Graduate school is forged with emotions and wrought by experiences. Today, I hope those emotions
will be ones of celebration and the experiences, ones of camaraderie and self-betterment. We've
been working all year to make this day one such day. Regardless of your role-presenter,judge, or
spectator-we're happy you're here.
This year's theme, A World of Research, was inspired by the holiday with which our event coincides
this year: Earth Day. To show our commitment to the ideals of this day, we have taken steps to
reduce the ecological impact of our event as we planned this event. In addition, we will be planting an
American elm tree on Front Campus to celebrate our event. We can only hope that this tree will
experience the same exuberant growth as the event that it commemorates.
Only six years ago, this event hosted only 40 presenters, and this year are very proud to report more
than 320 presenters! This sort of success would have been impossible, first and foremost, without
the efforts of many graduate-student senators and volunteers. Also, the GSS executive board has
invested countless person-hours into making this day a success, and a number of committees,
including an actual task force, were assembled from the GSS to aid in the planning for this event.
Nearly 100 faculty members have volunteered to judge today's event, and I cannot adeguately
express my gratitude for their taking the time to help adjudicate our record number of presentations.
Finally, I am thrilled and very thankful that this year's keynote speaker is Dr. Paul DiCorleto, who is
himself a champion of research, and we should all be excited to learn from the experiences and
wisdom he will share with us this afternoon.
I hope that you learn about something new today.
Sincerely,
Morgan E. Chaney, M.A.
GSS Symposium Chair, 2015-2016
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8:30am – 9:00am: Registration (2nd Floor)
Maps ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
9:00am – 10:15am: Oral Presentations I (3rd Floor) ................................................................................... 6
Anthropogenic Disturbance & Disasters ................................................................................................... 6
Applied Clinical Research .......................................................................................................................... 6
Applied Physical Science ........................................................................................................................... 6
Nucleic Acids Research ............................................................................................................................. 7
Art & Music ............................................................................................................................................... 7
Biological Science I .................................................................................................................................... 8
Biological Science II ................................................................................................................................... 8
Clinical Science .......................................................................................................................................... 9
Cognition & Memory ................................................................................................................................ 9
Computer Science ..................................................................................................................................... 9
Earth Science ........................................................................................................................................... 10
Fashion .................................................................................................................................................... 10
Foundations, Leadership, & Administration ........................................................................................... 10
Gender & Feminism ................................................................................................................................ 11
History & Archaeology ............................................................................................................................ 11
Urban Issues & Design ............................................................................................................................ 12
10:20am - 11:30am: Poster Presentations (2nd Floor & Ballroom) ........................................................... 12
President’s Award Nominees .................................................................................................................. 27
Excellent Presentations from the Undergraduate Research Symposium ............................................... 27
A World of Objects: A Popup Exhibit of Graduate Research (Ballroom Balcony) ................................... 28
11:35am - 12:50pm: Oral Presentations II (3rd Floor) ................................................................................ 29
Apps & Social Media ............................................................................................................................... 29
Human Behavior ..................................................................................................................................... 29
Learning I................................................................................................................................................. 29
Learning II................................................................................................................................................ 30
Liquid Crystals I ....................................................................................................................................... 30
Liquid Crystals II ...................................................................................................................................... 31
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Literary Analyses ..................................................................................................................................... 31
Literature & Film ..................................................................................................................................... 31
Mathematics ........................................................................................................................................... 31
Online Discourse ..................................................................................................................................... 32
Philosophy ............................................................................................................................................... 32
Physical Science ...................................................................................................................................... 32
Race & Racial Biases ................................................................................................................................ 33
Refugees & Resettlement ....................................................................................................................... 33
Social Science of Safety ........................................................................................................................... 34
Trauma, Anxiety, & Depression .............................................................................................................. 34
1:00pm – 2:30pm: Awards Luncheon (Ballroom) ...................................................................................... 35
Graduate Student Senate............................................................................................................................ 36
Acknowledgments....................................................................................................................................... 36
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ORAL PRESENTATIONS I
Anthropogenic Disturbance & Disasters
Room 3068
JUDGECS): Dr. Dave Kaplan;
Dr. Marilyn A Norconk, PhD
Applied Clinical Research
Room 306C
JUDGE(S): Dr. Laurie M. Wagner, MCHES;
Dr. Vincent J. Hetherington, DPM
9:00 Curtis Fennell, Mallory Kobak,
Ellen Glickman, Jacob Barkley,
9:00 Drew Fernando, Modern &
Health Science
Classical Language Studies
Validation of a low-cost commercially-
The 2011 Fukushima, Japan nuclear
available accelerometer during low and
disaster: Four years later
9:15
high physical activity conditions in
Mohammed RummanHossain, Miao
Jiang, QiHuo Wei, Laura Leff,
Biological Science
children.
9:15
Adhesion of bacteria to microplastics
Enhanced auditory steady state
in freshwater
9:30
responses in subjective idiopathic
Raissa Mendonca, David Costello,
G. Allen Burton, Biological Science,
Coupling geochemistry and
tinnitus
9:30
Taissir Nouri, Biological Science,
Non-self MHC* conversion into self
community ecology: Effects of nickel-
MHC* utilizing a gene editing
contaminated sediments on benthic
technique
macroinvertebrate communities
9:45
Zahra Ghasemahmad, Saeid
Farahani, Biomedical Science
Laura Zemanek, David Singer,
Elizabeth Herndon, Geology
Applied Physical Science
A geochemical and mineralogical
comparison of soil formation on mine
JUDGECS): Evren Koptur, PhD;
Dr. Yanhai Du
tailings and undisturbed shale and
9:00 Abdullah Alalawi, Applied
Room 304
their contributions to stream
Engineering, Sustainability, &
chemistry, Huff Run Watershed,
Technology
Ohio
Electron beam technology
9:15
Sunil Badal, Jacob T. Shelley,
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Changes in plasma and ionization
chemistry of a Rowing atmosphericpressure afterglow (FAPA) ambient
desorption/ionization (AD!) source
2016 Graduate Research Symposium • 7
9:30
9:45
Aliaa Maar, Applied Engineering,
9:30
Parastoo Maleki, Hamza Balci,
Sustainability, & Technology
Physics
Development of advanced ceramic
Single molecule dynamics of G-
fuel cells using additive manufacturing
quadruplex and telomestatin
technology: Design and modeling
interactions
lmtiyaz Siddigui, Mohammed Abdul
Azeez, Applied Engineering,
9:45
Gayan Mirihana Arachchilage,
Joshua Reid, Soumitra Basu,
Sustainability, & Technology
Chemistry & Biochemistry
A transformer less grid connected
Locked nucleic acid (LNAJ mediated
photo voltaic system based on coupled
targeting of microRNAs to inhibit
inductor
human lung cancer cell proliferation
10:00 Theo Woodson, Applied Engineering,
Sustainability, & Technology
10:00 Sangeetha Selvam,
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Development of tubular-solid oxide
Molecular population dynamics of
fuel cell anode substrates by freeze
tetraplexes in duplex DNA
casting and freeze drying processes
10:15 Sumirtha Thanikaikumaran,
Chemistry & Biochemistry
10:15 Tinghe Xu, Karthik Rayala,
Sreenivasa Reddy Ambati, Applied
Engineering, Sustainability, &
G-quadruplex (GQJ driven functional
modulation in the human piwi
Technology
interacting RNAs (piRNAs)
Hybrid solar-fuel cell power systems
Art & Music
Nucleic Acids Research
Room 309
Room 308
JUDGECS): Dr. Linda Hoeptner Poling, PhD;
JUDGE(S): Dr. Bansidhar Datta
Eric van Baars
9:00 Chiran Ghimire, Yunxi Cui, Hanbin
9:00 Sarah Bartram, Art
9:15
Mao, Chemistry & Biochemistry
The fragment as a manifestation of
Determination of ligand-binding
non -fin ito in Rodin's oeuvre: The
quartets in telomeric G-quadruplex by
amputated form, the isolated body
mechanochemical dissection
part, and assemblages
Prakash Kharel, Soumitra Basu,
9:15
Shawn Diamond, Art
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Requiem for the shadows: Future
Investigation of RNA oxidative
memory in the light strings of Felix
damage in human neuronal cells
Gonzalez- Torres
9:30
Kevin Alexander Wilson, Music
Weepers: A duo for flute and clarinet
A World of Research • 8
9:45
Xiaorong Yuan, Music
Biological Science II
Authenticity in Chinese minority rock
Room 302
and roll: A case study of Shanren, an
JUDGE(S): Dr. Heather Caldwell; Jeffrey G.
