high school diplomas. Students are part of dramatic increase in use, while also focusing on and income. Increased strain on the middle and system that isn't created for their success. Factors those who have been affected. In addition, several working class is becoming detrimental to our shown to be associated with increased likelihood policy initiatives that can curb this epidemic will be society as a whole. This presentation will help of school dropout include low self-esteem, introduced and analyzed. illustrate the problems faced by a majority of frequent confrontation and non acceptance by ______Americans due to their economic status and will teachers and peers, poor school attendance, 412 • Tracking Change in seek to offer possible solutions to remedy the unstable family life, pregnancy, substance abuse, Occupational Backgrounds of intense inequality in America. and history of disruptive behavior. 69% of the dropouts claimed that adults did not expect them Congress, and Its Effect on PSYCHOLOGY to perform well, and that these low expectations Inequality 414 • Personality Predicts contributed to their decision to drop out. There ANTHONY SERIANNI needs to be change in how we as a nation address FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL Environmentally Friendly the issue of inner city/urban school system SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Behaviors: The Relationship of dropout rates. This presentation will highlight Over time, the occupational composition of Congress Egoism and Personal Distress some possible reforms that could be implemented. has changed. Since the 1950s, the proportion of JOANNA PALM ______lawyers and farmers in Congress have decreased, FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY 409 • Special Education in Urban while the proportion of businesspeople have Research shows that people display both altruistic increased. At the same time, income inequality Schools and egoistic motivations for environmentally between the top 1% and bottom 20% of earners have STEPHANIE RESILA friendly behaviors. We tested how personality increased dramatically. I hypothesize that changes in FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL characteristics might influence egoistic income inequality are related to the change in SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS motivations for this behavior. Results showed that Congress, and the occupational backgrounds of This poster presentation is looking at the egoistic individuals were environmentally friendly representatives in government. With more development of students in elementary and middle only if low in the trait of personal distress. school who qualify for special education in an businesspeople representing the American people in ______urban school setting. There are both inside and Congress, legislative policy has changed to become 415 • The Influence of Altruism and outside factors that may affect these students' one of the most pro-business governments since the progress in school and all aspects of their Gilded Age. Environmental Values on development. The programs and support children ______Environmentally Friendly 413 • The Mass Incarceration of receive at this stage in their life could possibly set Attitudes the ground work for the rest of their lives. That is America's Poor JENNIFER MAZZOLA, MARGARET DORFNER, why I am developing a public policy to develop KATHLEEN SHARP MATTHEW HEATON, CHLOE OKTAY, JOANNA reform in the urban school districts. FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY KOCH, POLITICAL ______PALM, ELIZABETH SULLIVAN, GERENA TAN SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY 410 • Give our Elders the Care they Economic inequality was forced into the spotlight Recent research indicates that altruistic personality Need during the 2016 election cycle through the rhetoric characteristics, such as perspective taking, predict STEPHEN SHIMSHI of both Democrats and Republicans. However, this some portion of pro-environmental attitudes. FACULTY SPONSOR: EUNJU KANG, POLITICAL inequality carries greater implications throughout However, it is less clear how these personality SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS American life than redistribution and tax policies. characteristics might interact with other factors, An estimated one in three seniors die of old age The idea of disproportional incarceration rates in particularly environmental values. We hypothesized diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer's making America, based on race and gender, is not a new that perspective taking and environmental values it the sixth leading cause of death in the United one in the realm of sociology and political science. would interact. Specifically, we expected that States outnumbering the combined number of Nevertheless, we must consider disproportional perspective taking would predict pro-environmental fatalities resulting from breast and prostate incarceration due to economic class. The attitudes only among individuals with weak cancer. Such illnesses put immense strains on the environment within urban, impoverished areas of environmental values. The basis for this hypothesis  Promotes sustainability 73 Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual was that individuals with strong environmental values greater prevalence of mental illnesses. These performed for depression, bulimia, and anorexia to would already have pro-environmental attitudes, and results are consistent with other research create higher and lower symptomatology groups. therefore altruistic personality characteristics such as indicating that economic policies emphasizing free A repeated measures ANOVA revealed three-way perspective taking should matter very little. However, market ideologies and corporate capitalism are interactions among perfectionistic profile, mental individuals with weak environmental values would not associated with lower levels of well-being. health, and DLPFC region in predicting changes in be positively inclined toward protecting the Methodological issues and potential theoretical blood oxygenation. These findings suggest that environment unless they also possessed a specific connections between these variables are individuals with a specific combination of motivation to do so, such as the altruistic personality discussed. perfectionistic profiles and mental health trait of perspective taking. Results confirmed ______symptomatology will have a distinct pattern of predictions by indicating a perspective taking by 418 • The Efficacy of Animal- blood oxygenation compared to individuals with environmental values interaction whose pattern Assisted Interventions on Reducing other profiles of perfectionism and matched our hypothesis. symptomatology. ______Anxiety in Children ______416 • Altruistic Personality as a MARGARET DORFNER 420 • The Impact of Cognitive FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, Predictor of Environmentally PSYCHOLOGY Performance and Perfectionism on Responsible Behaviors and This research examined how animal-assisted Changes in Blood Oxygenation Attittudes interventions affects anxiety in children Across the Dorsolateral Prefrontal MATTHEW HEATON, JENNIFER MAZZOLA, undergoing a mildly stressful mathematical task. It was hypothesized that those who interacted with Cortex MARGARET DORFNER, ELIZABETH SULLIVAN, ZARMEEN ZAHID, KADIN FAWCETT, LIAM JOANNA PALM, GERENA TAN, CHLOE OKTAY the therapy dog would experience less anxiety and a faster recovery rate compared to the control MCMAHON, TIFFANY LUI, TORI SIMPSON, LAURA FACULTY SPONSOR: JIM ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY DOLAN, BRAEDEN SHARER, CAROLINE O'BRIEN Some research suggests that altruistic personality group. As a result of the lower anxiety and faster recovery, those interacting with the therapy dog FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, characteristics are positively related to environmentally PSYCHOLOGY responsible attitudes and behaviors. However, would have a higher accuracy rate on the mathematical challenge and would experience a Perfectionism and cognitive performance were relatively little research has directly compared altruistic assessed to predict activity in blood oxygenation and egoistic personality characteristics as predictors of lower pulse rate immediately following the task. Participants were required to fill out a modified across the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) environmental responsibility. In addition, it is difficult to during various anagram tasks. The sample consisted of determine whether these variables are causally related version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory before and after the mathematical task to measure the 296 undergraduates. Activity in the DLPFC during the because of the necessary correlational nature of these anagram tasks was monitored through the use of constructs. For instance, environmental values might change in self-reported anxiety. The participants had their pulse rate measured before the task and functional near infrared (fNIR) spectroscopy. There produce a coincidental relation between altruistic were two categories of anagram tasks, event-related personality characteristics and environmentally two times following the task to measure the physiological change. Following these pre-task and homogeneous. The event-related anagram task responsible behaviors. Specifically, these values might consisted of anagrams that alternated between 3, 4, induce feelings of altruism and environmental measures, participants either interacted with a therapy dog or a stuffed dog before completing the and 5 letters. Participants were presented the responsibility. The present research addressed these anagram for 2 seconds and had 13 seconds to solve problems in the literature by examining the association mathematical challenge. Results showed that those in the experimental group experienced an the anagram. The homogeneous anagram task between the altruistic personality characteristics of consisted of three trials: 3, 4, and 5 letter anagrams. empathic concern and environmentally responsible increase in physical arousal during the mathematical task, a decrease in self- reported For each trial, participants had 1.5 minutes to behavior after controlling for both egoistic personality complete as many anagrams as possible with the characteristics and environmental values. Results anxiety, and a trend toward greater physiological recovery. The results of this study provide further option of skipping anagrams by pressing the space bar indicated that empathic concern predicted even after otherwise the slide advanced automatically after 15 controlling for these variables. These results suggest two evidence for the growing body of research showing that animal-assisted interventions are a beneficial seconds. Participants then completed a questionnaire conclusions: 1) altruistic personality characteristics assessing various behaviors, cognitions, and emotion predict environmentally responsible behaviors therapeutic tool. ______regulation strategies related to perfectionism. Cluster independently of egoistic personality characteristics; 2) 419 • Perfectionism as a Moderator analysis of the self-report data was used to identify the altruism/environmentally responsible behavior and validate four distinct profiles of perfectionism. relation may be causal, as environmental values, a of the Relationship Between Results revealed that unique patterns of activity across prominent potential confound, does not appear to Mental Health and Changes in the DL-PFC were associated with either performance explain the relationship. Selected for presentation at Blood Oxygenation Across the or perfectionism, depending on the nature of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA. anagram task. ______Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex ______417 • The Influence of Economic LIAM MCMAHON, KADIN FAWCETT, ZARMEEN 421 • Perceptions of Unintended and Regulatory Freedoms on Well- ZAHID, TIFFANY LUI, TORI SIMPSON, LAURA Adolescent Pregnancy: Associations  DOLAN, BRAEDEN SHARER, CAROLINE O'BRIEN being FACULTY SPONSOR: MICHAEL LYNCH, with Neoliberal Beliefs and MARGARET DORFNER, MATTHEW HEATON PSYCHOLOGY Contraceptive Problems FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES ALLEN, PSYCHOLOGY This study examined the impact of pre-existing This study used state rankings of economic and CAROLINE O'BRIEN symptomatology and styles of perfectionism on FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY regulatory freedoms generated by the blood oxygenation in the dorsolateral prefrontal conservative Cato Institute to predict measures of The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions cortex (DLPFC). The sample consisted of 296 of unintended adolescent pregnancy as associated state level well-being in the United States. These undergraduates. Participants completed cognitive rankings reflect Cato's position that free market with level of neoliberal beliefs and type of tasks consisting of a card sort trial and two distinct contraceptive problem. Northeastern U.S. capitalism and its relatively weak regulatory anagram solving sections. Activity in the DLPFC was environment is an optimal way to organize a undergraduate college students (N = 72) completed a monitored through the use of functional near measure of neoliberal beliefs and were randomly culture and an economy. Our results did not infrared (fNIR) spectroscopy for the duration of support the Cato Institute's assumption that free assigned to read about a couple that became pregnant two cognitive tasks. Next, participants completed a after contraceptive non-adherence or a contraceptive markets promote well-being. In general, states that questionnaire assessing various indicators and Cato lauded as having high levels of economic and accident. As expected, observers with greater strategies related to perfectionism and mental neoliberal beliefs perceived an unintended adolescent regulatory freedom had lower levels of well- being. health. Cluster analysis of the self-report data was For example, Cato's measures of freedom pregnancy as more controllable than those with lesser used to identify and validate four distinct profiles neoliberal beliefs. Additionally, a pregnancy following predicted higher state level suicide rates and of perfectionism. Additionally, a median split was 74  Promotes sustainability 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Posters 2 • 5:15 – 6:45 PM a contraceptive accident was perceived as less health symptoms. These results converge with the support the most, and to report their experiences with controllable and elicited more sympathy than a broader literature focused on the social those factors. Lastly, we examined how these pregnancy following contraceptive non-adherence. determinants of physical and mental health. experiences predicted their academic self-efficacy, These findings suggest perceptions of unintended ______academic adjustment to college, their attachment to adolescent pregnancy are both context-dependent 424 • Amnestic Heterosexism and the institution, and their intentions to graduate. and related to the observer's level of neoliberal Bystander Responses to Anti-Gay Participants completed a survey assessing 1) beliefs. This knowledge can be applied to promote the demographics, 2) measures of perceived faculty well-being of pregnant and parenting adolescents in Bullying support, 3) measures of how important various factors social service, clinical and school settings. Educators TESS RAMOS-DRIES, MARISA MOTISI were to their perceptions of faculty support, 4) their and providers might use this information to improve FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY experiences with those factors, and 5) their college their attitudes toward pregnant adolescents, allowing DILLON FEDERICCI, LGBTQ PROGRAMS AND adjustment, attachment to the institution, and for better and more effective care. SERVICES intention to graduate. Results indicated that there ______Amnestic heterosexism (AH) refers to the belief were certain behaviors that were considered most 422 • Perceptions of Motives for that, in contemporary society, discrimination important for all students (e.g., believing in students' Contraceptive Sabotage: Patterns based on sexual orientation no longer occurs. We potential). However, there were differences between investigated individuals' AH beliefs as related to majority and minority students in the support factors of Gender Difference and Similarity their responses to anti-gay bullying. Heterosexual considered important, as well as the support factors COLLEEN BURTH, RACHEL HERSHEY undergraduates (N = 238) completed a measure of experienced in their interactions with faculty. All FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY AH beliefs and then responded to a scenario in students who experienced both the interpersonal Contraceptive sabotage (CS) occurs when partners which a man accuses another man of being a "fag." support factors as well as the diversity support factors directly interfere with effective contraceptive use. As expected, AH beliefs were associated with less with faculty had greater efficacy, academic Perceived motives for CS warrant empirical study. perceived severity/danger for the target of adjustment, and attachment to the institution. We hypothesized that common barriers to condom bullying, less personal responsibility to intervene, Selected for presentation at Association for use might also be perceived as motives for CS. In and more blame toward the target of bullying. In Psychological Science, Boston, MA. addition, we explored potential gender differences multivariate analyses, AH beliefs were indirectly ______in perceptions of these motives. Undergraduates associated with less intent to confront the 427 • How Peer Support is Related with prior vaginal sex experience (N = 334) read a perpetrator via a path of reduced personal hypothetical vaginal sex scenario depicting CS in responsibility to intervene. These findings suggest to the College Adjustment and order to rate the degree to which different barriers that beliefs about the existence of discrimination Retention of Racial/Ethnic and to condom use may have motivated this behavior. based on sexual orientation reduce personal Sexual Minority Students Results showed that all participants perceived that responsibility to address anti-gay bullying. In turn, GAVIN RAFFLOER, YVETTE WILLIAMS, ERICA CS was motivated by intent to enhance male personal responsibility negatively predicts intent KANE, DINETRA GOWDIE, LESLIE TETTEH pleasure. Compared to women, men more strongly to confront those who perpetrate such behaviors. FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA SCHNEIDER, ______perceived CS occurred because the female partner PSYCHOLOGY was using another type of birth control and 425 • Effects of Noise, Task Type This study examined factors contributing to students' because the male partner preferred not to discuss and Anxiety on Attentional perceptions of peer support and their implications on condoms. Compared to men, women more Performance the college adjustment of underrepresented students. strongly perceived CS occurred because the female We asked both racial/ethnic and sexual majority and ALEXIS KIDDER, GABRIEL BIRKBY partner was faithful and because the male partner minority students to identify which peer behaviors FACULTY SPONSOR: JOAN BALLARD, PSYCHOLOGY felt using condoms was difficult. Interventions influenced their perceptions of support the most, and Previous research has been inconclusive thus far geared toward preventing CS should emphasize to report their experiences with those factors. Lastly, regarding the relationship between noise type, that even behaviors motivated by benign intent we examined how these experiences predicted their noise volume level, anxiety, task type, and may yield negative sexual and reproductive health social self-efficacy, personal/emotional adjustment to attention performance. The purpose of the present consequences. college, and institutional attachment. Participants ______study was to explore the relationship between completed a survey assessing 1) demographics, 2) noise, task, attention and anxiety. In addition, this 423 • Income, Material Hardship, perceived peer support, 3) how important various study used a standardized task and reliable volume factors contributed to their perceptions of peer and Clinically Elevated Prenatal measurement to address past inconsistencies in support, 4) their experiences with those factors, and Anxiety research. Subjects performed two consecutive 5) their college adjustment and institutional JILLIAN LAROSE, CLARE EDGINGTON two-back identical pairs tasks; one with letters and attachment. Results indicated that certain peer FACULTY SPONSOR: JENNIFER KATZ, PSYCHOLOGY one with shapes. During task performance, behaviors were considered most important for all Although poverty is an established factor of poorer participants were exposed to white and students (e.g. acting in a friendly and welcoming prenatal mental health, limited research has intermittent noise at two different volumes. We manner), with few differences between majority and examined the mental health effects of material expected that performance would be best in the minority students. Differences between majority and hardship (i.e., difficulties meeting basic needs such intermittent noise condition at 70dB for those with minority group members in their experiences with as food, transportation, or stable housing) during low levels of anxiety. important peer support factors emerged, with pregnancy. The current research examined the ______minority students experiencing several important potential independent and overlapping effects of 426 • The Role of Faculty in the factors less frequently than majority students (e.g. income and material hardship as factors of College Adjustment and Retention willing to welcome me into their friendship groups). prenatal anxiety. Pregnant women (N = 892) Differences between majority and minority students responded to self- report measures of mental of Racial/Ethnic and Sexual emerged regarding how their experiences with peer health symptoms, yearly household income, and Minorities support were related to their personal-emotional current material hardship in the waiting area of GAVIN RAFFLOER, YVETTE WILLIAMS, ERICA adjustment and institutional attachment. Selected for urban community-based obstetrics/gynecological KANE, DINETRA GOWDIE, LESLIE TETTEH presentation at Association for Psychological practices. About 17% reported clinically FACULTY SPONSOR: MONICA SCHNEIDER, Science, Boston. MA. meaningful anxiety. Clinically meaningful anxiety PSYCHOLOGY ______was predicted by both lower income and greater This study examined factors contributing to students' 428 • The Effects of Media Genre material hardship, even after controlling for perceptions of faculty support and their implications demographic variables including age, on the college adjustment of underrepresented on Sexual Harassment Judgements race/ethnicity, relationship status, and number of students. We asked both racial/ethnic and sexual MONICA PACK children in the home. Material hardship partially majority and minority students to identify which FACULTY SPONSOR: STEVEN KIRSH, PSYCHOLOGY mediated the effect of income on elevated mental faculty behaviors influenced their perceptions of

