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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. We have demonstrated Upon switching from a corn / soybean involved in an inflammation response Abstract/Description: videos is the performance by female that these do not appear related to agricultural rotation to the production that could indicate pain. Currently, A college talk show, tapping into the artists of videos that contains themes capsule formation or entanglement of agricultural bio-mass, a previously we are aiming to determine the full- day to day life of a college student. of sex, and videos with a combination of cell filaments, both of which are unhospitable (urban) agricultural area length spätzle gene sequence using Creating an open environment where of sex and alcohol. The impact on induced by SAMase expression. saw a large upswing in the avian and manipulations of genomic DNA as students are able to discuss everyday college students of female artists The biochemical pathways related mammal population. An observation well as RNA. life, social/political issues, and pairing alcohol and sex is examined in to SAM production and SAMase and trapping period over the course personal issues. this study. activity could be responsible for of three months revealed a healthy, Are there forest characteristics diverse population of inhabitants. that predict the abundance of high amounts of homoserine being Experiential Living and Learning internally rearranged into homoserine in Baltimore periodical cicadas, Magicicada spp.? lactone being dumped into the English SH412 medium and possibly serving as LTSC001 Communication 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. an autoinducer. Building off of Student Publishing Enterprises 8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m. previous work, E.colie was grown in Presenter(s): The Art of Knitting and Crocheting MAC Lab Presenter(s): the presence of homoserine lactone, Heather Kuntzman, Jade Anderson, optimal clumping conditions were SH420 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Val Anderson, Kelsey Borchelt, Ryan Isabelle Jeffries determined, and various media was 9:15 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Presenter(s): Ferries, Carissa McCallister Faculty Sponsor(s): collected and assayed for the possible Presenter(s): Decaturian Staff,Collage Staff,Blue Faculty Sponsor(s): Dr. Gregg Marcello presence of autoinducing molecules. Chloe’ C. Mimms Satellite Staff, Bronze Man Books Staff Mary Garrison Abstract/Description: Should conditioned media induce Faculty Sponsor(s): Faculty Sponsor(s): Abstract/Description: Every 13 or 17 years periodical cell clumping, efforts will be made to Brandon Hensley Dr. Stephen Frech Come join the Human Service cicadas (Magicicada spp.) emerge identify the molecules in the media Abstract/Description: Connection as we discuss and from under the ground in order to responsible for cell clumping. Abstract/Description: Millikin students showcase their relive our alternative spring break lay their eggs in tree branches and This was an assignment given in writing and their editorial skills in a in Baltimore, Maryland. This then a few weeks later they die, this Health Care Approaches in my public speaking course. It was number of publishing efforts: presentation will recount our is the cycle of periodical cicadas. Foreign Countries known to be my persuasive speech. experiential learning trip during Each time these cicadas emerge LTSC209 I recieved a 90% on this speech. The Decaturian--Millikin’s student which we gained more knowledge they cause significant damage The speech itself was going through newspaper and a greater perspective of what our to trees due to oviposition on the 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. the art of knitting and crocheting, Collage--Millikin’s literary and fine future careers may hold through how branches that seems unpredictable. Presenter(s): which included history, styles, and art magazine the field of human services looks and However, the question we ask is if IN 350-01: Global Approaches personal experiences. Blue Satellite--student-run operates in a city and university other this damage can be predicted due to Medicine & Health Care Class letterpress poetry broadside printer to the characteristics of the forest. Presentations Performing London than our own. We will explore our Bronze Man Books--student-run During the emergence in the summer experiences with the Howard County Faculty Sponsor(s): SH420 book publisher Office on Aging andwill discuss of 2011, we studied 4 different Dr. Jennifer Schultz-Norton forest patches in Sand Creek and 10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. This presentation will highlight the topics ranging from health care to Abstract/Description: Rock Springs Conservation Areas, Presenter(s): publications from the current year. homelessness to the elderly. The focus of this section of IN350 Macon County, IL. At each site we Kai Adams, Ryan Andrews, Ryan is to examine differences in how counted emergence holes at 10 Armstrong, Arielle Austin, Kyle Major English Authors: From Capstone and Advanced health care issues are approached different points on the edge and Bennett, Caherine Colletta, Jane Pre-Romantics to the Post- Internship Class Spring 2012 from different cultural perspectives, interior of each patch, then at each Davis, Brittany Falardeau, Amy Fehr, colonialists SH412 with a focus upon both medical and of these same points we measured Andrew Frank, Christina Hicks, monetary aspects of health care. SCO213 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. the diameter at base height of each Natasha Leonard, Kimberly McClay, As part of an independent research 10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m. Presenter(s): tree larger than 10 centimeters in Michael Mulhearn, John O’Brien, project, a close examination of the Presenter(s): Emma Hayes, Andrew Nail, Heather diameter within a 5.5 meter distance Hilary Osiecki, Eric Pfaff health care systems in ten countries Blanc Zozokos, Jacqueline Hollis, Kuntzman, Jade Anderson,Jamie within a half circle of the point and Faculty Sponsor(s): outside of the United States has Jessica Knackstedt, Kendall Robison, Kowalczyk, Katie Kirchner, Kristi identified each of these trees. We Dr. Tom Duncanson been performed. A comprehensive Lindsey Compton, Amy Fehr also took vegetation and coarse Green, Lizzie Jenkins, Lewis Matthias, examination of the role of the Abstract/Description: woody debris scores at each point, as Faculty Sponsor(s): Megan Welton, Meghan Rakers, Ryan government in determining the A multi-media presentation from the well as basal area factor at all points. Dr. Purna Banerjee Ferries, Teri Fickes extent of health care provided to all students in the course “Performing Incorporating all of this information Abstract/Description: Faculty Sponsor(s): constituents, the impact of insurance, London” during the Fall 2011 and prior research we are able to see These presentations will cover both Kay White the availability of health care, and the semester. The presentation looks at that forest density definitely plays a a historical and thematic survey of Abstract/Description: contribution of employers to health London as a stage and the people of role in the abundance of cicadas and British literary texts from just before This presentation will present the care coverage is presented. Careful London as actors in a socio-drama of possibly allows us to predict where 1800 to the present. During this different internship sites held by each consideration has also been given to commerce, politics, justice, and art. periodical cicadas will emerge. member of the Spring 2012 Capstone the types of medicine available, the Continued pg. A2 Celebrations of Scholarship 2012 College of Arts & Sciences A3

