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Elkin R. Isaac Student Research Symposium

The 19th annual Symposium will be held on Thursday, April 24, 2008.

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Anderson, Lisa  '09  106
Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery: A Green Chemistry Approach
Norris 100, 1:45 PM

Anderson, Lisa  '09  171
Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery: A Green Chemistry Approach
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Andert, William  '09  172
Progress Toward a Chiral Hypervalent Iodonium Ylide
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Andries, Christina  '08  173
A New Approach to Dinosaur Ichnology Studies: Using GIS for the Analysis and Interpretation of Theropod Dinosaur Trackways
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Arceño, Mark Anthony  '10  131
Conversion to Christianity: The Medieval Cult of Saints in Central Africa
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 3:00 PM

Archer, Emily  '08  170
The Failure of Humanitarian Intervention: International Response to the Rwandan Genocide
Norris 104, 3:45 PM

Bailey, Robert  '08  190
Genomics at Albion
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Bates, A'Lana  '08  129
“To Stay and Belong to You”; L.M. Montgomery’s Anne Series as an Interrogation of Community
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 2:30 PM

Beach, Paul  '08  104
The Role of Netrin and Slit in the Induction of Cellular Growth and Cellular Growth Genes
Norris 100, 1:15 PM

Below, Mallory  '08  174
Through Autistic Eyes: A Visual Case Study
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Below, Mallory  '08  136
Through Autistic Eyes: A Visual Case Study
Norris 102, 8:45 AM

Bismack, Nick  '08  175
Strange Behaviors in Strange Situations: An Empirical Examination of the External Validity of the Social Psychological Experiment
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Bismack, Nick  '08  135
Placebos, Nocebos and Variance in Psychosomatic Plasticity: Personality Correlates of the Thin-Boundary Individual
Norris 102, 8:30 AM

Bosket, Meagan  '09  109
Explosively Erupted Hydrovolcanic Deposits at Minna Saddle, Antarctica: Results of 2007-2008 Field Analysis
Norris 100, 2:30 PM

Brennan, Andrew  '08  169
God’s on Both Sides: White Protestants and the Civil Rights Movement
Norris 104, 3:30 PM

Bruce, Scotty  '08  154
Google Online Marketing Challenge
Norris 104, 8:45 AM

Brusoe, Andrew  '08  103
Synthesis of Diimino Semiquinones for Use as Single Molecule Magnet Ligands
Norris 100, 10:00 AM

Brusoe, Andrew  '08  114
Synthesis of Cannabimimetic Indoles for Use as Cannabinoid Receptor Ligands
Norris 100, 3:45 PM

Cantin, Rachelle  '08  141
The Impact of Skin Color Lessons on the Racial Attitudes of Fourth Grade Students
Norris 102, 10:00 AM

Capehart, Stacy  '09  102
Planaria <i>Dugesia tigrina</i> as a Model Organism to Test Novel Drugs for the Treatment of Schistosomiasis
Norris 100, 9:45 AM

Cardwell, Cynthia  '08  144
Excitation and Inhibition Asymmetry: A Failure of the Rescorla-Wagner Learning Theory
Norris 102, 1:45 PM

Carter, Arielle  '08  164
Conventional Arms Transfers and the Implications for Political and Civil Rights
Norris 104, 2:15 PM

Cleland, Dayna  '08  157
Study Abroad or Party Abroad? Experiential Learning, International Students, and Their Hosts
Norris 104, 9:30 AM

Cole, Michael  '08  146
Directed Forgetting of Real-Life Events in School-Age Children: A Laboratory Experiment
Norris 102, 2:15 PM

Coston, Bethany  '08  159
A Day at the Movies: Cinematic Violence and Its Effects on Masculine Self-Perception and Patriarchal Ideology among College-Aged Men
Norris 104, 10:00 AM

Davis, Shelby  '08  118
“A New Mirror”: Collaborations in Beauty; Photographic Investigations of Perceptions of Beauty and Confidence
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 9:00 AM

Doty, Kris  '10  176
Ambivalent Sexism and Work Ethic Ideology
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Dumbleton, Jacob  '08  97
Investigation of Techniques to Increase DESI-MS Signal Intensity for Peptides and Proteins
Norris 100, 8:30 AM

Estill, Molly  '09  190
Genomics at Albion
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Evans, Ben  '08  121
Philip C. Curtis: An Analysis of Gender and Intentionality in the Work of an American Surrealist
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 9:45 AM

Everhart, Amy  '08  127
Educators' Roles in Child Abuse Intervention: A Comprehensive Look at Child Abuse and Its Related Policies and Effects
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 2:00 PM

Ficker, Grace  '08  167
We Are Everywhere: Chilean Lesbians
Norris 104, 3:00 PM

Fidler, Andrew  '08  101
How Dishwasher Soap and Superconductors Are Related: the Structure and Dynamics of Two-Dimensional Superconducting Froths
Norris 100, 9:30 AM

Fitzpatrick, Megan  '08  134
Incubation in House Wrens: Testing the Effects of Ambient Temperature on Nest Attentiveness and the Clutch-Cooling and Egg-Viability Hypotheses
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 3:45 PM