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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects The neurodevelopmental hypothesis depicts 433 • Safety or Threat?: The Role of of media on attitudes towards gender stereotypes and schizophrenia as a long-term consequence of aberrant judgments of sexual harassment. Participants development of the glutamate and dopamine Gender Inequality on Sexual watched video clips of sexual harassment portrayed in neurotransmitter systems during the perinatal period. Assault the context of either a drama or comedy and then The drug MK-801 is a glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate SARA CROSSLEY, CAROLINE BUCHER, EMILY made judgments related to (1) gender stereotypes (NMDA) receptor antagonist that produces CAMACHO and (2) sexual harassment involving teachers and schizophrenia-like symptoms in laboratory rodents FACULTY SPONSOR: CLAIRE GRAVELIN, students. Results found that participants rated when administered early in development. Our PSYCHOLOGY shyness to be a more feminine characteristic after laboratory has been investigating whether CDPPB, a Using secondary data sets, we demonstrate that viewing comedic clips and childlike behavior to be a positive allosteric modulator of the metabotropic states within the United States that have the greatest more masculine characteristic after dramatic clips. In glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5), would reverse the amount of gender equality, coupled with a higher addition, the results of the sexual harassment effects of MK-801. To test this, mice were first male-to-female sex ratio, also have the greatest scenarios indicated that male participants and administered 0.25 mg/kgMK-801 as neonates, and amount of rapes reported. We present this data, as participants viewing dramatic clips were more likely later given 10.0 mg/kg CDBBD or saline during their well as the preliminary results from an ongoing than others to view the female victims of sexual juvenile period. After mice reached adulthood, they experimental investigation assessing two competing harassment as being responsible for the perpetrators' were examined with the 5-trial social memory test. hypotheses to explain this finding. Specifically, given behavior. These findings suggest that the context in During the first four trials of this procedure, the test prior research on precarious manhood (e.g., Vandello which sexual harassment is portrayed may mouse was exposed to the same stranger mouse in its et al., 2008), greater reports of sexual assaults in deferentially impact attitudes towards gender home cage. During the fifth trial, a novel stranger was gender-equal states may indicate that in these stereotypes and judgments of sexual harassment in placed in the home cage. Mice with intact social environments men feel the greatest threats to their real life. Additional implications of these findings and memory were expected to show diminishing masculinity and therefore are more likely to sexually direction for future research will be discussed. exploration of the initial stranger in trials 2-4, followed aggress to demonstrate and regain their power. An ______by increased exploration of the novel stranger in the alternative explanation, however, is that in states in 429 • Effects of the Glutamatergic fifth trial. Preliminary results from this work in which men and women are relatively equal in power, Drugs MK801 and CDPPB on the progress indicate that MK-801 impaired social women simply feel safer in reporting their memory, an effect that was partially reversed by victimization. Implications of these competing Development of Myelination in the CDPPB. hypotheses and our findings will be discussed. Mouse Hippocampus ______HARRIET DESOUZA, TYLER BELL 431 • Attentional Breadth and STUDY ABROAD FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, Trade-Offs in Spatial and Temporal 434 • You´re Gonna Need a Better PSYCHOLOGY Dizocilpine (MK801) is a noncompetitive inhibitor of Acuity Software: Evaluating Morphological the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor, a ASHLEY EDWARDS and Genetic Approaches Used to receptor linked to a channel that allows the passage of FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY MOUNTS, the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate. Binding of PSYCHOLOGY Identify Shark Fins for Global MK801 to this receptor inhibits the passage of Focused visual attention is typically associated with Conservation glutamate through the receptor, preventing excitation enhanced visual processing. However, recent work COURTNEY KING of the associated neurons. In mice this drug has been suggests that attention improves spatial acuity but FACULTY SPONSOR: SAMUEL CARDAMONE, commonly used as a model for both the positive and diminishes temporal acuity. Here we examine STUDY ABROAD negative symptoms of neuropsychiatric disorder, whether the effect that the breadth of the International bodies such as the Convention on schizophrenia. Previously, our lab examined operant attentional has on spatial and temporal processing. International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild behavior in a group of mice that were treated with We manipulated attentional breadth with Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the International MK801 as neonates and later with a "rescue" drug, exogenous (involuntary) cues. We found that Convention on the Conservation of Migratory CDPPB. CDPPB is a positive allosteric modulator for narrowing the attentional focus led to Species (CMS) have promoted the conservation of metabotropic glutamate receptors and is improvements in spatial processing and several shark species. However, there is evidence hypothesized to interact with the NMDA receptor in a decrements in temporal processing. Selected for that shark fin traders are still exporting mislabeled similar fashion to its normal substrate, so as to presentation at Council of Public Liberal Arts and unidentified shark fins, including those from overcome the inhibitory effects of MK801. In the Colleges Northeast Regional Undergraduate regulated species. Our team has found that current experiment, we examined the brains of the Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity iSharkFin, the software currently recommended adult mice after they completed the operant testing. Conference, North Adams, MA. for shark fin identification, is frequently inaccurate. ______Brains were extracted, sectioned with a cryostat, Shark fin samples and photographs were collected stained with myelin-specific Luxol-Fast Blue, counter- 432 • The Effects of Endogenous from landing sites in Costa Rica, Chile and Peru. stained with cresyl violet, and the stain intensity was Attention on Spatial and Temporal Genetic analysis of tissue samples was used to examined microscopically. Preliminary data analysis Processing determine the fin species, and images of the same from this work in progress suggests that the drug samples were analyzed in iSharkFin. This allowed ASHLEY EDWARDS, GAGE MATYASOVSZKY, treatments manipulated myelination in the us to determine the percentage of samples for MEGAN HILLIS, ANTHONY NGUYEN hippocampus, a brain structure critical for memory which the software correctly identified the species. FACULTY SPONSOR: JEFFREY MOUNTS, and cognition. The software was designed to identify wet fins, and PSYCHOLOGY ______as predicted, frequently misidentified dry fins. Focused visual attention is typically associated with However, wet fins of certain species, included 430 • Effects of the Glutamatergic enhanced visual processing. However, recent work those protected under CITES Appendix II, were also Drugs MK801 and CDPPB on the suggests that attention improves spatial acuity but misidentified at high rates. Based on our research, diminishes temporal acuity. Here we examine Development of Social Behaviors in we suggest improvements in the morphological whether the breadth of the attentional focus identification of dry and wet fins to ensure that a Mouse Model of Schizophrenia manipulated with endogenous (volitional) cues has officers have the tools to identify the species MEGAN EHMANN, AMANDA HODGE, MADISON the same effects. In contrast to exogenous involved in the international shark fin trade. WEISS, JENNIFER MAZZOLA, SARA (involuntary) allocations of attention, the Selected for presentation at Joint Meeting of FARNSWORTH, AARON FIDURKO, ASHLEY endogenous allocation of attention improves Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Austin, TX. MELGAR, KYLE URBAN spatial resolution but does not affect temporal

