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1184 West Main Street, Decatur, Illinois 62522 | www.millikin.edu/academics/celebrations 20 CELEBRATIONSof 12 SCHOLARSHIP FRIDAY APRIL 27, 2012 INSIDE THIS issuE Welcome A2-4 College of Arts “when barriers are removed from our & Sciences Behavioral Sciences imaginations we have unlimited potential” Biology Communication Welcome to one of my favorite events at Millikin students and faculty travel to new levels of English University-the Celebrations of Scholarship. This confidence, performance, and achievement. In Critical Writing, Reading and day, more than any other single event, reminds their work today, you see that powerful journey Research me that when barriers are removed from our reach completion. History imaginations we have unlimited potential. Theory Humanites Undergraduate Research applied in practice leads to unending discoveries Modern Languages in undiscovered territories through which our Barry Pearson Philosophy Vice President for Academic Affairs Physics Political Science Sociology A4 19th Annual Millikin University Campus Map COS Poster Symposium A5 College of Fine Arts Art Department School of Music Department of Theatre and Dance 7 A5-6 2 College of 4 6 Professional 5 Studies 1 Exercise Science and Sport School of Nursing 3 A6 Tabor School of Business Business Management/Finance Center for Entrepreneurship 1 SCO ADM-Scovill Hall A7 See A10 for Friday’s presentation schedule Long- 2 LTSC Leighty-Tabor Science Center 3 MAC Lab Staley Library Vanderburg 4 Pilling Chapel Pilling Chapel Caterpillar 5 SH Shilling Hall 6 Albert Taylor Theatre Albert Taylor Theatre Scholars 7 Blackburn Hall Blackburn Hall A7 Honors Freshman Focus Panels Crowe O’Conner Magagna A8-10 JMS Senior Recognition Day JMS Friday Presentation JMS Saturday Presentations A10 Friday Presentation Schedule aa-celebscholarship-0412 A2 COLLEGE OF ARTS& SCIENCES See the products of our students’ research and creativity At Millikin University we believe in a simple In the Celebrations of Scholarship you have the publishing and critical reception of literary texts. but VERY IMPORTANT assumption—our students opportunity to see the products of our students’ I invite you to join in the 2012 Celebrations of are capable of inquiry, discovery, creation, and research and creativity presented by the students Scholarship where our students share the results application of newly acquired knowledge. This is themselves. You will see posters and presentations of their research and creative work. Join me as we true of first year students (as evident in today’s about research in the Natural Sciences such as field recognize the outstanding achievements of our Freshman Focus Presentations) and this is true of all studies or health-related laboratory research. Come students. Join me in the celebration of the creativity of our students at every stage of their development see what the physics and mathematics students and thorough inquiry of students in the College of as presented in the Poster Symposium, the HURF are investigating in astronomy and quantum Arts & Sciences. Join in the fun learning. See you at competition, and the many presentations of mechanics. Learn about Behavioral Sciences the Celebrations of Scholarship! undergraduate research we celebrate today. Millikin student research on the homeless. Find out the students are not here to merely consume knowledge latest research findings from our ongoing Social available. We are not interested in their ability to Perception Research Project. Learn about the latest regurgitate facts and to pass multiple choice tests. developments in professional communication Dr. Randy Brooks Millikin students are here to be the makers, research studies. See what our English writing and literature Dean collaborators and creative users of new knowledge. majors have been doing with writing, editing, College of Arts & Sciences and Advanced Internship class in Operant conditioning via impact of outside influences such as Research in Public Participation Behavioral Human Services. The location of the olfactory cues in immature house religion and personal values, specific in Environmental Advocacy Sciences site, the student’s experiences, and the crickets, Acheta domesticus diseases, and infant mortality rates SH420 student’s struggles will be presented in (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) found in these countries. 