Fourteenth Annual Honors Colloquium Schedule
February 13- 27, 2013
All sessions will be held in Blow 201.
Click on the date to read abstracts of the projects for that day.
Week 1
12:00-1:00
Andrew Follett, Government
The Wrong Right Stuff: Why NASA Consistently Fails at Congress
Advisor: John Gilmour
Drew Engelhardt, Government
Disadvantage and Self-interest: The Influence of Group Identification on Public Policy Preferences
Advisor: Ron Rapoport
Moderator: Daniel Casey
4:00-4:30
Allyson Zacharoff, European Studies
Spanish Antisemitism? The Jews in Spain Under Francisco Franco
Advisor: Marc Raphael
Moderator: Libby Hennemuth
5:00-5:30
Emily Loney, English
Texts, Textiles and Agency: Gendered Performance in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Advisor: Laura Friedman
Moderator: Emma Craige
12:00- 12:30
Greg Yellen, Government
The United States and Postwar Challengers: Applying an Interest-Based Prism
Advisor: Amy Oakes
Moderator: Libby Hennemuth
1:30- 2:00
Emma Aylor, English
"The vernacular of light": Wallace Stevens' Constructions of Belief
Advisor: Christopher MacGowan
Moderator: Alana Burton
3:00-4:00
Nick Martin, Theatre
The Effect of Masked Performance Techniques on the Perception of Identity
Advisor: Laurie Wolf
Benjamin Lauer, Theatre
The Winter's Tale: Social Drama, Liminality, and Communitas
Advisor: Laurie Wolf
Moderator: Greg Collier
Week 2
12:00-1:00
Laura Faircloth, Linguistics
The L2 Acquisition of Non-native Phonemic Distinctions in Arabic by English Speakers
Advisor: Erin Ament
Michael Schilling, Linguistics
Language Attitudes of University of Cape Town Linguistics Students towards Codeswitching
Advisor: Iyabo Osiapem
Moderator: Libby Hennemuth
4:30-5:30
Bilal Ashraf, Neuroscience
Effect of Chronic Adolescent Nicotine Exposure on Anxiety in Adulthood
Advisor: Robert Barnet
Oliver Phillips, Neuroscience
Adolescence as a Unique Period of Vulnerability to Environmental Stressors: Age-Dependent and Sex-Dependent Effects of Nicotine Exposure on Anxiety Utilizing The Light-Enhanced Startle Paradigm
Advisor: Robert Barnet
Moderator: Alana Burton
6:00-7:00
Arthi Aravind, English
The Aftertaste of Memories: Capturing the Cultural Zeitgeist in Fiction
Advisor: Brian Castleberry
Aaron Barksdale, English
20: A Novel
Advisor: Christy Burns
Moderator: Greg Collier
2:00-2:30
Tyler Moran, Mathematics
On Almost Normal Matrices
Advisor: Ilya Spitkovsky
Moderator: Libby Neidenbach
3:30-4:30
Katie Beaver, Government
The Effect of U.S. Policy on International Organization Effectiveness
Advisor: Michael Tierney
Elsa Voytas, International Relations
Justice and a Lack Thereof: Comparative Perspectives on Transitional Justice in the Southern Cone
Advisor: Maurits van der Veen
Moderator: Althea Lyness
5:00-6:00
Jessica Murray, Biology
The Effect of Mercury on Neural Gene Expression during Zebra Finch Development and Song Learning
Advisor: Margaret Saha
Brian Rabe, Biology
The Role of Calcium Activity in the Developing Nervous system of Xenopus
Advisor: Margaret Saha
Moderator: Henry Mark
6:30-7:30
Brett Evans, Classical Studies
Desire and the Textual Body in Latin Love Elegy
Advisor: Vassiliki Panoussi
Kayla Grant, English
L'Être Dans la Lettre: Epistolarity and the Psychological Novel of the Late Nineteenth Century
Advisor: Suzanne Raitt
Moderator: Libby Neidenbach
1:30-2:30
Taylor Ashlock, Music
New Music to the Very Ears of God: Heloise the Composer
Advisor: Thomas Payne
Matthew Reese, Music and History
Dvořák & James: Pragmatism and the Music of Fin de Siècle New York
Advisor: James Armstrong
Moderator: Emily Loney
3:00-4:00
Kelly Watson, Biology
Reducing the Costs of Bird Sampling: A Comparison of Separate- Versus Consecutive-Visit Sampling Designs using Occupancy Modeling
Advisor: Matthias Leu
Joanna Weeks, Biology
Modeling Tick-Borne Diseases in the Changing Landscape of the Virginian Peninsula: A Tool for Urban Planning in the Context of Human Health
Advisor: Matthias Leu
Moderator: Natasha King
4:30-5:30
Elizabeth DeBusk, Linguistics
The Role of Regional Language Variation in Literacy Screening and Assessment: An Evaluation of the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening in Virginia
Advisor: Anne Charity Hudley
Kiara Savage, Linguistics