FACULTY SPONSOR: VINCENT MARKOWSKI, resolution. PSYCHOLOGY ______

76  Promotes sustainability Chamber Music Festival 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual

GREAT DAY MUSIC FESTIVAL HUNT ROOM, MACVITTIE COLLEGE UNION

SESSION 1• 8:30 – 11:10 AM COLLEGE UNION LOBBY 12:00 PM

8:30 – 8:55 AM Geneseo String Band “Riptide”, Vance Joy; “Can't Help Falling In Love”, Twenty LEEANN BRUETSCH, BRIDGETTE SROKA, LINA CLIFFORD, TORI BARONE, One Pilots; “Light Up the Sky”, Grace Vanderwaal MARC LATTANZI, MORGAN MCDONNELL, SARAH SPARKS-STEWART, SAMUEL SMITH, RUSSELL BRINKMAN, DAVID TERNER, HANNAH GARTY, STEVEN Solo Performance PATRICIA MCCASLAND WILLIAMS, KAYLA SCHUM, JENELLE NYITRAI FACULTY SPONSOR: SUSAN SALMON, EDUCATION FACULTY SPONSOR: JAMES KIMBALL, MUSIC

9:05 – 9:25 AM SESSION 2: 2:25 – 5:05PM The Flute Choir at Geneseo JACKIE PFALTZ, CATHERINE BLASZAK, ASHLEY MONTGOMERY , JULIA 2:25 – 2:45PM DIBERNARDO, MADELINE YOUSEY, DYLAN FICHERA, KATE COTTEN, GRACE The String Theory BUECHNER, ARIANNA MILLER, CASSANDRA TABER, BRITTNAY SULLIVAN, “String Trio in F Major, Op. 14, No. 1”, Boccherini, Luigi SARAH MANDANAS MICHAEL MICHALKO, GABRIEL PONCE, STEVEN WILLIAMS FACULTY SPONSOR: GLENNA DOVE-PELLITO, MUSIC FACULTY SPONSOR: ED POGOZELSKI, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY

9:30 – 9:45 AM 2:50 – 3:05 PM Geneseo Low Brass Ensemble “Latch”, Sam Smith ; “Giving Up”, Ingrid Michaelson; “All “Achieved is the Glorious Work”, Franz Joseph Haydn; I Want”, Kodaline “Sing Joyfully Unto God”, William Byrd, arr. Timothy SARAH BISSELL , MADI KEMLER FACULTY SPONSOR: BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, ENGLISH Snyder; “Tiger Rag”, Original Dixieland Jazz Band, arr. Jack Gale 3:10 – 3:40 PM TIMOTHY SNYDER, RACHEL GUINTHER, ROBERT MARINO, MIRANDA FIERO, Solo Performance NOAH WEISS PATRICK SUTER FACULTY SPONSOR: BILL TIBERIO, MUSIC FACULTY SPONSOR: BEN DAVID ARONSON, MUSIC 3:50 – 4:05 PM 9:55 – 11:10 AM ACAPELLA HOUR Clarinet Choir Between the Lines “Wind In The Reeds”, Gordon Jacob; “A Study In COLIN BUCKOWSKI, DESTINY PARSONS, EMILY HURLBUTT, EVAN BURR, Lavender”, Eric Osterling GRETTA CAVATASSI, CAROL SANCHEZ, JUSTIN LEONTI, KALIL HENDEL, KEVIN EMILY BUCKLEY-CRIST, JASON HANDY, JOSHUA GALLARO, ERIN HOGAN, PIERCE, MADISON MURPHY, MATT RAPOZA, MELISSA FRANK, QUILLE LENA EVERS-HILLSTROM, ELENA KLEINHENZ, FRANCESCA BOVE, XIANE HUGHES, RYAN ZIPPER, TAYLER NGUYEN, TREVOR GRECO, VINNIE SMITH, KATHERINE KASHA, VICTORIA RIVERA, DAVID TERNER, LAUREN ELLIS MECCARIELLO FACULTY SPONSOR: ERNEST LASCELL, MUSIC

Southside Boys 4:10 – 4:25 PM MATTHEW BURLEY, ALEXANDER KRAMER, BRETT HAMMES, MATT KEOUGH, Allison and Maddy KADIN FAWCETT, JACK GRANT, JORDAN BACHMANN, ZACH MCGARVEY, GRANT TAYLOR, GEORGE PERDOMO, DAN INFRANCO, ANDREW WEBER, Original music and a few covers JORDAN HECHT ALLISON ALTSCHILLER, MADALYN BOWEN FACULTY SPONSOR: TAYLOR GALE, AREA COORDINATOR

Emmelodics 4:25 – 4:40 PM ALEX WEBBER, BARRY GRANT, BRIANNA BROOKS-MILLER, BRYCE GEBHARDT, CAITLEN EPPERSON, CLAIRE PRUNIER, DENIS HARTNETT, GAGE Jonathan and Sarah MATYASOVSKY, JACK MCALEVEY, JASON HANDY, JEN MELFI, JEREMY “Wandering Child”, Wild Rivers; “Barton Hollow”, The DAVIES, JONAH GOLDSTEIN, KAILA MCKIERNAN, KELLY KULAKOWSKI, Civil Wars; “In My Life”, The Beatles MACKENZIE HINTZE, MEAGHAN BARRY, SAMUEL NICHOLS, SARAH MAPHEY, SARAH BISSELL, JONATHAN BECKER WILLIAM BLANDING FACULTY SPONSOR: BELYAKOV-GOODMAN, ENGLISH

Exit 8 4:45 – 5:05 PM TOM VANGELLOW, MICHAEL MASETTA, SAIGE HORVATH, EMILIOS PAPAS, MATT RAPOZA MADISON KEMLER, MATT CRAWFORD, SAMANTHA EBERSOLD, NINA Solo performance LACOMBE, KATE KELLER, LAUREN THURBER, MADALYN BOWEN, ALLISON ALTSCHILLER, SEAN RYAN, DANIELLE KAHN, COLIN SUGRUE, MATT BURLEY, CHRIS MILLER, SARAH BISSEL, RYAN ANDREWS

77 Artwork 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual

THE GREAT BATTLE OF THE ARTISTS

MACVITTIE COLLEGE UNION KINETIC GALLERY 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM The GREAT Battle of the Artists is a multi-media art contest that is a partnership between GREAT Day, GCAB Arts & Exhibits and Nassau Hall. Winners were selected by a panel of faculty staff and student judges and will be announced at 6:00 pm.