ethnic minority indie band from
Mellott, PhD
Yunnan, China
9:00
10:00 ShashaZhu, Art
Holly Cappelli, Roslin J. Thoppil,
Ravi Adapala, Biomedical Science
Wooden fish from a religious sacrificial
Mechanosensitive ion channel TRPV4
vessel to a percussion instrument
negatively regulates angiogenesis via
verify the transnational functional
modulation of Rho/Rho kinase
change
pathway
9:15
Rebecca Curry, Yong Lu,
Biomedical Science
Biological Science I
Much ado about chloride: How a
Room 322
dynamic intracellular chloride
JUDGECS): Dr. Tarig M. Haggi, PhD;
concentration influences a sound
Prof. Songping D. Huang
9:00
Fouad Moussa, Gregory Sondag,
localization circuit
9:30
Thomas Mbimba, Kimberly Novak,
Zhong Ying, Imad Najm,
Biomedical Science
Biomedical Science
A novel role of miR-150 in bone
The role ofgrowth associated protein
homeostasis
9:15
Sewwandi Rathnayake, Edgar
KooDman, Biological Science
Lipid interactions of proteins carrying
amphipathic alpha helix bundles
9:30
Aidan Ruth, Tobin Heironymus,
Owen Lovejoy, Biomedical Science
Differences in anterior cruciate
ligament fiber orientation between
digitigrade and palmigrade animals
9:45
Priya Putta, Biological Science
Differential binding of protein to
phosphatidic acid
Ashley Nemes, Katayoun Ayasoufi,
43 (GAP-43) in epileptogenesis
9:45
Gina Wilson, Matthew A. Smith,
Christine M. Dengler-Crish,
Samuel D. Crish, Biomedical Science
Seeing past the eye: How cytoskeletal
protein modifications in the brain may
drive development and progression of
glaucoma
2016 Graduate Research Symposium • 9
Clinical Science
9:15
Room 314
JUDGE(S): Dr. Vinay K. Cheruvu, PhD;
Dr. Sheryl Chatfield
9:00 Lauren Birmingham, Thaddeus A.
Cochran, Jennifer A. Frey, Kirk A.
Stiffler, Scott T. Wilber,
Public Health
Declarative and procedural
mechanisms in long-term memory
9:30
9 :15
9 :45
Alexa Copeland, Adil Sharag-Eidin,
Architecture & Environmental
Design,
The impact of patient room design on
9:30
Leen Nahouli, Health Science
Audiology without borders: Hearing
9:45
Rachael Todaro, Bradley Morris,
Christopher Was, Colleen
Dragovich, Lifespan Development &
Educational Science
Investigating the role of context in
interleaved problems
airborne hospital-acquired infections
(HAl)
Amber Rochette, Mary Beth
Spitznagel, John Gunstad, Gladys
Strain, Psychological Sciences
Mild cognitive impairment is prevalent
in persons with severe obesity
Barriers and service for frequent
emergency department users
Dale Hirsch, Lifespan Development
& Educational Science
10:00 Mengjiao Wu, Christopher Was,
Kristen Chorba, Lifespan
Development & Educational Science,
beyond ears
The relationships between executive
Carissa Smock, Public Health
functions and metacognition
Physician utilization, training and
acceptance of exercise prescriptions
10:00 Anush Yarava, Public Health
Implementation of clinical pharmacists
activities in identifying drug therapy
problems and improving medication
adherence to provide better patient
care
Computer Science
Room320
JUDGE(S): Prof. Jonathan I. Maletic, PhD;
Dr. Hai Q. Dinh
9:00 Naser AI Madi, Mohammed Alali,
lsmael Ali, Basma Alqadi, Tahani
Albalawi, Computer Science
Cognition & Memory
Online hypergraph visualization tool
Room 315
using d3)s
JUDGE(S): Dr. Clarissa Thompson;
Dr. Judith Gere
9 :00 Michael Baranski, Christopher Was,
Psychological Sciences
Brief mindfulness training leads to
improved executive function
9 :15
Rusul Alsaedi, Gokarna P. Sharma,
Computer Science
Mutual visibility for fat robots
A World of Research • 10
9:30
9:45
Mehdi Ghayoumi, Arvind K. Bansal,
Fashion
Computer Science
Room 316
An integrated approach for efficient
JUDGE(S): Cynthia R. Stillings;
analysis of facial expressions
Dr. Catherine A Leslie
Nahla Abid, Natalia Dragan,
Michael L Collard, Jonathan I.
Maletic, Computer Science
9:00 Sophia Adodo, Fashion
Royal Mbebana
9:15
Sophia Adodo, Fashion
Using stereotypes in the automatic
The fashion runway through a critical
generation of natura/language
race theory fens
documentations for C++ method
9:30
Lauren Brallier, Fashion
A point of tension: Using personas to
improve the apparel design process -
Earth Science
A BMX analysis
Room 321
JUDGECS): Dr. Tom Schmidlin
9:00 Chenjian Fu, Christopher Rowan,
Xinyue Ye, Geology
Building better apparent polar wander
paths: Measuring similarity between
calculated paleomagnetic APWPs and
the fixed hotspot model predicted
APWP
9:15
9:45
Gordon Stumpo, Margarita Benitez,
Fashion
30 parametric modeling and digital
fabrication: Creation of custom
display and designer dress/body forms
10:00 Caroline Surrarrer, Fashion
Behind the labels: Libby Payne,
fashion designer for "Mrs. Main Street
America"
Md Islam, Scott Sheridan,
Geography
9:30
Self-organizing map: The monsoon
Foundations. Leadership. & Administration
seasonality in Bangladesh
Room 317
Johnathan Kirk, Geography
JUDGE(S): Dr. Swathi Ravichandran, PhD;
Defining and characterizing large
Dr. Greg E. Blundell, PhD
precipitation events in the Upper
9:00 Suliman AI Musaiteer,
Colorado River Basin
9:45
Erik Smith, Geography
Foundations, Leadership, &
Administration
The seasonality of cold air outbreaks in
Saudi students' experience of
the Eastern United States and the
intercultural communication
influence of atmospheric
teleconnections
2016 Graduate Research Symposium • 11
9:15
9:30
Erika Gallion, Tabetha Maly, Erika
Leigh Hughes,
Gallion, Foundations, Leadership, &
Visual Communication Design
Administration
Video games help to prepare girls for a
American student affairs practices
competitive future: Investigating how
abroad: A summer spent in Bulgaria
interactive games develop visual-
and Kuwait
spatial skills and the influence early
Mayagul Satlykgylyjova,
Foundations, Leadership, &
childhood gaming has on female
Administration
9:45
9:15
development
9:30
Jaietta Jackson, Foundations,
Toward identity construction of
Leadership, & Administration
central Asian women students in
Dear Mama: The parental influence of
American higher education
a single mother on black male college
Carol Winter, Foundations,
success
Leadership, & Administration
9:45
Bethanie Mauerman, Lifespan
Women superintendents, the feminist
Development & Educational Science
ethic, and organizational leadership
Living outside the lines: Possible
10:00 Tianhong Zhang, Foundations,
Leadership, & Administration,
challenges of living within the binary
system
Transfer: A threshold concept in
intercultural competence
development in case of intercultural
History & Archaeology
interactions between international and
Room 319
America students
JUDGE(S): Dean Jim Bracken, PhD;
Dr. Yuko Kurahashi
9:00 Michelle Bebber, Anthropology
Gender & Feminism
Experimental ceramics and
Room 318
determining the force of change: A
JUDGECS): Caylee M. Heiremans, MLIS
9:00 Delilah Ellzey, Kallie Petitti,
Angela Neal-Barnett,
materia/science approach to
understanding temper selection in the
prehistoric ceramic sequence of the
Psychological Sciences
Scioto River Valley, Ross County,
Don 't nobody care about us girls
Ohio
9:15
Philip Shackelford, History
Fighting for air: Cold War
reorganization and the U.S. Air Force
Security Service, 1945-1950
9:30
Pietro Shakarian, History
Journey to Ararat
A World of Research • 12
9:45
Wesley Toth, History
10:00 Christopher Wilier, Geography,
The 79th Pennsylvania Volunteer
From commercial strip to urban
Infantry: Civil War experiences
village: A historical geography of the
culminating in the March to the Sea
elmwood village
10:00 Stephanie Vincent, History
The effects of welfare capitalism on
10:15 Ryan Hammond, Visual
Communication Design,
American pottery workers
Designer as cultivator: An exploration
10:15 Brittney Harrell, Theater & Dance
in critical making for the care of
The trouble with masking: Cultural
interdisciplinary culture
ramifications from the practice of
masking during the seventeenth-
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
century Venetian carnival season
Poster Session 1
Urban Issues & Design
JUDGECS): Dr. John Updegraff;
Room 313
Dr. Doug Delahanty
JUDGE(S): Dr. V. Kelly Turner;
1
Naser AI Madi, Computer Science
F. William Lucak
Predicting learning performance and
9:00 Hanieh Haji Molana, Architecture &
cognitive activity using EEG
Environmental Design,
9:15
9:30
9:45
2
Jason Anderson, Rachel Galioto,
Evaluating sense of community in the
John Gunstad, Mary Beth
public spaces of residential
Spitznagel, Psychological Sciences
neighborhoods in Tehran, Iran
Effects of sleep quality and
John Orsini, Architecture &
glucoregulation on sustained
Environmental Design,
attention, working memory, and
The wall as moment and place: Case
inhibitory control in healthy young
studies on the wall's significance
adults
Benjamin Schanfish, Adil SharagEidin, Architecture & Environmental
3
Alanna Feltner, Clarissa Thompson,
Psychological Sciences
Design
Playing to learn: Helping children
Survival city: A resilience model for a
learn fraction magnitudes through
shrinking Ohio city
board games
Joe Tokosh, Geography,
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Kevin Lancki, James Bates, Alan
Shopping malls: Detriments of
Taylor, Kelly Cichy, Sociology
performance and elements of
A blast from the past: Grandfather
adaptation
age and lineage work
2016 Graduate Research Symposium • 13
5
6
Emily Munger, Atsushi Takemoto,
Poster Session 3
Katsuki Nakamura, Anthropology
JUDGECS): Dr. Yanhai Du
Learning and memory in aged
12
Srijana Bhandari, Barry D. Dunietz,
common marmosets
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Amanda Zamary, Katherine A.