advances, the terrible effects of English publicity on bullying brings to light a History Continued from A1 whole new side of what it means to be a victim or bully. Holocaust Grafitti: The period one of the major influences Documentary upon British identity formation was “The Ultimate in Impossible SH409 Love” Paranormal Romance the historical, cultural, and material 9:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m. reality of the empire. Personal and Novels at their Finest Presenter(s): national experiences of empire were, SH322 Kelby Dolan however, constantly mediated by 10:00AM-10:30AM cultural notions of race, gender, Faculty Sponsor(s): and class. These panel speakers Presenter(s): Dr. Timothy Kovalcik will present papers that follow the Amy Ashbaker Abstract/Description: thematic thread of British identity Faculty Sponsor(s): The documentary is a discussion formed through the expansion, Dr. Michelle Jewett of the modern value of taking transformation, and degeneration Abstract/Description: students to Holocaust sites of the Empire. The papers in the What makes paranormal romance in Eastern Europe. With the panel range from inquiring into the books a phenomenon? Since the combination of video footage, intersections of race, class, and beginning of writing fiction novels commentary and pictures from gender with the effects of empire as there has been romance. Then it the 2011 Holocaust tour, the well as the hallmarks of each of the evolved into different sub-genres presentation will present the major literary periods in the second such as paranormal or Alternate emotional realities of each of half of the British canon (i.e., from Reality Romance. Twilight has been the students. Leaving last May the Pre-Romantics to the Post- one of the most famous paranormal as individuals with the academic colonialists). romance series, but what makes it comprehension of the holocaust, such an appeal? Since Twilight came and returning as a close knit Decaturian: A History of Change out, the genre has sky rocketed. group bonded over the human Blackburn Hall This presentation will not just story of loss and resilience. 10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. talk about Twilight but also on all This will be a 10 to 15 minute film paranormal romance books such as with time for questions at the end. Presenter(s): Night Huntress, The Black Dagger The overall goal after presentation Lindsey Compton- Editor-in-Chief, Brotherhood, Midnight Breed and a is to produce a hour long Margaret Eby- Senior Editor,Amy lot more. Plus, explore key features documentary during the next Fehr- Co-Copy Editor, Lauren Acton- of paranormal romance books and Holocaust tour with Dr. Kovalcik News Editor what makes them a phenomenon. summer 2013. Faculty Sponsor(s): Dr. Robert Wells Particles and Black Holes The Lives They Lived: Health, Abstract/Description: SH322 Hygiene and Culture in 19th Millikin’s award-winning newspaper 10:30AM-11:00AM Century America for more than 100 years will be SH409 presenting on the history of their Presenter(s): publication and how the Illinois Gage Womack 9:15 a.m.-10:15 a.m. College Press Association (ICPA) has Faculty Sponsor(s): Presenter(s): influenced recent changes to the Dr. Michelle Jewett Colin Bechtel publication. The staff will also present Abstract/Description: Faculty Sponsor(s): on their future goals as they plan for A presentation on what happens Dr. Dan Monroe a weekly publication in the future. to matter that enters a Black Hole’s Abstract/Description: Join us in our newspaper office as we event horizon and is pulled towards Did you know that during the 19th celebrate our 109 years of free press the singularity. It will open with century it was a ‘scientific fact’ and campus coverage. how Black Holes are created. It that what we know as fog now was will then look at significance of the then miasma - a poison gas that Does this presentation make you Our students are capable of inquiry, matter being pulled in such as, is caused plagues? In order to combat uncomfortable? it destroyed, does it fuel the Black miasma people carried canes SCO213 discovery, creation, and application of Hole, and does it really matter if filled with perfumes and smelled 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. random particles are being lost them when the gas approached. inside? It will end with conclusions Between the 20th and 19th century Presenter(s): newly acquired knowledge. on what we can know for sure, and there have been massive changes Nathan Bohannon what we can only speculate on. in the way people live - from their Faculty Sponsor(s): day-to-day grooming habits to the Dr. Michelle Jewett Faculty Sponsor(s): The Illuminati: what you don’t Beauty and the Inner Beast Dr. Randy Brooks see, even with the Naked Eye way they treated ailments. The Abstract/Description: SH322 19th century is divided between Abstract/Description: Enter into a discussion about SH322 the pre and post Civil War as the Haiku Versus Tanka: A Poetry Slam 11:00AM-11:15AM young adult literature and some War brought with it scientific Tournament. This year the poetry 8:30AM-9:15AM Presenter(s): of the controversial content that is advancements. From the belief slam features a competition between Presenter(s): Erin Baltazar published today. We will explore drug that bathing was unhealthy to the teams of haiku and tanka poets, with Kayla Foster use, LGBT rights, young love, rape, Faculty Sponsor(s): medical practice of amputation spontaneous judging by the audience Faculty Sponsor(s): sex, and loss of virginity and their Dr. Michelle Jewett for wounds that did not require and selected guest flag judges. The Dr. Michelle Jewett role in teen lit through novels such Abstract/Description: them; once things are laid out it competition will include topic rounds as Push, Black Hole, I am J, Doing It Abstract/Description: The Westernization of the Asian is amazing to see the difference and impromptu egg-timer production and other titles that may otherwise Whenever conspiracy theory comes culture through plastic surgery. between then and now. There rounds. Of course, there will be be uncomfortable. So come with an up, the Illuminati is most often named More and more Asian women will also be original 19th century fabulous prizes including some of the open mind and a willingness to have as being responsible. Ironically, it is are getting plastic surgery to artifacts to handle on display. latest books of contemporary haiku your boundaries pushed. always left hanging as some shadowy reconstruct their faces to look more and tanka. entity which no one can describe. “Western” and to fulfill an idea of Youth, Racism, and the Cold Censorship in the American Even more interesting, no one can beauty that is being portrayed in War: Marvel Comics in the Education System: Why Does identify what specific acts can be magazines by fashion designers 1960s This Shit Exist? attributed to this elite group. Those and the media. What will happen SH409 SCO213 Critical Writing, who want to persuade us that the to diversity if we start looking the Illuminati did lead the world from 10:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m. 3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Reading and same? Why aren’t there beauty the Renaissance to the 19th century, campaigns for natural beauty and Presenter(s): Presenter(s): Research and that it continues to do so today loving one’s self? Those topics and Jessica Knackstedt, Dan Monroe- Lindsey Compton have never come close to producing the advertising and the beauty moderator Faculty Sponsor(s): Materialism in the United States documents or actual evidence that industry’s effect on other races will Faculty Sponsor(s): Dr. Robert Wells this is the case. Now you have the also be discussed. Dr. Dan Monroe SH322 chance to witness what you don’t see. Abstract/Description: Abstract/Description: For centuries both public and private 8:00AM-8:15AM Sanity and Insanity The Obesity Epidemic: What A treatment of major events in universities have suspended and Presenter(s): Really Is to Blame For Obesity? SH322 the 1960s like the ever changing expelled students for committing Naya Franklin 11:15AM-11:45AM youth, the Civil Rights movement, acts that are “against their policies”. Faculty Sponsor(s): SH322 and the Vietnam War as illustrated Presenter(s): Many of these acts committed were Dr. Michelle Jewett 9:15AM-9:30AM through the popular comic books students exercising their right to Candice Stewart Abstract/Description: Presenter(s): of the time. Spider-Man embodies speak freely about situations they Faculty Sponsor(s): Materialism is the preoccupation Samantha Markum the confused youth, searching either disagreed or agreed with. Dr. Michelle Jewett for purpose. The X-Men find that with or emphasis on material Faculty Sponsor(s): These problems even extend to Abstract/Description: being different can often lead to objects, comforts, and Dr. Michelle Jewett professors who have been asked considerations, with a disinterest in My presentation focuses on the prejudice, something the African- Abstract/Description: to only teach on topics that do not or rejection of spiritual, intellectual, law and where they draw the line Americans felt everyday in the Civil Are we taking it too far by blaming relate to “sensitive” issues students or cultural values. The purpose of between sanity and insanity. To Rights movement. Finally, Iron- fast food companies for obesity? may not be ready to discuss. Sadly, this research is to evaluate how help focus on this point, I analyze Man shows the public’s changing When does it become individual the problems of censorship are people in the United States behave three different serial killers: One attitude about the Cold War. First, responsibility and when is it still prevalent in today’s education towards materialism by focusing who got off on an insanity plea being created as a Cold Warrior appropriate to place blame? Over the system. Why does this shit exist? on the death of Tyreek Jacobs, an another killer who did not get off to evolving into a Vietnam War past two decades, there has been a eighteen year old killed over the on an insanity plea and my last protestor siding with the American Millikin Males and Masculinity steep rise in the incidence of obesity. Jordan Concord gym shoes. I try to killer was never captured but, will people. Marvel Comics in the 1960s Obesity is a major risk factor for SH317 address why the value of material let the readers of my research truly had art imitating life. disorders including diabetes, cancer, things is so high and why people are decide whether they believe the 3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. and asthma. This presentation will so attached to material things. serial killer is sane or insane. Anatomy of a Time Lord: Presenter(s): cover the possible causes of obesity Doctor Who and Modern Dylan Howser Death by Culture and what and who really is to blame Caffeine: The Good, the Bad, History and Culture Faculty Sponsor(s): for the increasing issue. the Mentally Stimulating SH409 Raphaella Prange SH322 Ringg! Your Life is Over. Might SH322 Abstract/Description: 8:15AM-8:30AM 10:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m. As Well Go Die! The Effects 11:45AM-12:00PM How does masculinity affect the Presenter(s): Presenter(s): of the Evolution of Media and decision making process of many Cheyenne Duncan Presenter(s): Sheri Martin Technology on the Severity of college males? This presentation Jonathan Spickerman Faculty Sponsor(s): Faculty Sponsor(s): Bullying. will explore the topic of masculinity Dr. Michelle Jewett Faculty Sponsor(s): Dr. Michael O’Conner Dr. Michelle Jewett in higher education and its impact Abstract/Description: SH322 Abstract/Description: on our college males. Specifically, Within America, the words death and 9:30AM-10:00AM Abstract/Description: As the longest-running science we will look at the male population burial pretty much hold the same Presenter(s): There is a large disparity between fiction show in the world with a on Millikin’s campus and how we meaning from person to person. The Laura Miller what is common knowledge about highly flexible cast and setting, define it as a community. We will caffeine and what is medically Doctor Who serves as an allegory of deceased are dealt with in one of Faculty Sponsor(s): end the presentation with possible known about its effects on the body. the times and documents changing two ways; pumped with chemicals, Dr. Michelle Jewett programming ideas that will help dressed up, painted with makeup, We’re all familiar with the buzz, and social dynamics in Britain over the Abstract/Description: better facilitate healthy gender and displayed for all to see, or turned the inevitable crash, but the impact course of 32 seasons and 48 years. I Bullying has become increasingly identity development. to ashes and stored in an attractive it can have on your heart and will be examining the historical and severe in today’s society, and more urn atop the mantle of a loved one’s nervous system is something we cultural significance of the different Haiku Versus Tanka – A Poetry specifically, our schools. Most fireplace. Believe it or not, though, tend not to concern ourselves with. regenerations of the Doctor, his Slam Tournament children and teenagers alike have only people in North America are This presentation aims to connect various companions, and various experienced or participated in Pilling Chapel known to practice these funerary the two, and to discover if caffeine plot arcs and trends. some form of bullying, whether it contexts. So what do other cultures is as harmless as it seems, or if there 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. is physical, verbal, psychological, do with their dead, and why? You are side effects we all should be Presenter(s): or any combination of the three. By Continued pg. A3 probably wouldn’t believe it, even if I worrying about. Dr. Randy Brooks and student teams focusing in on past school shootings told you. to be announced. and various media and technological A4 College of Arts & Sciences Poster Symposium Celebrations of Scholarship 2012