______Day Festival. Here, I incorporate both aspects of ______ANCHI FRIEDMAN the large puppets, and the circus spin we put on WALTER STOERGER Winterscape: Watercolor on watercolor our performances. I transformed the city of Broken: I am broken. I am left here but a paper Syracuse into a circus-like environment that's both silhouette, only a shadow to my name. People may colorful and surreal. Faces of Baylon Temple: Taken at Angkor see me as one complete whole, but instead I take Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia during study abroad Puppet Lion Tamer: Colored Pencil, 2015. on qualities of others. Only to be left here with a of Spring 2016 Series: Open Hand Theater's Puppet Circus. Here, I chameleon like soul, trying to take in all these different shattered reflections. Attempting to fill Lost in the Alps: Kleine Scheidegg, have incorporated the founder of Open Hand, Geoffrey Navias, directing some young campers blankness with shards of friends and family, like a Switzerland who are currently dressed as lions. These kids are jigsaw puzzle that cuts you as you try to put the ______pieces into place. Every time I cover myself with CAITLIN CASTELLETTI balancing on a large board, again incorporating elements of circus and puppetry. The bright colors that shard of mirror, a piece of who I really am : 2017. This black and white Roman Holiday work well to express the circus-esque feel of the must die. What happens when I am covered photo was taken of the Riviera Theater in Geneseo, show. completely with mirror? Am I no longer broken? NY with a Canon Rebel T5. ______Funny thing is I am more broken then before, I am Lights: 2017. This photo was taken with a Canon TIM BURGER left with only cracks of me trying to slip through. It Rebel T5 under a light painting technique. A Study of Age: I drew this with graphite is not one mirror, but many different ones crudely carved into place. People will not see themselves, St. Paul's View: 2016. This aerial view of pencils in 2016 as an effort to gain experience analyzing the unique facial features of the elderly. nor will they see me. They will see a broken London was taken from the top of St. Paul's individual,that not even all the king's horses and all Cathedral (279 ft above). Camera used was ______ANNIE LEVINE the king's men can repair. They will see seven years a Canon Rebel T5 bad luck, that no rabbits foot, no four leaf clover, ______Mastery: Within my feminism concentration, I and no horseshoe can help. They will see a phony, HANNAH MRAKOVCIC choose to focus on women, and express through that mirror mirror on the wall will say you will my works the hardships they have endured Lost in Translation: "Because I do not speak never be the fairest of them all. or read Croatian, and I am also not familiar enough throughout time. As displayed in the painting, a ______with the social and political situation in Yugoslavia female marionette is dangling by the threads of a DIANA DEFILIPPIS dominant hand. The figure is wearing a house-wife - I am unable to execute a particular work for this Holland: Acrylic on Canvas, 2017 Zagreb exhibition as I have elsewhere executed style uniform, representing the supremacy men works appropriate to specific circumstances." I am held, and still hold over women within American Untitled: Acrylic on Canvas, 2017 half-Croatian, but I do not know the language, just culture. While the commonplace of this stereotype ______JENNY WONG as the artist of this reflective piece claims. I is at times incredibly outdated, women today still traveled to Croatia for the first time to meet my struggle with defining themselves as independent, Fruits and Flowers: Acrylic on canvas, 2014 family, learn some of the language, and absorb the and hardworking members of society. Hand Drawing: Graphite, 2015 culture of this country that has been part of my Insecurity: Within my feminism concentration, : Charcoal, 2015 identity my entire life, but I have never felt Portrait I choose to focus on women, and express through ______connected to it until this moment. The artist's my works the hardships they have endured ALEXANDER SHAW dilemma complements my identity and experience throughout time. I intended that this piece express : Watercolor, 2017 of being lost in translation in a country and culture the raw, barbed pain that comes from women's Cheetah that is half my heritage. Muzej Suvremene everyday insecurities; especially concerning their Golden Retriever: Watercolor, 2017 Umjetnosti (Museum of Contemporary Art), bodys, and their appearances. Today more than ______Zagreb, Croatia September 2016 ever, women are constantly bombarded with BRIANNA KOPACZ Muse: Taken at the Guggenheim Museum, NYC psychically intangible expectations that lead to 12-Oct-14 May 2016 overall decreases in self-esteem, confidence, and Man in the Mirror happiness. Le Louvre: Taken at Musee du Louvre, Paris Grand Central Station; October 12, December 2016 Purity: This piece recognizes the harsh laboring ______conditions children alike faced during the early 2014; 1:57 PM JESSICA LISI years of the 20th century. Children starting at the The other side Blueberry Man: Acrylic Paint, 2015. Series: age of 8 were put through horrific laboring ______Open Hand Theater's Puppet Circus. This piece conditions as the American industrial revolution RACHEL DORR shows a very famous and reoccurring character in began. Specifically, within this piece a child is Nature's first green is gold: My Open Hand Theater. The Blueberry Man is a paper being seen with a gas mask on his lap and a photograph of a leaf emulates that nature is mache monster that frequently shows up in our mining hat to his side. Notoriously it was beautiful regardless of its health. I chose to title my Circus Camp shows, parades, and events. The common, especially for black children, to be seen piece using a line from Robert Frost's poem, picture features Katie Willard within the costume, working in coal mines. "Nothing Gold Can Stay," because Frost is correct ______standing on top of the theater and looking out to REBECCA CERVI when he says nothing lasts forever and this leaf see all of Syracuse. I wanted to juxtapose the light proves his idea. The leaf has gone through its whole from the window with the darkness within the Cosmic Creations 1: Colorful galaxy art life cycle and has provided nutrition for insects, theater and its affect on the colorful costume. using spray paint, newspaper, and a lot of however when I took this photo, I thought it was as creativity. I love that this kind of art is so simple to : Colored Pencil, 2015. beautiful as it was when it was new and green. Puppet Street Circus make, yet still so beautiful and unique. Series: Open Hand Theater's Puppet Circus. This Morning Frost: I took this photograph during features a snapshot from a festival that Open Hand Cosmic Creations 2 a nature photography session during the late fall, performed at known as the International Puppet Cosmic Creations 3 when frost covers the ground each morning. I have 78 Special Presentations 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual

______always been fascinated by frost and dew, so when : Photography. This is a portrait of a EMMA PURE Kelsey I came across this plant, I really wanted to highlight really good friend of mine who isn't afraid to be the detail of every little droplet of frost in the Unity in Black and White: 2017. In light herself. crevices of the plant. I framed my shot this way to of recent events, I did a spontaneous photo project ______focus on the natural symmetry of the plant. with two of my friends to symbolize the strength ESTHER KEON ______that comes from unity. In this time more than ever Shadows in the Snow WHITLEY BRINCKA we need to look past our differences and hold each Beauty In One's Backyard: Photo: other up, as members of the human race. I wanted Calm Before the Storm Rochester, New York, summer 2015. to convey that feeling of unity and strength, Rainy at Dusk By The Sea Shore: Photo: Massachusetts, through the light and dark times, in this ______MOLLY DOWNING summer 2016. photograph. Bird is a Word Go With The Flow: Photo: Adirondacks, People Watching: Children watch the Fetu New York, spring 2015. Afahye Festival from their house in Cape Coast, ______Ghana. This festival happens yearly and celebrates SARAH MANDANAS the chiefs of local tribes. It is a colorful parade with Quiet Summer Sunset: A photograph of costumes, music, and dance. the Geneseo sunset from this past summer. Nice. The Fisherman: 2017. A local fisherman ______pauses to smile in Ada Foah, Ghana. NICHOLAS VANAMEE ______Kin: Acrylic on canvas. Done in half an hour at the LEAH RUSSO Nassau Hall Art After Hours event. On The Road: Photography. This is a photo I Untitled: Acrylic on paint board. took while hiking in the mountains of Bend, Oregon. I can across this abandoned bus in a snow Self-Portrait: Acrylic on paint board. park parking lot. Taken in January of 2016. Attempted expressionism. Pink: Photography

79 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Special Presentations

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

The Geology of Art/The Art of Geology ISC Lobby KENDALL FITZGERALD FACULTY SPONSOR: AMY SHELDON, GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES This project seeks to reconcile the perceived divide between science and the humanities by examining how both artists and scientists depict and understand the natural world. In this presentation I will be examining works of art that incorporate geology (like Thomas Cole's The Oxbow) alongside data from scientific research in order to uncover how both disciplines contribute to a fuller understanding of the world. Through this juxtaposition I aim to show how art and science can be used in tandem to communicate research to a broader audience, in the hope of working towards a more sustainable future.

Guerrilla Student Artists – Voices from Geneseo's Migrant Worker Community Sturges Quad EVAN GOLDSTEIN, KALLIE SWYER, ROBBIE HELD, DIEGO BARCACEL PEÑA, AND ISABEL OWEN FACULTY SPONSOR: LYTTON SMITH, ENGLISH Guerrilla will be presenting the results of a long process of interviews with local migrant workers, conducted with the help of anthropology students and professors, and edited and published by our poets. The presentation will feature narratives from the lives of migrant workers, spread prominently around campus. The aim of this project is to humanize the migrant community that is so vital and so, at times, difficult to see, around Geneseo, by allowing them to speak for themselves.

Music at the Gazebo 11:00 am Gazebo Geneseo String Quartet STEVEN YEE, EVELYN WELCH, ERIC WANG, RYAN LEE FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDREW BERGEVIN Performance of Beethoven's Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 "Serioso", Bartok violin duos, and possibly other quartet movements by classical composers.

Geneseo Brass Quintet KATHERINE ZASLAVSKY, TORY WELSCH, ANNE KELLY, ROBERT MARINO, TIMOTHY SNYDER FACULTY SPONSOR: ANDREW BERGEVIN Join the Geneseo Brass Quintet for a performance that spans hundreds of years, from classical pieces to folk music to pop songs of today. Selections include “Hallelujah”, “Shenandoah”, “In the Hall of the Mountain King”, “The Liberty Bell”, and more!

Saphire Winter Guard People at Geneseo 5:10 PM College Union Plaza (outside) JANE FENG, MADISON WAYLAND, KAYLAN RUIZ, SHELBY SCHMIGEL, BROOKE MONFALCONE, ANNA DIFEDE, BRITTANI JOPSON, CECELIA GONZALES, JASMINE WEED, LINA CLIFFORD, LINDSEY HAWKINS, MARISSA CANARELLI, MARY SIMPSON, JANE BARANELLO, SAMANTHA JAYNE, STEPHANIE BROWN FACULTY SPONSOR: LISA SMITH, MATHEMATICS Geneseo Winter Guard is a 100% student run team. The guard competes in the Northeast Color Guard Circuit, and has been very successful jumping back into competition after many years break. The performance features dance, rifle, and flag routine set to music.

Hula Hoops 5:15 College Unoin Lobby BEN SPAID SPONSOR: PATTY HAMILTON-RODGERS, SPONSORED RESEARCH A hula hoop manipulation performance.This is a co-ed and high energy team that dances at on-campus events, local events in the Geneseo community as well as competitions in the local area.

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Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival

6:30 PM reception, 7:00 PM screenings Wadsworth Auditorium

The Sixth Annual Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival took place on March 24/25 Participants had 24 hours to write, shoot, edit, and post a video no longer than 3-minutes in duration using a set of elements provided. Teams competed for prizes against other SUNY Geneseo students in an attempt to create the wittiest, most interesting, and creative video. This was a chance for students of all talents to flex their creative muscles and demonstrate their skills, whether they be writers, actors, videographers, or editors. Submissions were judged by a panel of Geneseo faculty and staff. Now we're inviting you to come see the videos during this special GREAT Day screening and awards ceremony! The event is open to all Geneseo community members and we encourage you to bring family, colleagues, and friends as we recognize the excellence, achievements and talent of our 2017 Insomniacs!

