Virginia Tech’s Office of Undergraduate Research Welcomes You!

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds undergraduate research, and our campus. This conference, funded in-part by revenue from athletic events, focuses on undergraduate research and creative scholarship at the 12 ACC member schools and represents the power and synergy that can exist between athletics and academics. With nearly 100 student presenters, representing ~40 disciplines at this year’s conference, we are in for an exciting weekend!

We look forward to learning more about the contributions each of you make to research and creative scholarship.

With all good wishes,

Tomalei J. Vess

Director, VT Office of Undergraduate Research http://www.research.undergraduate.vt.edu

About Virginia Tech

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Table of Contents SPEAKERS

WELCOME and OPENING REMARKS:

Dr. Tomalei J. Vess, VT Director of Undergraduate Research

Dr. David G. Brown, Director of ACCIAC

OPENING PLENARY: Harold “Skip” Garner, Ph.D.……………………………………………………………………………………2

DINNER AND PLENARY SPEAKER: Michael J. Friedlander, Ph.D.……………………………………………………………..3

CLOSING PLENARY SPEAKER: Dr. R. Benjamin Knapp.…………………………………………………………………………….4

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

Friday, March 30...... 5

Saturday, March 31

Oral Presentations (Sessions 1-3): 9:45 am - 11:00 am…………...…………………………………………..……7

Oral Presentations (Sessions 4-6): 11:15 am – 12:15 pm.….………………………………………………………8

Oral Presentations (Sessions 7-9): 1:45 – 3:00 pm……..……………………………………………………………..9

Sunday, April 1

Oral Presentations (Sessions 10 &11): 9:15 –10:15 am…..……………………………………………………….10

Poster Presentations: 3:30 - 5:30 pm………………..……………………………………………………………....11-15

DETAILED SCHEDULE…………….…………………………………………………………………………………………………….……..5-6

ABSTRACTS (listed alphabetically)………………………………………………………………………………………………….14-51

INDEX……………………………….………………………………………………………………….…………………………………….… 52-53

PRESENTERS LISTED BY UNIVERSITY

STUDENT INFORMATION……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….54-55

Notes and Map………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………56-60

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Plenary 1:

Text similarity searching and data mining: Applications to reference finding, publication ethics, including an interesting example

Talk description: Using a new type of text search engine we are able to measure the amount of similarity among documents. Using this approach, we can use whole paragraphs instead of 1 or 2 keywords to find relevant literature. This allows us to find more relevant literature, and occasionally find literature that is too similar, that is plagiarized. This is all done with a free computer code, etblast.org, that we offer on-line from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. Dr. Harold “Skip” Garner. Ph.D.

Biographical Sketch Harold "Skip" Garner received his Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from the

University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982. Dr. Garner has published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals throughout his career in plasma physics, bioengineering, genetics, genomics and bioinformatics. He sits on several corporate advisory boards and advises government and private agencies, including the HHS, NIH, DoE, NASA, MacArthur Foundation, State Department and a variety of foreign countries. Dr. Garner is the founder of several biotechnology companies, including Heliotext , Xanapath, BioAutomation, and Light Biology, which was acquired by Nimblegen (now Roche Nimblegen, Inc.), in 2004. Dr. Garner is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a Charter member of the Academy of the School of Mines and Metallurgy. Dr. Garner is also an advisor to the National Research Council, a reviewer for Genomics, Nature Biotechnology, BioTechniques, Genome Research, Bioinformatics, the Royal Society and others. an advisor to NASA and Mars Rover Board, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and IEEE Engineering in Biology and Medicine, Scientific Computing.

Virginia Bioinformatics Institute http://www.vbi.vt.edu/

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Plenary 2: Brains as adaptive learning machines throughout life

Talk description: In his presentation “Brains as adaptive learning machines throughout life”, Dr. Friedlander will consider the dynamic flexibility of the functional architecture of the brain. He will present evidence for the dynamic assembly and re-assembly of cellular synaptic networks within the immature and mature brain, how these processes contribute to learning and the formation of memories, how they adapt in the face of life’s challenges and the effects of aging on these functions.

Biographical Sketch Michael J. Friedlander, Ph.D. is the Founding Executive Director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke, VA, the Senior Dean for Research at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Professor of Biological Sciences and a core faculty member in the School of Biomedical Engineering and Science at Virginia Tech. Dr. Friedlander joined VT and the VTCRI in June, 2010 following 5 years as the Wilhelmina Dr. Michael J. Friedlander, Ph.D. Robertson Professor of Neuroscience, Chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Director of Neuroscience Initiatives at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas. Prior to that, he served for 25 years at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine where he was Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Neurobiology, Founding Director of the Neurobiology Research Center, Director of the Mental Retardation Research Center, Director of the Civitan International Research Center for Intellectual Disabilities and the first Evelyn McKnight Professor of Learning and Memory in Aging. Dr. Friedlander received his B.S. from Florida State University in Biology and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Physiology and Biophysics. He did postdoctoral training at the University of Virginia and at SUNY Stony Brook. Dr. Friedlander is the founding president of the Medical School Neuroscience Department Chairs Association (AMSNDC). He has served on the Administrative Board and as Chair of the Council of Academic Societies (CAS), on the AAMC Executive Board, on the HHMI-AAMC Scientific Foundations of Future Physicians Task Force and he currently serves on the AAMC National Research Advisory Panel and the MR5 Comprehensive Review Panel. He also serves or has served on the scientific advisory boards of the Civitan International Research Center, the Mission Connect Foundation for Research in Spinal Cord and Traumatic Brain Injury, the Children’s National Medical Center for Intellectual Disabilities, the Waisman Mental Retardation Research Center, on the Michael E. DeBakey Veteran’s Administration Medical Center Clinical Neurosciences Steering Committee as well as the Chair of the National Association of Mental Retardation Research Centers. Dr. Friedlander is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Neuroscience, an NIH Fogarty Center Senior International Research fellowship, a Lucille P. Markey Foundation Center Award, a W.M. Keck Foundation Center Award, the American College of Physicians’ William Menninger Award for Mental Health Research and the University of Illinois Distinguished Alumnus Award in Molecular and Integrative Physiology. He is the President of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (SEBM). He serves as the Associate Editor for the Neuroscience section of the Journal of Experimental Biology and Medicine as well as on the editorial board of the Journal of Neuroscience and of Eye and Brain.

Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute http://research.vtc.vt.edu/

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Plenary 3:

Research at the Intersection of Science, Engineering, Art, and Design

Talk description: Societal and industrial challenges demand creative processes that stem from the realization that design, aesthetic, and technological development now have become symbiotic. Form no longer follows function. Form and function are inseparable. This talk will explore several examples of trans- disciplinary project-based research that demonstrates this principle and give us a glimpse of where university and industrial research might be headed.

Biographical Sketch Dr. R. Benjamin Knapp Dr. R. Benjamin Knapp is the founding director of the Institute for Creativity, Art, and Technology (ICAT) at Virginia Tech. This institute fosters and studies the creative process, from imagination to innovation, to create new possibilities for exploration and expression. Its mission is to forge a bidirectional pathway between trans-disciplinary research and artistic output, scientific and commercial discovery, and educational innovation. In his own research, Dr. Knapp has been working at the boundaries between human-computer interaction, universal design, and creative practice. His research on human-computer interaction has focused on the design of user interfaces and signal processing software that enable the composer and performer to augment the physical control of a musical instrument with more direct neural interaction using physiological/biometric indicators of gesture and emotion. His research also involves the design of home environments that support people as they age. Using ambient sensing, he has been exploring ways to understand behavioral and emotional changes that predict changes in physical and mental status.

Institute for Creativity, Art, and Technology http://www.icat.vt.edu/index.html

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Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference Agenda

Friday, March 30

3:00-5:00 PM Conference Registration at the Inn at VT 5:00 PM Gather for Transport to Lane Stadium for President’s Reception 5:30-6:30 PM President’s Reception, Lane Stadium President’s Box 6:30 PM Gather for transport to the Inn for students and dinner for faculty 6:45 PM Faculty Dinner; Students Dinner on Own (see registration packets for options)

Saturday, March 31

8:00 AM Breakfast and Announcements (Latham C) 8:30 AM Welcome and Opening Plenary: Skip Garner (Latham C) 9:45-11:00 AM Oral Presentations Session 1: English, Literature and Creative Writing (Cascades A) Session 2: Behavior, Models, and Ethics (Cascades B) Session 3: Physics and Mathematics (Latham C) 11:00-11:15 AM Break 11:15 AM-12:15 PM Oral Presentations Session 4: Biology and Psychopharmacology (Latham C) Session 5: Architecture and Interior Design (Cascades A) Session 6: Health (Cascades B) 12:15-1:30 PM George Barthalmus Memorial Luncheon (Latham A) Remarks from David Brown of the ACCIAC George Barthalmus Remembered. Less than a month after George accompanied the NC State delegation to last year’s Meeting of the Minds Conference, he suddenly died. As the undergraduate research director, George attended every ACCIAC conference, always brought the largest delegation (other than the host institutions), chaired the conference when at NC State, invariably visited every poster and meaningfully interacted with each student researcher, introduced the highly successful lunch-in- the-midst-of-the-poster-sessions, and served as NC State’s representative at the first meeting of the ACCIAC Advisory Committee. At President Shalala’s dinner on the eve of this meeting, John Ambrose led us in a toast to George’s service. To enable broader remembrance of George’s contribution, we designated the luncheon at Virginia Tech’s 2012 MOM Conference as the George Barthalmus Memorial

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1:45-3:00 PM Oral Presentations Session 7: Biology and Engineering (Cascades A) Session 8: Music, Religion, and Learning (Latham A) Session 9: Politics, Language, and History (Cascades B) 3:00-3:30 PM Poster Set-up and Break 3:30-5:30 PM Poster Presentations (Solitude) 6:30 PM Dinner and Plenary Speaker: Mike Friedlander (Latham DEF)

Sunday, April 1

8:45-9:15 AM Breakfast and Announcements (Latham C) 9:15-10:30 AM Oral Presentations Session 10: English, Psychology, and Political Science( Cascades A) Session 11: Clean Energy, Engineering, and Politics (Cascades B) 10:30-10:45 AM Break 10:45-11:45 AM Closing Plenary Speaker: Ben Knapp (Latham C) 11:45 AM-12:00 PM Closing Remarks and Boxed Lunch Pickup 12:00 PM Departures

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Oral Presentations 9:45 – 11:00 AM

Session 1: English, Literature, and Creative Writing – ROOM: CASCADES A PRESENTER UNIVERSITY MAJOR RESEARCH TITLE Amanda Duke English Objects and Agency: James and the Auerbach Aesthetic Heroine Ali Yalgin Duke Theater Dream and Reality in Strindberg’s Studies Naturalistic Tragedies Lara Mangum Virginia Tech English Evelina and the French Connection: The Madame Duvall Subplot Morgan Kayser Florida State Creative Identity: A Short Story Collection Writing

Session 2: Behavior, Models, and Ethics – ROOM: CASCADES B PRESENTER UNIVERSITY MAJOR RESEARCH TITLE Colette Nataf Maryland Economics/ Love the One You’re With: The Endowment Mathematics Effect in the Dating Market Joshua L. Lucas NC State Psychology Do Machines Have Prima Facie Duties? Alyssa Boston College Psychology Children and Emotional Expression: McCarthy Children’s Understanding of Norms about Emotion Expression in Public and Private Contexts Shibani D. Georgia Tech Management Above and Beyond, Again and Again: A Kansara Model of OCB, Motive Fulfillment, and Feedback

Session 3: Physics and Math – ROOM: LATHAM C PRESENTER UNIVERSITY MAJOR RESEARCH TITLE Harley Katz Maryland Astronomy/ Testing for Bulk Flows and Bullet Clusters Physics with QUMOND Matthew E. Virginia Physics Scattering by Black Hole Binaries and the Caplan Final Parsec Problem Travis Byington Duke Physics The Hierarchical Freezing of an Aperiodic Tiling Yu-Po Ken Duke Physics Building a Quantum Key Distribution System Wong Arielle Grim Virginia Tech Mathematics Improving the Near Diagonal Dominance of McNally Slater Matrices for Insulators

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Oral Presentations 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM

Session 4: Biology and Psychopharmacology – ROOM: LATHAM C PRESENTER UNIVERSITY MAJOR RESEARCH TITLE Mejdi Najjar Miami Neuroscience Conserved and Divergent Functions of Growth Differentiation Factor 11 in Dorsoventral and Anteroposterior Neural Patterning in Zebrafish Matthew D. Virginia Undeclared Effect of Topiramate on the Reinforcing Lycas Properties of Ethanol in Wistar and P Rats Sarah C. Georgia Tech Biology Spatial Variation in Nutrients, Pigments, Weber Particles, and Phytoplankton Abundance in the Amazon River Plume Eric Reasor Virginia Tech Crop and Soil PlumeThe Influence of Fall Fertilization Programs on the Traffic Tolerance and Recovery of Sprigged Bermudagrass Varities

Session 5: Architecture and Interior Design – ROOM: CASCADES A PRESENTER UNIVERSITY MAJOR RESEARCH TITLE Brian Eugene NC State Architecture Que lo Que’s Asset-Based Community Gaudio Inventory Amanda Florida State Interior Design Healthy Interior Environments in Hatian Krueger Orphanage Design Joel Dixon Clemson Architecture Issues Hindering the Development of Chinese Intellectual Property Protection in Architecture Kenneth Virginia Tech Architecture Reshape, Inform, Inspire: Pallet Reuse as a Black/Ross Design Medium McFarland

Session 6: Health – ROOM: CASCADES B PRESENTER UNIVERSITY MAJOR RESEARCH TITLE Bryant Huang Miami Neuroscience The Epidemiological and Health Transition of Obesity in Hong Kong: Socioeconomic Determinants of Diet, Nutrition, and Lifestyle in the 21st Centruy Laura Grace Wake Forest Communication Health Education in Kenya Carroll Chenxi Yu North Carolina Mathematics Integrating the Jamkhed Model into the Health Care System of Rural China Matthew Boston Economics Philippine Perspectives on Public Policy: Alonsozana College Disaster management and Local Health

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Oral Presentations 1:45 – 3:00 PM

Session 7: Biology and Engineering – ROOM: CASCADES A PRESENTER UNIVERSITY MAJOR RESEARCH TITLE Meredith Cole Clemson Bioengineering A Novel Method for Assessing Horse-Rider Biomechanics in Hippotherapy Ian Ergui Miami Biology Effects of Cocaine Use on Genomic Methylation Kanav Jain Georgia Tech Biomedical Permutations of Short sRNA Segments for Engineering sRNA-mRNA Interaction Study Winston Becker Virginia Tech Engineering Advancing Tissure Engineering Through a Science and Mechanical Characterization of the Insect Mechanics Respiratory System Radu Reit Georgia Tech Biomedical Vertically Aligned Carbon nanotubes as Engineering Active Electrodes for Metal Substrate Supercapacitors

Session 8: Music, Religion, and Learning – ROOM: LATHAM C PRESENTER UNIVERSITY MAJOR RESEARCH TITLE Kristen Fowler Virginia Tech Music The Tango: A Modern Interpretation Dana Boebinger Florida State Psychology/ Are Implicit Learning Abilities in Music and Music Language Related? Braxton Shelley Duke Music Gospel Goes to Church (Again): Smallwood’s Hybridity as Liturgical Compromise Morgan Abbott North Carolina Religious Jesus, the Final Paschal Lamb: A Studies Comparison of the Ideas of Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Passover Sacrifice in the Gospel of John and 1 Corinthians Ryan Folio Boston Islamic Confessions of the Lebanese Media: College Civilization Media Coverage of Ethnic-Religious Communities in Beirut

Session 9: Politics, Language, and History – ROOM: CASCADES B PRESENTER UNIVERSITY MAJOR RESEARCH TITLE Anne Ornelles Wake Forest Spanish Catalan Today and Tomorrow: An Examination of Language Policies, Attitudes, and Usage Victoria James Virginia Tech International Después de la guerra: An examination of Studies Argentina’s Dirty War and Political History as a Post-Conflict Society Nrintohn Boston International From sud-Ouest to Le Parisien: Portrayal Luangrath College of the Burqa Ban in French Print Media Okello Carter Boston History A People Without a Country: Filipino College Nationals and the 1935 Filipino Repatriation Act Caroline Kirby North Carolina Comparative Memorializing Shame and Defeat: Leïla Literature Sebbar’s La Seine Était Rouge in Paris

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Oral Presentations 9:15 – 10:00 AM

Session 10: English, Psychology, and Law – ROOM: CASCADES A PRESENTER UNIVERSITY MAJOR RESEARCH TITLE Ashley Birkedal Wake Forest English Perceiving the Ideal: Edith Wharton and the unrealistic Portrayal of Women in Art Emily Bray Duke Psychology Social, Physical, and Emotional Factors Affecting Inhibitory Control in Dogs Yuliya Malmud Maryland Psychology/ Facial Configuration and Judgment: Russian Improving Eyewitness Identification Accuracy

Oral Presentations 9:15 – 10:30 AM

Session 11: Clean Energy Science, Engineering, & Politics – ROOM: CASCADES B PRESENTER UNIVERSITY MAJOR RESEARCH TITLE Holly C. Sweeney NC State Statistics Do Heat Waves Impact Ground Level Ozone Levels? Adam Klett Clemson Chemical Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium Engineering Compositions of the Iodine-HI-Water System of the Sulfur-Iodine Cycle at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures Travis T. Lekich NC State Chemistry Creating Fuel from Sunlight Through Metal to Metal Charge Transfer Eric Antmann Miami Environmental Continuous-Discrete Simulation- Engineering based Decision Making Framework for Solid Waste management and Recycling Programs Joseph Manning Boston College Political The Impact of Politics on Renewable Science Energy Development in Rural Nova Scotia

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Poster Presentations 3:30 – 5:30 PM POSTER UNIVERSITY PRESENTER MAJOR RESEARCH TITLE # 1 University of Aileen L. English Revising the Legacy of the Old Virginia Giordano South: The Evolution of Faulkner’s Depiction of Race and Racism in The Unvanquished 2 NC State Taylor J. Belge, Architecture Adaptive Reuse of Warehouse University Andy B. Park, 202 Julio C. Martinez 3 Virginia Tech Daniel Wainless Industrial Design Medical Transportation Chair 4 University of Patrick Mullins Archaeology Fortaleza de Quirihuac: A Chimú North Carolina Fortification in the Middle Moche Valley of Perú 5 Duke Andrea Patiño Cultural Photographs of the Ordinary as University Anthropology an Alternative Political Space in Palestine 6 Duke Peichun Wang Economics How Shall-issue Concealed Carry University Laws Affect Violent Crime Rates – Using Cohort Panel Data Model 7 University of Jessica Bodford Psychology Potential Moderators of the North Carolina Relationship Between Religiosity and Alcohol Use in College Students 8 Clemson Zakery James Pre-Professional Personality, Communication University Health Sciences Apprehension and Facebook: A Study of Well-Being and Relational Closeness Outcomes