Rawson, Psychological Sciences
Theoretical study of photo-physical
processes for coumarins inside a shelf
Example classification as a strategy for
of acta acid capsule: An LRC- TDDFT
learning declarative concepts
approach
13
Arosha Dassanayake, Nilantha
Poster Session 2
Wickramaratne, Songping D.
JUDGECS): Kelly A. Riley;
Dr. Suzy D'Enbeau
7
Abdulelah AI-Tokhais, Ning-Kuang
Huang, Mietek Jaroniec,
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Efficient uranium extraction from
Chuang, Foundations, Leadership, &
oceans: Economical strategy to
Administration
upkeep nuclear reactors in the future
Impact of tourism development on
14
Gunathilake, Chemistry &
Biochemistry,
perception of community life
8
Kate Klonowski, Foundations,
Leadership, & Administration
Amidoxime-based carbon-silica
A case study of collaborative
composite materials for carbon dioxide
journalism across diverse student
sorption
communities
9
10
15
Chamila Gunathilake, Mietek
Anna Solberg, Geography
Jaroniec, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Tourists: Perceptions of their
Amidoxime- fu nctiona lized
environmental impact within Tanzania
microcrystalline cellulose-mesoporous
Qiong Tao, Kim Hahn, Fashion
silica composites for carbon dioxide
The best niche market and the
sorption at elevated temperatures
optimized design for dresses with
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Pramila Ghimire, Chamila
16
Catherine Laspina,
modernized Chinese motif: A case
Chemistry & Biochemistry
study of Qinghua (Blue-and- White)
Hyaluronic acid curcumin conjugate
Qiong Tao, Kim Hahn, Fashion
for rheumatoid arthritis treatment
Self-construals, types of social media
usage and consumer decision-making
styles: A study of young Asian
Americans
A World of Research • 14
Poster Session 4
Poster Session 5
JUDGECS): Dr. Adil Sharag-Eidin;
JUDGECS): Dr. Elwin C. Robison
Rui Liu, PhD
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17
John Adkins, Ji Young Cho, Applied
Architecture & Environmental Design
Engineering, Sustainability, &
Using cool roofs to reduce urban heat
Technology
island
Biophilia and behavior: The
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24
Architecture & Environmental Design
productivity
Supplemental green roof system; an
Kelsey Atchison, Ji Young Cho,
Architecture & Environmental
algal Trombe wall addition
25
Urban heat island: Mitigating negative
Leandra Buchin, Architecture &
impacts through urban forms and
Environmental Design
building surface materials
22
26
Kyle Matheny,
architecture firm branding on client
Architecture & Environmental Design
identification
Reduction of carbon footprint in
Zachary Forney, Architecture &
Cleveland's industrial sector
Environmental Design
21
Tyler Lunevich,
Architecture & Environmental Design
Studio culture's effects on motivation
Creating an image: Impact of
20
Zachary Karto,
relationship between nature and
Design,
19
Saloomeh Gharehgozlou,
27
Taylor Pfeffenberger, Architecture
The optimization of collaborative
& Environmental Design,
design through an egalitarian team
Assessing pollution reduction from
structure
adaptive re-use of a Cleveland
Marc Lins, Ji Young Cho,
Architecture & Environmental Design
commercial building
28
The distorted image: How
Laura Sugano, Anne Jefferson,
Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Pedro
architectural marketing practices
Avellaneda, Geology
create misconceptions of building
Evaluating bioretention cell and green
development
roof performance in Parma, OH
John Popple, Architecture &
Environmental Design
Building a brand: Expanding
Poster Session 6
JUDGE(S): David Durca
architecture across new forms of
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information
Matt Fisher,
Architecture & Environmental Design
Design for the re-building community:
Community development in forgotten
cities through construction/renovation
2016 Graduate Research Symposium • 15
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Adrian Helton, Adil Sharag-Eidin,
Joseph Lynch Ill, Jordan Adkins,
Architecture & Environmental Design
Megan Butler, Aaron Jasnow,
Participatory architecture +
Psychological Sciences
Re-urbanization: Discourse continued
Glutamate receptor antagonists block
Forrest Paige,
estradiol induced generalization
Architecture & Environmental Design
32
37
38
Jon Stavres, Hayden Gerhart, Ellen
A phenomenological study oF the
L. Glickman, YongSuk Sea,
hyper-normative appropriation oF
Health Science,
urban space by parkour runners
Predictors of mathematical
Christopher Persons, Ji Young Cho,
performance in normoxia and
Architecture & Environmental Design
normobaric hypoxia
Digital access: The affect of
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connected society on architectural
Poster Session 8
space and organization
JUDGECS): Dr. Linda Spurlock;
Christopher Persons,
Dr. Heather Beaird
Architecture & Environmental Design
39
Matthew Dyne, Geography
User affect: The possibilities of
The (not so woody) woodlands?: The
responsive surfaces in architecture
case of Harris County, Texas
Adam Prtenjak,
40
Andrea Fitzgibbon, David Costello,
Architecture & Environmental Design
Biological Science
Subconscious qualities oF color and
Micron -scale spatial and die/ variation
sound of space
in oxygen at the biofilm-sediment
interface
Poster Session 7
41
Angelica Scianna, Alescia Roberto,
JUDGE(S): Dr. Mary Beth Spitznagel PhD;
Biological Science
Dr. Karin Coifman
Distribution oF tetracycline resistance
35
Monica Garcia, Douglas L.
genes in an urban northeast Ohio
Delahanty, Psychological Sciences
stream
Hydrocortisone treatment study: The
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42
Andrew Skrinyer, Anthropology
effects on hyperarousal
Living on the edge: An assessment of
symptomology in PTSD
habitat disturbance and primate
Angela Junglen, Anna Wise, Monica
distribution on the Osa Peninsula,
Garcia, Douglas L. Delahanty,
Costa Rica
Psychological Sciences
Dopamine levels as a predictor of
PTSD symptoms in individuals with an
HIV diagnosis
A World of Research • 16
Poster Session 9
Poster Session 10
JUDGE(S): Dr. Linda Hoeptner
JUDGECS): Dr. Tara C. Smith; Dr. Laurie M.
