Welcome to SUNY Geneseo’s Seventh Annual GREAT Day! Geneseo Recognizing Excellence, Achievement & Talent Day is a college-wide symposium celebrating the creative and scholarly endeavors of our students. In addition to recognizing the achievements of our students, the purpose of GREAT Day is to help foster academic excellence, encourage professional development, and build connections within the community. The GREAT Day Faculty Advisory Council: The GREAT Day Committee: Joan Ballard, Psychology Anne Baldwin, Sponsored Research Sid Bosch, Biology Tammy Hill, Campus Scheduling and Special Events Patrice Case, Studio Art Andrea Klein, Campus Scheduling and Special Events Graham Drake, English Jessica Shepard, GREAT Day Intern Jennifer Lofkrantz, History Erin Pipe, Chamber Music Festival Coordinator Susan Salmon, School of Education Chelsea Butkowski, Kinetic Gallery Coordinator Aaron Steinhauer, Physics & Astronomy Tracy Paradis, Milne Library Patty Hamilton-Rodgers, GREAT Day Coordinator Thank You for staff contributions that make GREAT Day possible: Brian Bennett, Betsy Colon, Joe Dolce, Stephen Dresbach, Karie Frisiras, Jennifer Glieco, Becky Glass, Paul Jackson, Nancy Johncox, Minh Bui, Enrico Johnson, Laura Kenyon, Chip Matthews, Sean McGrath, Nicole Muraco, Traci Phillips, Mark Scott, Rio Takemura, Helen Thomas, Julie Rao, Katie Tierney and the SA Tech Services. Thanks to Student volunteers: Abigail Golfo , Aja Guzman, Ama Acheampong, Anna Choo, Anna Tiburzi, Ayumi Yamazaki, Brieanna Cervoni, Brittany Gliboff, Bruno Villazhinay, Cameron Rinaldi, Camille Mackey, Casey Berg, Christopher Ecklund, Christy Agrawal, Cindy Trieu, Coli Bacharach, Daeun Noh, Dan Bender, Devin Geraghty, Devon Coulter, Emma Wang, Eugenie Ma, Gina Suriano, Hannah Parfitt, Hannah Wang, Ivy Wang, Jackie Nocita, Jane Coons, Jess Diefendorf, Jiwon Kim , Karlene Gallese, Kasey Cole, Katie Becker, Kelsey Colberg, Kristen Norrgard, Laura Sharpe, Nadia Abdulwahab, Rozina Portelli, Sarah Hooven, Sarah Kucharski, Sean McCarthy, Shannon Dempsey, Shannon Gallagher, Shannon Quinlivan, Staci Weiss, Steph Coffman, Steph Liotta, Tushara Surapaneni, Will Gladstone, William Jockers Special Thank You: President Christopher Dahl and Provost Carol Long for their support of GREAT Day. Jack and Carol Kramer for their support of Geneseo and the Keynote address. Dava Sobel for delivering the Keynote address. Tom Fisher for the online submission form and web program design. Erin Pipe for organizing the Chamber Music Festival. Dara Gell for serving as liaison to the Student Association. The Student Association for sponsoring the Luncheon. Campus Auxiliary Services for sponsoring reception beverages. Milne Library Staff for overseeing the proceedings. Anne Baldwin, Andrea Klein, and Tammy Hill for their special expertise and many hours devoted to planning this event. GREAT Day is funded by the Office of the Provost, the Student Association, Campus Auxiliary Service and the Jack '76 and Carol '76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship. http://www.geneseo.edu/great_day 2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual TABLE OF CONTENTS SCHEDULE Schedule ................................................................. 1 8:30 – 9:30 AM Welcome College Union Ballroom Artwork Exhibits .................................................. 2-4 Remarks William Brower, Vice President for College Advancement Alma Mater – Jessica Carl and Nick Ellsworth Chamber Music Festival ......................................... 5 Poster Presentations College Union Ballroom & 3rd Floor Dance Performance ............................................... 5 8:30 – 6:30 pm Artwork Exhibits Keynote Address ............................................................... 6 College Union Kinetic Gallery & Brodie Lederer Gallery Poster Map ............................................................. 7 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM Poster Abstracts .............................................. 8 - 36 Chamber Music Festival Part 1 College Union Fireside Lounge Concurrent Presentations Quick View Guide . 37-38 9:40 – 10:55 AM Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 Concurrent Presentations • Session 1 ............ 39-46 ISC, Milne, South, Sturges, Welles Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 ............ 46-52 11:05 – 12:20 PM Concurrent Presentations • Session 2 Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 ............ 53-60 Brodie, Knightspot, Milne, South, Sturges, Welles Concurrent Presentations • Session 4 ............ 60-67 12:30 – 1:30 PM rd Special Presentations/Insomnia Film Festival ..... 68 Poster Presentations College Union Ballroom & 3 Floor Buffet Luncheon College Union Lobby Index of Student Participants ......................... 