New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium Upstate New York Undergraduate Research Conference Saturday, September 26, 2015 Colgate University 2 New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium Upstate NY Undergraduate Research Conference Saturday, September 26, 2015 ============================================================== SCHEDULE 9:30 – 10:00 am Registration and Morning Refreshments (Ho Science Center Atrium) 10:00 – 10:10 am Welcome, Roger Rowlett, President of CUR 10:20 – 11:20 am Oral Presentations1 Session 1: Ho 101 Session 2: Olin 301 Session 3: Olin 328 Session 4: Olin 129 11:20 – 11:30 am Break 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Oral Presentations1 Session 5: Ho 101 Session 6: Olin 301 Session 7: Olin 328 Session 8: Olin 129 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch, poster set-up and networking (O’Connor Center) 1:30 – 3:30 pm Poster Session2 Ho Science Center Atrium 1Students should plan to pre-load their Oral presentations onto the computers provided in the appropriate presentation room prior to 10:00 am. 2There will be two back-to-back one-hour sessions. All posters will be displayed for the two hours, but students will only present for one based on even or odd numbers that are assigned. 3 Oral Presentation Schedule Time Session 1- Ho 101 Session 2-Olin 301 Session 3-Olin 328 Session 4 – Olin 129 Chair: Chad Sparber Chair: Karyn Belanger Chair: Jenna Reinbold Chair: Val Lehr 10:20 Abigail Outterson Adam Ashcroft Mark Pitifer Caroline Hobbs Skidmore College Union College Hobart and William Skidmore College Smith Colleges “The DREAM Acts: “Gas Flow Through “Caring for a Legacy: Plausible Policy in the Silica Aerogels” “Understanding religious Micro Hydro Energy at Land of Opportunity?” freedom on campus, Skidmore College” Hindu student organizations in upstate New York” 10:35 Quinn Steigleder William Rosencrans Jennie Wilber Sonia Sandoval Colgate University Colgate University Hamilton College Union College “The Effect of Legal “The effect of TOR “Narrating an American “Studying the Long Status on Immigrant signaling on nitrogen Religion: The Hill Term Effects of Soil Wages and Occupational stable isotope Cumorah Pageant and Nitrification by Invasive Skills” fractionation” the Story of Mormon Black Locusts (Robinia Religious Freedom” pseudoacacia) in the Albany Pine Bush” 10:50 Emily Gu Kaitlyn Rodriguez Talia Vaughan Jennifer Cristiano and Colgate University Colgate University Hamilton College Lauren Sidor Skidmore College “The Native-Born “Site directed “Defending Indigeneity: Occupational Skill mutagenesis of the The Paradox of “Assessing the Water Response to Immigration pGL3-HIV-1 LAI-LTR ‘Religious Freedom’ for Quality in the within Education and luciferase vector for the Tohono O’odham Kayaderosseras Creek” Experience Cells” transcription studies” Peoples” 11:05 Dakota Noyes Andy Chen Macaela Rourke Anastasia Yandulskaya St. Lawrence University Hamilton College Hobart and William Colgate University Smith Colleges “Apocalypse, Takfiri “Characterization of a “Role of Notch signaling Doctrine and Violence: gene involved in “Religious Minorities in in regeneration of hair Dabiq and ISIS’ Salicylic Acid (SA) Early America” cells in zebrafish lateral Recruitment of Foreign signaling in an SA line” Fighters” tolerant mutant” 4 Time Session 5-Ho 101 Session 6-Olin 301 Session 7– Olin 328 Session 8 - Olin 129 Chair: Chad Sparber Chair: Elodie Fourquet Chair: Jenna Reinbold Chair: Val Lehr 11:30 Caroline Kielar Laine Barrand, Linh Evan Smith Sarah Coburn Colgate University Le, and Nicole Jackson St. Lawrence University Skidmore College Colgate University “Animal Assisted “Reducing L-Band Wide “Participant and Therapy on College “Edouard Glisssant's Observations of Community Outcomes of Campuses” 'Histoire de negre' and Optically Selected Participation in Racial Issues” Galaxies” Environmental Voluntourism Programs: Commitment to Volunteerism, Environmental Issues Awareness, and Pro- environmental Behaviors” 11:45 Adib Chowdhury Hung Hoang Sean Foster Alex Pustelnyk Colgate University Hamilton College Colgate University Colgate University “The impact of faculty “Chasing Cyborgs: “Mineral Identification “Politics for the People: unionization on faculty Ghost in the Shell’s for Spaceflight Rock Political Legitimacy in salaries: Case study of Posthumanism” Dating” Peru's Informal Housing the University of Settlements” Oregon” 12:00 Evelyn Torsher Sydney Paluch Christopher Demas Rachel Beamish Hamilton College Union College Hobart and William Hamilton College Smith Colleges “Storytelling: A Tool for “Bend and Snap: “Adaptations of Arabic Language Questioning Female Classical Mythology in Acquisition” Spectatorship through “Three Minutes in Contemporary Young Sexualized Space: Muon Detection Adult