Poling, PhD; Ching- I Chen
Wagner, MCH ES
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49
Sebiha Balci, Bradley J. Morris,
Jonathan M. Secaur, Lifespan
Development & Educational Science
Analyzing Twitter data as a proxy to
Effects of different gamification tools
socioeconomic status and vaccination
on academic performance and
choice
Thapaliya, Sabana Bhatta, Tara
Coaching caregivers on Incidental
Prevalence and molecular
teaching strategies to enhance the
epidemiology ofStaphylococcus
communication and spontaneous
aureus among Bhutanese refugees in
speech in young children with
Nepal and in northeast Ohio
47
51
Rachael Nolan, Sheryl L. Chatfield,
A qualitative meta -study of hand
Using computer-assisted lessons to
hygiene practices among healthcare
teach social skills to children with
workers worldwide: Research synthesis
higher functioning autism spectrum
and practical implications
Public Health
52
Lorriane Odhiambo, Public Health
Ethan Rothermel, Ji Young Cho,
Prevalence of asthma, chronic
Architecture & Environmental Design
obstructive pulmonary disease
Let them compete: The effects of
(COPD) and smoking in an urban
competition on design education
African American church population.
Kimberly Travers, Lifespan
53
Karuna Ramcharran, Public Health
Development & Educational Science
Emergency preparedness plan for
Individual family service plan outcome
infectious disease outbreaks in
assessment tool: Validation and
Portage County
community implementation
48
Smith, Public Health
Jenny Worthington, Lifespan
Development & Educational Science
disorder
46
Jhalka Kadariya, Dipendra
Kyle Bauer, Lifespan Development &
Educational Science
expressive language delays
45
examine relationship between
50
motivation
44
Weichuan Dong, Geography
Colleen Tullis, Lifespan Development
& Educational Science,
lncreasingjoint attention between
young children with autism and their
.
.
pnmary careg1vers.
2016 Graduate Research Symposium • 17
Poster Session 11
60
Sara Harper, Morgan Cooper
JUDGE(S): Dr. John Gunstad; Jeffrey G.
Bagley, Lisa Chinn, John McDaniel,
Mellott, PhD
Health Science
54
Angela Freeman, James F. Hare, W.
Comparison of peak torque and
Gary Anderson, Heather K.
aerobic capacity imbalances in the
Caldwell, Biological Science
lower limbs
Sex-dependent effects of central
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57
Tracey Motter, Karen Mascolo,
vasopressin administration on
Nursing
Richardson's ground squirrel social
Improving RN competencies with a
behavior
nurse internship (N!)
Leah Kershner, Kristy Welshhans,
62
Laurie Robinson, Nursing
Biological Science
Is Foley catheter induction as
RACK1 is necessary for the formation
effective and safe as Misoprostol for
of point contacts and regulates axon
cervical ripening: A look at evidence-
growth
based practice
John Shelestak, Biomedical Science
63
Cody A. Ruiz, Morgan E. Chaney,
Assessing toxic demyelination induced
Anthony J. Tosi, Anthropology
via Cuprizone treatment
Medical-grade buccal swabs vs.
Alyx Weaver, Ernest Freeman,
drugstore cotton swabs: No difference
Biological Science
in DNA yield
Melatonin as a drug for the
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Erica Stahl, Nursing
preservation of lipid metabolism and
Transitioning to a validated behavioral
myelination in Multiple Sclerosis
pain scale for critically ill adult patients
Shannah Witchey, Heather K.
Caldwell, Biological Science
Poster Session 13
Maternal behavior in virgin forebrain
JUDGE(S): Dr. Kathy Siesel, DPM
oxytocin receptor knockout mice
65
Nicholas DiMassa,
Podiatric Medicine
Poster Session 12
The dumb tendon: Replacement of
JUDGECS): Dr. Julia J. Huyck, PhD;
tendon with granulation tissue during
Dr. Wendy Umberger, PhD
wound healing can result in
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maintenance of tendon function
Spencer Andrei, Pritam Sinharoy,
lan N. Bratz, Derek S Damron,
Biomedical Science,
Functional expression ofTRPA1 and
TRPV1 in adult ventricular
cardiomyocytes
'
This poster is nominated for the President's Award ( p. 25)
and should not be judged by the judges in session 12.
A World of Research • 18
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Mina Ghassemi, Eugene Cheng,
Eidin, Architecture & Environmental
Podiatric Medicine
Design
Average foot temperatures in the
The effects of cool paving on
healthy, diabetic and neuropathic foot
pedestrian comfort levels
Terryn Marette, Podiatric Medicine
Brandi Miller,
Architecture & Environmental Design
ulcer subsequently diagnosed with
Resilient small towns: Marietta
75
Regan O'Neill,
Ian Newport, Jeffrey Whitaker,
Architecture & Environmental Design
Podiatric Medicine
Tiny housing: Viable solution or 21st
Treatment of chronic Achilles
century fad?
76
Walter Vanscoter,
hallucis longus tendon
Architecture & Environmental Design
transfer/augmentation
Primary motivation for walking path
Stephanie Petrofski, Kati Waters,
selection on Kent State University,
Carl Kurzel, Bryan Caldwell,
Main Campus
Podiatric Medicine
70
74
Case study report: Chronic venous
tendinopathy with a modified flexor
69
Rachel Kirkwood, Adil Sharag-
Scott Bastian, Steven Stuto,
acroangiodermatitis
68
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77
Nicholas Young,
Multiplex PCR with pyrosequencing in
Architecture & Environmental Design
the diagnosis of onychomycosis
Building material shapes a city
Emily Zulauf, Podiatric Medicine
Does implantation of verruca plantaris
Poster Session 15
into abductor hallucis muscle belly
JUDGE(S): Dr. Joel W. Hughes, PhD;
prevent recurrence?
Dr. Jennifer Taber
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Shaima Almahmoud, Shaima
Poster Session 14
Almahmoud, Karin Coifman,
JUDGECS): Peter V. Marks;
Psychological Sciences
Dr. Maggie Stedman-Smith, PhD
Self-enhancement and emotional
71
Michael Carnessali,
experience among patients with
Architecture & Environmental Design
chronic illnesses
Health habits and risk factors in
Marissa Gastelle, Aimee Hammer,
current studio culture
Josefina Grau, Psychological
Pamela Haberman,
Sciences
Architecture & Environmental Design
Latina adolescent mothers' parenting
Health Concerns: The impact of
attitude: Relations to parenting stress
72
sustainable design inside hospitals
This poster is nominated for the President's Award (p. 25)
and should not be judged by the judges in session 15.
2016 Graduate Research Symposium • 19
80
Lauren Wood, Aimee Hammer,
Linda Wiley, Lifespan Development
Marissa Gastelle, Josefina Grau,
& Educational Science
Psychological Sciences
Using multimedia podcasts to support
Latina adolescent mothers and
parent-implemented language
toddlers' compliance: Maternal affect
intervention
moderates control
81
86
87
Amanda Yoho, Lifespan
Lauren Wood, Aimee Hammer,
Development & Educational Science
Josefina Grau,
Enhancing communication during
Psychological Sciences
play-based interactions between the
Reported parenting stress predicts
parent and child in the natural
Observed guidance and control
environment
behaviors for Latina adolescent
mothers
Poster Session 17
JUDGECS): Caylee M. Heiremans, MLIS;
Poster Session 16
Emmanuel Dechenaux
JUDGE(S): Dr. Sloane R. Burgess;
Jennifer Cooks, Mansi H. Mehta,
Dr. Belinda S. Zimmerman
Kate J. Zelie, Jeffrey A. Ciesla,
82
Danielle Dillon, Public Health
Psychological Sciences
Youth leadership summit: Empowering
Examining perfectionism and changes
adolescents through service
in affect and rumination
83
84
Erin Goodridge, Lifespan
Alynn Gordon, Kristin Mickelson,
Development & Educational Science
Psychological Sciences
Coaching parents on intervention
A preliminary test for egalitarian
strategies to increase communication
essentialism in the general population
during play
of the United States
Logan Kochendorfer, Kathryn
90
Mansi Mehta, Kate J. Zelie, Jennifer
Kerns, Psychological Sciences
A. Cooks, Jeffrey A. Ciesla,
Romantic relationships in adolescence:
Psychological Sciences
Understanding the influence of
Daily fluctuations in women's mood
parents and friends
85
89
91
Neslihan Unluol Unal, Suleyman
Randi McDaniel, Lifespan
Akcil, Lifespan Development &
Development & Educational Science
Educational Science
The effects of parent-implemented
Factors influencing treatment
prelinguistic language strategies on
acceptability: A review of the
young children with communication
literature
delays
This poster is nom inated for the President's Award ( p. 25)
and should not be judged by the judges in session 17.
