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2015 Symposium Presentation Schedule
8:00 – 9:00 REGISTRATION ~ AD LOBBY
AD 102
DR. STEIGENGA
9:15 – 9:30 Melissa Corichi &
Cynthia Moss
Let it Rot, A Worm
Composting Food
Recycling Operation
AD 103
DR. FEWKES
Kaitlyn McCoy
The Effects of
Globalization on
Early Childhood
Education in China
9:30 – 9:45 Amanda Bass
The Mission Kitchen
Evan Jackson
The Anthropology of
Airlines: Flag
carriers,
Nationalism, Place,
and Identity
9:45 – 10:00 Jaspar Leahy
Alternative
Education Strategies
in the Reintegration
of Liberian Former
Child Soldiers
10:00 – 10:15 Bianca Trifoi
“A Nation's Vibrant
and Triumphant
Incarnation in a
Man”: Personality
Cults and Isolation
in North Korea and
Cuba
AD 104
DR. VÁZQUEZ
Caitlyn Hood
La comida como
crítica social en la
picaresca [= Food
as a Social Critique
in the Spanish
Picaresque
Tradition]
Fernando Varela
Sexuality, Politics,
and a Queer
Narrative of the
Cuban Revolution:
The Case of
Reinaldo Arenas’
Before Night Falls
(1992)
Elizabeth Jellie
Alejandra Uribe
Health Literacy and Female Resistant
El Sol: How the
Voice in Cuban
Community Center
Antislavery
Impacts Critical
Narrative: The Case
Health Determinants of Teresa in Sab
(1841) by Gertrudis
Gómez de
Avellaneda
Skylar Benedict
Abodes of Memory:
Sacred Architecture
and Collective
Remembrance in
Northern India
Benjamin Paley
Is it Fair for
Government to Deny
Funding to a
Particular
Organization or
Cause?
AD 202
DR. MOORE
Liana Houston &
Chelsea Bennice
Foraging strategies:
Mechanism for
niche partitioning
between Octopus
vulgaris and
Macrotritopus
defilippi
Sara Thomas
Invasive Lionfish
Diet Composition &
Gastric Evacuation
Rate
AD 205
DR. MCGOVERN
Jessica Garafola
Wealth Determines
Health:
Socioeconomic
Status and Life
Expectancy in
Washington, D.C.
AD 206
DR. HARRAWOOD
Erin Fee
Francis Bacon's
"New Atlantis" as a
Moral and Scientific
Fable
AD 119
DR. KIRCHMAN
Melanie Felia
SynGAP1
Haploinsufficiency
Affects Morphological Structures of
Pyramidal Neurons
in Somatosensory
Cortex
Lauren Koff,
Melanie Thompson,
Daniel Lopez, &
Brian Pennington
Privilege,
Entitlement and
Honesty
Taylor Clark
Angels and Demons:
John Dee’s
Relationship to
Magic, Science, and
Religion in the 16th
Century
Rachel Turn
In Vivo and In Vitro
Characterization of
a Novel GLP-1R
Biased Agonist:
Therapeutic Implications for Type II
Diabetes Mellitus
Kayla Villanueva
Occurrence of
Upper Respiratory
Tract Disorder and
Associated
Hematology of
Gopher Tortoises
(Gopherus
polyphemus) in
South Florida
Juliana Gomez
The Development of
Inhibitory Neuron
Distribution
Through Ferret
Visual Cortex
Ian Moore
The Political,
Environmental, and
Economic Impacts
of the Dry-cleaning
Industry
Tyler Crawford
The American
Nightmare:
Hyperreality and
Loss of Identity in
American Psycho
and Escape from
Tomorrow
SriGita Madiraju
Characterizing
mitochondrial
unfolded protein
response (UPRmt)
triggered by
endogenous DNA
damage
Amy Stein
Enter the Matrix:
Rotations of Knitting