Abstract/Description: Bret Henderson - The Mathematics of Humanities Each philosophy major must engage Quantum Tunneling in the context of in substantive research and produce Radioactive Decay Humanites Undergraduate a senior thesis in philosophy. Each Joe Cheeney - The Mathematics of Research Forum philosophy major writing a thesis Hawking Radiation Pilling Chapel this year will present an overview of Ed Pluhar - The Mathematics of 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. her research and thesis. After the Bose-Einstein Condensates overview presentation, each student Nicole Tipsword - The Mathematics Faculty Sponsor(s): will entertain questions from the of Superfluids Dr. Eric Roark, Dr. Tim Kovalcik, floor regarding her thesis. Dr. Tony Magagna Leon Yu - The Mathematics of Abstract/Description: The Individual in the Communist Neutrino Oscillations HURF stands for the Humanities State Chris Pelikan - The Mathematics Undergraduate Reasearch SH317 of Maxwell’s Equations and Fellowship. The awards are selected Electromagnetic Waves 3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. from a general solicitation of papers Syed Salik - Determining the Number from all Millikin Undergrads. The Presenter(s): Density of Cosmic Background purpose of the award is to recognize Dylan Howser Radiation Photons Food Politics and Government the very best undergraduate Political Faculty Sponsor(s): Sam Spurling - Determing the Organic Labeling research efforts in the humanities. Dr. Eric Roark Age of the Universe based on its Awards are based upon the Science SH420 Abstract/Description: Matter-Energy Content consensus of a three member Can the individual (I) survive and/ Ending the Cycle of Violence: 1:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. committee comprised of faculty or thrive in the communist state? Quantum Mechanics Rehabilitation or Punishment? A Presenter(s): members from the departments of Does an individual have any personal Presentations study determining which judicial Natasha Leonard History, English and Philosophy. freedoms in a communist state? LTSC001 sentencing option better deters Faculty Sponsor(s): These are several of the questions violent recidivism in domestic Dr. Bobbi Gentry this presentation will be exploring 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. violence abusers Abstract/Description: as several of the misconceptions of Presenter(s): SH420 I will explain the importance of Modern communism are explored and our Joe Cheeney, Bret Henderson, Chris 1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. government and food politics. I Languages own individual freedom is brought Pelikan, Ed Pluhar, Nick Polley, Nicole will also being explaining how the into question. Tipsword, Jamiahus Walton, Leon Yu Presenter(s): government labels organic produce Spanish Capstone Faculty Sponsor(s): Cate Harriman through federal agencies like the SH303 Dr. Casey Watson Faculty Sponsor(s): USDA. In addition, I will be discussing Abstract/Description: Dr. Bobbi Gentry consumption, farming and food 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Physics Jamiahus Walton - The Physics of Abstract/Description: politics to help the audience better Presenter(s): Quantum Tunneling in the context of Domestic violence manifests understand the topic. Chase Plasencia, Eric Du, Christin Mathematical Physics through a cycle of violence that Presentations the Single Atom Transistor Egli, Hilary Osiecki, Ashley Major, Alex Bret Henderson - The Physics of plagues today’s society. For my Miller, Laura Mixen, Ashley Longtin LTSC208 Quantum Tunneling in the context of research, I randomly select 100 Faculty Sponsor(s): 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m. Radioactive Decay domestic violence cases from Sociology Denver County in 2001, narrowing Dr. Eduardo Cabrera Presenter(s): Joe Cheeney - The Physics of down the selection pool to first-time Operational Definition:R ave Abstract/Description: Brian Barry, Joe Cheeney, Kelsey Hawking Radiation offenders who are charged with Spanish major students will be Cosley, Bret Henderson, Josh Monroe, SH412 Chris Pelikan - The Quantization of a domestically motivated violent presenting on their research works. Chris Pelikan, Ed Pluhar, Syed Salik, 10:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. Electromagnetic Radiation crime. I will record the avenue of Sam Spurling, Nicole Tipsword, Ed Pluhar - The Physics of sentencing for each case, either Presenter(s): Jamiahus Walton, Leon Yu Bose-Einstein Condensates rehabilitation or punishment, and Kyle McAllister-Grum Faculty Sponsor(s): Nicole Tipsword - The Physics of track the recidivism of violent Faculty Sponsor(s): Philosophy Dr. Casey Watson Superfluids crimes of each abuser from 2001 to Dr. Larry Troy Abstract/Description: Leon Yu - The Physics of Neutrino 2011 to see if a judge’s sentencing Abstract/Description: Presentations of Senior Thesis in Kelsey Cosley - Projectile Motion in Oscillations of rehabilitation or punishment is Rave culture has gained public the Philosophy Major the Presence of Air Resistance more determent on recidivism of Nick Polley - Deriving the Probability attention through media and by violent crimes by domestic violence SH320 Josh Monroe - Deriving Kepler’s Laws of Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter Decay preliminary research performed by 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. with Differential Equations abusers. My research will show sociologists. Studying the activities Brian Barry - The Energy-Eccentricity which method of sentencing is more of rave attendees in Illinois and the Presenter(s): Relation and Solar System Dynamics effective to deter future incidents of environment they socialize in has Students majoring in philosophy and domestic violence, helping to stop helped to develop new ideas for Jamiahus Walton - The Mathematics writing a senior thesis this year. the cycle of violence. formalizing the definition of rave of Quantum Tunneling in the context Faculty Sponsor(s): that researchers desperately need. of the Single Atom Transistor Dr. Robert Money

A4 19th Annual COSPOSTER SYMPOSIUM Commitment to performance learning Shilling Hallway (2nd Floor) 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. The Millikin Research Poster Symposium was success. Modeling professional research and invited guests. Participation in the poster developed to provide all currently enrolled conference practices, the Millikin Research Poster symposium requires faculty review and students with an opportunity to share their Symposium celebrates the scholarship that results certification of the quality of the scholarly scholarly activities, as well as practice the from these student-faculty collaborations, and project. During the poster symposium, faculty communication skills so crucial to professional encourages students not currently involved in judges critique each poster and speak with the scholarship to participate in the future. Their presenters to evaluate each participant’s level scholarship is an authentic example of our mission of expertise, with top posters receiving awards. and commitment to performance learning. The Begun in 1993 with funding from the Office of the variety of research methods and topics vividly Provost, the poster symposium is now in its 19th demonstrate each student’s definition of their year. In 1994, Judith and G. Richard Locke and the professional success, active citizenship, and life of interdisciplinary Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi meaning and value. began providing financial support for the prizes The symposium atmosphere is casual and awarded to the top-rated student authors of the designed to foster informal conversations poster symposium. between student researchers and symposium attendees, typically other students, faculty,

In Honor of Judith and Dr. G. Richard Locke

The 19th Annual Millikin University An Ohio native, Dick earned A Fellow of the American College of Research Poster Symposium is degrees from DePauw University, Radiology, Dick also held a variety of dedicated to Judith “Judy” and the Greencastle, In., and Western leadership roles in the local medical late G. Richard “Dick” Locke, M.D., Reserve University School of community. in gratitude for their longstanding Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio. He Dick and Judith “Judy” Blang support of undergraduate research served as Medical Director of the Locke were married soon after at Millikin University. Dick and Judy Decatur Cancer Care Institute their graduation from DePauw. An founded the Judith and G. Richard from its founding in 1968 until his advocate of parks and community Locke Undergraduate Research 2002 retirement. A local pioneer recreation, Judy serves as President Poster Awards in 1994. in the use of radiation therapy of the Decatur Parks Foundation. A Dick served as a Millikin Trustee for cancer treatment, Dick was Decatur Park District Commissioner from 1994 until 2003, when known for patient advocacy and for more than 20 years, Judy’s he retired as Co-Vice Chair. In compassionate care. expertise led to her election as G. Richard Locke, M.D. recognition of his service, he Dick served as Clinical Associate the Board President of the Illinois retained the title of Trustee Professor for the University Association of Park Districts in 2000. Emeritus. While a Board member, of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign She is a member of the Millikin he chaired many committees School of Medicine and Southern Associates. and served as Vice Chair for the Illinois University Medical School- Dick passed away on August 29, campaign to build Leighty-Tabor Springfield. He was a longtime 2009. Judy lives in Decatur. Science Center. Trustee for his undergraduate Alma Mater, DePauw University. College of A5 FineArts Look inside the process