Fontana, Catherine  '08  116
The Development of America’s Environmental Conscience: Actualizing Secondhand Nature at Walden Pond State Reservation and through U.S. Environmental Policy
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 8:30 AM

Furness, Claire  '08  123
The Gender of Genius: The Paradox of Camille Claudel
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 10:15 AM

Geary, Jim  '08  190
Genomics at Albion
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Geer, David  '08  161
Gay and Its Discontent: Reading Race, Gender, and Sexuality Within the Discourse Production of Post-Stonewall Activism
Norris 104, 1:30 PM

Gehres, Paul  '08  155
Michigan’s Faith in Ethanol
Norris 104, 9:00 AM

Gessner, Allison  '08  119
Classical Improvisation: Writing Three Original Cadenzas for W.A. Mozart’s Oboe Concerto, K. 314
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 9:15 AM

Green, Jaime  '08  153
The Porajmos: The Gypsy Holocaust
Norris 104, 8:30 AM

Guise, Lindsay  '09  154
Google Online Marketing Challenge
Norris 104, 8:45 AM

Hagopian, Ani  '08  168
The Forgotten Genocide: The History of the Armenian Genocide and the Diaspora’s Efforts for Recognition
Norris 104, 3:15 PM

Hamilton, Marita  '08  190
Genomics at Albion
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Hamilton, Marita  '08  105
Understanding the Repair Mechanism of DNA Double Strand Breaks of Drosophila melanogaster
Norris 100, 1:30 PM

Harris, Cameron  '08  190
Genomics at Albion
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Harris, Cameron  '08  142
Time of Day Effects on Problem Solving
Norris 102, 1:15 PM

Harris, James  '08  165
The Politics of Command: An Analysis of the German General Staff during the First World War
Norris 104, 2:30 PM

Henes, Christopher  '08  177
Engineering a Steady State FRET Assay for the Twort Group I Ribozyme
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Honour, Caroline  '08  163
Lesbian Vampires and Other Femme Fatales in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Norris 104, 2:00 PM

Jakubik, Jessica  '08  158
A Case Study Analysis of the U.S.A. Patriot Act
Norris 104, 9:45 AM

Jewell, Elizabeth  '08  100
Structure and Function of the Transcriptional Regulator AcrR
Norris 100, 9:15 AM

Jewell, Elizabeth  '08  190
Genomics at Albion
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Jordan, Johnathan  '08  117
Dance and Technology
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 8:45 AM

Jose, Sarah  '09  154
Google Online Marketing Challenge
Norris 104, 8:45 AM

Joseph, Danielle  '08  156
Belonging: Ethiopian Jewry
Norris 104, 9:15 AM

Karcz, Lauren  '08  124
Number Thirty-Eight, Temple (A Novel)
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 1:15 PM

Knoop, Chelsea  '09  154
Google Online Marketing Challenge
Norris 104, 8:45 AM

Krum, Kristen  '08  179
Reduction of Uranium (VI) to Uranium (IV) by Microbes at Multiple Depths with the Addition of Electron Donors
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Krum, Kristen  '08  99
Repression of Autoreactive B Cells by TNFα
Norris 100, 9:00 AM

Larimer, Ashley  '08  125
“Chi il bel sogno di Doretta” from La Rondine and “Quando M'en Vo'” from La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 1:30 PM

Leatherman, Emily  '08  190
Genomics at Albion
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Lewis, William  '08  180
Analysis of the Vocalizations of the Northern Cardinal
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Lippert, Rachel  '08  107
Exploring the Extreme: Enzyme Analysis of the Thermophilic Bacterium Thermotoga maritima – Structure and Function Studies of ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase
Norris 100, 2:00 PM

Lippert, Rachel  '08  190
Genomics at Albion
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Lippert, Rachel  '08  181
Exploring the Extreme: Enzyme Analysis of the Thermophilic Bacterium Thermotoga maritima – Structure and Function Studies of ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Lord, Danielle  '08  108
A Geochemical Analysis of Absaroka Volcanics from Dead Indian Hill, Northwest Wyoming
Norris 100, 2:15 PM

Lupek, Megan  '08  132
Nesting Ecology of the Wood Turtle, Glyptemys insculpta
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 3:15 PM

McKelvy, Alexander  '10  182
Time-Dependent Spatial Learning in O. degus with the Radial Arm Maze
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Moilanen, Sarah  '08  138
(De) Constructing Pedophilia
Norris 102, 9:15 AM

Mondrow, Ian  '08  137
The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Attraction
Norris 102, 9:00 AM

Morris, Sarah  '08  148
The Effects of Expertise on Functional Fixedness
Norris 102, 2:45 PM

Ozelski, Ashley  '09  134
Incubation in House Wrens: Testing the Effects of Ambient Temperature on Nest Attentiveness and the Clutch-Cooling and Egg-Viability Hypotheses
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 3:45 PM