A World of Research • 20
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93
97
Phil Willke,
Mohammad Rahman, Yang Zhou,
Library & Information Science
Nicola E. Brasch, Paul Sampson,
Authentic leadership and
Chemistry & Biochemistry
psychological capital
Synthesis and photochemical studies
Kate Zelie, Mansi Mehta, Jennifer
Cooks, Jeffrey Ciesla,
Psychological Sciences
of new photoremovatable nitroxyl
CHNOJ releasing compounds
98
William Roy, Mohamed Farhath,
A multidimensional view of relational
Soumitra Basu, Hamza Balci,
victimization
Physics
A single molecule study of G-
Poster Session 18
JUDGE(S): Dr. Soumitra Basu, PhD;
Dr. Sanjaya C. Abeysirigunawardena
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99
Prakash Shrestha, Hanbin Mao,
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Werner Geldenhuys, Soumitra
Single-molecular mechanoanalysis
Basu, Chemistry & Biochemistry
reveals hierarchical formation of G-
New outlook on Parkinson's
quadruplexes during transcription
nanoparticle complex for more
Sumirtha Balaratnam, Joel Caproso,
Stephanie M. Bilinovich, Thomas
efficient delivery of C urcumin
Leeper, Soumitra Basu,
improves neuroprotection
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Anthony Giovengo,
SHARP protein causes the
Chemistry & Biochemistry
remodeling of SRA11ncRNA
Probing vitamin 812 processing and
structure
storage with advanced Cobalamin
96
structures
Nathan Beals, Prakash Kharel,
treatment: A dual targeting
95
quadruplex and short duplex DNA
100
101
Sriramakrishna Yarabarla,
conjugates
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Suranjana Goswami, Rahul
Copper based nanoparticles exhibit
Bhattacharjee, Srinivasan
higher cytotoxicity toward cancer cells
V~ayaraghavan,
Biological Science
ldentificaion of substrates of sperm
protein kinase A using a chemicalgenetics approach
2016 Graduate Research Symposium • 21
Poster Session 19
Poster Session 20
JUDGE(S): Brian Peters
JUDGECS): Dr. David E. Sharp
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108
103
Lauren Dargay,
Journalism & Mass Communication
Stavres, Ellen Glickman,
Relationships between elite news
Health Science
frames and frames in user comments:
Gender differences in running
An analysis of terrorism coverage and
memory and mood state during
follow-up comments on the New York
submaximal exercise in normobaric
Times online
hypoxia
Caleb Heller, Kelsey Atchison,
105
106
Maeson S. Latsko, Aaron M.
Jasnow, Psychological Sciences
Haji Molana,
Does elevated corticosterone predict
Architecture & Environmental Design
adult resistance to prepubertal social
An autopsy of an environmental
defeat?
110
Scout McCully,
Danielle Jones, Adil Sharag_Eidin,
Psychological Sciences
Architecture & Environmental Design
Task-switching predicts spontaneous
9111: A 9-1-1 call the nation wasn't
means-shifting in young adults'
prepared for
physical activity
Haley Wachholz, Geography
111
Maria Nylocks, Lee T. Gilman,
One disaster leads to another: A look
Maeson Latsko, Karin G. Coifman,
at the outcome of a dual disaster in
Psychological Sciences
Seattle, WA
Influence of the COMT Va/158Met
Zheye Wang, Xinyue Ye, Geography
polymorphism in set-shifting ability
Multi-dimensional analysis ofTwitter
and emotion processing during
for wildfire hazards in San Diego
Cyberba/1
County, California
107
109
Saloomeh Gharehgozlou, Hanieh
tragedy: 1995 Chicago heat wave
104
Hayden Gerhart, Yongsuk Seo, Jon
112
Anna Wise, Brian Smith, Aaron
Huanyang Zhao, Geography
Armelie, Douglas L Delahanty,
Simulating natural disasters: An
Psychological Sciences
integration of Netlogo and R
Age moderates social support and
statistical environment
mental health in LGB youth
113
Kathryn Wissman, Katherine
Rawson, Psychological Sciences
The context shift account: Not an
explanation for the fragility of interim
test effect with text material
A World of Research • 22
Poster Session 21
122
JUDGE(S): Suzy Campbell; Joe Clark
114
115
116"'
SergD Shiyanovskii, Mathematics
Yu Lei, Theater & Dance
Sensitivity analysis of measuring
Lighting design process for side show
systems with control parameters
Kevin Leistner, Theater & Dance
123
Mona Matar, Mathematics
Designing nouveffes rencontres
Determining the edges with high
Andy Martinez, Anthropology
traffic in a network using matrix
"Take down my old violin, play it all
functions
you please": The dispersal of an
117
Mykhailo Kuian, Lothar Reichel,
124
Casey Wynn, Mathematics
Appalachian murder ballad
Supercharacter theories of
Kevin Alexander Wilson, Music
semiextraspecial p-groups and
The Eastern and Western schism: The
Frobenius groups
dominating musical modes and forms
of Eastern chant.
Poster Session 23
JUDGE(S): Dr. Alexa L. Sandmann;
Poster Session 22
JUDGECS): Dr. Hai Q. Dinh;
Dr. Vic Perera, PhD
118
119
121
125
Andrew Fogle, Visual
Communication Design
Mark Bissler, Mathematics
Strategies for graphic design aimed at
Character degree graphs of solvable
the multiple sclerosis community: The
groups
development of the inclusion
Isaac DeFrain, Mathematics
framework to assist in design thinking
Chebyshev polynomials on compact
and visual communication artifacts
The Brauer Complex and
Jordan A. Kauffman, Hamidreza
Sohrabi,
Visual Communication Design
decomposition numbers of Sp(4,q) in
Community curation: A participatory
defining characteristic
curation experience for art museum
Pablo Jimenez-Rodriguez,
attenders that helps museum staff
Richard Aron, Mathematics
learn what people want to see from
Interpolation of compact analytic
their non -displayed coffection.
sets in the complex plane
120
Sonali S. Kudva
126
lan Hogan, Mathematics
mappings by the techniques of M.
Cwikel and N.J. Kalton
127
Zuzana Kubisova,
Visual Communication Design
How might cardboard toys be used to
deter children from accessing, using
digital technologies?
This poster is nominated for the President's Award Cp. 25)
and should not be judged by the judges in session 17
2016 Graduate Research Symposium • 23
128
Cassandra Reese,
Architecture & Environmental Design
Mindful design: An investigation into
Urban complexity and bodies of
how mindfulness-based design
networks
135
Jennifer Rice, Cindy Kristof,
Library & Information Science
out on digital media
Poster Session 24
JUDGE(S): F. William Lucak;
movement
Poster Session 25
JUDGE(S): Dr. Ji Young Cho
136
Dr. Brett Tippey
130
Brigid Callaghan,
The climatic effects of rapid urban
expansion in Shanghai, China: A
comparative analysis of the urban heat
Developing an alternative
island condition as it pertains to
construction method for Arctic
structural density
137
Eleanor Hertzfeld,
Brigid Callaghan,
Architecture & Environmental Design
Architecture & Environmental Design
Urban heat islands and the vegetative
Testing and analyzing resistance
waterfront
properties of 30 printing materials
138
Dana Libert, Adil Sharag-Eidin,
using a hot box
Architecture & Environmental Design
Christian Ford, Bill Lucak,
Architecture & Environmental Design
Light and safety in the urban
Applications for user-responsive
133
Abby Baker, Adil Sharah-Eidin,
Architecture & Environmental Design
Architecture & Environmental Design
Canada: 30 printing concrete panels
132
Brandi Miller,
Architecture & Environmental Design
Arduino: Applied force with
Selling the stream: Getting the word
131
Tyler Middendorf,
Visual Communication Design
facilitates mindful user experiences
129
134
environment
139
Benjamin Punturi,
tracking surfaces using Arduino
Architecture & Environmental Design
programming and communicating
Urban slum typology: A guideline for
sensor systems
temporary urban shelters
Christian Ford, Adil Sharag-Eidin,
Architecture & Environmental Design
140
James Skimin, Adil Sharag-Eidin,
Architecture & Environmental Design
Familial structure and consumer
Designing the small to be strong: The
transiency of rural migrants in urban
relationship between population
China
density and urban resilience
A World of Research • 24
Poster Session 26
147
Dulci Avouris, Joseph Ortiz,
JUDGE(S): Dr. Yaorong Zheng;
Kyle Carey, Geology
Dr. VincentJ. Hetherington, DPM
Keeping an eye on Lake Erie:
141
Asaad Aladlaan, Tariq M. Hagqi,
Identifying color-producing agents
Fayez Safadi, Biomedical Science
using derivative spectroscopy
A novel role of osteoactivinl G P NMB
142
Using conventional and social media to
Nazar Hussein, Thomas Mbimba,
evaluate expert and public perceptions
Fayez Safadi, Biomedical Science
of risk during the toxic algae outbreak
Role ofTRAPPC9 in protein
in Lake Erie
149
Anjali Krishnan, Xiaozhen Mou,
Fatima Jaber, Gregory R. Sondag,
Biological Science
Mohammad Y. Ansari, Fayez F.
