Thirteenth Annual Honors Colloquium Schedule
February 8- 23, 2012
All sessions will be held in Blow 201.
Click on the date to read abstracts of the projects for that day.
Week 1
12:00-12:30
Rachael Tatman, Linguistics
Perception of Non-Phonological Reduction
Advisor: Erin Ament
Moderator: Libby Hennemuth
3:00- 4:00:
Katie Clough, International Relations
Latin America during the Cold War: The Role of U.S. Soft Power
Advisor: Amy Oakes
Andrew Bessler, International Relations
The Nuclear Taboo Paradox: Destabilizing Consequences of the Norm
Advisor: Amy Oakes
Moderator: Stephanie Lash
4:30- 5:30:
Stephen Hurley, Chinese Studies
Traitors to Race or Nation? The Evolution of Hanjian since the Late Qing
Advisor: Yanfang Tang
Emily Matson, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Jiang, Nationalism, and Nanjing: The Deterioration of Sino-Japanese Relations at the End of the 20th Century
Advisor: Emily Wilcox
Moderator: Austin Strange
Week 2
2:00-2:30:
Alexandria Brown, Anthropology
Exchange Patterns in the Woodland-Period Chesapeake: An XRF Study
Advisor: Martin Gallivan
Moderator: Matthew Badgett
3:00-4:00:
Larissa Kruesi, Theatre
Environmental Theatre
Advisor: Laurie Wolf
Ian Goodrum, Theatre
Towards a Theatre of Contradictions: Modernism and Realism in the Maoist Tradition
Advisor: Laurie Wolf
Moderator: Rosemary Hall
4:30-5:00
Ari Cukierman, Physics
Lepton-Flavor-Violating Dark-Matter Decays
Advisor: Chris Carone
Moderator: William Adams
6:00-7:00:
Leksa Pravdic, Hispanic Studies
Socio-economic Depictions of the Disappeared in Post 1983-Argentine Cinema
Advisor: Silvia Tandeciarz
Jacob Lassin, Russian and Post-Soviet Studies
Internet Representations of World War II in Russian Cyberspace
Advisor: Elena Prokhorova
Moderator: Brian Comiskey
2:00-2:30:
Danielle Greene, Interdisciplinary Studies
Tracking and the Opportunity Gap
Advisor: Jeremy Stoddard
Moderator: Erin Faltermeier
3:30-4:30:
Rebecca Koenig, English
This is Washington
Advisor: Terry Meyers
Elizabeth Wallace, English
Lurch: Short Stories on Revolution
Advisor: Hermine Pinson
Moderator: Libby Neidenbach
5:00-5:30
Madeline Chessman, LCST/Film
Beyond Sundance: Theory and Case Studies of International Film Festival Programming
Advisor: Colleen Kennedy
Moderator: Emma Rodvien
6:00-7:00:
Jacqueline Stykes, American Studies
Dancing Through Trauma in Post 911 New York
Advisor: Leisa Meyer
Becky Little, History
“What You Can Learn from the Kinsey Report”: Alfred Kinsey’s Same-Sex Data, 1970-1993
Advisor: Leisa Meyer
Moderator: Sharon Hartzell
12:00-1:00
Ksenija Kapetanovic, Neuroscience
Can Vitamin E Supplementation Reverse Memory Impairments Caused by Early Mercury Exposure?
Advisor: Pamela Hunt
Kathryn Rehain, Biology
A Morphological Comparison of Reproductive Structures in Nematode Species with Diverse Reproductive Modes
Advisor: Diane Shakes
Moderator: Dasha Godunova
2:00-2:30:
Kenay Sudler, Linguistics
Attitudes towards ESL Practitioners in the Speech-Language Pathology Profession
Advisor: Anne Charity-Hudley
Moderator: Mike Schilling
3:00-4:00:
Kaitlin Helsley, Biology
Impacts of Phage Predation on Microbial Dynamics in Temperate Soil Ecosystems
Advisor: Kurt Williamson
Daniel Schwab, Biology
Maternal Effects on Reproduction and Development in the Mud Snail, Ilyanassa obsoleta
Advisor: Jonathan Allen
Moderator: Matthew Badgett
4:30-5:00:
Ann Katherine Allen, English
Divine Harmony Amongst Many Spheres: The Relationship Between the Literal and Metaphoric Music in Shakespeare and its Religious Implications
Advisor: Erin Minear
Moderator: Madeleine Delurey
6:00-6:30:
Andrew Ojeda, American Studies
A New Age Romance
Advisor: Elizabeth Schlabach
Moderator: Libby Neidenbach
2:00-2:30:
Patrick King, Mathematics
Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on Isotropic Quantum Graphs
Advisor: Junping Shi
Moderator: Madeline Chessman
3:30-4:30:
Chris Tyson, Biology
Species Distribution Model for the Invasive Plant Japanese Stiltgrass
Advisor: Matthias Leu
Timothy Becker, Mathematics
A Model for the Population of the Blue Crab in the Chesapeake Bay
Advisor: Leah Shaw
Moderator: Matthew Badgett