GIFF Teams and Participants

What's in a [Team Name] Team Rocket Filmic Brilliance Pigs in Space KADIN FAWCETT MICHAEL MACDONALD ALPHA BARRY THOMAS GOTTSTINE JULIA CAMERON SHANNON HAYES NANA BOAKYE GRAHAM PATTERSON RICHARD JAMES CON ROCHE SARAH SIMON JOELLE CREAN JACK GRANT DAMIAN ROBERTS JASON GUISAO ELIZABETH BRIERTON

Panda Production John Wilke's Tooth Wanna Piece of Steph? Currently Known As SANG WOOK NAM JOSEPH DEBRITZ STEPHANIE STAVROU ZOOEY SORICE GAVIN RAFFLOER THOMAS PERLEE THOMAS PIAZZA BRANDON CHUNGATA ERWIN UY DONOVAN INGRAM KYLE WANNAMAKER RACHEL MOLINO ERIC WANG TREVOR GRECO Asskickers United Newton's Knights The Reel MVPs TIMOTHY BLOMQUIST IAN COSTLEY Pretty Little Liars HANNAH MRAKOVCIC DIEGO BARACACEL PEÑA NICK LAURELLI TOLUWA JAYEOLA JULIA CUMMINGS DAVID BONE JENNA COBURN MOLLY DOWNING Rupkotha ADAEZE NWOKOLOBIA ANCHI FRIEDMAN SAMUEL AVILES Make it Work Productions BRITTANI SAMUEL JANELLE CLEMENTS CATHERINE WHITE The Lean Mean Meme JUSTIN WINLEY DORIS KANE Buffalo Bills Machine THASFIA CHOWDHURY HANNAH MCSORLEY DAVID YEROFEEV

CHARLES ROBERTSON JACK KITZEN GIANCARLO DENAROSO

JOHN ROBINSON Valley Motion Pictures SEAN LAUBER RACHAEL MERLAU TIMOTHY WILLIAMS BENJAMIN JUCHNIEWICZ MUSTAFA AMINALHAQ

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Index of Student Participants and Faculty/Staff Sponsors

Barry, Amanda · 55 Brierton, Elizabeth · 81 Chase, Hannah · 60 A Barry, Meaghan · 55, 77 Briggs, George · 2, 39, 40 Chen, Johnny · 40 Abbas, Megan · 67 Basile, Alexandra · 5 Brighton, Christopher · 62 Chen, Shuo · 8 Abdelmalik, Mina · 62 Battaglia, Jessica · 62 Brincka, Whitley · 79 Chen, Yi Liu · 30 Abraham, Brittany · 44 Bazzett, Terence · 68 Brinkman, Russell · 77 Chiarello, Josephine · 48 Abreu, Carlos · 67 Becker, Jonathan · 77 Britton, Rachel · 36 Chin, David (Alex) · 50 Accierno, Nicole · 56 Beckman, Ian · 22 Brock, Thomas · 5 Chinchilli, Anna · 47 Acheta, Jenica · 31 Beckman, Teresa · 6 Brookes, Sarah · 45 Choi, Melody · 55 Ackerman, Brianna · 56 Behrend, Justin · 33 Brooks-Miller, Brianna · 77 Chou, Rachel · 15, 37 Adabra, Kodjo · 25, 29 Behrens, Cara · 32 Broomfield, Mark · 2, 21 Chowdhury, Thasfia · 81 Agostinelli-Fucile, Christina · 2, Beideck, Elena · 12 Brown, Gunnar · 69 Christoff, Kathryn · 66 12, 20 Belchou, Alex · 57 Brown, Jade · 7 Christofilopoulos, Leonidas · 64 Ahmad, Adnan · 55 Bell, Tyler · 31, 76 Brown, Kieran · 62 Chungata, Brandon · 81 Alam, Rabeka · 62, 63 Belles, Alexander · 68 Brown, Laura · 20 Churches, Casey · 36 Albers, Judy · 37 Bellusci, Marissa · 9 Brown, Matt · 9 Clark, Collin · 45 Aldridge, Stella · 45 Beloy, Jasmine · 43 Brown, Rajae · 40 Clark, Timothy · 49 Alekel, Kaleb · 9 Belyakov-Goodman, Irene · 18, Brown, Stephanie · 49, 80 Clarkson, David · 49 Alimaras, Alexandra · 44 30, 35, 64 Bruetsch, Leeann · 59, 77 Claud, Jesse · 21 Allen, James · 2, 73, 74 Benedetto, Shay · 17 Bryk, Matthew · 15 Cleary, Logan · 68 Allen, Stephanie · 7 Beneway, Jessica · 20 Bucher, Caroline · 76 Clements, Janelle · 81 Altschiller, Allison · 77 Bennett, Jesse · 36, 51, 88 Buckley-Crist, Emily · 25, 77 Clifford, Lina · 77, 80 Ameen, Amanda · 32 Benzinger, Marty · 19 Buckowski, Colin · 77 Coacci, John · 7, 24, 34, 49 Aminalhaq, Mustafa · 81 Bergamasco, Maya · 34 Buechner, Grace · 77 Coburn, Jenna · 81 Anabel, Frias · 71 Bernard, Sydney · 37 Buehlmann, Kimberly · 64 Coburn, Thomas · 21 Anania, James · 5 Berry, Marissa · 55 Burch, Sara · 27, 59 Coffey, Aiden · 10 Andrews, Aoife · 17 Berube, Zach · 24, 27, 88 Burger, Tim · 78 Coffey, Jordan · 6 Andrews, Ryan · 77 Best, Caitlyn · 70 Burley, Matthew · 11, 77 Coggins, Alison · 9 Annala, Chris · 6 Beyea, David · 21 Burnett, Marielle · 8 Colby, Brendon · 63 Anne, Kirk · 63 Bhimani, Alishah · 69 Burr, Evan · 77 Cole, Emily · 23, 26, 28 Antonelli, William · 31 Bilgic, Yusuf · 27 Burth, Colleen · 75 Collin, Matthew · 30 Anzalone, Carly · 55 Binda, Olivia · 31, 88 Colling, Ryan · 41 Apple, Jennifer · 2, 24, 41, 42 Birch, Briannah · 32 C Collins, Liam · 67 Arcese, Andrew · 35 Birkby, Gabriel · 75 Caldarelli, Patrick · 72 Colon, Betsy · 23 Arisumi, Jacqueline · 41 Bissel, Sarah · 77, 88 Caliari, Fernando · 18 Colozza, Jenna · 9, 22 Arisumi, Jennifer · 37 Bixler, Emma · 53 Calle, Vanessa · 35 Comerford, Sarah · 5 Arizaga, Facundo · 64 Black, Nellie · 9, 14 Camacho, Emily · 76 Condren, Meredith · 9 Aronson, Ben David · 77 Blanding, William · 77 Cameron, Julia · 55, 81 Cook, Alison · 47 Aviles, Samuel · 81 Blaszak, Catherine · 77 Campbell, Rachel · 51 Cook, Matthew · 51 Block, Rachel · 63 Campos, Cecilia · 18 Cooper, Ken · 22 B Blomquist, Timothy · 81 Canarelli, Marissa · 34, 80 Cope, Joe · 13, 24, 26, 27, 29, 33, Bachmann, Jordan · 77 Blood, Melanie · 2, 13, 22, 29, 38 Capalbo, R. True · 46 54, 67 Bader, Alec · 57 Boakye, Nana · 2, 55, 81 Card, Olivia · 40 Cordova, John · 34, 88 Bailey, Travis · 26, 60, 61 Bobbette, Abigail · 32 Cardamone, Samuel · 76 Corey, Emily · 45 Baimukhamedova, Adelya · 21 Bocanegra, Leila · 17 Carlin, Jaclyn · 33 Corwin, Eric · 35 Balch, Brandyn · 26 Bode, Emma · 13 Carlo, Erin · 10 Costich, Maxwell · 61 Baldwin, Douglas · 17, 68 Boiani, James · 44 Carlson, Elijah · 41 Costley, Ian · 81 Ballard, Joan · 75 Bone, David · 81 Carollo, Sydney · 45 Cotten, Kate · 77 Bamburoski, Luke · 56 Booth, Scott · 57 Carpenter, Ryan · 27, 34, 61 Coughlin, Quinn · 9 Bandoni Muench, Susan · 28, 60 Borriello, Arianna · 15 Cassaro, Marissa · 12 Cox, Eliza · 21, 64 Baranello, Jane · 80 Borth, Jacob · 63 Castelletti, Caitlin · 78 Cracium, Trajen · 67 Baranowski, Michael · 51 Bosch, Isidro · 58, 61, 88 Castillo De La Cruz, Yaskairy · 55 Craig, Rachel · 13, 72 Barcacel Peña, Diego · 80 Bosch-Burroughs, Lynette · 7, 8 Cathey, Taylor · 21, 45 Crawford, Matt · 77 Barfield, Zachariah · 27 Bourg, Brandon · 38 Cavatassi, Gretta · 77 Crean, Joelle · 81 Bargabos, Allison · 65 Bove, Francesca · 77 Cavello, Seth · 29 Cregan, Daniela · 5 Barile, Joseph · 15 Bowen, Madalyn · 77 Centeno, Meagan · 56 Cronen, Rachel · 14 Barlowe, Alexandria · 40 Boyd, Robert · 8 Cepeda, Vanessa · 55 Crosby, Emilye · 20, 61 Barnes, William · 66 Brady, Molly · 56, 68 Cervi, Rebecca · 78 Cross, Amanda · 21 Barone, Tori · 77 Brandt, Lauren · 47 Chan, Sabrina · 55 Crossley, Sara · 76 Barouch, Léa · 39 Brea, Felisa · 17 Chang, Ming-Mei · 17 Cui, Jasmine · 71 Barr, Nate · 22, 31 Brennan, Cullen · 70 Charlebois, Amber · 6, 24, 42, 43 Cummings, Cameron · 48 Barry, Alpha · 81 Brennan, Matthew · 13 Charlebois, Jay · 44 Cummings, Collen · 10 82 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual Index of Participants

