Focus on Undergraduate Research Week 2011
The purpose of this week is to bring attention to the exciting research being done by Charles Center-funded William and Mary undergraduates.
FOUR Week will be held September 26-30 with over 150 student presentations at the Summer Research Showcase. Oral presentations will be held on Monday and Friday 3:00-5:00 and poster presentations on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 3:30-5:00. All events are in Blow 201 and everyone is welcome!
2011 Summer Research Showcase Schedule
Monday, September 26
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Blow 201, 3:00-5:00
Graham Bryant, A Collection of Trifling Monographs upon the Subject of the Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Michael Aiken, Day Trading: Mitigating Risk in the Stock Market Using CANSLIM Principles
Ari Cukierman, Decaying Dark Matter and the Cosmic Ray Spectrum
Tim Milbourne, Tuning Into Scandium: An Analysis of Molecular Structure through Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Elisa Enriquez-Hesles, The Effect of an Invasive Species of Algae on a Marine Foundation Species
William Adams, Acoustic Reflection Caused by the Front of Jamestown North Dorm Building
Tuesday, September 27
POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Blow 201, 3:30-5:00
Kate Allen, An Academic Look at Elementary School Theatre
Victoria Barber, The Exchange
Sierra Barnes, Wanderer
Monika Bernotas, The Legacy of Unofficial Art in the Soviet Union
Peter Bihl, Brothers-in-Arms: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Culture Pertaining to Firearms in the United States and Spain
Holly Blackburn, The Effect of Maternal Investment on Cloning Rates in Asterias forbesi
Kirstie Brenson, The Facebook Revolution: Social Media in the World of Political Campaigning
Michael Cammarata, From Orgo to Toro: A Pre-Medical Student's Experience with the Escuela Taurina de Jerez de la Frontera
Mitch Caudill, Gesture Types and Rates in White-Faced Sakis (Pithecia pithecia)
Emma Caverly, Ephemeral Dissolved Organic Carbon Fluxes from Agricultural Runoff on the Virginia Coastal Plain in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Roger Chesley, Short Stories by Roger Chesley
Katie Clough, A New Frontier: Soft Power in Latin America during the Cold War
Ashley Fidler, The Role of TGF-β/BMP Signaling in the Developing Testis of Drosophila melanogaster
Andrew Frantz, Hugh MacKay, the Highland War and the Glorious Revolution in Scotland
Becca Gallahue, Gloria Fuertes: A "Nota Biografica"
Leigh Gayle, The Effect of Social Stimuli on the Visual Mismatch Negativity Paradigm in Autism
Dimelza Gonzales-Flores, Differentiation of Student Achievement Levels in English as a Second Language Programs
Kayla Grant, Back To The Land: Constructing an American Mythology of Slow Food
Michael Gropper, Analysis of Relative Payroll Differences and Win Percentage in Major League Baseball
Josh Holt, Design and Fabrication of Tungsten Oxide Memristive Devices for Neuromorphic Systems
Jessica Jenkins, Oyster Research at Kiskiak
Katelyn Jenkins, Virulence in the Animal Pathogen Streptococcus parauberis
Michael Jiang, Neutrino Interactions at MINERvA: Unraveling the Mysteries behind a Ghostly Particle
Conner Kasten, Cross-Disciplinary Study of Tree Structure
Sarah Kyle, Talking With Half a Voice
Matt Lamb, Investigation of the Environmental and Societal Effects on the Human Condition
Jonathan Lehman, Techniques to Improve Software Development for Mobile Devices
Steven Linett, South-South Development Cooperation: An Analysis of Cultural Distance and Economic Relationships in Developing Country Partnerships
Hanna Loucas, Analysis of Homo floresiensis and its Greater Implications
Yvonne Mack, Transnationalism in Terms of Twentieth-Century Asian Art and its Relationship with the West
Gabriel Manion, The Impact of Congressional Polarization on Three major Health Care Policies: Bill Clinton's 1993 overhaul, George W. Bush's Medicare Part-D Prescription Drug Benefit, and Barack Obama's 2009 Health Care Reform Bill