9 Virginia Tech Laura Craig Public and Urban Obesity and Income within the Affairs: Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport Urbanization News MSA Planning And Policy 10 Clemson Lauren Hock Psychology Why Obesity?: The Actor University Observer Bias in Attributions for Obesity 11 Wake Forest Ryan Ford Psychology Examining the Role of Nucleus University Accumbens Serotonin 2A And 2B Receptors On Food-Seeking Behavior In The Rat 12 Clemson Emily McCanless Sociology & Examining the Importance of University Anthropology Body Size for Assessing Attractiveness in a Potential Dating Partner for Different Dating Arenas 11

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13 Georgia Robert S Rule History, Obstacles to Women's Institute of Technology & Participation in Chemistry and Technology Sociology Computer Science 14 University of Casey Shutt Exercise & Sport Physical Contributors to North Carolina Science Glenohumeral Internal Rotation Deficit in High School Baseball Players 15 Florida State Andrew Koutnik Exercise Science The effect of L-citrulline University supplementation on blood pressure as well as pressure wave reflection responses during acute cold exposure with isometric exercise. 16 Georgia Myong Joon Kim Biomedical Study of Vertical Leg Stiffness In Institute of Engineering Asymmetrical Running Technology 17 Wake Forest Tim Brady Health & Exercise The Effect of Breathing University Science Frequency on Baroreceptor Sensitivity

18 University of Nathan Zimnik Physiology & Age-Dependent Noradrenergic Maryland Neurobiology Modulation of Inhibition in the Olfactory Bulb 19 University of Tyler Treadway General Biology Age-Dependent Noradrenergic Maryland Modulation of Inhibition in the Olfactory Bulb 20 University of Betty Albo Biology Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) is an Miami Obeso important regulator of Retinal Ganglion Cell (RGC) survival 21 Georgia Brice I Hwang Biochemistry GFP Chromophores as Institute of Fluorescence Ligands for Technology Detection and Activation of Nuclear Receptors 22 University of Catherine Cellular Biology Dscam and its Role in Drosophila Maryland Bessell and Mole Hemocytes 23 University of Cecilia Perez Biology Conus Venom Screening To Miami Identify Novel Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists For Gene Therapeis in Pain Modulation 24 Clemson Haaris Khan Genetics & Development of Molecular University Biochemistry Beacons for Detection of African Trypanosome Infections

25 Wake Forest Spencer Carter- Biology Jumping performance of University Carpenter largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) across a size gradient 12

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26 Clemson Carly (Alanna) Wildlife and Coforaging in wild golden lion University Slack Fisheries Biology tamarins in the União Reserve, RJ, Brazil 27 University of Sara Marin Biology The Attenuation of the Gulf Miami Toadfish Hypoxia Response:Concern over Antidepressants Detected in our Marine Environments 28 Virginia Tech Bethany Gregory Wildlife Science The influence of the bacterial endophyte Burkholderia phytofirmans (strain PsJN) on growth, leaf gas exchange and drought tolerance of Switchgrass Alamo 29 Virginia Tech Casey Setash Wildlife Science Wing Morphology and Foraging Stratification in Forest-Dwelling Birds 30 NC State Jordan Ferguson Biology Hedgehog Signaling Controls University Intestinal Malrotation and Epithelial Cell Development in Xenopus laevis 31 Wake Forest Rebecca Perry Biology Probing the regulatory University mechanism of AKH cell excitability 32 Virginia Tech Michael Lawless Human Nutrition, Lipid Metabolism As Target For Foods and Exercise Ovarian Cancer Prevention By Exogenous Sphingolipids 33 Virginia Tech Andrew Hall Biological Sciences Identify-Y: A novel computational method for the discovery of Y chromosome sequences 34 University of Saramati Biomedical Development of a Method to Miami Narasimhan Engineering Investigate the Dynamics of Accommodation using an Ex-Vivo Accommodation Simulator

35 University of Cori Watson Electrical Olfactory Bulb Circadian Virginia Engineering Rhythms 36 NC State Joseph Moo- Textile Engineering Molecular Dynamics Simulations University Young of Carbon Nanotube- Polythiophene Interactions 37 Clemson Nadine Luedicke Bioengineering Re-Engineering Medical Training University Simulators: CVC Simulator 38 Virginia Tech Stephanie Welch Civil & Calibration of Real-Time Water Environmental Quality Monitoring Instruments Engineering 13

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Morgan Abbott, prior studies of them have neglected a vast region University of North Carolina surrounding the planet’s south pole. Some of the few sulfates reported there are localized to Jesus, the Final Paschal Lamb: A putative ancient volcanoes that may have erupted Comparison of the Ideas of Jesus as the under an ice sheet, possibly forming sulfates via hydrothermal alteration. Alternatively, sulfates may Fulfillment of the Passover Sacrifice in the have formed more recently from sunlight causing Gospel of John and 1 Corinthians minor melting of polar ices and weathering In the New Testament, the authors of the Gospel embedded dust particles, a process thought to of John and 1 Corinthians both refer to Jesus as explain the sulfates found near Mars’s north pole. the “paschal” or “Passover” lamb, reinterpreting To test these hypotheses, we searched for traditional Jewish terminology and ideas to fit southern high-latitude sulfates using the Compact within a new Christian context. The author of the Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars Gospel of John and Paul in 1 Corinthians did not (CRISM), focusing to date on the region understand Jesus’ sacrifice to be explicitly atoning, surrounding the putative volcanoes. In 40 images, although this notion did play an important role. we used spectral parameters to identify regions of Rather, the authors viewed Jesus as the ultimate interest, from which we extracted spectra. The and final paschal lamb. Through the use of spectra were then visually compared to laboratory language that would have been familiar to their spectra to identify possible hydrated mineral readership, the author of John drew parallels constituents. We found that exactly 50% of CRISM between Jesus and the paschal lamb to highlight images on putative volcanoes show a 1.9-micron the substitutionary component of the annual absorption consistent with hydration. The Passover sacrifice, while Paul emphasized the percentage for images on the plains between shared participatory component. Just as God volcanoes is actually higher; i.e., hydration is not substituted the death of the Passover lamb for the unique to the volcanoes. Nevertheless, the three death of the first-born son in Exodus 12, God locations at which we found the strongest constituted Jesus’ death as the ultimate Passover absorptions are all on volcanoes; their spectra are sacrifice, rendering subsequent Passover most consistent with gypsum. To further test our sacrifices unnecessary as Jesus exchanged his hypotheses, we will next explore lower-resolution life for the lives of all present and future believers CRISM multispectral data to map hydration in the Jewish God. Furthermore, the authors beyond the small areas of the high-resolution highlighted the early church's ability to participate targeted images. We will also use visible images directly in the body of Christ through the sacrifice to examine the morphology of sulfates identified in various locations. and the Eucharist. The author of the Gospel of John and Paul both referred to Jesus as the Mentor: Dr. James Wray paschal lamb to symbolize the substitutionary and participatory, rather than atoning, component the Passover celebration and Jesus’ death as fulfillment of the final Passover sacrifice. Thus, the church could share in the redemptive quality of Matthew Alonsozana, Boston College Jesus' death. Philippine Perspectives on Public Policy: Mentor: Dr. Bart Ehrman Disaster Management and Local Health

The most affluent area of the Philippines, Metro Manila, faces immense public policy challenges, Sheridan E. Ackiss, due to a large population, insufficient Georgia Institute of Technology infrastructure, a lack of government funds, poverty, and chronic corruption. Policy-makers at Hydrated Sulfates in the Southern High every level rightly have responded by Latitudes of Mars incorporating better technology, vetting resource management, and pressing for organizational Hydrated sulfate minerals record the history of reform. Despite these well-intentioned efforts, water and habitable environments on Mars, yet health and policy deficiencies remain and will

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ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference continue, because these efforts ignore municipal optimization module. This mechanism uses meta- and local dynamics and their effect on the actual heuristics to reduce the computational burden implementation of public policy. An understanding imposed by the characteristically large solution of local socio-economic and political dynamics is space. Here, the optimum solution is defined by crucial, as can be seen in both disaster the user and infinitely variable. The proposed management and public health. Thus, policy- decision making framework has been successfully makers require a model that better synthesizes the demonstrated for the Miami-Dade County Solid collective and distributive capabilities of local Waste Management System in the State of communities. This project develops an “I.N. & Florida. O.U.T. System” model that can one day be a basic tool for designing more empowering and effective Mentor: Dr. Nucrin Celik local policies.

Mentor: Professor James Keenan Amanda Auerbach, Duke University

Objects and Agency: James and the Eric D. Antmann, University of Miami Aesthetic Heroine Continuous-Discrete Simulation-based Are the desire for agency and the desire to be Decision Making Framework for Solid valued aesthetically completely incompatible? In Waste Management and Recycling my thesis, I move from Daisy Miller to The Golden Bowl, exploring how the Victorian heroine evolves Programs into the Jamesian heroine. In Victorian novels, the Solid waste produced as a by-product of our daily heroine can only be said to have an aesthetic activities poses a major threat to societies as value insofar as she represents the concept of the populations grow and economic development aesthetic itself: whatever the novel-reading culture advances. Consequently, the effective claimed was beautiful, good, and true. In our management of solid waste has become a matter culture, the phrase “the objectification of woman” of critical importance for communities. In this is a vague way of expressing a certain kind of study, we propose a simulation-based decision- persecution. James shows, however, that tying the making and optimization framework for the aesthetic experience the heroine provides to her analysis and development of effective solid waste individuality, making her an aesthetic object in management and recycling programs, under rather than the aesthetic object of the novel is the uncertainty. The development of such frameworks first step to moving away from a Victorian structure is frustrated by the large, diverse, and dynamic of the marriage plot that can make the identity of nature of such systems, and the numerous the heroine —and, as Daisy shows, also her life — stakeholders with divergent objectives. The negligible. In my chapter on The Portrait of a Lady, proposed solution includes a database and two I argue that by choosing her one-sided modules: an assessment module and a resource relationships that allow her to cultivate beautiful allocation optimization module. The assessment thoughts over her romantic followers and her own module identifies the sources of uncertainties in physical wellbeing, Isabel makes herself an art the system and develops a parameterization of object by exercising agency over her desire. In them for incorporation into the resource allocation The Golden Bowl, Maggie Verver exercises optimization module. The resource allocation agency in the direction of her desire by assigning optimization module involves a discrete- objects (her rival Charlotte Stant, as well as the continuous model of the system under golden bowl) an aesthetic value. The novel moves consideration, with respect to the waste types and away the marriage plot of the male subject and the characteristics, costs, environmental impacts, female aesthetic object toward male and female types, location and capacities of processing aesthetic subjects and beautiful objects. facilities, and their capabilities. Then, the multi- Mentor: Tom Ferraro criteria problem of the allocation of limited resources is solved via the optimization mechanism embedded in the resource allocation

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umbrella of public administration. Separation of Winston R. Becker, Virginia Tech uses can be found most clearly illustrated in young Advancing Tissue Engineering through a cities like Raleigh. The Warehouse District, a twelve-block area located close to the heart of Mechanical Characterization of the Insect downtown, was the city’s railroad and warehouse Respiratory System distribution hub from the 1850’s to the 1950’s. However, in the late 1950’s, the trucking industry One of the major challenges in tissues engineering proved more profitable than the railroads. The is vascularization. The growth of large complex livelihood of the district was relocated and many tissues is hindered by the inability of current buildings were left vacant. The past decade has methods to supply sufficient oxygen and nutrients brought new life to the Warehouse District. to cells within the tissue scaffolds. The insect Countless buildings have been revitalized. With respiratory system may provide a source of bio- this renewal, the district’s function has shifted from inspiration to overcome this problem. Unlike larger industrial to arts and entertainment. Nonetheless, animals, insects employ an extensive network of a large portion of the district has remained tracheal tubes to effectively transport oxygen unchanged; a majority of these enormous directly to every cell of the body. One mechanism warehouses lay empty and in a perpetual state of for the transport of oxygen is the localized disrepair. Further rebuilding is necessary to rhythmic deformation of the tracheal tubes. This complete the renaissance of the district; one deformation is likely determined by local variation solution is the implementation of mixed-use in the mechanical properties of these tubes. In this functions into existing warehouse spaces. This study, the first mechanical tests aimed at proposal addresses both residential and quantifying such variation have been conducted. A commercial applications that target the young, new tensile testing device was designed to creative class of Raleigh. Deliverables include site measure the ultimate tensile strength, ultimate analyses to determine project implications and strain, elastic modulus, and toughness of ring needs; precedent studies of similar topics; and sections extracted from the main thoracic tracheal design schemes performed in a single warehouse trunks of American Cockroaches. A total of 33 ring scenario. sections collected from 14 tracheal tubes were tested. The results demonstrated that the Mentor: Dr. Robin Abrams mechanical properties of ring sections excised from the same tracheal tube exhibit less variability than those of ring sections excised from different tracheal tubes. A micro-structural analysis is Catherine Bessell, currently underway which may reveal the origin of this experimentally observed mechanical variability University of Maryland and, ultimately, lead to the creation of bio-inspired applications in tissue engineering. Dscam and its Role in Drosophila Hemocytes Mentor: Raffaella De Vita Down Syndrome Cell Adhesion Molecule (Dscam) was first discovered as a membrane bound receptor in developing neurons. Dscam has Taylor J. Belge, NC State University extensive expression diversity from alternative splicing patterns and can be expressed into tens Adaptive Reuse of Warehouse 202 of thousands of different isoforms. Dscam is also expressed in Drosophila hemocytes, one of the The advent of the gasoline automobile jolted our major immune cells of the fly, and appears to be country into an uncontrolled spiral of involved in phagocytosis (Watson, et. al., 2005). unsustainable growth. Urban industrialism was My research focuses on Dscam function in recognized as a public nuisance, which initiated a hemocytes; does Dscam influence hemocyte trend towards the separation of uses and the behavior? An RNAi line to inhibit Dscam decentralization of society. Urban planning was expression is being used to compare between transformed from an architectural design process hemocytes with reduced Dscam production to to a municipal procedure conducted under the those with normal expression. Bacterial or viral

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ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference challenges were done to examine if Dscam mutant adults have an increased susceptibility to specific Kenneth A. Black, Virginia Tech pathogens. Dscam mutants showed no increased Reshape, Inform, Inspire: Pallet Reuse as suspectibility to Staphylococcus aureus challenge. However, Dscam mutants may be susceptible to a Design Medium (Co-Presenter Ross Drosophila X Virus (DXV) challenge. A modest McFarland) accumulation of virus protein was observed in Dscam mutants as compared to wildtype. The Excerpt from academic journal publication by Dr. hemocytes from Dscam mutant larvae were also Elizabeth Grant, advisor to our project: "As the visualized after a wound event; the hemocytes did world population grows and urbanizes, faculty at not have a decrease in aggregation to the wound schools of architecture are increasingly being site. My preliminary evidence suggests that asked to tackle issues of sustainability. To that Dscam may be important for clotting at the wound end, this paper describes a pedagogical approach site and in the regulation of melanization. we have undertaken at the School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech in our third-year Watson, F.L., Puttmann-Holgado R., Thomas, F., undergraduate design lab that attempts to Lamar, D.L., Hughes, M., Kondo, M., Rebel, V.I., & integrate these concepts with the workings of the Schmucker, D. (2005). Extensive Diversity of Ig- design process. This paper presents the process Superfamily Proteins in the Immune System of and results of a competition initiated by the Town Insects. Science, 309:1874-78 of Blacksburg that asks the question, 'What can be Mentor: Dr. Louisa Wu IBBR, CBMG done with used pallets, one of the most prevalent waste products of our globalized and industrialized culture?' ... Reuse of Pallets in Full Form The winning entry in this category was designed by two of our students, Kenneth Black and Ross Ashley Birkedal, Wake Forest McFarland. They embraced the idea of University sustainability not merely in the reuse of pallets, but throughout the work. Their entry was an ‘Perceiving the Ideal:’ Edith Wharton and articulated system of pallets arranged in three the Unrealistic Portrayal of Women in Art dimensions to form an integrated garden system for small urban lots." A copy of the entire journal In her seventy-five years of life, Edith Wharton essay is attached. Please reference pages 1-5 for took on many roles: a Pulitzer-Prize-winning a longer description of the project premise and a novelist, short story writer, horticulturist, and world more detailed look at our project specifically. traveler. However, readers and critics alike often pay little attention to Wharton’s life-long interest in Mentor: Elizabeth Grant the visual arts. Not only did her allusions to well- known artists often aid in crafting her character and class descriptions, but also her familiarity with art became the basis for some the most prevalent themes in her work. To the young Edith Wharton, her world was a sphere of artistic starvation where the true artist was frowned upon as unfit for polite society. This sentiment translated to her writing in which she often criticizes the brand of artists who were accepted by society and the compromises that they must make for their acceptance, particularly in their depiction of the ideal woman.