Literature” Representations of Reaching the Fringes of Female Lawyers” Earth’s Atmosphere” 12:15 Allison Zengilowski Kateri Boucher Jacob Mayle Grace Berg and Sidhant Wadhera Hamilton College Colgate University Hamilton College Colgate University “'Too Smart to be “Partial Difference Sets “Penelope and Her “Adapting MOOC Religious?' Discreet in Rank Two Abelian Odyssey: A Reception Technology for the Seeking Amidst Groups” Study” Liberal Arts Classroom” Religious Stigma at an Elite Secular College” 5 Session 1 Oral Presentations Ho 101 10:20 - 11:20 am The DREAM Acts: Plausible Policy in the Land of Opportunity? Abigail Outterson Skidmore College Mentor: Cynthia Bansak A wide variety of literature has been published on the controversial DREAM Acts and their goals of increased opportunities for exceptional undocumented youth living in the United States. This research identifies points of controversy and evaluates the logical reasoning related to the bipartisan proposals of DREAM Act legislation at the federal level and the passage of DREAM Act policies granting in-state resident tuition to undocumented students at the state level. Moral, legal, and economic arguments are analyzed, both in support of and in opposition to DREAM Act policies. Results indicate that there is a great deal of moral, legal, and economic precedent for increased opportunity gains to certain members of the undocumented population that in-state tuition policies cannot fulfill; though they have increased enrollment for undocumented students, they do not provide the same benefits that would be provided by federal legislation, including a conditional and eventually permanent change in legal status. Legislation at this level is expected to be generally beneficial for this community and for United States citizens. The Effect of Legal Status on Immigrant Wages and Occupational Skills Quinn Steigleder Colgate University Mentor: Chad Sparber Native and foreign-born workers with a high school degree or less educational attainment provide unique occupational skills to the US labor force. This regularity might be driven, in part, by limited access to occupations for immigrants lacking legal rights to work in the US. This paper exploits exogenous policy change induced by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) to perform triple-difference estimation examining whether legal status causes immigrants to work in occupations that use skills more similar to those of native-born workers. We find that legal status decreases the manual skill intensity of Mexican immigrants by two percentiles. It increases communication skill intensity by an equivalent amount. This effect reduces the skill gap between Mexican-born and native-born American workers by 13%. The Native-Born Occupational Skill Response to Immigration within Education and Experience Cells Emily Gu Colgate University Mentor: Chad Sparber The population of immigrants in the United States has been increasing dramatically in the past few decades. This phenomenon has caused heated debate about how the immigrants have influenced the U.S. native workers for decades. The debate arises from two opposite arguments: immigration has lowered the wages for the native workers, versus immigration has insignificant to positive effects on the native wage structure. Both of these arguments are supported by various empirical analyses. Having two strong and opposite arguments about a topic of such political importance is disconcerting. Many economists attribute this disparity to the different methodologies adopted by the researchers on the opposite sides. The two methodologies that produce starkly different results are “spatial approach” and “national approach”. This paper does not contribute to the existing literature by claiming which approach is better. However, it provides an important insight into this decades-old debate by conflating the two different approaches. To be more specific, this paper looks for common ground by using the strategies adopted by national approach to find out if the relationship between immigrants, skills and wages exist as proved by spatial approach. 6 We found evidence for this relationship. Using methodologies predisposed to finding wage losses, which assumes perfect substitutability between natives and immigrants, our results show a 20% decrease in the negative effect if we assume natives specialize in occupations they have a comparative advantage. Apocalypse, Takfiri Doctrine and Violence: Dabiq and ISIS’ Recruitment of Foreign Fighters Dakota Noyes St. Lawrence University Mentor: Howard Eissenstat The Islamic State has taken control of large parts of Iraq and Syria and has a significant presence on social media around the world. This research on focus on analyzing their English magazine Dabiq for the most important concepts such as the