Patterns Using
Matrices
Zachary Humphrey
“The New
Sincerity:” Finding
Wallace’s Literary
Rebels in the Alt-Lit
Poetics of Mira
Gonzalez and
Spencer Madsen
John Blozinski
Synthetic Evolution
via Heat Shock
Selects for Heat
Resistant Aconitase
10:15 – 10:30 BREAK
AD 102
DR. STEIGENGA
10:30 – 10:45 Euda Fils
NextMeal- Solving
the Hunger Problem
in America One
Meal at a Time
AD 103
DR. NJAMBI
Christopher Praolini
Gendered Medicine:
How Race and
Gender Can
Influence Medicine
AD 104
DR. VÁZQUEZ
Benjamin Paley,
Benjamin Arsali,
Andrew Faris, &
Franklin Sklar
Privacy and Borat
AD 202
DR. SHAMMA
Kaley Jemison
Merging through
Media in Bishop's
"In the Waiting
Room" and
Waldman's "History
will Decide"
Tyler Crawford
The Rock Star,
Mama Bear, & The
New York Influence:
An Examination of
Alice Notley’s
“101” and Eileen
Myles’ “An
American Poem”
and “Rotting
Symbols”
Taylor Myers
The Southern Belle
Effect: A Study of
the Strong Female
Characters in
American Literature
10:45 – 11:00 Rebecca Peter
Comparison of
Supermarkets Based
on Environmental
Impact, Economic
Performance, and
Social Responsibility
Mũmbi Ngũgĩ
Mocking Hobbes:
Stand Your Ground
Laws in the USA
Alexandra
Harrington, Kahlil
Ricketts, Alejandra
Uribe, & Selene C.
Vazquez
The Right to Be
Forgotten Versus
Society’s Interest in
Safety and Security
11:00 – 11:15 Ben Arsali
Ending
Homelessness
Through
Employment: The
Maintenance
Magicians Approach
Catharine Thomas
Chinese Motivations
for Supporting the
One–Child Policy
Laccia Bromell
The Gardener's
Lament:
Rehabilitation and
Responsibility Inside
Leavenworth Prison
11:15 – 11:30 Akemi Inamoto
Immigrant
Integration and
Assimilation: An
Analysis of El Sol
Neighborhood
Resource Center in
Jupiter, Florida
Nolan McKenna
Evangelical
Christian Mission
Trips in a PostColonial Culture
Alejandra Uribe
Jeremiah Smith
Privacy and the
A Defendant's SixthRight to Free Speech Amendment Right to
Jury Nullification
11:30 – 1:00 LUNCH BREAK
AD 205
DR. KENNEDY
Andrew Li
What is Health?
AD 206
DR. HARRAWOOD
Alden Sharp
Ars Lupinica: Furry
Antimythology
AD 119
DR. KIRCHMAN
Kaitlyn Shotwell
Cortical
Development in an
Intellectual
Disability Mouse
Model
Felicia Cooper
Refusal of
Interventions and
Autonomy involving
Children and
Adolescents with
Type 1 Diabetes
Ashlee Mclymont
Subverting
Colonialism by
Story Telling
Christina Collins
A Novel Reporter:
Construction of a
Ratiometric
Fluorescent
Voltage-Sensitive
Protein to Report
Inner Mitochondrial
Membrane Potential
Jonathan Votypka
Thomas Pynchon's
Philosopher
Detectives: An
Investigation into
the Epistemic
Cyborg
Aileen Phillips
Neuron-Specific
Requirement of
Autophagy Gene
atg-18 for Lifespan
and Dauer
Morphogenesis of
daf-2 Mutant C.
elegans
Karla-Anne Knapp
The Development
and Calibration of a
Low-Cost Flame
Photometer
Ashley Zito
Bloodless Surgery:
Medicine Meets the
Challenge
1:00 – 2:00 Chastain Guest Lecture and Honors College Forum, AD Auditorium
Audrey Peterman, President and Co-founder of Earthwise Productions, Inc.