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by abstract rules. To understand either language Jessica Bodford, or music, a person must learn these syntactic University of North Carolina rules and generalize them to new situations. This study used an artificial grammar learning paradigm Potential Moderators of the Relationship to investigate whether people learn and process Between Religiosity and Alcohol Use in musical and linguistic syntax similarly, and College Students whether there is a correlation between a person’s ability to learn complex grammatical systems in The purpose of this study was to identify the multiple modalities. The effect of previous musical conditions under which public religiosity (i.e., experience on sequence learning was also outwardly visible forms of religious involvement) examined. Results showed no correlation between does not protect against college-age drinking as learning ability in language and music. The effectively as private religiosity due to its social implications of these results are discussed. nature. Past research has found that religiosity is a significant deterrent of alcohol use across all age Mentor: Dr. Michael Kaschak groups when measured as a composite of private and public manifestations; however, because adolescent drinking is closely tied to the social atmosphere inherent in college settings little Tim Brady, Wake Forest University research has examined emerging adult alcohol use in relation to public religiosity alone. Underage The Effect of Breathing Frequency on students enrolled in a southeast public university Baroreceptor Sensitivity (n = 230, 60% female) completed an online assessment of parent and peer relationships, Diminished baroreceptor sensitivity (BRS) has alcohol use, and religiosity. Analyses indicated been associated with cardiovascular morbidity and that the significantly negative correlation between mortality. Studies suggest that BRS may be religiosity and alcohol use was distinctly influenced by breathing frequency; however, most moderated by a number of factors spanning social studies have been conducted without control of and religious domains. These moderating breathing frequency and none has compared the variables are discussed in further detail, as are effects of different breathing frequencies with possible explanations for their influence on spontaneous (non-paced) breathing on BRS. To college-age drinking. This study concludes with compare BRS measured during spontaneous, 6 strengths and limitations in design and and 15 breaths per minute. 32 healthy 18-25 year operationalization of constructs as well as olds recruited from the Wake Forest Community directions for future research. obtained informed consent according to institutional guidelines. Continuous measurement Mentor: Dr. Andrea Hussong of blood pressure and ECG were made using a CNAP device and Biopac system for 5-minute intervals of spontaneous and paced (6 bpm and 15 bpm) breathing, the order of which was Dana Boebinger, Florida State randomly assigned. BRS was determined in both University time (BRS_tot) and frequency (α-LF and α-HF) domains using Nevrokard Software. Within group Are implicit learning abilities in music and comparisons were made using the Friedman Test language related? for related samples. 30 subjects (16 M) had valid BRS data across the 3 breathing conditions. One active area of psycholinguistics research Values are expressed as median (minimum, seeks to determine whether language acquisition maximum). Analyses revealed that α-LF was occurs through domain-specific processes or significantly different among the 3 breathing domain-general processes. One strategy for conditions with 15 bpm [20.00 (6.55, 166.0)] < investigating this question is through the spontaneous [29.13 (9.9, 178.2)] < 6 bpm [34.83 comparative use of language and music: each is a (16.2, 143.5)]. For α-HF, only the 15 bpm [31.1 complex system in which basic auditory elements (7.1, 261.7)] and spontaneous [43.3 (9.7, 208.4)] are combined in hierarchical sequences governed conditions differed. BRS_tot did not differ

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Mentor: Dr. Pat Nixon A novel result in tiling theory is exploited to construct a two-dimensional lattice model with neighbor and next-nearest neighbor interactions that is known to have a limit-periodic ground state. We show that during a slow quench from a high Emily Bray, Duke University temperature, disordered phase, this system reaches its ground state through an infinite Social, Physical, and Emotional Factors hierarchy of second-order phase transitions. By Affecting Inhibitory Control in Dogs defining appropriate order parameters, we further show that these transitions are identical up to Comparative psychologists believe that inhibitory renormalizations of the temperature scale and control is central to many problems that animals interaction energy. For any finite quench rate, solve and thus examine different species’ ability to there is found to be an eventual simultaneous resist tempting, impulsive responses in favor of freezing of multiple levels of the system, due to the more difficult, adaptive behaviors. One interesting increasing scale of the renormalization. The question is whether an individual’s capacity for resulting kinetic barriers induce a glass-like state inhibitory control is stable across contexts, and of locked-in disorder. potentially domain general, or varied across decision types, and potentially domain specific. To Mentor: Dr. Joshua E. S. Socolar explore this question, I tested dogs’ abilities to regulate their impulsivity across physical, social, and emotional contexts. In a detour task, I investigated if dogs would suppress their desire to walk straight toward food behind a transparent barrier in favor of a less direct but more fruitful path. Additionally, I used an A-not-B task to study if dogs were able to inhibit their desire to go to a place where they had been previously rewarded after watching food moved to a novel location. In the social domain, dogs were taught the reputations of a stingy and generous experimenter, then confronted with a situation in which the stingy experimenter offered (but ultimately withheld) more food than the generous experimenter (who continued to share). The research question was whether dogs could inhibit the desire to approach a larger quantity of food that was unobtainable in favor of a smaller, but realizable reward. Finally, using a within-subjects design, I compared dogs’ abilities to bypass a transparent fence and approach a researcher, thereby creating temporary distance between themselves and food, when being addressed in a monotone (baseline condition) versus excited (arousal condition) voice.

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With this information in mind, the idea for me to Matthew E. Caplan, University of study Health Communication, particularly in the Virginia education system in Kenya was developed and implemented. With the desire to spend my time Scattering by Black Hole Binaries and the doing something worthwhile and beneficial for the Final Parsec Problem people of Kenya, I began to explore health concerns around the community. This research is The current model of galaxy formation predicts focused primarily in a rural area near the base of that galactic mergers should be common. Mount Kenya, where 20,000 people depend on Furthermore, most, if not all, galaxies contain a one health clinic and the idea of Health Education supermassive black hole (SMBH) in their nucleus. on precautionary topics is extremely new. Though If galaxy mergers are common, then we should the idea began with researching how health also expect that SMBH binaries will form in the concerns were communicated, it quickly evolved nuclei of the merger products. To date, few as I realized that health concerns were scarcely binaries have been observed but their detection communicated or mentioned at all. The three main would have major implications in astrophysics and areas of research were Samaria Health Center, gravitational wave observations. The small the local clinic that treats the sick throughout the number of known binaries prompts the belief that community; Mapema Primary School and SMBH binaries are short lived, and merge in ~108 Mountain Star Academy, two local elementary years. Current models of binary coalescence schools where the trial “Health Seminars” were describe binaries that exchange energy and tested and successful; and starting a Community angular momentum with surrounding matter, Development Center that will continue to causing the binary orbit to decay. It is believed that encourage healthy lifestyles and provide episodic replenishment of the loss cone provides educational books and references regarding the matter to drive this decay. This research health concerns. The focal point of my time and investigates the gravitational scattering of stars research ended up being educating children on from a massive binary during these replenishment basic preventative health concerns that they could events. A numerical simulation written in C was initiate, and the beneficial effects of these used to construct a catalog of asymptotic structure throughout the community. produced by scattering a ring of particles from a massive binary. The n-body gravitational Mentor: Dr. Alessandra Beasley Von interaction of the two members of binary with Burg individual stars was treated as a restricted 3- problem; the binary was self-gravitating, unperturbed by the test particles, while the stars only interacted gravitationally with the binary. This 2+1-body simulation was used to study the Okello Carter, Boston College scattering structure from binaries with a variety of A People without a Country: Filipino orbital parameters; simple stable binary orbits were produced by systematically varying the mass Nationals and the 1935 Filipino ratio and eccentricity of a symmetric circular orbit. Repatriation Act

Mentor: Professor William Saslaw The 1935 Filipino Repatriation Act (FRA) was passed in order to facilitate the repatriation of Filipino nationals in America, by offering free travel to the Philippines at the expense of the American Laura Grace Carroll, government. Supported primarily by American nativists who wanted to restrict Filipino Wake Forest University immigration, the FRA was an attempt to remove Health Education in Kenya and exclude America’s Filipino population despite being presented as an act of humanitarianism “Sub-Saharan Africa has 24% of the world’s toward impoverished Filipinos. Although the disease burden, but is addressed with less than Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) 1% of the world’s health care spending”-Nick estimated that the law would successfully Kristof, Half the Sky repatriate ten to fifteen thousand Filipinos, by 1940

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ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference only 2,064 took advantage of the legislation after it that bass of any size possess limited capacity for had already been extended three times. The producing directed terrestrial movements. primary objective of this research is to investigate the American government’s failed attempt to Mentor: Drs. Miriam Ashley-Ross and repatriate Filipino nationals; it argues that the FRA Benjamin Perlman was a unique combination of voluntary repatriation and compulsory deportation and was largely rejected by the Filipino community as a result of that combination. Meredith L. Cole, Justin A. Arnosky, Mentor: Professor Arissa Oh Beryl A. Walker, Simone Newhoff, Clemson University A Novel method for Assessing Horse- Spencer Carter-Carpenter, Rider Biomechanics in Hippotherapy Wake Forest University Hippotherapy is a rehabilitation therapy that utilizes a horse as a moving platform for the Jumping performance of largemouth bass treatment of physical or neurological conditions. (Micropterus salmoides) across a size The patient is placed on the horse’s back and gradient performs activities while the horse is led around an arena. The motion that the horse provides is a Some fishes may temporarily become stranded on crucial part of the treatment, yet the biomechanical land due to efforts to escape predation, find interaction between horse and rider in resources, or escape poor water quality. While hippotherapy is largely unknown. It is known that adult mangrove rivulus and mosquito fish are the horse’s movement provides passive capable of tail-flipping to produce directed stimulation to the patient’s muscles as the patient movements on land, adult largemouth bass compensates for the horse’s movement and works (Micropterus salmoides) do not seem to possess to maintain his or her balance. Previous studies this ability. We hypothesized that scaling of body have found that conformational aspects affect the mass versus muscle cross-sectional area may movement of the equine back and that the rider is result in a threshold size, above which fish are directly influenced by the motion in the horses unable to jump or attempt to tail-flip on land. We back. The purpose of this experiment was to examined the relationship between body size and quantitatively evaluate the relationship between jumping ability in juvenile largemouth bass, horse and rider kinematics during hippotherapy. A hypothesizing that the propensity to jump and Biometrics motion system (SG150, Gwent, United jump distance would decrease with increasing Kingdom) was used to measure the spine body size. Individual fish (n = 9) were placed in the (thoracic and lumbar) and hip joint (abduction and center of a kiddie pool and allowed to voluntarily flexion) angles of the rider while the horse was led jump for two minutes; all movements were on a straight path at the walk. A video capture recorded with a video camera (60 fps) above the motion analysis system (Casio Exilim Pro F1, pool. Videos were quantifed in ImageJ for: number Casio America, Dover, NJ) was used to capture of jumps, average and maximum jump distance, the horse’s motion at 300 frames per second. jump trajectory, and other movements. Results show that the horse produces cyclical Trajectories were variable, but clustered around motion in monitored joints corresponding to the 180 degrees, indicating that bass tended to jump stride phase and that repeatable motion analysis over their tail. Linear regressions showed that data collection was possible for both horse and neither number of jumps nor jump distance were rider with this methodology. correlated with increasing body length or mass, though there was a nonsignificant trend of Mentor: Dr. John D. DesJardins decreasing maximum jump distance as body length increased. Regardless of body length or mass, juvenile largemouth bass spent proportionally more time flipping, bouncing, rolling, or twisting their body than jumping, suggesting

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Through an extensive cross-disciplinary process of Laura K. Craig, Virginia Tech systematic literature reviews, interviews, and Obesity and Income within the Virginia direct observations made during a summer-study in China, the findings recognize the lack of Beach-Norfolk-Newport News MSA scholarly information on the topic and seek to Obesity is a multifaceted issue, there is not a establish a framework grounded on the universal cause for obesity, but there could be a comparative empirical data of computer software correlation between certain factors and obesity. copyrights and patents. The influencing factors This report details the possible relationship explore the structural and language issues within between obesity and income related factors such Chinese Copyright Law and find that inconsistent as; food stamp recipient percentages, health interpretation and unreliable enforcement result. insurance coverage by income, educational The study investigates societal, political, and attainment, and food desert locations. These economic factors in China, concluding that both indicators are all income related, and data from historical influences and contemporary capitalistic the Center for Disease Control was used for culture motivate infringing behavior. While information on obesity percentages of the adult enforcement of building architecture and software population. The areas studied were seven copyrights have definite deficiencies, success in localities within the Virginia Beach-Norfolk- patent protection provides an outline for better Newport News MSA. Data was derived from the intellectual property (IP) defense and gives reason US Census Bureau American Community Survey, to believe that the state of intellectual property US Department of Agriculture, and the Center for development is changing. For works of Disease Control. All of the localities with median architecture to achieve full copyright protection, household incomes under $50,000 had obese the existing laws and civil enforcement system populations of over 30%. The exception was must be enhanced and coupled with a centralized Suffolk, Virginia which had a median household government agency to act as a mobilizing income over $50,000 and one of the top four instrument for architecture-specific intellectual highest percentages of obese adults. The localities property enforcement. This study concludes by that displayed the highest correlation between outlining the necessary changes to create such an obesity and income related determinants were agency and reduce the high level of IP-infringing behavior. Norfolk and Portsmouth. Both Norfolk and Portsmouth had obese populations of over 30%, Mentor: Dr. Michael Morris median household incomes under $50,000, over 20% of their low income households lacked health insurance, and less than 15% of their populations had attained Bachelor’s degrees. Ian Ergui, University of Miami Mentor: Dr. Ted Koebel Effects of Cocaine Use on Genomic Methylation Joel Dixon, Clemson University Tax payers in the United States will pay 24.11 billion dollars in 2011 to combat the sale and use Issues Hindering the Development of of illegal narcotics. With almost half of all drug Chinese Intellectual Property Protection in related emergency room visits attributed to Architecture cocaine use and 27.5 percent of prisoners admitting to being cocaine users, it is obvious that This paper seeks to understand why many better treatments for addiction are needed to architectural construction works in the People’s address these issues. Republic of China are the direct result of copying I investigated the epigenetic changes that occur in and design theft. To answer this question, this the Striatum region of the brain, as a result of study, partially supported by the Creative Inquiry cocaine use. Epigenetics is the study of how the program, examines the factors inhibiting the environment interacts with one’s genome. More development and protection of intellectual property specifically, I studied how cocaine use affects rights of architectural works in Mainland China. genomic methylation. Methylation is an epigenetic

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ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference mechanism in which methyl groups are either cellular level. Both compounds affect the added (hypermethylation) or removed formation of the intestinal lumen, as well as (hypomethylation) from areas of the genome. By intestinal epithelial cell shape, and adhesion. engaging in certain behaviors, such as using Cyclopamine caused an enlarged lumen with an cocaine, I hypothesized that one would directly abnormally wide gut tube, while those embryos affect methylation patterns in their genome. treated with purmorphamine had a narrow gut tube After treating mice with either saline, an acute with a loss of lumen. These results suggest that dose of cocaine, or a chronic dose of cocaine, Hedgehog signaling controls intestinal rotation by Striatum DNA was extracted and isolated for regulating the size of the gut lumen, and the shape methylation analysis. DNA was then run on a and adhesion of intestinal epithelial cells. microarray and differential methylation was Therefore, one of the root causes of intestinal analyzed. malrotation may be changes in cell shape, The microarray data indicated that cocaine use did adhesion, and lumen development, possibly cause changes in methylation in regions of the caused by abnormal Hedgehog signaling. genome of Striatum cells. Since the Striatum is Mentor: Dr. Nanette Nascone-Yoder one of the reward centers of the brain, and it is thought that changes in the plasticity of Striatium synapses directly affects addiction, alteration in methylation as a result of drug use may play a role in addiction. Ryan Folio, Boston College

Mentor: Dr. Juan I Young Confessions of the Lebanese Media: Media Coverage of Ethnic-Religious Communities in Beirut Jordan Ferguson, NC State University In the wake of the Arab Spring, scholars have become increasingly concerned with the study of Hedgehog Signaling Controls Intestinal media as a means to understand conflict. Malrotation and Epithelial Cell Protesters have demonstrated that media systems are not simply dependent upon the influence of Development in Xenopus laevis their governments, but can also play an During the development of the digestive tract, the independent role in shaping their countries’ intestine must rotate in a specific direction in order political futures. The ACC-IAC Grant for Thesis to create proper anatomy. Intestinal malrotation Research allowed me to research the relationship affects 1 in 500 births, and predisposes affected between Lebanon’s highly sectarian confessional babies to life-threatening complications. It has political system and the country’s media outlets. been shown that disruption of hedgehog signaling Over the course of four weeks, I lived in Beirut and can cause intestinal malrotation in mouse models. conducted translations on a range of issues However, the specific mechanism by which including NATO intervention in Libya, the Syrian Hedgehog affects intestinal rotation is still uprising, and Iran. My project illustrates how unknown. The morphogenesis of the intestinal media studies can provide a lens for viewing the epithelium occurs coincident with intestinal different narratives presented by opposition rotation. I hypothesized that Hedgehog is a members and government supporters in Syria’s modern crisis. controlling gene in epithelial cell arrangement, shape and viability during intestinal rotation. In Mentor: Professor Kathy Bailey order to assess the role of Hedgehog in epithelial cell development, developing Xenopus laevis embryos were exposed to either cyclopamine, a chemical which inhibits Hedgehog signaling, or purmorphamine, which activates inappropriate Hedgehog signaling, to generate models of intestinal malrotation. Immunohistochemistry was then used to visualize the development of abnormally rotating guts at a molecular and

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will be discussed. In addition to an oral Ryan Ford, Wake Forest University presentation of this research, a saxophone quartet Examining the Role of Nucleus from the Department of Music will perform the work. This study explores the history, Accumbens Serotonin 2A And 2B instrumentation, and musical characteristics of the Receptors On Food-Seeking Behavior In tango, focusing on the works of Astor Piazzolla, a The Rat composer well-respected for his tangos. The research methods used include researching the Previous research suggests that serotonin history of the tango and its aspects of style, signaling within the brain affects food intake and musical score study to analyze harmonic satiety processes. Recently, we have shown that structures, listening to recordings to understand select serotonin (5-HT) receptors located in the the characteristics of style, and composing at the nucleus accumbens impact food seeking and piano and experimenting with aspects of the consumption. Specifically, activation of the 5-HT6 dance discovered through research. Inspired by receptor increases feeding and food-seeking the bandoneón, an accordion-like instrument often behaviors, while the co-stimulation of 5-HT1/7 featured in tangos, it was decided that the receptors decreases food-seeking behaviors. saxophone quartet would be an appropriate These experiments extended previous work by modern instrumentation because of the assessing the roles of 5-HT2A and 5-HT2B ensemble’s ability to blend exceptionally well with receptors in the nucleus accumbens on appetitive a very rich sound. The composition features motivation. We examined the effects of bilateral traditional harmonic structures and stylistic nucleus accumbens infusions of the 5-HT 2A components of the tango with the exception of a receptor agonist TCB2 (at 0, 1, 5, & 10 µg/side), few modern compositional techniques including the 5-HT2A receptor antagonist kentanserin (at 0, sudden, unexpected modulations and exciting 0.5, 1.0, and 2.5 µg/side), the 5-HT2B agonist BW flourishes throughout. 723C86 (at 0, 2, and 5 µg/side) and the 5-HT2B antagonist RS 127445 (at 0, 2, and 5 µg/side) on Mentor: Kent Holliday food-seeking behaviors in rats trained on a progressive ratio 2 (PR2) schedule of reinforcement. Changes in food-seeking behavior were compared using each rat’s breakpoint across Brian Eugene Gaudio, several doses of each drug. The breakpoint was defined as the maximum number of times each rat NC State University lever pressed in order to receive a sugar pellet. "Que lo Que's Asset-Based Community Neither stimulation nor blockade of the 5-HT2A or 5-HT2B receptors dose-dependently altered Inventory" progressive ratio performance. These data This innovative community-based research suggest that, unlike the 5-HT6 and 5-HT1/7 initiative combined community organizing, asset- receptors, 5-HT2A&2B receptors of the nucleus based development, and information-design. accumbens do not regulate appetitive motivation Beginning with a literature review on sustainable for food reward. development methods at North Carolina State Mentor: Dr. Wayne Pratt University, the research team applied this knowledge of asset-based methodologies in the summer of 2011 while studying in the Dominican Republic (DR). Working with residents from the rural village Las Lajas, DR, the research team Kristen H. Fowler, Virginia Tech facilitated the creation and implementation of an The Tango: A Modern Interpretation asset-based community survey to highlight and document the skillets of individuals living in Las The Tango: A Modern Interpretation The tango is Lajas. A team of volunteers from the village a rhythmically complex and extremely passionate created and conducted 136 interviews with adults Latin American dance with a very distinct style. In in the community and hosted two youth camps to this presentation, the compositional process of collect information. Using the survey data, the creating a stylized tango for a saxophone quartet research team created a "skill directory,"