6:30-7:00:
Adam Lerner, Philosophy
Rehabilitating the Consequentialist View of Moral Responsibility
Advisor: Matthew Haug
Moderator: Brett Evans
1:00-2:00:
Albert Ng-Sui-Hing, Biology
Analysis of Calcium Activity and Neurotransmitter Phenotype of Developing Retinal Neurons of Xenopus laevis Embryos
Advisor: Eric Bradley
Molly McDonough, Biology
The Role of Notch Signaling in Neurotransmitter Phenotype Specification and Secondary Neurogenesis in X. laevis
Advisor: Margaret Saha
Moderator: Brian Rabe
3:00-3:30:Meredith Luze, English
Courting Revitalization: Companionate Marriage and the Problem of the Landed Gentry's Reform in Jane Austen
Advisor: Kim Wheatley
Moderator: Jane Kim
Week 3
2:00-2:30:
Elizabeth Childress, Chemistry
Fluorescence Sensing of Mercury by Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles
Advisor: Elizabeth Harbron
Moderator: Johnathan Maza
3:00-4:00:
Leigh Gayle, Psychology
The Effect of Autism Spectrum Personality on the Visual Mismatch Negativity
Advisor: Paul Kieffaber
Stephanie Kane, Neuroscience
Diet and Cognition: the Vicious Cycle Model
Advisor: Catherine Forestell
Moderator: Matthew Badgett
4:30-5:00:
Ellie Walsh, History
John Minson Galt II and his Lecture on Idiocy: Cognitive Disability in Antebellum Virginia
Advisor: Karin Wulf
Moderator: Taylor Mullaney
6:00-7:00:
Charles Ritinski, History
The Tactics of Our Fathers: A Discourse on 17th Century Warfare in Virginia
Advisor: David Corlett
Eric Ames, History
Non-Importation and the Nelson Store: Commerce in Pre-Revolutionary Yorktown, 1769-1771
Advisor: Julie Richter
Moderator: Brian Comiskey
12:30-1:00
Lindsay Hundley, International Relations
Bringing the Network Back into Terrorist Networks: Understanding Inter-Organizational and Network Ties
Advisor: Dennis Smith
Moderator: Lydia Fairfax
2:00-3:00:
Nicky Bell, International Relations
Devolution and the Declining Power of Regional Identities in Europe
Advisor: Clay Clemens
Devin Braun, Government
Why Trust Really Matters: How the Decline in Trust in Government May Be Altering America's Ideological Landscape
Advisor: Ron Rapoport
Moderator: Alena Stern
5:00-6:00:
Andrew Frantz, History
"For the Advancement of So Good a Cause" : Hugh MacKay, the Highland War and the Glorious Revolution in Scotland
Advisor: Nicholas Popper
Diana Ohanian, History
The Internationalization of Vichy Memory: Judicial Proceedings and Business Legislation against the National French Railway in the United States
Advisor: Ron Schechter
Moderator: Nicky Bell
3:00-3:30:
Matthew Sparacino, Geology
Variability of Erodibility in Bedrock Floored Channels Produced by Differential Weathering
Advisor: Greg Hancock
Moderator:
4:30-5:30:
Austin Strange, Chinese Studies
Domestic People's Liberation Army Non-Combat Operations: Dimensions, Drivers, and Broader Implications
Advisor: Yanfang Tang
John Kirn, International Relations
Visions of the Good
Advisor: David Dessler
Moderator: Peter Bihl
6:00-7:00:
Sarah Ross, English
'A Counterfeit Presentment': The Duality of Portraiture in Eliot and Hardy
Advisor: Deborah Morse
Katelyn Durkin, English
The (Re)Production Craze: Bodies, Machines, and the Modern Family Home in Edith Wharton’s 1920s Fiction
Advisor: Melanie Dawson
Moderator: Madeleine Delurey
2:00-3:00:
Molly Bulman, Public Policy
A Form for All Seasons: The Influence of Local Government Form on Civic Participation
Advisor: John McGlennon
Christopher D'Alessio, Government
Debt Ceiling Politics
Advisor: Larry Evans
Moderator: Madeline Chessman
3:30-4:30:
Brianna Frentzko, English
Adia: A Novel
Advisor: Ava Coibion
Carrie Winter, English
Daddy's Girl: A Story About Intervention, Acceptance, and Detachment
Advisor: Sharon Zuber
Moderator:
6:30-7:30:
Samuel Harvey, Biology
Transcriptional Regulation of the Acetone Carboxylase Operon via Two Component Signal Transduction in Helicobacter pylori
Advisor: Mark Forsyth
Luke Reding, Biology
Can Sexual Selection Drive Speciation and Extinction Processes in Yeast?
Advisor: Helen Murphy and John Swaddle
Moderator: Johnathan Maza
If you have any questions about the Colloquium please contact [[ecneid,Libby Neidenbach]].