Lauren McAuliffe, Restrictionist Discourse by the Numbers
Molly McDonough, The Role of the Notch Signaling Pathway in Neurotransmitter Phenotype Specification in Xenopus laevis
Meagen Monahan, “The Negro Motorist Green Book: an International Travel Guide”: Following in the 21st Century the Travel Guide of the Jim Crow Years
Valentina Moshnikova, pHLIP-Assisted Delivery of Amanitin in Cultured Cancer Cells
Elizabeth Pelletier, Nostalgia on Screen: Creating Film Atmosphere through Setting and Mise en Scène
Leksa Pravdic, La memoria, Las Memorias: Constructing Memory in Argentina's Post-Dictatorship Cinema
Jasmine Rodenburg, Canada, the United States and Oil
Jeffrey Rohde, An Examination of Pre-Modern Orientalism Inspired by Dante's "Commedia"
Kevin Salinas, Community Capacity Building in the Dominican Republic- Summer 2011
David Sherman, Exploring the Recession and the Wall Street Act Through an Audit of the FDIC
Desmarie Sherwood, The Development of Mercury Sensor for Biological and Chemical Systems
Erin Spencer, Reef Conservation in Bonaire
Alena Stern, Crowdsourcing and Scorecarding: Experiments to Improve Aid Effectiveness in Uganda
Ruoyan Sun, The Impact of ESL Programs on Future Education Plan
Aniko Toth, Intrinsic Values of Nature in Artistic Medium
Paul Tucker, Monuments, Memorials, and Remembrance
Elana Urbach, Hella’s Story: Putting My Great Grandmother’s Memoirs in Historical Context
Ellie Walsh, Cognitive Disability in Antebellum America
Emily Wolfteich, The Huddled Masses: Immigration and Poetry in New York City
Allyson Zacharoff, The Jewish People: Antisemitism in Spain
Wednesday, September 28
POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Blow 201, 3:30-5:00
Lelise Aklilu, The Effect of Stereotypic Primes on the Social Categorization of Biracial Faces
Emily Anthony, Sustainability in the New Zealand Wine Industry
Katherine Arcement, Jaywalking Past Manhattan
Anushree Banerjee and Connor Smith, Assessing the Impact of Municipal-Level Aid in the Western Balkans
Katie Barlow, Coloring Outside the Lines: A Cross Cultural Study of Comic Books as a Medium for Social and Political Thought
Nicky Bell, Promoting Regional Interests in the European Parliament
Jacob Buck, CNV as a Measure of Time Duration Categorization
Gregory Callaghan, The Recognition of Latin's Influence on the English Lexicon
Madeline Chessman, Beyond Sundance: Theory and Case Studies of International Film Festivals
Lauren Coleman, The National Park Service: Sharing and Preserving History and Nature in the Shenandoah Valley
Brian Comiskey, An Analysis of the Industrialization Process of Manchester, New Hampshire as a Representation of the Rise of American Industrial Primacy
Greg Dowd, Evolution of American International Trade: Political Incentives and Policy Making
Brett Evans, Examining Epistolarity and Persuasion in Ovid's Epistulae ex Ponto 1.2
Lydia Fairfax, The Role of Women in Classical Chinese Music
Alessandra Fleurent, Harm Reduction Drug Policies and their Effect on HIV Rates in Switzerland
Brianna Frentzko, Adia: A Novel of Fragmented Selves and Hidden Narrators
Lyndsey Funkhouser, Using GIS to Quantify Riparian Buffer Bypassing in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Anna Glendening, Internet Humor: What It Is and Why It's Funny
Kiah Hardcastle, A Population Activity Model of Cortico-Striatal Circuitry Underlying Behavioral Inhibition in Rats
Sharon Hartzell, Catalyst for Change: Science, Writing and the Environmental Movement
Dana Hayes, Analyzing the Narrative and Other Formal Distinctions between Foreign Films and Their Twenty-First Century American Adaptations
Kaitlin Helsley, Antiviral Effects of TeaF and Applications to Williamsburg Area Viral Ecology
Isabel Hirama, Perceptions of Personality in Third Culture Kids
Jim Irby, Grassroots Peacebuilding: Can Peace be Constructed from the Bottom Up?