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ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference chronicling the skills individuals possessed and the skills they sought to learn. This directory could Bethany Gregory, Virginia Tech be used by residents of Lajas to create youth The influence of the bacterial endophyte development programs. Burkholderia phytofirmans (strain PsJN) Mentor: Professor Thomas Barrie on growth, leaf gas exchange and drought Aileen L. Giordano, University of tolerance of Switchgrass Alamo Virginia Switchgrass is one of the most promising bionergy crop candidates for the US. It gives relatively high Revising the Legacy of the Old South: biomass yields and can grow on marginal lands. The Evolution of Faulkner’s Depiction of The overall goal of this research is to develop a Race and Racism in The Unvanquished low input and sustainable switchgrass feedstock production system utilizing beneficial bacterial I am studying the revision of the six short stories, endophytes. Beneficial microbial endophytes, “Ambuscade”, “Retreat”, “Raid”, “The generally, promote plant growth, increase nutrient Unvanquished”, “Vendée”, and “Drusilla”, which uptake, enhance host tolerance to environmental were ultimately compiled into William Faulkner’s stresses, and inhibit the growth of plant pathogens novel, The Unvanquished. My research has and associated diseases. We have demonstrated consisted of a careful study and comparison of the that one plant growth-promoting bacterial manuscript, typescript, magazine, and novel endophyte, Burkholderia phytofirmans strain versions of these stories. My primary goal in PsJN, is able to colonize and significantly promote examining these texts is to elucidate the evolution the growth of switchgrass Alamo. However, the of Faulkner’s depiction of race and the legacy of physiological mechanisms responsible for the the Old South by studying modifications in enhanced growth are unclear. In this study we Faulkner’s employment of racial stereotypes, measured three endophyte infected and three dialect, and nostalgic representations of plantation control switchgrass plants for leaf gas exchange life in subsequent versions of these texts. More (photosynthesis, transpiration, leaf conductance) broadly, I am studying the vacillations in the tone during a simulated drought in the greenhouse. with which Faulkner addresses the Southern past, Leaf water potentials during the “drought” were from elegiac, to defensive, to condemnatory. measured using a pressure chamber. Following There are two original aspects to my work. Firstly, the “drought”, plants were harvested for above the extensive catalogue of surviving documents ground biomass. Endophtye infected plants pertaining to The Unvanquished make these consistently had lower leaf transpiration and stories a particularly rich way to study Faulkner's conductance; however, photosynthetic rates were composition practice since these primary sources lower. Water use efficiency was greater in provide an archeological record of Faulkner’s endophyte infected plants. creative process. Surprisingly, these primary materials have received very little attention from Mentor: John R. Seiler, Alumni Faulkner scholars. Secondly, while Faulkner's Distinguished Professor Forest depictions of race and slavery have been well Biology studied in many of his other novels, few critics have looked closely at how these themes are treated in The Unvanquished. Ultimately, by studying Faulkner’s process of creation and revision, I have gleaned insight into Faulkner’s conflicted position as both a proud heir to the Southern legacy and a modern artist struggling with the injustice and racism which are seemingly inextricable from this inheritance.

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their own and others’ obesity. 65 adults (23 males Andrew B. Hall, Virginia Tech and 42 females) participated in the study. Analysis Identify-Y: A novel computational method of quantitative survey measures of implicit and explicit attitudes of normal (BMI<25) and for the discovery of Y chromosome overweight (BMI≥25) individuals supported the sequences existence of an actor-observer bias in attributions for obesity. Normal and overweight individuals Y chromosomes are exceptionally important, but were equally likely to make internal, or trait-based, are characterized in only a few model organisms. attributions for the obesity of others, but Computational methods for discovering Y overweight individuals were significantly more chromosome sequences rely on leftovers of likely to make external, or situation-based, assembly, and are ill suited for low quality attributions for their own weight status. Overall, genomes. We report Identify-Y, a simple and fast women were significantly more likely than men to in silico algorithm to discover Y chromosome make external attributions for their own weight sequences independent of assembly quality. status. However, 85% of participants Identify-Y classifies sequences into one of three demonstrated a strong or moderate implicit categories by calculating the chromosome preference for thin persons over obese persons, quotient, the frequency of alignments from a suggesting the strength and prevalence of female next-generation sequencing database, inherent stigmas towards obese persons. This divided by the frequency of alignments from a study also addressed the effect of fitness-related male next-generation sequencing database. media messages on individuals’ health locus of Autosomal sequences are present in the same control, in this case the degree to which they number in males and females and have a believed their weight status to be the result of their chromosome quotient near one. X chromosome own actions rather than environmental factors. sequences are twice as numerous in females as in However, the pattern of findings for this part of the males and have a chromosome quotient near two. study was unclear, suggesting the need for further Y chromosome sequences are only present in investigation of this effect. This work was males and have a chromosome quotient near supported by an ACCIAC Fellowship in Creativity zero. We found a region of chromosome quotients & Innovation. near zero, distinct from the chromosome quotients of autosome and X chromosome sequences that Mentor: Dr. Robin Kowalski, Ph.D. are highly enriched for Y chromosome sequences. In the malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi, we report the identification of 462 Y chromosome sequences. One of the Y chromosome sequences Bryant Huang, University of Miami was discovered to contain an expressed sox transcription factor gene, making it the second The Epidemiological and Health mosquito Y chromosome gene ever found. Transition of Obesity in Hong Kong: Mentor: Jake Tu Socioeconomic Determinants of Diet, Nutrition, and Lifestyle in the 21st Century Historically, obesity has been localized to Lauren Hock, Clemson University developed countries with high socioeconomic statuses (SES). In recent years, however, obesity Why Obesity?: The Actor Observer Bias has become a significant and increasing global in Attributions for Obesity health epidemic in both developed and developing countries. In Hong Kong, the prevalence of obesity It is by now common knowledge that the social has increased from 5% in the 1990’s to over 30% and economic costs of obesity thrust an enormous today. Due to the fact that obesity is a chronic burden on the U.S. health care system. This study disease associated with an increase in risk of investigates the consequences of social morbidity and mortality, developing appropriate stigmatization of obesity: namely, normal and interventions ought to be more widely recognized overweight individuals’ attitudes toward obesity as a public health priority in Hong Kong. At the and attributions, or causal explanations, made for most basic level, obesity is due to an imbalance of

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ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference food energy intake and expenditure. Increasing binding domain (DBD) and a ligand-binding evidence, however, implicates other factors domain (LBD). The DBD binds to a DNA response associated with diet, nutrition, and lifestyle. What, element, and ligands bind to the LBD which then, are the drivers that shape these factors? contains a ligand-dependent transcriptional Much of the literature details the biomedical basis activation region that initiates transcription of a for obesity, yet few researchers have studied specific gene. Once the ligands bind to the LBD, obesity in Hong Kong in context of SES. the LBD goes through a conformational change Consequently, to better understand the patterns causing the transcription activation function region and trends of the rising obesity phenomenon, this to turn on. A wide variety of nuclear receptors exist project examines the distribution and determinants and each NR regulates specific biological and of obesity in Hong Kong by analyzing the physiological pathways. association between obesity and two indicators of SES – living standards (as measured by gross Mentor: Dr. Bahareh Azizi national income per capita) and education (as measured by mean years of schooling). Specifically, this study uses annual reports released by the UN Development Programme and Kanav Jain, the Hong Kong Census & Statistics Department to Georgia Institute of Technology look at how socioeconomic determinants create micro and macro environments that influence diet, Permutations of short sRNA segments for nutrition, and lifestyle to ultimately shape the sRNA-mRNA interaction study prevalence of obesity in Hong Kong. Small RNA (sRNA) segments in bacteria have Mentor: Dr. Sherri L. Porcelain been found to bind to the 5’ leader region of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and regulate the translation that follows the start codon. In turn, sRNA-mRNA interaction is modulated in Brice I Hwang, numerous ways by Hfq, a hexameric sRNA- Georgia Institute of Technology binding protein. In one case, DsrA sRNA is thought to bind to the leader region of the RpoS GFP Chromophores as Fluorescence stress-sigma factor mRNA in order to regulate its Ligands for Detection and Activation of translation. However, when the pair is run through partition-function-based interaction site prediction Nuclear Receptors software RNAup (http://rna.tbi.univie.ac.at/cgi- The objective of this project is to engineer the bin/RNAup.cgi), the lowest free energy site found ligand binding domain of peroxisome proliferator- in silico does not match that found in vivo and in activated receptor γ (PPAR γ) and other nuclear vitro. Permutational stem loop mutations made in receptors (NR) to bind and activate transcription the software analysis – i.e., running every possible by green fluorescent protein (GFP) chromophore. set of nucleotides for the length of one side of Binding of the GFP chromophores can be a hairpin stem I in place of the wt DsrA – returned valuable tool for detecting the expression pattern an accurate binding location for select of PPAR γ and other nuclear receptors in human permutations. Hfq could be the factor destabilizing cells. The use of GFP chromophore as NR ligands the hairpin stems, and this could be checked in provide a unique opportunity to use sensitive vitro; in melting curve analyses, 1.5 µM Hfq was fluorescence techniques to detect NR patterns, to found to lower the Tm of DsrA domain I from 62°C understand the interactions between protein and to 51°C. The permutation algorithm can easily be nuclear receptor, and to potentially develop a new extended to more cases to ultimately determine class of nuclear receptor drugs that can help treat which mutations will ultimately modulate translation. cancer or diabetes. Nuclear receptors are a family of ligand-activated transcription factors that are Mentor: Dr. Roger Wartell involved in a number of diverse roles in biological and physiological pathways, such as development, cell differentiation and homeostasis. Nuclear receptors are proteins which comprise of a DNA

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contemporary communication. The rapid growth Zakery James, Clemson University and utilization of the medium along with increasing rates of depression and loneliness have targeted Personality, Communication Facebook as a possible scapegoat for increasing Apprehension and Facebook: A Study of social isolation, depression, and other poor Well-Being and Relational Closeness psychosocial well-being outcomes. Various Outcomes hypotheses have been proposed concerning Facebook’s effect on interpersonal communication The goal of this study was to assess whether the and mental health, and are examined individually. utilization of Facebook.com independently affects From the literature review, several research interpersonal relationship closeness and questions and hypotheses were proposed. Cross- psychosocial well-being. Communication sectional data was collected using an IRB- apprehension and personality type were the approved survey instrument testing for personality primary variables tested. FacebookThe goal of this type, communication apprehension, Facebook study was to assess whether the utilization of utilization, mental health, and relationship Facebook.com independently affects interpersonal closeness. There were 156 participants and data relationship closeness and psychosocial well- was analyzed using IBM SPSS data analysis being. Communication apprehension and software. No direct statistically significant personality type were the primary variables tested. correlation between independent Facebook use The rapid growth and utilization of the medium and mental health was supported. Facebook was along with increasing rates of depression and utilized primarily by extraverts, and in accordance loneliness have targeted Facebook as a possible with the Stimulation and Social Enhancement scapegoat for increasing social isolation, Hypotheses, a correlation was observed between depression, and other poor psychosocial well- Facebook utilization and enhanced relationship being outcomes. Various hypotheses have been closeness. Communication apprehension was proposed concerning Facebook’s effect on also correlated with poor mental health outcomes interpersonal communication and mental health, and certain personality types. Although Facebook and are examined individually. From the literature may not independently be a causal factor for poor review, several research questions and psychosocial well-being outcomes, it may be an hypotheses were proposed. Cross-sectional data enabling or reinforcing factor if employed by was collected using an IRB-approved survey individuals expressing communication instrument testing for personality type, apprehension characteristics. When utilized by communication apprehension, Facebook extraverts, Facebook may further enhance utilization, mental health, and relationship relationship closeness. closeness. There were 156 participants and data was analyzed using IBM SPSS data analysis Mentor: Joseph Mazer, Ph.D. software. No direct statistically significant correlation between independent Facebook use and mental health was supported. Facebook was utilized primarily by extraverts, and in accordance Victoria S. James, Virginia Tech with the Stimulation and Social Enhancement Hypotheses, a correlation was observed between Después de la guerra; An Examination of Facebook utilization and enhanced relationship Argentina´s Dirty War and Political History closeness. Communication apprehension was also as a Post-Conflict Society correlated with poor mental health outcomes and certain personality types. Although Facebook may How did La Guerra Sucia impact Argentine not independently be a causal factor for poor political history as a post-conflict society? La psychosocial well-being outcomes, it may be an guerra sucia, or ‘Dirty War’, of the 1970’s and 80’s enabling or reinforcing factor if employed by represents one of the darkest periods in Argentine individuals expressing communication and human history. The War, which included the apprehension characteristics. Facebook may kidnapping, torture and murder of thousands of further enhance relationship closeness, especially Argentines and foreigners, remains relatively when utilized by extraverts. is a social networking unacknowledged in modern Argentine society. website that has become a ubiquitous facet of Why? My objectives were to explore the political 28

ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference implications and decisions surrounding the current located in a university department of student comprehension and acknowledgement of the Dirty housing. In accessing a sample of the employees War. The Argentine presidential administrations of a university’s on-campus housing department, which I researched are: Raul Alfonsin, Carlos the answer to the following questions were sought: Menem and the Kirchners. I examined each 1) How do organizational citizenship behaviors politician’s policy decisions and legislation in (OCBs) play a role in student staffmember’s reaction to the decades following the Dirty War. actions? The goal of conducting this research was to gain a 2) What constitutes underlying motives behind better understanding of the Dirty War, identify the performing these behaviors? government's reactionary policy and lessons 3) More specifically, how do the motives for learned by Argentina as a post-conflict society. performing OCBs change with time The methods used during this research were to and experience with the organization? examine the historical and scholarly literature, news reports and interviews which discuss the Many of the motives are known for they are Dirty War and the stories of the political prisoners. grounded in research and theory. It is also known Argentina still suffers a great deal of political and can be assumed that the strength of motives amnesia and continues to experience widespread can change with time and experience (Schnake, 1991). corruption; however, as a post-conflict society, it has begun to accept and memorialize what Mentor: Dr. Charles Parsons occurred during the Dirty War and empowers its citizens and political institutions with knowledge and power to prevent another 'Dirty War' in the future. Harley Katz, University of Maryland Mentor: Dr. Jason Weidner Testing for Bulk Flows and Bullet Clusters With QUMOND Shibani D. Kansara, While MOND has been extremely successful in Georgia Institute of Technology galactic environments, it has been relatively unsuccessful atlarger scales. I study the effect of Above and Beyond, Again and Again: A adding an 11eV free streaming sterile neutrino into Model of OCB, Motive Fulfillment, and a Modified Newtonian Dynamics simulation and determine whether recent bulk velocity Feedback measurements of galaxy clusters and the Bullet In daily life, it is difficult to examine how people go cluster pairwise velocity measurements are about succeeding in the things that they do. What compatible with this new theory. This sterile distinguishes successful people from those who neutrino has simultaneously matched the struggle to move forward in their careers or other primordial angular power spectrum and provided endeavors? Of course, the answer differs from the necessary structure growth long though person to person, but oftentimes, performing impossible in a MONDian Universe. In total we organizational citizenship behaviors within an have run five 11eV MOND simulations using the organization might play a key role. Organizational QUMOND code and utilize the publicly available citizenship behaviors can be defined as the above and beyond contributions that individuals make find that the observational bulk velocity which are not listed in one’s job description. There measurements are natural within the MOND has been over three decades of research on simulations, while the measurements from the organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). This research has shown the value of OCBs, as well as can conclude that the probability of finding a bullet the causes and effects of OCBs. However, there are still some research questions remaining; one theorder of 10^-11 while this probability is roughly of which is the motivational foundation of OCBs, 10^-4 for the 11eV MOND Universe. especially as it pertains to ongoing OCBs and their consequences. An appropriate research site was

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Finally, we determine that the El Gordo system is towards the treatment of these diseases is an a statistical impossibility in the MultiDark accurate diagnosis. Currently, however, only simulation while such a system can occur naturally trained technicians typically working in a clinical in a MONDian Universe. laboratory can diagnose these diseases, a privilege that is unavailable to most at-risk Mentor: Stacy McGaugh communities. The goal of this project was to develop a device that would quickly and accurately determine the presence of trypanosomal DNA. By fixing various single-stranded DNAs to a Morgan Kayser, Florida State polypropylene fiber, trypanosomal DNA was University detected through annealing by base pairing with a second fluorescent DNA. This signal was scored Identity: A Short Story Collection using a fluorescent microscope. This method has been shown to be able to discriminate between Most people spend the majority of their young samples containing the trypanosomal DNA of adulthood trying to find their place in the world. interest, samples that contain a random sequence, Some define themselves by a job, by a and samples without any DNA. Further relationship, or by their beliefs. Others struggle to developments will allow for the detection of the define themselves at all. My thesis project parasite in a quick, easy, and inexpensive way. explores this struggle through a collection of three This research was possible through grants from short stories. Two of these stories are written in the Calhoun Honors College and an ACCIAC the tradition of fantasy and magical realism, the fellowship. study of which I believe is important in diversifying Mentor: Dr. James Morris the literary canon, despite the fact that it is discounted by many academics. Studying and writing works of different genres gives writers a stronger academic background and more unique understanding of the craft. For my presentation, I’ll Myong Joon Kim, read an excerpt of my work, talk about my creative Georgia Institute of Technology process and inspirations and do a question and answer session. Study of Vertical Leg Stiffness In