Often, the only public presentation which involves analysis, research, and hope that the insights offered of an artist’s work is the finished development of structural and will allow you to enjoy the finished product. Audiences typically don’t conceptual frameworks, and critically products of art making even more have the opportunity to see the informed aesthetic judgment. This fully. Who knows, you may enjoy applications of theory and practice is the scholarship that informs and is seeing the process as much, if not taking place in the process of the embodied in a work of art. more, than the product! creation of art. The celebrations of We invite you to explore the scholarship in the College of Fine Arts process of creation with our students, Laura Ledford allow us to look inside the process, Interim Dean College of Fine Arts Art Music Theatre & The Iconography of St George Education Dance and the Dragon Multicultural Music Around The Face of Truth: The Greek SCO211 the World (Middle Level Music Theatre Mask and Its Attempt to 8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Methods) Cross Borders Presenter(s): SCO208 Pipe Dreams2 Anna Niebrugge 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. 10:15 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Faculty Sponsor(s): Presenter(s): Presenter(s): Shelly Cordulack Cassie Barkley, Kevin Berls, Taylor Sierra Goldberg Abstract/Description: Bley, Hilary Bultman, Jen Clark, Emily Faculty Sponsor(s): dreams of love dashed by the man’s VanderLinden, Andrew Purcell, My presentation will be about D’Ambrose, Conrad Fassig, Joe Foltz, Tom Robson wife. The play explores issues of love Matt Walker, Lili Torre, Liz Fallon, my research and theories on the and marriage, as well as our inability Kara Leman, Julia Smith, Elizabeth Jade Gustavsen, Stephanie Lanute, Abstract/Description: iconography of Saint George and to accept the strange truths that Sherman, Kim McClay, Sarah Beth Ryan LaSarre, Jessica Manning, Kayla Masked theatre, specifically ancient the Dragon in Renaissance paintings. exist in our world. This piece was an Odle, Keegan Huckfeldt, Justin Morgan, Dayne Newberry, Alissa Greek theatre, has influenced Western While this subject is usually interpreted absolute joy to direct. I will deliver a Ostergard, Katie Colletta, Jack Newlin, Jeff Novak, Thomas OMalley, dramatic practices profoundly. as the power of Christianity over the presentation on my process prior to O’Brien, Andy Frank, Charlotte Fox, Elia Pepps, Chelsea Rhoades, Bradley Research has answered many Pagans, it can also be interpreted as Staker, Kiernan Steiner, Chelsea the actors performing the 15-minute Emily Gardner, Meghan Redding the reflection of the rise of humanism questions about the Greek tragic mask, Wright, Nicholas Young comedy. Faculty Sponsor(s): and innovation in the renaissance. however scholars have thus far failed Faculty Sponsor(s): to adequately answer the question Lori Bales and Kevin Long Dr. Catherine Ming Tu Millikin’s Version of Project Graphic Design Portfolio Day of why masks were used. There are Runway Abstract/Description: Abstract/Description: practical reasons--costuming, doubling Students study the eras of pop/rock MAC Lab Multiculturalism advocates a society problems, distance from actor to Pilling Chapel looking to the history of the period 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. that extends unbiased status to audience--but these do not completely 11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. to inform the style and presentation of singing pop/rock songs. Vocal Presenter(s): distinct cultural groups. One of the account for the use of masks. From Presenter(s): stylings and physical embodiment Upper level design students goals of multicultural education is to further study in the origins of Greek Kate Burton, Allyx Davison, Holly are informed by the ethos of the Faculty Sponsor(s): prepare students for dealing realities theatre, the physicality of the mask, Gleason, Kristen Heinenkamp, times. Students will present the Edwin Walker of life in a pluralistic country. Our and the purpose of classical art, one Hannah Miller, Justin Ostergard, Alex children live ethically and racially ever finds that there is a highly important relevant research which inform the Abstract/Description: Scholinsky, Sean Tait, Lauren Taylor, expanding diverse culture in America. religious and ritualistic explanation songs they sing. Upper level design students will be Michael Valoon They face most difficult challenges of behind the mask. sharing thier work with the campus Faculty Sponsor(s): “tolerance and diversity.” Stereotypical Acting for Musical Stage: Scenes community and the general public. Jana Henry Funderburk difference and misunderstanding The Loveliest Afternoon of the & Research continue to plague our students and Year Abstract/Description: Albert Taylor Theatre contribute to their fears. It is essential Pipe Dreams2 TH152, Costume Construction, will that children be able to relate to the be modeling the garments they 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. cultural music in their own heritage 10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. have produced as part of the course Presenter(s): and be exposed to a variety of music Presenter(s): requirements. Each student selected Matt Walker, Katie Colletta, Charlotte “We invite you from ethnic and cultural groups around Lili Torre (Director), Kara Leman a pattern, cut and stitched the Fox, Andy Frank, Emily Gardner, Kim the world. This presentation provides (performer), Darien Lunsford garment. They will answer questions McClay, Jack O’Brien, Sarah Beth to explore the the music education students the (performer) about their garments, process, and Odle, Meghan Redding opportunity to demonstrate their Faculty Sponsor(s): learning a new “hands-on” skill set. Faculty Sponsor(s): process of ability to plan, deliver, and to evaluate Tom Robson Theatre & Dance. Lori Bales and Kevin Long a cultural lesson for a middle school Abstract/Description: Abstract/Description: general music class. Using Powerpoint Rock History and Song Through creation with John Guare’s Loveliest Afternoon the Decades Students will present research and presentation, they will share their of the Year was an obvious choice scene work from American Musicals knowledge of representative examples for me to direct for my One-Act Albert Taylor Theatre drawing parallels between their our students” of music literature from the following Directing project for Directing I. The 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. research and the choices presented ethnic cultures: Asia, Africa, South in the scenes. show is a quirky look at a man and Presenter(s): America, Middle East, Latin America, a woman who meet and fall in love Brittany Dye, Collin O’Connor, Jake Caribbean Islands, and so much more. in Central Park, only to have their College of A5 Professional Studies Exercise We celebrate Science & Sport Back Pain: To work your core or What Pumps You Up? Stretching in the Reduction of scholarship in not to work your core? SCO315 Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness: A Literature Review SCO315 8:30 a.m.-9:15 a.m. SCO315 8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Presenter(s): all of its forms! Presenter(s): Kaitlin Brassil 9:15 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Celebrations of Scholarship. What development of partnerships within Ashley Alonso Faculty Sponsor(s): Presenter(s): a fabulous moniker! Not only does it communities. Scholarly engagement Faculty Sponsor(s): Tisha Hess Troy Kuster, Jr. describe the work of the University, it shapes the future of the professions in Tisha Hess Abstract/Description: Faculty Sponsor(s): communicates how we embrace the which we practice. Abstract/Description: Research shows that exercise Tisha Hess myriad of that work. We celebrate Does abdominal strengthening help increases the heart rate and positively Abstract/Description: scholarship in all of its forms! The improve low back pain? There has impacts overall cardiovascular health. Delayed onset muscle soreness event is rich with a diversity of been a time in all of our lives that we However, there is minimal research (DOMS) most likely affects every scholarly topics, settings, and have experienced some kind of back on what factors contribute to one’s individual at some point of time in approaches. pain or have known someone that has motivation during exercise. One his/her life. DOMS is characterized In the College of Professional experienced it. This annoying pain can potential factor is the presence of by intense muscle pain anywhere Studies, we value the development be caused by numerous reasons such music before and during a work-out. from 24 to 72 hours post activity that of professionals who engage in as age, physical activity, pregnancy, This research study seeks to determine occurs partially due to damage to active learning while acquiring or job activity. This presentation the effects of different genres of muscle tissue. Although the exact knowledge. We believe there is no will review current literature on the music on heart rate while a person is cause of DOMS is still unknown, better example of active learning relationship between abdominal in a relaxed, sedentary state. Future scientists all over have studied its than an individual’s engagement strengthening and low back pain. studies will then look at the effects of effects on individuals and have in scholarly endeavors. Scholarly music on heart rate during exercise. tried different means to reduce its engagement improves the body intensity. This presentation will review of knowledge of the professional. current information on the DOMS Scholarly engagement advances phenomenon and on the effectiveness the application of theoretical Dr. Deb Slayton of stretching for DOMS reduction. concepts to practiced performance. Interim Dean Scholarly engagement supports the College of Professional Studies Continued pg. A5 A6 College of Professional Studies Tabor Celebrations of Scholarship 2012 Exercise Science & Sport Nursing How Much Does Caffeine Effect Methods for Improvement of You Can’t Be Competitive With If two pills is good, four must be You? Maximum Aerobic Capacity the Female Athlete Triad better: A look at older adults and SCO315 SCO315 SCO315 medication use 10:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m. 10:45 a.m.-11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. SCO309 Presenter(s): Presenter(s): Presenter(s): 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Peter Bonner Kelly Blumberg Crystal Zeigler Presenter(s): Faculty Sponsor(s): Faculty Sponsor(s): Faculty Sponsor(s): John Blakeman Tisha Hess Tisha Hess Tisha Hess Faculty Sponsor(s): Abstract/Description: Abstract/Description: Abstract/Description: Pamela Lindsey Caffeine is a stimulant that is This presentation will focus upon The female athlete triad is a Abstract/Description: widely used in the food and drug the most effective approach for the syndrome that consists of three Between 45% and 55% of older adults industries. Due to the stimulating improvement of one’s maximum interrelated conditions: disordered in the United States take five or more effects, caffeine is a banned aerobic capacity. Current literature eating (bulimia, anorexia nervosa), medications each day – not counting substance by the NCAA (National will be discussed to consider the amenorrhea (absence of the supplements/remedies. Considering Collegiate Athletic Association). different modes of training, intensity, menstrual cycle), and osteoporosis. the aging Baby Boom population, This presentation will review and duration and the impact each Female athletics have become highly identifying ways to promote safe and current literature on the effects of has on maximum aerobic capacity. competitive, and because of this cost-effective medication practices caffeine on heart rate during athletic In completing this research, possible competitiveness, there is an increase can save time, money and lives. This participation. guidelines will be discussed for in intensity, expectations, body presentation focuses on patterns collegiate athletes to more effectively image, and injury. This presentation of medication use in older adults, and efficiently use energy during will review current literature on the including the issues of polypharmacy, exercise sessions. relationship between the female improper dosing, side effects, adverse athlete triad and orthopedic injury. reactions, misinformation, and use of a medication record. Implications for nursing practice to improve the efficacy and safety of medication use in the aging population and recommendations for the general public will be explored.

A6 TaborSchool of Business Celebrate our students’ scholarship There is a time to prepare, a time to perform, and a At the end of the day, you will be impressed, we are, with time to celebrate; this day brings us all an opportunity the diversity of ideas, the quality of work, and the capacity to celebrate our students’ scholarship, as they share of our students as professionals taking on the challenges their work. Come learn what new ideas students have of a complex business world. Join us in the celebration of developed, what insights they have discovered, or what their scholarship. new ventures they are building. Like no others, Tabor students collaborate with peers and faculty, as they actively engage in their discipline. The result –Tabor students compete with the best. Dr. James Dahl Dean Tabor School of Business

TABOR School of Business Tabor Investment Portfolio Annual Report SCO207 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Presenter(s): Justin Ladendorf, Eric Beck, Stephen Eades, Rich Kaczynski, Kyle Lane, Dustin Moore, Dexter Oates, Samantha Stringer, Melissa Szanati, Chad Wolpert Faculty Sponsor(s): Dr. Tatiana Isakovski Abstract/Description: The Tabor Investment Portfolio (TIP) is a portfolio of securities managed by students under the guidance and supervision of the independent Board of Directors, the Managing Director (Dr. Tatiana Isakovski), and the Dean of the Tabor School of Business. Securities for TIP are selected based on student investment recommendations that must be approved by the Board of Directors. TIP made its initial investment of $100,000 in August 2010. 2011 is the first full calendar year Entrepreneurship for which TIP’s student-management Business Creation Competition on to which they can achieve students from Freshmen to Seniors, team will be presenting the Portfolio’s success by writing a novel detailing was created to help Millikin University Annual Report. SCO207 the experiences of successful student-run ventures gain business 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Web-Based Portfolios: Proof of Latin American entrepreneurs. and financial knowledge. With a Performance Presenter(s): This presentation will examine the stronger understanding of the financial TBD process: selecting entrepreneurs, component, the students are able to SCO207 Faculty Sponsor(s): creating beneficial questions, create a more successful business. 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Andy Heise, Sharon Alpi interviewing those selected, and During the course, the Practicum has following up after the interview has created financial strategies, operating Presenter(s): Abstract/Description: taken place. In addition, the findings procedures, internal control, and TBD The Business Creation Competition is of the research will be analyzed for enhanced organizational structures Faculty Sponsor(s): Millikin University’s premiere business commonality and implications. for the ventures. In return, Practicum Pam Folger, Kristin Nisbet plan competition. Individual students members learn about business or teams present their business plan Abstract/Description: Entrepreneurship Practicum: consulting through application and in competition format for prizes.Tabor Tabor students who have taken MG211 Consulting with MU Student-Run gain a better understanding of student- School of Business. (Career Lab) this year will present Ventures run ventures and valuable skills from online portfolios and will compete Living the Dream: Stories from SCO207 the mentorship within the Practicum. for top honors for best portfolios (1st, Successful Latin American 2nd, 3rd place) based on relevance 2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Entrepreneurs of content and overall presentation. Presenter(s): Portfolios will be judged by a panel of SCO207 Jamie Rockhold, Justin Ladendorf, There is a time to area employers. Creating a portfolio 2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Kevin Stocks, Michelle Hoerber, enhances student self-awareness of Matthew Amato, Grant Edwards, Presenter(s): strengths, skills, and accomplishments. Joshua Rose Jamie Rockhold prepare, a time It also allows students to present Faculty Sponsor(s): Faculty Sponsor(s): achievements and qualifications in Richard Chamblin to perform, and a a way that demonstrates potential Dr. Mark Munoz Abstract/Description: contributions to an employer’s Abstract/Description: Beginning in the Spring of 2011, organization. Portfolios better prepare The purpose of the research project time to celebrate the Entrepreneurship Practicum students for the interview and increase is to provide future entrepreneurs course, consisting of a small group of overall confidence. with guidelines and building blocks Long- A7 Vanderburg Caterpillarscholars Academic Excellence and Scholarship

The Long-Vanderburg Caterpillar Scholars Program was established in honor of Fred Long and Marian Vanderburg-McCants, the first male and female African American graduates of Millikin University. In 2011, the program received a generous gift from Caterpillar, Inc. and was renamed the Long-Vanderburg Caterpillar Scholars Program. As Honors Students, Long-Vanderburg Caterpillar Scholars embody academic excellence and scholarship, display exemplary leaderships skills that affect positive social change, and demonstrate a commitment to service for the betterment of the campus, the local community and broader society. During Celebrations of Scholarship, Freshman through Senior Long-Vanderburg Caterpillar Scholars will present original research that explores their position in society, their ever-growing leadership models, their professional creeds, and also their development as citizen-scholars. Join them as they showcase what it means to be Long-Vanderburg Caterpillar Scholars at Millikin University!