Isolation and characterization of
Safadi, Biomedical Science
microcystin degrading bacteria from
Osteoactivin!LC3 interaction
Lake Erie
regulates autophagy in osteoblasts
144
Amber Hill, Geography
in osteoarthritic articular cartilage
trafficking in osteocfasts
143
148
150•
Matt Mackey, Mark W. Kershner,
Nicole Siegel, Christopher Vinyard,
Biological Science
Matthew Ravosa, Biomedical Science
Analysis of diversity and structure of a
Functional scaling trends in the
Lake Erie coastal fish community
trabecular architecture of the
mandibular condyle of Strepsirrhine
Poster Session 28
primates.
JUDGECS): lnsook Kim, PhD
151
Bushra Aldosari, Christopher Was,
Poster Session 27
Lifespan Development &
JUDGE(S): Dr. Varun Kumar;
Educational Science
Dr. Fayed F. Safadi, PhD
The effect of word pair directionality
145
Binaya Adhikari, Andrea Case,
on Arabic students learning English as
Christina Caruso, Biological Science
a second language to learning a second
Discordant patterns of cytoplasmic
language for Arabic speakers: Can
genetic variation in a native flowering
word pair directionality make a
plant (lobelia siphilitica,
difference?
Campanulaceae)
146
Leighannah Akins, Laura Leff,
Biological Science
Bacteria from Lake Erie induce
aggregation of toxic and non-toxic
Microcystis aeruginosa
This poster is nominated for the President's Award Cp. 25)
and should not be judged by the judges in session 27.
2016 Graduate Research Symposium • 25
152
Abeer Alsaeed,
Modern & Classical Language Studies
The impact of Tatweer program on
English as a foreign language (EFL)
153
teachers' professional development in
Women in Capoeira: History and
Saudi Arabia in general education
performance
Tim Meyers, Foundations,
Leadership, & Administration
A place on the podium: Sociological
socioeconomic Status (SES) and the
directors and their practice
159
Examination for Registered Nurses:
Robert McKinney, Lifespan
Development & Educational Science
Comparing SES indicators in
The role of religion among gay male
medication and moderated logistic
individuals
160
Emma Peterson, Fashion
Shabnam Moini Chaghervand,
English
apparel manufacturing industry: Labor
Effects of background knowledge and
conditions from 1910-2015
cultural familiarity of students in ESL
reading classroom
156*
Kristin Coen-Mishlan, Music
factors influencing female band
regressiOn.
155
158
The relationship between
National Council Licensure
154*
Poster Session 29
JUDGECS): Kevin D. Wolfgang, Lisa A.
Valendza, MA
157
Maya Brown, Music
Neete Saha, Foundations,
Leadership, & Administration
Hazards, negligence, and abuse in the
161
Ryan Tingler, Ilia Otero-Cruz,
Jose Garcia-Fragoso, Carlos
Rod rlguez- Dlaz, Public Health
Experiences of discrimination and
International students' experiences
priorities of well-being among a
with academic advising at a mid-
sample of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans,
western public research university
and queer (LGBTQ] individuals
Mengjiao Wu, Nadeen Katz,
Sayuri Minakuchi, Lifespan
Development & Educational Science
attending the 2015 Pride Parade in
Application of apology strategies
between Chinese and Arabic ESL
speakers
These posters are nomin ated for the President's Award
Cp. 25) and should not be judged by the judges in session 28.
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
A World of Research • 26
Poster Session 30
167
Chenjian Fu, Christopher Rowan,
JUDGECS): Pamela R. Mitchell, PhD
Geology
162
Measuring similarity between two
Jeannette lskander, Kara Monnin,
Beth Wildman,
spatiotemporal trajectories on
Psychological Sciences
spherical surface: Application to
Examining the association between
paleomagnetic apparent polar wander
anxiety, daily activity adherence, and
paths
responsibilities: Differences between
163
The tale teeth tell: Dental calculus and
controls
paleodietary reconstruction at a
Kimberly Kobzowicz, Leen Nahouli,
Middle Woodland fishing village in
Health Science
northwestern Ohio
169
Kalpani Ratnayake, P.N.
Brian Smith,
Ranasinghe, Joseph D. Ortiz, A.L.T
Psychological Sciences
Hewawasam, Geology
A multiple mediator model of PTSD
Exploring late Quaternary monsoon
symptoms and physical health
variability using marine and terrestrial
complaints: The unique contributions
sedimentary archives of Sri Lanka
of sleep quality and anxiety sensitivity
165
Andrew Kramer, Anthropology
adolescents with SCD and healthy
Audiology without borders
164
168
170
Angelia Werner, Anthropology
Fawn Walter, Ryan Lackner,
North America's first invention: The
Joel W. Hughes,
Clovis projectile point
Psychological Sciences
Self-compassion predicts better
Poster Session 32
supervisor evaluations in university
JUDGECS): Dr. Barry D. Dunietz
faculty and staff
171
Abdullah Alalawi,
Applied Engineering, Sustainability, &
Poster Session 31
Technology,
JUDGE(S): Dr. David Pereplyotchik
Electron beam technology
166
Vinicius Carmello, Scott Sheridan,
172
Sreenivasa Reddy, Ambati Karthik
Joao Lima Sant'Anna Neto,
Rayala, Tinghe Xu, Applied
Geography
Engineering, Sustainability, &
Analyzing the effect of rainfall
Technology,
variability on soybean crop yield in
Hybrid solar-fuel cell power system
northwest Ohio
2016 Graduate Research Symposium • 27
173
Mona Mirheydari, Elizabeth K.
154
Shabnam Moini Chaghervand,
Mann, Edgar E. Koo~man, Physics
English
Modeling amphipathic alpha-helix
Effects of background knowledge and
bundle of a protein binding to an
cultural familiarity of students in ESL
aqueous-glycerophospholipid-oil
reading classroom
interface
156
Mengjiao Wu, Nadeen Katz,
Sayuri Minakuchi, Lifespan
Development & Educational Science
President's Award Nominees
Application of apology strategies
These nominees were selected because of
between Chinese and Arabic L1
their excellent abstracts, and they will be
speakers
judged by a delegation of faculty from the
Office of the President.
Excellent Presentations from the
53
Karuna Ramcharran, Public Health,
Undergraduate Research Symposium
Emergency preparedness plan for
These award-winning undergraduate
infectious disease outbreaks for
presentations can be found in The Nest on the
Portage County
second floor of the KSC.
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79
88
116
150
Erica Stahl, Nursing,
Transitioning to a validated behavioral
Melissa S. Bleininger, Senior, Sociology
pain scale for critically ill adult patients
An examination of self-control and the
Marissa Gastelle, Aimee Hammer,
family structure
Josefina Grau,
Angela C. Ehrich, Senior, Psychology
Psychological Sciences
The effects of romantic partner
Latina adolescent mothers' parenting
instrumentality and goal progress
attitude: Relations to parenting stress
Katherine M. Greskovich, Freshman,
Jennifer Cooks, Mansi H. Mehta,
Biochemistry
Kate J. Zelie, Jeffrey A Ciesla,
Investigating group 3 metal hydroxide
Psychological Sciences
nanoparticles for targeted cancer therapy
Examining perfectionism and changes
Victoria Shaker, Junior, Biochemistry
in affect and rumination
Transgenerational epigenetic effects of
Andy Martinez, Anthropology
cocaine on circadian behavior and cocaine
"Take down my old violin, play it all
reward
you please": The dispersal of an
Joshua C. Tingle, Senior, Fashion
Appalachian murder ballad
Merchandising
Matt Mackey, Mark W. Kershner,
A cause for change: How recycling and
Biological Science
sustainable resources, pre-consumption, can
Analysis of diversity and structure of a
Lake Erie coastal fish community
A World of Research • 28
change the Footwear industry-one shoe at a
time
Brandon T. Whitecotton, Junior, Biology
Mentor: Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena, Ph.D.