Mentor: Barbara Hamby Asymmetrical Running The goals of this study are to examine the following hypotheses: (a) there is a positive correlation between vertical leg stiffness and the Haaris S. Khan, Kenneth A. speed and (b) each leg will exhibit the vertical leg Christensen, James C. Morris, stiffness of its own speed even in asymmetric Clemson University running condition. Force is measured with a force plate under a split-belt treadmill. Vertical Development of Molecular Beacons for movement of the test subject will be collected with Detection of African Trypanosome a reflective ball attached to his back which then imported as a point over time by VICON cameras. Infections Six test subjects will be running on a split-belt The goal of my project was to develop a device for treadmill with different speed on each leg: 2m/s on the detection of Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite the right leg, and 3m/s on the left leg. Running that causes African sleeping sickness, a neglected velocity affects the vertical leg stiffness but the tropical disease endemic in sub-Saharan Africa. study has not been done under asymmetric As the name suggests, neglected tropical running condition. From the result, statistical test will be done to verify both suggested hypotheses. diseases have been historically overlooked by the majority of researchers and drug developers, often Mentor: Dr. Young-hui Chang due to a perceived lack of incentives. This oversight has had a tremendous impact on many of the world’s poorest countries. The first step

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Caroline Kirby, Adam S. Klett, Clemson University University of North Carolina Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium Compositions of Memorializing Shame and Defeat: Leïla the Iodine-HI-Water System of the Sulfur- Sebbar’s La Seine Était Rouge in Paris Iodine Cycle at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures In the wake of traumatic events, memorials serve an important role in stimulating dialogue and The Sulfur-Iodine (SI) Cycle, the world’s leading healing. However, at times it can seem more competitor for large scale hydrogen production, convenient to forget events that evoke feelings of consists of three main steps which shame. Absent from school manuals and rarely thermochemicaly split water into hydrogen and included in the public discourse, la Guerre oxygen gas. Efficiencies of the process are very d’Algérie (1954 – 1962) remains an open wound in promising; however, the non-ideality and extreme the collective French memory. On the night of corrosiveness of this system has prevented the October 17, 1961, hundreds of peaceful protesters necessary phase equilibrium measurements from lost their lives in the streets of Paris after forceful being taken that are required to design an efficient repression from the police. Silence on the part of process. The goal of this research was to the press and the state prolonged for decades, overcome these obstacles and conduct the leaving a blank in the history books for the next experiments necessary to construct a phase generation’s readers. Leïla Sebbar, in La Seine diagram of this complex system. With the Était Rouge, attempts to construct memorials in information gained from this research, a reliable the space of literature. Her protagonists trace the model of this system can be produced. This model steps of the October 17 protesters in a desperate would allow the design of a reactive distillation attempt to understand their struggle. Building on column for the SI Cycle allowing for the large scale the work of Mildred Mortimer, I discuss Sebbar’s production of hydrogen, providing an alternative to work as an important literary model for recovering fossil fuels and a decrease in carbon dioxide memory. Through architectural markers and emissions which contribute to global warming. documentary filming, the characters begin to Liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) phase behavior was engage in dialogue about the tenuous relationship investigated for the hydroiodic acid-iodine-water between France and Algeria. Sebbar (HI-I2-H2O) system near the high temperatures demonstrates that this dialogue can lead to and pressures of interest for the reactive healing for past, present and future generations as distillation column of the SI Cycle using a violence and wrongdoings are acknowledged and continuous flow apparatus with wetted parts made understood. In my own film footage and from tantalum-tungsten alloys. LLE compositions photographs of these sites, I have attempted to for all components present were determined via build on this process. The tensions between titration of both liquid phases at 200 °C and 850 French and Algerians that continue today are psig. Overall HI feed compositions from 0 to 3.3 better understood by shedding light on these dark mol% were investigated. The system’s plait point spots of the nation’s history. was found to be near the upper concentrations

Mentor: Dr. Inger Brodey investigated. We would like to acknowledge the ACCIAC, the Calhoun Honors College at Clemson University, and the Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative DE-FC07- 051D14677 for funding.

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Andrew Koutnik, Florida State Amanda Krueger, University Florida State University The effect of L-citrulline supplementation Healthy Interior Environments in Haitian on blood pressure as well as pressure Orphanage Design wave reflection responses during acute Haiti’s 2008 hurricane season destroyed upwards cold exposure with isometric exercise of 22,702 homes and damaged another 84,625, Studies suggest cardiovascular disease is more for a total of 107,327 homes and 800,000 people prevalent in the winter months. Cold temperatures impacted (DCHA & OFDA, 2009). Because of the have been implicated as the potential factor intense rain fall, floods wiped out 70% of Haiti’s associated with cardiovascular complications crops, resulting in the deaths of malnourished, such as hypertension, heart attack, stroke, and newly-homeless children following the storms fatal heart rhythms. Additionally, exposure to cold (DCHA & OFDA, 2009). These factors, combined temperatures is considered an occupational with a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 2010, have hazard for those working inside cold rooms. L- intensified the need to provide homeless children citrulline (L-cit) supplementation may decrease the with a timely solution to the lack of orphanage cold induced cardiovascular complications. We facilities. Swedish oncologist Karl-Henrik Robèrt, examined the effects of a 14-day course of L-cit an internationally recognized leader on supplementation on brachial and aortic blood sustainable progress, developed an outline called, pressure (BP) as well as wave reflection during “The Natural Step Framework” in 1989, which acute whole body cold exposure at rest, during considers the effects of interior finish material isometric handgrip exercise (IHG), and recovery. selection on human health. Within this framework, Sixteen young men assumed the supine position Dr. Robèrt suggests that multiple health problems, for 30min inside a cold chamber at 4ºC. After predominantly those of children, result from 5min of rest measurements, participants interior finish materials that we are exposed to performed 3min of IHG at 30% of their maximal every day (Robèrt, 2002). This framework is voluntary contraction followed by a 3min recovery relevant as it relates to researching local interior period. After baseline measurements, finish materials in Haiti that have positive effects cardiovascular function was evaluated at 4ºC on orphaned children’s health, as opposed to before the first supplementation period. In a products that will result in increased health crossover randomized fashion, subjects were then problems. It is the goal of this thesis to examine assigned to placebo or L-cit for 14-days, followed Haiti’s natural resources and existing labor by a 14-days washout period, and then 14-days of situation, investigate opportunities for newer, more the second treatment. Subjects were reevaluated sustainable interior finish building materials, and at the end of each 14-day period. At rest, there together, how they can positively impact Haitian was a significant treatment-by-time interaction for children’s health. The findings will add to the body brachial systolic BP (BSBP), aortic systolic BP of knowledge concerning interior finish materials (ASBP), augmentation index, and wasted left that can aid in the healthy recovery of Haitian ventricular energy (ΔEw). At recovery, L-cit children and their orphanages from currently significantly decreased BSBP, ASBP, untenable conditions. augmentation index, and ΔEw. These results Mentor: Jim Dawkins suggest that L-cit supplementation can provide protection against adverse cardiovascular events for those exposed to cold during the winter months and occupational periods.

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that can capture sunlight and store that energy in Michael H. Lawless, Virginia Tech a chemical species such as hydrogen or methanol. Lipid Metabolism As Target For Ovarian To do this, we have designed a compound containing an oxygen-bridged molybdenum and Cancer Prevention By Exogenous titanium potentially capable of light-induced metal Sphingolipids to metal charge transfer. This charge transfer provides high-energy electrons and holes for Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of death catalysis of unfavorable reactions such as splitting by cancer among women, with a low 5-year water into oxygen and hydrogen. survival rate when it is detected late. Changes in the cellular metabolism contribute to cancer Mentor: Dr. Walter Weare growth and progression, and may be good targets for the design of prevention and treatment strategies. To identify enzymes of lipid and cholesterol biosynthesis that are increased during Narintohn Luangrath, Boston College ovarian cancer progression and are targeted by non-toxic concentrations of exogenous From Sud-Ouest to Le Parisien: Portrayal sphingosine. Mouse ovarian surface epithelial of the Burqa Ban in French Print Media (MOSE) cell lines representing the progression of ovarian cancer from non-tumorigenic to an International scrutiny of France following its 2011 aggressive and malignant disease were treated ban of the niqab, or burqa, in public places with non-toxic concentrations of the bioactive illustrated the difficulty that many foreigners had in sphingolipid metabolite sphingosine that may be comprehending the ban. Understanding France’s responsible for the suppression of cancer by uneasiness towards religion in the public sphere dietary sphingolipids in vivo. An Affimetrix gene requires an understanding of the French concept array identified genes involved in lipid and of laïcité. However, the rising popularity of cholesterol biosynthesis. Changes in the gene extreme, right-wing groups like Jean-Marie Le products were confirmed by Western Blotting and Pen’s National Front and the increasing indirect immunofluorescence. Changes in xenophobic rhetoric, sometimes directed towards enzymes of lipid and cholesterol biosynthesis North African Muslim immigrants, is concerning. were associated with ovarian cancer progression, My research focused on how words can be used but responded well to the treatment with to stigmatize a population, and whether those sphingosine. In particular, arylsulfatase A (ARSA) words reflect mainstream attitudes and values. In is subject to a significant (p < 0.01) increase in Bordeaux and Paris, I studied French print media’s mRNA expression levels with cancer progression, reportage on the burqa ban, as well as French and and even more so with sphingosine treatment. North African Muslims. Noting differences in the newspapers’ and magazines’ region of publication, Mentor: Dr. Eva Schmelz political leaning and target audience, I examined the diction used in commentary on the ban and evaluated whether the words used contained positive, negative, or neutral connotations, while Travis T. Lekich, NC State University assessing possible implications that can be construed from the articles’ content. Creating Fuel From sunlight Through Metal to Metal Charge Transfer Mentor: Professor Kenji Hayao

As the world's population grows, so does its use of fossil fuels and carbon dioxide output. Many have proposed use of alternative energy sources to solve this problem such as hydroelectric, wind, and solar power. These technologies are promising because they produce low-pollutant electricity; however, this electricity lacks the energy density and storability of fossil fuels. For these reasons, we are studying molecular systems

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which leads to improper training of students. Some Joshua L. Lucas, NC State University of the aforementioned shortcomings with existing Do Machines Have Prima Facie Duties? designs include the lack of a rotatable head, necessary anatomical landmarks for accurate Which moral theory should be the basis of needle placement, and a mechanism for proper algorithmic artificial ethical agents? In a series of patient orientation. Our novel design not only papers, Michael Anderson and Susan Leigh addresses the shortcomings of current simulators Anderson (2006, 2007, forthcoming) argue that the on the market but it also includes additional answer is W.D. Rossʼs account of prima facie capabilities that have specifically been requested duties. The Andersons claim that Rossʼs account by clinicians. The mannequin, consisting of a best reflects the complexities of moral deliberation, torso with a rotatable head, is mounted on an incorporates the strengths of teleological and inclinable platform. The area of interest is made deontological approaches, and yet is superior to from modified ballistics gel and includes plastic both of them insofar as it allows for “needed bones, stiff arteries, and expandable veins. Our exceptions.” We argue that the Andersons are training simulator is ultrasoundable and can begging the question about “needed exceptions” replicate both the pulsing of the arteries and the and defend Satisficing Hedonistic Act expanding of the veins under changes in fluid Utilitarianism (SHAU). SHAU initially delivers pressure. In addition, our simulator comes with results that are just as reflective, if not more training software which allows for tracking of reflective than, Rossʼs account when it comes to student progression. the subtleties of moral decision-making. This research was partially supported by the Furthermore, SHAU delivers the ʻrightʼ (that is, Creative Inquiry program. intuitively correct) judgments about well- established practical cases, reaching the same Mentor: Delphine Dean, Jiro Nagatomi verdict as a prima facie duty-based ethic in the particular health-care case explored by the Andersons (a robot designed to know when to over-ride an elderly patientʼs autonomy). Matthew D. Lycas, University of

Mentor: Dr. Gary L. Comstock Virginia Effect of Topiramate on the Reinforcing Properties of Ethanol in Wistar and P Rats Nadine Luedicke, Elizabeth Burghardt, Alcoholism is the third leading cause of Melissa Dunphy, Kaitlin Grove, preventable death in the United States. Although Molly Townsend, Clemson University there are currently several approved treatments, the efficacy of each medicine is variable. Novel Re-Engineering Medical Training treatments are needed to provide relief. One Simulators: CVC Simulator promising medication is topiramate, a glutamate/gamma-aminobutyric acid modulator This project focuses on re-engineering a simulator that has been shown to decrease drinking in both for the Central Venous Catheterization (CVC) humans and animal models. While the efficacy of procedure. This procedure involves inserting a topiramate is believed to occur through its effects catheter through one of the large veins in the neck on dopamine, to date, no studies have examined or chest into the heart when a patient requires a this possibility. Thus, in this study we analyzed large influx of drugs, such as severe trauma the effects of topiramate on both ethanol self- cases. With the target veins so close to the lungs administration and changes in ethanol-induced and vital arteries, precision is necessary and neurotransmitter levels in order to determine the imprecision is fatal. Unfortunately, it is particularly mechanism for its efficacy. Ethanol self- challenging for students to learn this procedure administration was examined under a progressive- and novices often practice on live, unsuspecting ratio schedule to assess motivation to obtain patients instead of simulators currently on the ethanol, and neurotransmitter levels of glutamate, market. These simulators are expensive, serotonin, and dopamine were assessed using inconvenient, and not anatomically accurate, microdialysis. In order to account for genetic

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ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference differences, two different strains of rats were used: identifications are examined. This research is alcohol preferring (P) rats and their control directly applicable to the improvement of lineup background strain (i.e., Wistar rats). Our results procedures currently used by law enforcement to show that in P rats, topiramate decreased reduce mistaken eyewitness identification. motivation for alcohol at the 10 mg/kg dose, but was without effect at the 20 mg/kg dose. There Mentor: Dr. Tracy Tomlinson was no effect at either dose on the level of responding in Wistar rats. Our preliminary data from the microdialysis study showed topiramate- induced alterations in the nucleus accumbens in Lara J. Mangum, Virginia Tech the levels of serotonin and glutamate, but not dopamine. Its effect on serotonin appears to be Evelina and the French Connection: The significant in that the direction of change Madame Duvall Subplot corresponds to the behavioral data. In examining Frances Burney’s Evelina within a Mentor: Dr. Wendy Lynch larger historical, cultural and literary context, I hope to uncover Burney’s motivations for satirizing French characters like Madame Duval. Not only a historical understanding, but also a cultural one is Yuliya Malamud, University of necessary to perceive the “francophobia” within the novel’s more obvious coming of age plot. With Maryland the unique ability to use French as well as English Facial Configuration and Judgment: resources through library and library database research, I will add a bilingual and bicultural facet Improving Eyewitness Identification to the seemingly flat character of Madame Duval Accuracy and her juxtaposition with Evelina, her British foil. French and British animosity must not be The United States legal system seeks to convict overlooked when contextualizing Evelina. In vying the guilty and protect the innocent. However DNA for political power, both countries fanned the fire of exonerations prove that sometimes this system literary competition, which we see seeping through fails and innocent people are convicted. It has an apparently romantic genre geared toward a been shown that eyewitness misidentification is feminine audience, the epistolary novel. Merging the leading cause of such wrongful convictions French and British contexts sheds a new light on (Innocence Project, 2011). We examine the Evelina as a nationalist novel. My research on this problem of witness misidentification by assessing novel’s subplot promotes a French reading of its current lineup procedures in light of cognitive characters as well as a British one, and thus theories of memory and recognition. We focus on positions characters like Madame Duval and M. testing new lineup procedures to create a better Du Bois within a bicultural frame, rather than a match between what a witness has stored in their purely English point of view. memory system and what they are asked to report. When a person views a face, they often Mentor: Nancy Metz encode configural information about the face as well as featural information (Fallshore & Schooler, 1995). However, when people describe faces they often do not report configural facial information (Rhodes & Peterson, 2003). This mis-match between what is stored in memory and what is reported may decrease recognition in subsequent lineups. Previous studies conducted by Dr. Tracy Tomlinson (University of Maryland) indicated that people have difficulty describing a person’s facial configuration even when instructed to do so. In the present study, we test a method for training eyewitnesses to provide configural descriptions, and the resulting effects on the accuracy of lineup

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5-HT that is packed within the neuroepithelial cells Joseph Manning, Boston College (NECs) of the gills in fish. We hypothesized that The Impact of Politics on Renewable treatment of the Gulf toadfish, Opsanus beta, with fluoxetine (FLX), the active ingredient in the Energy Development in Rural Nova Scotia common antidepressant Prozac TM , will prevent Nova Scotia is quickly becoming Canada’s the fish from having a significant hypoxia response maritime leader in renewable energy, recently due to the depletion of 5-HT from the NECs. Our establishing an energy goal of providing 40% of data shows that toadfish treated with FLX have a its energy needs from renewable sources by 2020. decreased capacity to respond to hypoxia, This is fitting, as Nova Scotia has the world’s suggesting that FLX and other SSRIs may have a strongest tides and thousands of miles of coastline negative impact on the health of toadfish and other that are pounded daily by wind and waves. But hypoxia-sensitive marine organisms. The research what policies are making this transition possible? presented in this report shows that there are What are the regulations and political attitudes that negative implications on our marine environments have facilitated and inhibited Nova Scotia’s when pharmaceutical waste contaminates our renewable energy revolution? I will focus on the coastal waters and points out potential way in which Nova Scotia has chosen to implications for human and ecosystem health amidst a booming pharmaceutical market. implement renewable energy, the political atmosphere that surrounds the new technology, Mentor: Dr. M. Danielle McDonald and the public perception of renewable energy projects. My research points toward aspects of Nova Scotia’s politics that might serve as a model for provinces/states that are looking to transition their electricity grid toward renewable energy. I Julio C. Martinez, NC State University will also assess the roadblocks and obstacles that still impede Nova Scotia in reaching its full Adaptive Reuse of Warehouse 202 (Co- potential as a renewable energy leader. Presenters Taylor J. Belge and Andy B.