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. The Truths Behind the Stigma of this hour long presentation. LTSC001 Mental Illness Escherichia coli killing ability of Presenter(s): 9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Illinois feeder birds SH412 Lauren Acton, Megan Dyson, Presenter(s): LTSC001 Elizabeth Eustice, Ryan Ferries, 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Biology Kathleen Campbell Christina Hicks, Kara Knazze, 11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Presenter(s): Faculty Sponsor(s): Alexandra Oremus, Brooke Paddock, Presenter(s): Heather Kuntzman, Jasmine Broadie, Sequencing of the Spatzle gene Dr. Marianne Robertson Derrick Ponton, Efrem Spann, in hermit crabs (Coenobita Madeline Knott Bridget Bakke, Jade Anderson, Abstract/Description: Ryan Tierney, Justin Walsh, Andrea clypeatus): genomic DNA vs. RNA Faculty Sponsor(s): Shannon Delgado, Whitney Learning using olfactory cues is Williams, Jillesa Willis, Keira Woods Dr. Travis Wilcoxen Schafman, Sian Wilson, Jacob LTSC001 known to be present in adult male Faculty Sponsor(s): Poshard, Kasey Hoogervorst 8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m. and female house crickets. I am Abstract/Description: Dr. Tom Duncanson Abstract/Description: In wild birds, little is known about Presenter(s): testing by the same manner in Abstract/Description: Stigma of mental illness impacts the ability of various species to Brittany Sherron immature individuals. This panel of papers on contemporary everyone leading to lack of fight infection. A crucial part of any environmental advocacy will consist understanding, empathy and services. Faculty Sponsor(s): Possible relationship between organisms’ immune function is the of the following presentations: Dr. Cynthia Handler, Dr. Samuel quality of the diet. The immune This presentation will focus on the in vivo S-adenosyl-L-methionine “Public Reaction Shaping the BP Oil Galewsky function of three year-round resident impact of stigma as it relates to hydrolase activity and quorum Disaster Response” media, social networking, labeling, Abstract/Description: sensing in Escherichia coli Illinois species were assessed both Eustice, et al rehabilitation, education and changing Hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus) LTSC001 before the presence of bird feeders views. Come learn what you can do to show a behavioral response and after the introduction of bird “Publics and Counter-publics in the eliminate stigma of mental illness! indicating pain, but no connection 9:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. feeders. Innate immune function Bio-fuels Debate” has been made with a physiological Presenter(s): was measured based on the E. coli Ferries, et al Rock Music Videos: The Impact molecular response. In Drosophila Grace Walworth bacteria killing ability (BKA) of blood “Crisis Rhetoric after Fukushima” of Female Artists Pairing Alcohol melanogaster, the Toll signaling Faculty Sponsor(s): samples. There was a significant Oremus, et al and Sex pathway plays a role in the innate increase in BKA of birds captured of Dr. Jeffrey Hughes “Public Participation in the Keystone immune response and is functionally some species before feeders and after SH412 Abstract/Description: Pipeline Controversy” homologous to mammalian feeders were placed at sites which Recent literature has documented 10:20 a.m.-11:00 a.m. interleukin-1 receptor. Spätzle, showed diet affects immune function. Tierney, et alCommunication, the existence inter-bacterial Presenter(s): an IL-1 homologue, is required for Theatre & Dance, and the Center for communication molecules called Connie Gawlik, Jaimie Pantoja, activation of the pathway. A portion The effects on local mammal International Education autoinducers in the form of N-actyl Brittany Czaplicki, Miles Grimes, Dana of a spätzle-like gene in hermit crabs populations when switching from homoserine lactones that mediate a Hunt that shares 88% identity with the a corn / soybean rotation to bio- Phridays With Phil Talk Show process called quorum sensing. By spätzle gene from Chinese shrimp mass agriculture Faculty Sponsor(s): using quorum sensing, bacteria are SH420 (Fenneropenaeus chinensis). Reverse Dr. Linda Collinsworth able to aggregate together to form a LTSC001 11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. transcription PCR indicates that Abstract/Description: biofilm that allows them to perform spätzle mRNA is present in hermit 11:30 p.m.-12:00 p.m. Presenter(s): Historically, feminists have been critical activities that single cells cannot crab tissue. Preliminary results Presenter(s): Phillip Armstrong, Claire Salata, of rock music videos because of conduct. In previous work, cells suggest that spätzle is induced in David D. Leimbach Sidney Davis, Shelbi Baker, Jamie misogynist themes that include sexual transformed with an expression vector experimental tissues when compared Faculty Sponsor(s): OHalloran, Heather Bulthuis, Ryan and physical violence against women. containing the coliphage T3 SAM to a control group.These results Dr. Gregg Marcello Daykin, Ty Warden, Bryant Morrison The videos have traditionally been hydrolase (SAMase) gene aggregated suggest that a cytokine-like gene Faculty Sponsor(s): directed, produced, and performed into clumps distributed throughout Abstract/Description: is present in hermit crabs and is Melinda Rueter by men. A recent development in rock the medium.