Cummings, Julia · 42, 81 Ellis, Dominique · 55 Garrity, Colleen · 45 Hammes, Brett · 77 Cummins, Christopher · 32 Ellis, Lauren · 77 Garrity, Thomas · 2, 20, 33 Hammond, Tynasia · 56 Cumone, Paul · 5 Ellmann, Emily · 39 Garty, Hannah · 77 Han, Yedarm · 64 Cupelli, Francesco · 5 Elmarakbi, Fatima · 53 Gatzoflias, George · 33 Handy, Jason · 77 Cytryn, Samantha · 32, 55, 88 Elmouchtari, Mehdi · 61, 63 Gaylord, Brandon · 10, 37 Hannam, Kristina · 16, 29, 59 Endo, Manami · 62 Gdula, Rachel · 25 Hansen, Adam · 27 D Engelbert, Allan · 19 Gebhardt, Bryce · 39, 77 Hansen-Schwoebel, Tulpen · 60 Dananberg, Allie · 60, 61 Epperson, Caitlen · 77 Geddes, Justen · 14 Harnish, Matthew · 48 D'Angelo, Christian · 37 Esposito, Matthew · 43 Geiger, Cristina · 2, 6, 43 Harrigan, Meredith · 2, 26, 45 Davie, Brynn · 6 Esquivel, Erika · 62 Geiger, David · 2, 43, 44 Harrington-Verb, Marissa · 17 Davies, Jeremy · 77 Evers-Hillstom, Lena · 67 Gennes, Rebecca · 64 Harrison, Graham · 5 Davis, Margaret · 61 Gerrol, Emma · 11, 32 Harrison, Hannah · 50 Day, Brandon · 52 F Gershuni, Maria · 16, 25 Hart, Brianne · 46 Deacon, Julia · 21 Fabiilli, Talia · 67 Gerspacher, Stephanie · 22, 35 Hartman, Amanda · 55 Debritz, Joseph · 81 Fabrizio, Brittany · 45 Gerych, Walter · 17, 68 Hartnett, Denis · 77 Decker, Alexander · 14 Faliero, Matheus · 15 Getman, Darrell · 9 Hartvigsen, Gregg · 8, 13, 27, 30, Decker, Jillian · 45 Falk, Ryan · 37, 38 Giannios, Demetrios · 67 40 DeFilippis, Diana · 14, 78 Fan, Shixing · 5 Giantelli, Lauren · 72 Harwood, Jon · 24 Degener, Kristy · 58 Fantauzzo, Alexander · 50 Giardino, Jennie · 44 Hasanaj, Franceska · 37 DeHart, Ganie · 23, 25, 28, 55, 56 Farian, Homma · 68 Gibbons, Theresa · 20, 28, 45 Hassan, Tiphereth · 17 DeJoy, Joshua · 16 Farnam, Cole · 48 Gibian, Galen · 54 Hauf, Emily · 48 DelSignore, Emily · 5, 20 Farnsworth, Sara · 76 Gikonyo, Barnabas · 43 Havener, Paige · 67 Dempsey, Malachy · 34 Farrell, Lauren · 69 Gilbert, Grace · 8 Hawkins, Lindsey · 80 Denaroso, Giancarlo · 81 Farthing, Dori · 2, 47, 48 Gilmartin, Ceara · 70 Hayat, Tanvir · 36 Dennett, Abby · 47 Faulkner, Gwendolyn · 5 Ginnane, Mary Katharine · 50 Hayes, Ryan · 54 Deon, Nicholas · 9 Fawcett, Kadin · 74, 77, 81 Giorgis, Scott · 2, 23, 25, 28, 66, Hayes, Shannon · 81 Derick, Brady · 56 Felong, Miranda · 57 67 Heaney, Kathleen · 54 Derne, Steve · 2, 11, 35 Feng, Jane · 80 Glass, Becky · 35, 56 Heaton, Matthew · 73, 74 Deshmukh, Ishan · 62 Fenn, Jess · 22 Glathar, Alexandra · 23 Hecht, Jordan · 77 DeSouza, Harriet · 76 Fichera, Dylan · 77 Goeckel, Robert · 10, 16 Held, Robbie · 80 DeZarn, Dan · 25 Fidurko, Aaron · 76 Goga, George · 21 Helms, Eric · 2, 44 Diaz, Oliver · 34 Fiero, Miranda · 49, 77 Goldstein, Evan · 11, 16, 80 Hendel, Kalil · 77 DiBernardo, Julia · 77 Finch, Katrina · 21 Goldstein, Jonah · 77 Henderson, Alyssa · 56 DiFede, Anna · 80 Finn, Lucas · 57 Gomez, David · 19 Heney, Ian · 14 DiGiorgio, Francesca · 27, 49 Fischer, Justin · 15, 36 Gomez, Hilda · 71 Henry, Maureen · 13, 68 Dilsner-Lopez, Kiaya Rose · 7 Fisher, Caitlyn · 55 Gonzales, Cecelia · 80 Hensen, Corey · 48 DiSabato, Danielle · 63 FitzGerald, Kendall · 23, 80 Goodhue, Joseph · 33 Heppler, Jessica · 16, 29 Doherty, Erica · 26, 88 Flanary Espinal, Anastasia · 48 Gordon, Paige · 19 Heraghty, Sam · 31, 42 Dohrenwend, Adam · 11, 18 Fleischer, Jacob · 50 Gottstine, Thomas · 81 Herman, Alexis · 21 Dolan, Laura · 6, 74 Fletcher, Kyle · 14, 27 Gowdie, Dinetra · 75 Herman, Andrew · 24, 44 Donahue, Giovanna · 12 Forsell, Chloe · 23, 31 Grace, Jeremy · 2, 11, 19, 32, 36 Herman, Tyler · 19 Dooney, Bridget · 32 Foss, Brianna · 32 Grant, Barry · 56, 63, 77 Hermitt, Olivia · 40 Doran, Margaret · 51 Fox, Alexa · 26 Grant, Jack · 77, 81 Hernandez, Ashley · 5 Dorfner, Margaret · 73, 74 Fox, Allison · 17 Grant, Megan · 31 Hernandez, Sarah · 54 Dorr, Rachel · 78 Fox, Arthur · 57 Gravelin, Claire · 38, 76 Herold, Aaron · 10, 27 Doser, Jeff · 14, 29, 34, 69 Francese, Maggie · 29 Greco, Trevor · 57, 77, 81 Herrick, Megan · 15 Dove-Pellito, Glenna · 77 Frank, Melissa · 77 Green, Kostya · 23 Herschbein, Emily · 32, 88 Downing, Molly · 79, 81 Frankel, Justin · 63 Greenfield, Thomas · 10, 34 Hershey, Rachel · 75 Drake, Graham · 8, 21, 31, 88 Freeman, Charlie · 69 Gregg, Nicole · 67 Hezel, Catherine · 64 Drechsler, Jessica · 63 Freiman, Benjamin · 46 Gross, Callen · 70 Hill, Claire · 45 DuBois, Natalie · 56 Friedman, Anchi · 52, 78, 81 Gruning, Anton · 67 Hillis, Megan · 76 Dudek, Melanie · 55 Furst, Elizabeth · 55 Guinther, Rachel · 59, 77 Hines, Christopher · 57 Duguay, Elinore · 24 Guisao, Jason · 64, 81 Hintze, Mackenzie · 77 G Guyton, Scott · 58 Hodge, Amanda · 76 E Gage, Samantha · 59 Guzman, Jennifer · 30 Hoffman, Casey · 65 Eames, Michelle · 5 Gale, Taylor · 77 Hogan, Erin · 77 Ebersold, Samantha · 77 Gallaro, Joshua · 16, 77 H Holdgruen, Emily · 22 Ebersole, Wesley · 27 Gallego Hernández, Ivan · 49 Ha, Min Jung · 64 Holland, Elizabeth · 46 Edgington, Clare · 75 Galvao, Jennifer · 20 Haas, Vanessa · 25 Holodnik, Olivia · 58 Edwards, Ashley · 76 Galvin, Katrina · 55 Hackshaw, Dayner · 11 Holtzman, Emma · 5 Edwards, Nicole · 64 Ganis, Diana · 35, 70 Haddad, Caroline · 7, 24, 27, 29, Hoops, Harold · 2, 5, 41 Ehmann, Megan · 76 Gannett, Cara · 7, 50 88 Hope, Mary · 24, 26, 29 Eisenberg, Anne · 32 Garber, Sophia · 21 Hall, Elizabeth · 21, 45 Horn, Tessa · 29 Eley, Virginia · 13, 21 Garcia, Gabriella · 8 Hall, Jeremy · 25, 27, 29 Horvath, Saige · 77 Hamilton-Rodgers, Patty · 80, 88 Hossain, Raihan · 37 83 Index of Participants 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual

Hristodoulou, Eraklis · 47 Keller, Kate · 77 Leary, Christopher · 13, 30, 31, Marcus, George · 27, 29, 69 Htun, Samuel Myo · 41 Keller, Steven · 55 40 Marino, Robert · 77, 80 Hughes, Quille · 77 Kelley, Amy · 52 Leary, Eric · 57 Markowitz, Michelle · 16 Hurlbutt, Emily · 5, 77 Kelly, Anne · 65, 80 Lee, Andy · 64 Markowski, Vincent · 76 Hurysz, Thomas · 39 Kemler, Madi · 77 Lee, Mansokku · 28 Marr, Zoe · 43 Hutchison, Elizabeth · 23, 25, 39 Kemler, Madison · 77 Lee, Ryan · 80 Masci, Michael · 7, 34 Hwang, Taewon · 64 Kenney, Kaleb · 21 Lee, Seung Whyan · 64 Masetta, Michael · 77 Hynes, Tristan · 35 Kennison, Weston · 27, 56 Legawiec, Forrest · 47 Mathers, Ryan · 56 Hyun, Haerreem · 28 Keough, Matt · 77 Leip, Michelle · 63 Mathew, Shawn · 41 Keplinger, Amanda · 63 Leonti, Justin · 56, 77 Mathews, Jane · 43 I Kernan, James · 26 Levine, Annie · 78 Matthews, Thomas · 32, 68 Iacono, Cassandra · 15 Kesler, Anthony · 69 Levine, Sydney · 5, 88 Matyasovszky, Gage · 76 Infranco, Dan · 77 Kidder, Alexis · 75 Levy, Danielle · 63 Mayo, Amber · 56 Ingram, Donovan · 81 Kim, Dohyun · 64 Levy, David · 6, 16, 88 Mazzola, Jennifer · 73, 74, 76 Irwin, Alexis · 68 Kimball, James · 77 Lewis, Jani · 17, 41 McAlevey, Jack · 77 Ishizuka, Keiko · 18 King, Courtney · 17, 76 Lewis, Robert · 44 McAlister, Melody · 38, 56 Islam, Apaula · 62 Kinsella, Shea · 32 Liberman, Erica · 56 Mccabe, Maddie · 45 Kirby, Conor · 5 Lieb, Camryn · 8, 13 McCarthy, Thomas · 13, 16 J Kirk, Joanna · 9 Liebermann, Erin · 9 McCartney, Jacob · 41 Jackson, Kathleen · 21 Kirrane, Ryan · 56, 88 Lima, Maria · 5 McCasland, Patricia · 77 Jacobson, Elodie · 53 Kirsh, Steven · 75 Lin, Amber · 41, 61 McClow, Hannah · 57 James, Davitia · 65 Kitzen, Jack · 81 Lin, Thomas · 49 McClurg, Dyan · 21 James, Dejia · 53 Klein, Sydney · 36 Ling, Mark · 66 McCorkle, Brooke · 7, 25, 49 James, Richard · 81 Kleinhenz, Elena · 77 Liriano, Jennifer · 19, 55 McCormick, Cassondra · 10 James, Tarik · 45 Klemenich, Seth · 20 Liscia, Rachel · 37 McCoy, Beth · 64 Jannes, Ethan · 34 Kloosterman, Megan · 58 Lisi, Jessica · 67, 78 McCoy, Kitrick · 64 Jassawalla, Avan · 15 Kluball, Aaron · 17 Lloyd, Maggie · 35 McDermott, Paul · 25 Jayeola, Toluwa · 81 Knab, Hannah · 71 LoCastro, Andrew · 34 McDonnell, Morgan · 66, 77 Jayne, Samantha · 80 Knapp, Rachel · 59 Lombardo, Suzi · 21 McDonough, Megan · 20 Jin, Grace · 64 Koch, Jeffrey · 50, 51, 52, 73 Lombert, Dannette · 55 McEwen, Rose · 17 Johannes, Jeff · 5, 17, 28, 33 Koenig, Phillip · 57 Lomnitzer, Kirsten · 47 McGarvey, Zach · 77 Johannes, Richard · 21 Koenig, Zachary · 14, 23 Loo, Hannah · 24, 34, 42, 49, 60, McGinn, Ezekiel · 65 Johanson, Quinn · 61 Kolakowski, Claudia · 30 61 McGlashon, David · 60 Johnsen, Aubrie · 26 Kompanijec, Victoria · 44 Looks, Jessica · 36 McGrath, Alex · 30 Johnson, David · 2, 63 Kone, Gnire · 71 LoParco, Nathan · 58 McKee, Cody · 40 Johnson, Elise · 55 Kono, Ayumi · 18 Lopez, Elinol · 21 McKendry, Ryan · 47 Johnson, Tristan · 17 Kopacz, Brianna · 78 LoPinto, Frank · 58 McKenna, Nora · 54 Johnston, Julie · 21 Kordiyak, Jonathan · 30, 61 Lovric, Alexandra · 36 McKiernan, Kaila · 77 Jonasse, Nicholas · 65 Kosmerl, Erica · 39 Lubey, Heather · 6 McKinsey, Jordon · 13, 21 Jones, Allison · 58, 59 Kousar, Bilal · 50 Lubich-Claps, Antoinette · 50 McKnight, Ruel · 39, 63 Jones, BethAnna · 61 Kowalski, Sarah · 25 Lucyshyn, Maya · 8 McLean, James · 49, 67 Jones, Ryan · 11, 19, 31, 67 Kramer, Alexander · 77 Lui, Tiffany · 74 McMahon, Liam · 74 Jopson, Brittani · 80 Krol, Tim · 33 Lundquist, Mary Elizabeth · 61 McMahon, Riagan · 44 Juchniewicz, Benjamin · 81 Krumrine, Kristi · 30, 39 Lynch, Michael · 74 McPherson, Duane · 39 Kubow, Christopher · 43 McSorley, Hannah · 81 K Kulakowski, Kelly · 77 M Mebust, Erik · 6 Kaasik, Lisa · 19, 51 Kurita, Yuka · 18 MacDonald, Michael · 81 Meccariello, Vinnie · 77 Kaczorowski, Derek · 11 Kuzman-McRae, Liz · 13 Macey, Brennan · 15 Medeiros, Melanie · 2, 5, 28 Kahn, Danielle · 6, 77 Mack, Tyler · 61 Medina, Sabrina · 43 Kalumbwe, Nathalie · 5, 32 L MacKenzie, Douglas · 45, 63, 64 Medina, Valerie · 62 Kane, Doris · 81 LaCombe, Nina · 77 MacKenzie, Lindsay · 48, 49 Meerdink, Katherine · 57 Kane, Erica · 75 Lafever, Jordan · 37 MacPherson, Thomas · 28, 39 Mehlenbacher, Brandon · 34, 61 Kane, Ian · 21 Lamb, Austin · 37, 40 Maggio, Daniel · 15 Mehta, Varun · 17 Kang, Eunju · 23, 55, 69, 70, 71, Lancos, Jonette · 6, 36 Magnus, Thomas · 9 Mei, Wilson · 55, 68, 88 72, 73 Lane, Ryan · 59 Mahoney, Brendan · 5, 13, 34 Meisel, David · 69 Kanzler, Patrick · 9, 32, 88 Lang, Jason · 31, 42 Mahoney, Shannon · 11 Melfi, Jen · 77 Kaplan, Randy · 36 LaRose, Jillian · 75 Mai, Anh · 15 Melgar, Ashley · 76 Kasha, Katherine · 77 Lascell, Ernest · 77 Malik, Shreyya · 18 Merlau, Rachael · 81 Kassner, Travis · 57 Lata, Reidis · 63 Maloney, Margaret · 13 Messana, Elizabeth · 5, 16 Katz, Jennifer · 74, 75 Lattanzi, Marc · 77 Mandanas, Sarah · 50, 77, 79 Metz, Megan · 9 Kavanaugh, Sheamus · 32 Lauber, Sean · 81 Manke, Alec · 48 Meyer, Lisa · 7, 16, 35 Keane, Shannon · 29 Laurelli, Nick · 81 Mansilla, Consuelo · 64 Michalko, Michael · 77 Keck, Christopher · 63 Lawson, Jenna · 19 Mapes, Kathleen · 16 Militello, Kevin · 59 Keenan, Quinn · 21 Lazarte, Victor · 15, 52 Maphey, Sarah · 77 Miller, Arianna · 18, 77