Mentor: Professor Brian Gareau Park) The advent of the gasoline automobile jolted our country into an uncontrolled spiral of unsustainable growth. Urban industrialism was Sara Marin, University of Miami recognized as a public nuisance, which initiated a trend towards the separation of uses and the The Attenuation of the Gulf Toadfish decentralization of society. Urban planning was Hypoxia Response: transformed from an architectural design process Concern over Antidepressants Detected to a municipal procedure conducted under the in our Marine Environments umbrella of public administration. Separation of uses can be found most clearly illustrated in young With the rapidly increasing production of cities like Raleigh. The Warehouse District, a pharmaceutical drugs and the steady increase of twelve-block area located close to the heart of their consumption and excretion by humans, downtown, was the city’s railroad and warehouse concern over the presence of these chemicals in distribution hub from the 1850’s to the 1950’s. our marine habitats has arisen. Antidepressants, However, in the late 1950’s, the trucking industry namely selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors proved more profitable than the railroads. The (SSRIs), inhibit the reuptake of the livelihood of the district was relocated and many neurotransmitter, serotonin (5-HT) into cells. We buildings were left vacant. The past decade has believe that exposure to waterborne SSRIs may brought new life to the Warehouse District. be particularly dangerous for aquatic fish when Countless buildings have been revitalized. With done so in conjunction with hypoxic (low oxygen) this renewal, the district’s function has shifted from environments, which triggers a cardiovascular and industrial to arts and entertainment. Nonetheless, respiratory response to optimize O2 uptake from a large portion of the district has remained the environment. This is because the hypoxia unchanged; a majority of these enormous response is believed to be initiated by a release of warehouses lay empty and in a perpetual state of

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such as “display rules.” Such studies have shown, for example, that by the age of three years, Emily McCanless, Clemson University children understand that one’s internal feelings are distinct from one’s emotional displays, and Examining the Importance of Body Size children have clear ideas about whether or not to for Assessing Attractiveness in a Potential express or hide one’s internal feelings. However, Dating Partner for Different Dating Arenas little is known about children’s understanding of unregulated expressions of emotion, for example, This project examined the role of body size and in situations where one feels an emotion and muscularity in estimations of personal expresses it fully but disruptively? My findings attractiveness. Typically, as dating relationships reveal a developmental pattern in which children’s become more serious, so do the levels of understanding of unregulated emotional commitment and assessment standards. Body expressions is initially broad, but gradually size and muscularity are components of how becomes differentiated and more complex as people assess attractiveness in potential dating children integrate the context of the scenario and partners and I sought to understand if body size the emotion being expressed when formulating and muscularity expectations of a romantic partner judgments of appropriateness by the age of eight. vary between different levels of dating relationships (e.g., long-term dating, casual dating, Mentor: Professor James Russell and hook up dating).Clemson University and non- Clemson University participants voluntarily agreed to partake in this study. A body size and muscularity survey was created for the purposes of this research. The survey was distributed via Facebook, email, and word of mouth. Results show that there are slight differences in preferences for both body size and muscularity across the three levels of dating that were assessed, although final analyses are still being conducted. By conducting research that combines the significance of dating and assessing potential dating partners, this study both connects and advances the arenas of dating, partner selection, and obesity. I believe that dating is an integral part of our human development, which is why I believe this nature of research is especially valuable to professionals who mentor/counsel adolescents and is necessary in the fields of psychology and sociology. This work was supported by an ACCIAC Fellowship.

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was implemented that utilized the Delaunay Ross McFarland, Virginia Tech triangulation, the Voronoi diagram, and a custom Reshape, Inform, Inspire: Pallet Reuse as particle pass. Computational cost was reduced in most cases, but one area of the particle pass a Design Medium (Co-Presenter Kenneth remains of concern and must be improved in later A. Black) implementations. Integration into the larger code of [1] is not yet fully implemented, and the Excerpt from academic journal publication by Dr. effectiveness of the proposed strategy improving Elizabeth Grant, advisor to our project: "As the the near diagonal dominance of the matrices world population grows and urbanizes, faculty at remains uncertain. Future refinements in the code schools of architecture are increasingly being will focus on a possible implementation of the asked to tackle issues of sustainability. To that bipartite matching at the local level. [1] K. Ahuja, end, this paper describes a pedagogical approach et al., Improved Scaling for Quantum Monte Carlo we have undertaken at the School of Architecture on Insulators, SIAM Journal on Scientific + Design at Virginia Tech in our third-year Computing, 33 (2011), pp. 1837-1859. undergraduate design lab that attempts to integrate these concepts with the workings of the Mentor: Dr. Eric deSturler design process. This paper presents the process and results of a competition initiated by the Town of Blacksburg that asks the question, 'What can be Cody Allen Melton, NC State University done with used pallets, one of the most prevalent waste products of our globalized and industrialized What Drives the SASI in Core-Collapse culture?' ... Reuse of Pallets in Full Form The Supernovae winning entry in this category was designed by two of our students, Kenneth Black and Ross A critical component behind a core-collapse McFarland. They embraced the idea of supernova is the spherical accretion shock sustainability not merely in the reuse of pallets, but instability, or SASI. Two theories describing this throughout the work. Their entry was an mechanism have been proposed. The advective- articulated system of pallets arranged in three acoustic mechanism says entropy perturbations dimensions to form an integrated garden system generated at the shock travel radially along the for small urban lots." A copy of the entire journal accretion flow at the free-fall velocity, which couple essay is attached. Please reference pages 1-5 for to an acoustic wave and travel radially outward. a longer description of the project premise and a Amplification at the shock leads to the instability. more detailed look at our project specifically. The acoustic mechanism states that the SASI is purely an acoustic phenomenon in which a sound Mentor: Elizabeth Grant wave travels around the circumference of the shock which is dominated by the l=1 mode. Amplification of this wave interferes with the shock to create the instability. We resolve the debate Arielle Grim McNally, Virginia Tech between the two theories by observing the SASI in a regime where the period of oscillation for each Improving the Near Diagonal Dominance mechanism becomes disparate. Because the of Slater Matrices for Insulators sound speed behind the shock is determined by the gravitational potential and the post shock flow This research focuses on a more efficient particle speed is a strong function of the ratio of specific reordering strategy for Slater matrices for heats, γ, the advective-acoustic mechanism has a insulators in the context of the larger work of [1]. much longer timescale for small values of γ. By The computational cost of the current reordering using two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, algorithm is O(n2). The proposed strategy seeks we show that the linear growth of the SASI to reduce that cost, while minimizing the average oscillates at a period between the acoustic and distance between particles and their associated advective-acoustic prediction, indicating that the orbitals in an effort to improve the near diagonal SASI operates as a combination of both dominance of the Slater matrices. Alternative descriptions. solutions were examined, including bottleneck and bipartite matching. Ultimately, a heuristic solution Mentor: Dr. John Blondin

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support the map data, artifact evidence indicates Joseph Moo-Young, NC State an emphasis on the storage and serving of University imported food; a trend indicative of a garrison being consistently stationed at the site. The data Molecular Dynamics Simulations of collected at Fortaleza de Quirihuac along with the Carbon Nanotube-Polythiophene presence of similar Chimú fortresses at strategic Interactions mountaintop locations along the Moche Valley suggests that an extensive defensive imperial The goal of this work is to investigate the strategy was needed and used to protect the interactions between a series of polythiophenes Chimú Empire’s heartland up to its eventual and zig-zag carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with conquest by the Inka. varying diameters using molecular dynamics simulations. We hypothesize that the interfacial Mentor: Dr. Brian Billman interactions between the polythiophenes and CNTs will largely be a function of the chemistry of the polymer aliphatic substituents, as well as CNT diameter. These results provide the best Mejdi Najjar, University of Miami combination of polymer and CNT diameter that produces desired material properties for unique Conserved and Divergent Functions of application in better solar cell technologies. The Growth Differentiation Factor 11 in correlation of these simulation results to Dorsoventral and Anteroposterior Neural experiments done by a collaborator will be discussed. Patterning in Zebrafish

Mentor: Dr. Melissa Pasquinelli Regulation of neural progenitor proliferation and differentiation in the spinal cord is a complex process. Key to neural proliferation and anteroposterior and dorsoventral identity regulation is the TGF-beta superfamily member Patrick Mullins, University of North Growth Differentiation Factor 11 (GDF11). Loss of Carolina GDF11 in mice slows down neuronal differentiation and induces a caudal shift of Hox-c Fortaleza de Quirihuac: A Chimú expression and motor neuron populations in the Fortification in the Middle Moche Valley of spinal cord (Shi. Y & Liu. J, 2011, Liu 2006). To Perú understand GDF11 function in spinal cord development, we have taken a loss of function Fortaleza de Quirihuac is a Chimú fortified approach in zebrafish using anti-sense settlement built on a mountaintop some 400m oligonucleotides (morpholinos) to disrupt GDF11 above the floor of Peru’s Moche Valley. During the function. We have found that loss of GDF11 2010 and 2011 field seasons, the author used function caused an early disruption in the funds from two separate grants to map the fortress appearance of islet-1 motor neuron population, and conduct surface collections in order to gain a suggesting that GDF11 function in regulating greater understanding of site activities and neural proliferation rates in the nervous system is chronology. A defensive role is strongly suggested evolutionarily conserved. Surprisingly, however, by the presence of sling stone piles and the Hox gene expression was not affected by the loss concentric rings of fortified and parapeted walls of function of GDF11. This suggests that either protecting all passable routes to the peak. These GDF11 is not required for anteroposterior defensive walls are protecting non-agricultural patterning in zebrafish or that its function is terraces and compounds that possibly served as redundant with other TGF-beta family members, habitation for a garrison of soldiers or as such as GDF8 (Myostatin). Future work will test temporary housing for refugees and elites from the the individual and combined functions of GDF8 valley floor. The author used the latest ArcGIS and GDF11 during zebrafish nervous system mapping software to digitize all maps in order to patterning. gain a greater understanding of the true extent of the fortifications at the site. In order to further Mentor: Dr. Isaac Skromne

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this market are higher than in traditional markets Saramati Narasimhan, and, unexpectedly, are much higher for women University of Miami than for men, with an average ratio of 9.37 and 2.70, respectively. Experiment 2 replicates this Development of a Method to Investigate result and finds in a within-subject design the the Dynamics of Accommodation using an usual WTA/WTP ratio for coffee mugs. The paper Ex-Vivo Accommodation Simulator concludes with a discussion of differences between traditional and non-traditional markets, The purpose of the project is to evaluate the with a special emphasis on the dating market. feasibility to quantify the dynamics of accommodation in ex-vivo tissue. The secondary Mentor: Dr. Thomas S. Wallsten goal of this investigation is to see if the dynamics of a natural lens and the dynamics of a refilled lens, using the Phaco-Ersatz procedure, can be quantitatively compared using such a method. Betty Albo Obeso, University of Miami Using the accommodative apparatus of a 14 y/o human eye (~72 PMT) and an Ex-Vivo Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) is an Accommodation Simulator, the tissue was important regulator of Retinal Ganglion stretched and during this time a coronal view was Cell (RGC) survival recorded using a surgical microscope. The frames of the accommodation portion of the run were Retinal ganglion cell (RGC) survival and neurite isolated and used for data. Diameter, velocity, and outgrowth are promoted by neurotrophins, and acceleration measurements were taken on the extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules such as lens, ciliary body, and polymer diameter. The laminin. Degradation of laminin in the ECM of results proved that the method developed can be RGC in a mouse model of retinal ischemia- used to quantify the dynamics of accommodation reperfusion injury (RIRI) has been shown to in ex-vivo tissue. It also can compare the behavior contribute to RGC death. The attachment of RGC of the natural and refilled lens. The natural lens to the ECM is mediated by integrins. Since had a distinct visco-elastic component, while the integrins are the major ECM receptors, we have refilled lens behaved elastically. The calculations identified β1 integrin, FAK, Akt, and bclxL as used to determine velocity indicated micro- important regulators of the integrin survival fluctuations within the tissue, regardless of state. pathway in RGC, and showed that this pathway is Overall, the method developed can be used to disrupted after RIRI. The purpose of this study is analyze the dynamics of accommodation in ex- to evaluate the role of Focal Adhesion Kinase vivo tissue. It also provides a way to evaluate the (FAK) in RGC survival. RGC were purified by impact of the Phaco-Ersatz procedure. immunopanning and cultured on PDL as well as in laminin and treated with β1 integrin activating Mentor: Dr. Jean-Marie Parel antibodies, HUTS-21, or isotype control antibodies 12 hours after plating. In several experiments, RGC were preincubated with the FAK inhibitor PP2 overnight, before HUTS-21 addition. RGC Colette Nataf, University of Maryland viability was assessed 24, and 72 hours later. In RGC’s, FAK expression was inhibited by Love the One You’re With: The electroporation with custom made FAK siRNA or Endowment Effect in the Dating Market non-targeting control siRNA. The RCG’s were tested for knockdown of FAK expression 24 and The endowment effect appears to be much 72 hours later by RT-PCR as well as by stronger in markets for environmental goods that immunohistochemistry. RGC survival and neurite are not usually monetized than in traditional extension were evaluated. Our results showed that markets. This study explores the effect in another β1 integrin activating antibodies HUTS-21, non-traditional market: the dating market. In promote RGC survival. Also, FAK inhibitor PP2, Experiment 1, participants are asked either for a suppresses laminin and HUTS-21 survival effect. buying or selling price for the contact information Down-regulation of FAK by siRNA in RGC reduces of each of 10 dates. The WTA/WTP ratios within RGC survival by 25%. We demonstrated that FAK

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ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference is an important regulator in laminin-integrin survival signaling, and it promotes neurite Andy B. Park, NC State University outgrowth in RGC. Adaptive Reuse of Warehouse 202 (Co- Mentor: Dr. M. Livia Bajenaru Presenters Taylor J. Belge and Julio C. Martinez) The advent of the gasoline automobile jolted our Anne Ornelles, Wake Forest University country into an uncontrolled spiral of unsustainable growth. Urban industrialism was Catalan Today and Tomorrow: An recognized as a public nuisance, which initiated a Examination of Language Policies, trend towards the separation of uses and the Attitudes and Usage decentralization of society. Urban planning was transformed from an architectural design process This thesis examines the relationship between the to a municipal procedure conducted under the sociolinguistic factors regarding Catalan - the umbrella of public administration. Separation of attitudes of its speakers and the practical usage of uses can be found most clearly illustrated in young the language, for example - and the language cities like Raleigh. The Warehouse District, a rights and policies allocated to the Catalan twelve-block area located close to the heart of language by the central government of Spain and downtown, was the city’s railroad and warehouse the regional government of Catalonia. Due to the distribution hub from the 1850’s to the 1950’s. effects of the internet and other technological However, in the late 1950’s, the trucking industry innovations, the future of minority languages has proved more profitable than the railroads. The become a relevant and widely-discussed issue, livelihood of the district was relocated and many while Catalan specifically serves as a fascinating buildings were left vacant. The past decade has case because of its speakers’ especially strong brought new life to the Warehouse District. sense of ethno-linguistic identity. Since the end of Countless buildings have been revitalized. With Franco’s regime, language policies in Catalonia this renewal, the district’s function has shifted from have succeeded in increasing the number of industrial to arts and entertainment. Nonetheless, people who speak and understand Catalan, a large portion of the district has remained making it the primary language of education, unchanged; a majority of these enormous government and popular media. However, in this warehouses lay empty and in a perpetual state of thesis, I use a variety of studies to show that while disrepair. Further rebuilding is necessary to the use of Catalan has risen, other factors like complete the renaissance of the district; one globalization and increased immigration affect solution is the implementation of mixed-use language attitudes and create a discrepancy functions into existing warehouse spaces. This between the knowledge and practical use of proposal addresses both residential and Catalan in other sectors. For example, students in commercial applications that target the young, multicultural classrooms tend to favor Spanish creative class of Raleigh. Deliverables include site over Catalan, young Catalan-speakers still tend to analyses to determine project implications and use Catalan only with each other, and popular needs; precedent studies of similar topics; and media often fails to accurately reflect the style of design schemes performed in a single warehouse speech of Catalan youth. Finally, I will briefly scenario. describe similar cases of minority language policy Mentor: Dr. Robin Abrams elsewhere in the world to isolate the elements of such policies that make language sustainability successful or unsuccessful, and conclude with perspectives on the future for the Catalan language. Andrea Patiño, Duke University

Mentor: Dr. Jane Albrecht and Dr. Photographs of the Ordinary as an Stanley Whitley Alternative Political Space in Palestine For years we have consumed repetitive images of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Anyone who

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ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference watches the news would recognize these recurring cannot be widely used. Therefore specific tropes: young Palestinian men in keffiyehs compounds interacting with CB receptors without throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers, children playing aversive side effects are of clinical interest. In this with plastic guns or ruined refugee camps. study we evaluated the ability of several venom Photographs offer us a version of reality that in extracts to interact with CB1 receptor. The aim of many cases, we wouldn’t have access to this study is to identify the venom fractions able to otherwise. They become our visual archive of an induce CB1 receptor internalization and to test event and thus constitute our knowledge of it. This selected fractions for their possible analgesic is particularly true for places in conflict—our ideas effect. The venom extracts of six Conus species about them are informed by the photographs we were analyzed in vitro. HEK293 cells expressing see. Influential photography scholars have CB1 were treated with venom extracts for 30 declared their skepticism about the medium. minutes, fixed and immunostained. Internalization Roland Barthes stated that the ability of of CB1 receptor was evaluated using specific photography to portray reality is only a fiction. fluorescent antibody and confocal imaging or high Susan Sontag saw it as an exploitative dynamic of content screening. Results showed the highest power where those photographed lose their rate of CB1 internalization in HEK293 cells after agency. More recently, Ariella Azoullay has treatment with venoms of C. miles and C. textile. countered those arguments by stating that victims HPLC fractions of these venoms were of war who are photographed can hold the power. subsequently analyzed. The identification of a Interviews and observations during my fieldwork in single analgesic agent with CB1 agonist activity the West Bank made me realize that much of within the selected venom fractions is in progress. Palestine’s youth is concerned with showing the This analgesic agent could subsequently be used world a different imagery. Still political, their as a new analgesic agent in recombinant cell or photographs are preoccupied with telling a story gene therapy approaches. about daily life and what it means to grow up in Palestine. Can quotidian imagery become an Mentor: Drs. Stanislava Jergova; David alternative political space for the Palestinians to Collante; Shyam Gajavelli; Jacqueline effectively bring about tangible changes? I explore Sagen. this question by putting in conversation my own experience in the West Bank—as photographer and observer—with modern theories of photography. Rebecca Perry, Wake Forest University Mentor: Dr. Rebecca Stein Probing the regulatory mechanism of AKH cell excitability