Investigation oF Folding thermodynamics and
kinetics oF cobalamin riboswitch
A World of Objects: A Popup Exhibit of
Graduate Research (Ballroom Balcony)
Organized by Mitch Sumner and Kaitlyn
Gutshall, this exhibit will only last the duration
of the Symposium and will highlight the
different and varied types of research being
conducted by the following KSU graduate
students in an alternative and exciting format:
Aidan Ruth, Biomedical Sciences
Aliaa Maar, Applied Engineering,
Sustainability & Technology
Angelia Werner, Anthropology
Brooke L. Long, Sociology
Chenjian Fu, Geology
Forrest Paige, Architecture & Environmental
Design
Jordan Kauffman & Hamidreza Sohrabi,
Visual Communication Design
Nicki Siegel, Biomedical Sciences
Taissir Nouri, Biological Sciences
2016 Graduate Research Symposium • 29
ORAL PRESENTATIONS II
11:50 William Kelvin,
Communication & Information
Quiet champions or energy-wasting
Apps & Social Media
nags? Interpersonal advocacy of pro-
Room 320
environmental behavior in the
JUDGECS): Dr. Xinyue Ye;
workplace
Prof. Jonathan I. Maletic, PhD
11:35 Mehdi Ghayoumi, Arvind K. Bansal,
12:05 Marc Majers,
Library & Information Science
Computer Science
Human emotion recognition using
Improving usability research studies
12:20 Jeremy Slocum, William E.
deep learning
Merriman, Psychological Sciences
11:50 Adiyana Sharag-Eidin, Xinyue Ye,
The novel name disambiguation effect:
Brian Spitzberg, Geography
Analyzing of geolocated Twitter as a
Familiar name retrieval not required
12:35 Joshua Testa, Daniel Hawes,
proxy to examine public opinion on
Political Science
fracking
Shocking performance: The effects of
12:05 Snigdha Snigdha, Computer Science
anticipated and unanticipated shocks
Mom: An app to help students
on organizational performance
transition successfully from home to
dorm
12:20 Alan Walker, Erica Lull, Shelby
Learning I
Muter, Sarah Holzer,
Room 306C
Visual Communication Design
JUDGE(S): Dr. Elena Novak, PhD;
Convoy: Travel crisis management
Dr. Kelly E. Cichy
mobile application
11:35
12:35 Mohammed Mubeen Raoof,
Digital Science
Wireless sensor network security
Naser AI Madi, Computer Science
Is learning by reading a book better
than watching a movie? A
computational analysis of semantic
concept network growth during text
and multimedia comprehension
Human Behavior
11:50 Ahmed Alsaghiar, Teaching,
Room 3068
Learning, & Curriculum Studies
JUDGE(S): Dr. Kathryn Kerns;
Using mentor texts to improve second
Dr. Jon A. Sefcek
language learners' writing skills
11:35
Kyle Henning,
Psychological Sciences
The disambiguation effect: Predicting
the "right choice"
12:05 Eren Cifci, Economics
Effects of parental characteristics on
child earning
A World of Research • 30
12:15
Colleen Dragovich, Eve Dalton,
Liquid Crystals I
Rachael Todaro, Sebiha Balci,
Room 309
Bradley J. Morris, Lifespan
JUDGE(S): Dr. Ann C. Abraham, PhD
Development & Educational Science
11:35 Afsoon Jamali, Douglas Bryant,
Are badges or goals more relevant to
Achintya Bhowmik, Philip Bos,
online learning?
Lig uid Crystal Institute
12:35 Caleb Heller,
Design, fabrication and
Architecture & Environmental Design
characterization of tunable liquid
Designing for human performance:
crystal/ens for 3DIARIVR
The significance of daylighting in Ohio
applications
schools
11:50 Shakir Pardaev, Zeinab Parsouzi,
James Gleeson, Samuel Sprunt,
Learning II
Physics
Layer thinning and dynamics in freely
Room 322
JUDGE(S): Dr. Sloane R. Burgess;
Dr. Greg E. Blundell
11:35 Suleyman Akcil, Lifespan
Development & Educational Science
Cyberbullying is real and we need to
talk about it now
11:50 Fatemeh Dehghan Manshadi,
Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum
Studies,
School bullying
12:05 Haylee Deluca, Manfred van
Dulmen, Psychological Sciences
Peer competence during childhood
and adolescence in at-risk populations
12:20 Beatrice Olesko, Music
Minding the gap: Perspectives on
connecting students' school and nonschool music experiences in
elementary general music classrooms
suspended thin films of smectic liquid
crystals
12:05 Zeinab Parsouzi, Shaikh Shamid,
Shokir A. Pardaev, Samuel Sprunt,
Physics
Dynamic light scattering studies in
twist-bend nematic liquid crystal
12:20 Andrii Varanytsia,
Lig uid Crystal Institute
Bistable and photoswitchable
diffractive liquid crystal light shutter
12:35 Junren Wang,
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Liquid crystal/polymer core/sheath
fibers produced by electrospinning and
airbrushing
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Liquid Crystals II
11:50 Emily Oliver, English
Room 315
The exchanges of food and power in
JUDGE(S): Dr. Hanbin Mao; Dr. Antal Jakli
Jane Austen's Emma
11:35 Salma Begum, Sanjoy Paul, Physics
12:05 Shazia Nasir, English
Development and analysis a method
Locating nation states in the inner
to measure ionic concentration in
places of the modernist novel
nematic liquid crystals.
11:50 Leah Bergquist, Torsten Hegmann,
Lig uid Crysta I Institute
Detecting chirality of L-glutathione
functionalized gold nanoparticles using
lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
Literature & Film
Room 313
JUDGE(S): Dr. Ralph Lorenz;
Suzy Campbell
11:35
12:05 Ayhan Duzgun,
"How is Cecil going to give birth?":
Lig uid Crystal Institute
Non-normative bodies and male
Active Brownian particles near
pregnancy in Welcome to Night Vale
straight or curved walls: Pressure and
slash fiction
boundary layers
11:50 William Kiskowski, Geography
12:20 Kun Gao, Philip Bos,
Roma characterizations in popular
Lig uid Crysta I Institute
film: Geographic exclusion in fiction
A non-mechanical zoom lens for
12:05 Kevin Leistner, Theater & Dance
infrared imaging based on
The romanticism of Christopher
Pancharatnam phase
Marlowe's "The Tragical History of the
12:35 Colin McGinty, Valerie
Finnemeyer, John West Phil Bos
Physics
Danielle Hart, English
'
Life and Death of Doctor Faustus"
'
12:20 Bahareh Gharehgozlou,
Modern & Classical Language Studies
The effect of azodye alignment layer
Mapping Persian into English literary
thickness on activation energy, order
translation flows
parameter, anchoring energy, and
stability
Mathematics
Literary Analyses
Room 304
JUDGE(S): Dean Jim Bracken, PhD
11:35 Leanna Lostoski, English
The Ecological Passage of Time in
James Joyce's Ulysses
Room 314
JUDGE(S): Dr. Oana Mocioalca
11:35
Lopamudra Chakravarty, Jing Li,
Mathematics
A hybrid domain decomposition
algorithm for a symmetric problem
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11:50 Francisco Javier, Falco Benavent
12:20 Nancy Weissman, Lifespan
Vassili Nestoridis, Mathematics
Development & Educational Science
Approximation by rational functions
Evaluating the effectiveness of a
12:05 Anthony Harrison, Mathematics
synchronous online environment in
The lattice size of convex polytopes:
establishing social, cognitive and
Progress and problems.
teaching presence: The process and
12:20 Lisa Hendrixson, Mathematics
product of coding chat transcripts
Products of characters and derived
lengths of groups
12:35 Sergii Myroshnychenko,
Philosophy
Mathematics
Room 302
On a functional equation related to
JUDGECS): Dr. Frank X. Ryan;
pairs of hedgehogs with congruent
Dr. Kim Garchar
projections
11:35
Brian Bieganski, Philosophy
Can video games be art?
11:50
Ryan Marx, Philosophy
Online Discourse
Jus ad vim: Creating space between
Room 316
law enforcement and war
JUDGE(S): Melissa M. Spohn;
12:05 Dylan Scott, Philosophy
Lala Hajibayova
On normative limitations of religious
11:35 Catherine Hessick, Jennifer
and self-knowledge in covenant
Wiggins Johnson, Pamela A.