69-71 Sponsored by the Geneseo Student Association Bhangra Performance 1:20 pm College Union Ballroom Stage Cover designs .......................................... back cover Cover design by PHILIP ROMANO 1:45 – 2:45 PM For more information on the GREAT Day Program Cover design project, see back cover. The Jack ’76 and Carol ’76 Kramer Endowed Lectureship Dava Sobel, author of popular expositions of scientific topics Wadsworth Auditorium Publish your paper or poster! 2:55 – 4:10 PM Concurrent Presentations • Session 3 Did you know that a publication is released College Union, ISC, Milne, South, Sturges, Welles, every year containing a selection of the 3:00 – 4:30 PM papers and posters presented at GREAT Day? Chamber Music Festival Part 2 College Union Fireside Lounge To have your GREAT Day presentation or poster considered for the 2013 GREAT Day 4:20 – 5:35 PM Proceedings, contact Sue Ann Brainard at Concurrent Presentations • Session 4 Milne Library, [email protected], x5062. ISC, Milne, South, Sturges, Wadsworth, Welles 5:30 – 6:30 PM Closing Remarks College Union Ballroom Christopher Dahl, President Check out Starbuck’s new Poster Presentations & Reception Sponsored in part by Campus Auxiliary Services GREAT Day Latte rd College Union Ballroom & 3 Floor It is sweet, bold, and nutty – something for everyone, just 7:00 PM Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival Sturges 219, Auditorium like GREAT Day! 1 2013 Geneseo Recognizing Excellence Achievement and Talent Day • 7th Annual ARTWORK EXHIBITS SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS FOR PREPARING THE EXHIBITS KATELYN COLLINS, RAY FERREIRA, IAN GABRIEL, MOHAMMED HOSSAIN, SAMANTHA HUEBLER, MAYUKO KUBO, NATE LOEWENSTEIN, KYRA RHOADES, JOO YEON SHIN (JANE), ALEKSANDRA SZCZUREK MACVITTIE COLLEGE UNION KINETIC GALLERY ______________________________________________________ different image standing two inches or two feet _____________________________________________________ EMMA JACKSON away. Created with permanent marker. KARA FINEGAN FACULTY SPONSOR: ELIZABETH FALK, SCHOOL OF _____________________________________________________ FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART EDUCATION MEAGAN TURNER Sterling Parrot Pendant: This pendant was Look to the Sun: Painting of a flower using FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART made using a unique method called sand casting. To acrylics, on 30x30 canvas. Brushstrokes: This piece is an enlargement of make this piece, I made a clay parrot to use as a ______________________________________________________ a section of ink brushstrokes. The enlargement was positive. The positive was then pressed into a sand HOLLY KANDEL redrawn by hand using Sharpie. mold and removed. The sand mold was then filled FACULTY SPONSOR: NEAL BROOKS, RESIDENCE LIFE _____________________________________________________ with molten silver. Once it cooled, the metal bird Dorm Room Project: This was a photo TRICIA CREMO was removed from the sand mold, followed by project I decided to do at the end of spring FACULTY SPONSOR: RIO TAKEUMURA, ART hours and hours of filing, and sanding to clean and semester, 2012. I went around all the residence Brush Stroke Study: Magnified image of a shape the metal. Once the cleaning was finished, a halls throughout Geneseo, mainly Niagara and series of brushstroke studying patterns. texture was hammered onto the wing and a 2 Onondaga, and knocked on all the doors and asked Abstract Gridded Pig: Abstract scene millimeter cubic zirconia stone was flush set into people to pose in front of their dorm room walls. the eye of the parrot to give it a sparkling finish! studying foreground and background. The message from this project was to answer the _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ BENJAMIN FREIMAN question: what do people's dorm room walls say NATHAN LOEWENSTEIN FACULTY SPONSOR: RYOTA TAKEMURA, ART about them? Each wall is unique in character, FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART Steel Spider: Materials: 14, 16, 18, and 20 symbolically like the people who created them. Crying: Watercolor painting of a girl crying. ______________________________________________________ gauge steel wire. The intricate and creeping IAN GABRIEL Laughing: Watercolor of a girl laughing movements of arachnids and insects inspired me to FACULTY SPONSOR: PATRICE CASE, ART _____________________________________________________ choose a spider as my subject for a wire sculpture. The Adoration: It's a somewhat fantastical MARGARET GERARDI Wire has both organic and mechanical qualities in FACULTY SPONSOR: RIO TAKEMURA, ART scene of the washing of the Indian Deity known as the way it moves and bends, similar to the way a Ganesh by one of his handmaidens. It's purpose was Brush Strokes: Picture is 9" by 11" with a 1.5" spider does. While building the body, I tried to keep to