“Being the Change You Want to See: How the Vision of Our National Parks Transformed My Life”
Jonathan Mason
Breathless
Elena McVay
Seidr
Christina Donath
The Giant Heart
Cockle
Abigail Schaffner
The Mangrove
Periwinkle (Littorina
angulifera)
Gabriella DeAngelo
Lindsay Gorgen
Hades and Persephone Botanical Beauty
Andrea Bailey
Untitled
Untitled
Ashley Ridgeway
The Channeled Apple
Snail
Erin Farmer
Untitled
Allison Waldmann
Untitled
Zoe Aizenman
Amanita brunnescens
Brandon Gilliland
The Role of Selective Serotonin
Reuptake Inhibitors
(Antidepressants) in
Drosophila melanogaster
Alisha Goldberg
Studying Sleep and Activity in
a Drosophila Melanogaster
Model of Neurofibromatosis
Type I
Kaitlyn Shotwell
Coconut Tree
Untitled
2:00 – 4:00 VISUAL ARTS PROJECTS ~ HC BUILDING
Sean Crary
Samara Vilca
Don Capi
Coccoloba uvifera
Nickerbean
The Speckled Work
Putting Pen to Paper
Caitlyn Hood
Sara Thomas
Liana Houston
Being Us
The Greenway: Home Glycymeris
Learning How to See
to Native Florida &
concentrica
Your Trash
Amanda Alker
Jennifer Cardozo
Celine Rodriguez
The "Painted Leaf"
Assorted Mushrooms
Audubon Class
Project- The Stink
Bug
Matthew Sax
Daniel Rico-Madrazo Brian Liddell
"I Can't Show You the Gardens
Sea Grape Leaf at
World"
I'm Fine
Coral Cove
Andrew Li
John Blozinski
Sierra Groth
Spider Wasp, Family
Watercolor Audubon
Bull Shark Tooth
Pompilidae
art
Christina Collins
Sanderling and the
Beach
Emilia Tautiva, Kelley
Aucello, & Brian Pennington
Influences of Frontal and
Medial Functioning on
Memory for Actors and
Actions
Dominick Casciato
The maturation of GABAergic
circuitry in ferret visual
cortex
Kayla Salmon
Vitis rotundifolia
Lyly Feliciano
Pale Meadowbeauty
Dominick Casciato
Scientific Illustration
of Coccoloba uvifera
Emily Morton
Shellage featuring Sea
Grape
Liberty Boyd
Sargassum Seaweed
Emily Bauer
Seagrape Leaf
Kurtis Kepfer
Erect Sword Fern
Arthur Speziale
Shade and Shelter
Tariqa Liebermann
Untitled
Reem Warrayat
Sea Grape (Coccoloba
uvifera)
Tariqa Liebermann, Daniel Rico-Madrazo, Gabriella DeAngelo, Erin
Farmer, Brittaney Kane, Farrah Tygar, and Cheyanne Kudo\
1000 Pixels: Representation of self Through Colors
2:00 – 4:00 PM POSTER SESSION ~ HC BUILDING
Lindsay Gorgen
Natalie Haffield
Mechanism and Biological
SYNGAP1 Haploinsufficiency
Relevance of Rheb-PERKCauses Behavioral Deficits in
eIF2α Signaling Cascade
an ID Mouse Model
Melanie Thompson &
Michelle Dougherty
The effect of equine
interactions on symptoms of
anxiety and posttraumatic
stress
Brooke Bigelow
False Grandmother
Samantha Johnston
Morphometric assessment of
connectivity of the shallowwater and mesophotic
scleractinian coral
Montastreae cavernosa
Hannah Paperno
Online Discourses on United
Nations Involvement During
the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Alden Sharp
Modeling Sound Change in
the Evolution of Spoken
Language
Asnel Josheph
Comparative Study of
Morphological Complexity
of Layer II/III Pyramidal
Neurons in the Medial
Prefrontal Dorsolateral and
Primary Visual Cortex of
the Tree Shrew Tupaia
belangeri