Row 1 pictured (l to r): Arielle Austin, Celena Campbell, Monuaye Deah, Eric Du Long-Vanderburg Caterpillar Scholars Row 2 pictured (l to r): Naya Franklin, Micah Glaze, Kristina Stavroplos, Stephanie Strick. What do you stand for? Long- Abstract/Description: Candice Stewart, Victoria Vargas, Faculty Sponsor(s): their autoethnographic narratives. Vanderburg Caterpillar Scholars What are the values and beliefs that Bridgette Williams Dr. Ishwanzya Rivers Each paper will fulfill the core mission Professional Creed Project you live by as a professional? Who Faculty Sponsor(s): Abstract/Description: for Millikin University by focusing on LTSC115 has influenced this process and what Dr. Ishwanzya Rivers The freshman Long-Vanderburg questions of identity and ethics. The experiences have inspired you? What Caterpilar Scholars will explore papers will delineate the students’ 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Abstract/Description: kind of professional do you hope to The freshman Long-Vanderburg connections between identity, academic and personal journey and Presenter(s): become in your field? How do you Caterpilar Scholars will explore ethnicity, culture, and history, among in the process try to answer the Arielle Austin- Theatre & intend to serve within your career ten connections between identity, other topics, using both reflection and questions: Who am I? How can I know? Communication, Stardasha Brown- years from now? The junior class of LV- ethnicity, culture, and history, among research to construct their arguments. What should I do? Information Systems, Monuaye Deah- CAT scholars will be presenting their other topics, using both reflection and Psychology, Eric Du- Human Svc & unique answers to these and other research to construct their arguments. Senior Autoethnography Spanish, Chaz Gregory-Phys Ed (K-12), questions related to the ethics and LTSC115 Jordan Moxey- Biology:Allied Health principles of their future professions. Long-Vanderburg Caterpillar Track, Emily Padilla- Commercial Scholars: Identity and 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Music/Music Business, Chase Long-Vanderburg Caterpillar Scholarship II Presenter(s): Plasencia- Soc. Sci. Ed/Spanish, Scholars: Identity and Laura Alva, Jasmine Broadie, Veronica Powell Hughes- Elementary Scholarship I LTSC115 Christiana Cabrera, Lindsey Education, Kristina Stavroplos- LTSC115 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Compton, Matt DeCosse, Darian Peer, Human Services & Psychology, Anibal 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Presenter(s): Elijah Valentin, Quita Ward Valentin- Graphic Design/Comp Art, Tiara Allen, Ashley Flores, Micah Faculty Sponsor(s): Jamiahus Walton- Physics Presenter(s): Glaze, Simone Griffis, Amanda Dr. Purna Banerjee Celena Campbell, Naya Franklin, Faculty Sponsor(s): McGraw, Christina Patterson, Toni Geoffrey Godwin, Ebony Hughey, Abstract/Description: Dr. Michelle Jewett Pennington, Stephanie Strick, Nine graduating LV-CAT senior scholars Rheanna Monical, Tia Pennington, Mariana Weber, Kierra Wilson will individually read sections from A7 Honors Freshman Friday Focus April 27th Panels

27-Apr 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Millikin’s Skya Gentle Celena Campbell Chris Liva Corrine Fox Danielle Davis Kyle Deeken Austin Myers Rob Spurling Room 318 Honors Morgan Ewald Courtney Gallup Hailee Peck Danielle Mohrbach Judith Crowe Program Rachel Croy Dana Hunt Brenna Pfeifer Rosalyn Stevenor Megan Smith Millikin’s Honors Program [ Judith Crowe] introduces students to college Mary Hardcastle level scholarship, research, critical Room 327 thinking, and writing. Freshman Kendra Peterson Honors seminars involve intense Bethany Swartz discussion and require active Derekah Williams participation. Honors Scholars are RemmiBaker Courtney Gerk Lindsay Quick chosen based on their academic achievements, involvement in high Room 315 Austin Brettschnider Catherine Hixon Joshua Rose school, and an interview/selection Dr. Michael O’Conner Jessica Claussen Conner Kerrigan Elizabeth Royal process. During Celebrations of Kristy Gifford Eric Landgrebe Graig Stasicky Scholarship, freshmen present their research from their first two Moli Copple Nick Builta Vicky Vargas Geoffrey Eggleston semesters as an Honors student. Room 317 Sendin Bajric Sarah Kisley Seth Harshman Rachel Reininger Join them as they celebrate their first Dr. Tony Magagna Sam Reisman Kendall Harvey Stefanie Davis Drake Mellott successful year at the University! Matt Swofford Brittany Mytnik Katie McDaniel Jamie Shriver A8 JMS Senior Recognition Friday Day & SATURDAY Showcasing the work of the James Millikin Scholars Today’s program showcases the their work in nearly every discipline. a crisis communication perspective. work of the James Millikin Scholars. A sampling of the topics this year We expect you to see some of the Students in this program have include how to organize a triathalon, best student research and creative completed a project that began the legal and ethical issues in the projects that Millikin has to offer. at the beginning of their junior 2008 Financial Crisis, “The Portrait of years and culminates in today’s Dorian Gray” in music, a study of the presentations. The projects are as history of pottery demonstrated with Dr. Cheryl Chamblin unique as the students presenting original works by the student-artist, Director Honors Program them. You will see students present and a study of the BP Oil Spill from Millikin University