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Miller, Chris · 77 Ockenden, Ryan · 35 Ponce, Gabriel · 32, 67, 77, 88 Rubin, Jennifer · 58 Miller, Sasha · 51, 56, 64 O'Connor, Jillian · 9 Porter, Channing · 35 Ruiz, Kaylan · 80 Millich, Hannah · 12 O'Donnell, Robert · 59, 63 Powers, Kyle · 43 Russo, Leah · 79 Mills, Michael · 17 Oduro, Stella · 5, 32 Powers, Rachel · 34 Rutigliano, Mary · 30, 64 Minett, Nicholas · 18 O'Hara, Kylee · 23, 26, 28 Preston, Megan · 14 Rutkowski, Alice · 16 Minurka, Steven · 24 Ohman, Elizabeth · 7 Prezlock, Timothy · 73 Ryan, Jeanmarie · 34 Mirvelle, Rebecca · 60 O'Keefe, Carly · 24, 26, 29 Priore, Maria · 12 Ryan, Sean · 77, 88 Misa, Samantha · 33 Oktay, Chloe · 73, 74 Prunier, Claire · 77 Rybecky, Matthew · 28 Molino, Rachel · 81 Okungbowa, Eghosa · 45 Prusinowski, Meghan · 14 Molzon, Heather · 45 Ollis, Rachel · 67 Pujols, Monica · 62, 68 S Monfalcone, Brooke · 80 Omecinsky, Michaela · 9, 15 Pure, Emma · 79 Sabers, Jenna · 46 Monim, Abdullah · 63 Ontiveros-Oberg, Adam · 55 Pyatt, Mary · 23 Sabol, David · 18 Monroe, Kiarra · 15 Oritz, Isabelle · 55 Sackett, Hannah · 66 Montgomery, Ashley · 77 Ovejero, Isabella · 45 Q Sah, Randhir · 62 Mooney, Alida · 13, 25 Over, Jeff · 19 Quinn, James · 42 Saleta, Sabrina · 55 Moor, James · 27, 37 Owen, Isabel · 11, 67, 80 Salmon, Susan · 77, 88 Moore, Geoffrey · 71 Owens, Bethany · 55 R Salvatore, Raina · 19 Moore, Shawn · 43 Ozubko, Jason · 56 Raffloer, Danni · 64 Samuel, Brittani · 36, 81 Moran, Ashley · 13 Raffloer, Gavin · 75, 81 Sanchez, Carol · 50, 77 Morel, Marlin · 55 P Raglow-DeFranco, Zora · 52 Sanchez, Cassandria · 32 Morgan, Brian · 13 Pacheco, Paul · 25, 26, 29 Ramirez, Emily · 34 Sanduski, Kyle · 58 Morrow, Christina · 57 Pack, Monica · 75 Ramos-Dries, Tess · 75 Santana, Arlenis · 55 Mosco, Ella · 38 Padalino, Stephen · 7, 50, 69 Ramsay, Alyx · 55 Santana, Debbieann · 55 Motisi, Marisa · 75 Paku, Gillian · 9, 31 Ramsey, Dillon · 69 Sapone, Alex · 45 Mounts, Jeffrey · 76 Palm, Joanna · 73, 74 Rao, Anand · 28 Saturnino, Laura · 64 Mozingo, Erin · 61 Palmer, Jillian · 32 Rapoza, Matt · 77 Sawyer, Bailey · 58 Mrakovcic, Hannah · 78, 81 Palmisano, Kevin · 50 Rasquin, Kristen · 72 Scandaglia, Gina · 58 Mrozek, Alexander · 32 Panara, Kelli · 13 Rebolini, Matthew · 65 Schacht, Paul · 25, 88 Mullen, John · 58 Panzariello, Francesca · 53 Reda, Adrienne · 45 Schlageter, Cody · 21 Multala, Evan · 60 Panzetta, Mary · 32 Reed, MIchael · 21 Schmalz, Danielle · 53 Murphy, David · 40 Papas, Emilios · 77 Reiner, Ben · 5 Schmigel, Shelby · 80 Murray, Brennan · 57 Parfitt, David · 32 Reinhardt, Josephine · 59 Schneeberger, Kayleigh · 55, 58 Murray, Frances · 41, 88 Parish, Troy · 56 Reiter, Emily · 32 Schneider, Adam · 40 Park, Hyun Seong · 64 Reitz, Meg · 56, 57 Schneider, Emma · 58 N Parsons, Destiny · 77 Remillard, Maria · 55 Schneider, Monica · 75 Nagel, Andrew · 52 Patterson, Graham · 81 Renskers, Christopher · 27 Schulman, Jennifer · 43 Nagel, Robina · 42 Pearl, Jennifer · 21 Rhoads, Leah · 21 Schum, Kayla · 59, 77 Nam, Wook · 81 Pease, Adam · 31 Ricci, Laura · 15 Schutt, William · 23 Nedelkovksa, Hristina · 5 Peers, Aram · 69 Richardson, Carly · 35 Schuyler, Andrew · 57 Neidish, Harrison · 9 Pellegrino, Elizabeth · 66 Riley, Jessica · 64 Schweizer, Matthew · 62 Nelson, Hershley · 54 Pellegrino, Eva · 8, 31 Rinaldi, Hope · 15 Scott, Denise · 14 Ng, Sydney · 13 Peppriell, Ashley · 59 Rittscher, Anne · 60 Sears, Samantha · 5 Nguyen, Anthony · 76 Perdomo, George · 77 Ritz, Abigail · 22, 25 Seche, Caroline · 25 Nguyen, Dung · 30 Pérez, Diana · 17 Rivera, Victoria · 77 Serianni, Anthony · 73 Nguyen, Tayler · 77 Perlee, Thomas · 81 Rizzo, Remy · 62 Seskin, Marlo · 6 Nichols, Samuel · 77 Pero, Nicole · 13 Roberts, Damian · 81 Sessanna, Riley · 47 Nicodemi, Olympia · 34 Perpall, Brandon · 66 Roberts, Victoria · 46 Shah, Mallika · 29 Nicosia, Julia · 59 Peterson, Jeffrey · 61, 62 Roberts, William · 6 Shank, Cody · 28 Nieves, Jonathan · 17 Pfaltz, Jackie · 77 Robertson, Charles · 81 Shanklin, Claire · 10 Nigro, Matthew · 49 Pfeiffer, Noah · 44 Robertson, Dave · 46 Sharer, Braeden · 74 Niles, Sara · 8 Pfundstein, Kaitlin · 25, 28, 31, Robinson, John · 81 Sharma, Mamta · 5 Ninson, Gladys · 55 88 Roche, Con · 23, 81 Sharp, Kathleen · 73, 88 Noel, Ricky · 22 Phillips, Traci · 24, 27, 29 Roche, Katherine · 25, 58 Shaw, Alexander · 78 Nolan, Delaney · 38 Piazza, Thomas · 81 Rodriguez, Lorenzo · 36 Shaw, Jaclyn · 28 Norris, Darrell · 9, 18, 23 Picart, Luis · 37 Rogers, Emily · 35 Sheehan, Erin · 20 Norway, Samantha · 32 Picone, Jessica · 8 Rose, Zakiya · 14 Sheldon, Amy · 23, 47, 80 Nwokolobia, Adaeze · 81 Pierce, Kevin · 77 Rosen, Zoe · 35, 88 Sherelis, Tori · 49 Nyitrai, jenelle · 77 Pierson, Deborah · 64 Ross, ChrisAnne · 48 Shevlin, Peter · 62 Pigliacelli, Margaret · 19 Ross, Mackenzie · 38 Shimshi, Stephen · 73 O Piper, Kyle · 51 Ross, Makayla · 60 Sicari, Steven · 30, 68 Oberg, Michael · 10 Platte, Tiffany · 57 Roth, Amanda · 16 Sidoti, Jess · 45 O'Brien, Caroline · 74 Plevy, Lauren · 20 Rothwein, Donald · 22 Sikora, Michelle · 40 O'Brien, Kathleen · 38 Plimpton, Teagan · 23, 56 Rowan, Grace · 32 Simas, Maria · 19 O'Brien, Shayne · 7, 34, 68 Pogozelski, Edward · 69 Rowan, Jennifer · 14 Simms, Hunter · 32 Pogozelski, Wendy · 63 Simon, Sarah · 39, 56, 81 85 Index of Participants 2017 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 11th Annual

