University of Georgia Graduate Student Association
15th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference
February 27th, 2015
Tate Student Center
TIME
8:45 –
9:30 am
9:15 –
9:30 am
EVENT
Breakfast
Reception Hall, Room 135
Welcome Remarks: Mark Callahan
Reception Hall, Room 135
Papers
9:35 –
10:35 am
Room 137
Room 138
Room 139
Kate Keib: Staying Alive: How News
Organizations Can Earn Credibility &
Engagement on Facebook. Moderator:
Lindsey Racz
Naga Sirisha Parimi: Exploring algae for
the simultaneous production of food and
fuel. Moderator: Ben Campbell
Scott Eggert:
Musica Universalis:
from the Lamboma
of Pythagoras to
the Tonality
Diamond of Harry
Partch.
Moderator: Hilary
Schroeder
ICON: Crowd and
the Cloud: A
Counter Mapping
Workshop (part
one).
Moderator: Jon
Hallemeier
Room 139
Room 140
Soojin Ahn: Ethnic Studies’ Ban on
Media: A critical discourse analysis of
TV interviews
Mathew Hauer: Population Projections
and Risk of Inundation from MSLR for the
United States in 2100
Jessica Chappell: Socio-ecological Tradeoffs for Freshwater Management in El
Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico
Room 140
Papers
Room 137
Sophia Jeong: Teacher Learning during
Professional Development.
Moderator: Ben Campbell
10:45 –
11:45 am
Soudabeh Rafieisakhaei: Creativity in a
Literature class
Room 138
Molly Candon: A Modern Marriage
Market: Labor Market Sorting and the
Intergenerational Transmission of Health.
Moderator: Quinn Tracy
Caroline Sharkey: Cancer Doesn't
Discriminate: Developing a Culturally
Competent Approach to Whole-Patient
Care
Chioma Kas-Osoka: Developing a
Conceptual Model to Synthesize Factors
Influencing Risky Sexual Behaviors among
Adolescents Involved in the Juvenile
Justice System
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Uma Nagendra:
Tornadoes and
trapeze: an
experience in
communicating
science through
aerial dance.
Moderator: Hilary
Schroeder
ICON: Crowd and
the Cloud: A
Counter Mapping
Workshop (part
two).
Moderator: Jon
Hallemeier
Workshops
Room 141
Dr. Georgia Strange: Strategies
for Infusing Art + Sustainability
into Curriculum.
Moderator: Lauren Mullenbach
Watershed UGA/CIRTL module
introduction workshop.
Moderator: Lauren Mullenbach
Workshops
Room 141
Dr. Hilda Kurtz: Introducing The
National SEED Project on
Inclusive Curriculum.
Moderator: TBD
Room 142
Dr. Carolyn
Medine:
Strategies for
getting published.
Moderator: TBD
Room 142
Farris
Muhammad,
Ashley Baker, and
Christopher
Johnson: Facing
Graduate Student
Challenges
TIME
11:45 am –
12:30 pm
EVENT
Lunch
Reception Hall, Room 135
Keynote Presentation: Dr. Meredith Welch-Devine
12:00 –
12:30 pm
Embracing and bridging divides: Interdisciplinary scholarship at UGA and beyond
Reception Hall, Room 135
Papers
12:40 –
1:40 pm
Room 137
Room 138
Erin Horan: Creativity and Mathematics: Do
Divergent Thinking Skills Affect Mathematics
Strategy Use? A Review.
Moderator: Atakan Ata
Michael Drew: Creative Community
Partnerships in Public Safety and Education
for Elementary School Children
Grace Melo: Survey Evidence On Legal and
Illegal Hispanic Immigrants’ Perceptions of Living
and Working in US Agriculture.
Moderator: June Brawner
Tongyang Yang: Does Ethnicity Matter for Food
Choices? An Evidence on Time Use of Asian
Immigrants
Pablo Chialvo: Resolving species boundaries in
the native North American fire ants
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Solenopsis) through
integrated taxonomy.
Sonia Sharmin: Thomas Horne and Banning
Mexican-American Studies: A Critical
Discourse Analysis
Room 139
Rouhollah
Aghasaleh: Bodies
in the Classroom;
How to Enhance
Teaching and
Learning Through
Embodied
Pedagogy.
Moderator: Jean
Young
Papers
Room 137
1:50 – 2:50
pm
Room 138
Jaclyn Murray: Scientific and Engineering
Practices in Secondary Science Classrooms:
The Engineering Perspective.
Moderator: Farris Muhammad
Rubina Malik: Engaging Students in Learning
Sustainable Practices in High Performing
Organizations
Sarah Horsley: Effects of Educational
Programming on Visitors' Attitudes Toward
Snake Conservation and Citizen Science
3:00 – 4:00
pm
Room 139
Josh Patterson: Writ of Passage: The Role of
Fiction in Ritual.
Moderator: Quinn Tracy
Jieun Lee: Han as Affect: An Analysis of the
Virtuality of Han in Korean Shamanism, the
Shamanistic Performance Gut and Ae-joo Lee’s
Gut Dance
Dorothy Todd: "Oh This Learning, What a Thing
It Is!": Service-Learning Shakespeare and
Community Partnerships
Papers
Room 137
Jason Guthrie &
John French:
Present Tense
History: An
Autoethnography
of Music,
Creativity, and
Learning.
Moderator: Jean
Young
Room 139
Elizabeth Louis: Natural Disasters: The Perceptions of Victims and Survivors Based on Race and
Gender. Moderator: Matt Cahalan
Hyoyeun Jun: Suggestion of Communication Strategy for Campus Sustainability
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Gabriel Ayoola:
Yoruba drum
talking workshop.
Moderator:
Danielle
Clausnitzer
Workshops
Room 140
Room 141
ICON: Crowd and
the Cloud: A
Counter Mapping
Workshop (part
three).
Moderator: Jon
Hallemeier
Joel Izlar:
Grassroots
Community
Organizing for
Lasting Change.
Moderator: Xue
Xing
Workshops
Room 140
Room 141
ICON: Crowd and
the Cloud: A
Counter Mapping
Workshop (part
four).
Moderator: Jon
Hallemeier
Tokesha
Warner:
Effective Grantwriting.
Moderator:
Matt Cahalan
Workshops
Room 140
Room 141
ICON Panel:
Emerging Trends
in Qualitative GIS.
Moderator: Jon
Hallemeier
Unconference.
Moderator:
Lisbeth WellsPratt
Room 142
Mark Callahan:
Critical Feedback.
Moderator: Hilary
Schroeder
Room 142
Sustainability
Roundtable:
Translating
Interdisciplinary
Research within
the Scope of
Sustainability.
Moderator: June
Brawner
Room 142
Viviane Klen Alves
& Polly
Mangerson: Use
of online
platforms and
tools in hybrid
classes.
TIME
4:00 – 4:30
pm
4:30 – 5:00
pm
5:00 – 7:00
pm
EVENT
Poster Session / Afternoon Snacks & Coffee
Reception Hall, Room 135
Awards & Closing Remarks
Reception Hall, Room 135
Post-Conference Happy Hour & Celebration
Walker’s Pub
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