relationships while also exposing Friday them to the often overlooked music Presentation of Vanessa Carlton. Discovering Cold Fire Knittin’ Pretty 3:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m. SCO 208 Presenter(s): 8:15 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Stephanie Gates Presenter(s): Project Advisor(s): Colin Funk Dr. George Bennett Project Advisor(s): Abstract/Description: Jana Henry Funderburk Our knowledge of the elements of Abstract/Description: the periodic table had an enormous Knitting is an age old form for influence on the shift from alchemy to creating clothing that dates back chemistry. Hennig Brandt discovered to the first millennium in Egypt. phosphorus in 1669, but his greed Today there are many stereotypes prevented him from sharing his secret attached to the idea of knitting, for years, which led to false claims and and for those who don’t knit, it is other independent discoveries. The frequently misunderstood and under- true account of this discovery story appreciated. Knitting is consistently can be followed through an exchange viewed as a craft done by lonely, of letters between the main alchemists older women to fill their time. This involved. Using the information gained project is about exploring knitting from these letters and multiple other and all of its facets, and to create a sources, I have brought to life the piece of performance art to share story of these characters that fought these elements with the public, and to discover the true secrets behind break past these stereotypes. To do the mysterious “cold fire”. The story this I am taking different elements is written in short vignettes, with about knitting, things like history snippets of the letters interspersed and culture, social applications, throughout the tale. The challenges emotional response, and artistic and excitement of scientific progress value, separating those elements are portrayed through the eyes of and highlighting them in several seventeenth century alchemists, which small skits/performances. These skits bring further understanding to the will be brought together to create constant climate change in scientific one dynamic piece that shows the research. audience different aspects of knitting that they’ve never seen. Hopefully this will take an overlooked art form and bring it to life as a vital and Saturday active medium for creating art and expressing many different things, Row 1 pictured (l to r): Nathan Bettenhausen, Jackie Buhrmann, Heather Bulthuis, Stephen Eades Presentations and not just what grandmothers in Row 2 pictured (l to r): Colin Funk, Stephanie Gates, Justin Ladendorf, Ali Morrison Analysis of the Multidimensional rocking chairs do for hours at a time. Self: Do Multiple Social Identities Row 3 pictured (l to r): Kari Ringgenberg, Matt Shelton, Tim Shirriffs, Kari Thornton Contribute to Anxiety? Impermanence: A Collection of Lost Things SCO 109 SCO 212 the type of programming a Millikin Debussy the Maverick: that influences the ceramic vessel 8:15a.m.-9:00 a.m. station would air. As a whole this Debussy’s Rome Cantatas in tradition today. History is present in 8:15 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Presenter(s): project demonstrates the need for Light of Creativity Studies the contemporary vessel tradition, Presenter(s): Jaimie Pantoja a campus station, the benefits one SCO 207 however sometimes hard to see. This Tori Richards provides, and an example of the project makes those connections in Project Advisor(s): Project Advisor(s): programming Millikin can produce. 9:15 a.m.-10:00 a.m. my own work by studying ancient Dr. Linda L. Collinsworth Dr. Carmella Braniger Presenter(s): vessels, recreating aspects that Abstract/Description: Abstract/Description: Progress Toward More Non-Toxic Ali Morrison intrigued me, and then cross Anxiety defines a group of disorders Every day, people miss out on Cosmetic Foundation with Good Project Advisor(s): referencing them between cultures and syndromes that are affected enjoying daily life. There is always Durability Dr. Travis Stimeling and in my own contemporary work. by many factors across biological, something holding them back, never I used a variety of firing techniques psychological, and sociocultural SCO 109 Abstract/Description: letting them enjoy the present. The including salt firing, high fire, raku, dimensions. This study examines 9:15 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Inspired by visual arts and literature, goal of this project is to show that and pit fired. As a result I have seen two problems within a sociocultural especially by the symbolist movement daily life passes by as people are too Presenter(s): where the vessel tradition has been context: (a) the relationship between Valerie Kale and by non-Western arts, French busy to take notice. It analyzes the and perhaps where it is heading, endorsement of anxiety symptoms composer Claude Debussy was work of philosophers, professors, Project Advisor(s): especially in my own work. Through and one’s social identity salience, truly a maverick, experimenting theorists and religion by applying Dr. George Bennett the pieces I have made people can the latter of which is related with harmony, form, and timbre and main principles to experiences with Abstract/Description: learn part of the history and see the closely to Tajfel and Turner’s (1974) breaking away from eighteenth and impermanence seen in daily life. With everyone in the world jumping influence in today’s vessel making. social identity theory and (b) the nineteenth century German musical It provides insight on the issue of on the green bandwagon, cosmetic measurement of social identity conventions. Though his name impermanence, and how people can companies now strongly push for The Financial Crisis: “Greedy” salience outside of situational and must have permeated musical, learn to lead a less stressful and fast- greener, more non-toxic ingredients. Wall Street or Governmental context using a self-report inventory. literary, and artistic circles as well paced life. Because of new research in the Policy? Using a 16-item created inventory as popular culture, his life and mind field on the possible harmful effects to measure salience, responses of remain enigmatic, due not only to SCO 212 TV Station Coming Soon to a of 1,4-dioxane and nitrosamines, participants were compared with thoroughly varied compositional 9:15 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Campus Near You which are ingredients in many of racial, gender, sexual orientation practices, but also to the lack of the foundations on the market, the Presenter(s): identifications and State-Trait SCO 213 verifiable details available to us about Justin Ladendorf search for non-toxic ingredients has his life. This project intends to shed Anxiety inventory responses. 8:15 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Project Advisor(s): never been stronger. However, most light on this musical maverick by Presenter(s): Dr. Cheryl Chamblin More Than This: A Vanessa women are more concerned with viewing his compositions through a Heather Bulthuis Carlton Jukebox Musical the coverage their foundation offers new lens: the psychological study Abstract/Description: Project Advisor(s): than the ingredient safety. Many of The financial crisis of the late 2000s SCO207 of creativity. Applying Mel Rhodes’ Dr. Thomas Duncanson the foundations that advertise being framework for creativity study to was the most devastating economic 8:15 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Abstract/Description: natural and non-toxic usually do not investigate Debussy’s Rome cantatas disaster since the Great Depression. Presenter(s): The purpose of this project is to offer its users long-lasting coverage. – four cantatas written from 1182-1888, Financial institutions across the Matt Shelton address the need Millikin University The aim of this project is to develop this project illuminates an aspect of world were in jeopardy of failing. To a foundation formula that will not avoid global economic catastrophe, Project Advisor(s): has for the establishment of a Debussy’s compositions and practices, only offer women great coverage U.S. and international banks were Kevin Long television station on campus. A but also establishes a new application television station would meet the but also a safer mix of ingredients. of creativity studies and a new method “bailed out” by their governments. Abstract/Description: needs of students who are pursuing Formulations with soy lecithin as for understanding composers. While many politicians and media This production is based on the a career in the broadcast field as well a replacement for several toxic sources claimed that “greedy” model used to create musicals such as providing an outlet for students ingredients have shown durability The Influence of the History of Wall Street bankers were to blame, as Mamma Mia! and Across the to know what is happening around that is comparable to commercially Ceramic Vessel Tradition others asserted that government Universe which synthesize the ideas campus. In addition to meeting available cosmetic foundations. intervention in the banking industry, of a particular musician (in this case SCO 208 students’ needs, a station would Water resistance as measured by the lack of oversight placed on Vanessa Carlton). The challenge increase Millikin’s competiveness contact angle and droplet shape 9:15 a.m.-10:00 a.m. financial institutions, and/or the was to determine a reason why an with its peer and aspiration schools. served as a proxy measurement of Presenter(s): removal of conventional lending audience should care about the Surveys and questionnaires were durability. The formulations with Kari Thornton standards were the primary causes of musical. Through lyrical analyses developed for students and fellow soy lecithin showed improved water Project Advisor(s): the crisis. This paper will demonstrate and reading interviews by the artist, universities in order to discover the resistance compared to selected James Schietinger the role that commercial banks, Wall the themes of emotional abuse and benefits and advantages campus commercial products. Street investment banks, Fannie Mae, contentment with life became very Abstract/Description: television stations provide. In Freddie Mac, financial regulatory evident. The intended outcome This project came about as a way to addition to the research, segments agencies, and consumers played in of the production is that it would address the broad and vague history were produced, as an example of the crisis by examining the ethical and provide individuals with tools to legal issues surrounding their actions. recognize, avoid, and escape harmful

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and Billboard-topping formula and involved in composition and provides Possible relationship between channels have brought with them Saturday combined it with the knowledge I a connection between examples in in vivo S-adenosyl-L-methionine alterations to written language such Presentations have gained during my career at various musical genres. Using works by hydrolase activity and quorum as development of acronyms, new Millikin University to create a show. composers such as Machaut, Bach, and sensing in Escherichia coli vocabulary, loss of punctuation, loss Continued from A7 This show brings a little taste of Glee Stravinsky, the analysis brings unity to SCO 109 of emotional conveyance, alteration to right to Millikin and features some of a compositional span of more than 500 the structure of messages, increase in Sign Language in the the most dynamic hits and exciting years as well as examines similarities 1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m. frequency of written communications, Millibubble?: Assessing and highlights from Glee. and differences in the complexity that Presenter(s): and much more. While certain Proposing the Need for Sign is ‘extreme’ counterpoint. Grace Walworth traditional components of language Language at Millikin University How Marketing Expense Affects Project Advisor(s): are becoming scarce, new trends and SCO 213 the Change of Assets in Banks [Abstraction] Dr. Jeffrey Hughes practices are constantly emerging. While some language experts embrace SCO 212 SCO 208 Abstract/Description: 9:15 a.m.-10:00 a.m. the changes, others protest them. Recent literature has documented a Presenter(s): 10:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m. 11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Arguments exist for both the positives form of inter-bacterial communication Rebecca Smith Presenter(s): Presenter(s): and negatives of the changing molecules called autoinducers in the Stephen Eades Elizabeth Sherman language landscape. This project Project Advisor(s): form of N-actyl homoserinc lactone, Project Advisor(s): Project Advisor(s): aims to conduct an analysis of how Dr. Nancy Curtin a process called quorum sensing. By Dr. Anthony Liberatore Lori Bales written language has been affected by Abstract/Description: using quorum sensing, bacteria are advances in modern technologies, and Although Millikin University offers Abstract/Description: Abstract/Description: able to aggregate together to form what these changes reflect about our many majors, minors, and certificate Banks market products and services This is a play about a man and a a biofilm and accomplish a more society and the characteristics of the programs, Millikin does not offer to customers everyday showing woman, but it is hardly a love story. efficient environment than a single written word. courses for American Sign Language that their bank has to have the best Specimens of governmental study, cell alone. In previous work with S- (ASL). If students were to change interest rates, the best savings the two come to consciousness in a adenosyl-L- methionine (SAM) and its Analysis of Crisis their majors and hoped to learn sign accounts, and the best customer lab moderated by an ominous voice hydrolase (SAMase), cells transformed Communication During the language, they would be required to service. I wanted to examine banks periodically prompting them through with a plasmid containing SAMase Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill of seek it elsewhere. A sign language to see if the large marketing expenses various exercises and questions. demonstrated clumping distribution 2010 program at Millikin could be helpful actually lead to an increase in assets. Ordinary enough upon first glance, throughout certain media. The because nearly every student has By examining the 10-K’s of the largest we soon understand that this man and biochemical pathway of SAM SCO 213 the potential to encounter someone banks located in the Central United woman have never before existed in production and SAMase inhibition 1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m. who uses sign language as their States, I was able to find and compare physical reality. They are victims of could be responsible for high amounts Presenter(s): main form of communication. This marketing expenses to assets to see if state- enforced Virtual Reality Living. of Homoserine lactone byproduct Sarah A. Reed project assesses the need and there was a correlation between them. Thanks to a new level of electronic being dumped into the media and desire for a sign language program Once the data was collected, I ran technology sophistication, all aspects used as an autoinducer. This research Project Advisor(s): Dr. Nancy Curtin at Millikin through 132 surveys of the numbers through E-Views to see of life are conducted virtually online suggests that the SAMase-induced current student with different majors. if there was any correlation. With this a la Second Life or The Sims. All pathway alteration is in fact correlated Abstract/Description: Surveys indicate a need and desire data, I can show that banks use their physical bodies are tended to by teams to cell aggregation, as opposed to In 2010, British Petroleum (BP) was for an ASL program. As a result, this marketing expenses well or they need of government nurses who make it other mechanisms such as being faced with an opportunity to execute project also analyzes ASL classes at to revamp their marketing program to seemingly unnecessary for citizens entangled in elongated filaments, their crisis communication plan other universities in order to propose more efficiently increase assets. to leave the virtual world. Unplugged excess polysaccharide glue, or overall during the Deepwater Horizon Oil and create a course listing for Millikin. from the virtual system for scientific cell weakening. Spill; however, BP’s response failed Results will focus on the students’ Celebrities in Crisis: New observation by the government, these to handle the crisis properly at the desire for ASL courses at Millikin, a Strategies for Public Relations adults are violently “born” into reality. Rapunzel: A Pastiche Opera onset. In this study I use multiple proposed curriculum and the benefits SCO 213 As they discover – for the first time – SCO 207 methods: rhetorical criticism, surveys, of offering ASL to students. their own bodies, vocal chords, and and focus groups to analyze BP’s 10:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m. emotions in real time and space, they 1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m. crisis communication strategy in Green Synthesis of Aldosterone Presenter(s): grasp desperately to comprehend their Presenter(s): order to gauge public perception Inhibitors Hilary Osiecki situation and its implications. And Devin Kemp that exists about BP and BP’s CEO. SCO 109 Project Advisor(s): slowly, growing cognizant of sharing Project Advisor(s): Artifacts examined using rhetorical Dr. Jeffrey Brand the room with another physical body, Dr. Nicole Leupp criticism included: public opinion 10:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m. each begins to suspect that the only polls, articles, headlines, and user Abstract/Description: Abstract/Description: Presenter(s): means of escaping this system may be comments from online editions from Celebrity publicists are constantly This project draws from the entire Kimberly Watson to reach out across the room, across newspapers in Louisiana. Twenty-three faced with the challenge of protecting genre of opera to create an original the void, and connect. So perhaps it respondents completed surveys before Project Advisor(s): their client’s image. Everyone makes work. A Pastiche opera is a creative is a love story. Of sorts. participating in focus groups about Dr. George Bennett mistakes, and celebrities are no composition in which the author their knowledge and perceptions Abstract/Description: exception. But unfortunately for selects a story and sets arias, duets, The Social Enterprise of the oil spill. Conclusions from The purpose of this project is to today’s stars, they have to have them and art songs within the storyline to Experience: Management surveys determined that 96 percent create a greener method to synthesize captured and commented on by create a cohesive work. This Pastiche Lessons for Private Corporations of the respondents could recall British aldosterone synthase inhibitors by the paparazzi, tabloids, and gossip will add to a genre that is rapidly Petroleum’s role in the spill, but 96 using the twelve principles of green sources such as Perez Hilton and SCO 212 becoming more popular, in the opera percent could not recall the name of chemistry as set by the American TMZ. While it is impossible to hide community. After extensive research 11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. its CEO at the time of spill. Overall, 48 Chemical Society. The proposed everything from the press, the skilled of numerous fairytale and their origins, Presenter(s): percent of the respondents perceived method to synthesize 1-indanyl publicist can deflect most of the the story of Rapunzel was chosen Kelsey Nihiser BP’s response as poor. iodide is to use indanol and use a backlash and have their client come as the skeleton for this Pastiche. substitution method to synthesize out on top. This project studies those Project Advisor(s): Making use of the different versions Using Stories and Games to an iodo compound very similar to expert moves, applies communication Dr. J. Mark Munoz and variations that the tale has taken Engage Young Students in indanol. The next step in the process theories, and explores the path that Abstract/Description: through history and various cultures, Learning Spanish as a Second is to use the iodo compound and use a publicist should take when their Social enterprises are organizations a compilation was crafted for use as Language a two step substitution using indium clients finds themselves in crisis, in that seek answers to societal the narration for this opera. Research and pyridine-4-carbaldehyde. Using order to prevent them from falling out problems through business solutions. of many different composers’ bodies SCO 208 these two steps should produce the of stardom and becoming a has-been. The solutions social enterprises of work yielded the arias and art 2:30 p.m.-3:15 p.m. aldosterone synthase inhibitor. implement cover a wide range of songs that are set to this fairytale. The The Life Insurance Industry in social issues: global poverty, lack Presenter(s): Opera Department, here at Millikin, Danielle Osmond MONSTER the U.S. Economy of employment, unavailability of has selected this Pastiche as the one-