The mechanisms of how organisms maintain Cecilia Perez, University of Miami metabolic homeostasis in light of dynamic nutrient availability is not completely understood. In Conus Venom Screening To Identify Drosophila, the adipokinetic hormone (AKH) is a Novel Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists For principal hormone that functions in this process. Gene Therapeis in Pain Modulation AKH signaling regulates energy levels, through the direct mobilization of trehalose during low Chronic neuropathic pain significantly affects the hemolymph sugar. Adipokinetic hormone is quality of life of peripheral nerve injury or spinal required for starvation-induced hyperactivity, an cord injury patients. With low efficacy of current adaptive behavior that assists in foraging. In order pharmacotherapy for chronic pain, the to better understand AKH signaling, we are identification of alternative approaches and new conducting a genome-wide RNAi based screen therapeutic targets is essential. Cannabinoid (CB) targeting different ion channels that may regulate receptors have been recently recognized as AKH cell physiology. We evaluated the valuable targets for various clinical indications. consequences of RNAi expression in AKH cells on However, most of the drugs used therapeutically AKH related phenotypes, specifically lifespan and that interact with CB receptors are derived from locomotion during starvation. From this initial cannabis and for their psychoactive components behavioral screen, we identified the channel

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ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference encoding the TASK6 potassium channel as a as affected by the traffic and fertilization candidate AKH regulatory element. Expression of treatments. the TASK6 RNAi in AKH cells leads to lengthened lifespan during starvation. Additionally, there were Mentor: Dr. Michael Goatley, Jr. observable changes in starvation-induced hyperactivity. We are in the process of confirming TASK6 expression in AKH neuroendocrine cells through single-cell RT-PCR. We will also report Radu Reit, preliminary experiments on AKH cell activation in Georgia Institute of Technology a TASK6 mutant background and report other findings from the genome-wide RNAi screen. Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes as Active Electrodes for Metal Substrate Mentor: Dr. Erik C. Johnson Supercapacitors

The aim of this project is to create dense growths of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes on various conductive substrates. Vertically aligned carbon Eric H. Reasor, Virginia Tech nanotubes present a larger pore size as compared to activated carbon or nonaligned carbon The Influence of Fall Fertilization nanotubes, increasing the motility of the ions Programs on the Traffic Tolerance and contained in the electrolyte separating the two Recovery of Sprigged Bermudagrass electrodes. By utilizing various combinations of a Varities diffusion barrier layer and catalyst support layers, vertically aligned nanotube growth can be Bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.) is a popular controlled to alter height and density. Current athletic field turfgrass in the transition zone due to testing has produced samples on Inconel its rapid growth rate and high density. However, substrates with specific capacitance values of 51.1 the ability of a newly sprigged bermudagrass field  14.7 F/g and samples on aluminum substrates to withstand first season traffic can be challenging with specific capacitance values of 55.7  8.3 F/g. due to the onset of winter dormancy. This With further optimization of the spatial distribution research evaluated first season traffic tolerance of of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, as well as 3 bermudagrasses (Patriot, Riviera, and an the addition of pseudocapacitative elements to the experimental ecotype called Wayland) to varying current configuration, more powerful levels of fall Nitrogen fertilization. Plots of 9.3m2 supercapacitors can be designed with potential were established at the VT Turfgrass Research applications in hybrid energy vehicles. Center in June of 2010 using sprigs generated from shredded sod. All plots received N at a level Mentor: Dr. Jud Ready of 49kg/ha-1 per month for June and July and were mowed three times weekly at 2.5cm. A traffic simulator was applied weekly to one half of the bermudagrass plots to simulate the traffic of 6 Robert S. Rule, football games per week for August 30 through Georgia Institute of Technology November 7. The fertilization treatments were 49kg ha-1 monthly from June through August, Obstacles to Women's Participation in June through September, and June through Chemistry and Computer Science October. Patriot bermudagrass established fastest and was the most traffic tolerant, followed by The project was sociological research into the Riviera. Fall N fertilization treatments extended obstacles women face in higher education, bermudagrass color and improved turf density of specifically investigating the fields of Computer all cultivars in both trafficked and non-trafficked Science and Chemistry, and producing a paper on treatments until killing frost in mid-October. the subject. The main topics discussed include Additional measurements of Normalized history of female participation in these fields, the Difference Vegetation Index as an assessment of influence of socialization, pedagogical obstacles, turf density and a 2011 spring greening response and professional obstacles. The project

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ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference emphasizes that women still face many obstacles (overt and subtle) to participating in higher Braxton D. Shelley, Duke University education, especially in STEM (Science Gospel Goes to Church (Again): Technology Engineering and Mathematics) fields despite many years and dollars being spent to Smallwood’s Hybridity as Liturgical minimize such obstacles. The project also Compromise presents ideas to soften or possibly remove some Although many non-academic reviewers describe of the obstacles to women’s participation in STEM Richard Smallwood’s oeuvre as a synthesis of fields. The project was funded by a PURA, and Gospel and Classical music, that description, an supervised Dr. Wenda Bauchspies. amalgamation of ideal types, ignores the liturgical Mentor: Dr. Wenda Bauchspies considerations likely influencing the composer’s hybridity. In the paper, my musical and textual analysis reveals the ways in which the composer’s hybridity is manifested in the choices he makes about harmony, voice leading, form, and lyrics in Casey Setash, Virginia Tech his works “I Love The Lord (He Heard My Cry),” “Total Praise,” and “Anthem of Praise.” Wing Morphology and Foraging Markedness theory, as adapted for music Stratification in Forest-Dwelling Birds semiotics by Robert Hatten, will facilitate a discussion of the intertextual relationship between WING MORPHOLOGY AND FORAGING Smallwood’s body of work, African American STRATIFICATION IN FOREST-DWELLING Gospel Music, and other protestant liturgical BIRDS Casey Setash*1, Fang-Yee Lin1, Dean musical forms. From my conclusions drawn from Stauffer1 Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, this analysis and interpretation I argue that Virginia Tech, VA 24060 Abstract Wing Smallwood’s hybridity can be understood as an morphology is well-recognized as the evolutionary attempt to bridge the divide between the varied product of the life history of certain organisms due tastes of his listeners, stemming from different to migration behavior and habitat use. In this backgrounds in African American Christianity. study, we investigated the association of wing morphology and vertical stratification of 26 bird Mentor: Dr. Anthony M. Kelley species trapped in Hui-Ban, Taiwan, which consists mostly of secondary lowland forest mixed with some agricultural land. Aspect ratio and wing loading, two most commonly used parameters of Kai Shin, University of North Carolina wing morphology, were estimated for each individual. We hypothesized that birds with lower Density Gradient of Bishop Tuff in Owens aspect ratios and higher wing loadings were River Gorge, California typically ground-foragers that did not usually fly long distances and needed more maneuverability The Long Valley Caldera in California is the result in the cluttered environment. Our findings were in of a massive volcanic eruption about 760,000 alignment with our hypothesis; the species that years ago of mega-colossal magnitude. spent most of their time on the ground or in the Pyroclastic flow from the eruption hardened into shrubbery tended to have higher wing loadings volcanic rock during the subsequent years and is and lower aspect ratios than those that foraged in now part of the current landscape. In one area, the the canopy. Keywords: Birds, Taiwan, Wing Bishop Tuff, the Owens River has carved a Morphology, Foraging Behavior, Vertical canyon into that volcanic rock all the way down to Stratification its contact point with the underlying granite. We took several rock samples spanning the height of Mentor: Fang-Yee Lin this canyon and determined their densities using a Jolly balance, weight, and volume measurements. We plotted the samples’ densities on a scatter plot according to their depth and found a maximum density that corresponds to a zone of densely welded tuff and a minimum at the canyon rim

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ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference about 80 meters above the densely welded zone. This reflects typical tuff cooling models where the Carly (Alanna) Slack, peak density is not at the contact point between Clemson University the original surface rocks but rather at some middle point. Our data are consistent with the Coforaging in wild goldenlion tamarins in Bishop Tuff in Owens River Gorge being a single the União Reserve, RJ, Brazil cooling unit, but the presence of a second, smaller cliff approximately 65 meters below the main cliff Callitrichidae primates (tamarins and marmosets) indicates that a second cooling unit may be are cooperative breeders; all adult groupmembers present although this evidence was only observed exhibit extended parental care by provisioning on one of the two sides of the gorge. young and providing foraging assistance. Callitrichids feed on a wide variety of plant and Mentor: Dr. Allen Glazner prey items gathered from numerous types of foraging substrates in the environment. Juveniles often follow adults and forage with them - this is termed coforaging. Coforaging may allow immature animals to learn from older group Casey Shutt, members and therefore become proficient University of North Carolina foragers of such complex diets more quickly and safely. We conducted a longitudinal study of wild Physical Contributors to Glenohumeral golden lion tamarins 11-56 weeks of age, in six Internal Rotation Deficit in High School groups, to examine the ontogeny of coforaging Baseball Players behaviors. A linear mixed-model analysis of variance incorporating repeated measures was Glenohumeral Internal Rotation Deficit (GIRD) of performed on rates of five foraging behaviors. the throwing shoulder in baseball players has Rates of approaches and begs to foraging group been shown to be a risk factor for shoulder and members, and rates of coforages decreased as a elbow injury. Although clinical assessments of function of age. Even in the oldest age category, internal rotation are used to develop intervention juveniles approached, begged, and coforaged at programs, these clinical measures do not higher rates than adults, perhaps as a means to differentiate between muscular, acquire information from older group members. capsuloligamentous, and bony contributors to Juvenile interest in high-protein, nutritionally dense GIRD. The relative contribution of each of these prey items did not differ from their interest in plant components is important to understand in order to items and juvenile prey capture rates when develop more targeted intervention programs. coforaging were extremely low. Therefore, Therefore, the purpose of this study is to coforaging is likely important for obtaining foraging determine the extent to which the muscular, information and not solely for nutritional capsuloligamentous, and osseous components supplementation. contribute to GIRD in high school baseball players. A total of 186 high school baseball Mentor: Dr. Lisa G. Rapaport players between the ages of 14-18 will undergo a testing session in which they will complete a survey on participation and injury history and then Vladislav O. Sviderskiy, University of a physical screening that will include assessment Virginia of internal and external range of motion, posterior shoulder muscle stiffness, posterior capsule Converting Solar Energy to Chemical thickness, and humeral torsion. Data will be Fuels: Novel Transition Metal Catalyst for entered into a step-wise regression to determine Water Oxidation the significant predictors and relative contribution to GIRD. Understanding which factors have the The anticipated rise in global energy consumption greatest relative contribution to GIRD will allow will increase the demand for fossil fuels, leading to clinicians to develop more effective interventions greater competition and economic instability. to reduce the incidence of injuries. Therefore, the development of scalable carbon neutral energy sources would provide economic Mentor: Dr. Joseph Myers stability and environmental benefits. Out of the

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ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference possible options, only solar energy has the ozone data from seven stations across North capacity to meet projected global demand. Carolina covering the coastal, piedmont, and However, scaled up use of solar energy has been mountain regions. We focused on five variables for challenging with a major issue being the storage of our heat wave analysis for each station: number of solar-derived energy. Of the available options for unusually hot days, number of heat waves, and storage, chemical bonds offer substantial length, intensity, and frequency of heat waves. advantages because of their high energy density We are currently comparing the ozone and climate and ease of transportation in liquid form. A data to see if there if a relationship between the promising method for storing solar energy in length and intensity of heat waves and ground chemical bonds is water splitting, which involves level ozone. Successfully de-trending the ozone the conversion of water to oxygen and hydrogen. data by taking precursor hydrocarbon and nitrogen In this strategy, sunlight would be used to promote oxides emission reductions into account will allow water splitting, and the electrons and protons us to see the direct relationship between the two. produced during this process would then be used Our finished analysis will provide information to for electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to make more informed decisions about public health form fuel that can be used when needed. resulting from heat waves and ground level ozone However, water splitting requires a catalyst concentrations. because the formation of oxygen, especially the O—O bond, has been a major catalytic challenge. Mentor: Dr. William F. Hunt Hence, we are working on a new approach to forming the O—O bond that uses d6 metal catalysts with cis-aqua ligands. For this project, I synthesize cis-aqua complexes of the form Tyler Treadway, University of Maryland [L4Ir(H2O)2]n+ (L4= various ancillary ligands) and then test them for catalytic water oxidation. Our Age-Dependent Noradrenergic primary goal is to elucidate a structure/activity Modulation of Inhibition in the Olfactory relationship that will allow for a fine-tuned water Bulb oxidation catalyst. Odor perception recruits a series of intricate neural Mentor: Professor T. Brent Gunnoe, networks that connect peripheral sensory neurons Professor W. Dean Harman to the brain’s cortical interpretation centers. One of the most important networks in this chain consists Holly C. Sweeney, NC State University of a dendrodendritic microcircuit in the olfactory bulb (OB) between prevalent, inhibitory granule Do Heat Waves Impact Ground Level cells (GCs) and the OB’s output neurons, mitral Ozone Levels? cells (MCs). Across numerous dendrodendritic synapses, GCs release GABA, a neurotransmitter Heat waves are currently defined as extended that effects a powerful inhibition of MCs. This periods of unusually hot weather. These periods of inhibition is instrumental in shaping odor signals in time can affect us in many ways, such as a manner that facilitates cortical compilation of a worsened drought conditions and increased detailed olfactory scene. Dendrodendritic circuit energy use (e.g. air conditioning). It is also known activity experiences significant influence from that ground level ozone exposure can lead to afferent projections originating in the locus respiratory problems and high levels can damage coeruleus, a region of the brainstem responsible vegetation and ecosystems. The relationship for the release of noradrenaline (NA). Past work between heat waves and ground level ozone is from our lab has shown that NA induces a long- currently not well known. Our client from the North lasting increase in GC excitability, thereby Carolina State Climate Office asked us to examine enhancing the release of GABA onto MCs. Here, heat wave occurrences in North Carolina and then we further explore noradrenergic modulation in the examine the relationship between these heat OB through in vitro single-cell recording in mice, waves and ground level ozone during the same describing the involvement of specific adrenergic time period, focusing on the months of April receptor (AR) subtypes and the developmental through September, North Carolina’s ozone regulation of their function. We find that activation season. We analyzed climate and ground level of both α1A and β-ARs significantly increases the

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Peichun Wang, Duke University Daniel M. Wainless, Virginia Tech How Shall-issue Concealed Carry Laws Medical Transportation Chair Affect Violent Crime Rates – Using Cohort Transporting patients is an integral part of daily Panel Data Model operations in hospitals, clinics, and assisted living Shall-issue laws are state laws that essentially facilities. Their interiors are fast moving places permit every citizen to carry concealed weapons. with narrow hallways, filled with chairs, beds, and More than thirty states have adopted shall-issue other people. Patients are moving from one to laws in the past few decades. John Lott’s famous room to another. In order to transport them, book, More Guns, Less Crime, and article, Crime, hospital nurses, physical therapists, and other Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed caregivers use the standard folding wheelchair Handguns, claimed that shall-issue laws reduced design that has remained unchanged for almost a violent crimes by deterring violent criminals with hundred years. Since wheelchairs were designed concealed weapons. Lott’s work had received for a purpose other than how they are used in this great popularity among the general public and situation, elements that could specifically help the triggered a wave of adoptions of shall-issue laws patient transport process are unincorporated. The in the U.S. However, Lott’s work was soon goal of this research is to determine if us¬¬¬¬ing a critiqued by several economists such as Ayres and wheelchair not specifically designed for the task it Donohue, which then started a heated academic is performing, is hindering the patient debate that lasted many years. This paper, after transportation process? Can the use of a more conducting a thorough review of the literature specialized transportation chair aid in the process involved in the debate, will propose a new of transporting patients within these larger methodology that addresses an omitted variable facilities? If so, there is an opportunity to benefit bias problem in the previous studies by from a more specifically designed transport device aggregating data into cohort level. Using this to be designed and implemented. Transporting Cohort Panel Data Model, we will re-evaluate how patients is an integral part of daily operations in people’s decisions to enter or exit violent crimes hospitals, clinics, and assisted living facilities. are affected by the adoption of shall-issue laws. Their interiors are fast moving places with narrow hallways, filled with chairs, beds, and other Mentor: Dr. Marjorie McElroy people. Patients are moving from one to room to another. In order to transport them, hospital nurses, physical therapists, and other caregivers use the standard folding wheelchair design that has remained unchanged for almost a hundred years. Since wheelchairs were designed for a purpose other than how they are used in this

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Caroline Watson, Florida State with current techniques. An improved method to University provide independence and safety to the 600-900 thousand Americans living with epilepsy is Olfactory Bulb Circadian Rhythms desired. Additionally, the current method of determining if a patient has been successfully The mammalian olfactory bulb (OB) acts as a treated is to monitor the patient with an circadian oscillator independent from influence by electroencephalography (EEG) in a hospital for the suprachiasmatic nucleus, the brain’s master several weeks. This is cumbersome, expensive, clock. This manifests as rhythms in clock genes, uncomfortable, and time consuming for the electrical activity, and odor sensitivity. What is not patient. The goal of this research is to design a known are the cellular mechanisms underlying the device that can detect if the wearer is having an rhythmic changes in neuronal excitability that epileptic seizure based on the acceleration of the regulate OB circuit function and odor processing. body limbs. To achieve this goal, statistical signal Olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) in the nose processing has been used on data collected from send their axons to discrete anatomical structures an accelerometer to design an algorithm for in the OB called glomeruli. OB neurons that classifying signals that represent epileptic seizures project to the same glomerulus synchronize their from other motion. The current method under activity in response to OSN input via a investigation examines data from a non-epileptic combination of excitatory glutamate transmission person to eliminate signals that represent normal and direct electrical coupling by gap junctions. We daily activities such as writing, walking, and typing. hypothesized that rhythmic changes in The activities under investigation appear to be monoamine neurotransmitter content and/or removable through classifications of signal release could have an influence on the cellular structure; these include having a small overall changes in excitability that underlie circadian magnitude, local periodicity (more precisely gait rhythms in the OB. To test this hypothesis, we motion), and a very short duration. This seeks to sampled rat OB tissue at 1-hour intervals over a eliminate type 1 errors. Additionally, a metric that 24-hour period. Isolation and measurement of determines the likelihood that a signal represents monamines was made using HPLC-EC. Pilot data an epileptic seizure has been developed based on suggest that both norepinephrine and dopamine Teager energy and signal entropy. This seeks to change over a 24-period, although whether these eliminate type 2 errors. The current scope of this cycle in a rhythmic fashion requires further project has been limited to clonic seizures. analysis that is ongoing. We and others have previously shown that norepinephrine and Mentor: Prof. John Lach dopamine modulate OB synaptic transmission. Furthermore, dopamine also has been shown in the retina to affect the phosphorylation state of gap junctions which modulates their electrical Sarah C Weber1, Joaquim I. Goes2, coupling with adjacent neurons. These data Edward J. Carpenter3, Victoria J. support the notion that rhythmic alterations in 4 1 catecholamines could have significant effects on Coles , Joseph P. Montoya , OB circuit behavior and contribute to circadian Georgia Institute of Technology rhythms in the OB. Spatial Variation in Nutrients, Pigments, Mentor: Dr. Paul Q. Trombley Particles, and Phytoplankton Abundance in the Amazon River Plume