Angela Ives, The Heritability of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Neurons in White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) Population
James Janopaul-Naylor, Revisions on a Model of Social Network Stability
Tracy Jenkins, Archaeological Investigations of an 18th-19th-Century Virginia Slave Quarter
Ksenjia Kapetanovic, Neonatal Mercury Impairs Context Fear Conditioning in Rats
Katie Kaugars, The Interaction Between Genetics and Aggression in Peromyscus leucopus
Julia Kihm, The Effect of Mercury on Nestling Zebra Finches
Catherine King, Number Theory and “Unbreakable” Secret Codes
Dylan Kolhoff, The Jasmine Revolution and China
Adam Lerner, Rehabilitating the Consequentialist View of Moral Responsibility
Sarah McKinstry, Local Calcium Signaling in RBL-2H3 cells: STIM and Orai
Johnathan Mondel, The Daily Show's Effect on Levels of Personal Issue Importance
Gabrielle Names, A Study of the Behavioral and Foraging Habits of the I’iwi Honeycreeper
Hannah Naughton, Photophysical Characterization of an Organic Probe of Solvent Acidity
Albert Ng-Sui-Hing, Analysis of Calcium Spiking in Xenopus laevis Retinal Cells Using Electrophysiological Recording and Calcium Fluorescent Imaging
Lindsay Oakley, Conservation of Cultural Heritage Objects
Suzan Ok, The Effect of Bacteriophages and Protozoan Grazing on Bacterial Communities in Lake Matoaka
Samantha Payne, Austen and the Romantics: An Author and her Time Period
Eric Press, Koasati Language Preservation
Gregory Ranzini, Pocky: The Distinctly Japanese Face of Statelessness
Luke Reding, The First Experimental Test of Whether Sexual Selection Drives Speciation and Extinction Processes in a Model Organism
Andre Renaldo, The Role of RRF-3 in Spermatogenesis
Daniel Robinson, Physician-Hospital Integration
Meredith Rutledge, Music, Healing, and Children
Jacob Saracco, Europe-Inspired Choral Compositions
Margaret Schwenzfeier, The Influence of Social Networks on Political Campaign Volunteerism
Cate Shermer, The Civil War: Creating an Online Module for Elementary Students
Rebecca Stanford, The Potential Effects of Resveratrol Against Alzheimer's Disease
Casey Swann, In Search of La Dolce Vita
Rachael Tatman, An Introduction to Fine Bookbinding
Peter Terenzio, Thomas Roderick Dew, William and Mary, and the Panic of 1819: The Making of a Southern Intellectual
Greg Tito, Depictions of Ecosystems and Life-forms in Science Fiction
Rebecca Turner, Em Ima Imi
Christopher Tyson, Mapping the Distribution of Invasive Plant Species in Virginia's Coastal Plain
Lillian Waller, The U. S. North Pacific Exploring Expedition: Contributions to Biological Collections at the Smithsonian Institution
Andrea Williams, The Letters of George III: A Monarch's Perspective on the American Colonies
Kristen Wong, The Pseudophosphatase MK-STYX Role in Neuronal Differentiation
Elise Zevitz, From the Nile to the Negev
Thursday, September 29
POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Blow 201, 3:30-5:00
Andrew Anderson, Fictitious Boundaries: Class, Capital, and the Construction of Race in Apartheid South Africa
Matthew Badgett, Specification of Cyst Progenitor Stem Cells in Drosophila melanogaster
Hee Baek, How Does Education Shape Students' Perceptions of Disability?
