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
Room 137
9:35 –
10:35 am
Room 138
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
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
Room 139
Scott Eggert: Musica
Universalis: from the
Lamboma of Pythagoras to
the Tonality Diamond of
Harry Partch.
Moderator: Hilary
Schroeder
Workshops
Room 140
ICON: Qrowd and the
Qloud
Dr. Marguerite Madden:
Welcome to Qrowd and
the Qloud, a Counter
Mapping Workshop
Randal Hale: Open Street
Maps: How to Create
Them?
Jessica Chappell: Socio-ecological Trade-offs for
Freshwater Management in El Yunque National
Forest, Puerto Rico
Papers
Room 137
10:45 –
11:45 am
Sophia Jeong: Teacher
Learning during Professional
Development.
Moderator: Ben Campbell
Soudabeh Rafieisakhaei:
Creativity in a Literature
class
Room 138
Room 139
Molly Candon: A Modern Marriage Market: Labor
Market Sorting and the Intergenerational
Transmission of Health. Moderator: Quinn Tracy
Uma Nagendra: Tornadoes
and trapeze: an experience
in communicating science
through aerial dance.
Moderator: Hilary
Schroeder
Caroline Sharkey: Cancer Doesn't Discriminate:
Developing an LGBTQ 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
Workshops
Room 140
Qrowd and Qloud
Randal Hale:
Humanitarian
OpenStreetMap, A
Coordinated Approach
Randal Hale: Filling in the
Missing Maps, A Hand-on
Exercise
Moderator: Jon
Hallemeier
1
Room 141
Dr. Georgia Strange:
Strategies for
Infusing Art +
Sustainability into
Curriculum.
Moderator: Lauren
Mullenbach
Watershed
UGA/CIRTL module
introduction
workshop.
Moderator: Lauren
Mullenbach
Room 141
Dr. Hilda Kurtz:
Introducing The
National SEED
Project on Inclusive
Curriculum.
Moderator: June
Brawner
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
EVENT
11:45 am –
12:30 pm
Reception Hall, Room 135
Lunch
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
Room 137
12:40 –
1:40 pm
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
Sonia Sharmin: Thomas Horne and Banning
Mexican-American Studies: A Critical
Discourse Analysis
Room 138
Room 139
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.
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
3:00 – 4:00
pm
Room 138
Jaclyn Murray: Scientific and Engineering
Practices in Secondary Science Classrooms:
The Engineering Perspective.
Moderator: Farris Muhammad
Josh Patterson: Writ of Passage: The Role
of Fiction in Ritual.
Moderator: Quinn Tracy
Rubina Malik: Exposing Students to Learning
Sustainable Practices in High Performing
Organizations
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
Sarah Horsley: Effects of Educational
Programming on Visitors' Attitudes Toward
Snake Conservation and Citizen Science
Dorothy Todd: "Oh This Learning, What a
Thing It Is!": Service-Learning Shakespeare
and Community Partnerships
Papers
Room 137
Room 139
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
Gabriel Ayoola: Yoruba drum
talking. Moderator: Danielle
Clausnitzer
Workshops
Room 140
Qrowd and Qloud
Randal Hale: Recap of the
Morning Session, Review of the
Missing Maps Exercise
Moderator: Jon Hallemeier
Workshops
Room 140
Qrowd and Qloud
Pratt Cassity: Planning &
Design Using Community
Perceptions
Dr. Jerry Shannon: Counter
Mapping using Cartograms
Randal Hale: Open Source GIS
for Qualitative Mapping
Andrea Presotto: Non-Human
Spatial Cognition
Moderator: Jason Woods
Workshops
Room 140
Qrowd and Qloud
Panel Discussion, Emerging
Trends in Qualitative Mapping
Panelists: Randal Hale, Pratt,
Cassity, Dr. Jerry Shannon,
Andrea Presotto & Richard
Vercoe
Moderator: Jason Woods
Room 141
Room 142
Joel Izlar:
Grassroots
Community
Organizing for
Lasting
Change.
Moderator:
Xue Xing
Mark Callahan:
Critical
Feedback.
Moderator:
Hilary Schroeder
Room 141
Room 142
Tokesha
Warner:
Planning and
executing
effective grant
proposals.
Moderator:
Matt Cahalan
Sustainability
Roundtable:
Translating
Interdisciplinary
Research within
the Scope of
Sustainability.
Moderator:
June Brawner
Room 141
Room 142
Unconference.
Moderator:
Lisbeth WellsPratt
Viviane Klen
Alves & Polly
Mangerson: Use
of online
platforms and
tools in hybrid
classes.
Moderator:
Nancy O’Hare
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