The Amazon River forms an extensive surface Cori Watson, University of Virginia plume that extends well offshore into the equatorial Atlantic Ocean. Riverine nutrients in Designing and Accessing Signal the Amazon plume are known to stimulate primary Processing Algorithms for Wearable production and nitrogen fixation hundreds of miles Devices to Monitor Epilepsy from the river mouth, strongly influencing the ecology and biogeochemistry of the Western Presently, 20-30% of epileptics cannot be treated Tropical North Atlantic (WTNA). As part of the

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ABSTRACTS 7th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference multidisciplinary ANACONDAS program, we The MS-5 measures six parameters: pH, embarked on research cruises to the Amazon temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen (DO), plume in spring 2010 and fall 2011. We used turbidity, and oxidation reduction potential (ORP). shipboard underway seawater system to The SonTek Argonaut SW uses acoustic Doppler characterize over 450,000 km2 of surface waters technology to determine stream discharge. ranging in salinity between 18 and 35 psu. We Accurate discharge measurements are important sampled for nutrients, pigments, phytoplankton for accurate mass flux measurements. A simple abundance, and stable isotope natural abundance regression model was developed relating index (d15N, d13C). We found a strong inverse velocity (Vi, m/s) from the ADCP and discharge correlation between salinity and silicate measurements (Q, m3/s) from the velocity area concentrations, with frequent biological depletion method. This model was found to have a P value relative to conservative mixing in the mesohaline of 0.0003 for Vi, <0.0001 for Q, and a P total of (30 to 35 psu) and oceanic (>35 psu) salinity <0.0001. An R2 value of 0.915 was found. regions. Nitrate was mostly absent from surface According to the linear regression performed on waters, whereas phosphate concentrations varied, JMP Software, there is a high correlation between suggesting remineralization within the aging the index velocity and discharge. plume. Hemiaulus was the most abundant diazotroph (N2-fixing) host in low salinity waters Mentor: Vinod Lohani (<30 psu), while Trichodesmium and Rhizosolenia occupied the mesohaline and high salinity regions of the plume. The d15N of particles decreased from around 4‰ to roughly –2‰ across this Yu-Po (Ken) Wong, Duke University salinity range, reflecting inputs of 15N-depleted biomass through N2-fixation. Carbon isotopes Building a Quantum Key Distribution showed less systematic variation with salinity, System though elevated values in the mesohaline region may reflect the contribution of large diatoms and One early and important application of the Trichodesmium. emerging field of quantum information is quantum 1Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA key distribution (QKD). The primary difference 2LDEO, Columbia University, Palisades, New York between quantum and classical key distribution is 3San Francisco State University, San Francisco, that QKD uses a fundamental property of quantum CA mechanics, known as entanglement, to increase 4University of Maryland, Cambridge, MD its performance over existing classical communication systems. Quantum key distribution Mentor: Dr. Joseph P. Montoya has been proven to be fundamentally secure against eavesdropping, and may have important uses in securing information communicated between parties, such as in the smart power grid Stephanie M. Welch, Virginia Tech or in the financial industry. The main goal of this project is to build a QKD system for use in an Calibration of Real-Time Water Quality advanced physics laboratory course. In this Monitoring Instruments project, I use the polarization of photons to entangle information. The polarization-entangled The purpose of the LEWAS lab is to identify land photons are created from a nonlinear optical use change effects on water quality and quantity process known as spontaneous parametric down- real time and to conduct water sustainability conversion (SPDC). Experimentally, I send a research and education. In order for the LEWAS strong laser beam (pump) into a nonlinear crystal Lab to deliver accurate water quality data, precise where there is a small probability that the pump calibration of its water quality and quantity photon is annihilated and two lower-energy monitoring instruments is necessary. The purpose photons with correlated polarizations are created. I of this poster will be to demonstrate the theory, characterize the quality of quantum entanglement maintenance, and calibration of the HydroLab from SPDC and develop methods to improve the MS5 water quality sonde and SonTek Argonaut quality of the entanglement, which is important for SW Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP). generating a key with the highest fidelity and rate.

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I will describe the experimental system, how it is used to distribute a cryptographic key, and Ali Yalgin, Duke University methods for error correction and privacy Dream and Reality in Strindberg’s amplification. Naturalistic Tragedies Mentor: Dr. Daniel Gauthier This project consists of two parts. The written part claims that August Strindberg’s Naturalistic Tragedies, which he wrote early in his career (1869 to 1892), are connected with his symbolist Jason Wong, University of Maryland Dream Plays (1898-1909). The focus is on Climate Policy and Actor Networks: Creditors, written in 1888, which is parallel to Strindberg’s first marriage in a lot of ways. Telling Interactive Climate Simulators – A Missing the story of a love-triangle, Creditors cunningly Actant carries its audience from a realistic situation to a paranoid fantasy ending, thereby creating an A new approach to visualizing data may enable uncanny effect. In order to explore the darker side the next step towards effective climate policy. of the human soul, Strindberg made use of the Before climate policy can be enacted and clinical methods of the day, such as hypnotism implemented, citizens, scientists, and and animal magnetism. Delineating such moments policymakers must arrive at a consensus or in the play, the project suggests that Creditors compromise. Yet, in some societies where experiments on the subconscious, and therefore mistrust and misunderstanding exist among these shares some of the characteristics of the Dream communities, we find no agreement, and often Plays. The project takes into account Harry little action in addressing anthropogenic climate Carlson’s analyses of mythopoeic symbols in change. By visualizing sound climate science, Creditors, and argues that these symbols interactive climate simulators offer compelling embellish the nightmarish atmosphere of the play. visuals of climate science that allow policymakers The project proposes that due to a blurring of the and citizens to view the results of proposed line between fantasy and reality, stylization and policies in real-time. One such simulator is movement fits Creditors better than a realistic mis- Climate Rapid Overview And Decision Support (C- en-scene. The second part of the project is staging ROADS), developed by scientists and policy a production of Creditors at Duke University, analysts in partnership with MIT. C-ROADS has following the suggestion of the written component. been gaining attention at UN Climate Change conferences, in academia, and in governments Mentor: Johanna McAuliffe around the world. By applying the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) developed by the discipline of Science and Technology Studies (STS), I identify some of these impediments through the ANT Chenxi Yu, University of North Carolina analysis of the climate policy network and assess whether C-ROADS can help fill the gaps and Integrating the Jamkhed Model into the address such impediments. The ANT analysis Health Care System of Rural China reveals that visualization technologies such as C- ROADS, if used more broadly, can fill some of the Despite China’s economic growth, there still exists roles of a missing “actant” in forming a stable a large disparity in rural and urban health status. climate policy network. Such an informed, effective The Jamkhed model in India is well-konwn in rural network will enable experts and societies to healthcare delivery. This study analyzes the motivate changes in human behavior and Jamkhed model and suggests ways to integrate it technology to mitigate the risks of climate change, into the health system of a Chinese rural village. in a manner more constructive than the climate The first stage was done via a residential program policy actor-network today. in Jamkhed to learn about its mechanism. The

Mentor: Betsy Mendelsohn, Ph.D. second stage involves in-depth interviews and surveys in Dongchong village, China. It is concluded that Jamkhed functions under a three- tier structure including the Village Health Workers

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(VHWs), a mobile health team and a cost-effective we further explore noradrenergic modulation in the hospital. Dongchong village has a much more OB through in vitro single-cell recording in mice, established primary healthcare system. All of the describing the involvement of specific adrenergic 11 households surveyed have government health receptor (AR) subtypes and the developmental insurance. However, 36% of survey participants regulation of their function. We find that activation indicated preference for private clinics and 45% for of both α1A and β-ARs significantly increases the self-care. Villagers also expressed that their main frequency of GABAergic inhibitory currents in concern is not health but income generation. 54% MCs, particularly in young mice, with significant of participants are not willing to join a group decline in β-AR contribution at older ages. These resembling Jamkhed’s VHWs. Hence, the attempt results suggest the possibility that β-ARs are to organize the community should not evolve crucial in early olfactory-mediated behaviors such around health issues, but start with income as neonatal odor learning and detail a generation instead. Also, measures should be physiological function for the α1A-AR, a receptor taken to increase the utilization of government subtype lacking a defined role in the brain. Work hospital services, possibly through a similar supported by a NIDCD RO1-DC-009817 to R.C.A., approach as Jamkhed’s mobile health team. This a fellowship from the Chilean government to A.N., study shows although the Jamkhed model has the and HHMI Undergraduate Research Fellowships potential to be beneficial in rural China, careful to N.C.Z. and T.W.T. analysis needs to be done to tailor the model to different societal contexts. Empowerment of the Mentor: Ricardo C. Araneda community to address its own health needs must be organized around the community’s own interest.

Mentor: Dr. Thomas Konrad

Nathan Zimnik, University of Maryland Age-Dependent Noradrenergic Modulation of Inhibition in the Olfactory Bulb

Odor perception recruits a series of intricate neural networks that connect peripheral sensory neurons to the brain’s cortical interpretation centers. One of the most important networks in this chain consists of a dendrodendritic microcircuit in the olfactory bulb (OB) between prevalent, inhibitory granule cells (GCs) and the OB’s output neurons, mitral cells (MCs). Across numerous dendrodendritic synapses, GCs release GABA, a neurotransmitter that effects a powerful inhibition of MCs. This inhibition is instrumental in shaping odor signals in a manner that facilitates cortical compilation of a detailed olfactory scene. Dendrodendritic circuit activity experiences significant influence from afferent projections originating in the locus coeruleus, a region of the brainstem responsible for the release of noradrenaline (NA). Past work from our lab has shown that NA induces a long- lasting increase in GC excitability, thereby enhancing the release of GABA onto MCs. Here,

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BOSTON COLLEGE GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF UNIVERSITY OF NORTH Matthew Alonsozana, 14 TECHNOLOGY CAROLINA Okello Carter. 20 Sheridan E. Ackiss, 14 Morgan Abbott, 14 Ryan Folio, 23 Brice I Hwang, 27 Jessica Bodford, 18 Narintohn Luangrath, 33 Kanav Jain, 27 Caroline Kirby, 31 Joseph Manning, 36 Shibani D. Kansara, 29 Patrick Mullins, 39 Alyssa McCarthy, 37 Myong Joon Kim, 30 Kai Shin, 44 Radu Reit, 43 Casey Shutt, 45 CLEMSON UNIVERSITY Robert S Rule, 43 Chenxi Yu, 51 Meredith Cole, 21 Sarah C. Weber, 48 Joel Dixon, 22 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Lauren Hock, 26 NC STATE UNIVERSITY Matthew E. Caplan, 20 Zakery James, 28 Taylor J. Belge, 16 Aileen L. Giordano, 25 Haaris Khan, 30 Jordan Ferguson, 23 Matthew D. Lycas, 34 Adam Klett, 31 Brian Eugene Gaudio, 24 Vladislav O. Sviderskiy, 45 Nadine Luedicke, 34 Travis T. Lekich, 33 Cori Watson, 48 Emily McCanless, 37 Joshua L. Lucas, 34 Julio C. Martinez, 36 VIRGINIA TECH DUKE UNIVERSITY Cody Allen Melton, 38 Winston R. Becker, 16 Amanda Auerbach, 15 Joseph Moo-Young, 39 Kenneth A. Black, 17 Emily Bray, 19 Andy B. Park, 41 Laura K. Craig, 22 Travis Byington, 19 Holly C. Sweeney, 46 Kristen H. Fowler, 24 Andrea Patiño, 41 Bethany Gregory, 25 Peichun Wang, 47 UNIVESITY OF MARYLAND Andrew B. Hall, 26 Yu-Po (Ken) Wong, 49 Catherine Bessell, 16 Victoria S. James, 28 Ali Yalgin, 50 Harley Katz, 29 Michael H. Lawless, 33 Yuliya Malamud, 35 Lara J. Mangum, 35 FLORIDA STATE Colette Nataf, 40 Ross McFarland, 38 UNIVERSITY Tyler Treadway, 46 Arielle Grim McNally, 38 Dana Boebinger, 18 Jason Wong, 50 Eric H. Reasor, 43 Morgan Kayser, 30 Nathan Zimnik, 51 Casey Setash, 44 Andrew Koutnik, 32 Daniel M. Wainless, 47 Amanda Krueger, 32 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI Stephanie M. Welch, 49 Caroline Watson, 48 Eric D. Antmann, 15 Ian Ergui, 22 WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY Bryant Huang, 26 Tim Brady, 18 Sara Marin, 36 Ryan Ford, 24 Mejdi Najjar, 39 Rebecca Perry, 42 Saramati Narasimhan, 40 Spencer Carter-Carpenter, 21 Betty Albo Obeso, 40 Anne Ornelles, 41 Cecilia Perez, 42 Laura Grace Carroll, 20 Ashley Birkedal, 17

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Boston College Matthew Alonsozana [email protected]

Boston College Okello Carter [email protected] Boston College Ryan Folio [email protected]

Boston College Narintohn Luangrath [email protected] Boston College Joseph Manning [email protected] Boston College Alyssa McCarthy [email protected] Clemson University Meredith Cole [email protected] Clemson University Joel Dixon [email protected] Clemson University Lauren Hock [email protected] Clemson University Zakery James [email protected] Clemson University Haaris Khan [email protected] Clemson University Adam Klett [email protected] Clemson University Nadine Luedicke [email protected] Clemson University Emily McCanless [email protected]

Duke University Amanda Auerbach [email protected] Duke University Emily Bray [email protected] Duke University Travis Byington [email protected] Duke University Andrea Patiño [email protected] Duke University Peichun Wang [email protected] Duke University Ali Yalgin [email protected] Duke University Yu-Po (Ken) Wong [email protected] Florida State University Dana Boebinger [email protected] Florida State University Morgan Kayser [email protected] Florida State University Andrew Koutnik [email protected] Florida State University Amanda Krueger [email protected] Florida State University Caroline Watson [email protected] Georgia Institute of Sheridan E. Ackiss [email protected] Technology Georgia Institute of Brice I Hwang [email protected] Technology Georgia Institute of Kanav Jain [email protected] Technology Georgia Institute of Shibani D. Kansara [email protected] Technology Georgia Institute of Myong Joon Kim [email protected] Technology Georgia Institute of Radu Reit [email protected] Technology Georgia Institute of Robert S Rule [email protected] Technology Georgia Institute of Sarah C. Weber [email protected] Technology NC State University Taylor J. Belge [email protected] NC State University Jordan Ferguson [email protected]

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NC State University Brian Eugene Gaudio [email protected] NC State University Holly C. Sweeney [email protected] NC State University Travis T. Lekich [email protected] NC State University Joshua L. Lucas [email protected] NC State University Julio C. Martinez [email protected] NC State University Cody Allen Melton [email protected] NC State University Joseph Moo-Young [email protected] University of Maryland Catherine Bessell [email protected] University of Maryland Harley Katz [email protected] University of Maryland Yuliya Malamud [email protected] University of Maryland Colette Nataf [email protected] University of Maryland Tyler Treadway [email protected] University of Maryland Jason Wong [email protected] University of Maryland Nathan Zimnik [email protected] University of Miami Eric D. Antmann [email protected] University of Miami Ian Ergui [email protected] University of Miami Bryant Huang [email protected] University of Miami Sara Marin [email protected] University of Miami Mejdi Najjar [email protected] University of Miami Saramati Narasimhan [email protected] University of Miami Betty Albo Obeso [email protected] University of Miami Cecilia Perez [email protected] University of North Carolina Morgan Abbott [email protected] University of North Carolina Jessica Bodford [email protected] University of North Carolina Caroline Kirby [email protected] University of North Carolina Patrick Mullins [email protected] University of North Carolina Kai Shin [email protected] University of North Carolina Casey Shutt [email protected] University of North Carolina Chenxi Yu [email protected] University of Virginia Matthew E. Caplan [email protected] University of Virginia Aileen L. Giordano [email protected] University of Virginia Matthew D. Lycas [email protected] University of Virginia Vladislav O. Sviderskiy [email protected] University of Virginia Cori Watson [email protected] Virginia Tech Winston R. Becker [email protected] Virginia Tech Kenneth A. Black [email protected] Virginia Tech Laura K. Craig [email protected] Virginia Tech Kristen H. Fowler [email protected] Virginia Tech Bethany Gregory [email protected] Virginia Tech Andrew B. Hall [email protected]

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Virginia Tech Victoria S. James [email protected] Virginia Tech Michael H. Lawless [email protected] Virginia Tech Lara J. Mangum [email protected] Virginia Tech Arielle Grim McNally [email protected] Virginia Tech Eric H. Reasor [email protected] Virginia Tech Casey Setash [email protected] Virginia Tech Daniel M. Wainless [email protected] Virginia Tech Stephanie M. Welch [email protected] Wake Forest University Ashley Birkedal [email protected] Wake Forest University Tim Brady [email protected] Wake Forest University Laura Grace Carroll [email protected] Wake Forest University Spencer Carter-Carpenter [email protected] Wake Forest University Ryan Ford [email protected] Wake Forest University Anne Ornelles [email protected] Wake Forest University Rebecca Perry [email protected]

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