Simpson, Mary · 80 Suter, Patrick · 66, 77 V Whyman, Melissa · 38, 72 Simpson, Tori · 74 Swisher, Ben · 5 Wilcove, Rachel · 19, 51 Vadas, Andrew · 42 Singh, Ravneet · 62, 68 Swyer, Kallie · 80 Wilkinson, Corey · 24, 26, 29, 88 Van Eck, Peter · 49 Singh, Sunita · 68 Wilkinson, Tristan · 69 Vanamee, Nicholas · 79 Sirkovich, Eitan · 50 Williams, Emma · 19 T Vangellow, Tom · 77 Skowronski, Alicia · 39 Williams, Timothy · 81 Taber, Cassandra · 77 Varghese, Merin · 42 Slack, Aaron · 56 Williams, Yvette · 75 Taber, Lexi · 36 Vienneau, Katie · 21 Slater, Dyamond · 14 Willson, Jordan · 32 Tadros, Joseph · 14, 40, 59 Visca, Hannah · 50 Slattery, Michael · 5 Wilson, Naomi · 30, 41, 61 Taglia, Veronica · 10 Vishion, Taylor · 38, 51 Slish, Joshua · 50 Winchester, Nicole · 26 Tajima, Atsushi · 2, 7, 28, 44 Volcy, Matthew · 32, 55 Smarcz, Nathan · 49 Wing-Paul, Dimitri · 55 Tamura, Yuichi · 34 Voorheis, Brennan · 48 Smith, Gabrielle · 53 Tan, Gerena · 73, 74 Winley, Justin · 81 Smith, Lisa · 80 Tan, Wilson · 5 W Wisset, Jordan · 63 Smith, Lytton · 8, 16, 17, 18, 23, Wolfanger, Daniel · 13, 68 Tanaka, Ikki · 64 Wagner, Nathan · 73 24, 26, 31, 32, 34, 64, 80 Wong, Jenny · 78 Tang, Chi-Ming · 7, 24 Wakwella, Pramuk · 59 Smith, Samuel · 77 Woo, Phillip · 37 Tang, Jasmine · 49 Wakwella, Praveen · 50 Smith, Xiane · 77 Wood, Nicholas · 38 Tantillo, Anthony · 63 Walker, Julia · 19 Smyth, Kimi · 62 Taylor, Grant · 77 Walser, Catherine · 70 Snyder, Jacob · 22 Y Taylor, Tanairi · 20 Walsh, Kyle · 56 Snyder, James · 21 Yale, Brian · 52 Teel, Kelly · 45 Walsh, Paige · 67 Snyder, Sydney · 26 Yang, Suann · 60 Terner, David · 28, 77 Wang, Eric · 80, 81 Snyder, Timothy · 77, 80 Yee, Patrick · 21 Terry, Connor · 67 Wang, Jamie · 41 Sojda, Stephanie · 44, 61 Yee, Steven · 80 Tetteh, Leslie · 75 Wankoff-Bigness, Sydney · 56 Sorice, Zooey · 81 Yerofeev, David · 81 Thabateh, Amal · 26 Wannamaker, Kyle · 81 Soto, Mark · 43 Yi, Hyesun · 71 Thaker, Dharti · 18 Ward, Davina · 18 Spaid, Ben · 80 Yokoyama, Kazushige · 45, 62 Tharett, Adam · 21 Ward, Ryan · 69 Sparks-Stewart, Sarah · 77 Young, Richard · 47 Tharrett, Katie · 58 Ward, Sarah · 40 Spencer, Nicole · 55 Yousey, Madeline · 77 Theal, Andrew · 47 Ware, Linda · 64 Sroka, Bridgette · 77, 88 Yun, Heuijoon · 64 Thomas, Emily · 45 Warner, Nicholas · 65, 66, 67 sSmith, Tyler · 37 Yusupov, Ariel · 5, 41 Thompson, Fabian · 28 Watts, Mackenzie · 64 St. Thomas, Molly · 63 Thurber, Lauren · 77 Wayland, Madison · 80 Staebell, Michelle · 8 Z Tiberio, Bill · 77 Weaver, Adam · 56 Stavrou, Stephanie · 81 Zahid, Zarmeen · 74, 88 Tiede, Tyler · 57 Weaver, Amman · 5 Steil, Sarah · 34 Zanchelli, Eve · 63 Tillapaugh, Katrina · 9 Webber, Alex · 27, 77 Steinhauer, Aaron · 16, 69, 88 Zaslavsky, Katherine · 2, 24, 49, Timkey, Emily · 30 Weber, Andrew · 77 Steinsaltz, Matthew · 24 67, 80 Toback, Kaela · 58 Weber, Jonathan · 24 Stensland, Shelby · 59 Zheng, Natalie · 25 Tolkin, Elliot · 70 Weber, Morgan · 33, 67 Stern, Daniel · 26 Zheng, Qi · 49, 64 Tomei, Nicole · 68 Weed, Jasmine · 80 Stern, Sami · 31 Ziegler, Cameron · 37 Toufexis, Christine · 39 Wegman, Adam · 17, 34, 61 Sternberg, Lauren · 58 Zimmer, Hannah · 24, 27, 29, 88 Towsley, Gary · 12, 21, 37, 67, 68 Weinstein, Renee · 60 Steward, Colleen · 43 Zimmerman, Jenna · 45 Tran, Melanie · 43 Weiss, Madison · 76 Stewart, Ian · 71 Zintel, Max · 33 Treacy, Sara · 30 Weiss, Noah · 77 Stockler, Barak · 56, 69 Ziotto, Rafael · 5 Trelinski, Nick · 55 Weissman, Caleb · 10 Stoerger, Walter · 78 Zipper, Ryan · 77 Tsuboi, Yuri · 18 Weissman, Melanie · 9 Stoklosa, Madeline · 72 Zito, Katherine · 29 Tulowiecki, Stephen · 46 Welch, Evelyn · 80 Stone, Leonie · 2, 5, 15 Zomback, Jenna · 17 Tumasian, Robert · 12 Welsch, Tory · 63, 80 Suarez, Maria · 25 Zweig, Michal · 44 Turner, Ethan · 29 Wesp, Richard · 21 Sugrue, Colin · 77 West, Karleen · 11, 19, 52, 53, Sullivan, Brittnay · 77 U 54, 55 Sullivan, Elizabeth · 73, 74 Ume, Rubab · 49 White, Catherine · 81 Sullivan, John · 72 Urban, Kyle · 76 Whittel, Nicholas · 60 Sullivan, Meagan · 55, 61 Uy, Erwin · 81

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The GREAT Day Faculty Advisory Council The GREAT Day Committee Isidro Bosch, Biology Anne Baldwin, Sponsored Research David Levy, Edgar Fellows and Philosophy Tammy Hill, Campus Scheduling and Special Events Graham Drake, English Andrea Klein, Campus Scheduling and Special Events Susan Salmon, School of Education Erica Doherty, GREAT Day Intern Aaron Steinhauer, Physics & Astronomy Sean Ryan, Chamber Music Festival Coordinator Caroline Haddad, Mathematics Jesse Bennett, Student Association Daniel Ross, Milne Library GREAT Battle of the Artists Team Patty Hamilton-Rodgers, GREAT Day Coordinator Emma Belson, GCAB Arts & Exhibits Jennifer Joyce, Nassau Hall Hannah Fabiny, Nassau Hall

Thank You for contributions that make GREAT Day possible: Brian Bennett, Paige Closser, Joe Dolce, Stephen Dresbach, Karie Frisiras, Nancy Johncox, Minhhang Huynh, Enrico Johnson, Jane Bechdol, SA Tech Services, Sue Rubright, Frances Murray, Zarmeen Zahid

Thanks to GREAT Day Volunteers: Bridgette Sroka, Caitlin Hamberger, Caralee Stevens, Kirsten Greene, Bailey Imbo, Andy Chen, Sara Reppenhagen, Kenneth Ray Capellan, Alberto Alonso, Kevin Thompson, Rae Ortega, Sydney Levine, Jill Patel, Emiy Spina, Lilia Briggs-McEwen, Theresa Robert, Jamie-Lynn Irwin, Racheal Devine, John Cordova, Sara Feinland, Scott Williams, Hannah Burns, Bowen Wu, Zoe Rosen, Wilson Mei, Tyler Cook, Steven Sciglibaglio, Allegra Miccio, Uma Natarajan, Melissa Hartlipp, Gabriel Ponce, Genna Mccormack, Victoria Mac Eachin, Grace Sementilli, Jennifer Joyce, Mary Monsees, Conor Lynch, Ashley Buttice, Phoebe Hartvigsen, Angela Kubik, Olivia Binda, Kylee O'hara, Emma O'Connell, Benjamin Geiger, Dani Alt, Elizabeth Kunnumpurath, Taylor Jackson, Amy Patel, Emily Herschbein, Joseph Elkashash, Danah Spink, Sophia Schmall, Mary Sullivan, Chrystyna Tsuvanyk, Kathleen Konz, Sarah Bissel, Sophie Yeomans, Mina Wyman, Colin Wilcox, Nicole Morgan, Jasmin Kim, Megan Kopp, Erika Skinner, Juniper Tremper, Swathi Sridevan, Connor Burnich, Briana Kubik, Maddison Penrose, Hannah Zimmer, Jesse Bennet, Kaitlin Pfundstein, Corey Wilkinson, Zach Berube, Patrick Kanzler, Mina Raj, Hayley Crouth, Marie Henning, Lesly Urena, Kathleen Sharp, Melissa Paravati, Demi Monachino, Ryan Kirrane, Emily Cecala, Rachel Kelk, Leah Sherman, Ashlyn Nardi, Kameron Kostolansky, Meagan Odette, Samantha Cytryn, Stephanie Podguski, Devon Kenny, Kayla Brock, Michael Reed

Special Thank You: President Denise Battles and Provost Paul Schacht for their support of GREAT Day. Jack and Carol Kramer for their support of Geneseo and the Keynote address. Erich Jarvis for delivering the Keynote address. Student Association for sponsoring the luncheon. Campus Auxiliary Services for sponsoring luncheon beverages. Daniel Ross and the Milne Library Staff for hosting the Coffee Hour and overseeing the proceedings. Patty Hamilton-Rodgers, Anne Baldwin, Andrea Klein, Tammy Hill and Erica Doherty for their special expertise and many hours devoted to planning this event.

GREAT Day is funded by the Office of the Provost, the Student Association, Campus Auxiliary Services and the Jack '76 and Carol '76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship. http://www.geneseo.edu/great_day

GREAT Day would like to acknowledge our partners:

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POSTER SESSIONS COLLEGE UNION BALLROOM

Session 1 11: 15 AM – 12:45 PM Lunch and the Geneseo String Band performance at noon

Session 2 5:15 PM – 6:45 PM Reception with Keynote Speaker, Dr. Erich Jarvis

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