An Analysis of the Extent to Which an African American Child with Autism Develops the Social Language Variation of His Parents
Advisor: Anne Charity Hudley
Moderator: Greg Collier
6:00-7:00
Gretchen Nutz, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Think Place – Geographies of National Identity in Oman
Advisor: Sibel Zandi-Sayek
Nina Cavazos, Art History and Religious Studies
Divine on Display: The Hindu Devotional Object Within the Walls of an American Museum
Advisor: Ravi Gupta
Moderator: Greg Collier
2:00-3:00
Katie Kaugars, Neuroscience
Heritable Variation in Responsiveness to Photoperiod, Reproduction, and Immune Function
Advisor: Paul Heideman
Eva Szymanski, Biology
A Tale of Two Proteins: The Budding Yeast STUbL Slx5 Functionally Interacts with the SUMO Ligase Siz1
Advisor: Oliver Kerscher
Moderator: Libby Neidenbach
3:30-4:00
Daniel Hodges, Francophone Studies
Les Français au Congo/Zaïre: Une histoire de convoitise
Advisor: Michael Leruth
Moderator: Henry Mark
6:00-7:00
Katherine Hoptay, Biology
Analyzing Ancient DNA by Sequencing Mitochondrial DNA Hypervariable Regions I and II to Determine Origin of Fontabelle Emergency Excavation Site Remains
Advisor: Lizabeth Allison
Hallie Nelson, Biology
Characterization of Thyroid Hormone Receptor Export Pathways
Advisor: Lizabeth Allison
Moderators: Hallie Nelson & Kate Hoptay
12:00-12:30
Huan Song, Interdisciplinary Studies
Paradise Lost: Exploring the Perceptual Differences of the 2011 Cinque Terre Disaster
Advisor: Tonya Boone
Moderator: Colleen Daszkiewicz
Week 3
1:00-1:30
Jarrett Ley, Art and Art History
Queer Praxis: LGBTQ [Home]less Youth Center
Advisor: Edwin Pease
Moderator: Greg Collier
3:00-4:00
Kiah Hardcastle, Mathematics
A Population Density Domain Model for Ca-Inactivation of L-Type Ca Channels
Advisor: Gregory Smith
Allison Oldham, Mathematics
Open Locating Dominating Sets on Infinite Grids
Advisor: Gexin Yu and Rex Kincaid
Moderator: Jasmin Green
4:30-5:30
Eli Dollarhide, Anthropology
'That the Future may learn from the [reconstructed] Past:' Nationalism and Ritual Drama at Colonial Williamsburg
Advisor: Neil Norman
Jill Found, History
Exhibiting Slavery: How Plantation Museums in Virginia Represent Slavery
Advisor: Susan Kern
Moderator: Greg Collier
2:00-3:00
Shannon Crawford, Literary and Cultural Studies
The New Propaganda: Negotiating Narrative in Broadcast Mass Media
Advisor: Gary Eckles
Aylin Kaya, Psychology
Perceptions of Criminals as a Function of Race, Stereotypicality, and Media
Advisor: Cheryl Dickter
Moderator: Jasmin Green
3:30-4:30
Meredith Dost, Public Policy
Representative Bureaucracy and Latino Student Achievement: A Case for Increased Minority Representation in US Public School Districts
Advisor: Paul Manna
Avery Newton, Interdisciplinary Studies
The Effect of State Education Governance on Exit Examination Policy in the U.S
Advisor: Paul Manna
Moderator: Elsa Voytas
5:00-6:00
Mason Rayner, Government
John Locke and the Creation of Liberal Subjects
Advisor: John Baltes
Thomas Bettge, German Studies
Species of Truth in Nietzsche
Advisor: Robert Leventhal
Moderator: Emma Craige
6:30-7:30
Zack Quaratella, History
The Shifting Ideology of the New England Common School, 1800-1850
Advisor: Carol Sheriff
Henry Ware, History
The Personal of the Event: Subjectivity and the English Civil War
Advisor: Nicholas Popper
Moderator: Wen Chen
1:30-2:00
Nicole Brown, Sociology
A Separated Sudan: Redefining South Sudanese Immigrant Transnational Identity
Advisor: Monika Gosin
Moderator: Colleen Daszkiewicz
3:00-4:00
Daniel Angeles, Neuroscience
Cloning and Characterization of the Glycine Receptor Subunits in the Developing Nervous System of Xenopus laevis
Advisor: Margaret Saha
Lindsay Schleifer, Biology
How Neural Cells Acquire an Identity: Role of Calcium Signaling and Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels in Neurotransmitter Phenotype Specification
Advisor: Margaret Saha
Moderator: Christina Stephens
4:30-5:30
Graham Bryant, English
What Was King Arthur? Illuminating the Welsh Nationalistic Origins and Implications of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Pre-Chivalric Arthur
Advisor: John Conlee
Eliza Urban, English
Crossroads College, a Novel
Advisor: John Conlee
Moderator: Greg Collier
If you have any questions about the Colloquium please contact [[ecneid,Libby Neidenbach]].