SCO 109 adequate water resources, among act opera that will be presented this Project Advisor(s): SCO 207 Dr. Christie Magoulias & Dr. Joyce others. It is important for managers spring. The author will be given the 10:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m. 11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Bezdicek of social enterprises to be able to privilege of designing, casting, and Presenter(s): Presenter(s): maximize the use of resources to directing this work. Abstract/Description: Jaymeson Welker Metz Jackie Buhrmann make a profit as well as benefit The purpose of this project is to Project Advisor(s): Project Advisor(s): society. Through secondary and Creativity, Love and Healing provide parents and teachers of Dr. Robert Money Dr. Cheryl Chamblin primary research, this project seeks SCO 208 young children with an easy-to-use, Abstract/Description: to answer the questions: How can engaging and effective approach Abstract/Description: 1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m. The primary focus of this play began The life insurance industry is an managers most effectively manage to teaching Spanish as a second with social deviants and why they do important part of our financial sector, day to day operations of planning, Presenter(s): language. Over the period of one what they do. After further research providing a variety of services to leading, controlling, and organizing? Meghan Walsh year, I collected and analyzed a in this area, two philosophical its customers, including term or What key factors need to be Project Advisor(s): great number of studies on the topic perspectives were found to be permanent life insurance, investment considered for company growth? Annette Russo of second language education, What are best practices employed by discussed my findings with present throughout--determinism and annuities, and mutual funds. Life Abstract/Description: other social enterprises that managers professionals in the field and built a free will. This added layer then took insurance is an integral component Art therapy is a successful venue can use to improve operations? By pedagogical foundation upon which the play to an exploration of good of many financial portfolios; about of psychological and physical combining real-world experiences I have based my book of lesson versus evil and identity. Experimental 70% of American households have therapy for cancer patients, with strong theoretical backings, plans. This project aims to combine philosophy was also a part of the some type of life insurance. However, as well as their caretakers and this research seeks to identify best the most highly effective theories research, with the play being its own there have been very few recent loved ones. By allowing them to practices for managers of social and practices of second language form of experimental philosophy by studies on the growth or health of the channel their emotions, fears, and enterprises to help them create the instruction in order to get young asking its audience questions. The life insurance industry. My research strengths through a productive greatest benefits for society. children excited about learning play serves not only as a creative way attempts to answer questions such means, the clients experience Spanish and to help them achieve of questioning society’s acceptance as “What is the current trend in the a reduction in stress, an open How to organize a Triathlon: A maximum gains in the second of certain behavior, but also a way health of the life insurance industry, means of communication and Guide for Race Directors language acquisition process. of collecting scientific data from a and how does that compare to the expression, and improvement in test group--otherwise known as the current trend in GDP?” and “Which SCO 213 overall wellness. Crazy Paint is an Dichterliebe: records in review audience. In this play, we start with major economic events have had an 11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. illustrated book directed towards a missing persons report and a girl effect on the life insurance industry, Kaeuper Hall Presenter(s): children who are either coping who wants to understand just why and what has that effect been?”, Emily Joines with a loved one receiving cancer 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. her friend has been taken. With this among others. To accomplish this, treatment or diagnosed with cancer Project Advisor(s): Presenter(s): curiosity comes great sacrifice as I have established which variables themselves; it explains how art- Linda Slagell Timothy Shirriffs she is forced to find out the answers define the health of the industry, making can help them express their Project Advisor(s): for herself. All of the characters chosen a group of life insurance Abstract/Description: fears and anger, as well as their love Dr. Travis Stimeling struggle with a similar challenge of companies to represent the industry, As Triathlons become more and more for their caretakers, ill loved ones, dealing with the completely new and then used those variables to popular among fitness enthusiasts, it and themselves. Through open Abstract/Description: circumstances they find themselves model the health of the life insurance is important for race directors, both expression and safe communication, Dichterliebe is one of the most in. Not only from the outside-in, but industry over a period of time. Using new and old, to understand all that children who are experiencing a celebrated song cycles of all time. from the inside-out as well. these models, I examined historical is involved in the planning of such crisis (such as cancer) are aided in Written by Robert Schumann in data to find out how the life insurance events. This information was gathered coping, rebuilding self-esteem, and, 1840, it is a collection of poems by Milli-Gleeks: Merging Glee with industry has reacted to different through research of books and ultimately, healing. Heinrich Heine set to music and the Talents of Millikin economic events and changes and websites devoted to triathlons as well tells a personal story. As German Kaeuper Hall made an attempt to forecast the as observation from both the view of a OMG Im omw LOL: Effects of poetry developed out of the future health of the industry. spectator and volunteer. This guide will Electronic Communications on Classical era in to the Romantic, a 10:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m. contain information for general road Written Language third person narrative about a noble Presenter(s): ‘Extreme’ Counterpoint: A Study race planning and triathlon specific SCO 212 man developed into a first person Nathan Bettenhausen of Advanced Canonic and Fugal planning. It will also include newer ideas expression of (often) unrequited Project Advisor(s): Technique for incorporation of technology and 1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m. love and also told the story of Ted Hesse SCO207 electronics during the triathlon. The Presenter(s): everyday people like a Sheppard or a Abstract/Description: 11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. hope behind this research project is Sarah Thomason wandering traveler. In Dichterliebe, The hit television show Glee has made that future race directors will use it as a Project Advisor(s): we know it is a lonely poet who is Presenter(s): quite an impact in America, as well guide and plan triathlons that are more Judi Crowe expressing his feelings, as the title Kari Ringgenberg organized and can be more successful.. translates to poet’s love. Along with as around the world. While everyone Abstract/Description: Project Advisor(s): my performance of Dichterliebe, has their own opinion on the show’s The introduction of electronic Dr. Michael Luxner I have written a set of reviews by quality and value, it has indisputably Luncheon from communications has triggered many artists who recorded the cycle. I put the spotlight on the performing Abstract/Description: changes in written language. New 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. have selected recordings which arts. Glee’s methods, from publicity This project focuses on techniques technologies such as SMS messaging, represent a wide variety of historical to performance practices, have used in canons and fugues that email, and social media sites have periods, nationality of the performer made a splash in schools, homes, on display a unique advancement vastly replaced other traditional and arrangements. television, and in the music industry. in traditional counterpoint. The forms of written communications. I have analyzed Glee’s Emmy-winning research helps explain the process These changes in communication Continued pg. A9 A10 JMS Senior Recognition Day Presentation Schedule Celebrations of Scholarship 2012 Dorian Gray: a Musical Senior James online shopping. A number of retailers responsibilities entrusted to them Saturday Kaeuper Hall can be considered “bottom-up”, to better oneself and the group as a Millikin Scholars which means that they began doing whole. The project is able to be viewed Presentations 6:00 p.m. business in physical stores before in manual form and is designed to be Continued from A8 Presenter(s): who completed transitioning to the online world. implemented at other universities. Joseph W. Bein “Top-down” companies, on the other War in the Workshop: an Orff Project Advisor(s): their work hand, sell strictly online and do not Reviving an Honors Community: Presentation Dr. Stephen Frech and Kevin Long in Fall 2011 have a retail store presence. It would A Student-Driven Approach seem that top-down companies face SCO 208 Abstract/Description: Presenter(s): challenges such as a lack of fitting The purpose of this project was to Birth Stories: The Lived David Anderson 3:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m. rooms, the inability for customers convert Oscar Wilde’s novel The Experience of Giving Birth Project Advisor(s): Presenter(s): to touch and feel the product, and Picture of Dorian Gray into a fully Presenter(s): Dr. Cheryl Chamblin Megan Overbay the inability to personally interact developed stage musical. The Meleah Ofcarcik Abstract/Description: Project Advisor(s): with customers. Therefore, this impetus for the project was twofold: Project Advisor(s): While Millikin’s Honors Program Dr. Catherine Ming Tu paper takes a look at how the two first, to bring Wilde’s novel to life in a Dr. Karla Luxner has always had a strong curricular Abstract/Description: types of companies are approaching medium that can be entertaining and Abstract/Description: component, it was lacking a co- This project combines the practice ebranding and eCRM strategies in the immersive for a new audience; second, For women, giving birth is a unique curricular element. This project of elementary general music online retail fashion industry. to demonstrate that the themes of event. One of the best ways to details the development of new Christmas/Holiday programs and the novel remain relevant to us today. learn about the experience from co-curricular pieces that have the Orff Schulwerk methodology of Chi Rho Sigma The musical focuses on Dorian as a the mother’s perspective is to been implemented for the Honors teaching. Developed by Carl Orff, Presenter(s): character torn between two ways simply ask her. In this qualitative, Program. Since Spring 2010, the a German composer and music Whitney Vanderspool-Snell of seeing the world, and challenges phenomenological study, the birth Student Honors Advisory Council educator, Orff Schulwerk emphasizes Project Advisor(s): the audience to consider their own stories submitted by women who has been formed, an orientation for movement, improvisation, poetry/ Dr. Kay White worldview as well. Through song, the have given birth in the past five Freshman Honors Scholars has been chants, instruments and singing characters express the moments of years have been collected and Abstract/Description: conducted twice and an Honors as a means to teach music. This heightened drama from Wilde’s novel analyzed. Several common themes This project was designed to address LLC has been established. This approach to teaching, as well as the in a way that seeks to transcend the emerged, several of which could morality issues in many Greek project provides documentation and idea of creating a Holiday program for 18th-century setting and make the impact the future of nursing care in organization as well as provide supportive literature for sustaining elementary school aged children, was struggle faced by these characters labor and delivery. students a positive place to explore and developing co-curricular the basis for this project. Combining more universal. The end product is a their journey of faith. The idea was to components for our Honors Program. the Orff Schulwerk method with musical that remains faithful to Wilde’s Extending versus establishing a place Christian values into a formalized holiday themes led to the birth of vision, while also exploring its content brand in a virtual world: the case setting and allow “brothers and this “Holiday Program,” which was for a new generation. of the fashion industry sisters” to grow together in friendship, performed by 5th graders at Meridian faith, and well-being. The fraternity Intermediate School in Blue Mound, IL. Presenter(s): Audra Davis was introduced as a Co-Ed Christian Incorporating a variety of instruments, Fraternity that would be implemented Project Advisor(s): singing, movement, chanting, elf hats, on Millikin University’s campus and Dr. Susan Kruml and reindeer antlers, this performance work its way into becoming a national provided students a unique way to Abstract/Description: fraternity. Participants would have experience music. This project takes a look at the retail certain requirements, rituals, and fashion industry’s interaction with A10 Friday Presentation April 27th CAS CFA Tabor CPS JMS Honors Freshman L-V Caterpillar Schedule COS Poster