Grimm, Business Admininistration
epistemology
12:20 Kristin Weis, Philosophy
Sharing a laugh: The moderating role
Art as negation: A defense of
of need for humor on the sharing of
conceptual art as art
online advertisements
11:50 Virginia Little, Timothy Rose,
Sociology
Physical Science
Tackling problems of participation in
Room 321
online discussion boards
J U DG E(S): Lewis L. Sharpnack
12:05 Alison Rossi, Kim Hahn, Fashion
11:35 Arosha Dassanayake, Chamila
enhancing inAuence for fashion
Gunathilake, Mietek Jaroniec,
Chemistry & Biochemistry
bloggers
Efficient uranium (VI) sequestration
Key elements for sustaining and
under seawater conditions using novel
organa functionalized mesoporous
silica
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11:50 Ammar Kirmani, Khandker Quader,
12:05 Dana Pugh, Martale Davis,
Maxim Dzero, Physics
Psychological Sciences
Population imbalanced p-wave
A quantitative analysis of the acting
superAuid in trap
white accusation
12:05 Lin Li, Miroslaw Salamonczyk,
Chemistry & Biochemistry
12:20 Alicia Robinson, Sociology
Academically successful African
Dual modulated homochiral helical
American Women: An examination of
nanofilament phase
motivation and contextual influences
12:20 Yi You, Sunil Badal, Jacob Shelley,
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Automatic analyte ion recognition and
Refugees & Resettlement
background removal for ambient mass
Room 319
spectrometry data based on cross
JUDGE(S): Dr. Jan D. Yoder;
correlation
Dr. Ratchneewan Ross, PhD
12:35 Yi You, Sunil Badal, Jacob Shelley,
11:35 Anuj Gurung, Political Science
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Anatomy of refugee resettlement:
Cross correlation as a tool for
Experiences of Bhutanese refugees in
automated, high-throughput mass-
Akron
spectral analysis of complex samples
11:50
Diana Kingsbury, Sheryl Chatfield,
Public Health
A metasummary of published
Race & Racial Biases
qualitative research on pregnancy and
Room 318
resettlement among refugee women
JUDGE(S): Dr. Susan Roxburgh, PhD;
12:05 Sunita Shakya, Diana Kingsbury,
Andrea B. Szell, MA
Madhav Bhatta, Public Health
11:35 Andria Blackwood, Geography
Assessing potential risks for childhood
Exploring the relationship between
failure to thrive (FTT) among
race, place, self-efficacy, and
Bhutanese refugee mothers in the
community engagement
United States
11:50 Zach Humphries,
12:20 Daniel Socha,
Journalism & Mass Communication
Journalism & Mass Communication
How athletes of race are portrayed in
Rationalizing resettlement:
the media: The portrayal of Latino and
Construction of the ideal refugee in
Asian baseball players on ESPN:
cultural orientation resources
Sunday Night Baseball
12:35 Kathryn Hannum, Geography
Pious Policy: Cultural preservation
and regional convergence in the EU
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Social Science of Safet¥
Trauma. Anxiety. & Depression
Room 317
Room 308
JUDGE(S): Dr. Vinay K. Cheruvu, PhD;
JUDGE(S): Doug Delahanty;
Dr. Wendy Umberger, PhD
11:35 Jennifer Burrell, Geography
Dr. Tara C. Smith
11:35 Jenna Brinker, Vinay Cheruvu,
Mapping environmental and societal
Public Health
factors as proxies to determine the
Association between social and
status of neighborhood recovery in
emotional support and psychological
Youngstown, Ohio
distress among individuals with adverse
11:50 Brooke Long, Sociology
What if my neighbor is a criminal? The
childhood experiences
11:50 Emily Dames, Dianne Kerr,
"Love Thy Neighbor Hypothesis" and
Public Health
pro-social behavior
Hormonal treatment, depression, and
12:05 Meghan Novisky, Sociology
Cultural health capital and chronic
suicide in transgender women
12:05 Christi Gross, Sociology
disease management among older
Maternal age and postpartum
inmates
depression during the transition to
12:20 Melissa Phillips, Geography
Lightning and Hurricane Safety
Knowledge and the Effects of
Education Modes on Elementary
School Children
12:35 Kristen Traynor, Political Science
parenthood
12:20 Shawn Starcher,
Journalism & Mass Communication
Depression: Keeping it in the family
12:35 Kaela Stuart, Kathryn Kerns,
Psychological Sciences
Frame by frame: The framing of
Family processes in child anxiety: The
prisoner treatment at Guantanamo
long-term impact of fathers and
Bay during the 2005-2006 hunger
mothers
strike
Awards Luncheon: 1:OOpm - 2:30pm, Ballroom
Keynote Speaker: Paul E. DiCorleto, PhD
Dr. DiCorleto was named Vice President for Research and
Sponsored Programs and Professor of Biological Sciences at Kent
State University in August, 2015. He was previously Sherwin Page Chair of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and
Chair of the Department of Molecular Medicine at Case Western
Reserve University. He was also Principal Investigator and is now
Co- Principal Investigator, of the NIH Center for Accelerated
Innovations-Cleveland Clinic- one of three such Centers
nationally.
Dr. DiCorleto received his undergraduate training in chemistry at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his doctorate in biochemistry
from Cornell University. Dr. DiCorleto is a vascular cell biologist with extensive experience in the role of
endothelial cell signaling pathways and gene expression in atherosclerosis and other inflammatory diseases .
He was with the Cleveland Clinic for over 30 years, having served as an Associate Chief of Staff and a
member of the Clinic's Board of Governors and Board ofT rustees.
Dr. DiCorleto has published more than 125 peer-reviewed articles, invited reviews, and book chapters and has
maintained continuous support from the NIH for over 30 years. Dr. DiCorleto has chaired multiple NIH and
American Heart Association review panels, as well as several national conferences on research into heart and
vascular disease. He has served as President of the North American Vascular Biology Organization, and is
currently a member of its Scientific Advisory Board. He has been a long-time member of the Association of
American Medical Colleges' Advisory Panel on Research and was elected a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007. Dr. DiCorleto has served as a consultant and Board
member of multiple companies and has served on the Clinic's Commercialization Council (internal focus) and
Innovation Advisory Board (external focus) for many years. He is on the Board of the Clinic's Global
Cardiovascular Innovation Center. He is also a Director of Shield Biotech, Inc. which seeks to commercialize
the first preventative vaccine for breast cancer.
Dr. DiCorleto is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Holden Arboretum/Cleveland Botanical
Garden and of the Cleveland Water Alliance.
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Graduate Student Senate
The Graduate Student Senate CGSS) represents the concerns of the graduate student community at
Kent State University. By serving as an allocation body, the Graduate Student Senate is responsible
for assisting with graduate student travel and research funding. Additionally, the Graduate Student
Senate organizes and provides financial support for social activities for graduate students. Each spring
the Graduate Student Senate sponsors the Graduate Research Symposium, an event that displays,
recognizes, and celebrates research and scholarship across all academic disciplines. The Graduate
Student Senate meets four times each semester, and lunch is always provided. The Friday following
each general meeting, a social event known as Grad Fest is held at a local establishment. All graduate
students are welcome to become involved with the Graduate Student Senate.
GSS Executive Board, 2015-2016
Fritz Yarrison, Executive Chair
Megan Hornyak, Advocacy Chair
Andrea Meluch, Vice Executive Chair
Morgan Chaney, Symposium Chair
Suparna Navale, Finance Chair
Yeo Jung Yoon, Administrative Assistant
Mark Rhodes, Information Services Chair
Dr. Melody Tankersly, Adviser
GSS Website: www.kent.edu/graduatestudies/gss
Email: gss@kent.edu
Facebook: www .facebook.com/kentstategss
Twitter: @KSUGSS
Acknowledgments
The following KSU faculty, staff, and students made this event happen: Sophia Adodo, Joelle
Bettura , Jeffrey Blair, Zelda Bravo, Elle Brennan , Jennifer Butto, Rebecca Curry, Ann Day, Laurie
Donley, Sophia Evankovich, Kate Ferguson, Hayden Gerhart, Ann Gosky, Pat Hogan, Mila Librea,
Greg Martinis, Elizabeth Melick, Raj, Nandigrami, Kyle Reynolds, Tim Rose, Aidan Ruth, Dr. Adil
Sharag-Eidin, Brian Smith, Mitch Sumner, Andrea Szell, Dr. Melody Tankersly, Rebekah Taylor, Dr.
Stephanie Vincent, Heather White, Tianhong Zhang, and anyone who hung a flier, sent an email, or
gave out postcards to publicize the Symposium. Of course, our judges and volunteers deserve many
thanks for their invaluable service.