Paradine, Shauna  '08  112
A Novel and Straightforward Synthesis of Dibenziodolium and Bis-dibenziodolium Salts Using m-CPBA as a Versatile Oxidant
Norris 100, 3:15 PM

Parker, Alexander  '11  183
Information’s Impact on Childhood
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Pollum, Laura  '10  184
Iodine in Clathrate Hydrate Cages
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Rashid, Kaycee  '09  149
Time-Dependent Spatial Learning in O. degus with the Radial Arm Maze
Norris 102, 3:00 PM

Rhodes, Andrew  '08  175
Strange Behaviors in Strange Situations: An Empirical Examination of the External Validity of the Social Psychological Experiment
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Roberts, Megan  '10  140
Unihemispheric Sleep in the Bearded Dragon throughout the 24-Hour Period and Under Threat Conditions
Norris 102, 9:45 AM

Roberts, Megan  '10  182
Time-Dependent Spatial Learning in O. degus with the Radial Arm Maze
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Roosen, Philipp  '08  185
ortho-Positioning Modifications of Chiral Iodoarenes
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Salmeto, Amy  '08  186
Amygdala Volume in a Genetic by Environment Rodent Model of Depression
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Salmeto, Amy  '08  151
Impact of a Depressive-like State on a Spatial Memory Task
Norris 102, 3:30 PM

Saluja, Rasleen  '08  190
Genomics at Albion
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Saluja, Rasleen  '08  110
Development of a Novel Genetic Assay to Measure Reverse Transcriptase Fidelity
Norris 100, 2:45 PM

Sanney, Stephen  '08  139
The Influence of Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation on Motivations for Voting
Norris 102, 9:30 AM

Sayig, Lauren  '08  160
Sweet Cherry Summers: The Lives of Migrant Farm Workers in Northwestern Michigan
Norris 104, 1:15 PM

Sebacher, Jason  '08  130
On Playwriting
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 2:45 PM

Sebacher, Jason  '08  120
"Ay me!": Psychoanalysis and the Narrative of Grief in Lycidas
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 9:30 AM

Shanks, Lisa  '09  128
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, Adagio assai
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 2:15 PM

Shuboni, Dorela  '09  147
The Effect of Incremental Changes in Light Onset on the Reentrainment Rate of 12-Hour Phase Shifted Octodon degus
Norris 102, 2:30 PM

Sims, Jennifer  '08  187
Childhood Perceptions of Physical Fitness, Health, and Nutrition
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Skeans, Jacob  '08  113
Getting Ahead of the Game: The Degradation of ([EMIM][BF4])
Norris 100, 3:30 PM

Smith, Reid  '09  184
Iodine in Clathrate Hydrate Cages
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Stephens, Jeff  '09  133
Movement Patterns and Habitat Use by Female Wood Turtles, Glyptemys insculpta
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 3:30 PM

Stout, Michael  '08  166
Modern Fighting Power: Comparing the German and American Armies of World War II
Norris 104, 2:45 PM

Sweet, Lake  '08  143
Behavioral Manifestations of Social Competence in Juvenile Homo sapiens
Norris 102, 1:30 PM

Tauzer, Erica  '10  115
Mapping the distribution of Zanthoxylum (Rutaceae), the Prickly-Ashes, in North America
Norris 100, 4:00 PM

Taylor, Shannon  '08  152
Emotional Expression: Reasons and Methods for the Expression of Negative Affect in Children
Norris 102, 3:45 PM

Tilot, Amanda  '09  190
Genomics at Albion
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Tilot, Amanda  '09  145
Effects of Continuous Phase Shifts on Pregnancy and Offspring in O. degus
Norris 102, 2:00 PM

Weage, Elizabeth  '08  111
Comparisons of Antibiotic Resistance Patterns of Bacterial Isolates from the Kalamazoo River
Norris 100, 3:00 PM

Weddell, Carmen  '08  98
That’s Some Messed-Up Music! (A Mathematical Approach to N-Tone Equal-Temperament Pitch Systems)
Norris 100, 8:45 AM

White, Elizabeth  '08  188
The Abundance and Compositional Variations of Surface-Associated Bacterial Populations in Teeth Plaque Assemblages in Response to Food Consumption
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Whitehouse, Meredith  '08  122
God Loving Liberals: Why the Religious Left Gets Left Out
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 10:00 AM

Wycoff, Sara  '08  162
The Department of Homeland Security: A Risk-Based Analysis of its Priorities and Sustainability
Norris 104, 1:45 PM

Zabel, Keith  '09  150
Conscientiousness and Work Ethic Ideology: A Facet-Level Analysis
Norris 102, 3:15 PM

Zabel, Keith  '09  189
Protestant Ethic Ideology: Its Multifaceted Relationship with Just World Beliefs, Social Dominance Orientation, and Right-Wing Authoritarianism
Poster Session-Science Complex Atrium, 4:00 PM

Zito, Angela  '09  126
Run Down by a Company of Rogues: The Exclusion of the Works of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, from the Canon of English Literature
Towsley Lecture Hall/Norris 101, 1:45 PM

 

 

 

 

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