8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m. English Mac Art Nursing Lab SCO211 8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m. SCO309 Honors: 9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Physics Exercise English Freshman Science and Long- Biology LTSC208 Behavioral SCO213 Vanderburg Music 9:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Focus Sport Sciences Entrepreneurship CWRRII SH315, LTSC001 Caterpillar Philosophy History Education LTSC 209 Theatre and SCO315 SH412 SCO208 SCO207 SH322 10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. 317, Scholars Communication SH320 SH409 Dance English LTSC115 318,327 PD2 SH420 10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Blackburn Hall 10:30- 11:00 11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Theatre and SCO213 Dance 11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Pilling Chapel 12:00 p.m.-12:30 p.m. BREAK 12:30 p.m.-1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Behavioral L-V Caterpillar English Scholars Theatre and COS Poster Sciences SCO213 1:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. SH412 LTSC115 Political Science Dance Symposium SH420 Tabor and HURF Philosophy 2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Pilling Chapel Albert Taylor Shilling 2nd Music Entrepreneurship Theatre floor SH317 Education SCO207 2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. SCO208 English 3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. SCO213 3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Modern Haiku Languages Physics Art Mac Lab Pilling Chapel LTSC001 JMS Senior 4:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. SH303 SCO109 4:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

8:00 a.m. 10:20 a.m. • Student Publishing Enterprises...... MAC Lab • Rock Music Videos: The Impact of Female Artists Pairing Alcohol and Sex...... SH412 • Materialism in the United States...... SH322 10:30 a.m. • Mathematical Physics Presentations...... LTSC208 • Research in Public Participation in Environmental Advocacy...... SH420 • The Iconography of St. George and the Dragon...... SCO211 • Major English Authors: From Pre-Romantic to the Post-Colonialists...... SCO213 • Multicultural Music Around the World (Middle Level Music Methods)...... SCO208 • Decaturian: A History of Change...... Blackburn Hall • Back Pain: To work your core or not to work your core?...... SCO315 • Particles and Black Holes...... SH322 • If two pills is good, four must be better: A look at older adults and medication use...... SCO309 • The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year...... Pipe Dreams 2 • Business Creation Competition...... SCO207 10:45 a.m. • What do you stand for? Long-Vanderburg Caterpillar Scholars Professional Creed Projects...... LTSC115 • Anatomy of a Time Lord: Doctor Who and Modern History and Culture...... SH409 • Freshman Focus Panels...... SH315 • Methods for Improvement of Maximum Aerobic Capacity...... SCO315 • Freshman Focus Panels...... SH317 11:00 a.m. • Freshman Focus Panels...... SH318 • Experiential Living and Learning in Baltimore...... SH412 • Freshman Focus Panels...... SH327 • Escherichia coli killing ability of Illinois feeder birds...... LTSC001 8:15 a.m. • Beauty and the Inner Beast...... SH322 • Death by Culture...... SH322 • You Can’t Be Competitive With the Female Athlete Triad...... SCO315 8:30 a.m. • Senior Autoethnography...... LTSC115 • Are there forest characteristics that predict the abundance of periodical cicadas, Magicicada spp.?...... LTSC001 • Freshman Focus Panels...... SH317 • The Illuminati: what you don’t see, even with the naked eye...... SH322 • Freshman Focus Panels...... SH318 • What Pumps You Up?...... SCO315 11:15 a.m. 9:00 a.m. • Sanity and Insanity...... SH322 • The Truths Behind the Stigma of Mental Illness...... SH412 11:30 a.m. • Sequencing of the Spatzle gene in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus): genomic DNA vs. RNA...... LTSC001 • The effects on local mammal populations when switching from a corn / • Operant conditioning via olfactory cues in immature house crickets, soybean rotation to bio-mass agriculture...... LTSC001 Acheta domesticus (Orthoptera:Gryllidae)...... LTSC001 • Phridays with Phil Talk Show...... SH420 • Holocaust Graffiti: The Documentary...... SH409 • Millikin’s Version of Project Runway...... Pilling Chapel • Presentations of Senior Thesis in the Philosophy Major...... SH320 11:45 a.m. • Behavioral Management of Geropsychiatric Patients...... SCO309 • Caffeine: The Good, the Bad, and the Mentally Stimulating...... SH322 • Long-Vanderburg Caterpillar Scholars: Identity and Scholarship I...... LTSC115 1:00 p.m. • Freshman Focus Panels...... SH315 • Capstone and Advanced Internship Class Spring 2012...... SH412 • Freshman Focus Panels...... SH317 • Does this presentation make you uncomfortable?...... SCO213 • Freshman Focus Panels...... SH318 • Humanities Undergraduate Research Forum...... Pilling Chapel 9:15 a.m. • Ending the Cycle of Violence: Rehabilitation or Punishment? A study determining which judicial • The Art of Knitting and Crocheting...... SH420 sentencing option better deters violent recidivism in domestic violence abusers...... SH420 • The Obesity Epidemic: What Really Is To Blame For Obesity ...... SH322 • The 19th Annual COS Poster Symposium...... Shilling Hallway (2nd Floor) • The Lives They Lived: Health, Hygiene and Culture in 19th Century America...... SH409 • Rock History and Song Through the Decades...... Albert Taylor Theatre • Stretching in the Reduction of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness: A Literature Review...... SCO315 • Tabor Investment Portfolio Annual Report...... SCO207 9:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. • Possible relationship between in vivo S-adenosyl-L-methonine hydrolase activity • Food Politics and Government Organic Labeling...... SH420 and quorum sensing in Escherichia coli...... LTSC001 2:00 p.m. • Ringg! Your Life is Over. Might As Well Go Die! The Effects of the Evolution of Media • Living the Dream: Stories from Successful Latin American Entrepreneurs...... SCO207 and Technology on the Severity of Bullying...... SH322 2:30 p.m. 10:00 a.m. • Entrepreneurship Practicum: Consulting with MU Student-Run Ventures...... SCO207 • Health Care Approaches in Foreign Countries...... LTSC001 3:00 p.m. • Performing London...... SH420 • Censorship in the American Education System: Why Does This Shit Exist...... SCO213 • “The Ultimate in Impossible Love” Paranormal Romance Novels at Their Finest...... SH322 • The Individual in the Communist State...... SH317 • Operational Definition: Rave...... SH412 • Quantum Mechanics Presentations...... LTSC001 • How Much Does Caffeine Effect You?...... SCO315 • Graphic Design Portfolio Day...... MAC Lab • Long-Vanderburg Caterpillar Scholars: Identity and Scholarship II...... LTSC115 • Web-Based Portfolios: Proof of Performance...... SCO207 • Freshman Focus Panels...... SH315 3:30 p.m. • Freshman Focus Panels...... SH317 • Millikin Males and Masculinity...... SH317 • Freshman Focus Panels...... SH318 • Haiku Versus Tanka-A Poetry Slam Tournament...... Pilling Chapel 10:15 a.m. • Spanish Capstone...... SH303 • Youth, Racism, and the Cold War: Marvel Comics in the 1960s...... SH409 • The Face of Truth: The Greek Theatre Mask and Its Attempt to Cross Borders...... Pipe Dreams 2 See JMS pages 8-10 for schedule details