Timothy Becker, A Model for the Population of the Blue Crab in the Chesapeake Bay
Colleen Betti, An Exploration of a Midden at Fairfield Plantation
Hanna Bartram, The History of Food in Andalucía: Impacts of Cultural Mixing on the Development of Cuisine
Taylor Broome, A Mathematical Model of Cell Death in Multiple Sclerosis
Alexandria Brown, Exchange Patterns in the Woodland-Period Chesapeake: An XRF Study
Emily Brown, Emotion Regulation in Ghanaian Children
Girolama Bui, Research of P7 gene in H. Pylori strains
Gillian Byles, Cross-Cultural Comparison of Body Image in Jamaican and American Women
Taylor Charest, Investigating Health Care Barriers of Underserved Populations: Rural Appalachia and Low-Income Seasonal Workers of Cape Cod/Islands
Beth Childress, Fluorescence Sensing of Mercury by Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles
Bernice Chu, The Garden Project
Emily Clarke, Spatial Ability and Video Game Performance
Stephen Dinehart, The Use of Silver Nanoprisms in Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for the Purpose of Art Preservation
Meghan Dowling, Advertising Across the Pond: A Comparison of German and American Marketing Techniques
Katelyn Durkin, Reclaiming the Nursery: Children’s Spaces in Edith Wharton’s Fiction and the Problems of Modern Childhood
Kara Gadeken, The Relationship between the Concept of Human Ensoulment and Various Religious Views
Elizabeth Goldemen, Private Wealth and Political Power: Assessing Berlusconi's Leadership and Rise to Power
Emily Gottschalk-Marconi, Dream a Little DREAM: Granting Citizenship to Young Undocumented Immigrants in the United States
David Hill, Creation of a 380 Micron Resolution Brain Template for Comparative Neuroanatomy in Dogs
Kate Hughes, Inking the Imaginary: The Illustration of Fairy Tales
Stephanie Kane, Diet and Cognitive Deficit: Investigating the “Vicious Cycle Model”
Min Seung Kim, Effect of Adolescent Nicotine Exposure on Hippocampus-Dependent Trace Conditioning
Sunjay Kumar, An Analysis of Variables which Correlate to Duration of MRSA Bacteremia
Rachel Lienesch, Midterm Power Shuffles: A Comparison of the 1994 and 2006 Congressional Elections
Emily Matson, Impressions of the Nanjing Massacre on Chinese College Students
Carolyn McKenna, Theatre Costuming: Creating a Victorian Era Dress
Maureen McNabb, The Portrayal of Women in Literature and the Contemporary: the Connection Between Feminism and Postmodernism
Jessica Murray, Effect of Mercury on Gene Expression in Early Neurological Development of Zebra Finch Embryos
Laura Murray, Networks, Audiences, and Freshman Television Shows: How Does a New Show Survive Cancellation?
Taylor Nelson-Fariss, Let’s Get Cooking! The Effects of Cooking-Based Nutritional Education on Children’s Willingness to Try New Foods
Kelly O'Toole, Observing the Human-Animal Bond Through Partnerships between the Heritage Humane Society and the Merrimac Juvenile Detention Center
Kevin Place, Pegasus Anchored: An Analysis of and Production Plan for Eugene O’Neill’s S.S. Glencairn
Dylan Reilly, Determining the Significance of Riparian Buffer Bypassing Channels
Sarah Schall, Health Care and the Community in a Navajo Nation Border Town in Rural Arizona
Lindsay Schleifer, María, María la arpía ¿Cómo crece tu jardín?: Sowing Seeds of Breast Health in the Hispanic Community
Justine Sequeira, Nous Accusons La France: The Consequences of Nationalism in Europe
Meg Southern, Archaeology of Enslaved Bermudians at Stewart Hall
Matthew Sparacino, The Effects of Weathering on Bedrock Channel Erosion and Form
David St. John, The Locavore's Apprentice
Kenay Sudler, Examining the Situation Faced by Speech Pathologists who Speak English with an Accent from a Foreign Language
Noah Sweet, Short Circuited: A Novel
Michael Trotta, Morocco in the Midst of the Arab Spring
Felicia Tsung, An Exploration of Freelance Journalism
Ethan Winter, Mechanisms of Spermatogenesis in Rhabditis sp. SB372
Natalie Wong, Achieving Single Molecule Fluorescence to Study Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Deborah Wood, The History of Mechanical Calculating Devices
Wei Xia, ECG Anomaly Detection Data Transmission via Wireless Network
Petar Yanev, Despair in Germany: the Visions of Nabokov and Fassbinder
Ouwen Yang, Linear 2-Trees
Friday, September 30
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Blow 201, 3:30-5:00
Diana Ohanian, The Wounds of Vichy Reopened: Remembering Post-WWII France through the Business Dealings and Court Cases Relating to SNCF
Rebekah Rochte, Theatre and the Church
Morrison Mast, Conservation on the Edge
Andrew Bessler, The Evolution of Terrorism and Organized Crime in the Sahel
George Wang, The Economics of Algae-Biofuel: A Cost Benefit Analysis
Brett Cooley, Activity Spoofing in the Android Operating System